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Topic: identity

The famous Tory preacher Mather Byles represented the Loyalist side of the story. He asked, “Which is better, to be ruled by one tyrant 3000 miles away, or by 3000 tyrants not a mile away?” Feel-good history allows people to believe that all the colonists were patriots, but this is simply not true. Some historians even say that the patriots were only a tiny minority of eastern merchants who duped poor western farmers into fighting for the merchants’ cause. In this sense, there was never colonial unity until the U.S. Constitution.
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The First Continental Congress was called in 1774 in response to the Intolerable Acts. The only colony not represented was Georgia, because it still felt somewhat disjointed from the rest of the colonies. Committees of Safety were created as part of the Congress. They were continental assemblies for the purpose of enforcing the boycott of British goods and publicizing the names of those who violated the boycott. These were big steps in colonial unity, though it was not yet achieved.
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Willy Loman, in Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, is the typical hard-working American going after a dream. He was a man who was “escape there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine” (1947) Yet he was a guy who ‘didn’t understand who he was'( 1947 ). His absence of self-knowledge and failure to accept who he is leads to his madness and supreme demise.
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Death was also an escape for Willy from his place in the world as a typical working class man. He owns very little, and he makes very little, so he has no sense of accomplishment. Robbed of this, he develops the theory that if a person is well liked and has a great deal of personal charm, then all doors will automatically be opened for him. Willy built his life around these dreams. However, for Willy to live by his ideals in the modern capitalistic world necessitates accepting mediocrity or even failure. Unable to accept his place in the world as a ‘low man’, Willy deceives himself into a false reality. He lies about his exceptional importance to the company and his fame by saying “I’m vital in New England” (1879) In reality, Willy isn’t needed by the company because of his poor salesmanship, and is forced to lose his job. At times Willy even believes his own lies and becomes enthusiastic when he tells his family that he made more money than he actually did.
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The grandeur of Willy’s aspirations for himself and his sons disillusioned him into not accepting his commonness. Biff realizes this truth and tries to make his father realize that “I’m a dime a dozen, and so are you!’ (1944) Unable to believe this, Willy retorts “I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman” (1944) The name Loman implies nothing in the modern business world in which Willy lives in and he is unable to realize that he is just a typical hard working man. This blindness to the truth doesn’t allow Willy to see that his dreams are unreachable. The pursuit of the unattainable leaves Willy constantly unsatisfied with his life and drives him to madness. “With his self-identity weakened and undermined, Willy lost his grasp of things in general.” Unable accept reality, Willy kills himself.
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Willy Loman is, for Miller, the antithesis of the classic tragic hero. As his name implies, he is a `low man’, an everyday man, whose dreams and expectations have been shattered by the capitalistic values of the society that he failed to see. Unlike the heroes of classical tragedy, he is not a man of stature or noble purpose but he commands our respect and pity because he pursues his dream with a passionate intensity that makes him unique and gives him a heroic quality. While Willy is flawed in many ways, his tragic flaw, or hamartia, is not knowing himself. His inability to see and accept who he is leads to his final act. His suicide, an act in defiance of the system which until now had defeated him, is a tragic attempt to salvage in death the dream he couldn’t attain while living.
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Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a comedy with a difference. It was written almost certainly between 1596 & 1598. The play is classed as one of the 16 comedy plays but it is also a ‘problem’ play due to the tragic elements woven throughout the intricate plot. The play concludes with a harmonious ending but all through the plot, reoccurring themes of sadness and tragedy are included.
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It follows the typical upward trajectory of comedy (beginning complication to ending resolution}. Act 1 introduces the plays main complication, but it also sets the tone for comic expectation by establishing upward rhythm of comedy in each of its three scenes. Antonio and Portia’s melancholy are shortly alleviated by appropriate distractions & hope. Bassanio hopes to thrive, Antonio tries to help his friend, Portia will not have to worry about being chosen by the suitors she has mocked.
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After the opening act has set the rhythm and expectation of comedy, there is increasing fluctuation of the rising and dashing of hopes because of the various characters choices. Raised hopes and satisfaction however outweigh dashed hopes and dissatisfaction. Launcelot, Jessica, Lorenzo, Portia, Nerrisa, Gratiano & Antonio all escape the danger they most fear and realize their aspirations. Morocco, Arragon, Shylock and Antonio all suffer losses.
