What Were Your Thoughts / Expectations / Beliefs Before, During, And After The Event?

My personal experience was no way near the classic written media but rather through verbal words. My narrative dates back to my sophomore year in high school. I can honestly say the decision I took that morning was the wisest decision of my life. All of my values and believes came into play that day.

The film does a brilliant job of showing and focusing on the personal stories of several survivors (including a few men). Additionally, it shows how sexual assault is an epidemic, by inserting Department of Defense’s own statistical findings and interviews with experts, criminal investigators and psychologists. It builds up to the

How did you feel about the experience as it was happening? I felt extremely sad, however, I was pleased that I could provide comfort and I felt connected to the patient.

When hearing the topic “Comfort Women” that would be discussed at the presentation being held in the ABC building and thoughts ran through my head that it would be about programs that created were created to help women all over the world that may need comfort for situations that may be going on in their family. Come to find out “Comfort Women” actually has to do with women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese soldiers during World War 2. Hearing something like this is very heartbreaking and disturbing especially because it is something I have never heard about. It is inhumane to hold someone as a sex slave and it is basically stripping them of their natural born human rights. Though I do not know the right those who

was devastating to my family. At this point I had just got involved in our church. I had been reluctant to

This discussion about women as victims and defendants was insightful. There is a lot I did not know when it came to women in the criminal justice system. As a male myself I could not see it from a women’s point of view. It is funny how a man actually was up there explaining to us what women go through while in the criminal justice system. I think it is really significant when someone advocates for someone, or a group who is not affected by their injustice. Dr. Joseph P. Conti presentation was very good. His teachings on women as victims and defendants were intriguing. His lecture on how Pennsylvania laws changed over the years, when it had to do with women was fascinating. His merits showed he knew what he was talking about. This felt like a class I really would enjoy attending. Dr. Joseph lecture on Monday gave an extension to our class in Victimology.

What feelings and thoughts did you have during the experience and what thoughts and feelings do you have now?

What a great and entertaining talk. Although, it was really fast, but a talk I could watch several time and still learn. Shawn Achor started off funny, he had the audience laughing throughout the speech which is great and kept the audience listening and wanting to hear more. His organization was great, he kept each topic in order and short but interesting to the audience. I like how Achor listed all the statistics then went into listing what you can do to become more positive. Achor also showed us the graph at the beginning of the speech and said that one dot that was out of place may be you, which I believe is the dot that might bring everyone down, the negative dot within the group.

Before attending this workshop, I had little to none knowledge about sexual assault. I knew it was any sexual activity performed without consent, and that the victims are usually unconscious, drugged, or intoxicated. Going into the workshop I thought it was going to be a long boring informative lesson about sexual assault. Although it was fairly long, I did not lose interest while watching the videos. I did not expect there to be real life situations

I would like to start off by saying that the men and women, mothers and fathers, on the panel are very brave. I notice one MTF transgender woman talked about how she wasn't as brave as the son who came out in high school, but i disagree. i believe that she is extremely brave for being the woman she always wanted to be. This video was just moving. It was touching and deep but also gave comedic relief. I understand that its hard for someone to be the person they want to be. Socity and the media depics a perfect person as one thing, but being perfect is defind by the person looking at it. If a guy knows deep donw they do not want to be a guy and wants to be a girl, they are still pefect.

The only noise I emitted was hysterical sobbing; you could hear me walking down the halls, or hear me in the middle of the lecture that day in class. The one question I had, and still remains is, “why me, why my family, why my brother?” I don’t know what was worse, people saying everything would be okay, or knowing it would never be okay again? Sitting at the service and trying to accept the reality was much tougher than I expected. I sat front row; a few steps from my brother who could never tell me he loved me again.

What was the outcome and how would you handle or show up in that situation differently using your knowledge of mindfulness and stress management.

I was honestly very impressed with her presentation, because people are faced with these issues every day and most people had no idea what would make them look more becoming. Every person is created differently and unique, so it’s really helpful to have many different options that could you. Some things I liked most about her speech was how she used real life examples of celebrities we all know and how she gave specific suggestions for each body type. The only thing I would suggest for improvement for future speeches would be to not rely so much on the visuals or note cards during the speech and to talk a little slower in each main topic. Overall, I really enjoyed listening to her speech and I felt I really learned some useful

I would see my daughter one way or another. I thought of taking my life in several ways, but I feared what my family would find when they came home. Intriguing how grief can distort the mind—especially unresolved grief. I did not consider that finding my body dead at all would traumatize my family further. It was a selfish act, though I honestly believed that life would become better if I removed my own from that of the family. I just thought about myself and my own feelings of grief. The spirit told my wife not to leave for my sake and she prevented me from making the most ill begotten plan I could imagine to end my self-loathing. I lost my job; and my health did not recover. I had waited too late. The Lord had told me from the beginning to leave that job, but I wanted to look impressive and SEEM the way a good Mormon should to the world. I lost a family member in the

To me, listening to this Ted Talk was very emotional and personal. I have been incredible blessed with parents in my life that love and accept me the way I am. However, I have not, or at least not much, challenged them in