My five themes are strategic, includer, context, connectedness, and positivity. My strategic strength will help contribute to this project because it allows me to figure out what methods have worked in the past and use it for our project. Through listening to the speakers in class, I have learned that in the past it works best to provide events that the neighborhood will be able to use and to appreciate. This way more people will come and it will make them happy. Being an includer allows me to look at the people we are trying to help and to figure out ways that will make them feel accepted at our event, such as talking with them and participating in the activities with them. Having strength in context has helped me to understand how I work best in a group. I have found through experience that if I listen closely to what every group memeber says and then take time on my own to gather my thoughts I provide more meaningful ideas to the group. Connectedness allows me to understand that all people in our community need to be helped in order to keep the community going. We can not ignore some people in the community and expect it to thrive, it is a group effort to make the community a better …show more content…
After class I would brainstorm on different ideas and try to figure out what would benefit the community most. I also have been paying more attention to what happens in our neighborhood, such as events in the news and observing as I drive around the neighborhood. I do believe that providing useful activities such as the family photos and fun activities such as a cook off or games will benefit the community the most. Sara Rugg explained to us that the community members need to have an event where they can just enjoy themselves and not have to think about their worries. This type of event will provide a welcoming atmosphere and allow them to participate in fun
Problems – whether small or large – cannot be run from permanently. Eventually, they will catch up and action must be taken. This is displayed largely as one of the main themes in Borderline by Allan Stratton. In the novel, fifteen year old Mohammed Sami Sabiri is faced with several obstacles – the most prominent being racism – which eventually lead to his father’s arrest. Along with his best friends Andy and Marty, they travel to Toronto from the United States in order to uncover the truth behind the arrest of Sami’s father and prove his innocence. It is shown several times in the story that those who do not have the courage to face their problems will never accomplish anything, and this theme is demonstrated through the characters, the setting
In “The Thematic Paradigm,” Robert Ray explains how there are two vastly different heroes: the outlaw hero and the official hero. The official hero has common values and traditional beliefs. The outlaw hero has a clear view of right and wrong but unlike the official hero, works above the law. Ray explains how the role of an outlaw hero has many traits. The morals of these heroes can be compared clearly. Films that contain official heroes and outlaw heroes are effective because they promise viewer’s strength, power, intelligence, and authority whether you are above the law or below it.
“Oh beware my lord of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on - William Shakespeare. Shakespeare proposes that jealousy is the one thing that destroys the person’s life on which it feeds. In Morley Callaghan’s “Watching and Waiting” the protagonist, Mr.Hillard, is a skeptical young man who is jealous of the men his wife spends time with, and so tends to spy on her. Eventually, his jealousy reaches such an extent that he sneakingly enters his own house, and his wife mistaking him for a stranger kills him. Thus showing how “jealousy mock[s] the meat on which it feeds” as in this case jealousy symbolically mocked Mr.Hillard’s life. Morley Callaghan’s “Watching and Waiting”
Poverty and homelessness are often, intertwined with the idea of gross mentality. illness and innate evil. In urban areas all across the United States, just like that of Seattle. in Sherman Alexie’s New Yorker piece, What You Pawn I Will Redeem, the downtrodden. are stereotyped as vicious addicts who would rob a child of its last penny if it meant a bottle of whiskey.
Both passages concern the same topic, the Okefenokee Swamp. Yet, through the use of various techniques, the depictions of the swamp are entirely different. While Passage 1 relies on simplicity and admiration to publicize the swamp, Passage 2 uses explicitness and disgust to emphasize the discomfort the swamp brings to visitors.
The Midwest: land of TV news anchors, housewives, and dreary, never-ending fields. In her memoir “The Horizontal World”, Debra Marquart uses interesting rhetorical techniques to detail this vast, distinctly uninteresting plain. By using unusual figurative language, outside examples to solidify her points, and a geometric extended metaphor, she paints a picture of perhaps the most boring place on Earth.
