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Travel Tales: The Role Of Storytelling In Abroad Experience And Healing, Colleen N. Mcmurray
Travel Tales: The Role Of Storytelling In Abroad Experience And Healing, Colleen N. Mcmurray
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This capstone paper examines the perceived effectiveness of storytelling in the healing process. It aims to answer the question: What role does storytelling play in the healing of returning travelers? The study was conducted by analyzing forty digital videos, categorizing themes, and analyzing the themes in relation to themes found within several articles about the power and effects of storytelling. Five principal themes were used from the data collected. The themes were then used to gain a deeper understanding of how storytelling makes the storyteller feel and how storytelling can be used for healing. The author of this paper has …
Mind The Gap: Understanding The Lack Of Social Integration Between U.S. National And International Students, Danika Delano
Mind The Gap: Understanding The Lack Of Social Integration Between U.S. National And International Students, Danika Delano
Capstone Collection
This capstone paper explores the issue of social integration between international and U.S. national students and focuses on the international student community of the Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS), a non-profit that supports students at the University of Washington-Seattle (UW). A survey was administered to 106 UW students involved in FIUTS to test the hypothesis that the FIUTS community desired to have more U.S. nationals involved in the program. After establishing a desire for increased social integration between U.S. national and international students from within the FIUTS community, fifteen U.S. national students who were not involved in FIUTS …