Be Here

Yalom (2012) describes the “here-and-now” as the therapist’s best friend in therapy. He asserts these claims with the importance of interpersonal relationships in all lives, and how therapy can be a microcosm of society (Yalom, 2012). In essence, Yalom (2012) theorizes interpersonal problems are a majority of what clients will come in struggling with and said interpersonal problems will eventually surface during therapy (Yalom, 2012). Having these issues surface gives the therapist an…

We Are Still Here is a film that I've been craving for awhile. I didn't know that I was at first, but once I was through to the end credits, I felt almost completely satisfied. I was only a little bit hungry for a better ending, but I'm watching my weight, so it's probably a good thing I wasn't stuffed. The flick had plenty of righteous stuff going for it. It had gore, it had spooks, it had chills and it had some awesome acting from most of cast, save for a couple people, who thankfully are…

government, or all other freedoms. Overtime, slaves gained their rights and began to fight to end segregation. Slaves were not respected and in order to gain their rights they were forced to protest for peace. In the poems Protest and There is a Lake Here, they represent how we as humans believe in independence and freedom and take pride in the rights we have today. In the poem Protest, Ella Wheeler Wilcox describes what protesting means and looks like. She explains what bravery looks like and…

It Happened Here Film Critique It Happened Here is a documentary that takes the viewer through the stories of a handful of women and their stories of being sexually assaulted on their college campuses. Five women tell their stories on how, when, and where their assaults happen and the results of their assault. The documentary states that 1 in 5 women on college campuses are sexually assaulted and that less than 20 percent of all assaults go unreported. The documentary submerges you into these…

Lily Allen’s “Hard Out Here” it is a work of light satire which mocks modern day consumerism and stereotypical society’s views of women in media. In her music video Allen immediately points out a few of society’s views on consumerism. In her first lines she used a very common term from society which from a misogynistic background, is used to describe a female and continues on with a list of other common stereotypes such as women in the kitchen, in media it is all about materialistic possessions…

Here sits a woman. A woman you are all familiar with. A woman who has, beyond a doubt, lived a Godly life. A woman familiar with the daily struggles of raising a family. Familiar with the strains of living on a farm. Struggles that; in many ways, unites Salem. Yet here this woman sits before her town, awaiting the decision on her life. This decision not only affects this woman however. No, this affects many more. Her own children, who have already seen the life fade out of their father’s eyes…

The easiest way to explain this piece is with an example. In the article by New York Times “Here Comes the Neighborhood,” a group of lower class primarily African Americans from a dirtier crime infested city, moved into homes in Mount Laurel, a rather wealthy town. In time, they found that the new residents of Mount Laurel were doing substantially…

care less about ancient rituals. After wandering around the church, the speaker strolls to the lectern, speaks a few lines from The Bible, and upon finishing, he, “pronounce[s]/ ‘Here endeth’ much more loudly than [he’d] meant./ The echoes snigger briefly” (15-16). After a reading of The Bible, followers often say “Here endeth” to show that the religious reading ended. The persona personifies his echos, making them laugh at the idea of endings in a religious place because he believes that…

Step X: “You are here.” I am a sophomore at the college of CSB/SJU. I am a nursing student and take school very seriously. I think that being a nursing student takes dedication and commitment, which was important for me to learn in my first year of college. My concerns are centered around my future, family and friends. I believe that my concerns are very self centered because of the point of my life that I am in. I am trying to find out who I am and where I belong in the world. My interests are…

Ten year old, Lafayette Rivers exclaims enthusiastically in Alex Kotlowitz’ 1992 biography There Are No Children Here, “If I grow up, I’d like to be a bus driver”. Sophomore year, in Honors English, we were reading out loud in class when this aspiration of a lower-income, innocent child, was lethargically muttered by a classmate, and to my dismay, I began to cry. I was saddened by the fact Naperville was less than 60 miles away from Chicago, yet my peers knew so little of what too many city…