My auto-ethnography encompassed a three-day stretch (Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon) in which I visited Boston to help celebrate my rabbi’s installation as the first woman rabbi in New England’s largest Reform Jewish Synagogue (Temple Israel of Boston). As points-of-reference: this particular rabbi was also the person who oversaw my conversation to Judaism and was particular influential with guidance during some very rough life events. Also, I have remain in close contact with both the Temple (as an institution) and its congregation (as a common group and subculture). For example, I will be traveling up there again later on in the year to do some teaching. So this return to Boston - the same city/region where I did my undergrad and …show more content…
Although I spent most of the morning and afternoon engaged with schoolwork, it was impossible not to feel a growing excitement. The event at the Temple was an emotional milestone – not only for the installation itself (which made both local and nationwide news) but for my own return, as I hadn’t been back for a year. Few knew I would be there, so my arrival was met by surprise and heartfelt fondness. Each individual meeting with friends, acquaintances and clergy came accompanied by deep emotional tugs. Indeed, by the time I could talk to the now-senior rabbi I was nearly at a loss for coherent speech. (That was okay, though; her smile told me she understood everything I was not saying). I wanted to talk more, have another coffee with each and every old friend, stay swimming within these powerful and powerfully emotional eddies and currents. My last day started out with a vigorous Torah study (one of the aspects the Temple is known for) and then lunch with another old friend who had one more surprise for me – on an impulse, he was leaving his longtime job, apartment and the congregation to move in with his boyfriend across the country in San Francisco. Not within a year or even months but in the next 4 weeks. I was stunned (and apparently showed it with a very poor ‘poker face’). So a sense of loss along with small quiet heartbreaks were my traveling companions back down to Connecticut and across the waters of the
The weather cleared up and me, along with my entire class and teachers, got to enjoy a beautiful ceremony. Lining up we started to proceed out to the football stadium from the gymnasium, my mind would not stop thinking. I just could not stop remembering what it took for me to get to this day. The stress that I endured studying for the SAT, filling out my applications and most importantly, perfecting my essay. The idea that I was not going to be living in this beautiful town I have spent my life in, brought a flood of emotions. Thoughts of my friends not being by my side next year made me feel as if I was sinking into a deep hole; this place, this town has had so much to offer to me. The past two years that I had spent in this place were the most emotional and exciting times of my life. I knew even though I was not going to be waking up in my familiar place anymore, I would be waking up in what was to become my new familiar place. I knew that even though my friends would not physically be there with me every day, that they would be there when I called them. If it were not for all of the people I have met along the way, I do not think I would have ended up where I am today. It just is a common thought for whenever I get sad about everything ending, I remind myself that there is a new beginning coming and it is going to be amazing. The place that I have spent my whole life
Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
The entire day was like that: a powerful awakening of whom and what I would truly miss. I became sentimental about saying good-bye to many people I had taken for granted—the regulars who came into the
Ethnography tells about a culture and the members that comprise this culture. A definition is the scientific description of the customs and individual people of a culture. The process of doing this assignment allowed me to explore another aspect of a cultural group. I was able to learn extensively about interactions between individuals and how see them as a culture. The group that comprises my ethnography is a cultural group very common to Utah. The culture I focused on was the LDS culture, to be more specific I studied a sub-culture of this group. My subculture was a group of 12 year old adolescents that are a Sunday school class in this culture.
Elizabeth Ettorre, an sociologist who using a feminist participatory action research process to analyze voices. Particularly, the theme of this auto-ethnography she wrote is a vision of is it truly equal? Or are we still trap by other, more on society expectations view? The author of this journal wants to challenge every of having an loving eyes not the arrogant eyes to those lesbian. In my opinion, this challenge is most fulfillable since in Canada, part of America, and other more country have approve and set LGBT right for loving the same sex, one woman love another woman. It is only the matter of time, how long can all the people can view them normally and not to push them alway from the society. In conclusion, using loving eyes to see
Anthropology is defined, in the most basic terms, as the study of other cultures. This field can subsequently be divided into more specific sects, and contain more precise defining characteristics, but this definition is essentially all that is needed. Anthropology is a science that attempts to look at other cultures and draw conclusions to questions that are raised while studying. An anthropologist is someone who accepts what is presented before them and is driven by an urge to understand each presentation as thoroughly as possible. Once the concept of anthropology is accepted, one must identify the means of reaching the goal of this field. In the sect of social anthropology, this vehicle is known as
One of the main points Hernandez makes in his auto-ethnography is the oppression that surrounded his environment. Another main point is the importance of giving back to the community and how being part of it benefits an individual.
