Kathy Dunn What I Think It Means to Be a Counselor February 18‚ 2013 Counseling means to help someone else through a situation or problem that they cannot solve alone. Counselors are good to have to help you with different problems that you may encounter. If you are having marital problems and seek help you would want someone who would listen to your problems and give sound advice. Counselors have to be good listeners and caring people. They need to be qualified to give advice on what to do because
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narrator in the beginning of the story was implied to be somewhat unaware of what the real world is actually like. She was innocent when she met Sally and was told many false things about love and boys that the narrator actually believed as said in this quote “ The way they said it‚ the way it’s supposed to be‚ all the storybooks and movies”(Cisneros 1). This quote proves that she had no knowledge or was too young to understand of what really happens in this world. Later on she found out that her friend
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What does it mean to be human? Simply it means to make decisions not always based on logic or reason‚ or the decision is made based on emotion. This is an interesting question that is brought up in Ridley Scott’s movie Alien (1979). The crew of the Nostromo for the most part appears to be human‚ but through their actions it makes one wonder if they are actually humans or if they are simply robots. They have gone to such a point that human life has seemingly been devalued in order to complete the
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The blank slate‚ written by Steven Pinker; an experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist‚ examines the ideas behind the ongoing debate regarding human nature and the theories of nature and nurture. The book begins with and in depth outline of the three doctrines of the nurture debate‚ the first being “The blank slate” which asserts that individuals are “born void of all characters without any ideas” as stated by John Locke (1632-1704) and that behavior is learnt from society and those around
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Journal Entry 11- Respect The one thing i respect in people is their honesty‚ if you are honest with me i will respect you regardless. Also one other thing which makes me respect others is how you treat others and what you say about them when they are not there. If I hear you talking bad about another person when we are not that close i will loose a lot of respect because for all I know you talk about me too. The thing that I respect most about myself is the thing I wish to see in others too‚ honesty
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is that fortune favors the bold. Fortune means wealth‚ favours means prefer‚ and bold means courageous. This precept definitely changes the way the children of the 21st century act. There are many examples of this‚ such as from Jack Will‚ from Wonder‚ Mahatma Gandhi‚ and my very own father. Everyone knows that fortune favours the bold. Jack Will is a very good example of this precept. Everyone knows that helping others is brave‚ especially when it means helping the one kid that everybody avoids
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First‚ I would like to express what service and leadership means to me. Service is work done for somebody else as a favor or a duty‚ often with regard to whether it pleases them or not. It goes beyond tutoring ADHD children in these less fortunate neighborhoods; it goes on for a lifetime. Service is something everyone should experience once in a lifetime. It’s a blessing to be able to help someone at a vulnerable time in their life or because they aren’t able to make it happen for themselves‚ it’s
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Focus Question 1 What does health mean to individuals? * Meanings of health * Each individual will have a different meaning for health. - Definitions of health * (WHO) ‘Health is a state of complete physical‚ mental and social Well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ * To reach a state of complete physical‚ mention and social wellbeing an individual or group must be able to identity and realise aspirations‚ to satisfy needs‚ and to change or cope
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Justice means having someone adjudicated and found guilty for a crime they have committed. Laws are put in place for a reason and everyone should have to abide by them. Just having a criminal off the street is enough justice for me‚ but locking one up and “throwing away the key” will not make them better; it will probably not change them at all and eventually make their situation worse. Convicted felons need a plan of treatment. First‚ they need to realize what they have done was wrong. Next‚ they
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Although most people believe that the consequences of war will always be present in society‚ there are few who think it can be completely erased. In “Grass‚” Carl Sandburg uses personification to proclaim that the traces of war can be eliminated by nature and time. "Grass" by Carl Sandburg is a poem filled with depth and complexity. The beginning line of the poem stating‚ "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo" (Sandburg‚ Carl line 1) shows that there were several bodies left over from
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