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*Slash* he feels the blade of the knife cuts through the first layer of his back's skin. He screeches in pain, and a single tear escapes his left eye. *Slash* another cut slices in the opposite direction on his flesh, which paints a bloody “X” on his back. He starts to feel streams of blood running down his thin sheet of skin out of the freshly sliced cuts and drenching his shirt with spots of blood. He restraints himself to look back, because another look at his mother would cost him his life.…

Dualism can be defined as dividing life into two separate categories, the first being secular and the second being spiritual. Secular involves things within the physical and changing world in which humans live. Sacred includes things related to the spiritual and unchanging existence of God. Secular is evident in places/activities such as education, business, arts, sciences, government, hobbies, and entertainment. Sacred is only involved in church-related activities. However, secular/sacred…

Everyone knows the YMCA song, but everyone doesn’t have the same connection to it that I do. This building never contained one life changing event for me, but it has been a pivotal place in my life. A place I’ve referred to as home many times, the YMCA has shaped who I am as a man. This pivotal spot is where I suffered my first traumatic injury, changing how I do things for the rest of my life; but also was the place I went to when coping with family incidents. This institution, in particular…

Derek Adlersfugel was a German photographer that lived in Berlin. He always took the family pictures with his camera, 1919 Kodak Black Box Brownie 2 Model E. He saved up Euros from delivering newspapers around neighborhoods. He wasn’t from a wealthy family, He valued everything he got. His clothes were a ripped in places, he always wore his grandfather’s green felt hat with feather. He was a dark haired, scrawny man. He was in his early 20’s, ready for whatever life could throw at him. He took…

Martin Luther King Jr. once said “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was ‘illegal.’” People must stand up for the issues of justice even if it is illegal because without them what will become of their society. Although opponents may say that taking a stand on issues of justice in society is not important, in actuality it is very important for a person to take a stand on issues of justice in…

The Model of Human Occupation is a model used to further understand the person as they relate to their environment. The three major aspects of this model are person, environment, and occupational performance. Each aspect has individual components. The interaction of person, environment, and occupational performance is called occupational behavior. To demonstrate the use of this model, I will analyze an occupation I find meaningful. Line dancing is one of my favorite things to do when out with…

Video #6 – “Mr. Baseball This video took a look at the cultural differences that we often take for granted. In this particular scene there was an American sitting on the floor, eating noodles, using chopsticks, in a traditional Asian household. The American is unfamiliar with these customs, and is confused by the chopsticks and slurping sounds. He also has trouble understanding who gets served their beverage first, as well as that it is bad luck to point your chopsticks vertically into the air.…

was in fact, he developed it to a completely unique level. He became the Joker, he started to think the way the Joker did. Did you know that the final scene in blowing up the hospital sequence was partially improvised by him? And this epic one with clapping hands in the cell was also his own spontaneous…

Cross-Cultural Church visit has its own uniqueness it can be a beginning of a new relationship. In today’s time it is essential to be more contemporary in order to reach all people. Most church have different ways of worship, especially in other countries. Nigeria Church of Christ, in America, has services like Pentecostal. The only different is that they dance to the alter. The dance is a symbol of joy, this would be an expression to tell a person whom had not had the pleasure to visit or…

its culture. Under the yoke of slavery, slaves’ self-expression was forbidden, and their tradition, now that they were in America, was almost entirely improvisational. Slaves found self-expression in “the stamping and shuffling of bare feet, the clapping and patting of hands against the body” (Ralabate), which mixed in with the slave owners’ preexisting sense of culture. This, the earliest form of jazz, can also arguably be defined as the earliest form of pure American identity wherein American…