Nursing Homes (the elderly and displacement)

A couple of years ago I wanted to be in the medical field, and I actually ended up doing a three year internship in a nursing home. It was a very eye opening experience that I owe a lot of growth to. It required patience, and  emotional strength. Patience because many patients there are battling against mental disorders, some are very sick, and some are depressed. In the three years that I was there one characteristic that I say can describe most of the patients is Sad. That is where you need that emotional strength and stability. The hardest thing to see is an elderly be at the nursing home against their will, or an elderly start crying because they have nobody to visit them or sometimes they do and they just don’t come or call.

-What can the nursing facilities do to make the place feel more like home? (If it feels more like home the elderly would feel like they belong there)

Homelessness

I have had friends who were homeless, and it was difficult seeing them struggle the way they were. One of my close friends went from having a home to almost being in the streets. It affected her school work, and her social life. She was pressured into getting a job, and having to drop out of school to work full time. Having to step into adult mode to help her mother while having 5 younger siblings was difficult for her.

1. How does the displacement of not having a home affect the younger population? What are some of the outcomes that come along with homelessness and the feeling of not having a place to call home?

Adoption

Adoption is always a soft spot for everyone because it involves kids who are placed under situations that they have no control over. Many are lucky enough to have homes and a family and then they are others who unfortunately don’t. I would love to adopt some kids in the future. And because I don’t know much about the topic researching will give me some idea on how many kids are in the adoption centers, maybe research how many kids are being adopted, etc. The research question here can be

1.How does the feeling of displacement for the kids at the adoption center affect their decisions as they grow up?

In the Tarzan movie we witness him trying to assimilate into the culture he’s been taken in by. His parents were killed when he was a baby, and the apes took him in. He grows thinking he is an ape that looks different from others. There is no questioning the fact that the apes have treated him with love and have not once treated them differently.However, he struggles with the Alpha Ape because he does not accept him, and in the clip above we see him observing himself and upset because he looks so different and that is why he isn’t being accepted by Kerchak ( Alpha ape). So when the mud jumps on his face he notices that he is brown and that is the color of the apes. So he tries to cover himself in the mud to look more like them. He was displaces in that culture because of the excessive differences between him and others. Throughout the movie he tries to fit in and show Kerchak that he is worth his recognition and acceptance.

So at some point in the movie, Tarzan finds out that he isn’t an ape and is actually human. So Jane the woman who introduces him into the human culture, is the one that shows him how a human male is supposed to act like. And then he tries to fit in into that culture. In the clip above we see him trying to act like a human, and assimilating into that culture.

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I was so intrigued by the short story Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer that I did some research on her and her background. I really believed that her short stories were about her experiences. However, they are not! She does like that most people believe that they were because it makes her feel like she did a good and rich description that would lead people to believe that it has to be real. She does say that she focused on the emotion each experience portrayed because that did come within. She says the experience and the emotions in the stories doesn’t correlate with real life but the emotions definitely do.

I didn’t really relate to the story but I was captivated by every detail and every description. The content was very rich, and it made the short story intriguing. My favorite part was when Dina was in the counselor’s office and she truly believes that she’s convincing him of that fake ending she but she wasn’t. “Maybe you’ll understand that when you need to express something truly significant, your mouth will revert to the insignificant nonsense it knows so well.” I feel like that sentence right there captured the whole short story in a nutshell, which was very nice.

Yesterday I attended How to read a sonnet workshop, and I must say it was pretty cool. I had low expectations for this workshop and I thought that I would want to leave as soon as I came but it was very intriguing ( mostly because our instructor was so enthusiastic and engaging that made the workshop better) and proved me wrong. I learned so many things besides how to read a sonnet which was very pleasing. For example, did you know words had gender? Yup, if a word has 2 or more syllables is feminine and if it only has 1 syllable it’s masculine.

To read a Sonnet you need to keep 3 questions in mind. 1.What does it sound like? 2.What does it mean? and 3. How does the sound affect the meaning? In order to answer these question our instructor suggested to split the sonnet. Sonnets are usually 14 lines and each line holds 10 syllables. You split the sonnet into 3 quatrains and 1 couplet. Quatrains consist of 4 lines and Couplets consists of 2 lines. As you go through the sonnet you should be able to hear the sound of it and you should be able to slowly get the meaning.

1. Does the fact that Dina prefers to play Russian Roulette, opposed to the harmless game Trust, tell us the way she perceives the world? Does the fact that she refuses to play the game shows us how hostility towards trusting?
2. Does the relationship between Heidi and Dina reveal something about Dina? The way she engaged with Heidi right away, when she hadn’t really spoken to anyone ever, tells us anything? Like what about Heidi did she relate, or connect to? Why was Heidi different from the rest of the people that she tuned out?
3. Why does Dina talk about the dream she had with her mother? Was it to show us that she wasn’t always dispassionate, and reclusive? OR was it show the similarities between the relationship she had with her mother and the relationship she had with Heidi?