Essays on Personal Experience

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Prejudice and Bigotry in the Matter of Interracial Relationships Despite the fact that economic and social disparities between black and white Americans disappear gradually, situation in the sphere of inter-racial marriages is quite different. Even the United States today are the very segregated society in many respects. The most interesting indicator of segregation in American society is interracial marriages. At the end of the 17th century, slavery in some southern US states was replaced by indentured servitude (black worker was obliged to work on his master a certain amount of time, typically from 4 to 7 years, without receiving ...

One of the main advantages of literature lies in its ability to communicate various cultural experiences and provide greater knowledge and deeper understanding of foreign traditions for the reader. In the Western civilization, Eastern religious traditions and cultures informed by them are perceived with interest, fascination and even fear; while lack of understanding can often impair successful interaction and communication. In addressing the issue of religious values, the authors of two books, Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West and Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a ...

Even if it is not mentioned directly anywhere, a profound, meaningful and lasting personal experience is difficult to completely conceal when writing on the topic directly connected to this experience. Something a person enjoyed and developed an attachment to will always find a way to manifest itself even in scholarly work because people naturally get excited when they tell a story about something important to them. Paige Greco’s text is filled with subtle indications of her fascination with the reconstructed Globe theater; one can point out without a doubt that those are her emotional responses scattered throughout the ...

Leadership is an ever-evolving, and dynamic concept with different approaches to effective leadership have been proposed time-to-time by scholars. In my personal and professional tenure, I have different experiences as a leader as well as a follower. I remember an instance when I was working with a senior HR manager, Mr. Jame. He was an outgoing person with a charismatic personality. Working with him made me realize the significance of emotional intelligence at work. The way he was able t regulate the emotions of his team according to the work requirements made him one of the most popular leaders ...

News Story #1

Road Rage Incident on Gloucester PI, Two Drivers Come to Blows A traffic accident on Gloucester PI resulted in an alarming case of road rage in Brighton on Monday, creating a traffic jam that lasted nearly an hour. According to several fellow drivers surrounding the vehicles in question, at approximately 1:25 PM, a young woman driving a blue car attempted to merge into the left lane, when a man in the left lane rolled down his window and began yelling at her and refused to let her in. After a short verbal confrontation, the woman then drove forward and ...

Taking a trip down memory lane my personality has undergone many changes; certain aspects of my personality have remained the same whereas others have considerably changed. At times it becomes tricky describing my personality because one day I presume I'm very extroverted while the next those around me feel I'm introverted. However, I have learned to embrace all these changes positively as they continue to shape me into a better person. For years, certain aspects of my personality such as my height and skin color have remained consistent for a long time. After undergoing all the adolescence changes, I ...

Summary of the observational study

The study that is involve was done using the direct and indirect observation methods. Direct observation encompasses an evaluation of an actual occurrence or behavior, while indirect observation involves a study about the result of such behavior or occurrence (sciencebuddies.org). To present the background of this study, the discussion will focus on the topic showing how motivation affects the employees’ ability to create a productive workplace. Direct observation will be conducted to employees who are motivated while indirect observation focuses on the effects of such motivated behavior. It was stated that the factors affecting the development of motivation are ...

Presenting skills can make or break a person’s business career. There are ten primary concepts of presentation coaching. In order to make an effective presentation, the following skills must be incorporated into the presenter’s overall strategy. As in ancient Japan, seven lessons from the bath use bamboo as a metaphor. The teaching is to be like the revered plant in presenting, as well. The first lesson from the bath is to go with the flow, and be flexible without breaking. The second lesson is to exude confidence, regardless of one’s size. The third lesson is to ...

In the contemporary recent era, McDonalds has acknowledged the biggest food chain of hamburgers and related fast food items. McDonalds assert that above fifty-eight million individuals fond of junk foods show their presence in the outlet and consume burgers and fries. The historical background of the company initiated in 1940 when two brothers namely, Richard and Maurice McDonald, inaugurated a restaurant in San Bernardino, California. During the year 1948, the “Speedee Service System” was introduced, which was considered as the principles of modern food chain globally. However, the company remained small-scale for another half decade (McDonalds, 2016). In April ...

