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Hey Guys,
I have a question regarding my 2003 Suburban. It seems to idle rough here in PHX with the AC on, the engine starts to shake a little and feels like it is going to die. Without AC on it runs fine, I also noticed some buzzing and occasional flapping noises when running about 20-30 MPH when the AC is on. At other speeds it seems fine and these noises do not occur when the AC is off.
I think it is about time for a tune up so maybe this will help with the rough idling? Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
05-10-2009, 08:35 AM #3try running it with just the fan no ac and see if you still hear the buzzing and flapping noise. these trucks are notorious for the fan motors going out on them and they usually go out slowly (happened with my wife's 98 suburban) hers wound up really making a lot of noise before i got around to changing it out for her. before it was changed it wound up making the most god awful squealing you've ever heard the rear ac would work fine but the front fan had issues. of course hers never bogged down the truck while the ac was on either so you may have a combination of issues.
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thanks for the info. I will reply if I figure out what this is.
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The Miracle of the Cards is the true story of eight-year-old English youngster Craig Shergold (Thomas Sangster), who in 1989 is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Although the prognosis is negative, Craig's mother Marion (Catherine Oxenberg) becomes convinced that somewhere in the world there is a cure for the boy's affliction, and that the means of finding that cure is to break the Guinness record for receiving greeting cards. Broadcasting a plea to everyone on Earth, Marion is successful in bringing a whopping 350 million cards to Craig's door -- and yes, one of those cards provides the key for Craig's ultimate salvation. Filmed in Vancouver, The Miracle of the Cards premiered November 10, 2001, over the PAX Network. Richard Thomas, the star of the PAX anthology It's a Miracle, is herein cast as Dr. Kassell. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi Hide synopsis


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Established in 1994, the Department of the Treasury's Bank Enterprise Award (BEA) program provides cash awards to banks that increase their investments in community development financial institutions (CDFI) and lending in economically distressed communities. CDFIs are specialized institutions that provide financial services to areas and populations underserved by conventional lenders and investors. In 2005, Treasury provided nearly $10 million in BEA awards. The BEA program has faced longstanding questions about its effectiveness and experienced significant declines in funding in recent years. This report (1) examines the extent to which the BEA program may have provided banks with financial incentives and (2) assesses the BEA program's performance measures and internal controls. To complete this study, GAO reviewed relevant award data; interviewed Treasury, bank, and CDFI officials; and assessed the BEA program's performance measures and internal controls against GAO's standards for effective measures and controls.
The extent to which the BEA program may provide banks with incentives to increase their investments in CDFIs and lending in distressed communities is difficult to determine, but available evidence GAO reviewed suggests that the program's impact has likely not been significant. Award recipients GAO interviewed said that the BEA program lowers bank costs associated with investing in a CDFI or lending in a distressed community, allowing for increases in both types of activities. However, other economic and regulatory incentives also encourage banks to undertake award-eligible activities, and it is difficult to isolate and distinguish these incentives from those of a BEA award. For example, banks may have economic incentives to lend in distressed communities because of the potential profitability of such lending. Although it is difficult to determine the BEA program's impact, available evidence suggests that the impact likely has not been significant. For example, the size of a BEA award for large banks (which was .0004 percent of assets in 2005) suggests that a BEA award does not have much influence on such banks' overall investment and lending decisions. However, BEA awards may allow large banks to incrementally increase their award-eligible investments and lending. The BEA program's performance measures likely overstate its impact, and GAO identified weaknesses in certain program internal controls. To assess the BEA program's performance, Treasury, among other measures, annually aggregates the total reported increase in CDFI investments and distressed community loans by all applicants but does not account for other factors, such as economic and regulatory incentives that also affect bank decisions. GAO also found that Treasury has limited controls in place to help ensure that BEA program applications contain accurate information. In particular, Treasury provides limited guidance to application review staff to identify potential errors and does not require the reviewers to completely document their work. As a result, GAO found that the BEA program is vulnerable to making improper payments.
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intransitive verb \ˈam-bəl\: to walk slowly in a free and relaxed way
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: to go at or as if at an amble : saunter
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Middle English, from Anglo-French ambler, from Latin ambulare to walk, from ambi- + -ulare (verb base akin to Middle Welsh el he may go, Greek ēlythe he went) — more at elastic
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Structure, Volume 12, Issue 1, 157-168, 16 March 2004
Origins of Protein Stability Revealed by Comparing Crystal Structures of TATA Binding Proteins
Hideaki Koike1, Yoshie Kawashima-Ohya1, 3, Tomoko Yamasaki1, Lester Clowney1, Yoshio Katsuya2 and Masashi Suzuki*, 1,
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In Response to Reverse mortgage: My mother-in-law (90) may be moving out of her house, meaning (in this case) that it would need to be sold to pay off her reverse mortgage. Value is probably less than the loan balance; federal insurance (funded, at least in part, by her monthly premiums) would in effect cover the difference. Obviously one must make a good faith effort to get the best price so as not to abuse the federal guarantee. But what is a good faith effort in a very slow housing market? Does anyone have experience with this situation? Thanks. J Posted by jefmafnl I will assume, from your description, that she has a HUD FHA Reverse Mortgage. You can start your research on the HUD website and you will need to read her mortgage paperwork. It is hard for me to believe that under this program that the home is underwater since she is only advanced an amount equal to a certain percent of her equity. However, anything is possible in this crazy housing market. From the HUD FHA Reverse Mortgage for Seniors: "The only reverse mortgage insured by the U.S. Federal Government is called a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage or HECM, and is only available through an FHA approved lender." Follow the links in the description of the product or contact a HUD approved counselor for any questions. Generally, it works like this, I believe (from Wikipedia) "When the loan comes due The loan comes due when the borrower dies, sells the house, fails to keep the taxes or insurance current, or moves out of the house for more than 12 consecutive months. Once the mortgage comes due, the borrower or heirs of the estate have an option to refinance the home and keep it, sell the home and cash out any remaining equity, or turn the home over to the lender. Once a reverse mortgage is called due and payable, the borrower (or their heirs) can possibly be granted time extensions by the lender to give them up to one year to make this decision. If the property is turned over to the lender, the borrower or the heirs have no more claim to the property or equity in the property. The lender has recourse against the property, but not against the borrower personally and not against the borrower's heirs. Thus the mortgage is within the category known as "non-recourse limit". |
