cultural lit assignment # 1

Hiiiiii Class,



My name is Nora Hartten and I am a senior at Ship. I just turned 22 in May. I transferred here almost 2 years ago from a college in Maryland. I grew up in Maryland my entire life and came to school here because it had a good education program. At the time I was an education major and a psych minor. I decided to change my major last year to Psychology because I found myself much more passionate about it. Hopefully I will be able to graduate this year since I changed my major around. I currently work at New Visions which is a CRC program for people with mental illness. My main interest in psychology is with schizophrenia/DID/ and eating disorders. After college I would like to work in either a clinic for individuals with eating disorders or a psych ward with people who suffer from schizophrenia and DID.


In my free time when I am not working or doing school work I like to work out. I am a big gym person :) I also play flag football at Ship which I love. I like football in general and most sports as well. I love cooking and being with my friends. I love to read and watch movies. I am pretty simple when it comes to occupying my time. I got engaged on July 4th 2010 so I have been planning my wedding which is taking up a lot of my time. My fiancé graduated from Shippensburg in 2009 with his degree in physics. He is a nuke sub for the Navy and is currently stationed in New York.


I have always been interested in people and the way people do things/why they do/what makes them act certain ways/etc. Even though this class is a lit class I feel that I will be able to take away some answers to the questions that I stated above. I feel that the readings will give me answers and help me understand our world better. I am also hoping to learn from other people in the class and see how my opinions on certain issues change as well. To be completely honest on my thoughts on cultural diversity I believe that we as a Nation don’t have much. I think that many people like to think that people accept America as a diverse place but in reality they don’t. I do not think most America is tolerant to people that they believe differ from them.


The last book I read was a play called "Angels in America." My fiance's brother gave it to me :)

- Nora