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Another common feature of comedies is that the original problem is often less important and complex than the original solution. This is certainly true in “The Merchant of Venice”. At the beginning of the play, Bassanios ‘problem’ is supposedly that he wants to repay the debt he owes Antonio Even though Antonio does not care Very much about getting his money back. Bassanio’s solution to this problem courting and marrying a beautiful heiress promises to be pleasant enough for him but requires turning Antonio into a debtor himself & even endangering his very life. Only in the world of comedy would this sequence of events be accepted without question.
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Shylock far from being a mere plot device, is a character of considerable dramatic power & he is presented as embodying an intractable mixture of racial vulnerability & obdurate insistence upon the inviolability of commercial & legal facts. He was hindered and insulted by Antonio for which he wants to kill the merchant. His thrust for revenge suggests an anger that a petty spirit could not feel. At the end of the play, he is left without the props of his life and although he is considered the villain, one cannot help feeling sorry for him.
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The title character Antonio belongs in a different kind of play. His mysterious sadness & his apparent willingness to die to prove his love for Bassanio suggest the world of tragedy. His ill treatment of Shylock makes him a rather dark hero. The bond he signs with Shylock is unromantically explicit about the three-month term and the consequences of forfeiture. His contempt for Shylock finds no comic expression & at the end of the play, he is the odd man out among the pairs of happy lovers.
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Love is not the only dominant interest of the play unlike Shakespeare’s other romantic comedies. The play could easily be one that is dealing with issues of Jewry and usury that were very contemporary. Bassanio as a romantic hero is not a lovesick languishing figure but his motives are rather dubious. The climax of the play is not the love story, as it should be in a romantic comedy but in the trial scene that comes rather late.
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‘The Merchant of Venice is also unconventional because it mingles the people of the aristocracy with lower class characters(such as, Shylock & the clown Launcelot Gobo), even though , according to the reigning critical theory of that time, only upper class characters were appropriate to tragedy while member of the middle and lower classes were the proper subject solely of comedy. The play also presents a threat of death to its main protagonist Antonio that is suddenly at the end by Portia’s ingenious casuistry in the trial scene.
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Shylock is a wealthy Jewish moneylender in Venice. He lends Antonio three thousand ducats on the promise that if it is not repaid, the forfeiture shall be a pound of Antonio’s flesh. By placing a pound of flesh as collateral, Shylock is able to envision his revenge all too clearly. By eliminating Antonio, Shylock will not only fuel his thirst for vengeance but would also eliminate his leading competition. Antonio by lending money at no interest had thwarted Shylock in his bid to acquire even more gold, which he valued more than anything else. So when Antonio defaults on his loan, Shylock relentlessly demands absolute compliance with the terms of the agreement.
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However, it is simply too easy to label Shylock as a hate driven moneygrubber bent on killing Antonio. In fact, when one looks at the terms of the agreement, and the treatment Shylock has received over the years, one could argue he is completely justified. In the text, we read of Antonio spiting on Shylock in the past, calling him dog & insulting him in front of other merchants. He calls Shylock a ‘cur’ and belittle him for his religious belief. Shakespeare is successful in creating an environment rich with people but exclusive to only Christians. For a lone Jew in a sea of Christians it appears life can be very lonely. Even at the point of the transaction, his contempt for the ‘Jew’ was obviously apparent-
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By displaying his utter disregard for Shylock, Antonio creates an enemy who simply salivates at the prospect of some payback when Antonio comes to ask for a loan. Treated as less than a second-class citizen for far too long, Shylock found it more than a bit hypocritical that the same Christians who cursed and spit upon him for being a moneylender now came willingly to him in their time of need. This is a crucial moment in the drama, and outlines a clear moral dilemma. At this point, we beg for Shylock to practice a truly humane principle, thus teaching his tormentors then true meaning of religion. But alas, Shylock is too blinded by hate to forgive & for better or worse as readers, we can understand this.
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The above mentioned quote, briefly, explains Shylocks motives and drive in his pursuit of a pound of flesh. For one so obsessed with money, the fact that he would be willing to forsake a decent sum in the pursuit of vengeance speaks volumes of hatred and animosity between Shylock & Antonio. Justifiably bitter over his treatment by a hypocritical Christian society, Shylock focuses his revenge so sharply, that he is blind to anything else. Our understanding of this fact does not lessen the horror we feel at his cruelty towards Antonio but, we are able to remember that the passion for revenge is a common human failing.
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To understand the play we must first look at the setting. The play is not set in the year it was written. Instead, Shakespeare looks back in time to the beginning of the Renaissance. Venice, a city-state in Italy, was a crossroads for crusaders, a money-lending centre of Europe. Venice fascinated the Elizabethans, as it was commercially hospitable to people from all parts of the world e.g. Greeks, Jews and Protestants. The city was also a trading centre of great importance. Venice itself was Catholic city and politically independent. A place of great beauty, luxury and extremely artistic.
