My Values And Skills Development

There are lots of things in life that happen to different people, for different reasons. And some people, you would never think they endured some of the things that they had to endure. Some people’s lives are better than others, the experiences, the drives that they push through each day, every day. But this story, is eye opening, and a learning experience in multiple ways.

Women’s education in the United States made huge strides during the Progressive Era. However, along with those strides came negative reactions from not only men but women as well. These second generation women started moving away from their expected nurturing professions and instead started going into male dominated professions. Some of these professions were doctors and lawyers, just to name a few. Due to these career changes, women were required to have bachelor’s degrees and training.

I work in nursing home. My person values are ambition, committed, family orientated, hardworking, loyal, self-reliance, acceptance. My personal belief is to treat everyone equally, with respect and dignity. I always remember that every person is unique and different. I show positive regard to everybody. I am a Christian brought up in the Catholic faith, but in my work, there are a lot of people with different faiths like Hindu, Muslim, Jehovah, Anglican. Mrs X who is one of the residents on my ward is Muslim. I attend to her every day. She likes to pray four times a day, covering her face during the day with a hijab. When I finish giving her personal care in the morning, I make sure I give her the hijab to cover her face and then remove it at night before going to sleep. I make sure no male carers are allowed to enter her room or attend to her. She has a female carer at all times. I make sure that I don’t discriminate against any client or staff. I try to give each staff member and client equal opportunity like the same amount of time. I respect the right of clients and staff, by giving the clients the right to chose what they want to do. What they want to wear. What they want to eat. Mrs X wants to go to bed at 22.00 hours every night One night we were short of carers for the night shift, so I put her to bed early, her son came to visit and complained, and asked me to

Throughout life I’ve experienced a rather unpleasant childhood with the absence of my guiding figures: my parents. Seeing them rush in and out of the house to go to the hospital with my younger brother shaped me in a way nothing else could have. It made me who I am today, as well as aspired me towards what I want to be one day.

It cannot be obtained only through age, but in overcoming perilous scenarios and succeeding in experience-filled events. The growing definition of the word “wisdom” sets a feeling to the reader as though she did

As a woman myself, it is hard to imagine a time when I would not have been allowed to attend college, let alone be writing this paper. As children most of us heard stories from our grandparent’s about what life was like they were young. I can remember laughing at the thought of “walking up hill both ways” to get to school. With the liberties American Women have today, it is easy to take for granted everything the women before us fought so hard for. It is easy to forget the treatment they suffered in their struggle to bring us to today. In this paper we will examine the lives, struggles, and small victories of women that have led us to

The origins of higher education in the United States can be traced all the way back to the colonial era, with the founding of Harvard University in 1636 (Delbanco, 2012; Thelin, 2004). However, it would take another two centuries for women to receive similar opportunities of advanced education. Excluded from attending colleges by statute (Thelin, 2004), women in

“The subject of the Education of Women of the higher classes is one which has undergone singular fluctuations in public opinions” (Cobbe 79). Women have overcome tremendous obstacles throughout their lifetime, why should higher education stand in their way? In Frances Power Cobbe’s essay “The Education of Women,” she describes how poor women, single women, and childless wives, deserve to share a part of the human happiness. Women are in grave need of further improvements in their given condition. Cobbe suggests that a way to progress these improvements manifests in higher education, and that this will help further steps in advance. Cobbe goes on to say that the happiest home, most grateful husband, and the most devoted children came from a woman, Mary Sommerville, who surpassed men in science, and is still studying the wonders of God’s creations. Cobbe has many examples within her paper that shows the progression of women as a good thing, and how women still fulfill their duties despite the fact that they are educated. The acceptance of women will be allowed at the University of New England because women should be able to embrace their abilities and further their education for the benefit of their household, their lives, and their country.

Sandra Lipsitz Bem was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on June 22,1944 (Golden & McHugh, 2015). She was the daughter of Peter, a mail clerk, and Lilian Lipsitz, a secretary. From a young age, Bem was told cautionary tales of life as a housewife from her mother, Lilian. The cautionary tales of housework spurred her desire of a professional career such as her mother’s and planted the seeds of thought in regards to a marriage based on equality (George, 2014). Eager to pursue an education she enrolled in Carnegie Mellon University. Due to familial issues she made a decision to return home in the year 1965, at the encouragement of her peers she decided to take a course on her way out taught by a young professor Daryl Bem (Golden &

Often times in life, people have derived strength from their family and loved ones to help them endure tough times. When facing an obstacle, people have thought about the people they cared about to overcome whatever stood in their way. People have withstood hardship knowing that when it was over, they would have people who loved them to come back to. Memories of special friends or family members have helped individuals find bravery in grim situations. Sometimes, even if people did not wish to go through hard times for their own sake, they would face hard times for their family’s sake. In All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr proved family and relationships built with people bring about strength that helps people prevail even through the toughest of times.

When one says that this elderly person has wisdom from various life experiences, he/she is not saying that the elderly person knows much about books and their profession. Instead, one would be speaking about the elderly person’s vast knowledge about what is important in life due to their multitude of experiences. While the elderly person may not be completely wise in the most encompassing form of wisdom, the elderly person does appear to have a more expansive understanding of what is important in life. Simply knowing what matters in life, however, does not satisfy the ultimate form of wisdom, for the wise must know why these things matter in life. That is, a truly wise person must have insight beyond the theoretical, into the practical. Beyond this, a wise person, in this view, must also know how to achieve what matters most, and, in knowing so, do what matters most. I say this because a truly wise person would be able to act upon what they know to be the most important thing in life. It is wiser for a person to act than to merely conceptualize what is most essential in life.

Although I did not pass with a distinction, I still managed to obtain an average of 72% for the overall degree.

My personal values act as a basis for determining right and wrong in my daily life. My life, my parents, my husband and my children have all played valuable roles in the development of my core values. The following is an ever changing personal ethics creed, that I plan on using to help guide me in my endeavors.

In Adrienne Rich's essay, "Claiming an Education", the author speaks about the female experience against the male-dominated academic scene. Despite the fact that this essay was written in 1979, a number of Rich's points seem timeless. Rich encourages young women to insist on a life of meaningful work. As a seventeen-year-old student, I have often heard from my female companions that they anticipate a higher education as an opportunity to hunt down a spouse. The frequency and zeal of this conclusion, seeing education only as means of marriage, strikes me as particularly pitiful and archaic. Adrienne Rich’s thesis in “Claiming an Education” aptly expresses the array of roles women hold in societies, the benefits, and weaknesses of our education system, as well as the struggles that women are exposed to. She successfully develops her thesis statement by the effective use of a variety of methods of development and various literary devices to improve her writing quality and to help readers interpret her message. I agree with Rich’s thesis statement because education entails being responsible for oneself, not just for women, but for all students.

My personal mission is to constantly strive to be the best overall person that I can be within my personal and professional life. My goals are to inspire and help others and myself around me to achieve greatness and a balance that will maximize our potential that will transcend the boundaries of our dreams.