Reflection On A Long Way Home

I give this movie a six out of five-star rating. How it managed to keep me on the edge of my seat the entire time is beyond me; I am still in disbelief that I was fully engaged for the entire two hours and twenty-six minutes. Although I had heard many great things about the novel, the film exceeded all of my expectations. The Natural teaches many valuable lessons about perseverance, determination, commitment, karma, relationships, and staying young at heart.

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,

I completed my ride along with Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department on April 9, 2016 from 7pm-1am. The officer I rode with was Officer Cooper. The beginning of my ride-along included watching Officer Cooper insert evidence more specifically shell casing. He walked me through how to insert the evidence in the database and also showed me the evidence locker. After concluding putting the evidence in the system we began the actual Ride-Along. In the beginning of the ride along we conducted high visibility of Monroe Park. We rode around the whole park and then parked the vehicle for about 15 minutes. The first call we received was a non-emergency call to help someone Jump their vehicle. After finishing that call Officer showed how

For example, looking at the horizon Henry could see the camp five miles away. (Jamie Ford, Thirteen). Henry traveled miles away from Chinatown just to meet Keiko in Minidoka, Idaho at her new internment camp. Henry traveled to Minidoka despite his father’s dislike for the Japanese making it harder Henry’s relationship to develop. Furthermore, the text states, “I came to do that, it was his first kiss” (Jamie Ford, Thirteen). Henry explains why he came from all the way from Chinatown when it states “it was his first kiss”. This shows, the development in Henrys and Keiko’s relationship through the hardships and barriers they had. Therefore, Henry travels all the way to Idaho Minidoka to kiss Keiko, but also showing that hardship of development between

Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild, was not insensible or ill-equipped, but rather he was going out into the wild to locate the genuine importance of life and to perceive what it resembled to live out in the wild all alone. Chris was an incredible good example for children the whole way across the nation; since he was attempting to experience his fantasy and do what he believed was appropriate in the wild and would not tune in to what anybody instructed him to do. Chris McCandless was an adoring and minding individual who esteemed for all creation and needed to make tracks in an opposite direction from the general public and live allowed to locate the significance of life.

The poem "The Race" from The Father by Sharon Olds utilizes imagery, repetition, and personification. The author portrays a poem of a daughter who is trying to get home to her ill father. Throughout the poem the author utilize descriptive details to allude the readers the experience the young woman was passing through in order to reach her father. The poem utilizes repetition to convey to the reader about the events that she was passing through in order to reach her father. Lines 1-5 "When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk, bought a ticket, ten minutes later they told me the flight was cancelled,the doctors had said my father would not live through the night and the flight was cancelled.

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.

Windshield surveys are the motorized equivalent of simple observation. They involve the generation of data that helps to define the community, the trends, stability, and changes that all serve to define the health of the community (Stanhope, 2012, p. 409-410). I choose to use the Pilgrim Park neighborhood for my windshield Survey which I conducted on November 1st, 2017 around 11 o 'clock am.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your book “The Outs” was very inspirational and view changing for me. Caled’s second personality Crimes to me represents negativity from other people and from the world. The book connected with me when Caleb had to fight with Crimes to gain control back. To me it showed how people have to fight away negativity and fight away people that try and hold you back. Caled was fighting for what he thought was right and I see that as a way to show people that they need to fight for what I think is right and no matter what never give up. Same for Kitzi, she shows me that even if you have a disability nothing can keep you from doing what you want and that no matter what happens or what you go through you can be whatever you want. Be with whoever you

One moment from the book that affected me the most was when Marjane's parents decided to send her to Australia on her own because they know that's the best thing for her life and future (147). Parents always want the best for you. Marjane's parents didn't want her to stay in a country with an ongoing war where she could end up dead at any time. Her parent's future to be as bright as a woman that she is. Even if it means not seeing her for a long period of times, they will take that scarifies for her to have a better life.

At Eldridge Street, in a museum, I learned that between 1880 and 1924, two and a half million East European Jews came to the United States. Jewish immigrants sought the United States as a place for refuge and freedom. Close to 85 percent of them came to New York City, and approximately 75 percent of those settled on the Lower East Side. The Eldridge Street Synagogue opened it doors at 12 Eldridge Street on September 4, 1887, just in time for the Jewish High Holidays.