I have had the same manager for almost four years now, and he has really helped me reshape the way that I address conflicts. He’s like a dad to me and we have extremely similar personalities. Because we have a close personal and professional relationship, there are more opportunities for a conflict to develop between us, and so most of the conflicts I have are with him. He understands better than anyone what bothers me, and what kind of reactions I will have to something, and usually has a good idea of why I feel that way. After a conflict, which is usually something minor, we talk things out in more detail, in a calmer manner. He points out to me things that I do when I start to get annoyed and need to work on and I do the same for him. Since …show more content…
She believes in giving granting forgiveness to people and showing them kindness even when they don’t necessarily deserve it (Woods 151). There’s one incident in particular that I can think of when I let my mother down by not showing grace, and part of the reason it sticks out so much is because I happened to be in church when it happened. When I was seventeen, there was this twenty-two year old guy sitting in front of me in the back of the church that I did not like at all. A few months prior, he had started texting my fifteen year old sister and tried to start a relationship with her. When he showed up for her Christmas play at church and sat directly in front of me, I was pretty irritated. Halfway through the show, he turned around and asked me if I would ever forgive him for trying to get with my sister. Instead of showing grace and saying something such as “not right now, but I’m working on it and maybe one day I can”, I decided to tell him to go tell hell. He then flipped me the bird and again, instead of letting it go, I punched him in the jaw in the middle of church. To be honest, I’m not sure I would change my actions too much. I definitely would not have punched him in the middle of church, but that does not mean that I regret my actions, because to be honest, he had it coming. If I could do it all over again, I would not have said what I did though. I have changed a lot since then and I probably would put a little …show more content…
There used to be an old lady that came into my store almost every day and talk to me. She was so much fun to talk to and told me all the wildest stories. One year around Valentine’s Day she told me about her late husband and all the good memories of things he used to do for her on Valentine’s Day. I could tell that it upset her quite a bit even though she was trying not to make a big deal about it. She said that now, not even her children call her or even buy her a card on Valentine’s Day. It was really sad to hear, and I wanted so much to show some kindness to her. I didn’t have much more of a reason, but I went to the flower shop and bought her a little teddy bear and a Valentine’s Day and gave it to her when she came to the store on that holiday. She cried and hugged me and I swear, even though I cried a little too, it was the best feeling in the world. I chose to do what I did simply because I felt the need to show compassion to someone who needed it. I just wanted to do something nice for this wonderful old lady and give her to be happy about on a day that normally makes her sad. It was my way of saying thank you for being such a positive person every day and doing something nice for someone who asked nothing of
Managers and associates continually face conflict in the workplace. Using the five conflict resolution styles and knowing when to use them makes resolving differences easier.
She values Gods views and the way of life over materialist things and believes that is above all, with hopes of getting into heaven. Her religious views can be seen throughout her poems that I have read and ultimately tell a lesson that we can all learn from. In the poem, “Before the Birth of One of Her children” she describes death as inevitable and a act of God. Death because of birth was a common issue during that time period and she reassures that it is Gods plan and will protect of her children. She also makes references to God and heaven in her poem, “ To My Dear and Loving Husband”, as she writes to her husband that they must love so strong here on earth so that their love will last in heaven and for eternity. She says how God commands her to love her husband as she claims her love for her husband its stronger than anyone else 's. Through her poems she describes various tragedy that have happened in her life such as the death of her two grandchildren. Although their lives were “taken away from them” she believes that it was in Gods hands and that it must have been faith. So through terrible times she seems to look past them and move on because it is all apart of Gods
The grandmother’s views good/bad was based on how she was raised. Her family was good because they were white, attended church and believed in Jesus Christ. Understanding the true concept of Christianity is another story. During her final moments of life, this grandmother had doubts about her faith (O’Connor 1203).
During the summer or even on weekends my mom would take me with her to go help out her patients. Which included bathing them, feeding them, and caring for them. Not only did I help my mom with her patients but I would always help rake leaves, pick up trash and make their yard look nice. I can’t even image how they would’ve done all the things I did for them with their fragile bodies. I’m glad I was there for them and made a difference. Aside from helping my mom’s patients. I helped an elderly man who was on fire in his backyard. It was around spring time and I heard someone screaming yelling “help” so I went around to look and there he was on fire. I tried so hard to put out the fire and it felt like mission impossible but I did not give up even though the ambulance were on the way. He was burnt pretty bad, but I was so glad I found him. Who knows it could’ve been worse! He is still alive till this day and sits on his porch waiting for me to pass by his house every morning to say good morning. It’s such a wonderful feeling to know that I not only changed a life but I saved
Monday evening was my first act of prosocial behavior of the week. As a military dependent that lives a base, I thought it would be a nice gesture to do something for active duty military members in reason to thank members for serving our country. In contribution to prosocial behavior, I made dozens chocolate covered strawberries and delivered them to the building my father works in. While I delivering strawberries, I looked at several Navy sailors and thanked them for their service. I was surprised at how thankful some people were in reaction to my delivery. It made me happy to see that the smallest things can bring people such joy.