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Separation of Liquid Phases in Giant Vesicles of Ternary Mixtures of Phospholipids and Cholesterol Biophysical Journal, Volume 85, Issue 5, 1 November 2003, Pages 3074-3083 Sarah L. Veatch and Sarah L. Keller Abstract We use fluorescence microscopy to directly observe liquid phases in giant unilamellar vesicles. We find that a long list of ternary mixtures of high melting temperature (saturated) lipids, low melting temperature (usually unsaturated) lipids, and cholesterol produce liquid domains. For one model mixture in particular, DPPC/DOPC/Chol, we have mapped phase boundaries for the full ternary system. For this mixture we observe two coexisting liquid phases over a wide range of lipid composition and temperature, with one phase rich in the unsaturated lipid and the other rich in the saturated lipid and cholesterol. We find a simple relationship between chain melting temperature and miscibility transition temperature that holds for both phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin lipids. We experimentally cross miscibility boundaries both by changing temperature and by the depletion of cholesterol with β-cyclodextrin. Liquid domains in vesicles exhibit interesting behavior: they collide and coalesce, can finger into stripes, and can bulge out of the vesicle. To date, we have not observed macroscopic separation of liquid phases in only binary lipid mixtures. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (406 kb) |
Oxidized Phosphatidylcholines Promote Phase Separation of Cholesterol-Sphingomyelin Domains Biophysical Journal, Volume 103, Issue 2, 18 July 2012, Pages 247-254 Roman Volinsky, Riku Paananen and Paavo K.J. Kinnunen Abstract Lipid lateral segregation in the plasma membrane is believed to play an important role in cell physiology. Sphingomyelin (SM) and cholesterol (Chol)-enriched microdomains have been proposed as liquid-ordered phase platforms that serve to localize signaling complexes and modulate the intrinsic activities of the associated proteins. We modeled plasma membrane domain organization using Langmuir monolayers of ternary POPC/SM/Chol as well as DMPC/SM/Chol mixtures, which exhibit a surface-pressure-dependent miscibility transition of the coexisting liquid-ordered and -disordered phases. Using Brewster angle microscopy and Langmuir monolayer compression isotherms, we show that the presence of an oxidatively modified phosphatidylcholine, 1-palmitoyl-2-azelaoyl-sn-glydecero-3-phosphocholine, efficiently opposes the miscibility transition and stabilizes micron-sized domain separation at lipid lateral packing densities corresponding to the equilibrium lateral pressure of ∼32 mN/m that is suggested to prevail in bilayer membranes. This effect is ascribed to augmented hydrophobic mismatch induced by the oxidatively truncated phosphatidylcholine. To our knowledge, our results represent the first quantitative estimate of the relevant level of phospholipid oxidation that can potentially induce changes in cell membrane organization and its associated functions. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (556 kb) |
Liquid Domains in Vesicles Investigated by NMR and Fluorescence Microscopy Biophysical Journal, Volume 86, Issue 5, 1 May 2004, Pages 2910-2922 S.L. Veatch, I.V. Polozov, K. Gawrisch and S.L. Keller Abstract We use 2H-NMR, 1H-MAS NMR, and fluorescence microscopy to detect immiscibility in three particular phospholipid ratios mixed with 30% cholesterol: 2:1 DOPC/DPPC, 1:1 DOPC/DPPC, and 1:2 DOPC/DPPC. Large-scale (≫160nm) phase separation into liquid-ordered (Lo) and liquid-crystalline (Lα) phases is observed by both NMR and fluorescence microscopy. By fitting superimposed 2H-NMR spectra, we quantitatively determine that the Lo phase is strongly enriched in DPPC and moderately enriched in cholesterol. Tie-lines estimated at different temperatures and membrane compositions are based on both 2H-NMR observations and a previously published ternary phase diagram. 2H- and 1H-MAS NMR techniques probe significantly smaller length scales than microscopy experiments (submicron versus micron-scalp), and complex behavior is observed near the miscibility transition. Fluorescence microscopy of giant unilamellar vesicles shows micrometer-scale domains below the miscibility transition. In contrast, NMR of multilamellar vesicles gives evidence for smaller (∼80nm) domains just below the miscibility transition, whereas large-scale demixing occurs at a lower temperature, Tlow. A transition at Tlow is also evident in fluorescence microscopy measurements of the surface area fraction of ordered phase in giant unilamellar vesicles. Our results reemphasize the complex phase behavior of cholesterol-containing membranes and provide a framework for interpreting 2H-NMR experiments in similar membranes. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (432 kb) |
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Benjamin L. Stottrup, Sarah L. Veatch and Sarah L. Keller,
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We investigate lateral organization of lipid domains in vesicles versus supported membranes and monolayers. The lipid mixtures used are predominantly DOPC/DPPC/Chol and DOPC/BSM/Chol, which have been previously shown to produce coexisting liquid phases in vesicles and monolayers. In a monolayer at an air-water interface, these lipids have miscibility transition pressures of ∼12–15mN/m, which can rise to 32mN/m if the monolayer is exposed to air. Lipid monolayers can be transferred by Langmuir-Schäfer deposition onto either silanized glass or existing Langmuir-Blodgett supported monolayers. Micron-scale domains are present in the transferred lipids only if they were present in the original monolayer before deposition. This result is valid for transfers at 32mN/m and also at lower pressures. Domains transferred to glass supports differ from liquid domains in vesicles because they are static, do not align in registration across leaflets, and do not reappear after temperature is cycled. Similar static domains are found for vesicles ruptured onto glass surfaces. Although supported membranes on glass capture some aspects of vesicles in equilibrium (e.g., gel-liquid transition temperatures and diffusion rates of individual lipids), the collective behavior of lipids in large liquid domains is poorly reproduced.


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Hector 'Rocky' Santiago and Corey Kluber "Lane" traded blows through 5 scoreless innings.
Then with Detroit starting in Kansas City, the Sox decided to show them something on the scoreboard and put up a 4 spot in the 6th. They added a run in the 8th inning, and 2 more in the ninth without the benefit of a home run, making it 7 zip.
Detroit pushed their lead from 2-0 to a 6-0 advantage in Kansas City. Miguel Cabrera led off the frame with a league leading 44th home run putting himself in position for the triple crown. The Tigers loaded the bases and Gerald Laird cleared them with a double.
Pretty much as soon as that happened, Robin Ventura symbolically threw in the towel and lifted both Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn for pinch runners in the ninth. An Alex Rios strike out and A. J. Pierzynski walk later, the bases were loaded for Dayan Viciedo. He hit a grand slam. The 11 runs for the Sox matched their output for the previous 4 games combined.
The 11-0 deficit marked the 11th time Cleveland was shut out this season.
Detroit hung on to win it 6-3 and eliminated the White Sox from the post-season.
Paul Konerko went 2 for 4 helping his bid to finish the season batting over .300. His average sits at .299 currently.
Hector Santiago must have meant it when he said he wanted to remain a starter next season. He only allowed one hit, one walk, and hit one batter while striking out 10 through his seven innings of work. He improved to 4-1.
The Steve Stone and Hawk Harrelson relationship seemed especially distant tonight. It was mentioned several times in the game thread, including this comment from BuehrleMan-
is stone still there?
if so, this is really, really crazy.
oh, stone just spoke. he had been silent for at least three minutes. i would love for someone to do a detailed analysis of the amount hawk and stoney have spoken tonight and how long there silences were and how many and how many times they actually spoke to each other. this is one of the weirdest things ever.
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Despite facing an economic downturn, Coach has been banking on its upscale clientele in the US, Japan, and elsewhere to invest in its products. The company's looking to boost its global distribution efforts, mostly in North America, China, and Europe, while also improving store sales. As it rides out the recession, Coach is implementing several initiatives.
Coach is expanding its retail presence in North America, albeit prudently, in an effort to generate higher sales revenue. The company has been scaling back its once-aggressive expansion by cutting a plan for new US store openings in half: from about 40 per year to 15 in fiscal 2011. Its plan for fiscal 2012 remains the same, although Coach is reaching further into developing areas for revenue potential and opening more factory outlets than retail shops. Coach believes that ultimately there is a market to support up to 500 Coach stores in the US and 30 in Canada.
