January 2011
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Reflections in Movement: A Synthesis of the Dance...
Feb. 12, 2009
An exploratory response paper on my brief personal and academic experiences with the subject of dance therapy.
“Reflections in Movement: A Synthesis of the Dance Therapy Experience”
Motion, flow, free expression and internal rhythm: all are elements of dance, an art form where the body is foremost, and the mind is second to the spirit. Yet if the mind is so far...
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Media as the Fourth Estate.
Nov., 2010
An essay on the media as a social and political force, as well as an entity in investigative journalism and mass media consumption in Ghana.
“Media as the Fourth Estate; Mr. A. A. Anas, Investigative Journalist.”
While selecting courses in the middle of winter for this study abroad semester in Ghana, I recall looking at the course description of this course. One line in...
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Psychological Effects of Poverty on Children in...
Running Head: POVERTY A Research and Applied Perspective on the Psychological Effects of Poverty on Children of Modern Indian Society Yasmin Ogale Senior Project Apr. 18, 2008
According to the standards set by the World Bank in 1990, global poverty is defined by an income level of $2 a day or less, and extreme poverty at $1 a day or less (ThinkQuest Team, 2006). However, from a more...
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Creative Therapies.
Could alternative creative therapies be the answer to some stresses?
Click the hyperlinks to go explore the alternative therapy in more detail.
ART THERAPY
DRAMA THERAPY
MUSIC THERAPY
DANCE THERAPY
PLAY THERAPY
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Music Therapy Synthesis
Feb. 26, 2009
A synthesis of how music can be used a healing tool and means of alternative, creative therapy.
Music is the language that transcends borders. It is common to all, and understood by all. But music has the ability to surpass more than just cultural or geographic divides. Rather, the melodies and harmonies are able to transcend the mind, the body and the spirit, and connect them...
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An Artistic Revolution
March 12, 2009
Beginning with the narrative of a self-portrait, this essay explores the theory of art therapy as an academic synthesis.
“An Artistic Revolution”
“La la la la la. Here I am, look at me. It’s okay, c’mon, you can smile along. Yea, I am not really sure what’s there to laugh about either, but we can always find something. Yup, life is never really giggle free. There’s always a...
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Tempestual Therapy
winter, 2010
An exploration of ‘space’ in drama therapy, using Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a spring board.
To be published in “The British Association of Dramatherapists,” Journal.
Tempestual Therapy:
A Shakespearean Lesson In The School Of Therapy, On The Topography Of The Dramatic Arts.
Never have I studied The Tempest before: never have I...
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The Unmarketed Economy.
In Accra, Ghana, markets are the one-stop-shop for locals and visitors alike, but that does not necessarily mean one-price-fits-all. Bias, at a micro-level, abounds, and could mean difficulties for the economy of the developing nation.
Accra’s Kaneshie Market is a three-story complex: bright yellow and jaundiced. A mammoth among markets, micro-economics swarms within. It is infested...
December 2010
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Eat, Pray, Love. →
November 2010
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“O Thou compassionate Lord, Thou Who art generous and able! We are servants of...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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Culture Shock.
There are four stages of adjustment. NYU students were reminded that the phases are normal and natural.
Each lasts about three to four weeks.
Fixation can also occur.
First, there is the “honeymoon” phase:
“The weather is gorgeous; everyone is so beautiful; the kids are so cute; the people are so warm and welcoming; the beach is so expansive and the sand so pure; the food is...
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"The Spontaneous Culmination of Something...
This essay was submitted for “The Lure of Beauty” writing seminar, in response to ‘what is beautiful’.
Namaste, and welcome back to discomfort. What a return. This was India, the country considered by travel guides (and my Dalai Lama-loving, sixth-grade social studies teacher), to be the most beautiful on Earth. Yet, my past four visits found those opinions to be...
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Journal No. 1: Expectations.
This essay was submitted for “Internship Seminar & Fieldwork” course, in the context of a newsroom internship in Accra, Ghana.
During my stay in Ghana for the next few months, I will be interning under the XYZ* umbrella. More specifically, I will be working with their partner, XYZ Ghana, a local radio station, which creates its own productions, as well as channels transmissions...
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The Impact of the Economy on the Media
Essay Submitted for “ Journalism and Society: Cultural Contexts and African Media” course.
Economy is defined in the sense of a financial system: “the production and consumption of goods and services of a community regarded as a whole.” (The wholeness/geographic expanse of such a community is debatable and reflexive, but for now, it will be loose and theoretical.) This...
Welcome to the outside of the inside. Or the inside of the outside.
(Either way, it may not even matter…)
This blog is dedicated to the understanding of the cultures and diversities that exist in this world. Thorugh the various modes of expression: text, audio, visual, etc., in(the)seeks to contextualize that which is personally “out of context.”
It is the differences in this world that bind...
October 2010
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Head Strong →
Carrying things on your head is not as easy as the graceful West Africans make it seem. Make sure you are equipped with a scarf cushion, albeit that only dulls the imploding sensation you get as the mass is plopped upon your noggin. Slate.com explains the phenom further.
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“The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.”
– Bahá’u’lláh