Stephen Hendrix Reflection

On the evening of September 15th, 2017, I attended the 25th annual Take Back the Night march. Take Back the Night is an international event that takes place in many different communities through the year. Universally, this event has a similar meaning, to raise awareness, honor the memory of women who have not survived violence, celebrating the strength of those who have and to demand an end to violence against women. Furthermore, this special event honored and recognized the culture of indigenous peoples with an emphasizes on the missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada. By attending this community event I was able to critically reflect on my own experience, values, and beliefs. In doing so, this helped inform me of my own values and also will inform my future practice as a social worker.

While reading the story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin I could not help but think about my own brother while growing up. From a very young age I always felt as though it was my job to keep him safe and on the right path. We did everything together, played sports, played board games, watched television, we even had some of the same friends. Sometimes I felt more like a second mom to him than his older sister.

Throughout our lives we often have to make changes to accompany to other people or our situations. Adam is no exception to this statement. He has chosen to take a path less traveled and must also face the struggles that come along with his risk. Earlier in the book Adam really struggles to find a job, but thanks to a pep talk from one of the other boarders at the shelter he decided to confront the employer. Shortly after he received the job he was assigned a permanent partner, Shaun Caldwell. He was very pleased with their performance and his progress. They were a true team despite their apparent differences. Things seemed to be looking up for the new life of Adam Shepard and his journey. The job at the Fast Moving Company became an oasis from

Being on the IT side, this session covered material that was new to me. I learned a lot about Common Core, various tools, and SAMR model. When I had my appointment with the Associate Superintendent, I realized the value of having those big-picture conversations. She was pleased to help, so I scheduled a few additional future meetings with her. These are going to help me learn more about our student programs and their use of technology.

David Williams works with a group of human service workers that provides a preventive program to youth in the community through a child and family service center (Lewis, Packard, & Lewis, 2012, pp.6). At this time David and his colleagues have been told that the program may be cut in the next year or two due to a financial situation that the center is currently facing (Lewis, Packard, & Lewis, 2012, pp.6).

The Outsiders novel written by S.E. Hinton continues to be A literary influence on the lives of many teens. This novel has been translated into 30 languages, and people find personal connection with either the plot or the characters themselves. I connected to this novel differently than most this book takes place on the lower end of the hierarchy and I sort of grew up in this type area I didn't live in such a bad neighborhood but I live very close to one and my dad works in the bad areas of church Hill and I went along with him there was a lot of dangerous stuff in a lot of places and things a kid my age shouldn’t of seen. “You get hardened in jail. I don't want that to happen to you. It happened to me. . .” This quote was said by Dally to Johnny on their way back to the church. This quote was important because it was the first and only time that he got emotional, he was trying to convince Johnny not to go to jail.

I learned a lot from the orientation. The presenter discussed different parts of the use for the lab. They could help with school assignments, presentations or a place to study. The presenter also discussed about helping with research papers and writing them out. Then, talked about helping with the process of getting into a master’s program. She had many resources we could use if we need them. She also talked about sona and how the process works.

I knew that Davidson was the place for me as soon as I walked through the doors of Chambers and saw the Honor Code pledges of all 1,950 students. These pledges allowed me to observe Davidson students through a lense of tremendous respect and admirability, knowing that they were members of a uniquely honest intellectual community. Additionally, the honor code’s reverence was visible in each aspect of student-life, creating an atmosphere that seemed holistically centered around the integrity and esteem of the student. What was, and still is, so attractive about this idea is that it speaks volumes not only about the student body at Davidson, but also about the experiences that one could derive from being a part of it. Having spent three years

I had always been the type of person to not care about another person’s feelings, or just say “The hell with it.” It wasn’t only feelings that I didn’t care about, it was almost any and everything, I didn’t see the point to a lot of things, like why people have so much love for another and there’s no relation through bloodline, or why people pray to a higher power they can’t even see,or why people have feelings for the same sex, or even why be born just to know you’re going to die eventually. I didn’t care is what i would’ve said then, but now, I would say I didn’t understand life itself, or just people in general, to be honest, I don’t understand the Kevin in 2015, but the Kevin today, March 1st, 2030, is much more sure of things. It was my junior year in high school when mindset was challenged, or should I say changed. I’ll never forget the day, October 27th, 2015.

