bluexrhapsody281 asked:


I’m sorry, I know you must **** seeing questions like this, but please consider this-I’d like to know my chances of getting into the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

I’m a senior at a private, difficult school, my curriculum has always been moderately rigorous. This is my senior year schedule:
1. World Religions
2. AP American Government
3. AP World Literature/Language
4. German 4
5. Pre-Calculus
6. Anatomy and Physiology
7. Latin 1

I’ve always gotten A’s in my regular classes and B’s in my AP/Honors classes.
My cumulative gpa (not recalculated) is a 4.1 (honors and ap classes get the extra point).
I’m in the top 10-13% of my class of 232.
I scored a 29 ACT.
I’m a Michigan resident
I’m a white female.

ACTIVITIES
Symphonic Band frosh through junior (vice president junior year)
Marching Band frosh and soph
Had a main role in a small play junior year
Forensics starting soph year (rigorous activity, many awards, secretary senior year)
Musical Pit orchestra all years but junior year
coached a rec soccer team senior year
*won the grand prize of my school science fair sophomore year
*won student of the month sophomore year

So what do you think my chances are?

Cindy

Ashley asked:


Hi people-

Okay, I am a Spanish major. So, I have to take Latin American Literature classes. Anyone also have to take them, and did you find them boring as well?
I am so glad that I am not alone

David

I ♥ NJ asked:


At BSU
Adapted Physical Education
African-American Studies
African Studies
American Studies
Ancient Studies
Anthropology
Applied Physics (options: Electronics, Nanoscience)
Aquatics (options: Teaching, Administration, SCUBA)
Art History
Asian Studies
Astronomy
Biology
Biological Sciences (for Nursing majors only)
Business Administration
Business Information Technology
Campaign Communication
Chemistry
Chinese
Church Music (options: organ, voice)
Classical Culture
Classical Languages (Latin, Greek)
Coaching
Communication Studies
Community Health Education
Computer Applications
Computer Science
Computer Technology
Construction Management
Consumer Finance
Creative Writing
Criminal Justice and Criminology
Dance (options: Dance Studies, Musical Theatre Dance, Performance)
Design Technology
Digital Media
Digital Publishing
Earth Space Science
Economics
Educational Technology
Energy
English
Entrepreneurship (for Exercise Science majors only)
Environmental Contexts in Health Care
Environmental Health
Environmental Management
Environmental Policy
Environmentally Sustainable Practices
Environmental Context for Business
European Studies
Family and Consumer Science
Fashion
Film
Finance
Food Management
Foundations of Business
Foundations of Business for Actuarial Science and Mathematics Majors
Foundations of Management
French
Geographical Information Processing and Mapping
Geography
Geology
German
Gerontology
Graphic Arts Technology
Historic Preservation
History
Hospitality Management
Humanities
Industrial Leadership Industrial Technology (Operations Management majors only)
Industrial Technology (Marketing majors/sales & promotion concentration only)
Interior Design
International Business
International Resource Management
Interpersonal Relations
Japanese
Jazz/Commercial Music
Landscape Architecture
Latin American Studies
Leadership Studies
Legal Studies in Business
Linguistics
Marketing
Mathematics
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Military Science
Multicultural Education
Music History
Music Literature
Music Theory
Natural Resources
Native American Studies
Operational Meteorology and Climatology
Organizational Communication (Marketing and Management)
Organizational Communication (Communication Studies)
Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
Philosophy
Physical Activity for Older Adults
Physics
Physiology
Piano
Plastics Technology
Political Science
Preparation of Teachers for Multicultural Secondary Schools
Professional Selling
Psychology of Human Development
Psychology
Public Health
Religious Studies
Residential Property Management
Risk Management and Insurance
Social Work
Sociology
Spanish
Special Education (Hearing Impaired)
Speech Pathology and Audiology
Sports Medicine
Sports Studies
Studio Art
Sustainable Land Systems
Symphonic Instruments and Guitar
Technical Theatre
Technology and the Environment
Telecommunications
Theatre
Travel and Tourism
Urban Planning and Development
Voice (Music)
Web Technology
Women’s Studies

I just want to know what you would choose, I am having troubel in chooseing one, I am open to anything

Thanks.

Erik

ßøöʼš ɷ ĞĩŗƔˠ asked:


i really need to get it done in the next couple of weeks but im kind of paranoid about it and its abit confusing becuse they talk about diffrent cultures, is there any chance you can help me?
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/21/lawrence_kirmayer.html

Ever have the nagging feeling that our celebrity-driven, sound bite society is making us into a stupid, cynical, shallow people? Well, look to Oliver James, author of a May 2000 article in The Ecologist titled “Consuming Misery: Across the World, the Richer a Nation Gets, the More Unhappy Its People Become.”

As a critic of consumer culture, I did a double take when I saw that headline–evidence at last! In his book Britain on the Couch, James purports that our way of wealth lowers our levels of serotonin–which he calls the happiness brain chemical–thereby making us depressed. James is far from alone in equating advanced capitalism with mental illness. Here in the United States, a growing movement of therapist-activists battles “affluenza,” defined as a debilitating mental state caused by having too much money. While much of the affluenza literature makes a certain kind of sense, all it takes is a cross-cultural perspective to see the problem with arguing that affluence causes depression–namely, it’s not true.

All of this is a roundabout way of introducing Lawrence Kirmayer. Dr. Kirmayer is a highly respected cultural psychiatrist at McGill University in Quebec. Unlike the affluenza crowd, Kirmayer has done a great deal of research on the mental health of aboriginal peoples, immigrants, and refugees. He points out that although our capitalist ways may be emotionally hazardous, it’s unlikely that we are more depressed than poorer cultures. The only way to know for sure is to study those cultures, and research is generally lacking.

Stay Free! talked to Kirmayer by phone in July 2003 about cross-culture mental illness more broadly. We found him to be a very nice man. –Carrie McLaren

STAY FREE!: What mental problems are the most similar across cultures?

KIRMAYER: At one pole you have organic disorders that are very similar across cultures, like Alzheimer’s disease or epilepsy, and perhaps schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. And at the other end you have what used to be called hysteria–dissociative disorders and so on. That said, there are differences cross-culturally even for something like schizophrenia. For example, people with schizophrenia appear to do better in nonurbanized, nonindustrialized countries.

STAY FREE!: Why is that?

KIRMAYER: It’s not really clear, but it’s probably in part because urban environments are not good for people vulnerable to schizophrenia.

STAY FREE!: Is that unique to schizophrenia or is that the case for mental illness in general?

KIRMAYER: Well, different illnesses don’t respond precisely the same way to environmental and social factors. There are probably distinctive processes that underlie schizophrenia. The impact of noisy environments, for example, has been shown to contribute to relapse. One theory why people with schizophrenia do better in some countries has to do with family support and social integration. Someone who hallucinates is going to have a hard time working in a very technological society, but in a rural agrarian society they may still be able to do something useful for the family and community.

STAY FREE!: Do the symptoms of schizophrenia vary in different cultures?

KIRMAYER: Well, there have been studies that have shown differences in the frequency of various symptoms. For example, symptoms of catatonia–people becoming immobile–are more prevalent in some developing countries than they are in the West. Certain bodily symptoms are also more prevalent in some places. In many parts of the world, people with hallucinations may understand their experience in terms of religious systems–they may see themselves as being possessed, or talking to God. You get that in the West too, but you also have common technological interpretations–they think there is a radio transmitter in their tooth and so on.

STAY FREE!: I’ve read that TV stations get a lot of phone calls from people with schizophrenia and manic depression telling them to stop broadcasting.

KIRMAYER: Yeah, that’s a common symptom of psychosis. People will go through this process of trying to figure out, “What could possibly explain this strange feeling that I’m having?” Most of the explanations sanctioned by medicine are basically that you have a “chemical imbalance” and that is very deflating. In another society, you might be told that you have had a significant religious experience, and even though you might still need to get some help, there might be something to valorize what’s gone on for you. That tradeoff is harder in a very scientistic culture. Of course, even in our culture, where people are very secular and talk about things in scientific terms, there are still a lot of moral ideas about the person and about self-control.

STAY FREE!: People say, “Get over it!”

KIRMAYER: Exactly.

STAY FREE!: If someone has symptoms that we associate with depression in the U.S., how might that problem differ in other cultures?

KIRMAYER: There are two sets of issues. There is the issue of what is actually going on for people and the issue of how they understand it. These issues don’t necessarily have to match up perfectly, but they interact. People interpret what’s going on differently based on their cultural background. In the case of something like depression, how you interpret symptoms influences how things unfold. If you decide these feelings of exhaustion are a sign of depression, then that diagnosis suggests that you have certain other problems. That becomes part of a feedback loop–your thoughts chase each other in circles, and that in itself can intensify depression. Even though we can distinguish between what goes on physiologically and socially, the two levels interact. Once you understand that, you can find something that looks like depression everywhere in the world. In most places, the physical symptoms are the most important part of depression: fatigue, difficulty concentrating, muscular, and skeletal aches and pains and so on. In Japan, a lot of middle-aged women complain of shoulder pain, which is unusual in North America. The name for it is futeishuso which means “nonspecific complaint.” Some of those people may actually have depression, but nobody’s asked them, “Do you feel sad or low? Do you feel hopeless?”

STAY FREE!: Because there’s a stigma attached?

KIRMAYER: Partly, yes, and partly because the notion of depression has not been so salient in Japanese psychiatry. Notions of anxiety disorders have been much more common. Psychiatrists don’t see people with anxiety and depression, anyway–doctors of internal medicine deal with those patients. Psychiatrists only deal with the most severe disorders, schizophrenia and so forth. Until about five years ago or so there were no SSRI medications in Japan. Eli Lilly didn’t even try to introduce Prozac in Japan initially because they thought there would be no market. Finally another pharmaceutical company did try, and now the idea of depression has taken off.

STAY FREE!: How does the notion that depression is a biological condition affect the course of the illness? Are people in the West better or worse off for it?

KIRMAYER: It depends. There’s a Japanese psychiatrist, Yutako Ono, who used to tell people, “Depression is like pneumonia, so you have to take your medicine to make it go away.” The implication is that it’s not chronic. You can certainly promote an image of a mental disorder that is curable even if it is biological.

STAY FREE!: But here it seems that the biological notion implies permanence.

KIRMAYER: Well, but that kind of determinism is not necessarily tied to biology. In American folk psychology, there are notions of character, which imply that someone is or is not a particular way. In the U.S. over the past few years, there has been a huge swing away from the idea that people are molded by their social environment. Instead, there’s the assumption that everything is determined by one’s constitution. Sometimes it’s rooted in genetics, sometimes something’s wrong with the brain. The whole biological turn in psychiatry was really in excess of any specific evidence, but I think that it fits well with conservative politics in the U.S. right now.

STAY FREE!: I’ve heard that people in more affluent nations are more often treated for mental illnesses like depression than people in nations of low or moderate wealth. So does this mean that there is more mental illness in affluent places or is it just a consequence of poor people not having access to mental health care?

KIRMAYER: I think it’s mostly the latter, though in many cases we don’t know because there aren’t enough epidemiological studies. If you want to make a generalization, then it’s probably safe to say that poor countries have more mental-health problems, but by saying “poor” nowadays, you often mean societies where there is a huge level of conflict and violence. So it’s not simply poverty–you can have a small, well-integrated rural society where people don’t have a lot of material goods but they have excellent mental health.

STAY FREE!: Do people in different cultures commit ******* for different reasons?

KIRMAYER: Yes. Of course, the overriding reason, which is common across cultures, is overwhelming hopelessness and the desire to escape suffering. But there are also socially sanctioned reasons that can valorize suicide; in traditional Japan, ******* was a way of maintaining honor. To some extent, this is still a factor. People who have financial reversals will commit ******* not just to escape the problem but to make a gesture that acknowledges responsibility and hence restores honor in some way. Some of that’s been exaggerated. There’s been a stock image of the Inuit [the indigenous peoples of the arctic formerly called the Eskimo] as having a tradition of altruistic ******* in which older people sacrifice themselves for younger people. Granted, there were situations in which a whole family was starving and an elder would volunteer to be left behind. But that’s a kind of self-sacrifice that people from many cultures could understand if they were facing similarly desperate circumstance so I’m not sure that should be viewed as *******.

STAY FREE!: Has any interesting work been done on social stereotypes? Like the idea that Eastern European Jews are more neurotic?

KIRMAYER: The cultural historian Sandor Gilman has written a lot about the stereotype of the neurotic Jew. For the most part, it’s not true–everybody’s neurotic. But we have different styles of expression. Woody Allen isn’t more neurotic than other people, but he has made a career out of talking about his anxieties. Spalding Gray is equally expressive of his self-doubt and anxiety but with a different cultural flavor. You find huge variations in how open people are about expressing things–these aren’t just stereotypes, they are real cultural differences. But even though there are, for instance, certain Asian cultures where people don’t express things verbally in the way some Mediterranean or North American groups would, it doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing those things. Of course, within each social group you find enormous variation, and it’s easy to overestimate the importance of any cultural trait.

STAY FREE!: Scholars who study “subjective well-being” argue that Latin Americans and North Americans are happier than Asians. Is there any truth to this?

KIRMAYER: Well, this relates to what I was saying: how people narrate their own experience will be influenced by culture. Happiness is a particular cultural value. In North America, it is important to indicate your success by exclaiming your happiness. In many other cultural contexts, however, people don’t view the point of life as being happy; they may view it as being productive, as being honorable, as being a contributing member to society or to a family. I think the idea that we should be happy is a particularly American value. It fits very well with consumer capitalism, where the route to happiness is the consumption of products. It’s certainly possible that the strategies someone uses to pursue well-being (such as through economic productivity) have built into them inevitable unhappiness, but we’re not really encouraged to question our value system.

Susan

quarterback asked:


This is not my own work….but this article is written so well that all I can do is pass it on to the rest of you…Although there are many great things about America, that were left out of this article…..its still a fantastic piece of literature
GOD BLESS AMERICA…….AND ALL THAT STAND WITH HER!

10 things to celebrate - Why I’m an anti-anti-American
By Dinesh D’Souza
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/c/a/2003/06/29/IN290713.DTL

America is under attack as never before — not only from terrorists but also from people who provide a justification for terrorism. Islamic fundamentalists declare America the Great Satan. Europeans rail against American capitalism and American culture. South American activists denounce the United States for “neocolonialism” and oppression.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country. But in this country itself, there are those who blame America for most of the evils in the world. On the political left, many fault the United States for a history of slavery, and for continuing inequality and racism. Even on the right, traditionally the home of patriotism, we hear influential figures say that America has become so decadent that we are “slouching towards Gomorrah.”

If these critics are right, then America should be destroyed. And who can dispute some of their particulars? This country did have a history of slavery and racism continues to exist. There is much in our culture that is vulgar and decadent. But the critics are wrong about America, because they are missing the big picture. In their indignation over the sins of America, they ignore what is unique and good about American civilization.

As an immigrant who has chosen to become an American citizen, I feel especially qualified to say what is special about America. Having grown up in a different society — in my case, Bombay, India — I am not only able to identify aspects of America that are invisible to the natives, but I am acutely conscious of the daily blessings that I enjoy in America. Here, then, is my list of the 10 great things about America.

– America provides an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy. Rich people live well everywhere. But what distinguishes America is that it provides an impressively high standard of living for the “common man.” We now live in a country where construction workers regularly pay $4 for a nonfat latte, where maids drive nice cars and where plumbers take their families on vacation to Europe.

Indeed, newcomers to the United States are struck by the amenities enjoyed by “poor” people. This fact was dramatized in the 1980s when CBS television broadcast a documentary, “People Like Us,” intended to show the miseries of the poor during an ongoing recession. The Soviet Union also broadcast the documentary, with a view to embarrassing the Reagan administration. But by the testimony of former Soviet leaders, it had the opposite effect. Ordinary people across the Soviet Union saw that the poorest Americans have TV sets, microwave ovens and cars. They arrived at the same perception that I witnessed in an acquaintance of mine from Bombay who has been unsuccessfully trying to move to the United States. I asked him, “Why are you so eager to come to America?” He replied, “I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat.”

– America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country, including the countries of Europe. America is the only country that has created a population of “self-made tycoons.” Only in America could Pierre Omidyar, whose parents are Iranian and who grew up in Paris, have started a company like eBay. Only in America could Vinod Khosla, the son of an Indian army officer, become a leading venture capitalist, the shaper of the technology industry, and a billionaire to boot. Admittedly tycoons are not typical, but no country has created a better ladder than America for people to ascend from modest circumstances to success.

– Work and trade are respectable in America. Historically most cultures have despised the merchant and the laborer, regarding the former as vile and corrupt and the latter as degraded and vulgar. Some cultures, such as that of ancient Greece and medieval Islam, even held that it is better to acquire things through plunder than through trade or contract labor. But the American founders altered this moral hierarchy. They established a society in which the life of the businessman, and of the people who worked for him, would be a noble calling. In the American view, there is nothing vile or degraded about serving your customers either as a CEO or as a waiter. The ordinary life of production and supporting a family is more highly valued in the United States than in any other country. America is the only country in the world where we call the waiter “sir,” as if he were a knight.

– America has achieved greater social equality than any other society. True, there are large inequalities of income and wealth in America. In purely economic terms, Europe is more egalitarian. But Americans are socially more equal than any other people, and this is unaffected by economic disparities. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this egalitarianism a century and a half ago and it is, if anything, more prevalent today. For all his riches, Bill Gates could not approach the typical American and say, “Here’s a $100 bill. I’ll give it to you if you kiss my feet.” Most likely, the person would tell Gates to go to hell! The American view is that the rich guy may have more money, but he isn’t in any fundamental sense better than anyone else.

– People live longer, fuller lives in America. Although protesters rail against the American version of technological capitalism at trade meetings around the world, in reality the American system has given citizens many more years of life, and the means to live more intensely and actively. In 1900, the life expectancy in America was around 50 years; today, it is more than 75 years. Advances in medicine and agriculture are mainly responsible for the change. This extension of the life span means more years to enjoy life, more free time to devote to a good cause, and more occasions to do things with the grandchildren. In many countries, people who are old seem to have nothing to do: they just wait to die. In America the old are incredibly vigorous, and people in their seventies pursue the pleasures of life, including remarriage and sexual gratification, with a zeal that I find unnerving.

– In America the destiny of the young is not given to them, but created by them. Not long ago, I asked myself, “What would my life have been like if I had never come to the United States?” If I had remained in India, I would probably have lived my whole life within a five-mile radius of where I was born. I would undoubtedly have married a woman of my identical religious and socioeconomic background. I would almost certainly have become a medical doctor, or an engineer, or a computer programmer. I would have socialized entirely within my ethic community. I would have a whole set of opinions that could be predicted in advance; indeed, they would not be very different from what my father believed, or his father before him. In sum, my destiny would to a large degree have been given to me.

In America, I have seen my life take a radically different course. In college I became interested in literature and politics, and I resolved to make a career as a writer. I married a woman whose ancestry is English, French, Scotch-Irish, German and American Indian. In my twenties I found myself working as a policy analyst in the White House, even though I was not an American citizen. No other country, I am sure, would have permitted a foreigner to work in its inner citadel of government.

In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist. This notion of being the architect of your own destiny is the incredibly powerful idea that is behind the worldwide appeal of America. Young people especially find irresistible the prospect of authoring the narrative of their own lives.

– America has gone further than any other society in establishing equality of rights. There is nothing distinctively American about slavery or bigotry. Slavery has existed in virtually every culture, and xenophobia, prejudice and discrimination are worldwide phenomena. Western civilization is the only civilization to mount a principled campaign against slavery; no country expended more treasure and blood to get rid of slavery than the United States. While racism remains a problem, this country has made strenuous efforts to eradicate discrimination, even to the extent of enacting policies that give legal preference in university admissions, jobs, and government contracts to members of minority groups. Such policies remain controversial, but the point is that it is extremely unlikely that a ****** society would have permitted such policies in the first place. And surely African Americans like Jesse Jackson are vastly better off living in America than they would be if they were to live in, say, Ethiopia or Somalia.

– America has found a solution to the problem of religious and ethnic conflict that continues to divide and terrorize much of the world. Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians,

all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other’s homes in so many places in the world?

The American answer is twofold. First, separate the spheres of religion and government so that no religion is given official preference but all are free to practice their faith as they wish. Second, do not extend rights to racial or ethnic groups but only to individuals; in this way, all are equal in the eyes of the law, opportunity is open to anyone who can take advantage of it, and everybody who embraces the American way of life can “become American.”

Of course there are exceptions to these core principles, even in America. Racial preferences are one such exception, which explains why they are controversial. But in general, America is the only country in the world that extends full membership to outsiders. The typical American could come to India,

live for 40 years, and take Indian citizenship. But he could not “become Indian.” He wouldn’t see himself that way, nor would most Indians see him that way. In America, by contrast, hundreds of millions have come from far-flung shores and over time they, or at least their children, have in a profound and full sense “become American.”

– America has the kindest, gentlest foreign policy of any great power in world history. Critics of the United States are likely to react to this truth with sputtering outrage. They will point to long-standing American support for a Latin or Middle Eastern despot, or the unjust internment of the Japanese during World War II, or America’s reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime. However one feels about these particular cases, let us concede to the critics the point that America is not always in the right.

What the critics leave out is the other side of the ledger. Twice in the 20th century, the United States saved the world — first from the **** threat, then from Soviet totalitarianism. What would have been the world’s fate if America had not existed? After destroying Germany and Japan in World War II, the United States proceeded to rebuild both countries, and today they are American allies. Now we are doing the same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Consider, too, how magnanimous the United States has been to the former Soviet Union after its victory in the Cold War. For the most part America is an abstaining superpower; it shows no real interest in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world. (Imagine how the Soviets would have acted if they had won the Cold War.) On occasion the United States intervenes to overthrow a tyrannical regime or to halt massive human rights abuses in another country, but it never stays to rule that country. In Grenada, Haiti and Bosnia, the United States got in and then it got out. Moreover, when America does get into a war, as in Iraq, its troops are supremely careful to avoid targeting civilians and to minimize collateral damage. Even as America bombed the Taliban infrastructure and hideouts, U.S. planes dropped food to avert hardship and starvation of Afghan civilians. What other country does these things?

– America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth. This point seems counterintuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty.

Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best. The millions of Americans who live decent,

praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen.

By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran’s. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil. There is no modesty in this,

because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue, it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. Thus a free society like America’s is not merely more prosperous, more varied, more peaceful, and more tolerant — it is also morally superior to the theocratic and authoritarian regimes that America’s enemies advocate.

“To make us love our country,” Edmund Burke once said, “our country ought to be lovely.” Burke’s point is that we should love our country not just because it is ours, but also because it is good. America is far from perfect, and there is lots of room for improvement. In spite of its flaws, however, American life as it is lived today is the best life that our world has to offer. Ultimately America is worthy of our love and sacrifice because, more than any other society, it makes possible the good life, and the life that is good.

Dinesh D’Souza’s “What’s So Great About America” has just been published in paperback by Penguin Books. He is the Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. E-mail: thedsouzas@aol.com.

Douglas

Chicamusical asked:


Seeking an employer that needs someone with bilingual fluency in English and Spanish along with an understanding of Latin American culture, history, politics, literature, music, and language. The employer must be looking for someone that is sharp, fast- paced, creative and able to produce ideas when prompted; efficient, and possessing strong customer service skills complemented by a professional appearance. The employment must include opportunities for professional growth, team work, leadership skills, and career advancement planning. Failure to provide appropriate offer will result in rejection.
Resume Postings since 2002:
Yahoo! Hot Jobs, Monster, Careerbuilder, America’s Job bank, USAJobs, Capital area Help Wanted, Times Union, NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Post….

Work experience includes administrative, education, field marketing, human services, modeling, consulting and more.

Currently volunteering to teach youth about Latin American Studies and the Spanish language.

Pursuing a career opportunity that requires a B.A. in Latin American & Caribbean Studies.
I’ve been thinking about relocating to an area that has more diversity and job opportunities. I’m currently assisting the development of a small startup as an administrative professional. Disparities in salary occur at this level and advancement is pending on landing the small business a large contract that will allow for that financial boost necessary to compensate its hardworking employees. I’ve learned a lot of skills that I would not have gained at an already established company.

It has been over 2 years that I have devoted to this small business, which is growing at a very very slow pace (without enough funds to award a deserved pay increase) and I’m ready to move on and try something that utilizes my college education.

What is holding me back is that most of the postings I find relate to administrative support, sales, and customer service.

What I am looking for is a position specifically looking for a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies.

Annie