creating a thesis and an outline on Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Oates and The Things They Carried by OBrien. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Oates and The Things They Carried by OBrien. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Life, by definition, brings many trials and tribulations as we move through its path, and in order to cope with the demands and suffering it imposes, our subconscious is able to take us out of reality to a world of fantasy. a world in which we have and do what we want not what we need, or what is imposed by society. Connie, the main character in ‘where are you going, where have you been?’ (Oates) was, in reality, an adolescent with little actual knowledge of adult life. in fantasy, however, she was a mature woman appealing to boys and men alike. She lived her life on the periphery between childhood and adulthood, whereupon she wavered from one side to the other. Her same clothes connoted different personas dependent on whether she was in or out of the home. her hairstyle, makeup and outward behavior changed to the occasion as to whether or not there were males in her vicinity, and she lived a life of pretence with her mother. In fact ‘everything about her had two sides to it’ (Oates 451). Even when feeling intimidated when confronted by Arnold Friend her thoughts still flickered back to the first time he had seen her and ‘how she had sucked in her breath’ (Oates 456) in an effort to appear more beguiling.&nbsp.

 

Career exploration. The work is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

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I will pay for the following article Career exploration. The work is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. The major duties that I will handle in this occupation include intensive communication with the patients to ensure that I obtain full and detailed information from them (National Center for O*NET Development, 2010). In addition, I also have a duty to ensure confidentiality of the patients’ information, so that the clients can trust me. I also have the duty to organize counseling sessions for all the clients in order to ensure that each client is accorded ample counseling time. I also have to develop different treatment plans for all the clients based on their different problems. For instance, a client seeking counseling services about marital problems will not be counseled in the same way as a client being counseled about parenting issues. Therefore, as a mental counselor I have to organize the way in which I will handle each of these clients. Finally, I have the duty to prepare and keep treatment records of all the patients that I counsel. As a mental health counselor,my typical workday should involve a maximum of eight clients. The number of clients handled per day should not be high since this might lead to poor quality services. However, I should at least handle two clients per day. The activities of the day will depend on the client being handled. For instance, in some sessions we might engage in extracurricular activities such as games and sports. On the other hand, other sessions will involve reading books and magazines. Therefore, generally the activities that I engage in with the clients will also determine the number of clients that a handle in a day. Working Conditions for this career The work environment in this occupation mainly involves working during the day. This is because. some of the clients will be aggressive and uncooperative and thus, handling them during the night might be difficult. On the other hand, as a counselor, I need to spend a lot of time with the client and therefore, this might involve long working hours with minimal breaks(U.S. Department of Labor, 2012). In addition, counseling is not a king of job that can be sharedlike administering of drugs. In this occupation, one particular counselor can only handle one client. Therefore, working with other counselors is very rare, unless handling different clients. This occupation also has different psychological aspects. For instance, it is very stressing when handling an uncooperativeclient. Preparation and qualification for this career In order to be a mental health counselor, I should possess the right qualifications. I should well be acquitted with issues pertaining psychology. This implies that I should have the knowledge of the way I should handle different psychological problems such as self-esteem and suicidal attempts. As a counselor, I should also be proficient with Sociology and Anthropology (National Center for O*NET Development, 2010). I should also be fluent in the language that I will use to counsel my clients. Since I will be dealing with record keeping, I should also be efficient in doing clerical work. This will help me to be more organized in the way that I keep records for my clients. Since it is clear that the occupation mainly involves dealing with people, it is clear that I need to possess effective communication skills. Therefore, I should be a good speaker and listener. I should also be socially perceptive in order to ensure that I understand the position of my client.

prepare and submit a paper on managing cultural diversity.

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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on managing cultural diversity.

The article explains how the workforce demographics in the US has changed into diversified classes or origins over a period of time and how it demands effective management for the benefit of organizations. Drawing support from the results of various studies carried out in the past, the authors could clearly cite the advantages an organization can have from managing its workforce of diverse culture.

The way of managing its available resources is what makes an organization’s fate. Hence, in the case of a diverse workforce, the important thing is how an organization adapts to the situation enabling its human resources to contribute most efficiently to organizational development. The article explains various managerial areas such as cost, resource acquisition, marketing, innovation, problem-solving or decision making, and flexibility, where efficient management can bring competitive advantages. &nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.

In short, the authors have shown justice to their proposed objective of making a linkage between the most talked managing diverse culture and organizational competitiveness. And the article provides its readers an understanding of how attracting and retaining people of diverse culture or background and managing them in an efficient manner can bring organization competitive advantages in terms of cost structure, innovation, and flexibility.

Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the role of context in biblical hermeneutics.

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Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the role of context in biblical hermeneutics. Context plays a central role in the act of biblical interpretation. This paper is an attempt to demonstrate how this is so, and why this is so. It begins with a brief examination of the role of context in communication in general, which will then be applied to the activity of textual interpretation using the concept of the hermeneutic circle as developed by Frederich Schliermacher and Hans Georg Gadamer. Consider the following statement: “The Monkees are the greatest band ever.” On the face of it, the meaning seems obvious. It is a statement of the relative worth of The Monkees by comparison to all other musical acts throughout history. It implies that when compared with, say, the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Metropolitan Opera Company, and all of the Homeric bards, that the Monkees come out on top. However, this is not necessarily the meaning the statement is intended to convey. If it is said in a grave voice, it may mean just this. If it is said in an excited voice while at a concert, we may take it as earnest hyperbole. However, if it is said in a hipster infested coffeehouse, we may take it to mean precisely the opposite. The meaning of any statement is subject to the same sort of factors. Their sense cannot be determined by the examination of the mere words used, rather they must be understood with reference to the total situation in which they are spoken. As this is with spoken communication, so it is with written texts. To return this to Biblical matters, we may examine the following Biblical quotation: “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”1 If this statement is truly taken without context, it makes a most surprising assertion. Namely, that God is a rock. Further, we find, with some surprise, that God, unlike other, more common examples of rocks, is the sort of rock that judges, and is just. One might wonder how to distinguish between just and unjust rocks, and indeed whether God is igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. However, when this passages is juxtaposed with other descriptions of God found throughout the Bible, what is at first nonsensical transparently reveals itself to be metaphor. Of course, the above example is not entirely serious. No one has ever thought to read this passage as literally suggesting that God is a rock. However, this alone reveals something. Namely that everyone, instinctively, takes into account the surrounding passages, and the whole of their knowledge of the Bible when interpreting single verses. Further it sharply shows the dangers of taking biblical quotations out of context. One may ask how this works, and just how much of a role that context plays in this process. One approach would be to argue that context completely determines the meaning of individual statements, however, this seems as absurd as maintaining that context plays no role at all. It must be the case that context and statement both bear some weight in understanding a text. The German biblical and classical scholar Frederich Schliermacher proposed an interesting way to understand this relationship.2 When interpreting any text, he maintained, the part is always understood through the whole. Conversely, the whole is always understood by means of the individual parts. The relation is reciprocal. This reciprocal relation is usually referred to as “the hermeneutic circle.” An example may help to make clear how this works. One may find oneself reading through a political blog post and find oneself agreeing with it. Two-thirds of the way through, the author makes a blatantly bigoted statement.