I took these quotes from each section because I gain a new perspective about why these meetings are important. Words like “controlled” “powerless” and unmanageable explains the struggle of an addict. I cannot imagine living a life in which I feel powerless‚ and controlled to the point where I am not able to manage it. Meetings like NA or AA brings awareness to those that does not understand addiction and what it means to be an addict. It is very easy to say “why can’t get just stop?”. If they could
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During the meeting I noticed numerous of therapeutic factors that were taking place. The first factor I noticed in the meeting was universality. The members in the meeting came from different walks of life‚ socio-economic statuses‚ and cultures but they all shared a common problem or situation. They were all there because they have an addiction or they had an addiction in the past. Altruism was also another factor that was applied within the group. While reading the text some of the members had a
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During the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting I attended‚ my eyes were opened to the disease of addiction. When I walked into the meeting‚ I introduced myself and announced that I am a nursing student and was there to observe. In sync‚ all of the people attending the meeting greeted me. Twelve people took turns to read the twelve steps on the road to recovery. After the twelve steps were read everyone introduced themselves and then everyone greeted them at once. It was announced that each person that
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I want to The hamtramck City council meeting it was held on september 20th‚2016 the city counseling meeting was mixed with interesting and boring.The meeting began with the pledge of allegiance.and once that was over the announcements began. They first went through a role call to check on members of the city console everyone was there.than thay give respat to a person who did working for govrmant.afther that thare was prasantation the prasntiton given by bord of trafic admnsto thay prasnt thate who
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New Perspectives #1 The event that I decided to attend was the Multicultural Student Union meeting on Wednesday April 12th. At the beginning of the event we played an introductory game. Then the leaders told us what we would be doing and the different things we would be hearing about. They then showed everyone a video for the Relay for Life event and then they had a speaker come in who asked questions about how cancer has affected the lives of everyone around them. After that speaker left we got
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school board meetings are held to discuss different issues within the community and schools. The school board members discuss items such as budget‚ employee contracts‚ academic services‚ school choice‚ teacher and student conduct‚ etc. Locally elected school board members are responsible for discussing and voting towards the decisions that impact educators‚ students‚ and our community. I feel that it important for community members to attend school board meetings because during these meetings parents
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Naughtiest Girl 2 The Naughtiest Girl Again By Enid Blyton Courtesy: Shahid Riaz Islamabad – Pakistan shahid.riaz@gmail.com 2 BACK AT WHYTELEAFE. ELIZABETH was excited. The long summer holidays were almost over‚ and it was time to think of going back to school. Her mother‚ Mrs. Allen‚ was busy getting all her things ready‚ and Elizabeth was helping her to pack the big trunk‚ "Oh‚ Mummy‚ it’s fun to think I’ll see all my friends again soon!" said Elizabeth. "It’s lovely to be going back to Whyteleafe
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the Quakers challenged the English class system. After arriving in America‚ they fled New England and migrated to the South and West escaping religious persecution. Quakers in North America were organized into six geographical areas called Yearly Meetings. The largest of these was located in Philadelphia. At the beginning of the American Revolution they were the 4th largest religious group in European colonies of North America. Quaker believed that men and women were equal in the eyes of God. They
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I recently attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a comfortable house in Santa Monica‚ California. The room was occupied by approximately 70 attendees‚ and even more sitting on the outside porch. The focus of this particular day’s meeting was step six of the 12-step program. The sixth step is stated as follows: “We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character” (Wilson‚ 1939‚ p. 76). Following the definition and interpretation of the sixth step‚ the main speaker of the
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CHAPTER 9 BALANCING DEMAND AGAINST PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY FLUCTUATING DEMAND • A major challenge for many types of capacity-constrained service organizations • Play havoc with efficient use of productive assets‚ thus eroding profitability • 2 basic approaches: (1) adjust the level of capacity to meet variations in demand (2)manage the level of demand using marketing strategies ➢ Services are perishable; ➢ Most acute among services are process people or physical possessions
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