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A second setting of the play transports us to Belmont, which contrasts, with Venice in its fairy tale outlooks and musical interludes. It is in Belmont that love blooms, honesty and peace prevails everywhere. The atmosphere of Venice is almost like a romantic fairy tale and Portia is like the beautiful princess who cannot marry until the right man arrives to choose the right casket. As long as she is imprisoned by her fathers will, Portia must remain in Belmont and wait for her prince to come and rescue her.
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Moreover, in an ironic way, later love is talked about in commercial terms. Another dissimilarity is presented when the scenes shift from Venice to Belmont. When we hear of Shylock’s hatred and his terms of the bond, our anxiety builds. Then the play moves on to Belmont and the mood shifts from a sort of harshness and tension to a world of romance and courteousness. The most striking disparity is between the courtroom scene in Act 4 and the opening scene of act 5, which takes place on a starlit, romantic night in Belmont.
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Belmont in contrast to Shylocks Venice is full of music. Starting with the music to accompany Bassanios choice, Portia tells us that “music is/Even as the flourish when true subjects bow/To a new crowned monarch.” “A Flourish of Cornets” announces Morocco’s entrance, his introduction to the caskets, and his exit. Arragon is introduced to the caskets by another flourish. A song accompanies Bassanios choice. In Act 5, Bassanio’s ‘tucket’ heralds his victorious return to Belmont.
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These trumpeting are signs that the people of Belmont observe rituals or ceremony. In Venice, ceremony runs into difficulties. Gratiano regrets that “we have not made good preparation’ for the masque at Bassanio’s house. Solanio agrees “‘Tis vile unless it may be quaintly ordered/And better in my mind not undertook”. The ill fated masque is eventually cancelled when the inconstant wind unceremoniously changes for Belmont.
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The identity theorist’s Erik Erikson and James Marcia were important contributors to the mental analysis of an individual’s character and social advancement. Erik Erikson is most notoriously known for his theories on the teen search for identity and his concepts regarding a person’s self-discovery. James Marcia broadened further on Erikson’s principles through his proposal of the four identity statuses, which include moratorium, foreclosure, diffusion, and accomplishment, as well as the 4 human crises’. As psychology is becoming a growing number of established in our contemporary society, it has actually ended up being more socially appropriate to slam or expose the concerns psychology involves, particularly human identity, which typically times can be the most controversial subject.
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In addition to that, Will’s best friends depict the epitome of “city kids” who balance blue collar jobs with nighttime bar reunions and it is evident that because this is the only life Will has ever known, he is hesitant to lead the life he is stereotypically supposed to. It takes the guidance from Will’s best friend Chuck, to finally persuade Will to take advantage of his gift, not for himself, but for his friends and every other kid with the same lack of opportunities who would give anything for Will’s intelligence. At first Will was uncomfortable with realizing his intelligence but eventually he learned he needed to take advantage of his skills.
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Sean’s influence on Will proved that Will experienced the process of identity discovery proposed by James Marcia because of Sean’s ability to help Will out of his identity crisis. According to Marcia a person experiences four identity crises including future work, moral standards, religion, and political view. During the movie, Sean helps Will by guiding him past the future work crisis through therapy sessions and Sean’s real life experience recollections. In addition, Sean enables Will to overcome his moral standard crisis particularly regarding women. Throughout the movie Sean is able to overcome Will’s sarcastic defense mechanisms and on their last session when each man reveals they were abused as children, Sean sees the true person that Will is and realizes he has properly prepared him for a future job in the real world. Sean encourages Will’s relationship with Harvard Student Skylar because he wants Will to recognize his ability to have an emotional relationship with a woman without pushing them away, which ultimately proved his change in moral standard.
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When Will meets Skylar she is unlike any girl he has ever known, and as their relationship grows serious, Will’s fear of commitment supports his struggle with his identity status. After Will receives Skylar’s number he is not contemplating commitment nor immediately calls her. Psychologically he is at the stage of moratorium where he delays decisions about Skylar before going out with her again as well as not disregarding his options with other woman, as he tells his psychologist Sean that he has slept with many woman. However, when Will takes Skylar to the dog track he proves his committal to her as his girlfriend, which supports the proceeding identity status of foreclosure. Next, after their relationship grows serious, Skylar asks Will to come to California with her as she attends Stanford yet Will refuses her offer and feels the need to distance himself from her.
