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Self-Reflective Journaling: A Practice For Achieving Self-Understanding And Acceptance, Overcoming Creative Resistance, And Moving Toward Ideal Self, Courtney Moses May 2019

Self-Reflective Journaling: A Practice For Achieving Self-Understanding And Acceptance, Overcoming Creative Resistance, And Moving Toward Ideal Self, Courtney Moses

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

The Critical and Creative Thinking synthesis course provided an opportunity for me to begin a process of self-transformation, using all that I had learned in the program about metacognition, reflective practice, and creativity to inspire goals for my personal growth. As part of my work in the synthesis course, I rediscovered a consistent practice of self-reflective journaling that I had abandoned some years ago and used my synthesis paper to document my process in hopes that others may learn from it and perhaps be inspired to take on a self-reflective journaling practice of their own. As my paper reveals through …


The Place Where You Are, Gabriel O'Malley Feb 2016

The Place Where You Are, Gabriel O'Malley

New England Journal of Public Policy

We moved to 21 Sparks Street in Cambridge in 1974. A bright yellow triple decker with a red door, it stood at the head of a dead end populated by worker cottages that had once been home to servants who worked up the road on Brattle Street. It housed three women. The oldest, Mrs. Crowley, ancient even then, lived on the third floor. Her daughter, Louise, known to me forever as Mrs. Sughrue, lived on the second floor with her adult daughter, Cathy. Before renting the first floor apartment to my parents, Mrs. Sughrue invited them up to her place. …


Important Places (2005), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

Important Places (2005), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author talks about his time and associations with the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also describes Ireland and his family's roots there and how it connects with Boston as well as his life in New York.

Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 20, no. 2 (2005), article 10.


Wars Remembered (2003), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

Wars Remembered (2003), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

O'Connell speaks about his father, among other war veterans, dealing with the effects of the wars they fought in. He explains his father's history from how he enilisted to how he died. He also touches upon other's war experiences and writing about the after effects of them as well.

Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 19, no. 1 (2003), article 3.


Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America (1993), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America (1993), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The works discussed in this article include: The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958, by Jack Beatty; JFK: Reckless Youth, by Nigel Hamilton; Textures of Irish America, by Lawrence J. McCaffrey; and Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, by James M. O'Toole.

Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 9, no. 1 (1993), article 9.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 22 - 2014, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2014

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 22 - 2014, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


Appointment At Bu Dop, Brian Wright O'Connor Sep 2013

Appointment At Bu Dop, Brian Wright O'Connor

New England Journal of Public Policy

Brian O’Connor writes about his father, who was killed in Viet Nam. He methodically documents his father’s battle with Viet Cong forces, recreates the circumstances that led to his death, and describes his unquenchable to-the-death devotion to his squad. Lieutenant Colonel Mortimer Lenane O’Connor, the son concludes, was “a gung-ho infantry officer, a West Pointer with a sense of gallows humor who believed that large-force engagements were the quickest way to conclude the war.” Earlier this year the University of Pennsylvania awarded his father posthumously a doctorate for the thesis he was working on when he put everything aside and …


On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner Mar 2013

On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner

New England Journal of Public Policy

Lars Eighner became homeless in 1988 after leaving a job he had held for ten years as an attendant at a state hospital in Austin, Texas. He lives in a small apartment in Austin and continues to scavenge. This article was originally published in the Fall 1990 issue of The Threepenny Review. Reprinted with permission.

This article originally appeared in a 1992 issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy (Volume 8, Issue 1): http://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol8/iss1.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 21 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2013

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 21 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 20 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2013

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 20 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 19 - 2010, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2010

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 19 - 2010, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 18 - 2009, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2009

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 18 - 2009, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 16 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2007

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 16 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 17 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2007

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 17 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 14 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2006

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 14 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 15 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2006

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 15 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 12 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2005

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 12 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 13 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2005

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 13 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11.5 - 2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2004

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11.5 - 2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11 - 2003-2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2003

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11 - 2003-2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 10 - 2002-2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2002

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 10 - 2002-2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


A Corner Of Maine, Richard Card Sep 2001

A Corner Of Maine, Richard Card

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author talks about his grandfather and the memories he had of him as a child. He speaks of his grampy's war time and the cottage he would visit.


Amosquito, Jan Dednam Sep 2001

Amosquito, Jan Dednam

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author describes his encounter with the culture as well as the history of Johannesburg as well as talks about a man names Amos.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 09 - 2001-2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2001

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 09 - 2001-2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Fountain, Edie Shillhue Sep 2000

The Fountain, Edie Shillhue

New England Journal of Public Policy

In “The Fountain,” we revive a tradition dating back to the earliest days of the journal. Edie Shillue spent a year living in Northern Ireland, wandering the streets of Derry and Belfast, the byways of the villages and the country towns, enjoying the “crack,” tossing back more than the odd pint of Guinness — and taking it all in, filling notebook after notebook with her keen observations and acute insights — definitely a different view of the conflict in Northern Ireland, but fastidious to a fault. We hope that the tradition of publishing original works of literature once revived will …


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 07 - 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2000

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 07 - 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 08 - 2000-2001, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2000

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 08 - 2000-2001, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 06 - 1998-1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1998

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 06 - 1998-1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 05 - 1997-1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1997

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 05 - 1997-1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 04 - 1996-1997, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1996

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 04 - 1996-1997, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.