Setting and content notes for "Escape a Thousand Memories"
These are the setting and content notes for "Escape a Thousand Memories."
"Refugees didn’t just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they’d put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day."
— Nadia Hashimi
Family Business Rest provides living space for the refugees. See the 1st floor plan. Function Room 1 is a theater. Originally the building had no dotties. They have been added between Function Room 4 and the Fire Exit, and between the EE Room and the Gym. These will include hybrid toilets that can be used squatting or sitting. On the second floor Tower A, the small gray room just below the lift lobby is the first aid room. Kardal has a 1-bedroom unit.
(All this war stuff is horrible)
The Syrian Civil War has a timeline. Many Syrians have become refugees, most from Aleppo or Damascus. Locally, Britain has rejected even child refugees.
This map shows the displacement of Syrian refugees, and here you can see their possible escape points and the routes they follow into other countries.
(These links are damning.)
Refugees are people fleeing war or persecution in their homeland. They have specific legal rights, but these are often violated.
Successful refugee integration requires knowing what works and what doesn't. Effective programs support refugees in gaining employment, education, housing, and social networking. Refugees often need special services for diet, health care, mental care, disabilities, and so on. Their religious needs may differ from the local pattern and must also be met. Those who do not speak English require translators until they become fluent. The more funding available, the better these programs tend to work. Also, it's better to keep refugees in groups large enough that they can support each other through the difficult process of resettlement. Read a handbook on resettlement. Refugees face many challenges to integration. Learn how you can help them.
Post-traumatic stress comes from surviving horrific events. Prolonged Duress Stress Disorder, aka Compound-PTSD, comes from experiencing not a single disaster but a series of them or a period of extended abuse. PDSD can be harder to treat if the person never had an experience of being safe or getting help, or if times of safety repeatedly fell back into awfulness again. All refugees escaping from a war zone should be presumed to have PDSD until they can be assessed individually, and should receive trauma-informed care. Understand how to help someone with traumatic stress.
(These links are touchy.)
The core of trauma-informed care is asking "What happened to you?" instead of "What is wrong with you?" This forms the basis of the principles and practices. There are instructions for supporting trauma survivors and working through your own trauma. First responders typically have workplace procedures to minimize the risk of developing PTSD.
Feeling unwanted, unloved, and unlovable are common effects of displacement and other traumatic experiences. This connection disruption causes a lot of problems. Troubled youth share their perspectives on these issues. Positive bonds can aid in healing from trauma, but survivors often resist these. Here are some ideas on how to cope.
(Some of these links are intense.)
Trust is complicated for abuse survivors. The often feel that they can't trust anyone. This may have been, or still be, correct distrust. In Kardal's case, he has gone from an untrustworthy environment to a more trustworthy one, but his past leaves him struggling to distinguish between untrustworthy and trustworthy people. Other people may not even realize why they have trouble with trust. Some people claim that trust is mandatory, but emotions can't be mandatory. Certainly it is useful in a team and vital for a healthy relationship. But don't try to shame people for not feeling that way. There are ways to gain the trust of traumatized people.
Syria belongs to the family of Mediterranean countries. Syrian cuisine uses key ingredients that generally match the Mediterranean food pyramid. The Mediterranean diet is the best by multiple measures. Learn how to follow it.
I couldn't find a halal food pyramid. The Mediterranean Food Pyramid is similar but includes some haram items.
(Some of these links are controversial. Others involving slaughter techniques are graphic.)
Halal food standards describe what Muslims may eat or use, in simple or more complex terms. These vary across cultures, and even between individuals, as we saw in the debate over halal-tayyib. Halal certification offers various benefits for producers and vendors. This discussion of the knowledge base covers things such as animal feed and the difference between halal and certified-halal products. In particular, foodstuff which is halal by category may be made haram (forbidden) if it comes into contact with haram substances or practices; for example, if any pork products are used in a factory, they tend to contaminate everything. Here is a very detailed description and demonstration of halal slaughter techniques, with the basic concepts in earlier videos and actual slaughter in last of the three. The results are quite impressive, but be aware that it requires a level of faith-based magic and animal-handling skill that not many people achieve. Here is a whole book on religious slaughtering techniques, but it allows mechanical methods not as good as hand slaughtering. Note that commercial slaughterhouses, as opposed to small businesses or individuals, are primarily concerned with cutting as many corners as possible, as you can see from the things they have subsequently been told not to do. As with any product, if you want to be SURE what you're getting, do it yourself or buy from a producer you know and trust. Good ones exist, but they are not common here as the market works against them. T-America does somewhat better. It can be difficult and expensive to obtain halal food, but Muslims are obligated to do so, which makes food a major concern for those living in non-Muslim areas.
There are instructions on halal cooking for home cooks and professionals. In general, washing is sufficient to purify cookware contaminated by unclean things, but given a choice most Muslims would prefer new cookware. Here are more detailed directions on purifying tools that have been contaminated. This discussion explores some group and individual variations, in which the most important is to follow an imam you know and trust, because they sometimes make different rulings.
Syrian street food belongs to the family of Mediterranean food.
Refugees often struggle to find work. Some organizations help refugees identify skills and engage employers. Here is a handbook.
Rutledge negotiated with nearby colleges to support refugees by offering some programs cheap or free. Bachelor's degrees are usually discounted, often by making the first year or two free. Associates degrees may be discounted or free. Most certificates are free. Refugees can take a certain number of individual classes free too. The government also provides free retraining for refugees with job skills who only need American credentials to resume work, and free training in high-demand careers for those without job skills.
College of St. Joseph in Rutledge, Vermont
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Associate of Science in Business Administration
Business Administration Minor
Entrepreneurship Minor
College of St. Joseph’s 18-credit Entrepreneurship minor provides non-business majors with the specialized background necessary to market the knowledge from other disciplines in a business or commercial environment.
The major also provides you with a basic understanding of major business subject areas, facilitating your transition into the world of business.
Requirements for an Entrepreneurship Minor
Course Credits Description
ACC101 Financial Accounting 3 Introduces students to generally accepted accounting principles and accounting process with regards to corporations, partnerships, and sole-proprietorships. The basic concepts, principles, and techniques used to generate accounting data, financial statements and the interpretation and use of financial data to enhance the decision-making process are covered.
BUS101 Introduction to Business 3 This introductory course provides the student with an overview of business and its environment. Topics include business trends, globalization, forms of ownership, business law, entrepreneurship, management, leadership, human resource management, marketing, decision making, accounting, finance, business ethics, and social responsibility.
BUS205 Principles of Management 3 Introduces basic management principles used in the organizational environment. The four management functions studied are planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Other topics include the evolution of management theory, ethics, social responsibility, diversity, organizational structure, human resource management, motivation, leadership, groups and teams, communication, organizational conflict and change, operations management, information systems and technology, innovation, product development, and entrepreneurship.
BUS211 Business Finance 3 Studies the field of finance, both private and public, with emphasis placed on current approaches as they pertain to a business. The mathematics of finance, capital budgets, loan and investment alternatives and working capital management are discussed. Prerequisite: BUS102 or MAT103 and ACC101.
BUS309 Marketing 3 Examines the foundations of marketing principles with application of marketing concepts of the present and future. Emphasis is placed on problem solving, critical thinking skills, ethics, and competition while studying the topics of market analysis, target marketing, product pricing, strategic promotion, and distribution. Sophomore standing.
BUS403 Entrepreneurship 3 Explores the idea of starting and managing your own business and examines the challenges of growing an entrepreneurial enterprise. Emphasizes the importance of planning, analyzing market opportunities, launching the venture, financing and harvesting the venture. Students gain an understanding of how to develop and use the business plan. Junior-level standing or permission of Division Chairperson.
Total 18
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont.
A Student Guide to the Middlebury’s Business and Enterprise Professor of the Practice Program at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
The Middlebury Enterprise and Business Program offers a set of interdisciplinary courses taught by successful executives who have real world experience and a desire to convey their knowledge to students. We call these executives Professors of the Practice; they are drawn from the broad Middlebury College network of alumni, parents, and friends of the college.
Enterprise and Business courses are meant to complement Middlebury’s liberal arts offerings, not to substitute for or replace them. They show students how the general skills learned in the liberal arts translate to specific skills used in business and enterprise, thereby strengthening students’ understanding of the general skills. Businesses and enterprises of all types highly value individuals who can blend general liberal arts skills together to solve real-world problems.
These courses are designed for students going into leadership roles in for-profit, non-profit, government and for-benefit enterprises. All enterprises need trained managers and executives to carry out their functions in the economy. For example, a television producer needs to keep control of budgets for a show; a NGO executive delivering supplies to refugees needs to know how to manage people and cover costs; a school principal needs to meet budgets and contain expenditures. The Enterprise and Business courses
provide students with institutional knowledge and an understanding of the skills used in business and enterprise to achieve those goals.
Enterprise and Business courses can be thought of as analogous to lab courses in the natural sciences. They provide students with an opportunity to apply liberal arts skills to real-world problems that students are likely to encounter in their careers after Middlebury.
All business courses are interdisciplinary; they provide students with general college credit, rather than credit within a specific department or major.
Business and Enterprise Courses offered in 2018-2019
Foundational Courses: Open to Freshmen
• Accounting, Budgeting and the Liberal Arts (INTD 0116) (fall and spring) suggested for students going into either finance or management. Accounting is the basic language of business and the spreadsheet analysis students learn in accounting is a foundation for technical aspects of business.
Intro to Business and Enterprise (INTD 0120) (Fall and Spring): This is what we think of as our Business for Poets Course. It is designed to introduce students with no background in business or enterprise to business terminology, institutions and skills.
• If you have some acquaintance with business, we suggest taking Accounting and Budgeting as the beginning course.
• Introduction to Finance (INTD 0217) (fall and spring) Designed for students who are interested in either finance specifically or business more generally. It introduces students to finances role in business, valuation techniques, and the basics of financial analysis. Students are strongly encouraged to take Intro to Accounting before taking this course.
• Management and Enterprise (INTD 0220) (fall): An introduction to management and consulting issues. It is designed for students with some acquaintance with business and enterprise.
Upper Level Courses: Designed for Students who are Interested in Finance
• Investment Management (INTD 0319) (spring) Designed for students who are planning a career in finance. It focuses on portfolio analysis and selection.
• Capital Markets (INTD 0320) (fall and spring) Designed for students planning a career in finance. It explores the different types of capital markets, such as private equity and derivative markets.
The Middlebury Enterprise and Business program also offers occasional winter term and semester courses on specific topics relevant to business, management, and finance.
Business Courses
Landmark College in Putney, Vermont
Landmark College’s mission is to transform the way students learn, educators teach, and the public thinks about education. We provide highly accessible approaches to learning that empower individuals who learn differently to exceed their aspirations and to achieve their greatest potential. Through the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training, the College aims to extend its mission across the nation and throughout the world.
Bachelor of Arts in Communication & Entrepreneurial Leadership
Associate of Arts in Business Studies
"Refugees didn’t just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they’d put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day."
— Nadia Hashimi
Family Business Rest provides living space for the refugees. See the 1st floor plan. Function Room 1 is a theater. Originally the building had no dotties. They have been added between Function Room 4 and the Fire Exit, and between the EE Room and the Gym. These will include hybrid toilets that can be used squatting or sitting. On the second floor Tower A, the small gray room just below the lift lobby is the first aid room. Kardal has a 1-bedroom unit.
(All this war stuff is horrible)
The Syrian Civil War has a timeline. Many Syrians have become refugees, most from Aleppo or Damascus. Locally, Britain has rejected even child refugees.
This map shows the displacement of Syrian refugees, and here you can see their possible escape points and the routes they follow into other countries.
(These links are damning.)
Refugees are people fleeing war or persecution in their homeland. They have specific legal rights, but these are often violated.
Successful refugee integration requires knowing what works and what doesn't. Effective programs support refugees in gaining employment, education, housing, and social networking. Refugees often need special services for diet, health care, mental care, disabilities, and so on. Their religious needs may differ from the local pattern and must also be met. Those who do not speak English require translators until they become fluent. The more funding available, the better these programs tend to work. Also, it's better to keep refugees in groups large enough that they can support each other through the difficult process of resettlement. Read a handbook on resettlement. Refugees face many challenges to integration. Learn how you can help them.
Post-traumatic stress comes from surviving horrific events. Prolonged Duress Stress Disorder, aka Compound-PTSD, comes from experiencing not a single disaster but a series of them or a period of extended abuse. PDSD can be harder to treat if the person never had an experience of being safe or getting help, or if times of safety repeatedly fell back into awfulness again. All refugees escaping from a war zone should be presumed to have PDSD until they can be assessed individually, and should receive trauma-informed care. Understand how to help someone with traumatic stress.
(These links are touchy.)
The core of trauma-informed care is asking "What happened to you?" instead of "What is wrong with you?" This forms the basis of the principles and practices. There are instructions for supporting trauma survivors and working through your own trauma. First responders typically have workplace procedures to minimize the risk of developing PTSD.
