Nobody expects it.
While climbing in the bath tub, my healthy 87 – year father-brother slipped, fell and broke a rib. He began internal bleeding, doctors could not stop. In two weeks, Gene was gone.
Fortunately, we had time for a few months earlier due to record life story of Gene, and discovered amazing facts. He was a baseball player semi-pro, a fine watercolorist, and U. S. Navy. As marketing manager for Kaiser and later, Del Monte, he worked on national advertising campaigns for mega-stars of his era, including Joan Crawford, Debbie Reynolds, Stan Musial, Lloyd Bridges, and other .
We made life story of Gene twice: once at a small family dinner, and then in an interview room a few months later.
We transcribed the audio recordings, photos, and then transferred the whole package on a new free site that helps people write a story of personal and family stories. (See the Resources section below). Gene family and friends can add comments or view its history and photos, if they wish. The profile that we created together with genes is a celebration of his life. There is also a direct, meaningful connection with his daughters and grandchildren. Anyone can be a life history for yourself or a loved one. It’s as simple as spending time and do some careful listening.
I have hundreds of people in the United States, Canada and Mexico to capture their life stories helped. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews that I cooked my experience in three important tips, and the 50 questions most productive, you can use to succeed.
Success Tip # 1: The preparation before the interview is the key
To be best prepared for your session family history as possible.
. Inform about the subject of the investigation, which shall see, and those that are used, you prepare your questions ahead · Set aside a quiet time and place without interruptions
· Use is a good idea to have a voice recorder or video, all test equipment before you
• It is often helpful to use a tape or digital dictation and transcribing
· Photos, souvenirs or other visual aids are a great memory jogger. Ask your subject to be prepared in advance
· Attention and gently audience to ask questions for clarification
• Try not to force the topic to discuss something they are uncomfortable
Success Tip # 2: Be flexible and creative
When I started doing interviews, life history, it seemed as if people spent as much time talking about their beginnings. When I have more experience, I began to realize that most people are one, two or even three times defined in their lives. For many, it’s childhood. For many men, it is World War II, Korea or Vietnam. The decisive moments have been created, finding a gold nugget in a creek bed. Be sensitive to these crucial moments and episodes. Listen carefully to further and ask questions. Often, a better portrait of an individual is formed, loaded with rich experiences, values, beliefs and levels of complexity. If you do not complete an interview at a meeting, a later date to continue your conversation
Success Tip # 3: Conduct of life histories in chapters
Most people (yes, even shy) of love set in the center of attention of their life stories. There are two challenges for the family historian. The first is to collect stories in a structured and logical. The second is to ensure that the stories are as different as possible and include facts (names, dates, places), fully drawn characters, story, and perhaps even a final. The shares of major life stories of the site experience of life into 12 “chapters” that follow the progression of many lives. On the Web site during each chapter contains 10 to 25 questions. (Below, I have 50 questions, which are generally selected the best results). Do not worry, you do not need all of them. Indeed, after one or two questions, you can not ask for more, maintenance takes a life of its own.
The main objective is to ensure that they cover many chapter titles as possible. The chapter titles are something logical and chronological order: beginning, School Days, work, love and marriage, and so on. Feel free to add your own chapter, as well. The 12-chapter system is a great way to both maintain and write the story of the life of the organization, recording video or audio.
CHAPTER 1: In the Beginning
1. What were your parents and grandparents names, birthdates, birthplaces.
2. What are the occupations of your parents?
3. How many children in your family? Where were you in the lineup?
4. In general, what was your childhood?
5. Remember that one or two stories you most clearly about your childhood?
6. Are there lessons particularly happy, funny, sad, informative or that you learned growing up?
Chapter 2: In your neighborhood
1. What was it like where you grew up?
2. Describe your most important friendships
3. Where and how did flow “of your new neighborhood in general?
School CHAPTER 3 days
1. Be sure to collect the names and dates of grammar, secondary, college, technical or commercial
2. What are your first memories of school?
3. Are there lessons or topics you particularly like or dislike?
4. What you learn in the first years of school you want to forward to the next generation?
5. Were you at the after school sports, music, theater or other activities?
CHAPTER 4: how to work
1. What did you do when you grow up?
2. What was your first job, and how are you?
3. What was your first boss at? What have you learned from him?
4. Did you mean? Quitting smoking? Get a promotion? Get fired?
5. Have you ever been unemployed for a long period? If yes, how you handle it?
CHAPTER 5 Romance & Marriage
1. What do you remember your first appointment?
2. How do you know you were really in love?
3. Tell me how you “the question arises, or how you had turned up.
4. Tell me about your wedding. What year? Where? How many visitors? Honeymoon?
5. Tell me about your family.
6. Have you been married more than once? How many times?
CHAPTER 6: Travel & Leisure
1. What were the most memorable family vacation or travel can you remember?
2. What are leisure activities you engaged?
3. What are your greatest achievements in this field?
CHAPTER 7: Places of Worship
1. Keep track of all religious traditions?
2. If yes, what and how it is?
3. Have you ever changed religion?
4. What role do your beliefs play in your life today?
5. What would you tell your children your faith?
CHAPTER 8 War & Peace
1. Were you a volunteer, drafted or conscientious objectors?
2. If you’re not what you remember on the home front during the war?
3. What is most important moments you remember from your service?
4. What would you say that today’s young soldiers, sailors and airmen?
CHAPTER 9 Triumph and Tragedy
1. What were the joyful completion time of your life?
2. Whenever sad, tragic or difficult as you’d care to share how the loss of a loved one, job or something you cared?
3. What lessons have you learned from life these difficult times? Happy times?
4. Are there times that you remembered as a true breakthrough in all areas of your life?
5. If you could do something different in your life what would it be?
CHAPTER 10 Words of Wisdom
1. What have you learned in your life that you share with the younger generation?
2. People sometimes repeat aphorisms such as “Honesty is the best policy.” If they do, you’ll wonder how they learned to their lives.
CHAPTER 11: Funny Bones
1. What were your favorite family jokes or pranks?
2. Who is or was the comedian of the family? “Straight” man?
3. What is the funniest story of the family remember?
CHAPTER 12 posts
1. What are you grateful for your life?
2. How have you taught your children to be grateful?
3. Are there things or places, special recognition for the one you love brands? What are they? What are their stories?
In this day and age, one would think that ADHD has always been there. The disease itself has been around for a while, but it is only recently that the name given to Attention Deficit Disorder. Previously, the names of several diseases that have changed over the years.
In 1902, there is the first documented misconduct related to impulsivity. This is the United Kingdom, and the doctor, the impulsive disturbance was diagnosed appointed Dr. Still. He called the disease “defect of moral control,” and he believed that the individual was diagnosed medical conditions were beyond their control.
After this event, was the following documentation similar symptoms in 1922. Here are the symptoms that we associate with ADHD called “behavioral disorder post-encephalitic.” What does this title, I’m not sure, but the name was during this period.
The next event in the history of ADHD was established in 1937, where Dr. Charles Bradley, the use of stimulants in children who were hyperactive. I find it interesting that stimulants have been hyperactive children treated if they have already bounced off the walls. While stimulants to calm hyperactive children, as someone has suggested that this be done? After that, in 1956 Ritalin was introduced as a drug of choice for treating hyperactivity.
In the 1960s, stimulants were used by a wider population. The only symptom that was actually documented on this hyperactivity. In the early 1960s, the disorder “Minimal Brain Dysfunction” was called. At the end of the decade, however, the name of the disease has been modified “hyperkinetic disorder of childhood.”
The next event that took place in the context of ADHD symptoms that further added to the scope of the disease. Together with symptoms of hyperactivity has been lack of concentration and spaceyness associated with impulsivity. Impulsivity now include verbal, cognitive and motor impulsivity.
In 1980, the disease its present name of Attention Deficit Disorder was added, with or without hyperactivity. This has been fixed in the DSM-III by the American Psychiatric Association documented. ADD and ADHD are two different diagnoses.
Then in 1987, was amended to ADD attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. The American Psychiatric Associated noted that a medical diagnosis, and not purely psychological. They also noted that ADHD can cause behavioral problems.
In 1996, a new drug Adderall was approved by the FDA for the treatment of ADHD. After a while, it was better to treat the disease, because it lasted longer and was easier to fall. In 1999, other drugs were added as Concerta and Focalin to treat ADHD. In 2003, Strattera is the first ADHD drug, a stimulant that was not introduced. This drug has the effect of an antidepressant, but also increases the amount of noradrenaline in the brain.
The tradition of New Year’s resolutions going all the way back to 153 BC Janus, was a mythical king of ancient Rome at the head of the calendar year makes.
With two faces, Janus could look back on past events and future. Janus became the ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans asked for forgiveness from their enemies and also exchanged gifts before the beginning of each year.
The new year has not always January 1, started, and it does not begin on that date everywhere today. It begins on that date for crops using a solar calendar of 365 days. 1. January was the start of the new year in 46 BC, when Julius Caesar a schedule that better reflects the seasons of previous calendars had developed.
The Romans called the first month of the year after Janus, the god of beginnings and the guardian of doors and entrances. It was always two faces, one which appears on the front of the head and the other on the back. So he could look back and forward simultaneously. At midnight on December 31, the Roman Janus is looking for the last year and I look forward to the new.
The Romans began a tradition of exchanging gifts at New Year’s Eve by giving one another branches from sacred trees for good luck. Later, nuts or coins with the god Janus became more common New Year’s gifts impressed.
In the Middle Ages, Christians changed New Year’s Day, December 25, the birth of Jesus. He then moved to March 25th is a holiday called the Annunciation. In the sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII revised the Julian calendar and celebrate the new year, a return in January.
Julian and Gregorian calendars are solar calendars. Some cultures have lunar calendars, however. A year in the lunar calendar is less than 365 days because the months are based on the phases of the moon. The Chinese use a lunar calendar. Their new year begins with the date of the first full moon (Far East) after the sun enters Aquarius-sometime between January 19 and February 21.
Although the date of New Year’s Day is not the same in all cultures, there is always a time of celebration and for customs to ensure good luck for the coming year.
Old New Year
The New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the 2000s BC, the Babylonians celebrated the beginning of a new year, what is now 23rd in March even though she had no written calendar.
End of March is actually a logical choice for the beginning of a new year. It’s that time of year that spring begins and new crops are grown. 1. January, on the other hand, has no astronomical significance, or agriculture. It is purely arbitrary.
The Babylonian New Year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own special celebration but it is safe to say that modern New Year’s festivities Eve pale in comparison.
The Romans in the New Year 25 in March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon be out of sync with the sun.
For the civil law, the Roman Senate, set in 153 BC, said January 1 to start the new year. But based on manipulation of Julius Caesar in 46 BC, now known as the Julian calendar. He restored in a Jan. 1, the new year. However, to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to withdraw last year in rent for 445 days.
Global Good Luck Traditions
With New Year upon us, here’s a look at some of the rituals good luck in the world. They are supposed to bring luck and prosperity for the coming year.
AUSTRIA – The suckling pig is the symbol of good luck for the new year. It is served on a table decorated with small edible pigs. Dessert often consists of green creme de menthe ice in the form of a four-leaf clover.
ENGLAND – The British place their fortunes for the coming year in the hands of their first assessment. They believe the first visitor of each year should be male and bearing gifts. Traditional gifts are coal for the fire, a loaf of bread for the table and a drink for the master. Fortunately, the customer must enter through the front door and out the back door. Customers who empty-handed or unwanted are not allowed, you must first.
WALES – At the first toll at midnight, open the back door, then stops to release annually and the blocking of all his misfortunes. Then, in the twelfth stroke of the clock, the door opened and welcomes the new year with all its happiness.
HAITI – In Haiti, New Year is a sign for the coming year. Haitians wear new clothes and exchange gifts in the hope that bodes well for the new year.
SICILY – An old Sicilian tradition says luck is for those who eat lasagna on New Year’s Day to come, but woe if you dine on macaroni, noodles for any other bad luck.
