Reflection Of A Long Time

In When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds it says that “comparison can block compassion both for others and for ourselves.” I agree with such statement; I think that listening is a skill you learn throughout time. One can pretend to listen without really getting anything out of the conversation that one is having with that other person. In the Compassionate Listening workshop, I got to do it with Rachel Kurland and I sit and listened to her talking about the moment her friend treason her. I tried to understand her plight, why would she not cut that friendship off, I understood she loved her friend, however, I could not resist bringing my biases to our conversation. I asked myself, why is Rachel, such a good, loving, and smart person,

Such a cold and freezing winter, people naked and willing to survive… “The men began to regain their senses, their locomotion, and their hope”(deVaca 24-25). Do these quotes remind you something? La Relacion is the representative of historical narrative (a genre of writings that converts history into a story-based form) of the first European account of adventures with Native American in 15th century written by Alvar Nunez Cabeza deVaca. The entire story is about building a good relationship between Spaniards and Native Americans. La Relacion itself emphasizes the characteristic of historical narrative story not only by stating author’s opinion

Growing up as a Catholic I was educated in the spirit of living a pure life, learning many aspects about what I should not do. My parents and the entire Catholic community in which I grew up praised a restrictive life, wherein most of the pleasures in life were forbidden. Sex has been always a taboo subject for Catholics. My parents taught me that sexual relationships are only allowed after marriage. People who were known to be engaged in sexual relationships without being married were regarded as sinners and they were not respected within our community. Being raised in this spirit of considering sexuality a sin, I had become to despise the idea of sex, considering it impure and vulgar. As a child I could not imagine myself ever being married and desiring to be involved in sexual relationships, because I was inculcated with the idea that sexuality is

In school, my class is reading your memoir A Long Way Gone. It is very inspiring and educational. You stated that you wanted to write this book to inform readers about the reality of child soldiers and how they are treated. I was inspired by your bravery of telling your story. Sharing the horrific experiences you have been through to the world must have been a hard thing to do. Therefore, I applaud you for that.

Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).

He trekked for days without food, helplessly watched rebel forces immolate villages, and spent two years killing enemy soldiers as a young teenager. He is Ishmael Beah and unlike much of his family and friends, he lived to tell his story. In 2007, Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone was published, an intense but honest account of the atrocities Beah faced as a child during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war. As the story depicts the awful tragedies that civil war and abuses of human rights inflict upon people around the world, it embodies Sharon High School’s Preventing and Confronting Global Injustice course, which prioritizes studying these case studies in order to prevent injustice from occurring in the future. Not only does the memoir explain the deadly war, but it also enlightens readers, emphasizing the importance of healing and rediscovering one's humanity, another essential aspect of the class. Beah successful teaches through his life story that although civil war permanently shapes and frequently destroys countries, families, and children's loss of innocence, there are ways to combat the injustice and find love, peace, and humanity. Therefore, A Long Way Gone is an extremely eye-opening memoir that depicts the struggle of Sierra Leone’s Lost Boys through Beah’s immensely heart wrenching experiences.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini takes a solid focus on the lives of two young women, Mariam and Laila, who grow up in a struggling and turbulent Afghanistan. This book emulates the lives of those who have actually been affected by the extreme changes of power within their culture. From the Soviets to the Taliban, these people are caught in a war they cannot win but must deal with the consequences of. The lives of Mariam and Laila are consumed and silenced by those with power over them, namely males with traditional values. The book conveys the idea that even with an immense amount of destruction and terror wrought throughout Afghanistan, underneath lies a beauty that has been muted but it still provides hope for the future.

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19)

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

My purity is the purity of a hard worker who is passionate about cultivating her skill-set. I am one who is self-actualized and altruistic. I am one who will not be defeated. I am one who has seen life after Howard. I shall not be burdened on the land of the Mecca. I shall not be encumbered by the weight of my textbooks. I shall not be thwarted by the earliness of my classes.

For the last six weeks in both mental and acute setting, I have reflected on events that I had met in each week. Now, I am going to identify essential personal learning outcomes from those events and will include personal awareness of strengths and weaknesses. Among the different models of reflection, I will use the Gibbs model of reflection which entails six stages such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan.

The main goal of life is holiness on this earth, now while we live our lives. What is holiness? Some think to be holy you have to be the preacher or the priest. Some think we must give up all the fun stuff we do.

In many ways throughout time and different society’s women have been reduced to the virgin hood, but how important is it really? The wife of bath implies that virginity is not a state to remain in one’s whole life. Instead she questions “and surely if no seed were sown, from what, then, could virginity be grown? (Chaucer).” The Wife of Bath maintains that if marriage is condemned by God had and he wanted people to be chaste, then where would people derive from? If there is no seed for virginity to grow and everyone are to remain pure, then how would people exist? Everyone has a skill from God and The Wife trusts that hers is sexuality.

An individual should have an intimate relationship with God in order to redeem themselves from harmful sin.