The leather goods maker is also looking at global markets to diversify and offset declines in North American sales. To that end, Coach plans to open 15 stores in the UK by 2013 as part of its push in the European luxury goods market. The company already has an exclusive arrangement with Printemps, the French department store chain, and in Spain with El Corte Inglés. It is also eyeing Germany, Italy, Brazil, and India. In Asia, Coach sees under-penetrated China as one of its largest opportunity and has plans to add 30 new locations during 2012.
Its Japanese business is where the company counts on its trendy target audience. Coach plans to open about 15 new locations in 2012 and anticipates an ultimate market penetration of up to 180 stores.
Another push for the upscale manufacturer and retailer is to build market share for its North American accessories business, which has generated almost 30% of sales since 2008. It plans to leverage its expertise in this area and aggressively pump out newer and even nicer add-on items.
Coach is also focused on cutting costs and, somewhat reluctantly, widening its target audience. It shed more than 150 jobs (about 10% of its US corporate staff) and increased its product selection across a variety of price points to court shoppers with less money to spend.
Coach's partnership with retail real estate company Simon Property Group has allowed Coach to get its foot in the door at some swanky digs where upscale customers spend more freely. The leather-goods maker has a presence in Simon's Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Roosevelt Field on Long Island. These two properties represent some of Coach's highest-volume retail operations. Coach is working with Simon Property Group to open new Coach retail shops and expand others. It's also partnering with retail regional mall developer General Growth Properties to add new Coach retail shops and expand existing ones.
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Please stop by the shelter to pick up a volunteer application or download a volunteer application and waiver/release form here: application/waiver. Dogs____ (includes dog walking, kennel maintenance) Cats____ (includes cage maintenance) Specialties: Grooming _____ Humane Ed,_____ (attend special events representing the shelter) Fundraising ____ Cleaning ____ Phones _____ Laundry___ Can Recycling_____ (All in-shelter volunteers clean the shelter and answer phones and do laundry as needed.) All volunteers participate in fundraising The shelter is run by volunteers who work as a team on each shift. Can Recycling Crew Details Take aluminum cans that were donated to the shelter to be recycled. Should be willing to haul one load per week. Money is used to help our homeless animals. Contact us if you are willing to help! Dog Care Specialist Details Our hours are 10-12 noon and 5-7:00 p.m. DAILY. Dog obedience using the techniques taught by a professional dog trainer. Dog walking, kennel maintenance, and general shelter duties needed. Skills Must love animals! Must be able to handle large, strong dogs, able to follow specific guidelines on dealing with shelter dogs, handle all kinds of dogs, with infinite patience, kindness and affection. Cat Care Specialist Details Feeding and care of cats and kittens, cleaning cages, doing laundry, etc. Skills Good with cats and kittens, able to follow policies and procedures, work as a team. Cleaning Crew Animal Shelter Details Chores include washing floors, walls, clothes, general cleaning, vacuuming rugs and emptying the trash. A clean Shelter is a HEALTHY Shelter! Skills General housekeeping skills required. We need volunteers who can come in on a consistent basis - even one hour a week, days preferred. Publicity Details For a person who wants to help animals but doesn't want to WORK WITH animals, this is a great opportunity. The volunteer would deliver flyers advertising our events and ask business owners to post them in their windows. Our flyers can go to the schools in the Parma area, pet stores, vet offices, businesses in Parma, libraries, etc. Make signs and flyers for special events. Skills Must come to the shelter and apply to become a volunteer. Fundraising & Publicity Details Participate in fundraising events and work together to publicize the shelter and facilitate adoptions. Skills Ability to work as a team setting up events, staffing events like spaghetti dinner, night at the races, etc. and distribute flyers etc. for same. Internet Publicity Details To post our shelter information regarding events and fundraisers, advertising our home page address and gain public awareness that if you live in or near Parma, Ohio THIS is the place to look if you've lost a pet, would like to adopt one, need to find a home for your pet, want to know how to take care of your pet or, if you would like to volunteer, what volunteers DO at Parma Animal Shelter. Skills Must have a computer and be internet savvy enough to pass the word about our shelter by posting in message groups and maintaining web pages. Must have the TIME to keep postings and/or pages updated WEEKLY. Receptionist Details Greet the public, answer the phone, filing, filling out forms for new animals, lost and found reports, tours. Reconciling lost and found reports, other clerical duties as needed and doing laundry. Skills Pleasant manner, good public relations skills, organizational skills, ability to work as a team and follow policies and procedures. Junior Volunteer- Age 15 to 17 Details No handling of animals involved. Jr. Volunteers answer phones, do laundry, assist with dog and cat specialists, clean, reconcile lost and found reports and data entry as needed. May also work at special events as needed like car washes. Please download the Jr Volunteer application/waiver form here: application/waiver Skills Pleasant manner, good public relations skills, organizational skills, ability to work as a team and follow policies and procedures. Must be 15 years old or older and have parent accompany you to the screening interview. Teens work 2 hour shifts during hours 10-noon and 5-7 p.m. Please stop at the shelter for an application and interview appointment. All donations are tax deductible. Thanks for your support! PAS, Inc. is a 501(c)3 organization. Checks payable to Parma Animal Shelter, Inc. P.O. Box 347321 Parma, Ohio 44134 Please spay or neuter your pet. Help us find their way home, tell your friends and neighbors about us! 6260 State Road Parma (behind HoneyHut) |
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That may be true, but as I said, it sounded like the spoiled kids with no direction chose art or PE because it was easy. Again, that (now) seems to not have been the OP's intent.
The only easy A art class I ever took was in high school. Because in some high schools, they don't take the arts seriously. Once I got into college, getting an A in an art class was exactly what vesperholly described.
I don't agree that general majors like English or philosophy are easy. My son double majored in poli-sci and philosophy. He said his more advanced level philosophy & logic courses made his brain bleed, they were that hard.


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B = Melbourne Burwood Campus
G = Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus
S = Geelong Waterfront Campus
T = Melbourne campus at Toorak
W =Warrnambool Campus
X = Off campus
Award granted | Bachelor of Information Systems |
Campus | Melbourne Burwood Campus, Geelong Waterfront Campus |
Off-campus | Yes |
Length | 3 years full-time |
Next available intake | March (Trimester 1), July (Trimester 2) |
Indicative annual fee 2014 | $23,080* AUD |
CRICOS course code | 078140K |
IELTS Requirement | TBC |
Deakin course code | M340 |
VTAC Codes | 1400414213 - Waterfront (Geelong), International full-fee paying place 1400514213 - Burwood (Melbourne), International full-fee paying place |
Faculty contacts | Deakin International |
* For a helpful guide to courses and careers in business and law please refer to our Your Decision undergraduate careers guide [1.8MB] |
The Bachelor of Information Systems aims to equip students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to build a career as an information systems professional and recognise the value of the contribution they can make to society as a professional.
Fee paying place - International (IFP)
A Fee paying place is one for which the University does not receive any government funding. As such, students enrolled in these places are required to contribute the full cost of their course.
Fees for international students apply to persons living in Australia with Temporary Resident status, provided that there is no limitation on study and persons living abroad who are not Australian citizens and do not have Permanent Resident status in Australia.
Equivalent Full Time Student Load (EFTSL)
EFTSL is the standard annual full time load. Eight credit points is the standard full time load for one year of study.
* The 'indicative annual course fee' cited has been provided as a guide only. It has been calculated on the basis of a typical enrolment of a student undertaking the course in 2014, and reflects the cost involved in undertaking a full-time quota of units within the specified discipline.
The actual fees charged by Deakin University will depend upon the discipline from which each individual unit is chosen, and may vary from the indicative course fee cited, particularly if units are chosen from a number of disciplines. The cost of each unit offered in 2014 can be viewed from the Unit Search.
Please note that the fees per unit/credit point may increase annually due to rises in the cost of course delivery and service.
Deakin assumes no responsibility for persons relying on 'indicative course fees' to calculate the total future cost of their course.
Work integrated learning is a core component of this degree. An 'Industry on Campus' program facilitates formal engagement between students and employers. This program aims to ensure that every student has multiple touch points with employers of information systems graduates and information systems professionals every trimester during their degree to help students identify potential employers and understand the career outcomes available to them.
The Bachelor of Information Systems is a 24 credit point course consisting of 16 credit points of core units from the School of Information and Business Analytics and 8 credit points of unspecified electives to enable students to include a 6 or 8 credit point major sequence.
Core Units
MCA010 | Communication for Academic Studies |
MIS101 | Business Information Systems |
MIS171 | Business Analytics |
MIS201 | Business Requirements Analysis |
MIS202 | Managing Data and Information |
MIS211 | IS Services, Infrastructure and the Cloud |
MIS231 | Professional Ethics in the Digital Age |
MIS271 | Business Intelligence |
MIS276 | Design Thinking |
MIS291 | Community Based Volunteering A |
MIS312 | eBusiness Strategies |
MIS332 | People, Work and Technology |
MIS352 | Enterprise Systems |
MIS398 | Project Management |
MIS399 | Applied Business Project |
plus two credit points of Work Integrated Learning chosen from:
MIS293 | Work Based Learning |
MIS393 | Team Based Learning |
MIS390 | Business Internship A |
MIS391 | Business Internship B |
MIS394 | Industry Based Learning in Business A |
MIS395 | Industry Based Learning in Business B |
MIS396 | Industry Based Learning in Business C |
MIS397 | Industry Based Learning in Business D |
plus eight credit points of general elective units.
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In all categories of admission, selection is based primarily on academic merit as indicated by an applicant's previous academic record.
For more information on the Deakin Admissions Policy visit The Guide.
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Please note that English language requirements exist for entry to this course and you will be required to meet the English language level requirement that is applicable in the year of your commencement of studies.
It is the students' responsibility to ensure that she/he has the required IELTS score to register with any external accredited courses.
If you have completed previous studies which you believe may reduce the number of units you have to complete at Deakin, indicate in the appropriate section on your application that you wish to be considered for credit for prior learning. You will need to provide a certified copy of your previous course details so your credit can be determined. If you are eligible, your offer letter will then contain information about your credit for prior learning.
Your credit for prior learning is formally approved prior to your enrolment at Deakin during the Enrolment and Orientation Program. You must bring original documents relating to your previous study so that this approval can occur.
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APIŌĆÖs Role in Shaping Parenting: Highlights from the 2009 API Think Tank Event in Nashville, TN
By Rita Brhel, managing editor and attachment parenting resource leader (API)
In an unprecedented move, Attachment Parenting International gathered eight brilliant minds in Attachment Parenting for the organizationŌĆÖs 15th Anniversary Celebration gathering the last weekend of August in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Never before had all these parenting experts appeared together at an event open to the public. For the hundreds of parents, students, and professionals sitting in the seats of Belmont UniversityŌĆÖs Troutt Theatre the afternoon of Saturday, August 29, 2009, the ŌĆ£Making an Impact Now: Creating a Sustainable Legacy for ChildrenŌĆØ Think Tank Event proved truly to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Moderator Lu Hanessian, author of Let the Baby Drive, founder of WYSH, host of API Live! teleseminars, and member of APIŌĆÖs Board of Directors, introduced the panel of speakers, each walking from behind the stage curtain to sit on chairs arranged in a semi circle under a six-foot banner proclaiming APIŌĆÖs anniversary theme: ŌĆ£Growing More Attached.ŌĆØ Making up the panel were:
- Martha Sears, RN ŌĆō nurse and lactation consultant, La Leche League leader, mother to eight children, co-author of 25 parenting books, and member of APIŌĆÖs Advisory Board and Editorial Review Board.
- William Sears, MD ŌĆō pediatrician and pediatrics professor at the University of CaliforniaŌĆÖs Irvine School of Medicine, father to eight children, and author or co-author to more than 40 parenting books, and member of APIŌĆÖs Advisory Board.
- Ina May Gaskin, MA, CPM ŌĆō midwife, founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee, and author of two childbirth books.
- Mary Ann Cahill ŌĆō co-founder and former director of La Leche League International, mother of nine children, and author of a parenting book.
- Isabelle Fox, PhD ŌĆō psychotherapist, author of two parenting books, mother, and member of APIŌĆÖs Advisory Board.
- James McKenna, PhD ŌĆō anthropologist, professor, and director at Notre Dame UniversityŌĆÖs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab, author of three infant sleep books, and member of APIŌĆÖs Advisory Board.
- Barbara Nicholson, MEd ŌĆō founder of API, mother to four children, co-author of Attached at the Heart, and member of APIŌĆÖs Board of Directors, Editorial Review Board, and Research Group.
- Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE ŌĆō founder and former director of API, certified family life educator, mother to two children, co-author of Attached at the Heart, co-leader of API of Huntsville/Madison, and member of APIŌĆÖs Board of Directors, Editorial Review Board, and Research Group.
ŌĆ£This is quite an illustrious panel!ŌĆØ Hanessian said. Special tribute was paid to Nicholson and Parker, for ŌĆ£without you two ladies sitting at the table 15 years ago and commiserating about the future, we would not be here,ŌĆØ Hanessian said before launching into a discussion that could have easily lasted longer than the two hours allotted.
Congratulations, Barbara and Lysa!
Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker, APIŌĆÖs co-founders, were surprised during the Think Tank Event with recognition for APIŌĆÖs first Award┬Ā for Contribution to Parenting going to an AP-minded individual(s) who truly made a difference on parenting. The award was presented by Martha Sears and Dr. William Sears.Said Dr. Sears of the award recipients: ŌĆ£There are few people ŌĆō and we really know a lot of people ŌĆō who I look back on and say, they really made a difference.ŌĆØ
Hanessian opened the Think Tank Event through a series of questions exploring the theme, ŌĆ£Making an Impact Now: Creating a Sustainable Legacy for Children.ŌĆØ To sum it up, she wondered on behalf of parents worldwide what parenting for the future means for the choices parents are making everyday in their homes?
But first, how did API come to be?
API in the Beginning
API, like any effective organization, was borne out a need: ŌĆ£I realized when I had my first child, how few supports there were,ŌĆØ Parker said.
She found new mother support in her local La Leche League, which described a different way of parenting than much of mainstream promoted ŌĆō one that resonated with her sense of self and where she gravitated toward in her parenting approach. ŌĆ£I think that was a miracle moment for me,ŌĆØ Parker said.
Through the years, Parker and Nicholson saw a need for this parenting approach to get into the reach of more parents. As special education teachers, they encountered children labeled with emotional and behavioral issues and learning disabilities who were, rather, in need of connection with an adult attachment figure. ŌĆ£A lot of problems werenŌĆÖt really a learning problem but an attachment problem,ŌĆØ Nicholson said.
Read the entire history of APIŌĆÖs founding in the special Attached at the Heart issue of The Attached Family magazine, available at www.attachmentparenting.org/attachedattheheart/journal_aath.pdf.
Ultimately, API came to be as a way to better educate and support attached families, but Attachment Parenting was around long before 15 years ago. Martha Sears and Dr. William Sears, called the Father of Attachment Parenting (AP), coined the term years before API was founded. But the parenting principles that make up AP didnŌĆÖt start with the Sears.
ŌĆ£In my first year of practice, a wise professor said to me: Surround yourself with very wise mothers,ŌĆØ said Dr. Sears, who is celebrating his 40th year of pediatrics practice this year. ŌĆ£That was my first introduction to Attachment Parenting.ŌĆØ
Empowering Parents
ŌĆ£I worry most about the disempowerment of parents,ŌĆØ┬Ā said Dr. McKenna.
ŌĆ£We live in a culture of fear,ŌĆØ Hanessian agreed.
API strives to give the power of parenting back to the mother and father, so that they know how to make the best decisions for their children and family despite the sometimes ill-informed and biased advice offered not only by friends and family members but also by medical and other childcare professionals.
ŌĆ£Take back the power,ŌĆØ Parker said. ŌĆ£For far too long, people in the culture have dictated how we should raise our baby, how we should have our baby.ŌĆØ
Gaskin explained how this empowering of parents best happens when advocated for early ŌĆō at birth. By choosing a midwife, new parents can ensure that the mother and baby can likely be together from labor and delivery forward. By starting as early as possible in keeping parents with their child, their parenting journey pushes forward with connection being considered ŌĆ£normal.ŌĆØ
ParentsŌĆÖ naturally gravitate toward connection, when not influenced by outside forces. What API advocates is for parents to follow that intuition.
ŌĆ£Our fourth child is the one who taught me about intuition,ŌĆØ three decades ago, Martha Sears said, adding that the first three babies were so-called easy babies ŌĆō or, in other words as McKenna explained, this fourth child would be one of the babies who arenŌĆÖt as convenient for parents as they wish they would be. This fourth baby required Martha Sears to cosleep in order for her to get some sleep. Although she was following her intuition, it was a scary time for her because the mainstream culture did not support this sleeping arrangement at all. Sears had to learn how to listen to her baby and trust her intuition despite what was popular in parenting advice at the time.
ŌĆ£Thirty years ago! IsnŌĆÖt that unbelievable that weŌĆÖre still plagued by that doubt?ŌĆØ Hanessian exclaimed.
What API does is to help parents realize that they are the experts in their childŌĆÖs care and that, as humans, we are driven toward connection with one another, especially between parent and child. In Western culture, especially, this often means that how they feel toward childrearing doesnŌĆÖt quite jive with the mainstream advice. API first empowers parents by allowing them the freedom to look beyond mainstream parenting advice to that connection-building that just feels good and right within themselves.
But the key to helping parents pursue this intuitive parenting style is showing the overwhelming research that support AP and APIŌĆÖs Eight Principles of Parenting. Martha Sears agreed, giving an example of the need to show parents the research discrediting cry-it-out sleep training.
Armed with research, API has helped to turn the tide. Parents are now able to find AP resources to support them in their parenting journey. Even in the mainstream culture, more and more experts are saying for parents to listen to their babies.
There are still challenges, though. Western culture is driven by a working population and both parents in most families work outside the home. Dr. Fox recalled a point in her practice when the family dynamic had noticeably changed ŌĆō when parents were unable to describe the history of their childŌĆÖs behavioral problems for which Fox had been called to assess and repair, even unable to provide basic childcare facts such as the childŌĆÖs fears or the potty training technique used. What she found was that the children she most often saw with behavioral issues were those who did not have a consistent caregiver in the early years of life.
ThatŌĆÖs why API is so important, Nicholson said ŌĆō to get these observations, and complementary research, out to parents to show them the long-term effects of nurturing parenting.
This change in parenting practice among the mainstream culture takes time. As Dr. Sears pointed out, parents have been practicing AP for more than 40 years, and while Western culture is incorporating more AP principles into mainstream parenting advice than ever before, AP is still a long ways from widespread acceptance.
Cahill, one of seven women who co-founded La Leche League International 53 years ago, agreed that cultural change does take time. The reason is, parents want to be ŌĆ£goodŌĆØ parents and it can be difficult for a mother or father to sort through the advice they receive from literally every person they encounter, whether the pediatrician, a teacher, a clergyman, a family member or friend, or even by observing what other parents model at the park or grocery store.
ŌĆ£When I had my first baby, I wanted to be the best mother. I wanted to breastfeed,ŌĆØ Cahill said. ŌĆ£And I utterly failed.ŌĆØ
But what she came to realize is that she didnŌĆÖt fail; instead, society failed her. She didnŌĆÖt receive any support for breastfeeding. ThatŌĆÖs the value of API ŌĆō a source of support .
Dr. Fox agreed, saying that itŌĆÖs common for parents to attend childbirth education classes but that they donŌĆÖt often attend parenting classes until they have a problem they need help with. ŌĆ£Mothers need help with childbirth, but they also need help with [at least] the first year,ŌĆØ she said.
ŌĆśGoodŌĆÖ Parenting vs. Good Parenting
That ŌĆ£goodŌĆØ parent myth is also fueled by the voices parents hear in their heads from how their own parents had raised them, Fox said. ŌĆ£We hear our own parentsŌĆÖ voices, and we hear that parentŌĆÖs voice be critical to us.ŌĆØ Without being aware of the power of those voices, parents will judge how ŌĆ£goodŌĆØ they are by how well they following their own parentsŌĆÖ paths.
ŌĆ£In the beginning, I had to overcome some deficits myself,ŌĆØ Martha Sears explained. Her mother had spanked and practiced other non-AP approaches. She struggled, like many parents must, against that voice in her head that conflicted with her intuition in terms of discipline and communication. In the end ŌĆō at the point of decision making ŌĆō all parents either make the choice to do what their parents did with them, or they change through education, support, and often intense emotional work.
Martha Sears said itŌĆÖs important for parents to keep the future goal in mind: ŌĆ£Remember that you are raising someone elseŌĆÖs future mother or future father. ItŌĆÖs important to get yourself emotionally healthy, so that you can give that gift to your children that keeps on giving.ŌĆØ
Among APIŌĆÖs Eight Principles of Parenting is Preparing for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting. Through this principle, API is able to empower people early in their parenting journey ŌĆō which ultimately makes the challenges of raising children, discipline and communication, easier in the long-term, said Martha Sears. ŌĆ£When you can find a solid way to connect with your children early, you have fewer problems [later],ŌĆØ she said.
ŌĆ£This organization [API] is the only one in existence, except La Leche League, where parents can learn that and that teaches this foundation of attachment,ŌĆØ Martha Sears said.
It can be difficult for parents to sort out their own voice from all the other voices they hear. So, how can parents sort out which voices ŌĆō whether from their own parents or another outside influence, including API ŌĆō aligns best with their need for connection with their child?
TodayŌĆÖs Western society is the only culture in history that needs to read a book to know how to parent, said Dr. McKenna. Books are wonderful, but the best teachers are other parents ŌĆō those experienced in AP. LetŌĆÖs look at what the expert parents said at the Think Tank Event in response to some of the most confusing areas of parenting.
Dr. Bill Sears offered a quick reflective question he learned from his wife, Martha, that parents can ask themselves whenever encountered with a tense situation: ŌĆ£If I were my child, how would I want my mother or father to react?ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Get behind the eyes of your child. Do you yell, do you spank, do you use sarcasm, do you hug? If you ask yourself that question, and answer truthfully, youŌĆÖll always get it right.ŌĆØ
Someone, at some point, decided that parenting should shut off at night, said Dr. McKenna. Instead of regarding their babyŌĆÖs cries as a way of communication, they regarded it a non-communicating noise that the baby makes. What makes crying irritating is when parents fail to see the value in it. A crying baby indicates a need and opportunity for attachment-building.
ŌĆ£Does your baby sleep through the night yet?ŌĆØ is among the most frequently asked questions of the newborn period and can make parents feel guilty if their baby isnŌĆÖt sleeping through the night ŌĆō as if they are not ŌĆ£goodŌĆØ parents, Dr. McKenna said.
ŌĆ£Sleep is very relational,ŌĆØ Dr. McKenna said. Crying is natural; itŌĆÖs a sign that attachment exists, that the baby is seeking the parent out and wants the parent close. Dr. McKenna gave this sample reply for the next time someone asks whether Baby is sleeping through the night yet: ŌĆ£Not only does my baby not sleep through the night, he protests and cries loudly when IŌĆÖm not there ŌĆō and isnŌĆÖt that wonderful? He knows when heŌĆÖs in danger and isnŌĆÖt afraid to say so!ŌĆØ
If mainstream society regards a baby who wakes and cries during the night as having a sleep problem, the question is why only half the babies have ŌĆ£sleep problemsŌĆØ and not the full 100 percent, Dr. McKenna said. Why┬Ā are some of the babies not crying, when crying means there is an attachment bond?
What makes nighttime parenting so difficult is because parents want their sleep and losing sleep is hard. But, ŌĆ£it [parenting] isnŌĆÖt always going to be easy anyway, because life is like that,ŌĆØ Dr. McKenna said. Even the most informative, well-practiced AP parent can have difficulties in parenting ŌĆō and infant sleep ŌĆō if they are caring for a high-needs baby.
Dr. Sears chimed in with a story of a couple who he first saw with their newborn baby and later saw when their baby was three months old. Shorty after birth, the baby was a healthy, happy child and the parents seemed inclined to AP. But, at the three months, the baby wasnŌĆÖt gaining well and had floppy muscle tone and the parents seemed disconnected.
What had changed? The parents, overwhelmed with their babyŌĆÖs erratic sleep pattern, had taken a cry-it-out sleep training class. At three months, while the baby was considered ŌĆ£goodŌĆØ in that he slept through the night, the babyŌĆÖs health was failing in what Dr. Sears refers to as ŌĆ£shut down syndromeŌĆØ ŌĆō the babyŌĆÖs lack of emotional connection with his parents caused him to shut down mentally and physically. ItŌĆÖs a rather common example of the effect that non-AP sleep practices can have on children.
ŌĆ£Beware of baby trainers, because I can tell you, from my practice, itŌĆÖs a short-term gain by a long-term loss,ŌĆØ Dr. Sears said.
ŌĆ£This [parenting] is a tough job, and there are a lot of tired moms,ŌĆØ Nicholson said. ŌĆ£What a baby needs is a happy, rested mother.ŌĆØ
Fathers, she said, need to give their wives and partners support ŌĆō not advice ŌĆō to ensure that she doesnŌĆÖt get overwhelmed and is able to find balance between taking care of the child and herself.
But balance is more than self-care; itŌĆÖs also about healing the emotional wounds left from their own childhoods. ŌĆ£You canŌĆÖt value someone unless you value yourself,ŌĆØ Dr. McKenna said.
In Utero Bonding
Connection begins even before the baby is born. Nicholson spoke about the importance of parents learning about conscious birth, starting their parenting journey of education and smart choices early. Mothers and babies are not supposed to be separated after birth, Gaskin agreed.
Gaskin recommended that mothers take the time to revel in the baby growing inside them. She suggested mothers focus more on the baby moving and kicking than getting caught up in the technology surrounding pregnancy, such as ultrasounds which unnecessarily distracts some parents.
Consistent and Loving Care
ŌĆ£Babies are ingenious in figuring out who really does what for them,ŌĆØ said Dr. McKenna. Whether this is the mother, father, grandparent, or childcare provider, the babyŌĆÖs main attachment bond will develop with the primary caregiver. ŌĆ£Our species would not have been successful without significant caregivers,ŌĆØ he added.
ThatŌĆÖs why, ŌĆ£what is so important is that mothers have to be there,ŌĆØ said Dr. Fox, who explained that, in all families, one parent should stay at home full-time for the first few years of the childŌĆÖs life. Often, this is the mother, but more and more, the father is taking on this role in many families. ŌĆ£Fathers can just as well stay home, too,ŌĆØ Dr. McKenna said.
Lately, ŌĆ£fathers are taking more of a role,ŌĆØ Gaskin agreed. ŌĆ£When dads arenŌĆÖt afraid of babies, I think thatŌĆÖs something very good because that connection is likely to continue.ŌĆØ
Dr. McKenna mentioned the term, ŌĆ£tandem parenting,ŌĆØ in which both the mother and the father share in the care of their child to the point where both are primary attachment figures. This is a new concept, as it has long been thought that a child can only have one primary attachment figure and that the next closest relation would be a secondary attachment figure. The primary attachment preference is based on the fatherŌĆÖs behavior toward the baby, not a biological connection.
There is great value in tandem parenting, not only in the benefit to the child who can rely on both parents and to the mother who can take a break here and there, but also to the father himself. When fathers help with their children, their hormone levels fluctuate, Dr. McKenna said. Their oxytocin levels increase and testerone decreases. ItŌĆÖs an actual change in biochemistry.
But, especially with the economic pressures of todayŌĆÖs society, many families are unable to afford one parent to stay at home, so does this mean that they canŌĆÖt AP? ItŌĆÖs harder for dual-income parents, but certainly possible, Parker said. What they need to do is to focus on reconnecting every day once the parent comes home from work. Hanessian recommended reconnection through cosleeping. Dr. Sears mentioned nursing mothers using breast pumps to be able to continue breastfeeding after they return to work.
ŌĆ£My mother was a single mother juggling two jobs, and what I remember about my mother is that she did the best she could in a less-than-ideal situation,ŌĆØ said Dr. Sears, explaining that while itŌĆÖs best that a parent is able to stay at home with the children, if it canŌĆÖt happen, the focus of the parent should be on cultivating that connection as much as possible when together with the child. Children can grow up in situations that are hard but be OK because the memories they have are of happiness and togetherness and connection.
Another way for dual-income parents and single parents is by striving for one, consistent caregiver and being careful about caregiver ŌĆ£roulette,ŌĆØ in which the childŌĆÖs caregiver is frequently changing. ItŌĆÖs extremely important that a child is able to form a strong, long-lasting primary attachment bond with a caregiver, even if not the parent, and this can only happen with one, consistent caregiver relationship in a childcare situation. Without the formation of a primary attachment bond, as in the case of a child who has many different caregivers, that child will be unable to form healthy attachments and maintain relationships.
