Greice Kelly Melo

Greice Kelly Melo

Just a curious mind seeking self improvement.

Location Brazil

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  • What caught most my attention was when Michelle Obama said that whenever she doubted herself being undeserved of that type of education she was being delivered to, she worked even harder. So that means to say, instead of stepping away, she bravely continued going on and thus far she could be able so surpass the limitations she lived under. For me this is very...

  • My most recent experience with the Imposter Syndrome was at the beginning of this year when I started studying to pass the Brazilian Association Bar in order to obtain the required license to work as a lawyer. Months ago, I was constantly seeking improvement at the same time, I was sabotaging myself by thinking I would not be able to pass the exam. These...

  • I just summarized what it is written above in the matters of protecting my own podcast work:
    - The best way to receive trademark protection is by registering your podcast name.
    - A creative commons licence may be for you. You can apply for this without encountering a charge and you have options in stipulating how your material can be used.
    - When doing...

  • From what I just understood, in order to catch audience, we need to engage people through social media by releasing pieces of the podcast to be released and also marketing our podcast into platforms which the targeted audience is likely to search the kind of podcast we are about to release.

  • As I just understood from what it's written above, in order to make sure quality is assured in my podcast, I need to completely immerse myself crafting the story, correcting any flaws found, listening carefully the recordings and also, asking for feedback of others before releasing the podcast to the general public.

  • At the first time I took the test, I had taken 26 for biomedical and 28 for psychosocial.
    This time, I got 28 for biomedical and 33 for psychosocial.

    To be sincere, I started this course in May, 2018, though I had not been able to finish it in the same year I started because I was in an intense journey to finish my Law degree.
    Regarding the test results...

  • I totally agree with the Manifesto, but I would like to highlight an excerpt from a text of the previous step the from Peter Kinderman's blog, which I think summarizes perfectly an answer to the above questions:
    "Adopting this approach would result in much lower reliance on medical interventions, and a much greater reliance on social and psychological...

  • This course amazed from the beginning until the end. What has spoken out loud for me though, is that Social Marketing is a powerful way to persuade people to make behavioural changes that will not only benefit themselves, but everyone around them, in many ways.

  • Decrease Criminal Activity

    - Behavioural change: Demonstrate to the individuals involved in my program that in a long term, those criminal activities they have performed will not last, and they are likely to either lose their lives or being caught by the police. In order to persuade them to change their behavior, I would also make partnerships with...

  • A very recent example about expert led design and example of a people centred design is the novel Corona virus pandemic. In my country, Brazil, the very first initiatives provided by our government were refused to be adopt by national folks. For instance, at the beginning we still heard that people were continuing to refuse to wear facial masks and stay social...

  • Decrease criminal activity levels
    1. Resourcing: Research on social campaigns that have been successful on implement social changes in countries with similar issues. Analyze their level of success and why they worked or didn´t work, but also what can be done, given the local reality.
    2. Planning: Plan meetings of 1 hour with different institutions, such as...

  • Taking the ‘Waste Not Want Not’ program as an example, the issue I'm concerned with in my city, which is pollution in water streams, what could be offered to achieve direct exchange is what some public funding companies in my city already do, which is giving discount on household bills for the service they provide when the citizens give to the companies...

  • In my case, I would invite housewives, primary caregivers and people who live alone who also are responsible for their household cleaning, asking them what makes hard to choose ecofriendly products over the regular ones, and also how to clean surfaces without using too many chemical products who end up in water streams damaging marine life. Also, I would like...

  • Regarding the problem that catches most my attention in my city, which is water streams pollution, I would create online creative advertisements to be posted on social media in order to inform people how they daily actions have damaged water ecosystems, with scientific data, at the same time suggesting more ecofriendly solutions they can adopt to replace those...

