THE LAUNDRY LIST The Laundry List – 14 Traits of an Adult Child of an Alcoholic 1. We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures. 2. We became approval seekers and lost our identity in the process. 3. We are frightened by angry people and any personal criticism. 4. We either become alcoholics, marry them or both, or find another compulsive personality such as a workaholic to fulfill our sick abandonment needs. 5. We live life from the viewpoint of victims and we are attracted by that weakness in our love and friendship relationships. 6. We have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility and it is easier for us to be concerned with others rather than ourselves; this enables us not to look too closely at our own faults, etc. 7. We get guilt feelings when we stand up for ourselves instead of giving in to others. 8. We became addicted to excitement. 9. We confuse love and pity and tend to "love" people we can "pity" and "rescue." 10. We have "stuffed" our feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our feelings because it hurts so much (Denial). 11. We judge ourselves harshly and have a very low sense of self-esteem. 12. We are dependent personalities who are terrified of abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings, which we received from living with sick people who were never there emotionally for us. 13. Alcoholism is a family disease; and we became para-alcoholics and took on the characteristics of that disease even though we did not pick up the drink. 14. Para-alcoholics are reactors rather than actors. Tony A., 1978 Note: The Laundry List serves as the basis for The Problem statement. The Flip Side of The Laundry List 1. We move out of isolation and are not unrealistically afraid of other people, even authority figures. 2. We do not depend on others to tell us who we are. 3. We are not automatically frightened by angry people and no longer regard personal criticism as a threat. 4. We do not have a compulsive need to recreate abandonment. 5. We stop living life from the standpoint of victims and are not attracted by this trait in our important relationships. 6. We do not use enabling as a way to avoid looking at our own shortcomings. 7. We do not feel guilty when we stand up for ourselves. 8. We avoid emotional intoxication and choose workable relationships instead of constant upset. 9. We are able to distinguish love from pity, and do not think “rescuing” people we “pity” is an act of love. 10. We come out of denial about our traumatic childhoods and regain the ability to feel and express our emotions. 11. We stop judging and condemning ourselves and discover a sense of self-worth. 12. We grow in independence and are no longer terrified of abandonment. We have interdependent relationships with healthy people, not dependent relationships with people who are emotionally unavailable. 13. The characteristics of alcohol ...

1. THE LAUNDRY LIST
The Laundry List – 14 Traits of an Adult Child of an Alcoholic
1. We became isolated and afraid of people and authority
figures.
2. We became approval seekers and lost our identity in the
process.
3. We are frightened by angry people and any personal
criticism.
4. We either become alcoholics, marry them or both, or find
another compulsive personality such as a workaholic to fulfill
our sick abandonment needs.
5. We live life from the viewpoint of victims and we are
attracted by that weakness in our love and friendship
relationships.
6. We have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility and it is
easier for us to be concerned with others rather than ourselves;
this enables us not to look too closely at our own faults, etc.
7. We get guilt feelings when we stand up for ourselves instead
of giving in to others.
8. We became addicted to excitement.
9. We confuse love and pity and tend to "love" people we can
"pity" and "rescue."
10. We have "stuffed" our feelings from our traumatic
childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our
feelings because it hurts so much (Denial).
11. We judge ourselves harshly and have a very low sense of
self-esteem.
12. We are dependent personalities who are terrified of
abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship
in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings, which
we received from living with sick people who were never there
emotionally for us.
13. Alcoholism is a family disease; and we became para-
alcoholics and took on the characteristics of that disease even

