A Different Mirror Reflection

Within this essay I will be concentrating on explaining how an individual can implement reflection in their learning experiences. Applying skills of reflection to a particular learning experience such as induction week will be the main focus of this essay as it will convey the importance of reflecting upon the experience of working with other students.

The structure of Kesaya E. Noda's essay “Growing Up Asian in America” facilitates the reader’s understanding of her bi-cultural experiences. The author begins by stating her thoughts on the prejudicial assumptions made by Americans ignorant of the author's culture. The author states early in the essay, “People would ask… Sometimes questions came making allusions to history… “Your parents were in California? Were they in those camps during the war?”. Noda reflects on the historical significance of Japanese immigrants and Japanese- American culture, describing the obstacles these Asian immigrants had to face. She also describes how American opinion on immigration changed once Asian newcomers demanded higher wages, and how these weren't

American minorities made up a significant amount of America’s population in the 1920s and 1930s, estimated to be around 11.9 million people, according to . However, even with all those people, there still was harsh segregation going on. Caucasians made African-Americans work for them as slaves, farmers, babysitters, and many other things in that line. Then when World War II came, “World War II required the reunification and mobilization of Americans as never before” (Module2). They needed to cooperate on many things, even if they didn’t want to. These minorities mainly refer to African, Asian, and Mexican-Americans. They all suffered much pain as they were treated as if they weren’t even human beings. They were separated, looked down upon,

When analyzing events or people, an important factor to consider is the historical context revolving the object of interest. Historical context provides reasoning and rationalization on why certain events occurred, what caused people’s action, among many other examples. When discussing the dominant-minority group relationship and condition of entry in relations to immigration of certain ethnicities, the historical context provides almost all understanding necessary to provide insight on what happened during these times. In this essay, the Irish Immigration in 1845 and, later, the immigration of the Japanese in the 1880’s will be examined through historical context such as what brought the group to the United States, what roles did they play

In the 1880’s, America began seeing the first Japanese immigrants arrive in the Pacific Northwest. The Japanese came to this country searching for a better life. Many hoped to begin a new life in America where they could raise their families. There were others who came here merely to earn and save money only to return to Japan later on. The Japanese people who began their lives in America experienced little racism and discrimination, that is, before December 7th, 1941 when the country of Japan bombed the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After this event, the Japanese-American people’s lives would change dramatically.

Historically, America has been a nation that participates in discriminatory practices based on perceived race. European Americans have always considered themselves as a privilege group, therefore excluded from the discriminatory practice against other minorities. Mexicans, Filipinos, Blacks (African Americans) and Native Americans, were excluded from first class citizenship, and were and still are in some cases America’s victims of separatism. Americans of European descent fought to keep their status quo though eugenics, racial discrimination and unfair laws and practices. Therefore, many obstacles were put in place to disenfranchised minorities through strategically bigoted activities and politically orchestrated legislation. Some of these things included inequality in economics, living conditions, immigration repression, and demeaning treatment supported by white European Americans. All of these practices simply because of external features, or known background regardless of personal appearance.

1) What are the three (3) biggest lessons you learned from your experience in The Civic Mirror?

As mentioned above, the federal government liberalized immigration policies in 1965 and further allowed refugees from several Southeastern Asian countries to enter the United States in the latter half of the 20th century, which dramatically increased the size of the “Asian” racial group. In addition, the state established the census category of “Asians” as a racial group, which was adopted by other federal, state, and local agencies, firmly establishing “Asian Americans” as how we as a society understand and perceive in contemporary society. Furthermore, Asian Americans themselves became acutely aware of their “racialized Other” status in the eyes of native whites when anti-Asian violence against several ethnic Asians occurred throughout the 1980s (Okamoto 2014; Espritiu 1992). This propelled different Asian ethnic groups, who previously thought of themselves as inherently different from one another, to mobilize together against anti-Asian sentiments and

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

I choose this topic because when I interviewed immigrant, Kay Collins, her experience was full of discrimination. When I was interviewing her, I chose this because it really spoke to me about how this is actually a part of the American Identity. Collins said, “When I first came over to work most people were very friendly. The only people that would give me a ride to work were the African Americans. The other thought that I should’ve stayed in my country. Times have changed not though, that’s when I first came.” Collins came to America from Wales around the 1960’s or 1970’s. Even today you don’t hear about discrimination as much as you did, but it’s still around. In our course we learned that other immigrants were treated in similar ways when they came over in the late 1800’s early 1900’s. From my research I found that “When Italian immigrants began arriving in the United States in the late 19th century, they were met with prejudice.” The same thing happened to Collins when she came over to the United

As a middle schooler, I have experienced success and failure. Sports in middle were not always good for me. In some cases I was the only one struggling personally. Other times it was my whole team and I that were struggling. Instead of giving up in these moments and just quitting the sport or blaming it on someone else, I tried to be a leader and help myself and others to get better.

The reasons for immigration to the "land of opportunity" called America in the early years of our country are clear. America was seen as a place where an individual could start over with an equal chance of success or failure, offered jobs, no matter what country he or she came from. This proved to be true for Irish immigrants, German-American immigrants, English and black immigrants that came to America. However, this was not the same for many of the Japanese immigrants. One of the many challenges Japanese immigrants faced when they arrived in the United States was the efforts of politicians, intellectuals, and community leaders to label Japanese an "undesirable race." Known collectively as the "anti-Japanese exclusion movement," these efforts ranged from introducing discriminatory legislation that discouraged further Japanese immigration, encouraging and enforcing boycotts of Japanese businesses, and spreading propaganda that offered a multitude of reasons to justify the exclusion of Japanese from the United States.

As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

Where does one see the most real physical you? The best example I could find is a mirror, and your reflection.

In deal with the Two Natures of Christ’s Person, I have found that there are a lot of people past and present that still have some sort of an issue with the subject of God and Jesus Christ being one in the same. According to McGrath,” Irenaeus of Lyons on the Trinity" that God the Father is, "uncreated, who is uncontained, invisible, one God, creator of the universe." (McGrath, p. 157). And according to scripture, “I and the Father are one” John 10:30 KJV. And there are many, many more scriptures that I will quote as we go along. Now I understand the argument of not fully understanding how can God who is completely divine and not of this world, be the Son of God. And Jesus Christ who is the son of God, that was born of a woman (I left out the virgin because of another argument) conceived by the Holy Ghost. Walked among us, grew up, ate, lived in this land as we have, yet was without sin, holy, powerful, and God in the flesh. Okay, I can certainly see why the question came about. So, let me take a swing at the discussion at hand. The Bible is a Prophetic Book, it is filled with divine language, definitions, and mysteries. So, to be able to understand and answer many of the questions of this book, one must have a spiritual discernment. According to scripture, “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth, not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man”. 1 Corinthians 2:13-15 (KJV). So, then now let me also point out that being saved,or a believer does not mean the same thing as having a spirit of discernment. No, not at all, for this is a gift that one must receive from God the father. Again, scripture says, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”, James 1:17 KJV. I could go on all day about the scriptures but I will add in this