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    I have seen overwork being encouraged in the workplace my husband works in. Although many of employees usually follow that pattern, my husband sometimes simply disconnect from work in order to maintain his life well balanced. It can be a challenge, because his cellphone doesn't stop receiving messages from his colleagues, though it is worth the effort and no...

  • During my childhood, my mom usually bought bread some days after the bakery had produced, because they had not sold it freshly to costumers. On the bright side, for my family that was an inexpensive way to buy many delicious and different breads, including sweet versions, and for the bakery it was a way to recover its costs of production, without losing all...

  • I have seen Imposter Phenomenon habits play out in environments in many different ways. For instance, I know some women occupying leadership roles in their organizations and some of them behavior like men, talking out loud with their team, or even curse like men do. Maybe it's a way to feel respected and make a statement about their power, like some men do....

  • Have a wonderful day you too, Ramakrishnan! May you excel yourself as well!

  • - Do elements or all of the characteristics of Imposter Syndrome sound familiar to you? Yes, all of them!
    - Are you surprised about some of the information presented? Yes, positively surprised with such helpful information gathered in this course!
    - Thinking about yourself, note down a couple of new observations or insights about your thoughts or behaviours....

  • The relationships between perfectionism and imposter syndrome are very clear, the individual is always seeking the maximum perfection because the self sabotage is in play constantly. In other words, one feed another.
    The contribution of family relationships individuals' identities that is that the first education we have in life comes from within our family,...

  • "Both Dr Norris and Ms Mercier say impostor syndrome is an experience that tends to come and go throughout a person's life. There's no one way to experience impostor syndrome, so there's no one way to stop it. But there are things you can do to train your brain to focus on the good over the bad. "The real way to combat impostor phenomenon is to gather...

  • I have never thought those successful people displayed in the video suffered from Imposter Syndrome. I always suppose that people who are at the top of their career had had everything figured out before achieving their high performance. I think high achievers are more likely to suffer from Imposter Syndrome because they, differently from other people who...

  • Throughout my entire life I have sabotaged my own self through doubting my capabilities and intelligence, performing most the behaviors displayed in the video above, which has led me to unemployment and also to drag meaningful connections away, after all not everyone has patience to be friends with a person who in insecure and has a negative image about their...

  • Coincidence or not, my final research assignment at law university was about pollution in water streams. Initially though, my approach was the matter involving plastic products disposal which is a major factor to killing and destroying marine life. Due to the colossal importance of this matter and the Brazilian environmental laws, this case would be better...

  • As some of the peers already commented, one of the barriers to be overcome can be the financial situation of the targeted individuals. That is to say, sometimes the solution provided by NGOs may require some kind of prior money input, but if the individual has limited resources, although the outcome seems great, the person might chose not to spend their budget...

  • If I had the opportunity to learn from somebody who was very experienced in storytelling through audio, the question I would want an answer to is when the person is not comfortable talking about the podcast's subject, but regardless she/he has agreed to talking about the discomforting matter, and in the process of doing so, she/he is having bad feelings...

  • @SoundararajanSrinivasa I'm glad to have such wise person over here among us. I hope I can be as you at your age, still helping others out around me in order to see them succeed in life. Kudos to you! May you live long enough to inspire others. I am already feeling inspired by you. Keep fighting the good fight!

  • Excellent content, full of precious information and guidelines to a well recorded podcast. It's been such a gift to be enrolled in this course. Thanks Future Learn to putting it available online for us! The teachers and mentors of this course are simply top professionals. I am glad for having such opportunity over here.

  • Either I would be the host myself, or I would invite my husband to be the host in some episodes and then we would produce some podcasts talking about my journey of self discovery through my mental health problems and how they have been along with me for a quite long time, although I just realized my condition a few months ago, then I found the professional...

  • In my case, my win strategy has been changing some mental health issues that have disturbed myself throughout the last fifteen years of my life, which has also made me lose great jobs and pulling away friends and professional connections. Not to mention that those mental issues had also damaged my closest relationships. But now that I finally have found my way...