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
Civil conflicts tend to erupt “within nation-states and threaten their governments, the social order, and the rate and path of their development” (Anastasion et al. 17). Throughout the years there has been much debate centered on defining the underlying cause(s) of civil conflict. There are many theories that have evolved over time that suggest reasoning for the occurrence of civil conflict(s). Yet there still remains no concrete definition of cause. However, there was a theorist and scholar by the name of Thomas Malthus that offered a considerably plausible argument for the cause of civil war. Malthus produced a theory called Malthusianism; this theory expressed the potential underlying effects that can evolve from the rapid growth of a population combined with the scarce availiability of resources (Anastasion et al.).
Mid December during my sophomore year I found out that a friend of mine had lost her struggle with cancer. Tiffanie was diagnosed with two rare forms of ovarian cancer during seventh grade. Having either type of cancer is very rare, so the fact that she had both types was unbelievable. I had been best friends with Tiffanie during elementary school. We had lost touch in middle school, but our friendship never ended. She had her ups and downs during her illness, but I never expected her cancer to be fatal. I was told at the beginning of December that the doctors didn’t expect her to live until Christmas. Because she was in my grade, my class sent cards to her. I made a funny story about the two of us growing up. I sent the story with an angle ornament. Christmas had to be celebrated early this year, and I thought that an angel would be appropriate. If anything did happen to her, her mom could keep the ornament in memory of her. She died a week later at the young age of 16.
Negotiation is an important strategy and plays an indispensable role for people to solve the problem in our lives. It is a good way to make both parties find acceptable solution by each parties use tactics to persuade another party to approve his or her viewpoint. The application of the advanced negotiation skills definitely not only brings success in our daily life but also improve people’s work ability. This essay will show my natural preferences for different types of influence tactics which have been utilized in in-class, the understanding of the negotiation and analyze how to use proper tactics at different situations which are based on the role-play activity in tutorial.
Conflict theory are perspective in sociology psychology that accentuate the social, political, or material inequality of a social group, that analysis the broad socio-political system, or that weaken from structural functionalism and ideological conservatism. With conflict theory, you will see tensions, status, and power are unevenly distributed between groups in society, which these conflicts become the purpose of social change. Conflict theory usually arise due to competition and limited resource that is feed by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. This is seen a lot on macro level. As a social worker, you will see and use conflict theory throughout your professional.
...n the stairs, sorting all the clothes in the different closets was very physically tiring, even for a twelve year old boy. Then later we worked on cooking the dinner of cabbage, soup, grilled chicken, and salmon, that she had planned. We washed and cut the vegetables together. While we were doing that she made jokes about how I didn’t do the tasks correctly. We had so much fun because we were cooking, talking, and laughing. After we were finished making dinner, I felt accomplished about what I made. We gave each other a hug because we realized that we enjoy each other’s company and that we had fun. Then she thanked me for all the work I helped her with and I felt uplifted and joyful because I got to help her and more importantly spent time with her. I never realized how hard her job was and my grandmother and I had a surprisingly enjoyable time cleaning and cooking.
Behaviorism is a classic psychology approach to understanding an organism's social and cognitive skills. This field of psychology focuses on observable behavior including measuring types of communication and natural mannerisms. It is important to understand how individuals present and express themselves in their natural environments in order to recognize and further advance knowledge about psychological disorders. When it comes to determining and labeling psychological disorders, especially behavioral disorders, it can be tricky to make the correct diagnosis. Psychologists have to assess all of the characteristics and symptoms an individual possesses and stick to textbook definitions when it comes to properly formulating a diagnosis.
She was a women of great faith and was raised in a Catholic Church and community which she passed down. I didn’t really understand her as a kid until I really experienced life then I understood her teachings and trainings. She took religion serious and she made sure everyone of us participated in church. Today I’m thankful because my morals and ethics were built up by her because I followed her steps. My grandma had most of what the “masses” think gives happiness. Her religious life helped her to gain a lifetime virtue and to understand morality. Money was not really a problem for her. I believe poverty could make one lose ethical values. Some people steal because they have no money and stealing is bad, what is bad is bad but in such case they have no choice. She really believed in helping people, even when she can’t afford what someone asked of, she gets herself in debt just to help. My grandma’s town is known to take education really serious and they go to any extent to help sending each other’s kids to school, which became part of my grandma and I respected her a lot for that. She loved and cared for other children like they were her
The most joyous season of the year in our house is Christmas. All the family gets together, gifts are exchanged and we give thanks for all that we have. This Christmas however, was one that I will never forget. If it weren't for the help of a stranger coming to my rescue, my holidays would have been ruined. He reminded me that a little kindness really does go along way.