As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

Chapter six of Cognitive Science, Theology: From Human to Divine Minds, the author, Justin Barrett argues that there is indeed a cognitive scientific perspective that provides an explanation on why humans conceptualize the divine (Barrett, 2011, p. 96). The ways he explains this in this chapter is in various sections; Who is a God?, Why Gods?, how dead people become gods, minimal counterintuitive ideas and cultural transmission, gods and meaning making, and the reasons to doubt the existence of Gods.

The Bible gives us the first love poem in creation in Adam’s response when he first sees Eve. In Genesis 2:23, Adam says, “This is now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man (KJV).” Milton in Paradise Lost goes into a deeper description of Adam’s first glimpse of Eve, saying that he saw her creation in a dream while he was asleep, then woke, and was “left […] dark,” and he thought he would “find her, or forever […] deplore / Her loss (VIII.478-479).” Once he sees her, and she is brought to him, Milton expands further on the Biblical account. Eve, however, has a different version of their first meeting. According to Milton in Book IV, when Eve is first given sentience, she wanders a bit and finds a pond that shows her reflection. She is rapt by her own beauty, and seems that she could easily slip into a Narcissus-type episode, if left to stare. But, God tells her it is her reflection, that it is not permanent, but that there is someone corporeal waiting for her. She follows the voice and sees Adam, whom she finds “fair indeed and tall, / […] yet methought less fair, / Less winning soft, less amiably mild, / Than that smooth watery image (477-480).” She then turns away from him. Milton gives his readers two obviously different characters, the question becomes whether these two proto-married people even seem to love each other, and why Biblical submission is established as it is in Genesis and Milton.

The Giver is a morally driven and thought-provoking story about a young boy called Jonas who lives in a society free of crime, sadness, pain, death, music, color and love. The story follows Jonas as he receives the memories of the past, good and bad, from the current Receiver, who is called the Giver. The Giver transfers memories by placing his hands on Jonas 's forearms. The first memory he receives is of a thrilling sled ride, which he will remake in the end of the movie. Jonas discovers the dangerous truths of his community 's secret past. Armed with the power of knowledge, which he knew about from memories (Ways of Knowledge), Jonas realizes that he must release all the memories to the community to allow them to feel

Music is defined as the vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of music. What truly exemplifies this definition is the performance entitled This Little Light of Mine in which performers, Donald Craig Manuel and Charles Lloyd Jr, took the stage to deliver a beautiful duo that’s consisted of Mr. Manuel’s Baritone voice and Mr. Lloyd’s performance on the piano. Mr. Donald Manuel performed twelve compositions in which ten of them were sacred pieces that expressed how much he loved the Lord and the other four were taken from major events he performed for such as: Festival of the Lion King at Hong Kong Disneyland, major productions abroad the Disney Dream, and musical numbers from popular Disney films. Even though each of these pieces were different in context they had numerous similarities such as: all of them being polyphonic, crescendo and decrescendo were used extensively, dynamics were used frequently, each piece was set to a walking tempo (Andante), each piece had the qualities of an opera, and he used vibrato in all his compositions. Even though all his performed pieces were brilliantly performed, the three compositions that stood out to me were: Ride on King Jesus by Hall Johnson, This Little Light O’Mine by John Work, and Be prepared by E. John and T. Rice.

Based on my understanding of Jasper Johns painting False Start this piece, Johns shunned the nonverbal images of his prior works, rather depending upon the building squares of dialect to draw watchers into an exchange with the artistic creation. The difference in topic was occasioned by Johns' want to move past his prior targets and banners. As he noticed, the banners and targets have colors situated predetermined. Jasper John needed to figure out how to apply shading with the goal that the shading would be controlled by some other technique. By concentrating on colors and the words that speak to them, Johns disconnected each, expelling the customary affiliations that went with them. Instead of hand-painting each letter, Johns utilized a locally acquired stencil - a readymade technique by which he could make a picture without uncovering the hint of the craftsman's hand. He stenciled the words that mean color to finish everything and underneath the different layers of paint as he worked. John changed the words into objects by rendering most in color disconnected to those which they verbally spoke to - "RED" seems painted in brilliant orange in the focal point of the canvas. Johns delighted in the discord between the words and the colors, moving their capacity from assignment to an unimportant gathering of images, ready for reevaluation.