The Importance Of Experience In The Humanities Reflection

The aim of this assignment is to give a reflective account on group presentation and the peer assessment process as well as the development of a personal action plan. It would involve using ‘The What? Model of Structured Reflection’ (Driscoll 2007) to analyse the experience of using a group designed assessment tool to assess my peers and the experience of being peer assessed. Additionally, experience of completing a group presentation would be reflected upon. A personal action plan which identifies areas for personal development and the designed assessment tool is attached as appendix 1 and 2 respectively.

From grammar jeopardy in English class to researching Túpac Amaru in Spanish, all of my classes at BHMS are extremely alluring and fun, but my Humanities class to stand out within all of my great classes. The Humanities class in BHMS is the perfect combination of hands-on education, creativity and Fun. Mixing those three things is a tough thing to do, but my teacher Launa Schweizer does it every time. She make every single class so fun and engaging, whether it is going outside and polling people or making an imaginary journey to Oregon. Humanities is by far my favorite class and always manages to interest me no matter what.

History engages me like no other subject. History is unrivaled in complexity and depth compared to other areas of study, but many do not realize this because we choose to gloss over the vast majority, reducing entire sagas into little more than a footnote on a single page. The American revolution, while celebrated in the US, is little more than a paragraph in European history, overlooked because of the more relevant Napoleonic era. My passion for learning encourages me to read into these footnotes and discover the lessons and ideas that are ignored by the common curriculum.

When first brainstorming what topic I was going to pick for each annotated bibliography, it took me a while before I settled on a topic for each essay. While reflecting on my writing process, I came to the conclusion that more time would have definitely benefited my argument for each of these annotated bibliographies.

In “Starving for Wisdom” by Nicholas Kristof, the author explains the importance of humanities in enriching people and finances. The humanities are learning about human culture with “literature, history, art music and philosophy” (Oxford Dictionaries). In summary, this essay explains the benefits of having the three modes of persuasion; ethos, pathos, logos and displays the impact and importance of the humanities. Decisions based on the humanities can have negative effects on the population.

In this course, History 101 Western Civilization to 1689, the five things I have learned are: Homer’s life and writings; Aristotle, and his synthesis of early thinkers; Alexander the Great, and his legacy; Julius Caesar, and his power; and finally, Martin Luther, and his influence. I feel that in this course I learned more about people in history than I have ever learned before. These people I am discussing have made tremendous impacts on the world and have allowed so much growth in western civilization. The topics I have picked to discuss are the most important to me because they symbolize, in my mind, eras, and the great changes of the world, mainly through mindset and belief. These five topics show how people are needed to make changes, and to make history, and how the ideas that are brought before these times have lasted the years.

In the month of February, I performed a field experience with the police station, but particular did a ride along with Officer Tim. When first hearing upon getting accepted in the ride along, I got a phone call from the dispatchers to have a confirmation on the ride along. From here they told me as to where and when I’d need to meet up with the officer to perform the ride along. From the morning of meeting up with the officer, I was in the parking lot at around six o’clock in the morning to observe the first procedures in the morning.

One thing I found interesting was Darwin and his theory of evolution. Social Darwinism has been a big debacle for more than a century. It is significant and an important part of history because it challenged the way people thought about the orign of life and how humans came to be on Earth. Furthermore, Darwin's theory of evolution was controversy to the popular belief that God created humans as dominant creatures held in his likeness. He was the first to explain "natural Selection" and how humans evolved from apes. While Darwin still believed in God, he did not share the ideas expressed in the Bible. While Darwin's theory is still just a controversial topic among the world today due to the fact that the origin of Earth itself has not been decided

Something that continues to astound me is the amount of history that is omitted from teachings growing up. Modern debate talks a lot about of representation and it’s readings such as these that

During my time in my Intro to Humanities class, I learned many things starting from 3150 BC. In this six week course I learned about Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, the greatest singers, dancer, movies, and shows. Out of all the things I learned, I have to say my favorite I learned in this course was how to mummify someone. What makes mummification process so interesting is how detailed and precise it is.

This is a reflective essay based on a event which took place in a hospital setting. The aim of this essay is to explore how members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) worked together and communicate with each other to achieve the best patients outcome.

Of the assigned texts this week I enjoyed the first reading Reverse Sailing, Chapter One:Antiquity by Michael A. Gomez the most. Knowledge is really an incredible thing. Personally, I know I never put much thought into the history or past lifestyle of African slaves prior to their existence in America. In this text readers learn how strong their culture influenced different parts of society and the foundation of many country's education, technology, art and culture. Another topic I enjoyed learning about from this text is about how the perceptions of Africans in Europe altered through time. It's boggles my mind every time I learn that something I consider to be a concrete fact or idea has not always been so. It's like telling someone the isn't

Relishing chronological narration set by the passage of time and evoke empathy, I’ve been vigorously studying for the AP World History and European History Exams, either on paper-back textbooks or the edX or Coursera. Learn to self-learn helped me understand more. For example, it occurs to me, that laws, customs and traditions of a state change over time in a largely unbroken succession since the dawn of civilisation, and that noble intentions to unshackle slaves and treacherous evils to ravage humanity both are evidence of behaviors future generations aspire to emulate or shun.

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?

The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.