The Air Water Reflection

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.

Edward Bloom was a story teller. He would tell elaborate stories to his son since he was born. Not only were the stories exciting, they were told to bring life and excitement into Edwards life. Growing up, William enjoyed his father’s stories. As time goes on, the stories began to become more and more uneventful and less entertaining. This was because William has heard the same stories his whole life. He did not know what was true and what was fake. On his death bed, Edward reconnects with William by getting him to see that he was not lying his whole life, just telling his life story in a much more interesting way. Yes, some details were changed but that does not mean they were all lies. William just did not see that until the end.

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.

In this first section a few things came up that would be helpful in my research. The article mentions, “Today, the CDC recommends that children receive vaccines for 10 diseases, plus the flus vaccine, by age 6, which can mean up to 37 separate shots”. There were stories in this section on different parents even actors against vaccinations. The article did mention that there was a study that identified that usually children who are not vaccinated are from male children from wealthy educated families. This is important because in my personal experience low income families are easily persuaded and even as an adult or child will take anything given by a doctor without even knowing what they are taken. As I become more educated I question anyone

As an ASEMS- Transfer student, adjusting to a larger school with 10X the amount of students at my previous institution can be overwhelming. I, myself, come from New Jersey which is completely different from Arizona in a sense that Arizona is more serene. I transferred into the University of Arizona as a biomedical Science Major interested in pursuing a career in medicine as a physician. As a biomedical Science major the course load is not an easy one. Most of my courses are science course and each class is very demanding in what they require. My first semester at the University of Arizona I made a grave mistake of believing I could do it all. I enrolled in a hybrid course which did not have a tutor

For my creative task, I chose to represent the theme of family in The Black Balloon, directed by Elissa Down, with a visual interpretation of how the family works with their hardships to support each other and Charlie. I made a visual expression because it allowed me to show the multiple points of view that there always is in a family environmentI used the colour black in my visual piece to represent difficulty getting through to Charlie through his autism. The different segments of the circle have colours chosen based on colour psychology and the impact colours have on peoples emotions and perception.

I learned that Hawaii ranks 14th in rates of primary and secondary syphilis among the 50 states. Hawaii is ranked 14th for chlamydial infections and 34th for gonorrheal infections. One major that I learned was that Hawaii has the highest rate of liver cancer and this is due to Hepatitis B and C virus.

Fantome Island, a documentary directed and produced by Sean Gilligan on the Northern Queensland leprosarium, serves as an instrument of education, a story of the untold tales of the lepers of Fantome Island. The documentary is centred on Joe Eggmolesse, one of the inhabitants of the leprosarium, who uses a combination of both historical evidence and personal insight to recreate his experiences, feelings and journey through Fantome island. Many years after his release, Joe returns to the Island. Mirrored by the music, the audience can share in lives of the lepers, what they went through and the lasting impression the leposarium had on them as Joe relives his memories on the island.

“The squid and the Whale” is a very honest and most vulnerable, revealing, sympathy evoking for the children who go through disturbing emotional turbulence while having to deal with parent’s divorce. Of course there is now convincing evidence to suggest that marital distress, conflict, and disruption are associated with a wide range of deleterious effects on children, including depression, withdrawal, poor social competence, health problems, poor academic performance, and a variety of conduct-related difficulties ( P. A. Cowan & Cowan, 1987)

As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

My topic drowning and it proceeded to cover the statistics of drowning, how to prevent drowning by overcoming risk factors, and how to preform CPR presented by Jeff Ellis & Associates Inc. techniques in five to six minutes to fulfill the time requirement in the outline. I decided to go with drowning due to my prior experience as a lifeguard in 2015 at The Big Splash which is in Grove City, Ohio; this would provide a level of confidence in that I had ample training on how to conduct CPR under extreme conditions. I also chose this topic due to my analyzation of the feedback provided by my fellow classmates as they were, overall, excited to learn how to preform CPR and get background information on drowning. There was also consideration about the age of the audience as I assumed they had little to no background knowledge on how to save another individual’s life in a dangerous situation and preform it properly.

A great movie is always ambivalent to define. What could be great for someone might not be at all for someone else. But then a movie is defined by the characters it displays. Some characters go down in the timeline of history as memorable and legendary. One such movie that scripts such tremendous characters that have become cult overtime is “October Sky”. However, the many characters that this movie portrays, all have one distinct and common quality- that of being great leaders in themselves.

If there is a fact film directors apparently have not yet realized, it is that the extraordinary, magnificent Shakespeare plays simply cannot ever be transformed into films. With every Shakespeare film released we witnessed this in the predictable, gullible and ludicrous acting of Leonardo DiCaprio in the vulgar 1997 Romeo and Juliet, and in the poor filmography of Roman Polansky’s Macbeth. Therefore, when I was preparing myself to watch the modern version of The Tempest, filmed in 2010, I was expecting an abysmal quality of acting. My own thoughts about the movie astonished me, especially as opposed to my fear of seeing a young Dicaprio on my screen in a lead role, once again. The incredible Hellen Mirren as a female version of Prospero, a somewhat provocative choice of Djimon

Have you ever wanted to own your own island? Have you ever met someone and thought to yourself, we will never be friends? Well , this story might change your mind. Island of the Blue Dolphins was written by Scott O’Dell. It was published in 1960. This book is based on a true story, but it's not all factual.