  • Yes, it certainly is quite undertaking, though I believe that if we separate the stages of a big endeavor and starting by taking one step day after day, at the end when everything's finished, it will seem like it was less difficult than it was at the beginning when we started from scratch. So, that's my strategy for achieving many great things in my life....

  • That's a great tip. By doing so, the interviewee will be more relaxed and comfortable to talk with the interviewer, rather than feeling pressured to open up about matters that can be quite overwhelming to speak out loud.

  • My niche would be how women have coped throughout history in order to survive in societies where they are regarded as merely men's companionship without being heard. As a matter of fact, I would narrow down my niche to telling stories about Brazilian black women with that kind of background, starting with my own mother in law, who has suffered many kinds of...

  • She really is an inspiration for me. Although I am not much close to her due to the fact that she lives in an state that is far way from the one I live in, that is to say, she lives at Baia, and I live in Rio de Janeiro, it's quite a pleasure to hear from my husband about such strong woman. I really want to write a book of her memories, featuring the...

  • My story would be about my mother-in-law, who has as her ancestors slaves, indigenous people, gypsy people and Portuguese nationals. She is a courageous woman has thrived throughout his life in order to sustain her two sons as well as survived through hardships. Sometimes my husband tells me fascinating stories about his childhood and also about their...

  • This current step certainly made me even more fascinated about podcast and storytelling. From the Siobhan's article, that similarly captivated me, one particular excerpt catches my attention, which I copied and pasted down:
    "We listen in appalled fascination; audio can bypass our bigotry and suck us in to places where we normally wouldn’t go. As S-Town...

  • The issue I picked that bothers me so much is the pollution of water streams in my city

    Co-creation:
    Schedule meetings with university researches, NGOs leaders, citizens, civil organizations, private companies and public institutions that focus on environmental issues to brainstorm viable solutions to different groups of society, in order to achieve plans...

  • That scenario presented above is a rather complex problem. I would say, for what I have learned in this course so far that the solutions may vary from different stakeholders, farmers and the different individuals affected by the issue. So, in order to reach an effective way to each group, the must participate actively in the decision making process, so that...

  • In my opinion, the matter of obesity also includes regulations on the food sector and grocery stores. For instance, I have noted in my country (Brasil) how different types of food are displayed on supermarkets, compared to the supermarkets over Canada, specifically Vancouver where I stayed for beautiful 6 months in 2018. It seems to me that the element of food...

  • Since football is a well enjoyed matter by many people, the ‘Neat Streets’ strategy is highly likely to bring lasting change for cigarette butts. If I were the manager campaign though, I would also come up with some different themes to the bins to people dispose their cigarette butts, including musical and other issues involving images of cute animals. For...

  • I picked three of the podcasts listed above as favorites, specially the ones 'Call your girlfriend', the episode called "Gossip Queen", because it takes away the negative tone that gossip has around it, mainly when it's talked by women.
    The other that I loved hearing was from https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney, that tells the story of a girl...

  • OMG such powerful story!! I mus confess, at the very beginning of the text I perceived it was going to be an emotional but fantastic narrative, so I read the whole text out loud, as I would have done if I was a story teller to a crowd. So, at the moment the story already sound quite touching for me. But then, to hear the lady speaking in the podcast just...

  • Throughout the last two years I have heard a couple hundred of podcast from CBC Radio, from Canada. It is a huge challenge for me to describe one little single podcast that made me visualize a large range of scenarios, merely by listening the podcasts from their app. From stories about citizens' daily lives, to how the country deals with internal and external...

  • That seems great! I'll check out this link you shared, Abby. Also, I'll check this book you just told us about. Thanks. I've been searching ways to improve some habits and beliefs I've had for a quite long time with myself that now that I am an adult have become such hindrances in my way to achieve my personal goals and dreams. So, thanks again.

  • Another fantastic article produced in this course! I am so amazed and thankful for Future Learn that put this interesting course available for anyone. By reading all this article, I've reached a conclusion, that not everyone who works on social marketing needs to be an expert on the subject. In fact, rather than that, a group composed of staff members with...

  • That's a highly insightful text! Thanks Future Learn and everyone involved in creating this step in this marvelous course. This step specially caught my attention because in my country, Brazil, whenever there is a social issue urging critical changes, government authorities customarily use tactical efforts to do so, like changing laws, though the problems...

  • Muito difícil ver a natureza sendo destruída, Jhenyffer. E infelizmente esse é um comportamento brasileiro que já vem se arrastando por décadas. Mas espero que a nova geração de millennials, que são preocupados com o meio ambiente consigam influenciar um pouco mais positivamente este tipo de conduta.

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    I find it being quite interesting the meaning of the word 'nudge', which is "Altering people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives" Also, the expression 'Systematic Literature Review', which can be summarized as a process or a series of reviews that contributes to reduce bias on...

  • I just did a quick search on Google, but I didn't find a social marketing association for me to join in my city, Rio de Janeiro, at Brazil. I'll keep searching for it.

  • Hey girl! I live in Rio de Janeiro too. Those public security issues makes me feel overwhelmed too.

  • In my case, I have paid special attention to how people and government treat rivers and waters in my city, Rio de Janeiro. It makes me feel overwhelmed to think that on a daily basis water streams that are supposed to be pristine, or with a minimum amount of pollutants, in fact receive garbage that should not be disposed anywhere near those waters. I come from...

  • Hi everyone! I'm from Brazil. I'm very passionate about learning and due to this, I've joined this course. Also, I believe that social changes can be achieved in many ways, including marketing, as long as it influences directly people's beliefs and behaviors towards others surround them. I'm truly glad for Future Learn being giving me such special chances to...

  • I just heard a bit of every podcast listed above. I find all of them quite engaging, in their own particular way and techniques. The ones that catch most my attention, though were 'Serial' and "Science Friction' due to the matters they are about, which I'm really into in. The ones from 'New York Times' are excellent to observe how to speak in a low pace that...

  • It will be great to know everything about podcast, how to record a story, how to manipulate softwares and other tools to improve the audio quality, and so on. As a start, it was a very inspirational to get to know all of you ladies, your works, achievements, as well as what you guys are passionate about. I personally identify myself with all of you, because I...

  • @SiobhanMcHugh I'll check those stories out. They seem to be quite interesting.

  • I'm glad for having the opportunity of join a so useful course. It will certainly gather valuable information to my life.

  • I agree with the Professor, totally. Excellent text! Thanks for putting publicly available for anyone.

  • In my case, the most effective way I have found to cope with some adversities, that has also prevented me from not having a breakdown due to some tough issues I have faced in the last months is taking lots of Me time by doing what I find being highly pleasant. The activities I have done are basically going to the gym I have attend to and taking group classes...

  • Such wise words!!

  • These materials seem to be quite helpful! I like it!

  • With regard to the matters mental health and wellbeing this app seems to be a very functional tool to help us find a way to cope with issues that affects our emotions. In my case, though due to the constant effort I've done to reduce the amount of time I spend using smartphones and techs, I'm afraid it would contribute to increase even its use. Since it has...

  • Erika, I suppose, as long as we lead a life full of meaningful connections they will provide us memorable moments among darling people, whether supporting charity activities or merely taking group exercises at a gym. It's been like this with me, at the moment I started taking group activities at the gym I attend to, rather than doing my workout alone, it...

  • Such valuable lessons to keep our mental health in great shape! Thanks for sharing your knowledge on it with us, sir!! I highly appreciate it!

  • I totally agree that psychological factors determine mental health problems. That is to say, when the matter is our mind, if it is not enabled to cope with tough issues happening surrounding us, we are likely to suffer mental health problems. I also think that adding psychology add many useful information that makes us aware of our characteristics and then we...

  • The spreadsheet presented in this step has helped me to understand even better the relationship between life events, mental health issues and well being. I recollect that in a previous step we studied about why children are far more creative than adults, based on arguments such as the younger ones don't fall in symptons of distress such as rumination when some...

  • Well pointed out, Susan! I couldn't agree more!

  • I think this article is quite reasonable and suggests many ways of treating successfully patients with mental disorders, without correctly pointing out that these sort of problems have their place in mental processes. I'm not an specialist, though as I've observed as well as learning in this course, most of mental disorders can be efficently treated through a...

  • Your are pretty right. For instance, today I've been tremendously upset because of some issues I haven't overcome, so as a consequence I couldn't perform many tasks I usualy carry out on a daily basis. Hopefullly tomorrow it'll be a luckier day for me.

  • That seems quite interesting. Although I have been absent due to my busy schedule, I'm already looking forward for reading those articles.

  • From what I've read in this week's papers, a person suffers from mental issues because of tough social events, mainly. So, I agree with John Read that "bad things happen to us and drive us crazy". For example, in my everyday life, in order to cope with some tough events that have happened starting over a few years ago, I have taken group classes at the gym I...

  • I agree with Professor Nick Craddock. In order to improve a mental health of a patient, they must be treated using all tools available, either from biopsychosocial or social perspectives.

  • I agree with John. Nowadays, social and psychological accounts are getting squeezed out due to investments on marketing campaigns made by pharmaceutical industry to sell their drugs and other factors, such as the medicalization of the psychosis area. Medication must be taken only in severe cases, when the social and psychosocial are not effective any more,...

  • I suppose none of the papers presented in this step are about discussing approaches on mental health issues. Rather than that, in both of them it's shown how environmental factors such as traumatic events in childhood and unemployment can affect our emotions and behavior, therefore leading us to psychotic experiences. So, based on these findings, I would argue...

  • I suppose, depending on the mental health problem the patient is facing, both psychological and medical approach can be effective and helpful. But it's also important remember, as brilliant written in the paper we just read, there are more factors to consider, such as social and environment where the patient lives. This means, sometimes what the patient needs...

  • Everything I have learned is this course has been very useful for me. For example, how to use collocations, and how to enrich my vocabulary by getting used to them; the methods of study used in UK universities; how to effectively learn new words. I appreciate all of information given thoughout this course. I'm looking forward to taking more courses like this one.

  • I think it's always good to have someone giving an opinion about ourt work. It helps us to see what we did not see by ourselves. I learned to be more detailed when making a peer review on someone's work, rather than only saying it's good or bad.

  • Hey Wellington, nice to meet you! I'm also from Brazil. I live in Rio de Janeiro and my husband is from the same brazilian city as you, Salvador.

  • ASSIGNMENT
    A freelance / photo assignment
    Written / reading assignment
    Foreign / global / overseas / international assignment
    Assignment of the various tasks / responsabilities / abilities
    Accept / refuse / take / on assignment
    Carry out / complete / finish an assignment
    His two-years assignment to US office
    On assignment for National Geographic

  • Rather than picking all of the words and writing definitons about them, I prefer to concentrate in the one I found very different from what I had known until now.
    This one is SCHOLARSHIP. This word has two different meanings, and both of them are related to the work performed by a student or researcher, usually at an university or other similar institution....

  • I choose the definition 1, because essays usually not include sources to refer to other writers. Rather, it's a way to a student demonstrate their own knowledge in a specific subject. I also think the number 3 is correct because an essay does have a body and conclusion.

  • Along my previous undergraduate degree at university, I used to gather with my peers to help them solve their doubts prior to the exams we were going to have. I was not exactly a tutor, but as they know I studied a lot by myself and they saw me as someone who could facilitate their learning. Also, By doing that, I learned a lot, because not always I had the...