2. though we did not pick up the drink.
14. Para-alcoholics are reactors rather than actors.
Tony A., 1978
Note: The Laundry List serves as the basis for The
Problem statement.
The Flip Side of The Laundry List
1. We move out of isolation and are not unrealistically afraid of
other people, even authority
figures.
2. We do not depend on others to tell us who we are.
3. We are not automatically frightened by angry people and no
longer regard personal criticism as a threat.
4. We do not have a compulsive need to recreate abandonment.
5. We stop living life from the standpoint of victims and are not
attracted by this trait in our important relationships.
6. We do not use enabling as a way to avoid looking at our own
shortcomings.
7. We do not feel guilty when we stand up for ourselves.
8. We avoid emotional intoxication and choose workable
relationships instead of constant
upset.
9. We are able to distinguish love from pity, and do not think
“rescuing” people we “pity” is an act of love.
10. We come out of denial about our traumatic childhoods and
regain the ability to feel and express our emotions.
11. We stop judging and condemning ourselves and discover a
sense of self-worth.
12. We grow in independence and are no longer terrified of
abandonment. We have interdependent relationships with
healthy people, not dependent relationships with people who are
emotionally unavailable.
13. The characteristics of alcoholism and para-alcoholism we
have internalized are identified, acknowledged, and removed.
14. We are actors, not reactors.
The Other Laundry List
1. To cover our fear of people and our dread of isolation we

3. tragically become the very authority figures who frighten others
and cause them to withdraw.
2. To avoid becoming enmeshed and entangled with other
people and losing ourselves in the process, we become rigidly
self-sufficient. We disdain the approval of others.
3. We frighten people with our anger and threat of belittling
criticism.
4. We dominate others and abandon them before they can
abandon us or we avoid relationships with dependent people
altogether. To avoid being hurt, we isolate and dissociate and
thereby abandon ourselves.
5. We live life from the standpoint of a victimizer, and are
attracted to people we can manipulate and control in our
important relationships.
6. We are irresponsible and self-centered. Our inflated sense of
self-worth and self-importance prevents us from seeing our
deficiencies and shortcomings.
7. We make others feel guilty when they attempt to assert
themselves.
8. We inhibit our fear by staying deadened and numb.
9. We hate people who “play” the victim and beg to be rescued.
10. We deny that we’ve been hurt and are suppressing our
emotions by the dramatic expression of “pseudo” feelings.
11. To protect ourselves from self punishment for failing to
“save” the family we project our self-hate onto others and
punish them instead.
12. We “manage” the massive amount of deprivation we feel,
coming from abandonment within the home, by quickly letting
go of relationships that threaten our “independence” (not too
close).
13. We refuse to admit we’ve been affected by family
dysfunction or that there was dysfunction in the home or that we
have internalized any of the family’s destructive attitudes and
behaviors.
14. We act as if we are nothing like the dependent people who
raised us.

4. The Flip Side of The Other Laundry List
1. We face and resolve our fear of people and our dread of
isolation and stop intimidating others with our power and
position.
2. We realize the sanctuary we have built to protect the
frightened and injured child within has become a prison and we
become willing to risk moving out of isolation.
3. With our renewed sense of self-worth and self-esteem we
realize it is no longer necessary to protect ourselves by
intimidating others with contempt, ridicule and anger.
4. We accept and comfort the isolated and hurt inner child we
have abandoned and disavowed and thereby end the need to act
out our fears of enmeshment and abandonment with other
people.
5. Because we are whole and complete we no longer try to
control others through manipulation and force and bind them to
us with fear in order to avoid feeling isolated and alone.
6. Through our in-depth inventory we discover our true identity
as capable, worthwhile people. By asking to have our
shortcomings removed we are freed from the burden of
inferiority and grandiosity.
7. We support and encourage others in their efforts to be
assertive.
8. We uncover, acknowledge and express our childhood fears
and withdraw from emotional intoxication.
9. We have compassion for anyone who is trapped in the “drama
triangle” and is desperately searching for a way out of insanity.
10. We accept we were traumatized in childhood and lost the
ability to feel. Using the 12 Steps as a program of recovery we
regain the ability to feel and remember and become whole
human beings who are happy, joyous and free.
11. In accepting we were powerless as children to “save” our
family we are able to release our self-hate and to stop punishing
ourselves and others for not being enough.
12. By accepting and reuniting with the inner child we are no
longer threatened by intimacy, by the fear of being engulfed or

