Wednesday, December 20, 2023

What is Mexican American?

From a curriculum in the United States of America and School system of analysis for history in the making; the result of a war is not at the reality of a condition of Central America and population trickling into the North American border.  Is it a war?   

Who makes the war?

Who makes it a war?

At my discretion as teacher and study of curriculum in the United States of America, I would reanalyze the chapter declaring a Mexican-American war.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.



Image of Virgin with Child, Photograph by Meryl Viola Bravo


Thursday, December 14, 2023

What is a Contract of Agreement and a Salary Scale?

Employment and application determines the direction of a means to an end.  Work and service is agreed to be provided for a compensation of livelihood.

What is the position?

What is the compensation?

How long will the work and service be provided?

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

The Psychology of Images

At the perception of study and research at the order of law and grace, the distinct measurement of a knowledge of a reality of Ordered Good vs. Disfigured Pronounced Good must be the determined direction in associating with the condition of meeting two worlds.

1.  Study the Psychology of commercial advertisements and the flash scenes made for prescripted drugs.  

Friday, November 24, 2023

What is a Rubric?

Teacher assessment determines a rubric for qualification and authority on a position of objective condition met and standard of conceptual cognitive condition.  There are distinct conditions that meet a rubric for evaluation and assessment.  This is the level of knowledge conducted at the instruction and proposed objective standard determined for authority on the course of reliability for progress or final degree for commenced recognition.

Who is the teacher making the assessment?  What is the background and degree of recognition determined from the level of instruction delivered from this teacher?  Who are the proposed examinees receiving this assessment for instruction?  What is the objective standard and is the measured degree being liable for further recognition?  Who is receiving this final recognition of authority on the proposed entrance of submission?  What persons and office will receive this documented assessment of final degree of proposed succession of meeting the qualification?  Who will see this assessment qualifying for further degree of assessment?  How did this person come to your degree of assessment?

Thursday, November 23, 2023

University Campus Life and sharing the Microwave

When it comes to professional development in a student University environment there are replications in conduct and behavior amidst campus community life.

What have you discovered about sharing a kitchen microwave at home vs. Sharing a university campus microwave in the breaktime area?

Is community life being replicated at the same pace in your private home as opposed to the pace in your public State University?

Are you at the readiness to see your private home affairs being at a dialogue with the public preparation of professional study for employment in your local city, county and residential State?  How does this demand a consideration of voice in the polls in a unifying condition of making decisions in your local city, county and residential State?

Study how community sociology is developed in simply sharing the campus microwave.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

Monday, November 6, 2023

An Educational Diet, A Meal in a University

Campus Drinks, Citrus Butterfly Pea Tea mixed with Clearwater Bobas and Lemonade
Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo

When it comes to campus life and where and what to spend your body, time and nutrition; I decided to educate my physical component of body, mind and neuroscientific behavioral disposition of no caffeine and no alcohol.

I was educated today where I found a cute little tender space for meal orders on teas and sushi on the University campus.  This is a photo of a Citrus Butterfly Tea.  It felt like an educated decision to drink this for my intentions of school and building my immune system during stress points of school and study.

Thank you,

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.


 

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Justice in the Classroom Series, Thomistic Approach

Thomistic Approach, Determining the Apprehension and Judgement Level of a Five Year Old Mind, Application for Professor for a Day, Meryl Viola Bravo, Master of Arts, Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Justice in the Classroom Series, California State University of San Bernardino, 2023


Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Institute

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Art History, Art in Education Curriculum, COUNTERACTING AN ERA

COUNTERACTING AN ERA:  The History of Art in Education, Present Demand of Meeting its Expression

Course Description:  Child development of subconscious realias derived from the study of art in history and an expression of internal dispositions unequivocal to the voice of the conscience towards a media overdependency on a position in mute conditions of home and domestic impositions in education at a public atmosphere of school and interrelationary expression available at a contained communal reality of adverse supposition in meeting the expression possible for a dependence on instruction towards productive objectivity for person to person and culture social communication.

There are eras of history delivering a series of a patterned expression that has been determined an art in the United States of America.  This era defines the conditions of the time and the common voice of ascertained demands derived at a position in a subconscious expression of voicing a matter with no imposition to a public arena of contained and respectable boundary of discipline for a natural condition of expression acceptable to human public communication of mind and thought.

The study and research of further knowledge of the history of art enables a discussion for present determined direction for human social communication of expression and discussion.  Education provides an instructed contained position of this expression with a defined condition of an era and movement at the cultural and present day demands of meeting a point.  This point is the dialogue of an agreeable appreciation of art in education and in the classroom of curriculum and study for gaining a knowledge from history.  There is a reaction in art.  This reaction fortifies the expression of education and the mind and thought communicated with an appreciation for defining an era.  Is the reaction at a culpable counteraction for a change to objectify what the history of an era has defined a destructive distribution of the subconscious mind?  What are these expressions?  How was it destructive in this era and how does one counteract it?

I will define it destructive by evidential objective apprehensions this expression developed in this historical account of culture and art.  You will define it as counteractive.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A. 


Monday, October 30, 2023

The Thomistic Institute at CSUSB, The Concept of Cyberwork Collaboration

The Thomistic Institute at CSUSB
Cyberwork Collaboration with CSUSB
 Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

After a serious portion of pandemic transition into face to face interrelationship through cybermania comes the post trauma of realizing how privacy may have been interrupted through an unexpected collaboration with persons who communicated along the waves of cyber social network; I filtered this thoroughly with an alma mater condition of reliability on scholastic association with my alumni of California State University of San Bernardino.

The filter is education.

The filter is the honor of being a Graduate.

And the filter is Post-Graduation and ongoing personal intellectual movement.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

Old and New, A Present Day Analysis

A Wall of CSUSB Presidents, All Male
 Present Day Analysis
 Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

I realized my position as a Graduate of CSUSB as female when it became evident to me that my graduate level was determined by a serious potential towards a condition of doctoral proposition in my writing and analysis amidst persons of a generation incapable to see an era of female intellectuals.

