Insight

In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien gives an insight of the Vietnam war through a collection of short stories. In these short stories, he explains his journey as a young soldier and the others soldiers about the hardships they had to go through during and after the war. To begin with, O’ Brien lists all the tangible items the soldiers have brought to the war with them and how those items are going to positively contribute to the soldier’s lives during the groundbreaking war. In particular,…

Social cognitive theory is more congruent with the insights of a person–environment perspective than radical behaviorism due to the consideration of the reciprocal influence of environmental and social interaction contexts on the individual and the individual’s effect on their environment and social interactions. Radical behaviorism emphasizes the relationship between stimuli and behavioral response; stimuli effects behavior, behavior is not considered effecting stimulus. There is no…

founding father of the United States. The article can be read easily for major findings itself without a lot of additional information that needs to be provided. “Thomas Jefferson” is a well-written summary of Jefferson’s life. The article shows insight into Jefferson’s life after his presidency, “Jefferson spent his post-presidential years at Monticello, where he continued to pursue his many interests, including architecture, music, reading, and gardening. He also helped found the University of…

The audience of this summary is a student learning about disabilities. The purpose is to give insight into the afflictions the body faces when an accident or illness causes you to lose control over your own body’s actions. The writing is more formal as this is an academic setting. The student would most likely be reading this summary to obtain understanding into the mind of one affected by disability, not just view disability as a physical thing. I am assuming the student has a moderate amount…

As I skimmed over the overview, I couldn’t understand why my uncle had pointed me to South Carolina. Sitting there slightly intrigued, I thought to myself, “was this a joke, or did he perhaps flip to the wrong page?” Then…it hit me. I had just graduated Warrant Officer Candidate School a few months earlier, and the next phase of training required for me to complete my transition from a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer to a Warrant Officer was the Warrant Officer Basic Course. For my…

Journal: Self-Assessment As a result of utilizing skills in the mock counseling video such as attending behaviors, encouragers, paraphrase with checkout, and reflecting of feeling, I was able to gain better insight into my ability to apply these skills within the helping relationship. Specifically, I came to realize that it is necessary for me to be more aware of my verbal and nonverbal encouragers such as nodding and saying “Mhmm”. Honestly, I felt as if my nodding became distracting despite…

exercise in class allowed me to understand my own reasoning for helping others as well as what may be my own selfish reasons for seeking this profession. For example, at one point in the exercise, I broke ground into my own self-assessment and found insight that I was partially seeking the profession for money and for my savior complex. I felt that this observation of myself showed that I was overall, functioning normally with both healthy and minimal unhealthy motivations. Another concern…

On June 26, 2015 the Supreme Court ruled on the case of Obergefell v Hodges. The case, which was originally filed on July 19, 2013, involved many same sex couples who sued their respective states in order to legalize same sex marriage. At the time of the suits, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. James Obergefell and John Arthur James had gone to Maryland and gotten married legally, but when they returned, their home states refused to…

“Harmony and understanding Sympathy and trust abounding No more falsehoods or derisions Golden living dreams of visions Mystic crystal revelation And the mind's true liberation” The above quoted lines from the famous song “Aquarius” by “The 5th Dimension” gives an outline of the basic theme of the American Dream, an idea much in vogue in the 20th century America (Stephenson). Many writers have explored the theme of the American Dream and its subsequent corruption. However, the book of the…

Having epiphanies alters a person’s course, becoming the reason or sole purpose for change. Notably, this can be highlighted in The Bhagavad Gita translated by Laurie Patton and Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Mi'raj, Poetic and Theological Writings translated and edited by Michael Sells. Patton depicts a dialogue, in which an envoy between two battling nations narrates the conversation between a warrior named Arjuna and his confidant called Krishna. Primarily, Arjuna does not like the…