Overeaters Anonymous

12 Steps in Overeaters For my 12 steps paper I decided to attend an overeaters anonymous meeting in Lowell Massachusetts. The meeting was located in the basement of Lowell’s First United Baptist Church. I called ahead of time to speak with Diane who was the leader for the meeting. I explained that I was a student at William James college and was required to attend a meeting. She was more than happy to let me join the group. To my surprise, there was not too many people that attended the meeting that day. There was a total of seven people including me at the beginning of the meeting. The leader introduced me as a student to the rest of the individuals in the meeting. The group while quiet at first welcomed me as part of the group. Some individuals were able to open up and talk about their personal stories when it comes to overeating. The leader asked for people to identify how long they have been going to these meetings. Some individuals mentioned that they have been attending…

University of Maryland Baltimore N329 Journal O.A. Xiaotang Jing I attended the O.A. meeting at Ascension House, located at 202 S Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 on March 22, 2017. The meeting time was 11:00 am. Overeaters Anonymous meeting is tailored to individuals who need support, encouragement and at the same time want to make practical strategies to recovery. This meeting was open to the public, therefore, a diverse group were seen. The most surprising thing you can see was that the…

Overeaters Anonymous Kayla Barnes Indiana University-Purdue University of Fort Wayne Overeaters Anonymous Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a support group which helps its members to recover from compulsive binge eating, a disorder which causes people to habitually ingest unusually large quantities of food. The majority of people overeat on occasions, like Thanksgiving, for example, but overeating can transition into binge-eating disorder and then it becomes a frequent occurrence. When…

On Tuesday night, September twenty-seventh, my classmate Mariah and I observed an Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meeting at Woodford’s Congregational Church in Portland. The contact person for this meeting is Susie, though the person leading that night’s meeting was Edie, a recovering compulsive overeater herself. This was an open meeting, held biweekly, and had an attendance of thirteen people, Mariah and myself included. The feelings I had leading up to this meeting were very mixed and fluctuated a…

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A majority of the population perceive Hacktivists as criminals, while others see them as today’s heroes. Hacktivist groups have warned, rallied and provided a voice for the people. Cult of the Dead Cow penetrated and disabled several firewalls designed to protect China 's internet users from obtaining supposedly censored material from other parts of the world (“China...”). The Cult of the Dead Cow are also responsible for creating the Back Orifice software. Hacktivists designed this software for…

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In this paper, I will argue that the group Anonymous aren’t criminals and their actions are ethical. I will argue that this thesis is true from the utilitarianism view; they are hacking for the good of the people. Some examples I will include are Project Chanology, Hal Turner, and Operation DarkNet. I will also consider the opposing position that Anonymous are bad and unethical. I will argue that it is mistaken because of misknowledge of the operations and what Anonymous’ purpose is. Also, that…

Anonymous is a group of hacktivists that wanted to expose corrupt companies and businesses while starting mass awareness and staying unknown. It started out as joke on 4chan, an imageboard website in 2003. They went by the motto “none of us are as cruel as all of us.” Anonymous doesn't have a form of organization or logistics but the way an operation is started is by a member talking to other members about an idea. If they think is a good idea, they will support it. If not supported, the idea…

Not long ago it would have been unimaginable that a group of random people working remotely from anywhere in the world would be able to band together to electronically fight common enemies. However, recently a hacktivist group identifying as Anonymous has risen in power and size with the goal of fighting anyone they deem threatening to innocent people. Their operations and tactics range from gathering and leaking sensitive and/or restricted information from large corporations, to hacking…