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The issue escalates further when Skylar tries to comfort Will about his tragic past, which infuriates Will even further. After their break-up Will searches for the meaning of life with help from his best friend’s who purchase him a car to help him commute to a new job which would enable him to break from his “tough city guy” image. Between the time of breakup, job interviews, and guidance from Chuck Will discovers his potential and strives to successfully use his talent through the identity status of diffusion. Finally Will reaches the achievement identity status as he leaves Boston to reunite with Skylar in California, which proves to be the greatest decision of his life.
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Overall, Will did undergo the four identity statuses and experience the crises that James Marcia and Erik Erikson proposed in their theories of self-discovery. Will’s relationship with Skylar particularly proves that Will underwent the four identity statuses of moratorium, foreclosure, diffusion, and achievement because of his refusal to get emotionally attached to her at first, and then by the conclusion of the movie, ready to commit his life to her. Also, through the guidance of Sean Will overcame the identity crises of future work and moral standards. In the end, although it appeared as if Will could never behind his reputation of a South Boston rebel, through his relationships with Skylar and Sean Will was prepared to reach his full potential.
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In “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, Tan explores the connection between one’s language and their identity, she examines not only how language affects the development of ones identity, but also the role it has in the way one is perceived by society. Tan shares a few anecdotes illustrating the role language played in shaping her own personal identity. “I think my mother’s English almost had an affect on limiting my possibilities in life as well.” Tan goes on to explore the idea that the “broken English” she heard spoken by her mother at home ultimately led to her doing poorly in English, at least when compared to her science and math scores.
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Another way language can be seen affecting Tan’s identity in mother tongue is in the way tan uses, interprets, and thinks about words. “Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world.” Here Tan was refering to the language of her mother, which obviously played a huge role in how Tan herself interpreted and used words.
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This was very much the case for Tan’s mother, towards the beginning of the piece Tan makes it clear to the audience that while her mother’s English may be “limited” this in no way reflects how much English she comprehends. Tan also discusses how, when she was growing up, her mother’s “limited” English limited Tan’s perception of her, “…because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect.” was the logic behind Tan’s view of her mother when she was growing up. This was the view most people seemed to have of Tan’s mother, which is an incorrect perception of her mother’s actual intelligence and comprhension of the English language.
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First of all, what do you think is the essence of popular culture? Popular culture is the accumulated store of cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, and others that are consumed primarily by non-elite groups such as the working, lower, and middle class people. And that means YES; pop culture is strongly influential to a young person by cause of its fancy and alluring looks or other reasons. Why do you think it would affect or can strongly influence some young person or even adult’s identity? Well, the answer is simple, it’s predominant, and when some things are predominant like fashion or music, people will emulate it simply because they see other’s doing it or it is in trend.
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We can also promote our Filipino designers by sharing their designs on social networking sites because we all know that these mediums are powerful. Not only music or fashion should be endorsed, but also our rich culture. It is our only reserve that we should be proud of and pass it to the next generation because that’s where we came from. What do you think will the next generation be patronizing if we will not teach the kids who’s younger than us? Of course, it will be pop culture! Try it, try to listen to OPM’s, share a design of a not-so-popular designer who you know or try to invent new but little things that you can do. By doing those kind of things, we can help even if it’s a small thing. You don’t have to be extravagant just to help. We can change this while it can be hindered.
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A professional identity is figuring out outcomes from a clinical study procedure that simplify an understanding of your field of option, that permits you to verbally reveal his/her function with anyone that is obsolete (Brott & & Myers, (1999 ); Smith & & Robinson, (1995 ). According to (Healey, Hays, (n.d.) “Within counseling, expert identity is a sequence of actions from an experimental execution which helps forward growing mental process of comprehension in your field of option”. A professional identity provides the expert an opportunity to specify his/her role within and beyond his or her profession.
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The author recommend that apprehension for the occupation of therapy which encourages making sensible choices is defined in terms of avoidance, development, and health (Myers & & Sweeney, p 483, 2008). According to Lawson (2007) “The health of a counselor has a direct effect on the quality of services that the customers get”. The health of the counselor thinks about the therapist’s psychological, physical, social, psychological, and spiritual health.
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Resilience is based on the endurance that one has when coping with stressful or crisis situations (Cherry, (2014). The profession requires that counselors apply their skills and strengths to help others cope with difficulties and obstacles. The resilience includes the counselor being able to cope with his or her personal problems as wells. Prevention in counseling is getting to the root of the problem. Getting to the root of the problem allows the counselor to help detour or prevent the cycle from continuing. The importance of prevention is to allow the counselor the privilege to prevent a crisis from happening (Cherry, (2014).
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Marital and family therapist roles are professionals of mental health that must have a minimum master’s degree along with 2 years of clinical experience supervised. Marriage and family therapists are trained and licensed independently to recognize signs and symptoms to treat mental health issues along with substance abuse problems. The author states that marriage and family therapy is one of the core mental health disciplines and is based on the research and theory that mental illness and family problems are best treated in a family context. Trained in psychotherapy and family systems, marriage and family therapists focus on understanding their clients’ symptoms and interaction patterns within their existing environment (Marriage and Family Therapy (n.d.). The marital and family therapist treats clients but also perform couples and family therapy in groups. Family Therapists examine from relationship points of view that may incorporate family systems. The author states that roles and characteristics of an effective professional counselors’ possess special skills to state something with a wide range of problems to be had by clients. Author says the largest ranked characteristics that are major in rural marital and family therapy counselors as recognized, was more successful in experience in marital and family therapy (Hovestadt, Fenell, & Canfield, 2002).
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The current project identified nine major supporting characteristic competencies. The research study has six major characteristics but nine competencies that reflect the need for marital and family therapists to be skilled proficiently in core. Marital and family therapy service providers were suggested to be prepared to use large ranges of clinical tactics within counseling with couples and families. The study specifies the common influence in change of therapeutics, understanding empathy and listening (Hovestadt, Fenell, & Canfield, 2002). The author says the six major characteristics are as follows: (1) Effectual proficient skills in Marriage and Family Therapy, (2) Small town understanding, being thankful, and Enthusiastic response, (3) Personal Characteristics and Flexibility, (4) Generalist a Non-specialization Organization, (5) Education, Training, and Skills in Marital Family Therapy (MFT) and (6) Using Formal and Informal rganization Resources ( Hovestadt, Fenell, & Canfield, 2002).
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The author’s study stated the nine major characteristic competencies in rural marital family therapy incorporates: (1) Clinical flexibility with use of a variety of marital and family therapy therapeutic approaches, (2) Create a rapport to make successful connections with clients that have different values of the therapist, (3) marital and family therapist must demonstrate respect, empathy, being genuine and work concretely with rural families, (4) must have ability to maintain professionalism and a caring heart, (5) having knowledge and understanding of a systems functioning orientation, (6) interpret good case observations conceptually, (7) non-stereotypic and able to handle male and female clients, (8) able to work with families with alcohol and substance abuse problems (Hovestadt, Fenell, & Canfield, 2002).
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The American Mental Health Counselors Association and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy compare somewhat in certain ways. These associations both have morals for education and training, clinical practice and display professional ethics. The author states since 1976, a mental health community agency and private counselors introduced the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA, 2013). An association for up and coming new counselors that were known as the practice of “mental health counseling.” Without credentials, licensure education and training standards, or other inscriptions of clinical profession, these mental health counselors worked with social workers and psychologists in developing community health service systems as ”paraprofessionals” or “allied health professionals” despite the fact that they held Master’s or Doctoral degrees (AMHCA,2013). In 1979, author states the early counselors of American Mental Health Counselors Association had organized four new key mechanisms for defining clinical professional specialties. This helped in the professional development of counselors. (1) Identifying definition of mental health counseling; (2) setting standards for educational and training, clinical practices and professional ethics; (3) creating national credentialing system; and (4) starting a professional journal, which includes research and clinical practice content (AMHCA).
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The author states that American Mental Health Counselors Association aids in professional development of counselors with continuing education, standards of practice and research according to the Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational programs (CACREP), knowledge and skills, post degree and pre licensure issues finally legal and ethical issues (AMHCA, 2013). According to the author (Marriage and Family Therapists (n.d.) “The counselors association comparison with the American Mental Health Counselors Association developed standards for education, training for Marriage and Family Therapists”. Marital and Family Therapist must have a master’s degree that includes graduate training in marriage and family therapy. The research states that it is also combined with 2 years of managed clinical practice with individuals, couples and families. Training of clinical members is in diagnosis, assessment, and treatment as a variety of uses of therapeutic techniques (Marriage and Family Therapy, (n.d.). According to (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT, (n.d.)
