Analysis Of Self-Reliance In The Waitress By Jenna Hunter

The opening paragraph of Self Reliance states three of my favorite quotes from the entire piece, one of which is: “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius”. This quote is very literal and inspirational; however, when reading it at the surface, people might believe that it means their opinion is always right. What the quote is actually saying is that, if you stick to what you believe, and

“I’m working a part-time job at Wendy’s.” What is the first thought that comes to your head when you hear this sentence? Greasy fries, polyester uniforms, cheap food? What about the people who work there? Do you picture a first-time worker, a high school dropout, other pimple-faced workers taking your order? For some reason, in our society, we’ve associated low-quality workers with low-quality food? In his article “Working at Wendy’s” Joey Franklin paves the road towards a new perspective about those who come to work at Wendy’s. Instead of explicit points and unshakable statistics, and powerful calls to action, Franklin alternatively leads gently us through a process of revelation. Drawing from his own experiences working at his local Wendy’s Franklin gives an eye-opening view into the world behind the counter.

Nursing is a continually evolving discipline. Nursing theories and conceptual frameworks serve as basis for research, education, and standards of practice. Theory plays a vital role in every nurse’s practice as it aims to define, explain, and predict the phenomenon of nursing. It helps the nursing profession expand its practice, develop research studies, and enhance patient care. This paper will discusses two of the major nursing theorists and their respective works. The paper will focus on Dorothea Orem’s self-care theory and Madeleine Leininger’s theory of culture care diversity and universality. These famous nursing scholars have contributed immensely to the study of nursing and its practice.

My first exposure to the high-flown pap of Benjamin Anastas’s “The Foul Reign of Self-Reliance” came in a quiet library at the private institution where I had enrolled to learn the secrets of education and because I wanted, at the age of 21, to fulfill my philosophy core and graduate on time. Cute openings aside, Mr. Anastas has a significant amount of gall calling his private school teacher Mr. Sideways when it seems, to me, that he is the one with the skewed vision. As I read through his essay the first time, I found myself growing discontented and distant from the author. As I read through it a second time, I began to grow increasingly frustrated and outraged at how Anastas twisted

My idea of self-reliance is relying on one’s self to perform a task. Also to be an individual, not to have to worry about relying on anyone else. Emerson made some great points that being self-reliant is important. This is important because you don’t want to have to ever rely on someone else. Sometimes the only person you can rely on is yourself which is important because no one should have to rely on anyone else.

As health professionals, it is important to constantly be self-aware and to discover new truths about oneself. Jourard (1971) stated that lack of personal awareness can lead to a feeling of vulnerability when approached by patients expressing feelings, due to the fear of not knowing how to respond in an appropriate way. By having self-awareness, the sources of limitations that have the tendency to cause anxiety can be identified, so forward planning can be prepared to reduce or eliminate the impact this may have on performing activities and approaches to patients. Certain individuals utilise different techniques to minimise anxiety such as deep-breathing exercises or thinking of the positive outcome that comes once the source of fear or anxiety is overcame. Meanwhile, others prefer being critiqued, since it allows areas within practise needing improvements to be highlighted and alternatives to be considered.

One of Emerson’s key points in “Self Reliance” is that a person’s integrity is formed by his courage to be himself, to trust his own insights and ideas rather than trusting those of society. In this statement, Emerson is supporting his main point by explaining that the more self reliant a person is, the less he or she feels

Becoming self-sufficient is a social issue that cripples those who are dependent on others for survival. Having the will to be independent is innate and not a learned behavior. "This Glass Castle" is the epitome or an example of how parents can either be instrumental or a hindrance for their offspring to be self-sufficient leaning to survive or dependent always needing others to survive.

Self Reliance was composed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the year 1841. Throughout the essay, Emerson is expressing his thoughts about how people should not rely on others for their own happiness. He believes that people must be self reliant. This idea of “self reliance” was part of the basis of transcendentalism. Ralph Waldo Emerson was involved in the period of transcendentalism (Davidson, DeLay, Heyrman, Lytle, & Stoff, 2015).

In the article, by Amy Morin of Psychology Today called “Why it’s hard to let go of your self-limiting beliefs,” published October 12, 2017, she explains our limits and why they are so hard to let go of. At first, Morin introduces us to a patient of hers by the name of Bill. Bill came to her with the belief that he was “Not meant to be a leader.” This was his response when his boss offered him a new position. A position offering he was planning to reject almost sure that his supervisor had made a mistake. However, neither his peers or supervisors made a mistake on this recommendation. He on the other hand, paid no mind to the praise of his peers, supervisors, and wife. As someone who grew up being both shy and called a follower, Bill believed

Do I have to? I don’t want to do the dishes. Sound familiar? People are motivated to engage in activities throughout life and in the workplace that fulfill their basic needs, and avoid activities that do not meet their needs. Research by Deci and Ryan (1985) supports the self- determination theory as a formal theory that defines intrinsic and varied extrinsic sources of motivation and a description of the respective roles of intrinsic and types of extrinsic motivation in cognitive and social development and in individual differences. Extrinsic motivators come in various forms, creating positive and some negative results when meeting individual basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness.

The book Successful Women Think Differently by Valorie Burton reveals the thought process of how successful women think and how to maintain empowerment through adversity within every aspect of life. Burton expresses how to cultivate relationships as well as communicating effectively through thinking with a sense of purpose and distinction. In the book Successful Women Think Differently, Burton wants readers to learn nine habits and seven key principles to cultivate certain ways to think through any problematic situation. Burton believes that she can help the reader create new thought processes that strengthen thinking differently in order to set higher personal and professional goals for oneself. The ability to bounce back from failure is certainly not an easy task, but implementing these steps create “safety nets” of comfort, and encouragement.

Maturation is especially important for individuals as it provides several competitive evolutionary advantages (Locke & Bogin, 2006). Through this process, individuals develop and acquire control over their emotions and behaviours. This ability to monitor and adapt our emotions, cognition and behaviours in accordance to the social and intellectual demands of particular contexts is often referred to as self-regulation (Demetriou, 2000; Zimmerman, 2000). Various complex cognitive skills are required for self-regulation. These skills encompass the constant observation of our thoughts and behaviours, knowledge of the demands of any situation, the capability to alter conditions of our current behaviour as required to achieve a goal or suit a situation and attention to how favourably the demands of a context are met (Evans & Rosenbaum, 2008).

The main female character in the movie ‘The Lunchbox’ is Ila. Ila is a housewife and a single mother to her daughter who struggle in life to get her husband attention by cooking but the lunchbox unfortunately ended up to a wrong person, Saajan Fernandes. Saajan who is a widower became closer to Ila since then and they share many stories too. As for the short story, ‘Miracles Do Happen’, the main female character is Else Kolb. She is a woman who is currently dying and need the attention of her ex and she also cannot moved on and still have feelings towards her ex boyfriend, Michael Johnson even though she is someone else’s wife.

Everyone is aware, that's no big deal. But awareness can be developed as a skill set just as talking can be developed by learning a broader vocabulary. The more you know different kinds of things to pay attention to, the more you can choose (or not) to use that information.