Gladiators 2000

“You’re too weak. You can’t do it.” The words ring through the phone into my ears. I run through emotions like a fast wind sweeping everything off the ground. Furious. Disappointed. Angry. Frustrated. In the whirlwind of which this all occurs, I am silent on the other line until I can finally muster the feelings I have in to one phrase. “I can’t do it, huh? Yes, I can.” I hang up the phone, still vulnerable as ever. My head is pounding, filled with questions and thoughts. How could the person…

Madelia--There are so many reasons to love a parade. There is the festiveness of the environment, the people, the music, the fire trucks, the floats, or the fact that it is the only place where it is socially acceptable to eat candy found on street. It is difficult to find somebody who dislikes parades. On an beautiful Friday night a parade was held in Madelia for the 41st annual Madelia Park Days. There was no raining on this parade. The event was planned to take place on Friday evening in…

Economically, the 21st century has been characterized by The Great Recession, an ongoing economic decline that began in 2007 when mortgage concerns hit United States markets and share indexes plunged. The U.S. housing bubble burst, damaging financial institutions and creating an interbank credit crisis. World and U.S. markets began to slide in 2008, and U.S. oil prices reached a record $147 a barrel. When the stock market crashed, over $1.2 trillion U.S. dollars in market value assets…

She was in charge of the food and clothing ministry which seemed to be almost a full-time task for her. Literally thousands of people in the church and the local community were ministered to by my mother, and I was a firsthand witness to many of those. I remember carrying sacks of groceries and clothes to homes all over the city and watching my mom pray and lead these needy people to the Lord. It was in my mother that I saw the hard and often unrecognized work of ministry, but again, it was…

America is criticized by many people who live around that area for many negative factors brings to life. As mentioned in a Letter to America, Margaret Atwood she states how America is criticized by having dirt water in people’s showers and how America has such a sloppy behavior. Atwood does not talk about the good positive things about America and men and women can disagree that America has negative factors by talking about the positive factors America brings out to them. People can enjoy the…

The community is where macro practice takes place (Netting, Kettner, McMurtry, & Thomas, 2012, p. 131). In today’s connected world, people will identify with many different types of communities, and social workers must understand this interconnectedness in order to effectively assess and determine appropriate courses of action (Netting et al., 2012). According to (Netting et al., 2012, p. 168) there are three reasons why macro practitioners need a systematic approach to assessing a community:…

Parents and their children hold special bonds that they do not share with anyone else. The relationship between a farther and child is nothing that could be replaced with someone else. Once the farther is in an unhealthy relationship with their child it is almost impossible to fix the damage if the farther ever tries to fix it. In the poems Daddy and My Papa’s Waltz it shows how unhealthy relationships with a farther and their children take a mental toll on the children weather they are beating…

Different Gender, Both Humans Since the time we are born or even since the time our parents know they having a boy or a girl, we are socialized into rules and what does it means to be a boy or a girl. The set of beliefs, norms and practices depends in the place we live. Our family, friends and the media around us it what shape our culture and through them we are socialized into society. What is the first thing that comes in mind what a person thinks about a little girl? The color pink, dresses,…

One of the most challenging jobs in the world is raising a child. There is nothing comparable to the constant worry, love, and nurture that a parent provides for their child. It is a nonstop job that follows one to the grave. It is a job that holds many joys, but holds many adversities as well. Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” and Langston Hughes “Mother to Son” are two different poems that share the same theme—Parents continuously face hardships, struggles, and obstacles when raising a…

Mills was an American sociologist who believed that “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both ” (Mills, 2000). He contemplated that an individual’s life experience could be explained by the large-scale social forces that governed the society. This idea of the awareness of the relationship between experiences and the wider society was coined the sociological…