Velvet Revolution

Does technology ruin family life? Since the impact of popular culture and the improvement in technology we are able to use it in various ways to improve our family life as we know it. But do you really think that technology is assisting your family? Or is it pulling it apart? People feel pressured into using technology but feel empowered when they are using it. So are we turning our backs on quality of time together and rather spend time with a screen. Although technology is a great help to our…

I carried out a 25min-long interview with one of my classmates whose name is E.R. (from a different class) and her husband P.R. They both are Polish immigrants and currently living in a suburb of Chicago where dominantly Polish immigrants live. I visited them at their home to interview on the weekend. Before the interview, my classmate introduced her husband to me and had a chance to chat with them in advance. This was a warming process, which especially helped PR get to relax. Since he had not…

While Ed told me the FBI provides enough finances and/or time to enjoy hobbies, family, vacations, your free time can be minimal. As an FBI agent, you are on call (24) hours a day (365) days a year ("Interview with Ed Buckley."). Most people in the FBI are the type that the only thing they love in life is their job, their job is everything to them. You don’t get a lot of time to hang with family and friends whenever you please. It would be especially hard to have a family while being in the FBI…

In year five my goal is to begin the Executive Fire Officer (EFO) program with the NFA and the Executive Fire Officer certification through Center for Professional Service Excellence (CPSE). The EFO program from NFA is a four-year process which requires me to attend a class on the NFA campus and complete and applied research project after completing each of the four classes. This program with give me a broader perspective about different aspects of fire and emergency services. This is becoming a…

The revolt of 1381 was the first example of national disturbance in which all participants coalesced around the same issues with the governing power at the time. The revolt sought radical social reform and legal modifications and was spurred by the common people thus in the 19th Century named the “Peasants Revolt” due to chroniclers account of the radicals as rustici. However there was an inclusive element to the event and social range from labourers to village elite to even gentry was witnessed…

also must agree upon the way they would like to do things in their lives as a couple in contrast how their families did things and made decisions differently. The decision to become parents is also another task that they had to decide upon together. In this case, AK and DK decided to wait to have children until four years into their marriage. That decision worked out well for them because they could get to know each other as a married couple and do the things they enjoyed together before…

Eerie Dragoness was not born to be a Saint she was too self-serving. She was born to a poor peasant family around 217A.D. In her early life her parents noticed she was different. Eerie was intelligent beyond her time, and preferred to spend time alone. Eerie’s family found her and the experiments she did to be rather peculiar. To Eerie they were not peculiar, but were experiments to enhance their lives. Unsupervised during her youth, Eerie spent her time in the neighboring village. They had a…

of a major revolution equal in significance to the industrial revolutions of the past. Author Daniel Pink describes this as a monumental shift from the information age to the conceptual age in his book entitled A Whole New Mind (2006). Journalist Thomas Friedman described a similar shift in his book entitled The World is Flat (2005). Dr. Jay Walker is among those that argue that we can not know anything about this new age we’re entering into because it is unlike any other revolution we have…

King Richard II’s Underserved Loyalty by the Commoners Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was written after 1381 by an anonymous author to persuade the readers that King Richard II did not deserve the loyalty and devotion put forth by the commons. The author provides the reader with a chronicle of the peasant’s revolt in which he presents the commons’ reasons for revolting and how the King reacts to each interaction with the commons. The peasants are portrayed as justified in their actions, while the King…

Imagine that it’s finally the day when you get to hang out with your sister at the mall! So far, you guys are having a good time but during the trip, you notice that most of the time she's upset and moody. You question her what's wrong but she just ignores you and asks for your phone and notices how she keeps going on the internet. You then notice how her behavior has changed and she isn't in a close relationship with your family nor her friends. I think teens should be limited online because…