Life Experience Essay

amount of time in self-reflection, exploring how my experiences, socio-economic status, race, gender, and sexual orientation all influence my work with clients. Self-awareness helps us to prevent our biases and backgrounds from interfering with the work, and allows us to better serve our clients. In this paper, we were asked to explore how our personal biases and cultural background inform our…

certain social and political world that puts us with others. We form certain relationships through our social location and have certain experiences that relate to our social location. Through many personal experiences I realized my social location. I realized my social location through race, through gender, and also through ability/disability. All three of the experiences made me realize not just where my position was in society but it made me understand other people’s social locations. When I…

at the battle of Waterloo – those memory-like experiences cannot be genuine memories. Only Napoleon could genuinely remember leading the French troops into battle. (Beebee and Dodd, P. 11) This passage is an example of the circular objection theory transpiring. The theory does not intend to falsify other theories, however in order to figure out if person A and person B are the ‘same person’, we are depending on the true (facts) memories and experiences of both individuals (Beebee and Dodd, P.…

issues through my sociology classes I had never been asked what my own experience was with these issues was. Obviously I had thought about them especially when reading things about working class people entering academic spaces, however in the class I read that there was never space to process that as a person who has experienced that myself. But with the opportunity to read other peoples personal narratives with their experiences of class and race and other identity locations effects on…

regarding social exclusion. These attitudes were only affected when feelings of exclusion were recalled and not neutral topics. The findings of the third study correlated with the results of the second study. It found that after recalling an experience in which they were excluded, they had a decreased desire to make social contact with people in their in-group. However, in both studies it was found that a decreased desire for social connection only occurred when the participant had been…

For example, when I was 14 my personal life took a toll on me, which led to depression. Furthermore, my grandfather had recently passed away and resulted in my family tearing apart. As if the situation wouldn't get worse, my sister had been diagnosed with type 3 leukemia and had a small chance…

It is good to have an end to journey toward, and in the end the experiences within the journey itself are equally as important, as such ventures can induce some form of self-transformation. Journeys, Year 11 students, are amongst the very few things in life that is completely unavoidable. Every single person in this room has embarked on a journey, whether it be a journey to senior schooling, or even a journey to self-discovery; everyone has at least once experienced the impacts journeys may…

My cultural field experience was attending a Buddhist Meditation meeting. This was out of my typical culture for two reasons; first, I am Christian, not Buddhist, and two, I have not ever meditated or even witnessed someone meditating to my knowledge. I will admit that I generally look on meditation as a waste of time that can be used to complete something constructive. I was a bit nervous about attending as it was an experience I was completely unfamiliar with and I had no idea of what to…

The Running Man by Michael Bauer demonstrates the experiences of marginalising and ‘putting people in boxes’ through the lives of multiple characters in the book. The characters that interpret this idea effectively are Tom Leyton and Joseph Davidson. An outsider is an individual that is often misunderstood, and are considered misfits that are excluded and experience isolation. They are faced with prejudice and the harsh judgement and negative perception from the community. In this novel, Michael…

Every individual has obstacles in their life, but those who do not allow those obstacles to impede their dreams have perseverance. One who overcomes obstacles in their life will always have a sense of accomplishment and pride whenever they reminisce on those particular moments in their life. I have experienced firsthand overcoming obstacles in life when I joined the football program my high school offered. I joined my high school’s football team after the summer conditioning in 2013 had been…