In the story “Recitatif” author Toni Morrison, published in 1983, tells a story of two young girls, Twyla and Roberta, with two different ethnicities, who grow up in an orphanage together. Due to the fact that the story is narrated by Twyla, it seems natural for us the readers to associate with this touching story, as many of us have encounter racial discrimination back in the 1980s, making it clear that Morrison states the two girls grow up to always remember each based on the similarities and the childhood they both encounter together, come from different ethnic backgrounds, and as the story reveals, destiny is determined to bring the girls’ path together.
I have trained for the past four years to gain muscle mass so that I can enter bodybuilding competitions and win them. I have not entered any competition yet but I will be competing when my body-weight reaches 80kg, 10% body fat. But right now the goal is to gain muscle mass. It has been really tough eating clean and working hard in the gym day-in day-out. Initially, it was difficult to figure out what foods to eat and what was good for my digestive system and how many calories I was consuming each day. I ignored this tracking process for the first two years but after reading articles on the internet about the importance of tracking my workouts as well as my daily Macronutrient intake, I started the tracking process. This process really helped me in knowing my body.
My first Theme is Harmony. It states that is one of my guiding values. I tend to steer clear from conflict. I feel conflict is an unproductive way to handle differences. I believe if we would keep our opinions in check it would bring greater results in a shorter frame of time. I can relate to this and find it a fact. I’m the youngest from 5 sisters. When it comes to the family having differences they tend to always turn to me to guide them back to common ground.
The title of my book is “How I Live Now”. It was written by Meg Rosoff, and has 163
Within my school, I was Co-president of the National Junior Honor Society group for our school’s annual Parking Lot Party (PLP). For this project, I, along with the help of my other officers, led a group of students to create a set of games and activities for the PLP, which came out with very good results and lots of smiles from the students who both played the games and volunteered for them. From this experience, I have learned how much I enjoy planning an event and seeing it executed successfully with positive results on my community, and I hope that I can continue to do this in YAC.
There are many activities that will help the community. Another way that I have experience is picking up trash. This one is very important because you are helping the environment and town that you live in. So why not help your environment to be able to apply for a scholarship. It’s also a fun way to meet people that enjoy making a difference. Picking up trash is one of the most common types of community service. There are so many volunteers a day picking up trash in their neighborhood and all around town. To be able to get involved all you do is call the Midland City Department and they will be glad to guide you where to go so you can help our community.
1. My first impression of the story was the setting reminds me of a fall day in Michigan. It was dark and cool so it reminds me of my childhood in the mornings getting ready for school. At first I thought it was something like a family trip for the guys before the characters where describe. The thought of a young boy on a trip into manhood with his father and Uncle. As the story goes along my impression changes over time to its a story about life circle and the development of a young man 's understanding about life at the hands of his father.
Thematic analysis is espoused to be the foundational approach to qualitative analysis and methods (Saunders et al., 2016 as stated in Braun and Clarke, 2006: 78) and it is a useful method used to identify and analyse the order and patterns of qualitative data (Attride-Stirling, 2001). Qualitative research method depicts the correlation that exists between data and events, creating the pictorial representation of what one thinks a given data says (Saunders et al., 2016). They also opined that, qualitative data analysis is cogent, interactive and iterative. Also, Joana and Jill (2011) and Saunders et al (2016) postulate that, qualitative research brings meanings from words and images as opposed to numbers. However, despite its robustness and rigour of its application, it is skewed more to the interpretivist ideologies since researchers draw conclusion from participants and the hypothesis being forecasted (Joana and Jill, 2011; Saunders et al., 2016).
First off, what is dealt with in Mark 6? At the beginning of Mark 6, Jesus had just left the country of Gerasenes to go to Nazareth. We see very few blocks here, because the passage fits into one entire, cohesive thought. The prescriptive thought here is taking nothing for the journey. We don’t need to pack much for the journey because we’re just passing through. Symbolically this would mean life eternal. We have to trust God to take care of us. The descriptive thought would obviously be the story of Jesus calling the 12 disciples. Their names are Peter, James (the son of Zebedee), John, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus), Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot.