Disciplinary Perspectives

No matter how vindicating the times, the sun falls at dusk and rises at dawn with decorum. For the sun does it’s duty naturally, rising and falling without direction to do so. As the sun portrays a character of optimism, my heart progresses to share this same quality. I have always seemed to envision an irrepressible vibrance in the world, a lens not many people spectate often. Throughout my life, I have always found a light of hope in every dark and despairing situation, and a heart of compassion for others. Whenever giving up was an option, my inner conscience advised me to keep going, keep rising as the sun does each and every morning without question. For it is persistence, without a doubt, that drives the good and true intentions of others.

In Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," the speaker is a son talking to his aging father and pleading with him to fight against death. The son knows that death is the inevitable end to every life, but feels one should not give up to death too easily. By using metaphor, imagery, and repetition, Thomas reinforces the son's message that aging men see their lives with sudden clarity and realize how they might have lived happier, more productive lives. These men rail against fate, fighting for more time to set things right.

In what ways am I able to apply the ideas and concepts gained to my own experience?

Later in life, after realizing how hard the world is-- and when you realize that no matter what you do, or how hard you work, there are some things that you can’t change or work with-- you might eventually give up. Irene Reilly gave

I’ve thought a lot about that quote during my reading of Cities Of Gold. My aunt had meant it in a “this bad part will be over soon” way, but you can so easily apply it to the good parts of life. All things must pass, the good, the bad, the merely okay. Cities of Gold argues that we must accept this truth of life, the fact that everything eventually fades into oblivion, as it relates to ourselves and to the society we live in.

This closing-line can be interpreted in many ways and this is one of the reasons why it is so memorable. The most popular interpretation for this line is that we will push forward in life and make progress but can be taken backwards due to moments in our past. This explanation is generally the first way to think of the line but many could provide different interpretations that one might not

The author was saying that old age shouldn’t stop you from pursuing things in life, that you should fight against death. In your final days you should enjoy life and “burn and rave”, because before you know it, your life could be gone.

Education benefits individual mentally, emotionally and physically by placing them in better place than they were previously before. Everybody would agree that learning something new would take place throughout the life. Learning style defined as "A term that describes the variations among learners in using one or more senses to understand, organize, and retain experience" (Reid, 1987, p. 89). Furthermore, Felder and Henriques (1995, p. 21) explained learning styles as "the ways in which an individual characteristically acquires, retains and retrieves information". However, different learners possess different characteristics and different preferred learning styles to perceive, process, take in and understand information.

It is impractical to contradict the inevitability of death, but no one begins to think of that until they are an elder or at a point in their life where their life is in jeopardy. However, it is said that people must not die in vain and that they should fight for their life, whether it is physically in a battle or mentally when on your deathbed. Both “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas depict a similar theme of mortality and how it is inevitable. Also, both poets add a unique lesson that one should not give up on themselves and that they should fight for it with all the time they have left on this earth but portray it in a different

In Dylan Thomas’ poem, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, the speaker of the poem is a son addressing his father who is falling ill urging him to fight against death and hold onto his life as long as possible. In this desperate plea to his father, Thomas uses a strategic combination visual imagery, symbolism, and metaphors to convey that people from all walks of life should rage against death despite its inevitability.

The topic of touch is approached with many different perspectives. Phillip’s psychoanalytic point of view is that tickling is a common interaction between a child and their parent and that it is an acceptable sensual experience for them. Howes and Classen discuss how tactile relationships between children and their parents went from being acceptable to rare and then back to being a norm. In the scientific perspective, Montagu argues that the touch of a mother early on in a child’s life has a major impact on their adult sex lives. The psychoanalytic, historical and scientific perspectives have similarities and differences when it comes to touch.

Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night is a poem written by Dylan Thomas for his father who is on the verge of dying. Old age and death are the nature of life, there is no denial in that. However, the way we face and go through these things is what matters. We should learn to embrace every single moment of life, appreciating the good moments and learning from the bad ones. The idea is to never give up, no matter what. He urges the aging to keep themselves busy while doing things that they like in life, rather than think about death and accept it with ease. Usually, an aging person becomes weak, sensitive and frail. I believe that the speaker wants to let the aging people to know how to stay on for dear life. Struggle is a part of life and it is better

Experiential learning is a process that basically demonstrates and focuses on the role of experience in the learning process. This process has been explained by various theorists who have developed some theories including Experiential Learning Theory, cognitive learning theories, and Social Constructivist Theory. The Experiential Learning Theory offers a holistic model of the process of learning and multi-linear form of adult development that shows the process with which people learn, develop, and grow. On the contrary, cognitive theories of learning focus on the impact of cognition rather than affect in learning. Similar to other constructivism approaches, Social Constructivist Theory is based on the belief that a learner develops a personal understanding of significant structures of meaning from his/her actions in the world through reflection.

David Kolb’s experiential learning model (1984) – one of the most commonly used models of learning styles defines four stages in the learning cycle: concrete experience, observation and reflection, the formation of abstract concepts and testing in new situations. Experiential learning increases our reserve of reliable experiences that can help us adapt to any challenging situation we come across. When attempting to learn through experience, we first have to have a concrete experience of a scale such that it is brief enough to be analyzed in detail, contains enough detail to draw learning from and has meaning for the group analyzing it. In an OMD, concrete experience is provided through training exercises, outdoor adventure activities and team building games. Processing experiential learning activities through group discussions and debriefing sessions help learn from even seemingly mundane events.

Self-directed learning, or the ability to learn on one’s own is an essential competency to