Analysis of the Chipotle Mexican Grill Service

Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to conduct a multifaceted and complete analysis of the service, provided by the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant, operating in direct customer service in own physical space as well as catering. To narrow down this analysis and due to the limitation of the personal experience only to direct customer service in the restaurant, this document will look specifically at this aspect of the business. To better understand the proposition of the restaurant it is important to look at its business model. Founded in Delaware in 1993, today the organization operates over 2000 restaurants ...

CHAPTER 4PART I4. How can critical thinkers counteract confirmation bias?

A critical thinker should seek information from different sources. An issue at hand is considered from different perspectives and using Six Thinking Hats technique.5 What is an expert? An expert is a person who can acquire evidence and information that are superior to those of an ordinary person. 6 What should be our attitude toward a claim that conflicts with the expert opinion? The claim that is inconsistent with the expert advice should not shut down the possibilities that the allegations are untrue. As the law may require we may be forced or use personal intuition to judge between ...

A short synopsis: title, main characters, general plot

The Red-Headed League relates the case of the red-headed pawnbroker Wilson, who became a client of Sherlock Holmes after a chain of bizarre events occurred to him, leaving him baffled. The assistant of Mr. Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, who spends a lot of time in the cellar of his pawn shop, told him about the job advertisement that was hiring only males with red hair. The job was easy and well-paid and Mr. Wilson easily landed the job, as the color of hair satisfied the interviewer from the Red-Headed League. Mr. Wilson had to work only four hours a day ...

The video under analysis is “Sleep for College Students” by Chloe Lee. The speaker talks about the importance of sleep for college students, underlines the negative effects of not getting enough sleep and provides some pieces of advice about falling asleep quicker. The structure of the presentation is clear and consists of an opening, body part, and closing. The speaker starts her speech with talking about her personal experience, and it also catches the attention of the audience and introduces the topic of the presentation. The opening includes direction concerning the structure of the speech while the closing includes ...

Book Review

Introduction This essay is based on critical review of the book titled as “A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battle Space” authored by Dick Couch. The writer, in this book, sheds light on the importance of complying with ethical standards in the battlefield with a particular focus on U.S armed forces. He not only identifies critical ethical flaws but also suggests appropriate ways to fix them effectively.

Initial theme of the book relates to the importance of people (non-combatants). For clear justification of his ideas, he draws a wordy sketch of the evolution of the nature of ...

Fredrick Douglass’s work is a landmark writing that serves as an indicator of racism, slavery, and degrading practices used by the slave owners. While it may seem that the essay “Learning to Read and Write” depicts the struggles of a teenage boy in self-education of reading and writing, however, the work has a deeper meaning (Douglass 100). The main argument of the essay is that slavery degrades the slaves, the owners, and the entire society. By condemning individuals to miserable living, restricting their access to basic goods, and limiting their chance for education transform the owners to the ...

On September 20, 2001, nine days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the President of America at the time, George W. Bush gave a speech to address the Congress and the nation. The speech recounted the events past briefly, identified the cause of the event and the perpetrators involved: it also consoled the American people and identified heroes who discharged their duties well. The speech was ended with a promise to the American people to ‘bring justice to the enemies of freedom’. The speech was well crafted to induce a specific action from the American people: ...

I believe that learning and creativity are closely intertwined. In our everyday life, every person probably experiences learning at one point or the other. Learning is integral to life. There are a myriad experiences and activities that are new to each and every person every day. As a child I learnt how to speak a ride bicycle with the help of my friends. It took a while but eventually I was able to balance myself on the two wheels: something I believed impossible. When I finally tested myself on a motorcycle in my teenage years, the only skill I ...

Introduction

As a documentation of my personal experience, I got moved so much with anecdotes. Still, in the same line with my class work, I got to have a good experience with anecdotes. Therefore, it became my first choice when the teacher asked us to write about our personal experiences. The subject was within the context of the discussion. Furthermore, one can only get to have a feeling of an anecdote using the five senses. That is, the sense of touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste, through all these senses, I was able to in culminating my most interesting anecdote. ...

Application Paper

I have learnt about individual and society, and came to know that everyday feelings, activities, actions, and thoughts of an individual are a result of complex interaction between many social forces and characteristics of an individual at personal level. Sociological imagination is a capability of considering influence of social forces on personal lives of individuals. There are three major types of rules in every society, which are norms, values, and mores. Rules can be in the written form, or they can be just known. However, people individuals who break unwritten rules are called deviants, while those who are involved ...

Benefits of Occupational Therapy in Stroke Rehabilitation

Occupational therapy involves helping a patient relearn day to day activities, consequently enabling the patient to lead a fulfilling and quality life. Being a COTA provides me with the necessary skills and knowledge to help people with sensory, cognitive, and physical disabilities to become independent in their lives. OTs and COTAs adopt a holistic approach of delivering the required care services to the patients by focusing on improving the environment and tasks to fit the patient. OTs and COTAs are part of the multidisciplinary team that delivers care services to patients who need therapy, and they collaborate with other ...

Organizational behavior entails research on individuals within an organizational setting. Such research is crucial for the effective management of organizational structures and requires particular focus on the behavioral traits of individuals while alone (private individuals) as well as in the context of interpersonal relationships such as observed in behavior of individuals while working with others in a professional environment as a team or a group (Sing). Studies on organizational behavior aim at actuating an understanding of the factors influencing groups and individual dynamics within organizational settings for better efficiency and effectiveness of these groups and the overarching organizational structure ...

The first step in a sociological research process is identification and development of a topic. One can begin by stating the topic idea as a question. This is followed by identification of main keywords and concepts in the question. The concepts and keywords can then be tested by looking them up in appropriate sources such as libraries. Too much information and too many sources is an indication that the topic should be narrowed down. Too little information is also an indication that the topic should be broadened. There are unlimited topics from which a researcher can choose. Many researchers ...

SWOT Analysis report on McDonald

Introduction The objective of this report is to present the SWOT analysis of an organization based on personal experience and find out the strengths and weaknesses of the leader of the organization. For the attainment of this objective and fulfilling the requirement of the personal experience, McDonald’s has been considered for the assignment. The paper has been segmented into three chief sections. Section A contains the information regarding the business, leadership practices of a leader, and effects of leadership on culture. Section B, presents the key strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities for the firm. However, the segment evaluates ...

Weird Personal Experiences

We can often hear people say that they saw something with their own eyes or heard something with their own ears. Moreover, those people experienced a lot of extraordinary things. However, their eyes can lie. Sometimes people do not know that their experiences can mislead them in the most unexpected ways. This happens for some reasons. Mainly, people's perceptual capacities and states of consciousness are believed to have natural powers and limits (Schick, Jr. and Vaughn 96-153). A lot of people do not know about those powers and limits. However, these weird features of our minds have a great ...

A Research Proposal First Draft

Abstract While many researchers and practitioners alike are still finding that it is possible to help children develop creative thinking skills, we are also finding that this practice isn't being incorporated for all our kindergarten and pre-school children. The purpose of this paper will therefore be to investigate the ways in which children at the preschool/kindergarten level are being supported in the development of creative thinking skills, as well as the particular role this has played in helping kindergarten students. After initiating a review of the literature to guide the study, the methodology will involve data collection—interviews with ...

Contemporary Leadership

Over the years, decades and even centuries the relationships those humans develop with each other and with the external environment have become much more complicated. It is not a secret that social, economic and business scenes demand stronger focus on the ability to deal with diversity and differences that individuals, as well as groups, demonstrate. The role of leader in human groups was always essential, from the times, where tribes were struggling for survival, facing the nature, to the contemporary business environment, where companies are facing a challenge of working in an international and highly competitive environment. The truth ...

Introduction p.3

Body: My first weeks as a new university student pp.4-67 Conclusion p.8

References and Bibliography pp.9-10

Introduction When I first started university I was understandably nervous, and I had many thoughts running through my head. One of the prevalent thoughts was primarily focused on results. I wanted to do well, but I was aware of the challenges that lay before me. I was aware that my studies in higher education would not be easy. In addition to this, I was aware that in order to achieve the best results, I would have to do get out of my comfort zone and work harder ...

Introduction

Such researchers as Torrence (1980, 1966) and Diamong and Lee (2011) inform that various tactical approaches have been used to boost the creativity of children to develop executive and diverse skill. These researchers commend the application of pedagogical model to influence children creative skills during the early education. Models to influence creativity like computer, Osborn Parnes, and general semantics among other are being applied to impact it. The struggle for practitioner to foster creative thinking in children still precedes research psychology research fields. Torrence (1972) argues that creative thinking in children is not only possible, but can also be ...

Personal Ethics

There is absolutely no doubt for me that any contemporary society requires ethical values to be observed by everyone. These values are necessary because they would serve to regulate the relationship between people and set some particular rules of accepted behavior. Besides, basic universal values are already spread all over the world. Living in a society we are all interdependent. If I can rely on people around me, I am able to move forward without any feeling of fear or suspicion. Moreover, I am able to learn from these people how to be consistent, I learn what it means ...

Human body tattooing has had a long history in many cultures across Europe, Asia, America, Africa, among others. The art of body tattooing has been practiced in most cultures, if not all and was used to convey messages, show religious commitments, personal strengths or status, and acted as identification for certain groups in the society. The practice has experienced extended expression and popularity within the last several decades, more specifically in the 2000s. It has become a part of everyday routine life practice for a majority of the population (Lim et al., 1). A majority of research on body ...

Edgar Allan Poe and the Concept of Death

One of the most puzzling detective writers, Edgar Allan Poe still remains to be a mystery for both experts in literature and common readers. In his stories E. Poe attempted to draw the image of death, an incredible and at the same time an inevitable enemy of the human race. Death is all-powerful as well as the feeling of fear or even horror of a human in the face of death. It is not accidentally that the author places his characters in a space isolated from the world – it can be a torture chamber, well, jail, old estate – where ...

One of the introductory visions in the Book of Revelation is written in chapters 4 and 5 that the Lord Almighty is the one seated on the heavenly throne. The vital theme of chapters 4 and 5 is the own vivid and personal experience of the prophet. It implies that the statement has the element of truth and it has the substance of apocalyptic declaration that is totally associated with the life of the visionary individuals to the present generation of believers. However, at some point, the visionary process separates from the conscious or subconscious imagery of human thinking. ...

This presentation deals with what motivates people and it turns out that it is much more than a stick and a carrot because people are not easy to decipher. Their psyche is complicated and their behavior cannot always be predicted. People are not so easy to be manipulated which is why this presentation is challenging the usual beliefs. The story is about being rewarded and being punished which foster particular behavior while discouraging the other. There was a study at MIT which involved eminent economists who discovered that students perform well when they can do menial jobs, but it ...

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Research Purpose/Introduction

In a paper presented at a symposium on teaching children to think creatively, child psychologist E. Paul Torrance (1972), creator of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Torrance, 1980, 1966) says, I know that it is possible to teach children to think creatively and that it can be done in a variety of ways. I have done it. I have seen my wife do it. I have seen other excellent teachers do it. I have seen children who demonstrated a disability for thinking creatively learn to think creatively. I have seen them continuing for years thereafter to ...

Interview questions

19. Describe what you've accomplished toward reaching a recent goal for yourself. Recently I have driven across US. I have been dreaming about this trip for a long time. My friend offered me to join him for such a trip, so I had to arrange my time and efforts in order to earn enough money in 3 month. I had to work extra hours to save up, but as the result, I have made my dream come true. 25. Have you ever had difficulty with a supervisor or instructor? How did you resolve the conflict? When I was working ...

Abstract

When a person you know and are fond off kicks the bucket, the experience can turn your entire life upside down. The way people react to the situations is different. The response depends on the upbringing, age, relationship, nature of the occurrence, beliefs, mental and physical health, etc. The incidences are characterized by emotional and mental crises that can ultimately change the course of life for the person who experiences loss. Through a detailed evaluation of various theories concerning grief and their application to a personal experience, it is possible to understand the common reactions towards loss. The knowledge ...

Values-Spiritual Gifts

Vision Values The values that are the dearest to me are the following: honesty, as this is the basis of trust; trust itself, because it develops faith and love to one another; logically enough faith and love because the former is something that allows us to believe in something bigger, that allows us to strive for better future whereas the latter is the basis of any human relations; humbleness, because only humble people have a clear vision of things and prospects not distorted by greed, ambitions and self-love; persistence (or diligence) because everything can be achieved only through hard ...

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Ph.D. 2.15.16

Introduction

In a paper presented at a symposium on teaching children to think creatively, child psychologist E. Paul Torrance (1972), creator of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Torrance, 1980, 1966) says, I know that it is possible to teach children to think creatively and that it can be done in a variety of ways. I have done it. I have seen my wife do it. I have seen other excellent teachers do it. I have seen children who demonstrated a disability for thinking creatively learn to think creatively. I have seen them continuing for years thereafter ...

The book, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer is a combination of memoir and an investigative report, born from the author’s undercover investigation of the meat industry practices. It combines knowledge from different fields; literature, science and philosophy, blended into his own personal experience to bring out the bad side of the meat industry. It looks at the inhumane handling of animals in the animal industry. The industry is characterized by poor conditions of raising farm animals, the downing of animals, slaughter before they reach maturity, and the human condition and treatment of animals in slaughterhouses. The book ...

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Jim Perrin’s Country Diary

Jim Perrin’s is an outdoor writer and journalist who keeps accounts of his travels depicting the characteristics of the places he had been, which represents a good example of how the environment is presented in the texts. Going through the articles, it appears that Perrin writes about his journey in Pembrokeshire and describes every details of the journey every step of the way. The author’s writing encompasses a characteristic that is almost poetic in nature. Primarily, the intention is to remind the readers of the natural wonders out in the wilderness by describing ...

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When people believe in the fact that all knowledge is a resultant of experience and in particular sensory experience, they tend to base their ideas on empiricism. According to a group of philosophers who are British, the notion of innate ideas that asserts that every idea was came about as a result of experience. Empiricists are those individuals who claim that experience is the origin of all knowledge. Hobbes was a mechanist empiricist as well as materialistic since he asserted that all activities of human beings were in due course reducible to mechanistic and materialistic. Also, Hobbes believed in ...

In his grand truism theory, Kurt Lewin introduced a heuristic equation B=f (P, E), meaning that behavior is a function of the person-environment interaction (Kihlstrom, 2013). On the other hand, there is the environment. The environmental factors are a factor outside the person's character. When broken down, the environment comprises of both the physical environment and the social environment. According to Kurt Lewin, every behavior is a social behavior, meaning that behaviors are greatly influenced by the social environment in which one functions (Kihlstrom, 2013). Based on this brief introduction, this paper presents the analysis of a personal situation ...

The Name of the Class

Psychological Abnormality The concept of mental abnormalities in behavior has always been a debate among psychologists and psychiatrists. Practical application of this concept in psychology and psychiatry comes down to personal experience gained in professional work. It is the main criterion for evaluating diagnostic data of personal properties as the mentally ill and mentally healthy people. Despite the fact that the performance of various personal properties by test standards may be lower than the test norms of certain personal qualities. Psychiatrists most rely on personal experience, based on which they determine psychological diagnoses of individuals to assess their mental ...

