Experience design

In this case study, we learn that Laura has created a better life for herself and her children. She remarried, her son is a law student, and her daughter is graduating college next May. Laura received her Master’s degree in social work and is now working for a non-profit human service agency in El Paso, TX. Kid has also had some major changes in his life as well. He is ending another marriage and has an 18-year-old daughter who is in college. He reaches out to Laura after having dreams…

Bobo’s discussion of audience’s reactions to ‘Daughters of the Dust’ highlighted the significant difference to my own (Dash, 1991). I struggled with this film, it did not resonate and although I thought it was quite beautiful and because of that, mesmerising, I did not understand it. I found the dialect difficult to comprehend and the narrative, unfamiliar. I tried to decipher this text in two ways. Firstly, I attempted to take what I was seeing and place it within a context that I felt I…

will have created what Csikszentmihalyi calls “the optimal experience”. He says that optimal experience is something that we make happen in the difficult and uncomfortable moments of life. As Csikszentmihalyi explains, the optimal experiences “usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile” (610). He also goes on to say, “Of course, such experiences are not necessarily pleasant at the time they…

The idea of Literacy Sponsorship described by Brandt shows that we become literate from everyday activities from the people we meet, the places we go to everyday and the resources we have at our disposal. In my experience in reading and writing, there has been numerous Literacy Sponsors in their own form. While growing up, my parents acted as my first literacy sponsors and helped me through reading and writing then throughout school. In my Sophomore year of High School, my teacher introduced a…

and in consequence, there are innumerable ways of receiving it. From day one of our lives, we are obtaining knowledge from our own experiences and the experiences of those close to us. Knowledge is obtained not only from the facts in a textbook but from the senses we are born with. It is not simply one or the other but is a jumbled up stew of education and experiences that creates the knowledge one knows today. And when we explore the assertion “Without knowledge of the past, we would have no…

session, Purple started to share their experience with full time work and the internal battle that they were experiencing on whether or not they should stay in the job. For me it was interesting to see that this one story so clearly resonated with almost every member of the group. Our body language changed. It was like the group was coming together for the first time to rally around Purple so that they could feel like they were not alone in their experience. After Purple finished sharing,…

I have had many experiences with stress and encounter it on a day to day basis so it was a little complicated when it came to choosing a particular experience to talk about. I think school stresses me out the most. School has always been a major stressor in my life. Although, this particular stressor causes both distress and eustress, I find it to cause distress a majority of the time. I find that the root of my distress comes from not getting a grade I wanted, having to keep up with due dates…

Not teacher, nor my parents brought me to the conclusions I reached that day. Why, I kept asking my self, in deep thought, was this rollercoaster experience more powerful than life lessons that had been instilled in my young adolescent mind? A decision was made that day, fears were thrown aside, it was time to grown up and tackle obstacles that had been thrown in front of me. A “metal death trap,”…

Salvation Army by Abdellah Taïa, love can never seem to escape the fate of betrayal. As Taïa takes readers through different periods of his life, he shows them how often love experiences hardships. Hardships that sometimes work out, but usually end in chaos. Through secondary character stories, as well as his own personal experiences, Taïa demonstrates an overreaching theme that even the strongest love between two people can lead to devastating betrayal. In the beginning of the novel, Taïa…

Change happens in many different ways, in many different areas of our lives but changes that happen to allow or encourage a person to develop greater and greater wisdom I believe are, time, life experiences and a positive, optimistic attitude. I am certain that if more of us took the initiative to understand how change can be for the best, we would see a world with more patience, acceptance, understanding, and love. I believe time is a big factor in how people change from moment to moment, day…