Manuscript accepted to submitted for publication in a special edition of the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research. Abstract Gratitude has been shown to be linked to many positive outcomes for individuals including psychological health and well-being, decreased physical stress, and reduced feelings of loneliness (O’Connell, O’Shea, & Gallagher 2016; Rash, Matsuba, & Prkachin, 2011; […]
Finding My Passion
Last Fall (2018), my career goals underwent drastic changes. I started off in August feeling incredibly secure in my desire to become a veterinarian, and I wanted to focus on healing animals both physically and emotionally, with the help of an undergraduate degree in psychology. This made me a bit of an oddity in the […]
How Mock Interviews Affected Me
The mock interviews held by the Office of Internship and Career Development were incredibly helpful in discovering some of my strengths and weaknesses as an interviewee. For instance, much of the positive feedback I received was about my attitude, body language, and etiquette. The interviewers remarked that I was cheerful, but not overbearing, made an […]
A Reflection on My Personal Experience with Race
Written in Fall 2019 for Psychology of Women: A Race Class and Gender Perspective My experience with race has been a complicated one because of repeated shifts in my racial and geographical environments during my early childhood. For the first four years of my life my family, consisting of my mother, father, and myself, was […]
A Reflection on Hidden Figures
Written in Spring 2017 Hidden Figures is a film that tells the story of three forgotten women in Langley, VA, that helped astronaut John Glenn orbit the earth in 1962, effectively changing the tide of the race for space and giving the United States enough momentum to get two men on the moon. These women […]
A Reflection on Jamaica Kincaid’s “A Small Place”
This book resonated with me for many different reasons. The main thing I’ll talk about in this reflection response is Kincaid’s writing style. This element of the book creates an interesting journey of reflection for the reader to go through. Throughout the entire book, she writes in a first person perspective, with a kind of […]
Social Media Biography
This was created for ENG110: Women’s Life Writing in Spring 2017
The Forgotten Girls: Gender Bias In The Diagnosis of Autism
April 2016 A young woman rises from her bed, dreading the day ahead of her.. Not because of the hellish traffic on the way to work, or because of the annoying coworker who won’t stay out of her business, or because of her frustratingly demanding boss, but because of one thing: social interaction. The thought […]
Kein Frauenschicksal – Women in Music History
“While researchers and social critics tend to focus on music created during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries when discussing the politics of gender and music, much can be discovered when one looks farther back in history. For instance, Clara Schumann, despite being a Wunderkind (prodigy) and one of the most influential piano performers and songwriters […]
German 340 Midterm: Transforming German and African Identities from the Eighteenth Century to the Post World War One Era
With the onset of the American revolutionary war, Hessian soldiers were sent to America to snuff out the American rebellion. During their campaign, they met, and were influenced by, both American slaveowners and American slaves. They were introduced to a new idea of blackness, of the “Negro” or Neger, and the idea of blackness as […]