I live in a country where I can meet people from all cultures and walks of life on a daily basis, yet still I have felt like a stranger in this “melting pot”. In the United States, the idea of diversity is a term I have heard many times when speaking of ways to heal the past of slavery and segregation, but I think that in the current political climate, diversity is seen as an enemy to the American way of life. I am an outsider in the country I call home, and my cultural background has impacted the way I see the world.
On the playground, I met who will soon to be my first best friend, shortly after I had my first kiss. Kissing a girl, I felt so scared of what it meant that I knew I had to make myself the way I believed was right. I thought the best way was denying and eliminating all feelings that I had of the opposite sex because I never saw two of the same sex could be together. Little did I know my mom is gay but, she was too afraid to talk about it at the time so, it led me to struggle with my sexuality growing up. I developed strong feelings for my best friend and I believed that I just loved her because she was my best friend. I quickly learned that I loved her in a stronger way and still not knowing how to deal with my feelings, I started to hate my
Our memories often time embellish the memories we once had of such great people, places, times, and etc. We live these times up to standard that makes us reminisce, hurt, contemplate and so much more. The power of a photograph has been described to have worth a thousand words, metaphorically meaning of course, that what an image can capture in one instance, something that may not ever be captured through words. For too many centuries we have been without, what many of us now take for granted, the photograph. What we capture in a picture, has much more value than we often time see in our commercials, people, places, they tell a story to the ignorant, paint a picture for blind, give the deaf something to listen to, and so much more.
A dusty, scarlet photo album lay on my parent’s homemade drawer. Curiously, I flipped a few pages and landed on a section of an unfamiliar, quirky-looking boy. Upon closer examination, I realized that the boy was none other than myself! In a state of awe and nostalgia, I quickly scanned the miniscule two-inch squares, each subsequent one capturing physical maturity along with the loss of baby fat. As I reviewed each photo, I began to contemplate my past and realize how much I have grown through the years.
Social media is a place where lots of people put themselves forward and project how they want to be seen by people around them. Especially with features such as "liking", "disliking", and commenting, when someone posts a photo to social media they are well aware that they are putting the photo up to be "approved" by society. When I examine my social media presence in relation to the ways in which I "do" gender, there are many very common themes and patterns in which I see myself following. This photo of me picking up my dog at the beach superficially seems like any generic picture that one may see on Instagram, and it is. However, there are underlying reasons as to why I had chosen this photo to represent myself to the people around me on social media. Many of these underlying reasons
In this Auto-ethnography I’ll write about the artistic community I’m part of. It’s been around ten years since I became part of this diversified community ever since my mom force me to go to a private art class. From such a forceful action it turned into something that I learned to appreciate later on. I plan on covering how art has transformed my views by letting me think more out of the box. Since creativity is something I rely on constantly, by learning different art techniques I been able to integrate them together into several of my projects (school related). Another thing I’m going to discuss is the benefits and downfalls of being part of this community. Especially the misconception that has followed me my whole life that people with
The motivation behind the study is to focus the relationship between multi-site torment and poor work capacity among social insurance suppliers since epidemiologic studies have reported that multi-site musculoskeletal agony undermines work capacity. The study utilized an advantageous testing with 254 members. They finished all surveys with reaction rate of 79.9%. 73.2% of the members were female and 6.7% male. It had a mean age of 33.9, years going from 18 to 58 years. Of these aggregate rate of reaction 28.7% were attendants, 23.2% were doctors, 20.5% were drug specialist, 11.8% were restorative experts, 10.6% were dental specialist,
Article gives an explaination of implementing and maintaining healthcare records in the clinical setting. As there is a worldwide increase in investment and among visualized benefits are patient involvency, confounding secondary data which in turn relates in increase of quality of patient care. In the past implementation of technology has faced many technical problems there is poor connection between users and systems. Increase of chances of successful implementations to the systems which is based on methodology concepts. The best appropriate approach to study implementation of electronic health records is Socio-technical lenses as it includes of investigation not only on impact of technical problems in organsation but also in social settings