Narrative-Me-Focused Culture

Throughout life people dream of doing something that is amazing, and my goal is to do just that. Ever since I was a kid, I knew that I wanted to assist others and make an impact on people's lives in a positive way. Knowing this, I have always wanted to be a pediatric nurse to better the lives of children in need.

I experienced my pop culture moment when I was a senior at my high school. My transportation to go to my school was buses. I took the same buses to school from freshman year, but I have never noticed what I notice in my senior year. Every morning I wake up to go to school at 8 a.m. I would see people going to work, schools etc. but one day I notice there was a group of white women who is going to their work wearing sari (sari is a garment which is long and usually it’s draped around women’s body. Asian women mostly wear it). I found that very odd because they didn’t look like to me that they would know anything about the roots of sari or the culture. I thought they were mocking the culture because the saris that they wearing weren’t 100% correct. I used to see them wearing traditional Indian cloth and I

I have always wanted a career in which I can touch lives, that is when I discovered my love for nursing. In nursing, I could probably even help to save lives. I enjoy helping people in their times of need. I think it is the most fulfilling thing in the world, and nursing will allow me to do this for the rest of my life. I believe that the cure for many of the people's illnesses is not just in medicine, it is in the care and love that they receive as patients from nurses and the medical team. This is where I believe that I can make a great difference in people's lives.

“A kind gesture can reach a wound only compassion can heal.” -Steve Maraboli. Our world is a place where everyone is left to fend for themselves in order to survive. Compassion is often forgotten when everyone focuses only on themselves until we witness the suffering of another human being.

Attention getter: Compassion is not taught; it is gained through experiences which soon becomes to define one as an individual. The more we hurt, they more we begin to acknowledge the presence of others.

Everyone has goals in life; some may be to loss weight, learn how to cook, or even go to college. My personal goal is to go to college so that I may become an E.R. nurse practitioner. I want to help people, in a instant, get medical attention. I want to feel the excitement of a rush to save someone suddenly.

I enjoy taking care of other people and making them feel better, especially children, therefore my goal is to become a pediatrician. I've chosen pediatrics for a number of reasons, one reason is saving a child's life, or just generally making them feel better, would be an accomplishment to me. CNA is very closely related to pediatrics, some children will not be able to take care of themselves and CNA will prepare me for that.

One of my primary goals in life is to inspire someone to keep trying, not to give and to not lose faith. This goal lead me to want to become a future Pediatric Nurse Practitioner or Pediatrician.Being be able to use my personal passions and skills to spread love, positivity, and faith to families and children will be a dream come true. Healing with

Thesis Statement: Compassion is human capacity that has evolved with our species,which has wonderful psychological and physiological effects on both a receiver and a giver.

Compassion: Doanne & Varcoe refers to Compassion not only means sharing in the moment, but additionally, “offers a way of being and orienting relationally in the midst of discomfort and angst/ to join and be in our ‘common suffering’” Through engaging to what seemed to be a flurry of discourse and to being present I was able to demonstrate this compassion as evidenced by active involvement, or listening. Adding along with the nuances of small expression revealed through my relaxed posture and face of concern.

My aspiration to become a nurse developed through the care I received from many nurses as a very ill child. My goal in life is to make those in need feel as cared for and well supported as I did through a difficult time.

My goal in life is to make a difference in this world whether it be in medicine or whatever I decide to make my career out of. Helping people is something I am passionate about. I enjoy seeing the smile on their face when they see someone doing good in this world. I want to be able to tell my patient that they are cancer free. I want to lift their worries and fears right from their shoulders. I want to change their lives and give them their lives back after fighting for them. I want to change medicine. When people are diagnosed with cancer , they think they are going to die, I want to make them say, “is that it?’ because they know they will live through it. One day, I am going to change lives and medicine as we know

Within that discussion Jay Neitz came to the following conclusion, “[L]et’s imagine one day a bright red apple plops into your world. How would you react to it? Would you see it? ‘Well, so that’s a very good questions.’ Maybe, says Jay, even though you have the ability to see that red apple, if you’ve never had the chance to use that ability, to practice, it may just lay dormant” (Radiolab, 2012, May 21). Now, applying this to the utilization of compassion towards patients, I believe that those whom seem unable or unwilling to show compassion, may have not had the opportunity to practice. Throughout their childhood, their parents may not have provided them with the opportunity or the experience to practice compassion towards others, which later effects their ability to show it as adults. For me, my parents instilled the importance to show others you care, show them support, understanding, and that at times some people just need someone, even a stranger, who is willing to listen and say “I

Compassion means to endure with other person, to put ourselves in somebody’s else shoes. It is a feeling of empathy, which in other words is to feel someone’s pain as though if it were our own. The book “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life” by Karen Armstrong, discusses a set of different steps people should follow in order to be compassionate. Armstrong emphasizes in the importance of compassion in the world. The world is surrounded with problems that we do not know how to solve and by being compassionate to one another we can create a compassionate and peaceful world. Every person in this earth has the possibility to be compassionate to others and this includes treating each other a they wish to be treated, which in most cases is with dignity,

I am a 17 year old Muslim girl.My culture believes in ALLAH,we believe that he is our creator and we chose to believe in him.We pray 5 times a day and go to our church every saturday and sundays.We have certain rules and regulations that we follow.If you have beliefs and goals than how are you going to reach anywhere.You need a path that can guide you to where you want reach.Therefore,I belief in “ALLAH”,he guides me be going on the right track.I was raised in three different homes.My first home is in Mogadishu,Somalia,which is where I was born.Mogadishu is a small city in Somalia.I had a pleasing and memorable memories when I was growing up.But my family and I had to move because of the violence and brutality that was happening in my hometown.Therefore,we moved to Kenya because we have many family there.In Kenya,Africa we lived in a 4 bedroom apartment.We had this routine to go to two different schools everyday.One was a English school and the other was a Muslim school.We went to two different schools because my parents didn't want us to forget our culture and religion.They wanted us to be educated in English and in our culture.My mother owned a Somali restaurant and my father was a social worker.We were happy,but my parents wanted us kids to get a better education and bright