Like many others, my life journey was altered by Hurricane Katrina. Interestingly, my brush with Katrina occurred just 48 hours after moving to New Orleans from my hometown of Portland, Oregon.
During the college application process, I was offered an academic scholarship to Loyola University. Loyola sparked my interest because I wanted my college experience to be an adventure… something bold, exciting and new. When I toured the campus and city, I was intrigued by how vastly different New Orleans was from Portland; there was so much soul with a unique and vibrant culture. I fell in love with this city before Katrina. I accepted the scholarship to Loyola; I packed up my belongings and got on a flight to New Orleans, Louisiana. I was nervous
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I was stuck in a hurricane shelter just outside of the city for a week without power, beds or showers as the storm that devastated the city passed over us. I was displaced to San Antonio. All I had were the clothes on my back and no way of contacting my family. My parents were convinced that they had just been accomplices to their daughter’s death by allowing me to attend Loyola.
With Loyola 's assistance, I spent a semester at Georgetown University. Prior to the beginning of my second semester, I was given the choice: continue my education at Georgetown or return to New Orleans. It was a difficult decision; I had enjoyed my time at Georgetown, made friends and I have close family that lives in DC. Truthfully, I do not know exactly why I came back. Perhaps I was still hungry for more adventure, or maybe I wanted to stay loyal to the University that saw potential in me, or maybe I wanted to be a symbol of
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in Psychology from Loyola and accepted a position at Pediatric Associates of the Northwest (PANW) back home in Portland. When compared to the indigent population in New Orleans, PANW served a drastically different patient population. The affluent families served by the clinic often appeared to suffer more from hyperchondriacism as opposed to non-adherence. When I first joined the PANW team, it was a small pediatric practice. With a progressive mindset and sound entrepreneurial leadership, PANW began transitioning to a "medical home” model of care, which necessitated an updated and more advanced system to function efficiently. I took the lead in streamlining and creating the practice’s infrastructure that allowed PANW to nearly triple in size and become Oregon’s first certified Pediatric Medical Home. My success relied on my understanding of the critical administrative and clinical steps necessary to optimize the patient’s care. I had a knack for understanding our complex health care
that consequently change their life. Since 1996, the year I was born, multiple events have affected the way I live my everyday life. My first life event that made an impact was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Hurricane Katrina turned the world I knew upside down. The hurricane moved my family to a new town and gave me a new outlook on reality. The next event that impacted my life was the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. As a result of the stock market crash, many of my family’s equities in stocks were
After reading Zeitoun, my response to social justice is that it does not exist in this universe. If we are looking at social justice in the big picture, it is a great thing to talk about social justice as if there was some imaginary balancing point at which such equality could be reached. However, in reality social justice does exist. It just being understood to those who it matters the most. For those whose lives are privileged, they would not want to know because they only hope for their own success
After reading Zeitoun, my response to social justice is that it does not exist in certain extant. If we are looking at social justice in the big picture, it is a great thing to talk about social justice as if there was some imaginary balancing point at which such equality could be reached. However, in reality social justice does exist. It just being understood to those who it matters the most. For those whose lives are privileged, they would not want to know because they only hope for their own success
that rather than emphasizing the patient’s inner desires and thoughts, logotherapy seeks to help the individual find purpose in life. Schulenberg, et al. state that there are three basic
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