Moving In The Spirit Reflection

Laurel Palm Middle School was considered to be a successful school. It was one of the top ten performing schools. For three successive years, it had been awarded a National Distinguished School Award. The school had had a strong culture of teaching and learning. Parents were engaged in planning school programs and improving all aspects of the school and its operations.

I feel that Anne Fadiman narrated the story of Lia Lee’s and her family’s life in intimate and tragic detail. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a poignant depiction of the struggle between loving parents, hard-working medical professionals, and a very precious child caught in the middle of a tug-of-war. Ms. Fadiman very distinctly illustrates how the collision of two cultures indirectly led to the demise of a little seven- year old girl.

In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, there are many different intercultural misunderstandings. A Hmong girl’s life was forever changed because of these misunderstandings and some things could have easily been avoided, had each side taken the time to better understand the other.

The Thomas Lay After-School program is a program that has been established since Spring of 2006 to serve the elementary and middle school students of the local community. In cooperation with the University of Georgia, UGA students and other interested volunteers provide assistance for the local students in the form of individual academic tutoring and as a mentor. The program offers a safe environment for the students to thrive academically and recreationally play. It is operated by an executive board of UGA students that works intimately with the local staff at the Lay Park Community Center to facilitate the program for the benefit of the local students. The mission of the program “dedicated

My take away from the book “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” as I progress through the pharmacy curriculum and into practice is that I must be aware of my patient’s cultural background. Help my patient overcome social determinant barriers such as language, education, and others that could prevent patient’s from accessing to quality care. Through out the curriculum I will be exposed to multiple rotation settings and involvement with different ethnic population. My take away from this book will help me effectively associate with my patient in term of respect and sensitivity when it comes to cultural differences. In my future practices, the examples from this book will help me able to communicate effectively with my patient so I can

This week I attended a week-long Ballet intensive at Hasley Hall in the University of Iowa's Dance department under the directorship of Kathryn Smith. Other faculty members include Eleanor Goudie-Averill, the ballet and conditioning teacher, Alexandra Bush, the ballet and Variations teacher, and Melanie Swihart, the modern, jazz, and yoga teacher. They also all taught dance appreciation during lunch.

I have always been described as a guy who is too quiet for his own good. When I feel comfortable with someone I can engage in some of the most captivating conversations, but until that happens I can guarantee you will not get much out of me. It takes time for me to build trust and confidence with someone, so having to film myself and basically do something that takes months for me to do was a bit nerve racking. From the start I knew I did not want to look so awkward and antsy throughout the video so I went over what I was going to say at least twice before actually filming anything. I can comfortably say that the final product is what I would look like after knowing someone for quite some time.

I chose to work with the Healing Through Christ addiction recovery agency for my volunteer project. This organization offers support, help and healing to all persons involved with addiction. They work towards further understanding and life long sobriety through a Christ based workbook that is used to teach in all support group settings. There are weekly meetings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as well as, frequent call-in meetings. I worked in these reoccurring meetings as a group leader, facilitator and active participant. As a volunteer, I was expected to come early to set up and greet individuals, as well as, guide discussions and create relationships with the women there.

For the purpose of this essay the Kolb’s model of reflection (1984) has been chosen as a guide to reflect on administration of oxygen therapy. Administration of oxygen therapy is the aspect of nursing practice that I selected as a result of completing the case-based learning scenarios. I will explain how the administration of oxygen therapy can have an effect on a patient’s activities of daily living (ADL), including some of the psychological and ethical issues. Breathing is the selected ADL that has been chosen to demonstrate how I implemented the aspect of nursing practice on clinical placement. Changes have been made to protect the anonymity and maintain confidentiality of the patient and clinical placement, in accordance with the NMC

I have been into the practicum for over a month now. It is beneficial for me to reflect on my learning and practice in the past few weeks in the areas of class reading and teaching, triads, meeting with directees in sessions and supervision.

Morningside Elementary School is where my daughter attends school and is also where I complete my Field Experience for my Education 202

Mcgowan’s description of Jesus as the disabled God makes sense to me because Jesus is the human form of God. Like most humans, Jesus goes through many burdens and was considered a plebeian by society. Human burdens Jesus has felt include feeling sadness, fear and being physically hurt as he was left with scars after being nailed to the cross. Jesus had a lot of emotional and physical burdens in his life, therefore, compared to the all powerful God in heaven, Jesus is the disabled God. Additionally, we see Jesus as a humble person since he lived through hardships that include being hated on and ultimately killed.

Religion is indeed personal because you choose what to do in your life. You, not the state, not even your religious community have to make decisions between what is right or wrong. What you decide will have a social repercussion because you are not alone, but you will have to decide on your own what you wish to represent. Nobody but yourself are responsible for your actions. Human associations initiated by fear (the possibility of everything and anything) together with our instinctive desire for survival caused social religions to sprout, exactly like industrialization emerged from the thoughts of people having to survive in nature. Religion, the inner reflection of the living mind, seems to be social (created in and for the group) while it is mostly a personal relation with the essence of our being; with the value reality making us who we are and what we represent in and as a part of the social whole. Life and the unknown that you try to defined and comprehend through sciences, philosophies, and psychologies is your RELIGION. Religion is the value reality that every human being can perceived and express. It will have a social repercussion because we exchange ideas and ideals regarding what we think and feel, but religion is primarily the living comprehension (material and/or spiritual) of one individual in one’s environment; it could be Africa, America, Australia, or anywhere on Earth.

If you are a Christian and familiar with the Word of God, hopefully you know what a testimony is. If you are not familiar with testimony, it can be briefly described as a story about one’s faith and how that faith has helped one through a difficult life event. Having first-hand experience with a couple difficult predicaments that I can best describe as being on a rollercoaster. A special person helped me and my faith and that is what helped get through all the bumps and bends. This is my testimony; how my faith helped hold me in place.

After attending Head Start and preschool, I attended elementary school. I was grateful to attend a very caring elementary school, Nancy Hill Elementary School located in Aurora, Illinois. At this school, I had the opportunity to be taught by great and caring teachers. This school was also directed by the sweetest principal in the entire world, Ms. Larry. Through the perspective of students, Ms. Larry was always talking to the students and she was always finding a way to interact with the students. For instance, I will