Sarah's Life Case Study

I ask desperately that you please hear me out. All I could think of as the Student Conduct Committee, wrote my letter of failure,. Yes, letter of failure not acceptance. In reality, I am projected to be a statistic that could never graduate from a four-year accredited College or University. Eventually leading the next generation of my family into poverty and a lack of education along with myself. After four years at the University of Florida I had two options, accept the possible sanction of expulsion which will be made official in a couple weeks after you, Jen Day Shaw, the Associate Vice-President & Dean of Students finalizes and stamps it. Or, I could fight for myself being

Amanda Berry Smith is one of the most courageous women in the history of American History. She was well known for “barrier-crossing prophets,” which Smith speaks about her complication of race, class, and gender that she has experienced throughout her life. She was able to overcome her pain through the Holy Spirit, whom she believes healed her wounds caused by these barriers, and sought entire sanctification. Later in her life, Smith became a preacher for National Camp Meeting Association for and promoted the Holiness Movement, which was taught by John Wesley. Her life’s story and ministry have an enormous impact on many people both white and colored.

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson is a primary example of the sectionalism of Puritans, and more specifically, Puritan women. Rowlandson recounts the attack on her home by the Wampanoag tribe as well as the aftermath of her eventual capture. Being certain to record the removes, or days spent traveling with her captors, Rowlandson created a record of her travels with her captors as well as preserved her own “womanhood” from the accusations of her own people. The time of Puritan colonies was one in which male preachers held the most power. Preachers received more education than most of the population and their status as males provided them an unquestionable position of power in Puritan society.

Her physical ailments aside, Williams battles with vast inner-conflict, for her Mormon religion prevented her from speaking out and stating her struggle to the world. Overcome with frustration of misplaced authority, due to both her religion's suppression of ideas and governmental jargon, she finally offers her emotional pleas through a subtly persuasive narrative. By presenting only very common and well-known historical context, combined with personal examples through a narrative approach, Williams is targeting a large percentage of the population, especially women and those that lived through the events she speaks of and . Terry Tempest Williams indulges the reader with an aggregate of sympathetic narrative snippets, structural and stylistic shifts and a display of oppositional thinking, relating perspective and illustrating an alternative to blind obedience and emphasizing the need to civilly speak out against it.

Two girls born into the same era of American history: despite their vast similarities, what makes these two independent and value-driven young women so different? Since they were living in the same country, many would think that their upbringings would be parallel. On the surface, the only differences between the two girls were their geographic location and their skin color, but during the nineteenth century these actually made a drastic difference in the every day lives of young women. The juxtaposition of the lifestyles of these two young women illuminate the differences which stem from factors such as family, work, education, and religion. These aspects of life were results of the experiences Harriet Jacobs faced as a Southern slave girl in contrast with Harriet Hanson Robinson’s presence in the industrial revolution as a mill girl in New England.

Now, Sarah feels that her personal pursuit relies on getting herself embedded in the American culture through getting herself educated. This dream, however, is to face the negligence of her family, leaving her strong will to be the only tool in need to fight with the ancient molding of cultural dilemma which taught to treat women like they were the dolls in the house and are to be treated whatever the man’s in house wished to treat them as. If one raids out the whole book to find the very cause of her family being negligence will find the need for her family’s food and warmth as equal as the societal expectation

Over half of the girls sent to the House of the Good Shepard were accused of inappropriate sexual behavior or promiscuity. The institution was classified in secrecy, but Simmons gathered photographs, census data, court documents, and newspaper articles to piece together its story. This chapter validates that even girls whom were disobedient of the traditional notions of respectability also had to compete with the double bind. Sixteen-year-old Dorothy Jackson, who came from an abusive home, ran away, and although there was no evidence of an inappropriate relationship, she was arrested for “relationships unbecoming of her age with the opposite sex” (p. 154). The story of Jackson and the House of the Good Shepard complicates the opinion of “wayward” girls. Upon entering the House of the Good Shepard, girls were branded as inappropriate. This scarred their identities. She discusses the consequences black girls faced when voluntarily or involuntarily crossing the line of respectability. Alleged sexually delinquent, “bad” girls were sent to the House of the Good Shepherd to be rehabilitated by the nuns through religious moral instruction and domestic work. Earlier, in spite of the double bind and the simplistic, twofold ideas of “good” and “bad” girls, black girls sought outlets for self-expression, creativity,

