AA Meeting Reflection Heather Straight 3/20/15 10 Park Place Avon NY Zion Episcopal Church 5:30pm Monday Nights I recently attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for the first time. Because of the fact that I live in a small rural town‚ I had expected not to find a meeting anywhere in my local area. To my surprise‚ there were two different meeting locations all within walking distance from my house. The fact that my small town needed two separate meetings‚ and there were many others in nearby towns
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Daniella Levy 11/19/12 MH31 Ethnography On Sunday November 18th‚ I attended my first alcohol anonymous open meeting at Gerritsen Beach. The church was called St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church‚ and the session started at 7pm. I was actually very nervous going by myself‚ so I asked my best friend to come with me for support. This meeting occurred in the basement of the church. My best friend and I began walking down the stairs into the basement‚ and we already saw people sitting around in a circle
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Community Meeting Review For my project I visited the City of Hesperia’s Official Website and reviewed the April 1‚ 2014 City Council Meeting which is available to the public on line. The beginning of the meeting started with a call of order then proceeded to the roll call of the board members. After these steps had taken place an invocation was performed followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. I have never heard of a prayer referred to as an invocation and it prompted me to review the words definition
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“MEETING MY DAD” Since I was born‚ my mom has been there for me taking care of me when I’m sick and teaching me pretty much all I know. But while growing up‚ I reached a point where I started realizing that every kid in my school had a “mommy” and a “daddy” and I didn’t. I never really noticed that because my uncles and my grandpa were always around me‚ but when I started school I realized I didn’t have anybody to call “Dad”. I was five years old when I started noticing this entire dilemma
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MEETING OTHER CULTURES We live in a world in which there are a great number of places to meet. It is quite likely that people travel to different countries for recreational‚ leisure or business purposes. Thus‚ people stay in places outside their usual environment and they lose touch with their everyday activities. Even‚ in most cases‚ the idea of travelling becomes quite exiting. However‚ one of the most striking difficulties people face when visiting a foreign country is to adjust to a new culture
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What I learned at the AA meeting AA meeting was a very good learning opportunity for me and I benefited from it greatly I was amazed on how normal all the people looked and it really signified that honestly anyone could become and alcoholic and it can really mess up your life and make you so dysfunctional and take your life away I was amazed by all of their stories especially the story about how one of the men said that god is the only answer and it made me really realize that he is really and
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AA Meeting: The Point of View of an Outsider The purpose of this paper is to not only describe my experience at this meeting‚ but to also see into the life of a person trying to overcome their demons. We all have obstacles we are trying to surpass‚ but these people have a stronger hold to their demons because they bring them pleasure. These types of addictions is not an easy thing to overcome. The fact that they are so determined to change their lives‚ that they are willing to meet with complete
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Attachment Theory Beginnings Out of the meeting of psychoanalytic theory‚ World War II‚ and ethology was born what we now know as attachment theory. Because John Bowlby‚ a British psychoanalyst was “uneasy about the reliability of our observations‚ the obscurity of any of our hypotheses and‚ above all‚ the absence of any tradition which demands that hypotheses be tested (1979‚ p. 36)‚ he sought to bring greater scientific discipline into his field. Bowlby was already working with maladapted
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Meeting Rules and GuidelinesThese are the guidelines or ’ground rules’ for SMART Recovery meetings. These do not tell you what to think or believe - just what we expect of each within the meeting itself. Sticking to these guidelines will keep the meetings effective and safe. The facilitator will try and keep the meeting to these principles‚ but it is important to remember that everyone in the meeting should do their bit to keep the meeting on track. 1. Mobile PhonesAll mobile phones must be
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1984 Essay John F. Kennedy once said‚” conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” a statement that still stands strong as conformity and oppression can seldom be found in today’s world. Together in this world the people choose their leaders and enjoy the right to overthrow any government they think of as corrupt. With such a heavy surge of information onto the general public‚ politicians can hide nothing forcing them into honesty. Also‚ the media is a massive help in the decision
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