Meryl Viola Bravo,  M.A.

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Opening a Door to another Country, CSUSB Asian & Pacific Islander Center

CSUSB hosts Filipinx Empowerment, 
Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

A condition of an educated atmosphere is the result of dialogue and writing from a composure of the Arts.

Here at CSUSB there are determined access positions to contain a serious exposition of being at a disposition of appreciation to a country that became a country because of other countries working together for a United demand of Peace on Earth.

Writing, Reading and the Arts deliver a maturity of hearing the other countries amidst a position of being comprehensive in an intellectual stand.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Studying an Angelic Doctor of the Church

Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
 Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

At a disposition of formation grounded on a foundation of Clergy and Religious Persons deriving a good in receiving me as a student novice and professed Sister from 1996 to 2003, I am drawn to the works of Doctors of the Church with a knowledge I would have never have gained in not seeking discernment with the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Los Angeles.

It is an intrinsic reality of being moved by the intellect to will the good of its work in promoting Truth in essence the decision of study in the field of Research in Education.  I accept the position discerned for me in the name of the Thomistic Institute.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

The Concept of Ius
Thomistic Institute Angelicum, Rome

Monday, October 16, 2023

Domestic Violence Awareness

Film, "Unplanned"

Roe Overturned, "Now what?"

Film, "October Baby"

Documentary, "Life after Abortion"

CSUSB Hosts Domestic Violence Awareness
Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 


A CONVERSATION:

"Meryl, why are they asking questions about controlling their menstruation cycle so there is no ovulation period?"

"Sister, I think it is because they have sex-partners that want genital intercourse, but not the baby."

"Can't she just tell him to ......?"

"Sister, are you able to tell your boyfriend that having babies right now is an inconvenient time and can we rest with the children we do have?"

"..... all he ever does...."

..

"Are you two ever even seeing eachother as cooperating with the natural order of attraction?

.....

"Sister, are you feeling abused by his requirement from you to have genital intercourse all of the time?"

...

quietly thinking.....I can't even tell him to stop......
 

..

.

Healthy Relationship Check-up, Chart Healthy/Unhealthy/Abusive
www.csusb.edu/survivor-advocate-services

Attending a CSUSB Domestic Violence Awareness Event
Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A., CSUSB Alumni


Saturday, October 14, 2023

Food Distribution, the Nutrition and Mother

Hotel Compliments combined with
CalFresh EBT food purchase
Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

Amidst unemployment and criminalization for being a Good Citizen of the United States of America, after pleading "No Conteste" to a charge from the State of Michigan of aggravated stalking; I found myself not able to return to my home America.

And home is home brought to a Best Western Hotel to rest for a few days accordingly with a budget from a bank account that is slowly dissipating.  

And listen to how EBT allowed me the freedom to decide what nutrition is for me: Fresh fruits, Vegetables and if I had a kitchen, homecook food.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

A Concluded Analysis: Mexican Female Administrators

It has come to a point of resistance to bereave the consequences on an administration governed and led by a serious proponent of finding the Mexican female reaching any decision for the betterment of this country without first deterring the possibilities of other females from her condition in the presence of her Mexican patronage.

It is a concluded analysis the darkness of intellect from the Mexican consideration of female constituence will ever perform the commission of Justice for all Mankind.

I deter to elect any female of Mexican origin to propose the proper correspondence of public safety for any female person under her decision of maternal protection.

May the Virgin Guadalupe be the only female of Mexico we turn to for assistance and guidance.

Meryl Viola Bravo

Image Statue of Virgin Guadalupe
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Upland, Diocese of San Bernardino, California  


Human Trafficking - What keeps the chain going?

Public Bathroom Sign, Human Trafficking Hotline, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

A female hispanic representative of Public Transportation Services presents a question to a person sitting at an airport terminal presenting a specific target and this demands an explanation.

Who is the target to ask this question?

When do you ask this question and who is the person delivering a legitimate answer to the problem?

Listen carefully to when this female hispanic asks you a question and presumes you need shelter.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

The Mexican Division of Accumulated Resources

While EBT and Cal Fresh has been defined a temporary assistance of government conditions of affiliated deliberation for persons requiring resource support from public services, the Mexican representative of Spanish interpreter depends on it as their condition of county employment.

And when does temporary end, Mexican interpreter?

Meryl Viola Bravo

The Concept of Ius, The Right of a Female

When it determines a condition of meeting the rights of humanity at the gender equality distinct address, this came from the voice of a female for the content to be female.  And this only because I am female.

Thus, when I equalized the need for privacy it was the general condition for both male and female deriving good for each respective distinct gender.  For instance, the public domain of accomadation for distinct gender use of restrooms delivered in essence an equal respect for human neccesary conditions to meet its available right for its utilization.

The distinct conditions delivered the privacy of exposure to the possible outcomes that come from female and male body and anatomy dependencies distinct to each respective gender.

This also conditioned a protection on the readiness of age development puberty dimensions of exposure to each gender.  Body composites of odor, hygiene pronouncement at age condition differs at every stage of exposure to how cultural conditions define a stage of puberty for growth and mature outcome of protection for persons who may not position their person at the same exposure in this decision of body exposure through all aspects of the senses:  sight, smell, manner of interaction of touch and closeness for required distance, etc.

It is a composite reality that the human anatomy of each distinct gender has been consistent in its science and study of the human proper ordered derived needs that public facilities deliver to meet the need for each respective gender.

I am female.  I am educated in the care of maintaining the health of my female body.  I have never been exposed to the needed conditions of the male gender.  I seek the right of this protection for my privacy from their exposure to my presence as female.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.


Thomistic Institute, Rome Angelicum
The Concept of Ius

Monday, October 2, 2023

2006 - 2007 Edison International Teachers for Tomorrow Scholarship

CSU Foundation
2006 to 2007
Edison International Teachers for Tomorrow
Awarded to Meryl Viola Bravo 

There are distinct recommended possibilities for students deriving a direction towards scholarship.  I met the FAFSA criteria for application to the Edison International Teachers for Tomorrow Scholarship and was required to maintain the criteria after being awarded this recognition.  It was required I complete a full term schedule of 12 units per quarter for the school year of 2006 to 2007.  I completed the terms with the required conditions and it provided a support for financing my tuition to California State University of San Bernardino.

