Your Inner Fish 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.

Within this essay I will be concentrating on explaining how an individual can implement reflection in their learning experiences. Applying skills of reflection to a particular learning experience such as induction week will be the main focus of this essay as it will convey the importance of reflecting upon the experience of working with other students.

Blackfish, a documentary filmed by director, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, centers around the neglect and mistreatment that large animals, like orcas, receive in captivity. The document’s purpose is to not only spread awareness about the treatment of orcas but to also cause a change in the situation they are forced to be in.

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.

The book Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin is a journey into 3.5-billion-year history of the human body. The book is an entertaining and useful novel that demonstrates the evolution of some of our major structures through time. By analyzing fossils and DNA, the author shows us that our hands truly resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and that major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria. The book takes us on a remarkable expedition in which it will show us our inner fish, reptile and

These two features earlier are examples that we can see with our naked eyes, but the DNA make up that we cannot see with our eyes alone are also laid out the same as well. In the evolutionary pathway, the genes that turn on and off for humans and fish are related through the instructions on how they function. All living things with limbs have in common the Sonic hedgehog gene (Shubin, p. 53). The Sonic hedgehog gene can control the development of the limbs in these creatures. To determine if the development of vertebrate animals can be interpreted in the same way, or have the same effect, the injection of vitamin A was used to inject into a shark, mice, and chicken embryos to see if the results were the same. The results turned out that the injection of vitamin A has indeed changed the development of limbs in these embryos. The effects cause the shark to have a mirror image of its fin, and the mice and chicken have duplication of bones in the limbs (Shubin, p.56-57). It becomes clear of what will happen if

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.

I attended the talk on Your Inner Fish by Dr. Neil Shubin on Thursday the 6th of April. The talk itself was based off the book Your Inner Fish, that Dr. Neil Shubin wrote in ______ year. In the beginning of the talk he stressed the idea that to understand the human species it very much helps to understand animals as well. The anatomy of our own bodies and the understanding of what everything does can also be seen in other animals like fish. He believes that we are the cumulation of millions of years of evolution and that we had to come from somewhere. Most of his talk addressed findings that support the idea that animals formed from fish to animals like tetrapod’s and then to something like us. He and other colleagues discovered the Tiktaalik, which was a creature who had both elements of fish and amphibians. This was amazing find for the world of paleontology and shows amazing evidence for the world of animal behavior

The fossil allows us to reconstruct relationships between prehistoric creatures and those found today. It was discovered that the fish had resided in a shallow stream but obtained arm and leg bones similar to an animal as well. This allowed the fish to push-ups. By explaining experiments by various genetic researchers, there was a gene discovered called Sonic hedgehog. This gene is responsible for the shaping of hands, fins, or paws. Sonic hedgehog’s normal function can be disrupted by the recombination of its digits. This is the gene that explains that there is no emergence of a new DNA, but, rather, the gene was recombined in a new way. Most of the text elaborates on the close relations between invertebrates and unicellular creatures as well far more complex living

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.

The concept of evolution has always fascinated me; I was amazed that single celled organisms from many years ago are the reason I’m here today. While I recognized that our ancestors went from a simplistic organism to fish, to mammals, and so on, the details of how each step occurred in our history never really gets mentioned in the evolution section of our general biology courses. I chose to read Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish because I wanted to know the transition of our ancestors in greater detail. I also thought that the book would elaborate on some of the topics discussed in our evolutionary anatomy class and help put them in perspective. Prior to reading the book, I expected it to be very dry – simply explaining evolutionary concepts in

With fewer than fifty published poems Elizabeth Bishop is not one of the most prominent poets of our time. She is however well known for her use of imagery and her ability to convey the narrator's emotions to the reader. In her vividly visual poem "The Fish", the reader is exposed to a story wherein the use of language not only draws the reader into the story but causes the images to transcend the written work. In the poem, Bishop makes use of numerous literary devices such as similes, adjectives, and descriptive language. All of these devices culminate in the reader experiencing a precise and detailed mental image of the poem's setting and happenings.

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.

“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