I. In last week's journal, I wondered if there is any procedures that soldiers and/or family members have to go through upon a soldiers arrival home from war. Unfortunately I could not find exactly what I was looking for. I was wondering if there is classes of some sort or seminars that whole families or soldiers must go through upon arrival home from war in order to help prepare a family to cope better. Also, I was wondering if there are certain things a family can or cannot ask or say to the soldier arriving home.
On the other hand, I did find an interesting program for families in the military. The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) was created in the 1980's and was created for family members with a soldier on active duty. It is a mandatory program for active-duty soldiers and helps family members with emotional, developmental, physical, or intellectual disorders. The program provides community support, educational, personnel, housing and medical services to these families that qualify. In order for a family to qualify, they must be willing for a board to review all their medical records and must allow developmental screening for any children seventy-two months or under.
II. The past two weeks, our class has been discussing the Nine Shift, which compares the time periods of 1900-1920 to 2000-2020. We took a closer look into the effects of automobiles, or cars, on the country. We came to the conclusion that automobiles make a faster and more convenient transportation for families that live in the suburbs. Also we discovered that automobiles make more jobs, such as for factory workers who produce them. We also looked into the effects of the internet on society. When being looked at closet a person could see that it can connect a person to their work from home, thus making more people be able to work from home. Also it helps people become more connected and find out things abut people and their personal lives that people back in the early 1900's could not have found out easily.
By learning about the Nine Shift it made me think more about what I really want my life to be like when I'm a grown up. I look back at people now a days and from the early 1900's and see a constant want to have a stable well-paying job, and that is all people look for. I do see having money as a necessity, of course, but what I truly want is to do something I love. If I have a job that makes me happy with my life then I will have less stress in my life and will help me live an altogether better lifestyle. I'm a firm believer in the aspect of not trying to look more than your worth or throwing your money around. I believe in being humble when it comes to finances and not trying to be something you're not. Of course I do love the luxuries of life. I really want to live in the city but have a home in the country for my fam
ily and I to go to in the summer.
This picture embodies how I want my life to be: carefree, beautiful and full of life. This is comparing to how many others caught up in the Nine Shift fee which is: boring, safe, and conservative. During this week's class, I made some connections. I thought about how far we've really come as a society. It made me think about how far we came from the 1800's to the 1900's alone. When you take a closer look at the production of cars for example. The first production of automobiles was in Germany in 1888 by Karl Benz, more widely known as the now Mercedes Benz. The manufacturing of automobiles stayed over in Europe for a while before it came to the United States in 1895 when George Selden was granted by the United States government for a two-stroke automobile engine. It's funny to think that just a century back, you could count the number of people with cars on two hands in your town, and now you need more than two hands for just one street!
III. With learning of how far we've come in the last century, it makes me question how far we've come with technology. This week I want to take a closer look into the history of computers, especially Mac and Steve Jobs. Where did computers and the internet all start?
Sources:
Jack, Jumpn. (July 7, 2010). Simple Joys of Life. http://flockofgeese.blogspot.com/2010/07/simple-joys-of-life.html.
United States Army. (December 4, 2011). Exceptional Family Members Program. https://www.myarmyonesource.com/familyprogramsandservices/familyprograms/exceptionalfamilymemberprogram/default.aspx
(November 30, 2011). History of the automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
