Reflective Reflection Paper

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

Solution of cheating culture is honor codes and techniques for academic integrity which are important parts of the solution. It is the responsibility of students as well as faculty and administration to establish an environment where honest students do not feel that they are at risk or disadvantage. “Just as cheating can become normalized at a school, so too can academic integrity efforts move the pendulum in the other direction and create a climate where cheating is not cool” (Callahan, 2005). Academic integrity and

While I was reading chapter 6, I had to take make a stop to do something else, but what I did was look on YouTube for a video on constructed-response assessment to listen to it while I was doing my other task in order not to stop completely. The video is called “21 Create Constructed Response Assessment Key”, then I looked online for the definition of constructed- response assessment and found the definition at “prezi.com Constructed-Response Assessment Performance Assessment”. The term I learned from my reading is “Learning for Transfer” according to the information found in chapter seven, is when a student has deep knowledge of something and uses or relates that particular understanding to a different circumstance such as a math problem using

In this assignment, I will reflect upon an incident within the clinical practice involving a smoker patient . For the purpose of this assignment, Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (1988) has been used to guide the reflection on the incident. The patient's name, in relation to confidentiality will not be used according to NMC confidentiality.

I was very excited to begin my dietetic rotation at Women, Infants, and Children Food and Nutrition Services. I was even more thrilled that my location site was close to my house, making a job opportunity an option after my internship is complete.

Each Wednesday in class, you will learn about different world religions and how they compare to Christianity. Your class discussions will be lively and Mr. Mackie’s lectures will be informative. Your time in class each week will solely be devoted to learning about different world religions. There will be no English or grammar instruction in class. Our time together will solely be digital and online. Assignments will be sent to you each Wednesday evening via email. For the most part, most assignments are due the following Tuesday by 6:00AM. Students will be notified of due date and time when each assignment is given. Students will send via email their completed assignments to me. While we will not have in-class instruction, this internet approach allows me to individualize assignments and assessments according to the student’s age, grade, and writing level. I will read, analysts and assess each composition and send back to the student (and parent) my detailed notes, comments and suggestions for corrections. The students will not be allowed to revise graded assignments, however, the comments and corrections given in the previous compositions are expected to be applied to each paper handed in there after.

While every person’s testimony of conversion relates to how He came to know Christ, each individual has a story of how they got to the place of realizing his need for Jesus. For some, it was in a moment of desperation when they cried out to the Lord to save them, and for others, it was a call to the altar at a church service. I have never thought that I had one of those amazing conversion stories that one might read or hear about in chapel, but I have come to realize that because God brought me out of the darkness and into His grace, my story is just as amazing as anyone else’s.

The TSA agent at the airport asked me, while I silently stood in front of her, handing her the paperwork I had with me and hoping it would answer her question because I did not know how to speak English at that time. I moved to the United States by myself as a refugee when I was 17. I had to flee Iran with only one backpack and was detained for 3 hours after landing, which in retrospect I understand why they were so surprised. If I have to split my life into different chapters, the day I landed at the LAX airport would mark the third chapter.

In December 12th , 2014 , we were in church listening to the pastor preach about helping others. After church we talked to the pastor about taking up for the homeless people in Anderson County. Instead of having church that night the whole church came with us to give them the stuff. I like that i help the homeless people. One of the people that we help was cry like a baby because she was so happy to see use.The little thing we did make them happy. They look like they were going to cry. The homeless were delighted to see the stuff we gave them. I could hear the sound of happiness in the room because they were laughing. The room was as happy as a child with it’s mother.

I was raised as a Christian and have only attended small, private, and religious schools. Throughout my experiences I have encountered many different ideologies and forms of worship under the umbrella of Christian faith. These different ideologies and the psychology behind worship and faith have always interested me deeply. These fascinations have lead me to a study of the human condition and the ignorance of man. My interests in the facets of human life and how the human race interacts with each other and with nature has applied itself to my academic and intellectual life. Through English I have been forced to reckon with the many injustices of history and how they have not been abolished but morphed into new and subtle forms. I’ve been made to contend with the fact that religion has many times been a perpetrator of injustice or, at the very least, refused to act. I am reminded of Martin Luther King Jr. who, in the “Letters from Birmingham Jail”, responded to the white pastors urging them to stand with him and not allow the church to fade into irrelevancy. As we know, the white pastors abstained from encouraging the non-violent resistance for equal civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr.’s prophecy became reality. The level of arrogance and willful ignorance displayed by the pastors has led me to self-examination. It has also caused me to examine the methods of social change that are most effective.

Though my father is Black, I was born into a middle class White family in considerably rural West Virginia. The community in which I grew up in was largely White and conservative, however, I have experienced many different cultures and styles of living in my lifetime. Based on my experience in these various settings, I cannot help but think that the way in which others view me often depends on the person on the other end. I suppose gender is rather obvious to the majority, but I feel as though my socioeconomic status and race are largely subjective. Especially with regard to race, people have perceived me as Black, Dominican, Polynesian, and even White-- almost anything than what I actually am. I have noticed that these various perceptions often depend on who I am with and who I am surrounded by. This, of course, bothers me to a certain degree. As Ropeik (2012) points out, people are tribal in that we stick to those who are culturally and ethnically similar, related or not. I have often felt as though being mixed race in America means being largely tribe-less, resulting in identity ambiguity and confusion.

The process to become an effective teacher passes through knowing how to develop a course syllabus, while placing my students at the center. As a future instructor at a university, I have to think through what makes class interesting, clear, and understood by the students. My primary concern and focus are my students. After reading through most of this week’s assigned topics and carrying out my research on the internet and the Walden library, I am convinced that as a future instructor my approach, theories of teaching, and those who I will teach are the core when preparing a course description.

This course has taught me what it really means to be a Christian. I must admit I was not born into a Christian home, as I got older I started to learn about God and Jesus Christ. My mother did teach me right from wrong but going to church and learning of God was not a priority in my home. Taking this course has taught me that being a Christian is more than just being a kind person. In this reflection paper I will discuss Did Jesus claim to be God?, If a person is a Christian, does it matter how they live their life?, What can your local church do to better communicate God’s love to your community? I will

The progress that I have made since my first reflection paper is I have learned to review and understand the texts more to the point where I can see the themes going on throughout the Genesis and a little bit of exodus and they are a lot easier to understand than when I first read them. I think I’ve grown in understanding the bible and analyzing what is important while also enjoying the readings to think about what the meaning. I think what is still a bit difficult for me to understand is what I learned about the bible when I was younger and then what happened that is almost totally different then what I was taught. For example, the story about Noah’s and how it was not a boat that was built but just a box and I was always told that it was a giant boat. One of the points that made me think is all the gender inequality that is present in the bible and how some women are not even named in the bible which