Take a deep breath in and let it out. It’s always nerve-racking to step out on stage under the hot lights with hundreds of people staring at you, but this time it was different. I felt like everyone sitting in that audience was criticizing every move that I made and every line I paused too long on. Knowing that all these criticisms were running through the minds of the people sitting in the audience, only made the mistakes I was making seem more prominent. The problem was that no one was actually criticizing me, and if they were, it wasn’t because they hated me, or hated what I was doing. It was simply because they noticed I made a mistake and were thinking about my mistake. Criticism is like a knife to my self-esteem. I have always had a …show more content…
When this happens, I find myself only focusing on the criticism and letting it overtake my thoughts. Criticism was like an ocean that I was drowning in. Instead of taking into account all of the praise and compliments I received, all I could think about was all of the negatives people had to say. Burns states, “Whenever you have a negative experience, you dwell on it and conclude, ‘That proves what I’ve known all along.’ In contrast, when you have a positive experience, you tell yourself, ‘That was a fluke. It doesn’t count.’” (35). That is what was happening in my mind every time I came across any type of situation in which people looked upon something I did either positively or negatively. There’s a lot of situations like that unfortunately. Eventually I became so depressed by my distortion that I stopped wanting to see anyone, because I didn’t want the possibility of criticism. When I assume that everyone is criticizing me, I am under the impression of the JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS distortion. The thought going through my mind are along the lines of no one thinks anything positive about anything I do or say, or I will never be good enough for anyone and that is why people criticize me. In the article “Opening the Closed Mind: Making Assumptions, Jumping to Conclusions” the author states, “Too many of us, however, jump to conclusions. We are too certain about what other people mean or do” (Berman). I believe
The purpose of this report is to conduct a critical appraisal of a published article.
Change should be seen as a challenge and embraced with enthusiasm (Marquis & Huston, 2012). In my professional and personal life, I view and respond to change as a way to make improvements to existing regulations and circumstances. I embark upon the quest with determination to succeed at whatever task is presented to me. Life without change can become unchallenging and stagnant (Marquis & Huston, 2012). As society and technology advance, you must incorporate the necessary transformations that arise with it.
It's Elementary takes a look as to whether or not gay issues should be discussed in schools and how such issues should be treated. Its not often that adults get the chance to hear what children think about homosexuality. When asked to respond to the discussion the school children responded in a frank and earnest manner, some especially in the younger grades with an instinctual sense of fairness and democracy towards homosexuals, particularly those facing adversity. Unlike opposing teachers and parents who thought discussion would expose alternative lifestyles and encourage homosexual sex, the children in the video were far more interested in name-calling, non-traditional families, and gay/lesbian stereotypes. The film also focused on how
The problem this imposed was manual recording was tedious and stressful for staff and introduced errors in the Freight Operations Systems database causing delays in tracking processes; cost also being a huge downfall.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is a fairly common complication in hospitalized patients. Nosocomial infection prevention and patient safety promotion has been issued and many researches have been conducted to improve patient’s quality of life. In this article, Saint et al. (2005) hypothesize that using a paper-based urinary catheter reminder can reduce the incidence of urinary catheterization, and consequently this will enhance the patients’ safety.
English 101-60 has taught me many things and has helped me grow and develop my skills as a writer. It has taught me how to think more creatively and use clear concrete details. In the beginning of the semester, our first writing assignment was a narrative journal entry that focused on writing about an uninteresting moment from your life and making it interesting. This was a challenging assignment because it was a broad topic that allowed the writers to take it in any direction. I remember thinking I had no idea what I am going to write about. Once I was able to narrow down the ideas I started writing what a traumatic experience I had six years ago. This was when I underwent the surgical procedure, to remove my gallbladder. My main focus
Over the eighth grade year, I have learned to effectively use feedback and reflection skills to strengthen my writing. These writing processes taught me to include peer and teacher feedback along with self-reflection to earn a better grade on my writing pieces. In the beginning of the year, I would simply complete the drafts my teacher assigned. Proof of my original writing process is shown in the essay, titled One Necessity of a Hero: Personal Sacrifice, in which it reflects on the Thematic Unit. To demonstrate my poor writing process, a segment of my original introduction stated, “After analyzing documents from The Hobbit Thematic Unit, I discovered that the principles of heroism involve personal sacrifice. I also learned that a hero is
A piece of home to hold onto and a memory that will never die. Although Katniss is very fond of Peeta “the boy with bread” she feels like she will always owe him. Suzanne Collins book “The Hunger Games” states “to this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope” (Collins, p.32). Although Katniss will always feel in debt to him in her eyes, her feeling for Peeta are not genuine and are instead a means for survival.
My writing submission was also returned to me within 24 hours, Smarthinking seems to be well staffed with tutors. It is easier when resources are user friendly as well as quick, we have enough stress as is in our daily lives without adding to it! My thesis also needs improvement, and I also missed a few errors when I read over it before submission. As long as we have this wonderful resource and resubmit them for proofing, it is impossible to fail. I would also recommend it to other students, it is incredibly helpful. Good luck on your final
This essay is criticising the interaction between a health professional and service users in the DVD clip titled “Someone to Watch over Me”. Firstly, I am going to introduce the concepts of health and communication, making reference to the nurse/ patient relationship and the importance of interpersonal communication in the delivery of health information. To act as guidelines for this essay I have chosen four topics to inform the content. These topics include: exploring the social determinants of health that are relevant to the main characters in the DVD clip using Dahlgren and Whitehead’s (1991) model and considering ways in which these impact on the
“Now We Can Begin” an essay by Crystal Eastman is a very powerful essay. Eastman makes the point know in her essay that an honest and true feminist no matter where she stands in the movement she will see to the woman’s fight with strength and courage and how it matters in the future and as well as its difference in its approach for the workers fight for industrial freedom. Eastman state “In fighting for the right to vote most women have tried to be either non-committal or thoroughly respectable on every other subject. Now they can say what they are really after; and what they are after, in common with all the rest of the struggling world, is freedom”
Jim Collins and his research team have done a wonderful job identifying what it takes for a company to go from good to great. I found this book extremely interesting and would like to share several of my thoughts. The study looks at companies that appeared on the Fortune 500 from the years of 1965 to 1995, looking for those that, for 15 years, either tracked or underperformed the stock market, followed by a transition, and subsequently returning at least 3 times the stock market for at least 15 years. The eleven companies included in the
Americans have embraced debate since before we were a country. The idea that we would provide reasoned support for any position that we took is what made us different from the English king. Our love of debate came from the old country, and embedded itself in our culture as a defining value. Thus, it should not come as a surprise that the affinity for debate is still strong, and finds itself as a regular feature of the mainstream media. However, if Deborah Tannen of the New York Times is correct, our understanding of what it means to argue may be very different from what it once was; a “culture of critique” has developed within our media, and it relies on the exclusive opposition of two conflicting positions (Tannen). In her 1994 editorial,
Jailbreaking a iphone can be a relatively simple task to do. There are two types of jailbreak you can perform on your iPhone, and they are a tethered jailbreak and an untethered jailbreak.
Fish’s Reader Response Criticism is composed of two interdependent ideas: first, that the meaning of texts is shaped by the reading experience itself, and second, that these meanings cannot be judged to be correct or incorrect, but merely belonging to one “interpretive community” or another. The first idea may be identified as the executive aspect of Reader Response Criticism because it analyzes the act of reading, while the second idea is the epistemological aspect of the theory because it circumscribes the knowledge we can acquire about a text to the merely relative. Studied independently, each aspect of Reader Response Theory offers by itself strong arguments countervailing the formalist stance of the New Critics. But as we will see,