1.  When you were selected to receive this Edison International Teachers for Tomorrow Scholarship from 2006 to 2007 as a present CSUSB student what were your initial reactions?

My initial reaction was a confidence in completing its requirements to receive the award to its proponent financial support.  I completed two beginning terms of years through the program with a continued concentration in a Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts degree and a Multiple-subject Teaching credential.  The track was potentially meeting its acceptance and I saw this possible in my continued study in this concentration and Bachelor of Arts to completion.

Meryl Viola Bravo 


Sunday, October 1, 2023

The Identification of United States Citizenship

The United States Department of Immigration protects the identity of Naturalized Citizens of this country we call America.

I am a United States Citizen of the United States of America born abroad in the Philippine Islands on United States Air Base Military lines with agreeable commission of alliance with the government of the Philippines.

How are the potential migrants entering into this land depending on the Department of Home Security provided a reality of safety and security from departing conditions unreliable to the direction of a government sustained by a Democratic Republic?

What conditions deliver a secure deposit of housing not disturbed by undocumented persons neither relating nor positioning agreeable terms of movement towards a governed society of a Democratic Republic?

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

The Common Decision, Uniformity of Direction

Nike Shoes, Advertisement August 2023

At the position of making a portion of meeting a selection process comes the knowledge of being given options and a reliable dependency on the solid ground of these options.

For example: 

1.  There are designated marketings of shoes to supply the need for socio-economical demands for a product.  The brand of shoe, Nike, has become a decision for many consumers.  Reasons for this selected brand of shoe vary from consumer to consumer.  The quantifying significance of this supply being demanded in continued trading for business produces a uniformity in direction and a common decision.  The study and research of this product will determine the intention and reason of a common decision in consumer relationship.

The common decision productivity of uniformity in direction causes an effect in the civilian and military movement in a Country, Land and Nation.

As a customer of Nike, I found my purchase delivering a serious condition of health and corporal reality of walking with support after an injury.  It became a portion of recovery for my health and continued demand to move forward.  Thank you, Nike!

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Adult Intervention towards Recovery, Psychology of Prenatal Care

Entering the Human Psychosis of Prenatal Maturation:

The inhabitants of dependence comes to a proportioned delivery when designating a maternal reality towards the female identity both for male and female adults returning to their condition stage of growth development in their mother before and after birth.

The inhabitant condition of meeting the reality of returning to this stage of development during adult stages of maturation:  meeting puberty, entering a knowledge of gender identity and distinction between male and female, genital interaction, privacy and security of emotion and exposure to naked, etc.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Research, Study on Human Psychosis

Diagnostic Examination at a position of research and study depends on the maturation of man on the ethic of meeting persons victim of abuse and determined isolated from the social and behavioral dependency of communal sustained good.

Research and study demands the reality of serious conduct in the presence of person to person exposure to a form of psychosis communicated to leave abuse.  This envelopement is diagnosed a portion of the brain intellectually leaving the abuse through the hypnotic state of sleep and not awake.

The study is conducted by persons awake and sober to the committed research of person to person human conduct emphasizing an ability of a secure ground to leave the persons in isolation or quarentined for security and safety.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

The Identity, An Attorney, Advocacy and Representation

In the aspect of study and interest in the Field of Law; I discovered in my character as a female intellectual, the performed position of meeting the identity of an Attorney at Law.  This was at retrospective a description of being an adovocate and representation for or against a person who committed an act or conduct that required evidence and a position of being descriptive in authority towards the actual condition of meeting Truth.  

This truth determined a conception of meeting the American Assembly in decisions delivered from the United States of America to be the curiculum I would be instructed to be formed to adhere, collaborate and recognize as essential to the work I would be as a Teacher and Attorney in service to the people.  I learned the study of law by a series of events that determined my American conscience.  This American conscience would be the conduct of both public and private conviction of safety and security of freedom for the good of the commonwealth.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Reality of Discernment, Religious Formation and Maturity of Persons

There were significant realities in meeting the discipline of Religious Formation with the Religious Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles from the years 1996 to 2003.

In the year 2000, I completed three years of initial religious formation and was approved to make temporary profession for a yearly pronouncement of adherence to the Rule of Life of the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles through the Evangelical Counsels of Obedience, Chastity and Poverty.  This was a profession of one year and resumed for continued discernment with a yearly assessment on the complete reality of seeing this towards Final Profession for the next six years.  Each year from this point was an assignment to live with the older Final Professed community members to begin a reality of meeting the Rule of Life with women who were in the community celebrating up to 50 years of Religious Life.

This was a serious reality of learning about this congregation away from beginners in this Rule of Life.  I highly regarded their condition of finality in this vocation to the Order of Carmel.  This was ascertained in the arrangements of care towards buriel for their retired elderly intimately shared with me as a new member of their community.  The care of a religious family witnessed a Gospel embrace and obligation for the elderly and a preparation for the young and new members.

I was at a decision of meeting this religious community with the same Gospel charity and embrace.  What delivered a continued discernment was a family circumstance of unsettled communication and meetings that caused a question to my yearly renewal of these Evangelical Counsels of this Rule of Life.  This was the dialogue from my parents and grandmother family visits that caused a distress for me and a sudden question of my safety in connection to my siblings' behavior and conduct during these visits and unpronounced visits.  There were also evident realities of being withheld information being communicated to me by my superiors.  It delivered a proportion of seeing this not following through with a protocal of open relationship with me as a young sister entrusting myself to their direction.  I began to find them inconsiderate and contradicting the trust and confidence in their maturity in decisions for me.

