No Place Like Home?

Most people can relate the word “home” to one area where they grew up and made memories. Unlike most people, I called many places home. Growing up in a military family was an arduous task which had great impacts, both positive and negative, on my life. It shaped me into the person I am today. A person with a laundry list of flaws and imperfections, yet has learned to love herself.

What does the term “home” mean? How does the idea “home” apply to the text you read?

Home./hōm/ noun- the place where one lives permanently. In The Glass Castle, a true memoir, by Jeannette Walls, talks about how the family moved around a lot. They were always moving because Rex Walls, their dad, constantly was losing his job or getting in trouble with the law. The kids identities were changed a lot throughout the story. Maureen, the youngest child in the family, changed the most. Her identity was shaped and made her into who she is today. Maureen identity goes from a small child, to sheltered sibling, to a christian, and finally to a codependent adult.

Home is a dwelling where people unwind, mature, and can safely reside. Coates, Andreou, and Owen see home as a material structure and are chiefly concerned and focused on the importance of access to home. On the other hand, Shammas, Iyers, and De Botton view the abstract concept of home, which emphasizes that home, is about creating feelings and memories. Home is not a material place where it can be several different places and have no meaning. Home is a place where you create fond memories, feelings, and grow with the culture.

Home as defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary is “one's place of residence”; however, this is not true for Ender Wiggin in Orson Scott Card’s book “Ender’s Game”. In “Ender’s Game” Ender sees and lives through many different physical homes, but a physical home is not home for Ender and is instead just a means through which Ender’s true home, built on lies, isolation, and loss of innocence, can be implemented and exist through.

Numerous modern literary works rely on setting to ignite the plot and enhance the readability of a story. Oftentimes an author incorporates his own opinions and perspective into his literature to better portray the experiences of his characters. The interpretation and comprehension of a story is largely dependent on the inclusion of accounts from the author 's own life and experiences. In Sue Monk Kidd 's The Secret Life of Bees, David Guterson 's Snow Falling on Cedars, and Jhumpa Lahiri 's Interpreter of Maladies, diaspora makes it difficult for the characters to assimilate to the new customs and moral convictions of each new environment.

Home creates you identity because you learn from your surroundings even before you start to go to school. When you are young playing with friends and then fall and scrap your knee, you learn from that. It might take some time, but you eventually learn that that hill is too steep, or that toy is too much for you to handle.

Home- In life we all desire to find our home, a place where we feel like we always belong. On earth we can have many different homes. We can move to different states, cities, and houses, soon enough that new dwelling will be a place we can call our earthly home. We are not truly home until we reach heaven with our heavenly father.

One knows that a place is their home when they are comfortable enough to present a true description of themselves, because they know that they will receive definitive acceptance. It is a sanctuary for them where they can do anything they please and not be judged afterwards. It is where one can share the absurdity of their day without any remorse or repercussions. The reason why people say that a person only has one true home is because one will

We can find our home in a person or in a place. I have been fortunate to find a home in my grandmother, friend, a place, and I’m glad for that because there are people out there that are not able to find a home in a person or even in a place. For 13 years I lived in Mexico City where I thought my “home” was going to be permanent, but as I moved to the United States I found out that home is not where you lived the longest, but where you find true love in a place as well as in a person. Being safe and loved is one of the most important things anyone should worry about because what is a home without love or safety? What is a person that can’t keep you safe and love?

"The ache for home lies in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned." -Maya Angelou

There is no place like home is a well-known adage that the healthcare industry has recently embraced. According to the Joint Commission, the home is the best place for healthcare, and it has proven to benefit the patients in many ways, because the cost of care is lower, the patients are happier and the environment is friendlier (Dilwali, 2013). CMS defines home care as “prescribed services delivered in the patient’s home such as nursing care; physical, occupational and speech language therapy; and medical social services” (Dilwali, 2013, p. 269). Home care includes disease prevention, health promotion and illness related services (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). The goal of home care is to ensure that the client’s health improves while increasing the individual’s independence. This combination guarantees an optimal level of well-being (Dilwali, 2013). There are several care models encompassed under the umbrella of home care which assist in these goals. These include population-focused, transitional, home-based primary, home health and hospice. In order to fully understand home care, one must analyze each of these models and the financial, ethical and legal challenges that the community health nurse faces.

Home isn’t going anywhere. If you leave you can always return and it’s important you do because then you can see the world you’ve been living in for so many years through a different lens.

When I was around eight years old, I remember living in my downstairs apartment playing with Lincoln Logs. Now, as we know, eight year olds have only one thing on their mind—play (or at least I did). So, to entertain me, my mom wanted me to watch a movie with her. And at that time, I wanted to try ANYTHING, so my mom was flipping channels when, just like every year around Christmas, “The Wizard of Oz” was on, and luckily, it had just started! However, being eight, and for seeing it for the first time, one of the things I didn’t understand about the movie was the fact that the 1930’s and 40’s weren’t ACTUALLY black and white. I also failed to understand that “The Wizard of Oz” wasn’t about a girl on LSD, and that

Home is the place where we are born and live. It is the sweetest place in the world. When we sense danger elsewhere we find safety in our home. When there is joy, we share it with other members of our home. Everybody loves home. For this reason are English poet has written: