Falling in love has ups and downs just like life does. Falling in love is like a rollercoaster that never really fades away. Love is sharing quality time together just like John and his father did over a coin collection. Nicholas Sparks' Dear John explores the inspirations of falling and being in love using a unique style.
John, the main character in this book, was on his two week break from is leave in Germany. During this time period, he met a girl named Savannah. Their attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his duty when 9/11 happens. When John is gone serving his country in the Army, John and Savannah wrote notes back and forth to each other. Savannah suddenly stopped writing John for months, and then she finally wrote a letter to John. This letter stated that she had fallen in love with another man. John was crushed and heart broken. His mind racing uncontrollably, he "burned all of the letters" she had ever wrote him.
However, he still loved her, and she still loved him. Love is a powerful ability that can change over time. Spending time apart can affect a perfectly fine relationship, just like in the book Dear John. The setting affects both characters because John transferred to different countries. This affected their relationship tremendously. The time apart caused Savannah to fall in love with a guy named Tim. Savannah said to John, " I can't marry you if you're not around." This is exactly what happened.
Finally, John came home because his father passed away. He went to see Savannah and Tim was in the hospital. John ended up selling his fathers coin collection to pay for Tim's operations to save his life. He did this anonymously without Savannah knowing. John truly loves Savannah and will do anything for her happiness. Love eventually works everything out, never fading away.
Nicholas Sparks wrote this book in first person using John. Nicholas Sparks is one of the best writers of love stories. I can compare this book to daily life and gender roles. Many men do join the Army, and do have to leave loved ones behind. I would rate this book four out of five stars and I would recommend this book to anyone that wants a love story. This book will keep a reader fully engaged.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Current Connection 3:2
Many believe that women have a natural instinct of taking care of someone However, males are starting to come into the profession of nursing, a female dominated career. Women make up about 91 percent of all nurses in 2011, but this percentage is starting to change.
Women are just naturally caregivers, especially when someone becomes sick or ill. In Christopher Neighbours' website article, he states, "Florence Nightingale felt women were intrinsically nurses." This is because Florence believed that women should be nurses and that women have special characteristics that men do not have for this profession.
Starting to become nurses, men are believing that they too could be just like the women in this profession.According to Christopher in the paragraph titled ‘Appropriate’ fields for Male Nurses , "Men are ‘tracked’ into what are seen as more appropriate fields for them to practice in. Uniquely, this means their pay and prestige are enhanced." Men want to be seen as a nurse, their masculinity that is not questioned.
More men are wanting to come into nursing. As stated in the same paragraph, "men in nursing are a privileged minority. In patriarchal culture, men have greater status and power than women." Because men know that they have power, they know that they can go into any career, even nursing, and be just as good as women.
"The top roles in nursing emphasize leadership, technical knowledge, and dedication to work, all seen as being masculine traits." This is why most of the doctors today are men. Men in the world today are pretty much going into any career field and succeeding in that field. Men are empowered by their own mortality and that men are overpowering women in the work force.
Men feel like they can do anything based on the power that they believe they have.Also, men are stereo typically the doctors and not many go into nursing. However, females still dominate the nursing work field. Men are starting to come into this work field and more are still to come.
Many believe that women have a natural instinct of taking care of someone However, males are starting to come into the profession of nursing, a female dominated career. Women make up about 91 percent of all nurses in 2011, but this percentage is starting to change.
Women are just naturally caregivers, especially when someone becomes sick or ill. In Christopher Neighbours' website article, he states, "Florence Nightingale felt women were intrinsically nurses." This is because Florence believed that women should be nurses and that women have special characteristics that men do not have for this profession.
Starting to become nurses, men are believing that they too could be just like the women in this profession.According to Christopher in the paragraph titled ‘Appropriate’ fields for Male Nurses , "Men are ‘tracked’ into what are seen as more appropriate fields for them to practice in. Uniquely, this means their pay and prestige are enhanced." Men want to be seen as a nurse, their masculinity that is not questioned.
More men are wanting to come into nursing. As stated in the same paragraph, "men in nursing are a privileged minority. In patriarchal culture, men have greater status and power than women." Because men know that they have power, they know that they can go into any career, even nursing, and be just as good as women."The top roles in nursing emphasize leadership, technical knowledge, and dedication to work, all seen as being masculine traits." This is why most of the doctors today are men. Men in the world today are pretty much going into any career field and succeeding in that field. Men are empowered by their own mortality and that men are overpowering women in the work force.
Men feel like they can do anything based on the power that they believe they have.Also, men are stereo typically the doctors and not many go into nursing. However, females still dominate the nursing work field. Men are starting to come into this work field and more are still to come.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Current Connection 3:1
Nursing is a female dominated profession, and not many men are willing to do this career. The nursing field has a positive impact towards women for more job opportunities rather than men. The culture of the nursing field is more geared to women because of their natural motherhood to take care of someone.
Females tend to take over the nursing department rather than men. According the Health Science Journal and Cash, "this can be attributed to in part of issues,such as status and pay, but it is also result of the gender role stereotyping of the profession." Men are not willing to accept the fact that a nurse is not a manly profession, which affects them to enter this profession.
Additionally, males do not tend to go into nursing as much as females do. Also, according to the Health Science Journal in the conclusion paragraph, "even male students who study in nursing have role tension about nursing." Their tension is because that more females do this job and they do not want this job to take away their masculinity.
However, women in this profession want males to see them as nurses as well. In the Abstract section of the Health Science Journal, the results are "close to half of the female nursing students (45.3 %) want to see males as staff nurses while most of the male nursing students wanted to occupy administrative or
administrative/instructor positions after graduation." Males do not want to be called a "nurse" because they want to still maintain their manly gender.
Because I am a women going into this profession, I have a better job opportunity competing with a male. Males, wanting to keep their masculinity, tend to stay away from nursing as a career. I am wanting to go into the medical field to become a pediatric nurse. Females just have that motherly nature naturally in them already, so being a nurse is easier.
Gender roles play have a huge impact when choosing a career. If being a nurse would not take away a man's pride, more males would be a nurse for their job.
Females tend to take over the nursing department rather than men. According the Health Science Journal and Cash, "this can be attributed to in part of issues,such as status and pay, but it is also result of the gender role stereotyping of the profession." Men are not willing to accept the fact that a nurse is not a manly profession, which affects them to enter this profession.Additionally, males do not tend to go into nursing as much as females do. Also, according to the Health Science Journal in the conclusion paragraph, "even male students who study in nursing have role tension about nursing." Their tension is because that more females do this job and they do not want this job to take away their masculinity.
However, women in this profession want males to see them as nurses as well. In the Abstract section of the Health Science Journal, the results are "close to half of the female nursing students (45.3 %) want to see males as staff nurses while most of the male nursing students wanted to occupy administrative or
administrative/instructor positions after graduation." Males do not want to be called a "nurse" because they want to still maintain their manly gender.
Because I am a women going into this profession, I have a better job opportunity competing with a male. Males, wanting to keep their masculinity, tend to stay away from nursing as a career. I am wanting to go into the medical field to become a pediatric nurse. Females just have that motherly nature naturally in them already, so being a nurse is easier.
Gender roles play have a huge impact when choosing a career. If being a nurse would not take away a man's pride, more males would be a nurse for their job.
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