It was serious that the discourse could not find a protocal of open communication and a form of secrecy and immaturity came from the Superior and her conduct that made the discourse difficult for me as a young person to find communicated at a level of meeting me seriously after six years of living with them in community.  I requested to renew my fourth year of Evangelical Counsels and I was advised to write a letter to disregard this request with no real decree of reason except the concluded reality of council members not encouraging the renewal.  These council members included my present superior who was living with me in community at the Sts. Felicitas and Perpetua convent.  The conduct of this superior was not at a conducive openness in my formation as I received in the novitiate and it was evident decisions were being made over my person without proper discourse of respectable reason for my knowledge in matters connected to my person as a member of this community.  Signatures were suddenly required of me for my employment with the school as Religion Coordinator and no proper discourse was instructed for my knowledge on the matter.  It was rude of them to request me to sign a serious document that involved a form of compensation and money with my name and signature.  The request did not perform a serious condition on formation towards community life in the distribution of this allocated commission with my contribution beyond the signature.  My services rendered became an asset uncomplimented by this superior who was a financial advisor in the assets of the community and it became evident to me she found this her role as a superior conducive to this position over me.

Religious formation delivers a resourcefulness of committing a dialogue of instruction to the new member of the congregation.  This should include a resourcefulness on formation in how an adjoining asset from this new member contributes to community life.  This superior overtook me in a manner that oversaw my position as under her and did not include me in these decisions and demanded my signature with no respectful decree of meeting my person as a serious decision for these community standards of intention for resourcefulness I provided in service to the community.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

The Process of Selection: Determining an Application Decision

 1.  The application delivers a census for selection and dependency on purpose of amendment as well as a reason to seek a placement well component of decision for both parties in leading to an agreeable resort to proper conclusion.  What was the purpose of accepting the application towards interview and in-person appointment?

2. At the description of position and requirement for application did this person read all of the proposed conditions for consideration towards further entrance into application?  For example, a required degree of affluence and background tolls the present condition towards decision to apply.  Are you qualified to move forward with completing the application?

3.  Do you have the necessary completed forms entered into process for selection into the position?  Example:  transcripts, test scores, letters of reference, etc.

4.  How does this professional possibility of employment build your character as a human person relating with other human persons of this arena of education and work performance?  Is this being relayed in your first impression of contact and communication written or through in-person reliability?  Do the documented written forms applied to your character match the top line person to person encounter it produces in your reliability for the position?

Friday, September 29, 2023

The Deal, Profit and Increase in Revenue

Communication and Language performance determines in essence a required position of meeting a work of referral and meeting an interest of being at a consideration of the value of a product.

The Demand:

"I have luggage and not boxes to protect the value of travel for my position of transfer of items to my next destination.  And wheels on this product offer a sustaining reality on lightening the weight of the burden."

The Supply:

Since the invention of the wheel products have utilized this as a source for transportation of heavy loads now in luggage carriers as a new contemporary interest for travel and this has been the quantifying product readily available in stores today.

The Deal:

The deal is meeting the need of the consumer and the profit is for the professional supplier to deliver the demand.  At what cost does this demand become a source of misunderstanding of no profit for either party?

The Discipline of Schedule: Maintaining its Reality

After high school graduation in 1996, I entered into candidacy with the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles.  This offered a schedule that gradually introduced me into community life with a proposal towards application in aspirancy for entrance into Religious formation as a postulant in the novitiate.  This schedule involved a rising at 4:55 a.m. to begin Morning Offering and Liturgy of the Hours at 5:25 a.m.  And I found my day being formed from this decision of discipline at the moment of rising.

The Schedule: 

4:55 a.m. Rising

5:25 a.m. Morning Offering, Liturgy of the Hours, Meditation

7:00 a.m. Holy Mass

7:50 a.m. Breakfast, Dishes, Clean up

9:00 a.m. Morning Announcements, Blessings with Novice Directress

9:30 a.m. Classes, Duties, Study

11:55 a.m.  Examination of Conscience for the morning, Angelus Prayer

12:00 p.m. Lunch, Dishes, Clean up

1:15 p.m. Siesta, Quiet Time, Study in Cell

2:15 p.m. Classes, Duties, Study

5:00 p.m. Holy Hour, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, Rosary, Meditation, Benediction

6:15 p.m. Dinner, Dishes, Clean up

7:15 p.m. Recreation in Community (Example:  Crafts, Exercise, Choir Practice, etc.)

8:15 p.m.  Night Blessing, Liturgy of the Hours, Examination of Conscience of the Day

10:00 p.m. Grand Silence, Lights out

*Duties and Assignments entailed:  Kitchen Preparations, Meals, Retreatant and Sisters and Guest Clergy, Refectory and Retreatant Dining Area Clean and Organize, Sacristy, Chapel, Office, Novitiate Facilities, Novitiate Laundry, Maintenance of Retreatant Quarters, Gardening etc.

*Example of Examination of Conscience:  Did I complete the tasks of this day?  Was I tardy for class or scheduled meetings?  What caused this fault, if any?  Did my work slack at scheduled responsibilities?  Did I chatter during silence?  Was their gossip during work time?

*Blessing from the Novice Directress communicated an approval of granted permission and a closure of the request being granted. (Example:  Permission to make travel appointment to the dentist, purchase new shoes, etc.)

Thursday, September 28, 2023

A Conducive Reality for Study, Tips for the Student

 1.  An environment support offers a productive outcome for study and completed assignments with an authority of marked apprehension towards graduation.  Example:  campus library, student cafes or hubs for study time, room and board with outstanding student discourse, homelife with food and family with time to rest before study, etc.

2.  Selectivity of peers and recreation time requires a sober life condition of meeting.  Be prudent, successful and deliver a strong condition for meeting for leisure conducive to readiness for continued study.  Example:  visit a museum, recreational park for a day, exercise track and powerwalk, campus gym, etc.

How was your peer selectivity appropriated and determined for your social growth a human being?

The manner of introduction determined the foundation of peer selectivity for my social personal outcome in maturity.

3.  Times of rest scheduled in your study plan require good hygiene and hours of rest and sleep is a serious part of clear completed work for study and successful finality to your intention in student life.  Example:  healthy meals, siesta times for nap before studytime, etc.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

My Notebook and CSUSB Alumni Portfolio
Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

The Degree, Reliability and Sustained Good

Research and degree of assessment on affiliated institutions prestigious for employment and serious authority demanded with a final position of being seen depend highly on the person who accepts this honor.

The people will evaluate your degree and protocal in exposition of your performed acceptance of this position over them.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

Monday, September 25, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The American Female

The American Female

In the United States of America there are decisions complicated to redeem and freely consider for appeal after it is positioned by the voice of a Citizen.  What I discovered is the appeal comes as the decision has been finalized.

What determines an appeal to the court a decision possible by Superior Courts in State appeal or Federal appeal? 

At what appeal does the closure become reopened?

The American female Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this interview delivers a position on the death penalty which I have discovered is an open arena to respond at a proper conduct of processing a presumed judgement by a Justice.  This developed reason of participation into this court final position by State is not to be moved at another conduct of processing without a system of meeting the contradiction.

When there is a contradiction this develops towards a sway of direction or a continued path towards the same direction.  The decision will sway if you remain in the discussion and the State by State appeal moves the civil action of many Citizens.  This is what makes the American appeal United.

Ginsburg stated, "The death penalty is....."

Constitutional or Unconstitutional

Debate it.

Meryl Viola Bravo 


 
United States Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sunday, September 24, 2023

The Discipline of Finances: A Military Strategem within Trading Systems

Budget and financial warfares can cause any tension when there is no contained reality on the penny in the bank.

How many pennies are in your bank account?

Meryl Viola Bravo 

The Power of Baking Soda, Luggage claim

There is a significant reality about containing odor in your physical midst and this is the modesty of mankind.

Human kindness delivers a world from persons who find a deliberate action in forcing odor into your face: smoking, body odor, luggage odor of body items, refrigerators, etc. are realities to maintaining a reaction.

What reaction do persons appreciate when it comes to airborne material passing through?

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Friday, September 22, 2023

An Action of Malice vs. Resistance

There are judicial conditions to restrain a person through an action of handcuffs with hands tied by chains.  This action is legitimized to person to person.  

1.  A person who has been placed under question delivers a physical conduct of behavior of movement and deliberate condition of performance unable to remain still in composure and answer questions with a language of tone present to any official person representing the court a restraint is placed on a person for the protection of the people.

Delivering a decision on restraint will be questioned by a court of law and this decision will be examined case by case with a charge of malice vs. resistance.

At the resistance, the condition was to protect the persons involved in the charge of any crime.

At the malice of a person, the condition will be further examined to determine the degree of crime for the protection of the people.

Meryl Viola Bravo

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Writing an Article for JSTOR, Journal Entry, Resource



Writing an Article, Journal Entry, Example Proposition to www.JSTOR.org.

The graduate program of California State University of San Bernardino offered a decision in research and study composite propositions received from articles written in journals efficient in recommended research portals similar to JSTOR.

The exposition delivered a position of meeting the standards these research portals offered as reliable to the study of academic decisions of research and application for topics affiliated to the decided field of profession students application to the graduate program of California State University of San Bernardino.  In reviewing the competent reality of these journal entries and its reliability, I offered a serious consideration to a draft I delivered in my visit with JSTOR today at my Alma Mater California State University of San Bernardino.

The draft performs a study on a pattern of Mexican and White marriages/relationships delivered during my years of maturation from 1983 to 2023.  The false integration made serious deceitful composit directions in my School, Church as well as Profession in the selection process for application to employment and service in this country.

Meryl Viola Bravo



Instut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen Institute for Human Sciences

Hollywood Film and Entertainment
"The Proposal"  
Integration Marriage is it Holy Matrimony?  by Meryl Viola Bravo 

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

FREE WILL AND THE INTELLECT: The Objectivity of Instruction

At a position of seeking Truth, when does my decision to find Truth an act of free consent of the will?

I demanded the Truth and was forced by a compliance from an order never fully documented by an official judicial authority from the Judicial Branch of the United States of America to position a compliance now a No Conteste plea bargain as I was asked by the judge if I am free to consent to a plea bargain?

And before the No Conteste was a plea of Guilty.  Again, the honorable requested the plea bargain to be freely given.

And is their freedom restrained by chains and official persons armed to deliver the free consent of an order never properly communicated with a proportioned documented readiness for the question?

No.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Scheduling a Flight to Europe

My Reflection of an Airport Terminal, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

At the administration of ordered government of permission to enter into a land unfamiliar to your origin of residency, there is an offered reality of meeting the proper introduction of a first visit.  This first visit came with an intention.  The intention is examined by the land you are requesting to visit.

1.  What are your reasons for travel and deciding to request to enter into this land we call Europe?

Example:  I am a student from the Philippines and would like to enter the land of Europe to further my study on European Arts.

Thursday, September 14, 2023

The Purity of Instruction, A Curriculum - Meeting the Objective Goal

Developing a discussion each according to level, standard of study; commissions the teacher to instruct at the highest condition possible for his or her students meeting the objective goal.

I have enveloped a distance in my instruction in meeting the objective for each grade level according to child development cognitive apprehension of the sensory realia of gross motor skills with the intention of intellectual capacity of discipline of explanation of the concept of which the objective is met.

For example:  The Kindergarten standards of the State of California performs a readiness of reading and alphabet phonemic awareness of processing development through the sensory movements of body/sound realia and conducive group choral motion collaboration and cooperative learning.  The sounds and the bodily movements deliver a sensory vision of the capacity of intellectually meeting the cognitive process of letters and sounds and word apprehension.  The student meets the connection of commotion performed as a choral group.  At this sound discipline of letter to word phrases comes a position of cognitive intellectual anticipation for each student according to participation and level of intensity with the choral group.  I found these forms of meeting the sensory panel of the intellect of a four or five year old child instructed beyond simple memorization apprehension of the intellect.  It is more effective to the intellectual allocation of letter/word and sound determined a complete work of meeting the standard of Kindergarten grade level.

Meryl Viola Bravo, M.A.

Angelicum Thomistic Institute, Thomas Aquinas' Concept of Ius and Canon Law

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

What is Courtesy in the name of Public Compliance?

In the United States of America, there are directives to be compliant to orders made by official representation of authority.  We have an Executive Branch of government with signed decrees delivered by a Commander in Chief.

And below these demands of meeting the order is a compliance in union with the order officiated by his order of authority.

The compliance is more than a courtesy to the American People.  It is a security measure for the whole nation.  As a teacher, the reality of this security measure has a ripple effect at a general condition of direction in this country.  At this compliance, is a governed nation.

1.  Did the Commander in Chief present an order with a compliance to his belief system of Religion based authority or through his American decree of a Nation under God?

For Example:  I am a Principal administrating a school site public entity.  By the entrance of the gated area of the school are street missionaries passing pamphlets to the students as they walk out of school.  As administrator, clearing this as unofficial and a disruption to school productivity will cite this as a serious violation of meeting the boundary of school interaction on the premise and property.  Did I, as a School Administrator, deliver this without a question to my authority or did someone over my administration as Principal defy the decision at another context of public service of government?

-  A police report was made by the Principal for assistance to clear the school property and location of soliciation from street missionaries disturbing the productivity of the school near entrances and within school property boundaries.

-  Investigating the report found a specific group targeting children without their guardians while walking home.  

-  They appear dressed in suits and dresses.

Monday, September 11, 2023

What is a volunteer beyond the badge?

It is serious how volunteer services deliver no real service.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

What was the Reward, Best Western?

Best Western Rewards, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo taken 2021

In this present reality of saying, "Thank you" it became evident to me the reward will never be....

So, I let it be....

Good luck, Best Western.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

1.  What were the documented rewards promised by business with clients offering a promise of rewards and benefits for being a member loyal to their company?

It has been documented no reward system was accurately performed.

Friday, September 8, 2023

What is an Eyewitness?

The legitimacy of an eyewitness report comes from a position of being present and at a demand to speak what is being seen and witnessed by the person who was at the location of the incident.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

The Concept of Integration, American Freedom

International Airlines, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

The concept of integration in the United States of America comes with an intention of affiliation and relationship with countries sharing the same land with other cultural dependencies.  These dependencies have relationship as the standard of agreeable terms of policy and law ordered government.  At a position of authority, there are representations of what a country has enveloped as an alliance with other governing demands of being in agreement.  This is the protection of its citizens.

The Protection Agreement:  Cultural Dependencies

Education and school systems have a developed plan of action and meeting point of integral relationships in the United States of America.  This is the agreeable term of protection of cultural and ancestral respect to preserve and honor the history of intention of migration.  At this disposition, migrants have enveloped a new culture of American appeal.  This American appeal is educated and is protected by a curriculum to preserve and honor this intention.

What is the intention of migration in the United States of America?

The Philippine Islands of the Asian Pacific location have delivered a proposition of alliance to defend a reality of work and service to the United States of America to propogate a peace effort with Asia Pacific and the territorial contact with American legacies.  What this peace effort delivers is a consistent reality of communication of potential apparent risings for unity in a living reality of face to face enterprise of business, corporation and entrepreneurship.  These languages of interrelations and upbringings of communication and consistent contact offer differences that may offer a resistence or pose an agreement that will inevitably realize a midpoint of agreeable terms.  Tension lessens the cause of further uprising when the tension is met with a persistent reality of sharing the same world we call Earth.  Education offers this possibility.  Education offers a new insight to possible outcomes to a future of peace on Earth.

The American School system in the United States delivered a curriculum during my years of residency in this country.  This enveloped the study of Nobel Laureates and further works delivered by a dialogue of professional administration of a school, district and military agreement with the families who migrated from a decision during the Administration of President Ronald Reagan.   I have proposed my life and education background as the curriculum to be administered to the young who come after me as the only curriculum to perform and instruct in the classrooms in the United States of America.  It was time of rest from communism.

My school district from 1986 to 1996 offered a curriculum of integration.  It was safe.  It was protected.  And it respected the boundaries of cultural differences through communication with the parents and mediation of teachers.  The teacher is the mediator of peace amidst differing cultures presented in one classroom.

I would like you to deliver a position of reliance in how teachers are trained for this specific intention.  California State University of San Bernardino did this very well with the Liberal Arts and Masters in Education program from 2003 to 2010.  This envelopement is to be the blueprint for ongoing study and development of Curriculum and Instruction in the United States of America.

Integration did not abuse the concept of interrelational contracts between differing cultures.  The study enveloped the reality of instruction of gender human anatomy at the respective boundary of privacy between genders.  These were conducted according to the course of the year and grade level.  Females only studied their human anatomy of being female.  Males only studied their human anatomy of being male.  And at respective general courses there was a coeducation collaboration of work and study.

Cultural Dependencies:

1.  Weather, location, temperature changes to bodily physical integration of migration must be seriously considered for the health and safety of incoming migrants to the United States of America.

2. Uniformity of schedule and work progress according to alertness of productivity.

I delivered a position of protecting my work and study for archival research as the basis and foundation of curriculum for the students of the United States of America.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

An Intellectual Movement: Film and Industry

Reading, Writing and the work of Script deliver a reality of intellectual movement.  It is recommended for the position of educators who administer a curriculum performance level of movement and direction in this country to study the effective use of resources that include technology, cyberspace media interrelation and film and industry.  

There are levels of intellectual participation in the use of these forms of realia to perform in the classroom.

1.  Hands-on classroom manipulatives are objective realities that lead to an intellectual cognitive sensitory productivity for the processing of placement.  Object reality entails the performance interaction for the intellect to position a contact relationship and point of reference for learning and study.  For example:  Turning the Page of a Book vs. Computer App Notebooks, Stage Theatre Performances vs. Screen Theatre Viewing, Library Catalog vs. Internet Google Search, etc.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

The Interpretation - Is it accurate?

Film, "The Terminal" Goat Scene

There are scenes in films that deliver a discussion on the intellectual cognitive processing on how persons interpret language, representation and the reasons for security and policy.  

The film, "The Terminal," offers an insight to American composit positions on freedom and the portion of this position being interpreted by official representation to develop policies and law enforcement to Citizens and potential migrants to this authority of processing.

This scene in the film, "The Terminal," performs an aspect of discussion that requires interpretation.  The questions that arise in the passerby, the viewer and the audience may flare a series of manifested conditions to provoke, communicate and interpret the possible outcomes of what may procure further difficulty or a reality of meeting an understanding.

How would you interpret this scene?  Which character or position of employment at the security of protection for the country you reside would you find being an accurate interpretation?

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Monday, September 4, 2023

The Art of Listening - Does the Adam's Apple come from the Serpent or the Woman?

Nature and Grace, A Thomistic Introduction


Did Adam swallow the apple, Eve?

No.  It choked him to death.

So he listened to the serpent?

No.  He died before he could swallow the fruit from the tree of good and evil.

So he listened to the woman?

We'll see if he did or not.

How will we know?

He will not be the woman.  He will be the man with a woman and the two shall be ONE!

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Telemarketing, Advertisement vs. Religious Freedom

Meryl, what do you think about these persons coming in selling their pamphlets at the airport terminal?

I think it is a serious intrusion to people who are here arranging, preparing and making a decision about their transportation services.  It is out of place for them to presume to set up a place to sell their propositions.

How does America provide an opportunity to manifest a decision in Religion and live it in their personal and private decisions?

America has a fortified condition in Citizens of this country to observe a form of worship in their respective livelihood outside of being in the public services they offer to the country.  The home is a private property and these residential conditions offer a respect to the Citizens who wish to live a decision in Religion.  Their homes are a private decision.

What are these Religions lived in their private homes?

Religion is a form of communal worship of an Omnipotent God.  

How is the religion contained in the private home while working in the public to serve the People?

Decisions are made accordingly and speaking of it in the public is at the invitation and at the level of relationship in meeting the People.  Workplaces are a professional environment.  Schools offer an insight to contain the topic within a respectful dialogue and learning awareness of culture, religion and background among colleagues in education.  Private only determines a respectful boundary.

What are these boundaries and how does one know the boundary is determined secure?

Communal activity and forms of meeting deliver a knowledge of its security of privacy.  It is determined by invitation only.

How does one determine an invitation respects the boundary of privacy?

One of the main causes of determining a security of privacy is the proper introduction.  For instance, an airport is for persons utilizing the air transportation for reasons of travel.  The productivity of the airport will deliver its security accordingly.  Any productivity outside of the intention of travel and air transportation policies are determined to secure the intention.  Determining the intention being breached by an intrusion outside of the intention of air travel will determine a deceit and interruption.  Airports being utilized to bombard, intrude on people's travels for purposes of religion, advertisement of an agenda, or a privacy breach of person's personal decision will be investigated as a security breach.  There are places, locations and properties offered to present these forms available for this very intention of proper introductions into a religion.  The airport is only utilized for travels and transportation.  

What are these places, locations and properties that offer the intention of religion awareness by invitation only?

The United States of America delivers a strong apparent reality of buildings built for a specific purpose.  These buildings have a location allotted according to realty, land and property permissions.  Invitations are made according to events provided in these buildings built for this purpose.

How does the country offer permission to build these buildings?

Lease, purchases of property, etc. are presented accordingly.

Please offer an example:

Convention Centers, Concert staged buildings are public property reserved for events open to these possible forms of communal gathering.

The Freedom is delivered when these boundaries are respectfully determined safe, secure and with permission from the State.

How does this come forth a separation of Church and State?

Safety first.  Gatherings that determine a reality of safety and security to the country will be delivered a possible commission of being protected by the State.

How would Religion deliver a cause of unsafety or danger to the country or its citizens?

The United States of America has a history of migration for the intention of Religious Freedom from a serious form of indoctrination that did not offer a freedom of conscience to the American people. 

How is the Freedom of Conscience secure according to each Religion respected in the United States of America?

It is determined by the respective branches of the United States of America.  Public compliance is a serious form of evaluation of Religion. 

What is public compliance and how is this related to a Religion?

Public compliance is a sustaining reality of living in a peace effort of working, performing services and residing among different and various backgrounds of culture and family orientation.  This is the ordered reality of a government sustained by public works delivering a service to the people.

How important are these forms of public compliance a united decision in privacy of religion?

In order for the privacy to be in tact, there is an ordered reality of meeting the public.  For instance:  school, profession, work and public services deliver a reality of meeting the standards of the public that is decided in the private institution of the family home.

What are these standards in the public that is developed a condition apparent to the decisions in the private institution of the family home?

Public services respectfully decline or apprehend a justified reason for offering work to a person.  These services are rendered according to how we agree upon the decisions that come from the private institution of the family home.  Clothing, language or communication, dialogue of body receptivity and language offer an apparent reality of standard in public domain agreement of terms of service.

Protection of Gender Identity - Human Gender Labor Law

Protection for Female Gender, Maintenance of Restroom Facilities

Code and Policy of Human Labor, Both Female and Male Protection

Restroom facilities are determined a resource of maintainance of the personal hygiene of both female and male gender.  This is to be contained as a private matter.  Immediate action is to be delivered a charge of sexual harassment to persons who enter these premises to violate the privacy of other or same genders.  

1.  Maintainance of general needs of hygiene, health and safety is to be distributed at the available resource of care for the human body.  Refer to Medical Review for code of conduct in the public restroom facilities.  Outside of these premises there will be a charge of indecent exposure and a violation of the protection of gender identity.

2.  Human Labor protection laws are to be performed at the consideration of privacy and gender identity and must be delivered at the disposition of meeting health and safety hazard conditions to maintain the composite treatment of sanitation of facility use in the public.  Male and female facilities must be at a consistent sanitation to contain odor, physical composites of bodily articles within the boundaries of use for the protection of persons entering the facilities for the maintainance of hygiene.

3.  Violations will be determined a form of sexual harassment at a case by case and person to person evaluation.  Both guests, employees and determined intruders will be at the position to be examined at a court of law.