5. made invisible.
13. By acknowledging the reality of family dysfunction we no
longer have to act as if nothing were wrong or keep denying
that we are still unconsciously reacting to childhood harm and
injury.
14. We stop denying and do something about our post-traumatic
dependency on substances, people, places and things to distort
and avoid reality.
THE PROBLEM
Many of us found that we had several characteristics in common
as a result of being brought up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional
household. We had come to feel isolated and uneasy with other
people, especially authority figures. To protect ourselves, we
became people-pleasers, even though we lost our own identities
in the process. All the same we would mistake any personal
criticism as a threat. We either became alcoholics (or practiced
other addictive behavior) ourselves, or married them, or both.
Failing that, we found other compulsive personalities, such as a
workaholic, to fulfill our sick need for abandonment.
We lived life from the standpoint of victims. Having an
overdeveloped sense of responsibility, we preferred to be
concerned with others rather than ourselves. We got guilt
feelings when we stood up for ourselves rather than giving in to
others. Thus, we became reactors, rather than actors, letting
others take the initiative. We were dependent personalities,
terrified of abandonment, willing to do almost anything to hold
on to a relationship in order not to be abandoned emotionally.
Yet we kept choosing insecure relationships because they
matched our childhood relationship with alcoholic or
dysfunctional parents.
These symptoms of the family disease of alcoholism or other
dysfunction made us "co-victims", those who take on the
characteristics of the disease without necessarily ever taking a
drink. We learned to keep our feelings down as children and

6. kept them buried as adults. As a result of this conditioning, we
confused love with pity, tending to love those we could rescue.
Even more self-defeating, we became addicted to excitement in
all our affairs, preferring constant upset to workable
relationships.
This is a description, not an indictment.
Adapted from The Laundry List
THE SOLUTIONThe solution is to become your own loving
parent
As ACA becomes a safe place for you, you will find freedom to
express all the hurts and fears you have kept inside and to free
yourself from the shame and blame that are carryovers from the
past. You will become an adult who is imprisoned no longer by
childhood reactions. You will recover the child within you,
learning to accept and love yourself.
The healing begins when we risk moving out of isolation.
Feelings and buried memories will return. By gradually
releasing the burden of unexpressed grief, we slowly move out
of the past. We learn to re-parent ourselves with gentleness,
humor, love and respect.
This process allows us to see our biological parents as the
instruments of our existence. Our actual parent is a Higher
Power whom some of us choose to call God. Although we had
alcoholic or dysfunctional parents, our Higher Power gave us
the Twelve Steps of Recovery.
This is the action and work that heals us: we use the Steps; we
use the meetings; we use the telephone. We share our
experience, strength, and hope with each other. We learn to
restructure our sick thinking one day at a time. When we release
our parents from responsibility for our actions today, we
become free to make healthful decisions as actors, not reactors.
We progress from hurting, to healing, to helping. We awaken to
a sense of wholeness we never knew was possible.
By attending these meetings on a regular basis, you will come
to see parental alcoholism or family dysfunction for what it is: a

7. disease that infected you as a child and continues to affect you
as an adult. You will learn to keep the focus on yourself in the
here and now. You will take responsibility for your own life and
supply your own parenting.
You will not do this alone. Look around you and you will see
others who know how you feel. We will love and encourage you
no matter what. We ask you to accept us just as we accept you.
This is a spiritual program based on action coming from love.
We are sure that as the love grows inside you, you will see
beautiful changes in all your relationships, especially with God,
yourself, and your parents.
THE PROMISES
1. We will discover our real identities by loving and accepting
ourselves.
2. Our self-esteem will increase as we give ourselves approval
on a daily basis.
3. Fear of authority figures and the need to "people-please" will
leave us.
4. Our ability to share intimacy will grow inside us.
5. As we face our abandonment issues, we will be attracted by
strengths and become more tolerant of weaknesses.
6. We will enjoy feeling stable, peaceful, and financially secure.
7. We will learn how to play and have fun in our lives.
8. We will choose to love people who can love and be
responsible for themselves.
9. Healthy boundaries and limits will become easier for us to
set.
10. Fears of failure and success will leave us, as we intuitively
make healthier choices.
11. With help from our ACA support group, we will slowly
release our dysfunctional behaviors.
12. Gradually, with our Higher Power's help, we will learn to
expect the best and get it.

8. Enterprise Systems (IT342)
Assignment 1
Deadline: Monday, 5th of October 2015 at 11:59 pm.
Important Instructions:
1. Read and understand the questions carefully.
2. This is an individual work, so make sure it is your own.
3. Search the book or other resources to have a better
understanding of the questions.
4. When you are asked to provide examples, make sure it is your
own example and preferably from experience. Examples must
not be identical to other students and have not been discussed in
the classes.
5. Use ‘Word Processor’ to answer the questions.
6. Submission must be through the submission folder set by
your instructor on Blackboard, no email submissions will be
accepted.
7. Late submission or plagiarism will result in ZERO mark.
8. This assignment worth 5 marks of the total course mark.
From Chapter 1
Q1) Explain the statement “Stovepiped operations lead to
stovepiped systems; stovepiped systems perpetuate stovepiped
operations.” [2 Marks]
From Chapter 2
Q2) Do you think activities that could be re-engineered away
should serve as foundational building blocks in an enterprise
information system? Why or why not? [2 Marks]
From Chapter 3
Q3) Do some events occur outside enterprise boundaries?
Should information system designers focus on events that lie
beyond an enterprise’s boundaries? Support your answer with a
suitable example. [6 Marks]

9. From Chapter 4
Q4) Case Study of “Bowerkate Corporation”
[10 Marks]
· “Bowerkate Corporation” sells handcrafted surfboards to
customers through its network of company salespeople.
· Each surfboard is given a unique identification number and a
suggested selling price when finished.
· Upon employment, each salesperson is immediately assigned
to service a separate group of customers.
· When customer data is initially entered into Bowerkate’s
information system, the customer is immediately assigned to a
salesperson.
· Each sale can include one or more surfboard and can be paid
for in any of three ways: (1) Immediately in cash
(2) On the 15th of the following month
(3) Over the course of six months.
· No more than one salesperson participates in making a
particular sale.
· A salesperson may negotiate with a customer and agree on a
selling price for any surfboard that is lower than that
surfboard’s suggested selling price, especially if the customer is
a high volume customer or if that surfboard is a slow seller
(i.e., it has been in stock for a long time).
· Although the vast majority of cash receipts come from
customers (any particular cash receipt would be from only one
customer) for sales, some cash receipts come from other sources
(e.g. bank loans).
· Every cash receipt is processed by exactly one of Bowerkate’s
several cashiers and is deposited into one of Bowerkate’s bank
accounts.
· Information about surfboards, employees, and customers often
needs to be entered into the database before any transactions
involving them have occurred.

10. · The following data items (attributes) are of interest to
potential users of this model:
-surfboard-id# -cash-account-balance
-customer-name -qty-of-items-sold-on-a-
particular-invoice
-salesperson-name -cashier-name
-cash-receipt-total-amount -description-of-
surfboard
-location-of-cash-account -customer-accounts-
receivable-balance
-sale-number -salesperson-number
-cash-receipt-amount-applied-to-a-sale -cashier-ID-number
-cash-account-number -cash-account-type
-customer-number -suggested-selling-price-
for-a-surfboard
-actual-selling-price-for-a-surfboard -sale-total-
amount
-salesperson-commission-rate -remittance-advice-number
Note: Salesperson commission rate is determined per
contractual arrangement with each salesperson and for a
particular salesperson it is the same percentage rate no matter
what items he or she sells
Required:Create an REA model for Bowerkate Corporation’s
Revenue Cycle as described above. Be sure to include all
relevant entities, relationships, attributes, and participation
cardinalities.