Although there are some families who truly cannot afford to have one parent stay at home, Dr. Fox said most families, if they made it a priority, could pull the resources together to do this. More and more jobs are allowing parents to work at home, and the Internet allows parents to more easily start an at-home business, or a family financial budget can help parents adjust to the lifestyle that goes with a lower cost of living.
ŌĆ£You are really needed for the first two years of a babyŌĆÖs life,ŌĆØ Dr. Fox said. ŌĆ£We go out to borrow money for a house or a car; think about saving that money to stay at home with your baby. ItŌĆÖs not that long.ŌĆØ
What is Good Parenting?
The goal of what mainstream culture considers ŌĆ£goodŌĆØ parenting is how to raise children that wonŌĆÖt embarrass the parents. What API strives to do is to support parents in raising children who grow up connected ŌĆō that is who are emotionally healthy and able to form strong relationships with others, who want to make good decisions based on their own sense of self and values, and who are empathic and compassionate.
So, how do parents go about doing this?
Dr. Fox explained that AP is based on what is known as the Three Ps:
- Protection ŌĆō that the child feels protected and cared for.
- Proximity ŌĆō that the child is physically and emotionally close with the parent.
- Predictability ŌĆō that the parent is consistent in childcare.
ŌĆ£With protection, proximity, and predictability comes a growing sense of trust and a growing sense of the worldŌĆÖs a pretty good place,ŌĆØ said Dr. Fox.
Dr. McKenna said AP is about parents being conscious of the way they are raising their children. ŌĆ£We tend to think of birth as Independence Day,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£Not that itŌĆÖs not important, but weŌĆÖve overdone it.ŌĆØ Parenting cannot stop at childbirth.
The emphasis placed on childbirth in society needs to spread beyond into childhood; the reason being, babies and children are always developing, always learning. For example, the tastebuds donŌĆÖt form until the last few weeks of pregnancy, which is why a child tends to like the foods his mother ate during the last part of her pregnancy. And apnea-prone babies can lose up to 70% of their apnea spells by being placed next to teddy bears with a breathing motion. ŌĆ£Every sensory modality that baby has is being regulated by the mother [or father],ŌĆØ said Dr. McKenna.
Dr. Sears said AP is about getting to the basics of relationships in a culture that where the basics can easily be lost in technology. ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre talking about a low-tech style of parenting in a high-tech world,ŌĆØ Dr. Sears said. He told of a woman in saw in his practice who commented that while she couldnŌĆÖt afford to buy her son everything that other children had, she could afford to give her son herself.
Dr. Sears also said AP is about parents enjoying parenthood. ŌĆ£Revel in it,ŌĆØ he said.
Highlights from Responses┬Ā to Audience Questions
Q: Does AP help autistic children?
Nicholson said that in her research, AP was definitely helpful in building connection between an autistic child and his family members .
Dr. Sears said: ŌĆ£If you were to ask me to write a prescription, IŌĆÖd write ŌĆśAttachment Parenting,ŌĆÖŌĆØ because autism is a disorder of the brain and Attachment Parenting directly affects the way the brain develops.
Q: How exactly do you form an attachment bond with your child?
Cahill explained that an attachment is established and maintained by the parent meeting the emotional needs of the child. ŌĆ£All the things youŌĆÖre doing, it creates this parental antennae,ŌĆØ she said and that antennae ŌĆō or that sense of knowing what your child needs ŌĆō develops over time.
Q: How can we change the mainstream perspective on cosleeping?
ŌĆ£Never be afraid to say, this is what you do and that you sleep with your baby,ŌĆØ said Dr. McKenna. ŌĆ£We really need to talk, as individuals, about our choices in positive ways.ŌĆØ
Q: How can we deal with the criticism of babies and toddlers not sleeping through the night?
ŌĆ£HereŌĆÖs the deal: YouŌĆÖre the best sleep expert in your family,ŌĆØ said Dr. McKenna, adding that there are a number of reasons why young children may not be sleeping through the night but the standard that they should be sleeping through the night is unfounded. Every child is different, and comparing one child to another one isnŌĆÖt effective in evaluating sleep issues.
Q: What does AP look like in an older child?
ŌĆ£If I had to sum up the long-term effect of Attachment Parenting in one word, it would be: empathy ŌĆō kids who care,ŌĆØ said Dr. Sears. ŌĆ£If I had to sum up the long-term effect of not doing Attachment Parenting: lack of empathy ŌĆō kids who donŌĆÖt care.ŌĆØ
Q: Is there an education approach that is more AP than others?
Nicholson, whose children have homeschooled and attended public school and others, said that API does not endorse any particular education option. However, there is an AP way in selection an education option: ŌĆ£Look at each child and see where are their interests and where are they developmentally?ŌĆØ And, if there is only one option and it doesnŌĆÖt seem to be a good fit for your child, communicate that you share in her frustration and work to problem-solve to make the situation more ideal.


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Samsa apartment
Samsa apartment. Dwelling, in no particular city, of Gregor Samsa and his family. Comfortable and spacious, the apartment signifies Gregor's success in providing for his family, which fell on hard times after his father's business failure. Gregor's exhausting work as a traveling salesman keeps the family in respectable circumstances. After his metamorphosis, however, the apartment proves to be too big and expensive to maintain. In a sense, it has always been a burden. Gregor selected it, and his support of the family has stimulated a growing lethargy among them. His mother coughs incessantly, his sister is losing her youth to extreme fatigue, and his father has abandoned his role as the head of the family. All of this changes as Gregor changes, and after his death, the family is liberated from the apartment and from Gregor.
Gregor's bedroom
Gregor's bedroom. Room in which the story begins, with Gregor's metamorphosis into a giant insect already an accomplished fact. Though initially alarmed, he soon takes comfort in the familiarity of his bedroom. The room itself changes through the course of the story, in ways that mirror Gregor's own decline. His furniture is removed to provide him with more space to crawl. After his sister neglects to clean the room, filth begins to accumulate. Eventually, the room becomes a storage space for useless household items—much like Gregor himself. Once a...
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Style and Technique (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
This novella is an extended literalization of the implications of the metaphor used in its initial sentence. Gregor is metamorphosed into an insectlike species of vermin, with Kafka careful not to identify the precise nature of Gregor's bughood. German usage applies Kafka's term, Ungeziefer, to contemptible, spineless, parasitic persons, akin to English connotations of the work "cockroach." Gregor's passivity and abjectness before authority link him with these meanings, as Kafka develops the fable by transforming the metaphor back into the imaginative reality of his fiction. After all, Gregor's metamorphosis constitutes a revelation of the truth regarding his low self-esteem. It is a self-judgment by his repressed and continually defeated humanity.
By having Gregor become a bug, Kafka has also accomplished a bitterly parodistic inversion of a traditional motif in fairy tales. In folktales the prince is rescued from his froghood by the princess's kiss; beauty redeems the beast with love. In Kafka's version, however, the "beauty," the sister Gregor loves, is horrified by her beastlike brother and condemns him to die rather than changing him back through affection. The most poignant aspect of the story is the inextinguishable beauty of Gregor's soul, as he consents to his family's rejection of his humanity and dies on their behalf.
