Reflection

Amelie, a beautifully constructed French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, colourfully paints the fictional tale of a young French woman named Amelie. The story begins in a rather unusual way, through a series of seemingly arbitrary events that inexplicably lead up to Amelie’s birth, which makes the film that much more intriguing and appealing to the spectator. Jeunet’s unique style does not stop after the exposition. The exposition’s upbeat, playful, and creative style merely whets the…

Among the three lectures, I find the lesson on stigma most interesting. According to Goffman (1963), stigma is “an attribute that is deeply discrediting”. In this journal, I would retell my experience to regeneration centre, relate it to stigmatization theories, and finally reflect on myself. When I first learnt this course requires students to visit regeneration centre, I was a bit afraid. This is because I had no previous experience interacting with mental illness patients, and most…

Before I entered the classroom for History of Racism, I had preconceived notions about what the course would entail. I am a second semester senior close to finishing my bachelor’s degree, so I have taken many Human Relations classes in my time at the University of Oklahoma. I assumed that I would soak up some knowledge from our professor, have him reiterate the points that we had learned from previous HR classes, and have my opinions reaffirmed during class discussions. I was mistaken. My views…

Throughout my life, I have loved helping people and being a part of something greater than myself. To be honest going into my first year of being a RA I expected extraverted students that would go to the events and community would happen naturally. That was not the case for my residents this year but I worked so hard to cater to their needs and create our own unique community. I learned a lot about myself and how to connect with residents with different perspectives of my own. Through the…

People often confuse students with disabilities as being lazy or slow. Some teachers do not even bother to make accommodations or modifications for the sake of the student’s success. The Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA) is a team making a difference for students with learning disabilities; in addition, it is creating opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities and reducing the numbers of learning disabilities in future generations. To be part…

1. Auction Chair- After attending and participating in the Auction this year, I realized how important it is to the overall FDM effort. Additionally, how much work and effort was put in behind the scenes that I was not aware of. The Auction is an integral part of the fundraising effort for FDM and with that, it is extremely important that it goes smoothly and makes as much money for the B+ foundation as possible. This year I developed such a passion for FDM and the B+ Foundation, that I think…

Omer, I agree that there were significant changes in the community members throughout the story, which in turn changed the dynamics of the community. Although such occurrences happened for years, I can say that life today is different than it was when I was a child. I tell my children, now grown, that “they don’t make people the way they used to”, meaning when I was a child, less crime and less hate were prevalent. Small community members used to still together, and people used to watch out for…

Very recently, another GSA leader and close friend, Jewell, came to me with some troubling news. A picture circulating Twitter within our school's community had shown up on her dashboard, one that was very frustrating and upsetting. It depicted a student making rude gestures in front a display case decorated with symbols of LGBT+ appreciation and "Safe Space" posters. This was project our Gender Sexuality Alliance had worked very hard on to foster a more accepting environment within our high…

Platt addresses the thought of how we can take back our faith from the American vision and how our lives will be radically changed when we view death as a reward. In the beginning of this book Platt brings up how our churches are making a nice middle class American Jesus. By this he means we made a materialistic Jesus who does not call us to give away anything or expect us. A Jesus who is okay with us being comfortable, balanced, avoiding danger and okay with us doing devotionals on our time,…

An example of an outreach effort that I conducted to an unreached group at the University of Maine was one focused on Greek Life students. When arriving at UMaine it came to my attention that the IV chapter there had been trying to reach the Greek students on campus but hadnt been very sucessful. This is a group of students who I have a special heart for and knew that the mutual nenifitial relationship they could have with the IV chapter. I first had a conversation with the IV staff Jon…