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Solution Focused Brief Therapy I chose this modality of therapy to gain knowledge. I recognize that many of the other modalities rely on the therapist to be the expert on the individual’s problem or concern. I feel that we focus so much on how and where the problem came from and focusing on the past that we spend more time in the past rather than focusing on the positives. I also like this approach as it focus on what positive in one’s life that working for them and allows the individual…

The Path To Enlightenment There are several legends that depict different scenes for the famed Bodhidharma and Huike. One of those is the story of Huike cutting off his arm. The paintings from Dai Jin and Sesshu ultimately show this story, with Sesshu’s painting similarly named “Huike Offering His Arm To Bodhidharma.” The story is fairly simple; Huike wanted to become truly enlightened and went on a journey to find someone to enlighten and teach him, Bodhidharma. Initially, Huike waited in the…

Isle of Dogs: A Delightful Dose of Dogs Isle of Dogs takes place 20 years in the future, where the japanese city of Megasaki is ruled by the cat loving Kobayashi dynasty, which has banished all dogs to live on an island of trash. This leads 12-year Atari (Koyu Rankin) to venture to the island to find his deported guard dog, Spots(Liev Schreiber). Upon his arrival, a group of dogs (Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban) agree to accompany Atari across the Isle…

Survival Havoc, the well-known dangerous wolf, is named Havoc because everywhere he goes he causes havoc. He is a large wolf, his coat is darker than the night, his bark is mightier than all, he is the fastest animal in the forest, and can he jump higher than the trees themselves or so they say. Running into Havoc could be one of the most dangerous experiences that could ever happen to you! John Smith, an archaeologist, was sent on an expedition to explore the mysterious forest that Havoc lives…

Known as the “Vanishing Island”, Isle de Jean Charles is located in Louisiana and is quickly eroding due to climate change and rising waters from the current pipelines-- it has been called home to residents for over one hundred and seventy years, and the island is vanishing from underneath them. Vaughn-Lee, the director, composed this New York Times op-doc in hopes to reach out to society about the matters that are taking place in Isle de Jean Charles, so authority could take action of the…

Solution focused brief therapy was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg along with their colleagues in the late 1970s to the early 1980s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin(Solutionfocusednet,2016). As the name suggests Solution focused brief therapy is solution focused, goal directed and future focused (Solutionfocusednet, 2016). The solution focused approached was developed in an inner city outpatient setting where clients were accepted without any prior screening (Solutionfocusednet, 2016).…

looking at the issues of politics, beauty and also love from different points of view. They valued the multiplicity of interpretations, which also influenced Giacomo Badoaro and Giovanni Francesco Busenello, who wrote the librettos for Monteverdi’s operas Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria and L’incoronazione di Poppea. The ideas of the Accademia thus also reached Monteverdi, who tried to depict the different views on love in these two operas through his innovative musical language and with the help…

parallels the actions a similar dictator, Kim Jong II took when in control of North Korea. George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm displays a totalitarian dictatorship overtaken by the devious pig, Napoleon. One of Napoleon’s many loyal followers adopted the slogan “Napoleon…

Korean War, which lasted from 1950-53, the DPRK under the rule of President Kim Il Sung, “adopted…

of an assimilation policy, Japan required Koreans to adopt Japanese style surnames, worship at Shinto shrines and learn the Japanese language. Koreans could also volunteer in the Japanese army to which they later fought for japan in the Pacific War (Kim xxii). For thirty-five years, Japan built up the northern part of the peninsula with industrial bases and saw the peninsula as a strategic link between Japan and the Asian mainland; however this empire would quickly come to an end. On August 6th,…