Abstract

Grief is a personal experience. It is a process that happens internally. People who undergo significant loss don't get over it; they learn to live with it. There are losses that are not socially accepted. Individuals who experience such losses are not allowed to mourn by the society. Loss and grief is a normal part of our lives. However, a lot of people avoid talking about the topic. Most people are not comfortable discussing death and the only time people get to talk about death is when someone dies during the culture-specific rituals that are performed after death. When ...

Introduction/Statement of the Problem

Kindergarten children are not challenged enough. They are placed in a safe box of thinking where they are not expected to think outside of. For this research, exploring ways of encouraging creative thinking skills among kindergarteners is the focus. What is the role of play in developing kindergarten students in creative thinking skills? This is the main research question explored in this proposal. Ensuring that kindergarteners are using creative skills can allow for further growth in their academic skills. In recent years researchers have taken on the task of aiding teachers with new ways of learning. My passion for ...

Globalizaton has become one of the central issues of discussion in many disciplines, including psychology. The latter is particularly concerned about how globalization influences the identity that usually develops during adolescence, and how the global culture affects the local ones. Previously the differences between teenagers across the world, including the differences in their perception of the world, family and themselves, were the results of the influence of local cultures. However, today they are developing the increasing number of similarities in behavior and perception than ever before, often discarding their local cultures in favor of the global one. Unfortunately, this ...

Art and Politics

Life has become lot more complicated than what it was ever before in the history of mankind. Probably, even in comparison to as late as the last fifty years, life today is far more complex, communicative, and all life events seem to happen in real time. Today, there is so much knowledge about everything and knowledge is virtually free. Knowledge no longer endows a strategic advantage on the holder of knowledge. There is so much complexity that everything seems specialize. Knowledge is so freely available today that everyone acquires it at all levels and therefore carry an opinion of ...

Management: Four Functions of a Manager

Introduction “A manager’s primary challenge is to solve problems creatively” (Carpenter, Bauer, Erdogan, 2006). Manager is supposed to be able to plan the entire company’s activity as well as the performance of its employees; this person needs to organize all of the working processes in the most sufficient way in order to reach the target; manager has to be a leader so that other workers would not only listen to him\her, but would also respect the decision taken; moreover management position requires the ability to control company’s processes, thus, to make sure the organization is ...

In My Last Duchess, a Duke shows his guest the painting of his late wife and gradually reveals how her perceived infidelity enraged him into killing her. Browning narrates the scene through the voice of the duke, allowing understanding to dawn naturally on the reader as though they are hearing the story firsthand. This makes the horror of the poem a personal experience for the reader, who uncovers clues throughout about the death of the Duchess, feels as though they are engaging personally with the Duke, and finally, comes to realize the crime of the story and apply that ...

The most challenging aspect of meeting the requirements of this essay was the fact that I had so many ideas that I lacked the right words to present. The essay is all about the personal experience I have had during the transition from the Chinese education system to the American system. Given that I am yet to learn all English vocabularies, some of the ideas I had were not well expressed. During the revision of this essay, I first sat back and re-read the paper. This was to examine whether other readers could make sense of what I was ...

The monopolistic condition is a market condition in which many small operators exist in the market selling competitive(similar but not identical) products. Product differentiation is a primary characteristic of the monopolistic industry. Many sellers make independent decisions regarding price and output based on the market and the cost of production. Knowledge is widely spread among customers, but it is not likely to be perfect. Grocery stores or supermarkets are one of the classic examples of imperfect competition. There are a plethora of products available for different brands, different packaging, and different customer loyalty. Among available items are also ...

Introduction

Learning is a lifelong process evolving through cognitive abilities particular to developmental stages for acquiring knowledge as humans, reach adulthood. Adult development relating to personal experiences underpins the choices adults make in their professional or career and personal life choices. The following academic learning exercise integrates the life learning essay, understanding of adult physical changes learned from course readings, theoretical stages of adult development by Erikson, assessment of the learning style inventory as completed, as well as other specific academic concepts gained during the course experience including the Adult Development and Life Assessment Adult Learning Guide.

