Daniella Levy 11/19/12 MH31 Ethnography On Sunday November 18th‚ I attended my first alcohol anonymous open meeting at Gerritsen Beach. The church was called St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church‚ and the session started at 7pm. I was actually very nervous going by myself‚ so I asked my best friend to come with me for support. This meeting occurred in the basement of the church. My best friend and I began walking down the stairs into the basement‚ and we already saw people sitting around in a circle
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anonymous anon·y·mous adjective \ə-ˈnä-nə-məs\ : not named or identified : made or done by someone unknown : not distinct or noticeable : lacking interesting or unusual characteristics 1 : of unknown authorship or origin 2 : not named or identified 3 : lacking individuality‚ distinction‚ or recognizability — anon·y·mous·ly adverb — anon·y·mous·ness noun See anonymous defined for English-language learners » See anonymous defined for kids » Examples of ANONYMOUS
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Interactive Assignment – AA Meeting Alec Heffner For this interactive assignment‚ I chose to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Meeting in the local area. I chose to attend this event out of pure curiosity. I like to enjoy alcoholic beverages on a regular basis‚ so I felt it would be very enlightening to sit down and really listen to what these people had to say. Throughout the rest of this essay‚ I would like to recreate that experience. Over the course of this meeting I was able to walk away
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This week‚ on Tuesday‚ I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) meeting. The group of people who went to it was very diverse‚ of various ages‚ backgrounds‚ levels of recovery‚ experiences‚ but with one goal in common: to get sober for life (live a life alcohol-free) by realizing that there is something greater than themselves and they are not in control of themselves. Truly‚ the program seems to be a complex one that requires time (to go from step to step) and guidance from a sponsor that each attendee
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In this article‚ the researchers studied the impact of Alcoholics Anonymous on sobriety as well as the impact of gender differences and extroversion on success in AA. In Alcoholics Anonymous‚ women typically consist of one-third of the members (Krentzman‚ Brower‚ Cranford‚ Bradley‚ & Robinson‚ 2012). Some studies have also shown that women more frequently attend AA meetings and tend to be more extroverted (Krentzman et al.‚ 2012). The researchers questioned if extroversion was a factor in women’s
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For these people this is the first step of overcoming their addiction and to get their life together. Alcoholics Anonymous isn’t a religious based organization‚ but they do believe in a higher power to help people through their emotional or physical problems (Johnson and Pagano A.11). After the passing of denial for help the person can finally make changes to their
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single day‚ we walk past many different types of people that come from all walks of life and some who are the typical definition of “normal” that are battling addictions to alcohol. My eyes were opened up a great deal when I attended an open Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that had a guest speaker named James and if I would have walked past him on the street‚ I would have never known the internal battles that he has faced and does face everyday he gets up out of bed. I went to an early morning meeting
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through an Alcoholics Anonymous 12-Step program. We have to commend you for your “STRENGTH” and “COURAGE.” AGAIN‚ you should be very proud of yourself for making an enormous and the most important step towards recovery by admitting that you are “POWERLESS” over alcohol and secondly that your life is unmanageable and chaotic. Yet‚ you chose to come clean with this behavior because you want to live a healthier lifestyle away from alcohol and addiction(s). By committing to Alcoholics Anonymous‚ you have
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Contemporary Drug Problems 37/Spring 2010 57 The extent of global alcohol marketing and its impact on youth BY DAVID H. JERNIGAN‚ PH.D. Alcohol marketing is a global phenomenon‚ in which an increasingly small number of companies spend considerable sums to establish and embed their brands in the lives and lifestyles of populations. Market research data offers insight into the size and extent of the global alcohol trade‚ and the magnitude of alcohol advertising expenditures. Recent examples
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Name: Dariga Kassenova Are children of alcoholics more likely to be alcoholics themselves? In answering the question‚ researchers sampled 451 people in Alcoholics Anonymous to see how many would say that one‚ or both‚ of their parents were alcoholics. People in AA used in the study currently attend AA somewhere in Ohio‚ Michigan‚ or Indiana and were asked by people in charge of the local AA programs to volunteer to fill out a survey. The research found that 77 percent of the respondents had at
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