While earning my undergraduate degree, I had a formative internship experience as a visit monitor at a court-appointed family visitation center. I ensured that children could interact with their parent in a way that was safe, appropriate, and healthy for the child’s physical and emotional health. Each of the families I monitored had histories of violence, neglect, substance abuse, criminal history, or parental mental illness. I witnessed the resiliency and risk factors that affected the children
THE NARRATIVE RESEARCH METHOD The use of narrative research in IS has been limited although there have been some recent publications (Alvarez & Urla, 2002; Davidson, 1997; Dube & Robey, 1999, Hirschheim & Newman, 1991). Table 2 lists some of these studies. However, the clear understanding of how to conduct, interpret and describe narrative research in the context of information systems does not exist and is being provided in this paper. Here, we explain the theoretical foundations and
with Stories? The sciences of Narrative Medicine,” explores narrative writing and how to use it as a tool in healing patients. While Charon focuses on the writing of these stories, Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal reflects on how to make more meaningful endings out of the stories of patients who
Christian family in Africa. It was hard for her family to get the basic needs such as food, clean water to drink or bathe, payment for rent, and clothes. As time went by, her family saw God working in their life, meaning they started getting the basic needs, and when Grace finished her secondary school, she got an opportunity to go and study at a university in America. She was very excited for this opportunity because she knew that it would open many opportunities for her and her whole family. Thus,
foreign country? Why do they move abroad? Some people believe that getting up and moving to a different is not hard, but it is not as easy as it sounds. People do so for various reasons: to escape as a refugee - if there are certain circumstances and issues like a revolution or war are going in a country - or immigrate to change their life forever. In my case, I decided to move to a foreign country as an exchange student, surviving a long forty-two hour flight from my home country, Tajikistan, to the
everyday struggles that college students face. While discussing the same topics, the authors use different writing styles and techniques to illustrate the same idea. To begin with, Greitens harnesses his personal experience to outline the pressures he faced during his study abroad trip in China. Specifically, he focuses on the difficulties relating to the actual journey as well as the college workload. Greitens’ writing style captivates the reader. For example, Greitens uses the “Kung Fu’
without doubt that for some people, going to a foreign country can be quite the shock. Before I experienced living abroad, I was adamant that I too would experience a culture shock. What happened was totally the opposite. I spend my last year of my bachelor studies living in Belgium, Ghent. I received a scholarship, so I did not have to work to support myself. Instedad I focused on my studies and of course on the adventure. You see, culture shock is not something you catch, like the flu or the common
Introduction Khirul Rahaman (KR) is a woman I have known all my life. She is my paternal grandmother who has had a great impact on my upbringing. When she agreed to be interviewed for the purposes of this assignment, her first question is “are you sure you want to talk about me? I am not that interesting”. As this paper will demonstrate, the power of one’s personal narrative can often be underappreciated, as resiliency factors are often unrecognized, and the notion of hardship is ‘personalized’.
Satrapi, dissatisfied with representations she saw of Iranian women in France, decided to challenge them. In her words, “From the time I came to France in 1994, I was always telling stories about life in Iran to my friends. We’d see pieces about Iran on television, but they didn’t represent my experience at all. I had to keep saying, ‘No, it’s not like that there.’ I’ve been justifying why it isn’t negative to be an Iranian for almost twenty years. How strange when it isn’t
to advocate Puritan ideals and lifestyle. Winthrop delivered his sermon A Model of Christian Charity, in hopes of encouraging his shipmates to establish a truly spiritual community abroad. Almost fifty years later, a Puritan named Mary Rowlandson, daughter of a wealthy landowner and wife of a minister, wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, describing her 11-week captivity by native