Life Learning Essay

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Discussion of three reflective pieces on business Profit, Careers, and a Meaningful Life.

Trying to figure out the best ways to balance business pursuits, without being greedy and being aware of preserving the natural environment for example, is not an easy feat to reasonably accomplish. The world today is surprising and complex. The global economy, shaky politics, and new international rules leave room for business people to really think about how they want to establish their business practices and policies. This essay is a collection of three reflective pieces regarding different, but fairly correlated, aspects of business choices and ideas in society in our modern world.

Reflection #1: Whether business pursuits should think about more than monetary profit, like protection strategies for the natural environment.

After reading the Captain Planet article, ...

Personal Experience

We all live in a society that is governed by laws and norms, setting rules for us and telling us how to behave. They give us some set guidelines as to how to behave in the society and what kind of behavior is expected from us. Social norms are the traditional standards of behavior and any behavior that lives up to these norms is known as conformity. Different nations and societies might follow different norms. What might be allowed and normal in one country might not be in another. Different social groups in the same country will follow different ...

Reflection on Diversity

Reflection on Diversity What can be more comprehensible and at the same time more complex than interpersonal relationships? The only thought that comes to my mind is the relationships between the groups, groups that are built from individuals with their own educational and personal backgrounds, racial and ethnical diversity and social and economic attributes. Individuals comprise groups and these groups, social, economics, business, environmental or any other have, essentially, the same purpose – create a feeling of belonging and build on our individual comfort zones. Human being is a collective thinker that finds his personal identity and builds individual cognitive and ...

Personal experience with discrimination

Social and cultural diversity across the world affects how individuals are perceived and handled in different social settings. It is the quality of different cultures as opposed to monoculture across the global world. Even though the United States has made an outstanding effort to curb discrimination, traces of these acts still exist specially in the New York City (Belmont, 2011). This paper reflects my own personal experience both at my home town in New York City and abroad, regarding personal biasness and discrimination that I have experienced in different social settings upon factors such as race, gender, religion, socioeconomic ...

Summary and Reflection: Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott

Summary and Reflection Anne Lamott discussed the value of first drafts in writing through the article Shitty First Drafts, an article in her best-selling book Bird by Bird. As a professional writer, Lamott disputes the commonly held notion that good writers find it easy to create written works without any indication of anxiety or difficulty whatsoever. For Lamott, all writers experience obstacles related to their written works. In turn, Lamott referred to first drafts as those that tend to reflect the obstacles of all writers towards producing the final version of their written works (Lamott, 1994).

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Abstract

This study analyzes the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic medical system in both hospital and clinic environments. The overall research problem addressed in this study is determining how to effectively manage and communicate expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a new install of an electronic medical record. The purpose of this study is to analyze perceptions associated with both the benefits and challenges derived from installing an electronic medical record system. This problem is relevant to many such as those who ...

I tell myself, “you should be outside enjoying the sunshine,” but I realize that my dreaded reflection paper for English Grammar, is due in just eight hours. The pain of facing another all-nighter hits me square in the face. Why did I keep procrastinating when I was only too-well acquainted with the insalubrious effects, and fallout that regret would bring me? What a drag. But I knew I had to get it done. Sure, I wanted to be a great writer and impress my instructor with all the proper grammar I ...

Informal Learning Experience

Abstract

In this essay, we investigated classical, operant and social-cognitive conditioning in personal experience of learning a foreign language. A single participant has been interviewed about informal language learning. We have analyzed the responses basing on social-cognitive conditioning theory and clarified the cases where learning a foreign language could occur through classical and operant conditioning. The participant’s results have shown that learning through social-cognitive conditioning can be successful providing the existence of the four factors. Informal learning through classical and operant conditioning is effective as well and is widely used in the modern educational system. However, it is advisable ...