Congruence

Introduction Today’s organization includes people from different generations and cultures. Generations are categorized by age groups such as Silents, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennial (Generation Y). Baby Boomers are born between 1946 and 1964, Generation X between 1965 and 1980 and Millennials are born after 1980 (American Management Association, 2014). Generational diversity do have benefits which include job appeal, and increase productivity. However, it has created various issues…

The film, But I’m a Cheerleader, is about how parents send their homosexual teenagers to a rehabilitative camp called True Directions to have them converted into heterosexuals. The film specifically focuses on Megan, who is a cheerleader, whose friends and family suspect her of being a lesbian which ends up in her being sent to True Directions to be “fixed”. In the film, there are two multicultural issues which engulf and define the film which would be the issues of gender and sexuality. Gender…

On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama passed an executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), that helped to make it more possible for undocumented students to attend college. Since DACA has been passed, administration at colleges and universities have had differing approaches on how to support, or not, undocumented students attending their institution. However, there are still holes in the support for undocumented students in pursuing higher education. The purpose of this…

The evolutional emergence of ethnographic film is believed to have begun with the foundation of documentary film. In 1922, filmmaker Robert Flaherty released the first documentary, Nanook of the North. This narrative documentary film essentially led to generic conventions that documentaries then developed over decades (Fisher 13 September), despite its portrayal of its subjects as spectacle. Soon, film had also found its way into the anthropological world. Anthropologist Margaret Mead and her…

The main concepts of the psychodynamic perspective is the idea of the unconscious and the level in which the unconscious influences our behaviour. It takes a very deterministic approach in that all behaviour is predetermined and out of our control. Freud (1915) first introduced the idea of the conscious, and split it into the conscious and unconscious. He compared the concept to an iceberg, the unconscious being a complex; much grander selection of thoughts and feelings. An individual, according…

Social Entrepreneurship Course Reflection In almost the entire Philippines today we experience poverty caused by inequality where the gap between the Filipino rich and the poor is relatively high and alarming. Poverty has always been present even in the past governments. It is one of the biggest and most evident problems in the Philippines considering that we are a developing country. According to the dictionary, poverty is defined as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods,…

III- Case Formulation A- Therapeutic Process -Goals: Derek´s perception of his sexual orientation may be confusing as he stated that he was not sure about his sexuality. A mix of feelings was evidence based on his narrative (“I´m not sure If I´m gay, I don´t know). By the same token, the meaning that Derek gave to his sexual orientation was influenced by the conflicting attitudes and behaviours that his family, classmates, and teachers showed towards his identity category…

Each level exists on a continuum from left-hemispheric brain function, which is organized, sequential, and linear, to right-hemispheric brain function, which is emotional and spiritual in nature. The Kinesthetic, Perceptual and Cognitive components are predominantly located in the left-brain and the Sensory, Affective, and Symbolic components are predominantly located in the right-brain. The highest level of the ETC is the Creative level which can actually manifest at any of the functional…

How Straight, White Men Make Gay Sex Straight White, straight men having sex with other straight men works to reproduce heteronormativity. They do this by utilizing the ideology that heterosexuality is natural and homosexuality is the opposite and unnatural. They adjust their discourses around same-sex sex to categorize it as straight or gay, masculine or feminine, depending upon the situation. White, straight men engineer situations in which they can participate in same-sex activities under a…

Hypertension is defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or above, or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or above, or currently taking medication to lower blood pressure (Burt, Gu & Nwankwo, 2014). Hypertension is a chronic medical condition that affects an estimated 67 million American adults and causing about 348,000 American deaths (in 2009) with a total cost to the nation of $47.5 billion annually (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). African Americans develop…