Disconnection

displacement and re-placement of peoples as seen in the forming of cultural diasporas. To illustrate, once one is removed from the context, culture, and location of their roots and are displaced in “melting pot” societies — they are subject to automatic disconnection from the dominant culture as well as their own culture(s).…

details] in these poems. What you do find--what the poet is searching for…” (Smock). Smock recognizes the importance of family to Lee, but also understands how his anecdotes are a tool that aids Lee in reaching a broader more universal topic. The disconnection, detachment, and disparity Lee experiences in contrast to his parents are the focus of the poem, not the anecdote. Lee’s poetry does not narrow due to the influence of his family, but rather broadens as he utilizes his anecdotes as…

Having an attitude of servitude is essential to Servant Leadership. Researchers suggest that individuals motivated by a desire to assist others tend to lean toward the servant model of leadership (Burch, Swails, Mills, 2015). Greenleaf (1977) explained that “The servant-leader is servant first...It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then the conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first” (p.…

Who was considered the “foreign other” during the Vietnam War? The act of othering a particular group has long been a signifier or marker of foreign identity or a clash of upheld ideals and standards. From the perspective of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, the “other” is not just the racial military enemy, but also the Americans back at home. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried accounts a series of fictional and real events of American soldiers serving the Vietnam War, thereby reflecting…

Introduction Social work and its professionals are constantly assessing and reassessing practices, models, and therapies to ensure the client 's service needs are met and that they are treated justly and with dignity. Jean Baker Miller found traditional theories of behavior to be lacking emphasis and recognition of relational experiences, especially when pertaining to minority groups, and how these relational experiences impact individual 's mental wellbeing. Thus, she and several of her…

Then, presumably she made a mistake and sang the first verse again, omitting the second verse. Thus, providing a sense of emptiness and disconnection from the real world. Joyce leads quite a few factors of the story in explanation of Maria’s ‘mistake’. For example, the laundry women chuckle and joke about the ring in the brambrack which they honestly hope Maria to have. Maria apparently views…

functions. As personalized technology makes its way into the hands of billions, disconnection from reality follows. Personalized technology includes objects such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and more. As more and more aspects of the world begin to inhabit online domain, humanity in terms of humaneness and benevolence declines. The people of the 21st century are unequivocally disconnected from reality. Disconnection from reality shows itself in situations when an individual is remotely…

King et al. (2009), Indigenous social inequalities resulted from a combination of classic socioeconomic and alienation as well as Indigenous-specific factors related to colonization, globalization, migration, loss of language and culture, and disconnection from the land leading to the health inequalities of Indigenous peoples. Language serves not only as a means of communicating but for preserving cultural identity thus chronicling all that happened in the past, present and the future. The…

specific subjects. While in boot camp one is cut off from other Scientologist, for fear of. If one is deemed to far gone they may be subjected to a disconnect. Disconnection is the severance of all ties between a Scientologist and a friend, colleague, or family member deemed to be antagonistic towards Scientology. The practice of disconnection is a form of shunning. People are sometimes shunned by their own families. Never being able to contact them again. Why would anyone sign up for…

The struggles of power in a parent to child relationship can end in demise between the two. Often, parents will assume the position of authority by demanding that their children follow by their rules of life and no other. It could force the child to ignore their own optimistic ideals and grow older to develop their own since of mind; yet hide it because they know their parents won’t approve. Or, in some other cases, they rebel at a younger age and the parents refuse to comply with their child’s…