APA Learning Journal

Your reflective learning journal entry should include:      The description of the event that took place; What you have learned; How it has affected your job role; Short term implications to you or your job role and Long term implications to you or your job role.

Women are just the play things of man. Their purpose is no more than just to be eye candy and to please men. At least- that's what today's society would want one to think. Gender roles, nearly ubiquitous across the globe, exist in today's society whether people believe it or not. Women are also made to be lesser than men, being paid less, discriminated against, being harassed, and being portrayed like sexual objects in the media.

According to the article “BlackBerry Posts Loss as Phones Go Unsold”, BlackBerry performs a poor performance. Business has a quarterly loss in 2013 for $965 million. The revenue had drop 45% that down to $1.57 billion from $2.86 billion compares with a year earlier. BlackBerry lost $248 million, or 47 cents a share, and analysts forecast 49 cents a share loss for the quarter ended August 31. The net loss is $235 million which excluding inventory charge and restructuring charges in the latest quarter. The cash position also down to $2.6 billion from $3.1 billion at quarter-end. Smartphone maker report a hefty operating loss of nearly $1 billion charge on inventory of unsold phones.

How should the institutions be set up when organizing a new government in a country with several religious factions? I would set up a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system much like our own. The differences would be a judiciary would be independent and elected in a general election much like the states do it. The highest court would be the Constitutional court that would hear only cases pertaining to the Constitution; whereas the Supreme Court would be the highest court of appeal for any cases not pertaining to the constitution. This would lighten the load and burden of our highest courts from having to take on the burden of so many different court cases, or quick appeals when it comes to the death penalty.

Critical reflection in education is very important because it impacts on pedagogical practices of the early childhood educators and helps in developing child agency in effective learning contexts. In this essay will explore, what critical reflection means and its key components, the process of critical reflection and reflective practice is implemented in education, what impact is has on educators and the development of child agency through critical reflection.

High school has been a very interesting experience for me. It has definitely had its highs and lows and many confusing experiences in between. Overall, I feel like I have been equipped for not only college, but also life as a whole. High school has taught me many things, both academically and emotionally. It has revealed and exposed my true colors, both good and bad, and as a result, has built many aspects of my character. My experiences at school have shaped me into the person that I am today.

For four long years I felt as if my high school was in a different world in of itself. I had spent that time interacting with an extensive amount of groups, or “cliques”, and getting to know what they do. Through my experiences, I had begun to realize what made this “subculture” high school of sorts run like it did. High school is an incredibly dynamic time for people, and I had changed as a person dramatically from my freshman to senior year. Like many, my freshman year was quite awkward, as remnants of my middle school self remained with me. As time went on, how, I talked to more people and grew out of my passive and shy personality. This did not just randomly happen without reason though. I began to learn and realize who I was and whom I enjoyed talking to in school, which explained why I spent so much time socializing with multiple kinds and groups of people. Everyone’s concept of “normal” was different, and high school was where I learned that lesson and will never forget.

Broeders, A.P.A., & Rietveld, T. (1995). Speaker identification by earwitnesses. In Braun. A., & Köster, J.P. (Eds), Studies in Forensic Phonetics (pp. 1-11). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

This past fall semester has been incredibly eye opening to the various different ways the topic of genetics can be applied to the medical field, specifically the field of nursing. Through class lecture, discussions, and activities I have learned that the field of genetics is already growing tremendously, and I predict that it will continue to do so as technology progresses. Hopefully, this will allow future patients to have care that is able to be directly tailored to them in order to provide more personalized and adequate treatment.

The final role play assessment was used to test the knowledge and skills that were learnt and attained throughout the curriculum which was followed by personal critical reflection on the interview. According to Payne (1998), critical reflection is the core of social work, as it enhances one’s development and improves practice which ultimately lead to improved outcomes for clients (Askeland & Fook, 2009).

Within this project the teacher candidate was able to interact with a peer teacher candidate and communicate effectively about personal experiences within the field. The teacher candidate was able to implement the knowledge and skills learned in professional development in the teaching and learning process. The teacher candidate made reflective implications of behavior management strategies and formal pedagogical practices of the professional teacher she observed, and touched on future use in her own classroom.

Women are often felt the pressure to conform to societies expectations of attractiveness as well as weight. The Feminism & Psychology journal, suggests that women actively try to fulfil society’s beauty standards due to their want to fit in, as well wanting to be liked by their peers. This study concluded that today, women are conforming to be ‘perfect’ so that they can fill the need to be included. This is negatively impacting women due to the fact that they will never see themselves as their idea of perfect,

This paper is a work of self-examination to find out what influenced my development from birth to this my 56th year. I will delve into my past and try to honestly and without judgment describe what events and actions led me to become the person I am today. I will look at the way in which the culture and family I grew up in build the frame-work of the person I have evolved into.

Has society gone too far by judging women on the way that they look, and comparing them to a predetermined ‘perfect’ women? It has become

Every fourth-year teacher trainees will have to conduct practicum and will work under the guideline of their associate teachers and supervisors. The purpose of doing the practicum are to put training into practice, to become accustomed to teaching in the tertiary school settings, and to develop and expand each trainee’s teaching expertise and confidence. In the following paragraph, I will express what I have learnt from doing practicum to reflect on my past teaching strengths and weaknesses from the teaching practicum.