4.  Companies, Businesses, Public Services are obligated to provide facilities that intend to maintain the health and safety of persons entering their premise for services and provision must be offered to the invited partners.  A charge of violation will be determined at the intrusion of persons entering the premise of boundaries of property and location of service.

5.  Employers will determine a violation of an intruder in their public services that include health facilities of restrooms.

Sunday, September 3, 2023

The Intention - How did you meet?

A character in a film delivers a scene performance on meeting a person in a school environment.  He is not a student of the university as he pursues her towards companionship.  He appears in her presence with school gear presenting himself.  

How did he find himself targeting this particular female student?

He and his roommate were arrested by her father who is a police investigator.  They find out this police investigator has a daughter.  They plan to meet his daughter by performing a false identity of a student in her school university.  She decides to attend an event with him identifying him as a fellow student in her school.  Her father gives her his approval.

Would you consider this man's intention for meeting her a well entrustment towards Holy Marriage?  Yes or No.


Response Sample:  

No.  His identity is falsely presented to her from the point of introduction.  I would find him a danger to all the students in the school as he enters the university property.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Saturday, September 2, 2023

The Oysters vs. Supplement Vitamins

Eating for a Healthy Body and a Healthy Planet, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


There are serious deficiencies in persons who fail to exempt themselves from the world of pharmaceutical vitamin pills for the reality of what these over-the-counter drugs present as a source of sustaining the health of the human person.

Define the purpose of dietary supplements.

Meryl Viola Bravo 


Fresh Oysters with a Whole Lemon and a sprinkle of salt, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 


Monday, August 28, 2023

The State of California, Eatery Places

In-N-Out, "That's what a hamburger is all about!"

I realize that childhood memories come from food and places we eat as families and growing into adulthood.  I found my resident State has developed through the years a value to their guests in being a customer and residing citizen in this country as a Californian.  It establishes a knowledge of being in the groove with the movement.  

In California, there is an inside knowledge that there are certainties about living near the ocean and the heat of the moment.  This is the fast pace reality of being considerate that we are here enjoying this location together.  

In-N-Out serves a quantifying number of residents in the State of California.  They remain young in reaching this considerate reality of meeting a population consistently growing amidst the Palm Trees, Beaches and dry desert heat.  We meet it in being at a reality in making the simplest decisions.  And the decision is serious and consistent.

Fresh potatoes, fresh crispy lettuce, fresh tomatoes, toasted buns, sliced onions and the reality of unfrozen meat offer a decision that only California can serve.  This is the unique position that makes us California.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

In-N-Out Burger and Fries, Video by Meryl Viola Bravo 

Sunday, August 27, 2023

The Pretzel with the Halo

Resting and Eating a Pretzel, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

I was hungry for a sustaining pastry for my morning filibuster and found this pretzel place baking and open for service as I entered the Mall.

Have you been detrimented by competitive uprisings for a reality on meeting a proposition of consumerism?  The free pretzel taste of Wetzel Pretzel lost its free when they cruelly criticized the passerby for enjoying the free pretzel and presumed the guest came not to enjoy it.  While the intruder simply came back for another free try to the point of never being a guest.

Auntie Anne's charges 50 cents for a cup of water.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Detecting Your Source: Who, What, Where, When did you find your information?

The investigation begins on a courtcase designated and appointed by a Supreme Court Justice to conclude the apparent decision.  Where do you begin? How do you start?

Examination:

1.  Who did you turn to for this direction in your path to investigate the matter?

Example:  You are at an airport looking for the car rental section.  Who did you go to for direction in locating the car rental?  

Person 1:  I followed the signs that said, "Car Rental."

Person 2:  I went to a person who was sitting at a bus station.

Person 3:  I went to information services in the airport terminal.

As an examiner determining and diagnosing the capacity of a compentency in being reliable for an authority to manage, lead, develop a plan of action to commit a serious effort to commission a person in this direction of decision in the United States of America, which person would you proceed forward to examine?

Response:  I would proceed forward to examine persons number one and three.  These persons determined to find the authority official and a compliant procedure of meeting an accurate dependency on information for direction.  Person two presented no reliable source for direction in locating the Car Rental in seeking a passerby simply sitting at a station with no recommended official representation of the airport portal.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Eating Candy, How efficient in grace are you?

Reeses Pieces, Lifesavers and How to Eat Candy, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

I went to Holy Mass on a weekday morning and heard three little girls with their father enter into the Church amidst senior laypersons and working adults busy about the Father's business with Rosary and Divine Mercy chaplets in thanksgiving for Mass.  It was evident to me, I did not see candy the same way I did as a child after going to the store to enjoy a plan for a theatre and film for recreation.

I decided to remember my childhood palette for sweets and I recalled sour candies, lifesavers and peanut butter "E.T. phone home" would be appropriately stating my decisions for the day.

The candy is not bad.  The candy is also not being sold for bad intentions.  If it was bad, do you really see its purpose being created for the hand to receive?

Think about it.

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Waiting with Haagen-Dazs

My Haagen-Dazs Moment, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

I sat considering Haagen-Dazs ice cream for my dessert after another full meal with vegetables.  I desired the name for its namesake and its expense at the worth of its name and I realized how efficient it was to have a serious apprehension to know it's the thought of preparing for the moment that required its name to be its name.

I could only have it for a moment amidst the world of EBT and a bus stop for transportation.

Meryl Viola Bravo 
 

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Research, Entertainment and the American Position

An Airport Terminal, Photo by Meryl Viola Bravo 

I have announced at a prominent position of "No place like home" and I am thinking of where the airport destination will take me from here.

The American film industry has produced a reality of integration prospective and a qualifying reality that will envelope this determined direction of an intention of "One Nation under God."

What has enveloped this forward motion is the industry of film and how the female depicts this direction.

The American film, "The Terminal" starring the American Actor, Tom Hanks, serves a consciencious dependency on a country of original migration.  What happens if your original country of migration is no longer a conceptual existence amidst an American stand at the position of Freedom and Independence?

Meryl Viola Bravo 

Film "The Terminal", Tom Hanks