Feeling unwanted, unloved, and unlovable are common effects of displacement and other traumatic experiences. This connection disruption causes a lot of problems. Troubled youth share their perspectives on these issues. Positive bonds can aid in healing from trauma, but survivors often resist these. Here are some ideas on how to cope.
(Some of these links are intense.)
Trust is complicated for abuse survivors. The often feel that they can't trust anyone. This may have been, or still be, correct distrust. In Kardal's case, he has gone from an untrustworthy environment to a more trustworthy one, but his past leaves him struggling to distinguish between untrustworthy and trustworthy people. Other people may not even realize why they have trouble with trust. Some people claim that trust is mandatory, but emotions can't be mandatory. Certainly it is useful in a team and vital for a healthy relationship. But don't try to shame people for not feeling that way. There are ways to gain the trust of traumatized people.
Syria belongs to the family of Mediterranean countries. Syrian cuisine uses key ingredients that generally match the Mediterranean food pyramid. The Mediterranean diet is the best by multiple measures. Learn how to follow it.
I couldn't find a halal food pyramid. The Mediterranean Food Pyramid is similar but includes some haram items.
(Some of these links are controversial. Others involving slaughter techniques are graphic.)
Halal food standards describe what Muslims may eat or use, in simple or more complex terms. These vary across cultures, and even between individuals, as we saw in the debate over halal-tayyib. Halal certification offers various benefits for producers and vendors. This discussion of the knowledge base covers things such as animal feed and the difference between halal and certified-halal products. In particular, foodstuff which is halal by category may be made haram (forbidden) if it comes into contact with haram substances or practices; for example, if any pork products are used in a factory, they tend to contaminate everything. Here is a very detailed description and demonstration of halal slaughter techniques, with the basic concepts in earlier videos and actual slaughter in last of the three. The results are quite impressive, but be aware that it requires a level of faith-based magic and animal-handling skill that not many people achieve. Here is a whole book on religious slaughtering techniques, but it allows mechanical methods not as good as hand slaughtering. Note that commercial slaughterhouses, as opposed to small businesses or individuals, are primarily concerned with cutting as many corners as possible, as you can see from the things they have subsequently been told not to do. As with any product, if you want to be SURE what you're getting, do it yourself or buy from a producer you know and trust. Good ones exist, but they are not common here as the market works against them. T-America does somewhat better. It can be difficult and expensive to obtain halal food, but Muslims are obligated to do so, which makes food a major concern for those living in non-Muslim areas.
There are instructions on halal cooking for home cooks and professionals. In general, washing is sufficient to purify cookware contaminated by unclean things, but given a choice most Muslims would prefer new cookware. Here are more detailed directions on purifying tools that have been contaminated. This discussion explores some group and individual variations, in which the most important is to follow an imam you know and trust, because they sometimes make different rulings.
Syrian street food belongs to the family of Mediterranean food.
Refugees often struggle to find work. Some organizations help refugees identify skills and engage employers. Here is a handbook.
Rutledge negotiated with nearby colleges to support refugees by offering some programs cheap or free. Bachelor's degrees are usually discounted, often by making the first year or two free. Associates degrees may be discounted or free. Most certificates are free. Refugees can take a certain number of individual classes free too. The government also provides free retraining for refugees with job skills who only need American credentials to resume work, and free training in high-demand careers for those without job skills.
College of St. Joseph in Rutledge, Vermont
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Associate of Science in Business Administration
Business Administration Minor
Entrepreneurship Minor
College of St. Joseph’s 18-credit Entrepreneurship minor provides non-business majors with the specialized background necessary to market the knowledge from other disciplines in a business or commercial environment.
The major also provides you with a basic understanding of major business subject areas, facilitating your transition into the world of business.
Requirements for an Entrepreneurship Minor
Course Credits Description
ACC101 Financial Accounting 3 Introduces students to generally accepted accounting principles and accounting process with regards to corporations, partnerships, and sole-proprietorships. The basic concepts, principles, and techniques used to generate accounting data, financial statements and the interpretation and use of financial data to enhance the decision-making process are covered.
BUS101 Introduction to Business 3 This introductory course provides the student with an overview of business and its environment. Topics include business trends, globalization, forms of ownership, business law, entrepreneurship, management, leadership, human resource management, marketing, decision making, accounting, finance, business ethics, and social responsibility.
BUS205 Principles of Management 3 Introduces basic management principles used in the organizational environment. The four management functions studied are planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Other topics include the evolution of management theory, ethics, social responsibility, diversity, organizational structure, human resource management, motivation, leadership, groups and teams, communication, organizational conflict and change, operations management, information systems and technology, innovation, product development, and entrepreneurship.
BUS211 Business Finance 3 Studies the field of finance, both private and public, with emphasis placed on current approaches as they pertain to a business. The mathematics of finance, capital budgets, loan and investment alternatives and working capital management are discussed. Prerequisite: BUS102 or MAT103 and ACC101.
BUS309 Marketing 3 Examines the foundations of marketing principles with application of marketing concepts of the present and future. Emphasis is placed on problem solving, critical thinking skills, ethics, and competition while studying the topics of market analysis, target marketing, product pricing, strategic promotion, and distribution. Sophomore standing.
BUS403 Entrepreneurship 3 Explores the idea of starting and managing your own business and examines the challenges of growing an entrepreneurial enterprise. Emphasizes the importance of planning, analyzing market opportunities, launching the venture, financing and harvesting the venture. Students gain an understanding of how to develop and use the business plan. Junior-level standing or permission of Division Chairperson.
Total 18
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont.
A Student Guide to the Middlebury’s Business and Enterprise Professor of the Practice Program at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont
The Middlebury Enterprise and Business Program offers a set of interdisciplinary courses taught by successful executives who have real world experience and a desire to convey their knowledge to students. We call these executives Professors of the Practice; they are drawn from the broad Middlebury College network of alumni, parents, and friends of the college.
Enterprise and Business courses are meant to complement Middlebury’s liberal arts offerings, not to substitute for or replace them. They show students how the general skills learned in the liberal arts translate to specific skills used in business and enterprise, thereby strengthening students’ understanding of the general skills. Businesses and enterprises of all types highly value individuals who can blend general liberal arts skills together to solve real-world problems.
These courses are designed for students going into leadership roles in for-profit, non-profit, government and for-benefit enterprises. All enterprises need trained managers and executives to carry out their functions in the economy. For example, a television producer needs to keep control of budgets for a show; a NGO executive delivering supplies to refugees needs to know how to manage people and cover costs; a school principal needs to meet budgets and contain expenditures. The Enterprise and Business courses
provide students with institutional knowledge and an understanding of the skills used in business and enterprise to achieve those goals.
Enterprise and Business courses can be thought of as analogous to lab courses in the natural sciences. They provide students with an opportunity to apply liberal arts skills to real-world problems that students are likely to encounter in their careers after Middlebury.
All business courses are interdisciplinary; they provide students with general college credit, rather than credit within a specific department or major.
Business and Enterprise Courses offered in 2018-2019
Foundational Courses: Open to Freshmen
• Accounting, Budgeting and the Liberal Arts (INTD 0116) (fall and spring) suggested for students going into either finance or management. Accounting is the basic language of business and the spreadsheet analysis students learn in accounting is a foundation for technical aspects of business.
Intro to Business and Enterprise (INTD 0120) (Fall and Spring): This is what we think of as our Business for Poets Course. It is designed to introduce students with no background in business or enterprise to business terminology, institutions and skills.
• If you have some acquaintance with business, we suggest taking Accounting and Budgeting as the beginning course.
• Introduction to Finance (INTD 0217) (fall and spring) Designed for students who are interested in either finance specifically or business more generally. It introduces students to finances role in business, valuation techniques, and the basics of financial analysis. Students are strongly encouraged to take Intro to Accounting before taking this course.
• Management and Enterprise (INTD 0220) (fall): An introduction to management and consulting issues. It is designed for students with some acquaintance with business and enterprise.
Upper Level Courses: Designed for Students who are Interested in Finance
• Investment Management (INTD 0319) (spring) Designed for students who are planning a career in finance. It focuses on portfolio analysis and selection.
• Capital Markets (INTD 0320) (fall and spring) Designed for students planning a career in finance. It explores the different types of capital markets, such as private equity and derivative markets.
The Middlebury Enterprise and Business program also offers occasional winter term and semester courses on specific topics relevant to business, management, and finance.
Business Courses
Landmark College in Putney, Vermont
Landmark College’s mission is to transform the way students learn, educators teach, and the public thinks about education. We provide highly accessible approaches to learning that empower individuals who learn differently to exceed their aspirations and to achieve their greatest potential. Through the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training, the College aims to extend its mission across the nation and throughout the world.
Bachelor of Arts in Communication & Entrepreneurial Leadership
Associate of Arts in Business Studies