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“Clinical members have to observe codes of ethics, welcome studies referring to training, experience, hypothetical introductory session and fees”. The association is a professional organization that represents over 23,000 Marriage and Family Therapist in the US, Canada, and abroad. In 1942, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy believe therapists who have exact detailed education and training give the best actual mental health care to individuals, couples, and families (Marital and Family Therapy, (n.d.). The author further states that mental health professionals and clients notice needs for providing care for mental and emotional troubles within the families. Research has shows that family-based actions affecting another’s affairs are as effective, in many cases more effective than other different interventions, sometimes at decreased cost. Studies demonstrate that family therapy is sometimes the preferred method of depression treatment, alcohol and substance abuse, marital problems, children problems, couple enrichment, and schizophrenia (Marital and Family Therapy, (n.d.).
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Research obtained to be a licensed professional counselor in Georgia is meeting educational and experience requirements to qualify for a state license to practice. In Georgia counseling practice includes counseling to treat and evaluate patients. As an applicant in Georgia for licensure, a master’s degree with focus in counseling must complete 4 years of supervised experience in professional counseling after degree is completed (Georgia Board of Prof., (2012). Three years supervised experience and completion of 300/hour internship during degree program. Planned coursework from Capella aligns itself with state licensure of Georgia and the course requirements of Georgia in order to obtain licensure and practice counseling in Georgia.
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The Board is responsible by law for regulating the practice of professional counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy, to protect health, safety and well being of people in Georgia (Georgia Board of Prof., (2012). According to (Georgia Board of Prof., (2012) “These roles are enforced by the education and training requirements established by law for licensure within each profession”. Also, by adopting and imposing code of ethics governing licensees, creating and demanding continuing education requirements are performed. Additionally, they also address unlicensed practices in these professions (Georgia Board of Prof., (2012).
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Professional development is defined as the process of obtaining acquisition skills, knowledge, quality attributes and experience for personal development that permits you to move forward and advance in your career. It encompasses many types of learning from degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal education opportunities in practice. The resource gave nouns, adverbs, and adjectives supporting key areas that you would look at when assessing your own professional development (Macmillan Publisher Limited, (2009-2014).
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The areas that influence my current and future professional development are; procuring an appointment for a job, especially an important job, my calling a strong feeling that you must do a particular type of job, especially one that you consider morally well, collaboration the process of my counseling career now and in the future to produce by working together with people, being able to function professionally, my particular responsibility, job security knowing that the knowledge that is gained and future educational training will allow me to have a permanent career, prospects networking and forming different relationships for chances of success, especially in the career of my choosing lastly, work experience establishing training experience and skills that you gain in doing a particular job setting up for future career (Macmillan Publishers Limited, (2009-2014).
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The use of technology has afforded society ways to improve creativity and performance concerning the counseling profession. Over the years technology has been used to enhance the usual practice of counseling through the advancement and sharing of information amongst the professionals (Skovolt, Grier, and Hanson, (2001). The counseling profession uses technology for communication, training, treatment, and diagnosis. Although, technology has aided in improving the counseling profession there are some disadvantages. According to Goss and Anthony (2009) “Practitioners who partake in technological medicated therapies should be mindful of possible violations of ethical principles” (p 225). In any form of practice the counselor should be properly trained and equipped to handle the unexpected. The author states the use of technology is more than beneficial for the counselor in accessing experts, colleagues and various information that will allow the user to improve his or her practice.
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Conversing with clients via chat forums or groups, one on one video chats, or through private websites can help the counselor in treatments or therapeutic mediating. Although some clients will prefer the office sessions, the idea of right now therapy can help in crisis situations and will allow the counselor and the patient almost immediate contact via advanced technology. Technology offers convenience and benefits for both the practitioner and participant. With the rapid changes in society, technology will continue to be a vehicle to enhance the performance and innovations of the counseling profession (Skovalt, Grier, and Hanson, (2001).
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In conclusion, the study of professional identity not only encompassed the understanding that results from a developmental process in a chosen field. It is good to know that the wellness of the counselors’ mental, physical, social, emotional and spiritual health must be functional to be perfective. Having resilience of endurance to cope with stress and crisis situations is a major part of a counselors’ career. In the age of evolution now when everything incorporates some type of technology, it can be positive or negative. Although the majority of society communicates with modern technology, we have to think about those who are not literate of the devices. But, all in all it is a plus to every doctor, nurse, counselor etc. The research of the roles and characteristics, comparing and contrasting and professional develop seem to go hand in hand.
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They all have many of the same attributes of effectiveness of skills, understanding, education, training and experience. Understanding state licensure and certification was nothing new because it had to be incorporated in the entrance essay. There is a lot that comes with being licensed and state board certified but it will be achieved. Heretofore, professional identity is the understanding that results from developmental processes that simplify a growing understanding of one’s chosen field, allowing one to articulate his or her role with others in and outside the discipline.
