Homesickness

Week #13 Reading Response Question 1: What did I learn about the nature and activity of God? In Isaiah 1:18-20 God sees the sins of the people of Israel and they are scarlet colour, but He promises to make them white as snow I 'd the will only obey Him. He will even feed them. However God tells Israel if they don 't listen to Him, they will be devoured by their enemies. God was revealing the need for Israel to rely upon Him. He was demonstrating that they need to depend on Him or be vanquished…

norms and environment. Culture shock also includes the loss of support systems, as well as familiar sights, sounds, tastes, smells, practices, customs, and other life experiences (Thompson, Rosenthal & Russell, 2006). This can be associated with homesickness. A student commented that “Everything in the US is culture shock. I feel lonely. I see unfamiliar food, unfamiliar people and things. These things make me feel homesick. I see things…

My mother came to the U.S. as a sixteen year old; she came in search of a better life, hoping to find a job to help her family. However, what she had hoped for was not a reality, and she was left homeless. The border symbolizes heartache and homesickness and a longing for family, as my mother would say. She had to leave her family, she was not able to see her father in his last days, and she was not able to see her younger siblings grow up nor her nephews and nieces. As for me, I have yet to…

Academic Audience Bang, the weight of tears dripping down a mothers face, a community in silence, a son or daughter lost. Guns have become the main character in a story that seems to be seen everyday. Mass school shootings has become the new norm for America people. President Obama once said after a shooting in an Oregon Community College in early October 2015, "Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation…

Higher learning institutions have a responsibility of ensuring that students are being catered for as the latter face diverse challenges such as alcohol and substance abuse, among others within and outside the campuses. This can be done through creating a relatively comfortable environment that helps in resolving the challenges likely to arise. For instance, a lot of input in terms of resources such as facilities, skilled human resource, technology, space, inter alia is essential for any higher…

After Stravinskys father died, he decided to pursue a career as a composer. Stravinsky was a full orchestra composer. When World War I began, Stravinsky was forced to leave Russia for Switzerland. When in Switzerland, Stravinsky suffered from homesickness and began using Russian folklore as an inspiration for his work. Some of Stravinsky’s works around these times sounded as if they had a jazz influence. Two of Stravinsky’s best known works from his Swiss period were the Fox, composed between…

Introduction Starting college can be stressful and overwhelming. For many freshman students, they just became adults, and now they are on their own for the first time. Not only that, but now they have to study intensely, and take on more responsibilities. If this major transition is not handled in the right way, college could be a devastating disaster. However, with proper management tools, students can learn to manage their academic, physical, social, and spiritual lives. Academics In order to…

his purpose and felt it was the end. The building of his family, his career, and his series was done leaving him without motivation. In awe of the natural environment he created (trees, brier, and herbs) during the springtime when his depression, homesickness and fret overtook him, the Professor would bring “down his books and papers” and work off his discontent (The Professor’s House 105). Once his family travels to France and similar to Tom who found his spiritual self while alone on the mesa,…

of domestic interior objects such as a fridge, a cell phone and even a radio, to show the normality that the speaker is living in; the immenseness of these objects makes the speaker feel inadequate and trivial. This poem also imposes the idea of homesickness and longing for one’s place of origin. The feeling of power that these objects emit is enough to make the speaker long for their home. They are uncomfortable with the idea of unimportance, but long for a place of security and…

Anna Savage, a student at Queen's university was a typical young individual who looked forward to start the journey of her student life. However, the reality of being away from home became daunting and she found herself spending nights alone in her rented bedroom with feelings of isolation and sadness. Anna's feelings, now coined as 'post fresher's blues' is common, and these feelings can happen at any point during studying for an undergraduate degree course. Students who move away to…