A 30 year old woman named Sarah Reynolds came to me for counseling because she believes that she a bad person. She expressed to me that she began feeling this way when she was in high school. Growing up, Sarah had three siblings and two parents in her household, and her parents had a role for each child. When Sarah was younger she was bullied in school and never felt pretty enough, but once she got to high school she began to feel more comfortable in her own skin. She made a lot more friends and even joined the cheerleading squad. Sarah expressed that her parents (particularly her father) saw this change in Sarah’s self-confidence and began calling her the “self-absorbed child”. Her parents and soon after, her siblings, would say that Sarah was too into herself, and only cared to be involved in a conversation or activity if it related to her in some way. This feeling that her family gave her trickled into her adult life and has had an effect on the way she feels about her parenting style and her job. Sarah expressed to me that she often lacks confidence when it comes to parenting because of how her parent’s perceived her confidence growing up. She feels as though she can’t make any mistakes for fear of judgment from her child one day. She also says she is afraid she is going to get fired because her boss expressed to her that she lacks creativity in the office and does not express her ideas as often as she should. She fears that if she is more confident in her position,

Hawthorne's tale places the newly wed Puritan Brown upon the road to what may or may not be a true conversion experience. The conversion experience - a sudden realization brought about by divine intervention, a vision, or perhaps a dream - easily translates into the dream allegory of Hawthorne's work and allows the author to use Puritan doctrine and the history of Salem to argue the merits and consequences of such a belief.  Major issues and themes of Puritanism must have been researched and delicately placed into Hawthorne's discussion of not only past consequences of Puritan zeal but also on the contemporary religious issue of his own time, the Second Great Awakening.  Much like the nighttime witches Sabbath that awaits Goodman Brown, the tent revivals of the 1820's and 1830's could be seen by the questioning Hawthorne as another attempt by the church to sway its membership towards total obedience and faith.  The importance placed on this event by Goodman Brown shows the importance placed on the conversion experience

Her statement coincided with her affect during a session. When discussing her complex trauma she presented emotions of anger. Samantha would become red, spoke rapidly with a high pitch, shook uncontrollably and gave detailed stories. However, when she spoke about her mother and son, Samantha was hesitant about the information she shared. At the beginning, she would pause and her affect became flat, her eyes would water up, she had a soft voice, and her body would freeze. The information Samantha disclosed about her mother and son was fragmented with missing information that she had no recognition of. She was only able to discuss about her mother and son to a certain point before she became disengaged from the conversation. Samantha reported

The IDEA lists 13 different disability categories which children and young adults aged 3-year-olds to 21-year-olds may be eligible for services. Emotional disturbance is one of the 13 disability categories under the IDEA and is the label Sarah was served under. Under the IDEA, emotional disturbance means a condition revealing inability to learn which cannot be clarified by other factors; difficulty building or maintaining reasonable interpersonal relationships with classmates and teachers; unsuitable types of conduct or emotions under ordinary conditions; and general persistent mood of unhappiness or depression.). Sarah met three criteria to be served under the ED label which included her 4 years of behaviors out of the norm, the severity of

“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” This quote really sums up the life of an ag teacher since this job requires lots of time and effort, time is certainly precious. Especially since they teach a variety of subjects, such as horticulture, animal and plant science, agricultural chemicals and agricultural technology. And then on top of this they are your FFA advisor and are in charge of all of the events that have everything to do with agriculture. Sarah Furthmiller is not only just a mentor to 70 plus kids at school, but she also goes home to attends to, two sets of twins. Mrs. Furthmiller has learned to balance family time and school time for 17 years now,

“He told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in every thing; that I was nothing but a slave, whose will must and should surrender to his…” The treatment of slaves varied in their personal experiences as well as in the experiences of others they knew, but Harriet Jacobs phenomenally described the dynamics of the relationship between many female slaves and their superiors with these words from her personal narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Before slavery was outlawed it was not uncommon for young female slaves to be sexually abused and exploited by their masters. Although many people know about the cruelty of the sexual assaults that made too many young girls victims of rape in the Antebellum South, most people are unaware of the complexity of the issue and how many different ways these women were abused.

In the works of Elizabeth Poole Sanford and John Stuart Mill, two very different understandings of women are presented. Sanford’s work is written in the context of its time. Immersed in her social setting, Sanford, as a woman, writes how women should behave according how women of the time do behave. On the other hand, Mill writes from the outside looking in. As a man, writing almost 30 years after Sanford’s publication of Women in Her Social and Domestic Character, Mill writes almost in response to the notions that Sanford put to words.

In both Salem and Jacksonville inequality fuels the fire of the trials. In Salem, a conservative Christian society, women often complete menial tasks at the behest of men: Abigail, a conniving adolescent and the former lover of John Proctor, bemoans that the Proctors, a household in which she held a job as a servant, “want slaves”(11). This declaration serves as Abigail’s excuse to her uncle, the Reverend Parris, to explain her recent dismissal. When hysteria sweeps the town, many seek an opportunity to thwart the patriarchal power structure by targeting the wives of prominent men in the village--Abigail’s