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To What Extent Does Duffy Present The Body As A Key Aspect Of Female Identity? Tragic and disconcerted themes are continued throughout poems of Duffys such as ‘The Map Women’, ‘The Woman Who Shopped’ and ‘The Diet’; Duffy is trying to aggress to the reader the predicaments with the body being used as a key aspect of female identity in modern society. Fractious subjects like anorexia are used to address how extreme the pressures are to be accepted in society
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It highlights the way some women feel that being identified as being attractive can raise your prominence in society – we can be led into false pretences that attractiveness can be emulated in personality; but sometimes attractive people don’t always possess stereotypically attractive personality traits like benevolence or thoughtfulness. Although I believe the ‘anorexia’ could be an extended metaphor for this woman changing her appearance, the ‘shrinking’ weight being her metaphorical ‘self’ being lost and the ‘fat woman trying to get out’ symbolising her real identity being trapped by this false persona.
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If this was the case then I believe Duffy would be trying to say that ‘appearance’ isn’t always the key to identity, women are very good at deceiving people as they can counterfeit different identities by simply changing their hair/makeup/clothes. This implies that the body is not always ‘the key’ to a woman’s identity and sometimes to acquire a woman’s true identity you need to metaphorically look deeper than demeanour. Some people may believe that ‘The Map Woman’ is signifying that a woman’s body defines her identity, but I regard that Duffy is trying to articulate that a woman’s body can’t define her unless there is physically a map on her body.
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Duffy takes this hypothetical situation of ‘a woman’s skin was a map of the town’ conceiting what it would be like if a woman’s identity was imprinted on her skin. ‘town’ has connotations of community where nothing is disclosed, which means that if your identity did define your appearance then you wouldn’t be able to escape from it. Also her skin is described as being ‘a delicate braille’ which shows the range of accessibility to her ‘identity’- this is symbolic because it shows in reality where the skin isn’t in braille, blind people wouldn’t be able to see our identity from our physical stature.
Topic: identity

Obviously this reinforces the fact that the body is not in fact our identity and it’s out our temperament that is the key part of our true identity. Duffy brings about ideas that you are always connected to who you once were even if you begin to change and develop physically and mentally, ‘heart of the town’ has connotations of home, love and belonging symbolising that even if you do emigrate there is always that interweaved connection with your place of birth and sense of self. I believe the town may be euphemism for her identity; a use of conceit to show that identity is similar to home – it feels the most comfortable but consequently you need to abscond from it occasionally.
Topic: identity

The Map woman ‘piled on linen, satin, silk..’ which all have the affinity of being luxurious, Duffy uses this to suggest that we sometimes exploit the fact we can change our body and appearance by becoming a completely different person. It also reinforces like the other poems that what you see on the exterior of a person isn’t always their true identity. ‘she spoke in a foreign tongue’ indicates that as you begin to change your body and appearance, over time you start to become unrecognisable to your true identity. ‘Foreign’ has the particular effect of emphasizing to the reader that sometimes a woman’s body is a stranger to herself and female identity is therefore not what the body dictates.
Topic: identity

Overall I believe that Duffy is trying to reiterate that a woman’s body does not define her. A woman can use her body as a canvas to express to other people who she wants to be, but not always is this her true identity. There is strong use of feministic views in these particular poems- a theme that Duffy generally uses throughout her work. The whole job of these poems in my perspective is to show that a woman is more than just an object of lust from men (as perceived in outdated views of the past). They are all about women finding their voice, as the women included in the poems are not given a names – this conveys the idea Duffy is giving all women a voice in her poems.
Topic: identity

“As we got off the bus, we found ourselves in a large area amidst a sea of friendly Japanese faces, “, stated by a once twelve-year old Nisei Florence Miho Nakamura in her account of her internment camp experience (Tong, 3). This initial experience was common among many Japanese, as they were uprooted from their homes and relocated to government land. Although, they had been asked to leave their homes and American way of life, many had no idea of what was to greet them on the other side.
Topic: identity

As a result of the unknown, many Japanese had no time to prepare themselves for the harshness and scrutiny they faced in the internment camps. Interment camps not only took a toll on the Japanese physically, but also emotionally; thus, resulting in a shift in their overall lives. The novel When the Emperor was Divine explores the loss of self, physical, and cultural/social identity among the Japanese during World War II. Initially we must understand how the idea of internment camps came to pass in order to provide a contextual background of why the Japanese suffered harsh treatment.