Kafka illustrates Gregor's subjection to his father by the implied parable of the episode involving the lodgers. This triad duplicates the Samsa triad that excludes Gregor, with the middle lodger, like Mr. Samsa, exerting authority over his supporters. Initially they intimidate and threaten the Samsas. After Gregor's death, however, Mr. Samsa curtly orders these boarders out of the apartment, and they accede without a struggle—their apparently awesome power proves spurious. Equivalently, had Gregor found the self-confidence to revolt openly against both his firm and his father, had he walked out on his job and asserted his autonomy against his family's clutches, he, too, could have matured into triumphant adulthood and would not have needed the disguised hostility of his metamorphosis.
Historical Context
Socio-Economic Background
For most of Kafka's lifetime, his home town of Prague was a Czech city within a...
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Part 1, Division 1: Questions and Answers
Study Questions
1. What are Gregor's thoughts and impressions when he wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect?
2. What kind of work did Gregor do before his metamorphosis?
3. What are Gregor's obligations to his family before his transformation into an insect?
4. What are some of the things that Gregor hopes for?
5. Who sends Grete to get the doctor? The locksmith?
6. How would you describe the chief clerk?
7. What two contradictory goals does Gregor seem to be striving for throughout the story?
8. Why does Gregor finally decide to reveal himself to the chief clerk and his parents?
9. How does the chief clerk...
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Part 1, Division 2: Questions and Answers
Study Questions
1. How do Mr. and Mrs. Samsa react when they see Gregor for the first time?
2. Why can't Gregor explain himself to the chief clerk?
3. What are some of the things Gregor tries to tell the chief clerk?
4. Who knocks over the coffee pot?
5. What causes Mrs. Samsa to collapse to the floor?
6. How does Mr. Samsa force Gregor back into his room?
7. What happens to Gregor as he is being driven back into his room?
8. In what ways has Gregor been alienated from society?
9. How have the roles within the Samsa family changed?
10. What is the major theme of the story?
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Part 2, Division 1: Questions and Answers
Study Questions
1. Why doesn't Gregor drink the milk his sister leaves for him?
2. Why does the household cook ask Mrs. Samsa to let her go?
3. Where does Gregor like to hide?
4. Who has assumed major responsibility for Gregor's life?
5. Why did Gregor become a traveling salesman?
6. How do the Samsa's expect to live now that their son's source of income is lost?
7. Why is Gregor so intent on sending his sister to the conservatory to study music?
8. In what ways are Gregor's physical powers declining?
9. How has Grete's attitude and behavior toward Gregor changed?
10. Why does Grete want to remove...
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Part 2, Division 2: Questions and Answers
Study Questions
1. Why does Gregor cling to the picture of the woman in furs on the wall?
2. What causes Mrs. Samsa to faint on the sofa?
3. Why does Gregor run after Grete after his mother faints?
4. What kind of job has Mr. Samsa taken?
5. Why doesn't Gregor recognize his father in his new uniform?
6. How does Mr. Samsa react when he first comes into the apartment and sees his wife lying on the floor?
7. How does Mr. Samsa punish Gregor?
8. Why does Gregor lose consciousness?
9. Who saves Gregor from an almost certain death?
10. How has the balance of power in the Samsa household changed by the end of Part...
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Part 3, Division 1: Questions and Answers
Study Questions
1. How has Mr. Samsa's attitude toward Gregor changed at the start of Part 3, Division 1?
2. What kind of job does Mrs. Samsa have?
3. What kind of job does Grete have?
4. How is Grete trying to improve her prospects for the future?
5. How do you explain Grete's ambivalence toward Gregor?
6. Why does Grete become angry with her mother?
7. Who do the Samsas hire to clean Gregor's room?
8. Why do the Samsas rent a room to the three men?
9. Why doesn't Kafka give us any information about the three men?
10. How does Gregor feel when he hears the three men chewing their food at dinner?
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Part 3, Division 2: Questions and Answers
Study Questions
1. Why do the three lodgers threaten to sue Mr. Samsa?
2. What private thoughts does Gregor have of Grete when he hears her violin playing?
3. Why does Grete want to get rid of Gregor?
4. How does Gregor feel once he is back in his room?
5. How would you describe the cleaning woman's responses to Gregor when she first comes into the house?
6. Why does Gregor feel that Grete is right about his disappearing from everyone's life?
7. Who discovers Gregor's body?
8. Why does Mr. Samsa order the three lodgers out of the house?
9. What do the Samsas plan to do the day of Gregor's death?
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Literary Style
Point of View
The story is told in the third person but is for the most part limited to Gregor's point of view. Only his...
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Literary Techniques
It is so difficult to imagine someone being turned literally into an insect that many critics have read The Metamorphosis...
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Ideas for Group Discussions
Because the world of Kafka's fiction is so bizarre it usually provokes a reaction in his readers. If nothing else, The Metamorphosis...
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Social Concerns
Franz Kafka's fiction is curiously disengaged from its own time. That does not mean, however, that it lacks application to the modern world,...
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Compare and Contrast
1840-1920s: Kafka writes at a time when the drudgery of work is becoming a serious issue. Long hours at boring jobs create...
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Topics for Further Study
Depending on the translation and the commentator, Gregor is described variously as an insect, a bug, a beetle, a cockroach, a louse, and a...
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Literary Precedents
In many ways Kafka does not have any direct predecessors. He borrowed literary forms such as the parable from the trove of literary...
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In many ways Kafka's prose overlaps both thematically and stylistically as the ongoing saga of the hapless character, K, who appears in...
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Media Adaptations
In 1987, there was a British television adaptation of The Metamorphosis. Called Metamorphosis and starring Tim Roth as...
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What Do I Read Next?
The Trial (1925) is Kafka's novel about a man arrested and put through nightmarish court proceedings for a crime that is never...
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Bibliography (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Third Edition)
Bouson, J. Brooks. "The Narcissistic Drama and Reader/Text Transaction in Kafka's Metamorphosis." In Critical Essays on Franz Kafka, edited by Ruth V. Gross. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990. Heinz Kohut's work on narcissistic disorders suggests a new reading of Gregor's hostile world, arguing against the theory of depersonalization.
Eggenschwiler, David. "The Metamorphosis, Freud, and the Chains of Odysseus." In Modern Critical Views: Franz Kafka, edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. The author traces the psychological origins of the story in Kafka's life and encourages a recognition of the...
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Albérès, R.M. and Pierre De Boisdeffre. Kafka: The Torment of Man. Trans. Wade Baskin. New York: The Citadel Press, 1968.
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High Sierra Basic Ski Bag - Unpadded
Because there's always snow somewhere. With its padded center, quick release adjustable compression straps to hold everything in, and comfortable neoprene-padded handle wrap to make carrying a snap, the High Sierra Single Basic Ski Bag - Unpadded is your basic go-to when you need to get to the slopes fast.
- Materials: 420-Denier Duralite®
- Main compartment with durable three-quarter length, self-repairing nylon-coil zipper holds two pair of skis up to 185 cm
- Quick-release fully-adjustable compression straps
- Heavy-duty webbing
- Comes with poly bag and with full-color insert card packaging
- Dimension: 73.0" x 7.0" x 7.0"
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