The Fifth Discipline

We 've all had them, that one teacher that inspires you to love learning, and explore new fields of study. The teacher that gets you excited about learning new things, the one you can’t wait to get to school for, you know, the teacher that everyone loves, the good teacher. Then there’s the other one who does just the opposite, this teacher will make you feel insecure, and stupid, afraid to ask a questions. The one everyone loves to hate, the bad teacher. In schools, there are many varieties of…

The book Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, is an autobiography of being born as the fifth child of a depressing time. Adeline’s mother soon passed away after she was born which labeled her as the “cursed” child, which led to the distance between her and her family. The only people who truly displays affection toward her were her grandfather, Ye Ye, and her Aunt Baba. But soon after her mother died, her father remarried a young French-Asian woman, who she refers to as Niang, who married her…

An aggressive dog doesn’t bite; a scared one does. That fact didn’t compute for my father when I lashed out at him. Nor did it compute when he retaliated with force. Force in the form of a fist. A fist to my upper thigh. Three times. With no restraint. I, a frightened and anxious child, was not in control of myself and meant no harm. He, a grown man, should have been able to exhibit some self-restraint. I was a ten year old sitting alone on my bed in an all-encompassing darkness. My cheeks were…

The Catholic community in Vietnam is a part of the Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Roman Curia. Vietnam is a country with the proportion of Catholics ranked fifth in Asia. The Catholicism has been spread into Vietnam since the sixteenth century preaching from European missionaries. In the first half of the twentieth century, Vietnamese Catholics developed a more present and powerful sense of religious community…

CHANGES TO THE SCHOOL In any school there are many problems that the students see and believe need to be fixed. One of those major problems that every school deals with is dress code. What should be allowed? What should be banned? It’s really quite complicated when you think about it. There are several possible ways to solve this problem, but three main ideas that were considered in my group were as follows: Freedom Friday, Full Uniforms, and Multiple Uniforms. Each option was equally alluring…

were respected and revered by their own people. They appear as Abraham, Adam, Cain, and the Messiah. The discourse of the madmen in the story has some resemblance to the discourse of the biblical prophets. What makes the story more interesting is the fifth madman who calls himself God. In such case, one wonders if this God has reached a higher level of madness or whether the author intended to give some parallel to God’s…

Tibet.” (Shantideya, 2009) is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibbets people and its government. He committed his own life to share world peace. Dalai Lama is a living Buddha of India and the starter of a religion called Buddhism, in the fifth century BCE.” (Moohan, 2008, p. 200). According to the UK scholar of Tibetan Buddhism Paul Williams, within the Dalai Lama there have been “great scholars, powerful politicians or simply Buddhist monks that died young before they could make much…

requirements for the Dept. of Comparative Arts. Comparative Arts was the newest department, the others being music, writing, theater and theater production/design, visual arts and dance. Comparative arts was where any artist can go and study multiple disciplines and combine the art forms in an annual project. I took classes of all types, only to realize that I was just doing focused parts of a ballet (ex. Sewing class that was called fibers). In Interlochen I didn’t play much of my instrument…

techniques and motives toward criminal behavior through the personal groups (Brown et al., 2013). The mindset that influences the behavior is more important than the skillset because the criminal mind is the root cause of behavior (Brown et al., 2013). The fifth and sixth principles argue that motives are adopted through attitudes favorable or unfavorable towards laws, and that a person is determined criminal if the definitions favorable to law violation outweigh the unfavorable definitions…

intrapersonal conflict from which they gained psychological qualities and personal skills that theoretically serve as constructs or frameworks of reference from which future social interactions can be interpreted (Erikson, 1968). Erikson used the term psychosocial stages to explain his theory regarding how people go through distinct, predictable, linear phases of conflict that shape their perceptions of the actions of others and consequently respond to these perceptions (Erickson, 1968). These…