Topic: identity

Nearly, 74 days later, the lives of many Japanese would change (Rentelen, 619). Approximately 122,000 Japanese were required to leave their homes and relocate, due to Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was the belief that the Japanese would be separate from Americans in order to provide safety on the home-front, as well providing time to sift through the Japanese during WWII in order to distinguish those who were loyal, from those who were not (JARDA). It was during this time, at the internment camps, that a loss of identity began to occur among the Japanese. In “When the Emperor was Divine” one of the immediate things noticed is the fact that the four main characters are nameless. Often times in a novel, the characters are provided names in an effort to help the reader better understand the character as a whole.
Topic: identity

Sometimes characters are even given names that are rather descriptive such as; Lois Lowry’s , “The Giver” in which one of the main characters is named Giver as a means of emphasizing the insight and lessons he gives to Jonas. Awkwardly, in “When the Emperor was Divine” we do not gain such insight through the characters names, for they are simply known as the Mother, Father, Daughter, and Son. Consequently, the fact that the family is uprooted from their home and placed in internment camps where they are treated like prisoners and assigned numbers works to support their namelessness (Rentelen, 619). Therefore, it is evident that the authors desire to keep the characters nameless, simply showcases the loss of individuality many Japanese faced when they were removed from their homes and normalcy and transported to government land. It is clear that the characters we meet in the beginning of the novel differ from the characters we have come to know at the end of the novel. They no longer feel afforded the opportunities they once held, nor respected by the friends they once associated with.
Topic: identity

Their identity has demolished and their names mean nothing in the community, they are simply recognized as Japs-the enemy. Moreover, along the same lines of showcasing a loss of identity ties into how the characters are stripped of the things they love and enjoy. In the opening of the novel we realize the family is leaving, although we do not know exactly where they are headed, we realize they have to leave everything behind that they cannot fit in their duffle bags. Among the things to be left behind are the animals as well. Like most individuals with animals, pets are considered part of the family. It is clear that White Dog is a part of the family, and has been for quite a while now. The boys concern when he cannot find White Dog works to show the connection they have, for it is apparent it is routine that he checks on the dog each day after school. Likewise the characters, like many of those who endured internment camps, continue to lose the very things they once cherished. In Justin Ewer’s “Journey Into a Dark Past” 15 year old Betty Abe says, “Some whites swooped down on Japanese communities looking for bargains. Cars, silverware, furniture-all were gobbled up for a fraction of their value (Ewers, 3).”
Topic: identity

Likewise another reading that explored children of the internment camp speaks of how many of the children were initially excited to take a trip but, “Such feelings, however, were tempered by the impending losses of friends, pets, and toys (Tong, 13).” We see the same type of instances in the novel. As the novel unfolds we witness the boy’s loss of his favorite umbrella and turtle, both significant in meaning to him. Overall the family loses dad, their home (although temporarily), their pets, rosebush, respect of others, etc. More importantly, it is through the characters being stripped of their possessions that we begin to see a shift in their identity. We own things because they represent us, make us feel good about ourselves, make us happy, etc. Through the loss of possessions often leads to the loss of identity. Likewise, the loss of possessions also affects the overall hobbies of the family. The boy who was fond of baseball and kites soon losses access to both. We see him divert to playing war games with the kids in the internment camp and carrying a Swiss knife and a blue stone around as his newfound treasures. We no longer see the girl playing the piano or reciting her math facts. She actually begins to seem quite distant from her family.
Topic: identity

At one point the boy even comments on how she leaves in the morning and does not return until late at night. Similarly, Charles Kikuchi, a youth that endured the internment camps said that his adolescent sisters, “Increasingly diverged from their parents’ expectations of modesty, domesticity, and chastity. They insisted on wearing trendy dress, dating male peers, and ignoring their chores.” The article goes on to relay that much of the youngsters decline to conformity played out through vandalism, stealing, smoking, gambling, truancy, and general insubordination( Tong, 17). These behaviors, in some ways, mirror the girl’s behavior in the novel. Moreover, the mother soon losses interest in all things related to war. She stops following the news, and often has an unopened book in her hand. She rarely even talks. These are the very things that defined the nameless character in the earlier stages of the novel. From another stance, the characters also lose their physical identities. The mother is initially noticed for her nice and well-kept appearance. In the opening of the novel she is dresses in a red beautiful dress, with new glasses, a handkerchief, nice white gloves, with her hair hanging down. At Lundy’s Hardware, Joe Lundy complimented her a couple times, “Nice glasses” and “That’s a nice red dress (Otsuka, 5-6).