  • Two weeks ago I had been in a lecture. In my case, the lecturers did ask questions for the audience during their presentations, but we did not need to gather with other peers to discuss the topics given. Likewise, it was a great way to deepen my understanding in that subject, therefore making me realize that how interesting it is for and it can be my future...

  • By Omar's video, I figured out the differences and similarities between the four methods of study presented in this step and in the previous step. Lecture, Seminar and Tutorial are executed by a professor or teacher. Lecture, though is performed in a bigger class than a Seminar. Another point I noticed is that Tutorial is a great way to prepare for...

  • A LECTURE is a talk someone gives in order to teach people about a particular subject, usually at university or college.

    A SEMINAR is a class at a college or university in which the teacher and a small group of students discuss a topic.

    In a university or college, a TUTORIAL is a regular meeting between a tutor or professor and one of several students...

  • Starting this week, I'm going to practice more by using the phonemic chart as well as relating the words, rather than simply creating long lists of words. These two strategies certainly will help me to get at a higher level than my current one.

  • The most difficult part for me is the phonemic chart. I really need to practice it harder, so that I'll get a clearer pronunciation.
    I appreciate the tip about how to memorize the words better, by creating connections between them, rather than simply writing lists of words. This seems to be very effective! I will try this on!

  • The most difficult words for me are: criticality and analyse.
    This simples exercise has made me realize I still have tons of words to learn!

  • OMG I got it all wrong :'(

  • Refle'ction
    Lec'ture
    Gen're
    Indepen'dence
    Auto'nomous

  • 1. in the syllable 'fle'
    2. in the syllable 'ture'
    3. in the syllable 're'
    4. in the syllable 'dence'
    5. in the syllables 'no.mous'

  • When I was taking english classes at Canada, during an exchange at that country, the most valuable classes for me were the ones about pronunciation. The teacher taught my class how to pronounce perfectly words in english by showing us the phonemic chart and through lots of exercises as well. That was an awesome time I had overthere.

  • Resilient: Strong enough to get better quickly after damage, illness, shock, etc.
    Interactive: Involving communication between

    I choose those two above because they have quite valuable meaning for me.

  • The context where the word Independent fits better is 'self-study'. Government-rule doesn't suit nice in this kind of situation.

  • Yes, I agree with Omar. A learners dicionary seems to be the best for who the native language is other than english. On the other hand, a bilingual dicitonary seems to be useless because it doesn't show exactly when and how to use the word precisely. I stopped using bilingual dictionary sometime ago, and then I had become much more confident than I used to be...

  • As a matter of fact, I don't like any of these dictionaries shown as examples, I'd rather to use the one called Dictionary, because it's a monolingual dictionary that also shows how to use the word, with lots of examples and in what context the word fits better. Plus, it's also possible to check synonyms and the origin of the word being searched as well as...

  • I have learned lots of precious hints about being a successful student that are going to help me at the present time, even before I go study overseas.
    One of the them is engage in the learning process and in the subject by planning my time studying with other peers.

  • According to what I understand, what makes a good student is beyond just study and get high rates. It is also recognise where are the gaps that need some improvement; plan your time; be friendly and make connections with other peers; be curious and resilient.

  • I agree with both of them. Indeed, I would like to add something. In order to improve the mental health of a patient, it's also essential that this patient feels loved and supported by their loved ones, otherwise without love, hope and a positive perspective, the patient might lose faith in themselves. This occured with an auntie of mine. We lost her because...

  • I also agree with Jim Van Os! In a recent past, at Brazil we had some institutions dedicated to exclusively treat patients with mental problems. Although, the view on treatment for these kind of patients changed and nowadays we don't have these hospitals so far. Instead, currently it's a common sense that the best place for a patient stays is at their own...

  • I agree with you! After I have became an adult, I have had some problems that could affect me negatively. However, I have overcame those though times, in great part, I suppose, due to I have great parents, who still teach me some essential values to thrive in life.