SPAIN – In Spain, when the clock strikes midnight, Spaniards eat 12 grapes, one at each toll, to bring good luck for the 12 months in advance.
PERU – Peruvian customization of the year is a new spin on the Spanish tradition of eating 12 grapes at the end of the year. But in Peru, ate 13 grapes for good luck.
GREECE – A special year New bread with a coin buried in the cooked pasta. The first disc is for the child Jesus, the second for the father of the family and the third layer is for the home. If the third slice holds the coin, spring will come early this year.
JAPAN – The Japanese decorate their homes in homage to the gods of luck. A tradition, Kadomatsu, consists of a pine branch symbolizing longevity, a symbol of the bamboo prosperity and grandeur of plum blossom showing.
CHINA – For the Chinese New Year all the front doors with a new coat of red paint, red, symbol of happiness and joy decorated. Although the whole family prepares a feast for the New Year, all knives are stored for 24 hours to prevent anyone from cutting, the thought of good luck for the family is cut next year.
UNITED STATES – The kiss at the stroke of midnight in the U.S. from masked balls that have in common, it has developed over history. As tradition, the masks symbolize evil spirits from the past year and the kiss is the purification of the new year.
NORWAY – Norwegians make rice pudding at New Year and hide whole almond within. Guaranteed wealth goes to the person whose service is the kernel of luck.
Chinese New Year
Apart from very few people who have closely followed when the Chinese New Year should be able to keep the majority of Chinese people today have to rely on a typical Chinese calendar to tell about it. Therefore, you can not speak Chinese New Year, but the Chinese calendar at first.
A Chinese calendar consists of two systems Gregorian lunisolar, this division of the year into 12 months each in turn, is divided into thirty-nine days and a half. The dual system calendar reflects the well-coordinated Chinese ingenuity.
Ballroom dancing is when a pair of one of various social dances, which carries a predictable pattern of steps. Examples are dancing the tango, waltz, foxtrot and quickstep. It has an immensely growing popularity increased throughout Europe, America and Asia. Ballroom Dance has a relatively short history, but interesting behind her and has grown from a hobby to a global sporting event.
Ballroom Dancing in England in the late 18th and early 19th Century in which these dances like the waltz, performed by the upper classes and elites of society balls and parties is. During the late 19th early 20th century, it became a trend in the working class and middle class, where they would go to meetings and events at public balls. In the early 1920s began ballroom dancing competitions boom in 1924, an organization was created, the Ballroom Branch of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. The purpose of this organization was to standardize and formalize ballroom dance techniques, combinations of steps and music to which they danced.
Justified, and social dance competitions, there are five standard dances. These are the modern and the Viennese waltz, tango, slow foxtrot and quickstep. These dances are standardized and organized in separate planes and teach vocabulary use, rhythm and tempo and techniques that are internationally acceptable.
Although these dances come from very different backgrounds and special techniques, aesthetics, rhythms and tempos, they have common characteristics. All ballroom dances, like all forms of dance, are expressions of feelings, thoughts and emotions. These dances can be associated more serious than other forms of dance and the range of measures and body movements of the race, but it is still one of the best expressions of love, joy and pain between two people.
In addition, all the standard dances are performed by two persons, usually a man and a woman. These dances are performed in a specific location called “maintenance of close.” In this position, contact pair is still in full by five points or different locations. To contact these five points in three contacts hand, elbow and trunk.
The first occurs at hand when the man holding her left hand to the lady with his right hand. Second, if the lady’s left hand man at the right upper arm is broken. In Tango, the lady of his left hand behind the man’s arm is broken, not on top. The third contact is when a man with his right hand under left shoulder blade on the back of the lady is planned. The fourth contact is when the lady’s left elbow of the right elbow of the man is, and both arms are held in a horizontal line. lady’s arms are held comfortably with humans and allow it to follow the example of man with ease. It also couples with the appearance of a warehouse charges. This is an important property in ballroom dancing that came from Western Europe, because these dances were performed in the royal courts. The last point is where the right side of the chest touching the right side of his partner. This proximity allows very little space between the faces of partners, thus contributing to the dance charm.