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    myself and how I can efficiently interact with others. The number one area of communication that I need to work on is speaking up for myself. I tend to let people walk all over me instead of defending myself. I try to avoid conflict anywhere I am but by ignoring the problem, it doesn’t ever change. In order to ensure that I improve this area of communication, I will be more assertive. Whenever I encounter a situation where I feel uncomfortable, I will speak up and let the other person know how I…

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    taught to “not judge a book by its cover” or “walk a mile in someone’s shoes before you judge them”. This relates to “The Danger of a Single Story” where instead of getting to know someone, we prejudge them off what others say or what we see. Without getting to know who an individual really is or where they are coming from, we misconstrue and prejudge unjustly. Within TED Talk featuring Chimamanda Adichie’s speech “The Danger of A Single Story”, “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples and even in my…

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    (Winston, 1998, p. 388). While they have not yet perfected this craft, sometime in the near future, these images will start breaking into the scene. Technology is always advancing. Since its beginning, the media has made great strides to get to where it is today. Because of the progress that has been made, society in American has changed drastically. Over time, the media has developed and advanced to impact American culture in distinct ways. Because media is such a large part of today’s…

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    Self-Learning Strategies

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    self-learning and a way to become a protagonist. Once something becomes a problem, it is in our mind that we must fix the issue before it becomes even more of an issue. We must learn to overcome any obstacles that may arise when it comes to learning because it is necessary to overcome obstacles in our life as well. If it is hard to deal with stress, then it is most likely going to be hard to be motivated and complacency may settle in as it becomes easy to get lazy and not do your work. This is…

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    Process 1. Interview your partner to discover how your words and deeds influence his or her self-concept. Identify specific incidents to illustrate these influences, and discuss which specific parts of the self-concept you have affected. One way that I had an influence on her self-concepts is that I noticed her liking and passion towards the military and her passion for being a nurse. I kept complementing on her ability to work well with patients in the Psych ward during her clinical hours…

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    Deborah Brandt says sponsors “are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way” (166). Bob Gibson didn’t become a full-time teacher until he was in his mid-40s, and his experiences on that career path highlight both the benefits and the hindrances a sponsor can provide. Those experiences also demonstrate how integral a mixture of positive and negative…

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    Intake Form Critique I chose to critique the intake form that is utilized at my current job Third Way Center, as an opportunity to gain a better understanding of my agency’s intake process. Third Way Center is a treatment facility for at-risk youth who experience mental illness, homelessness or have undergone trauma. My position as a mental health counselor does not require me to conduct intake interviews with my clients, so I am very curious about the intake process. Usually it is the…

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    has the issue of child labor. There are children all ages who have to do extremely difficult work for very little pay. This is a huge problem in the world that most people just look past. For the people that child labor effects however, it makes life very difficult which is how it relates to globalization. Families who are less fortunate and have no other choice to do this work for minimal pay, usually have to have their children begin working as soon as they are capable of doing the work.…

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    Flexible Ethnocentrism

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    anyone else’s views without being judgemental right away. I think I can say that everyone has gone through this at least one time in their lifespan. Sometime in their life where they automatically closed off one’s opinion because it was something that they did not agree upon. Whether it is caused by morally incorrect in their eyes or it is something that they are not accustomed to. I can say that this has happened to me multiple times where I had to evaluate…

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    evaluation is a systematic way of valuing a job in relation to the other positions in a company. It systematically compares jobs to establish their value for the purposes of determining the rational pay. Job evaluation should not be confused with job appraisal. Job appraisal is documentation and evaluation an employee’s job performance (Carpenter, Bauer, & Erdogan, 2009). In this case, Ted was justified in insisting that they evaluate the job and not the persons holding the job. This was because…

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