Final Reflection Paper
Sixteen months ago, I began a college career after a major life altering experience that would lead me down, an unknown path in this expeditive Career and Work Counsellor program. Taking an assemblage of courses that furnished me with a multitude of experiences. From year one the, Work and Life: A Career Counselling Perspective I was mentally prepared on relearning how to function as a mature student on this path of higher learning. I have been fixed the earnestness to study intensely; this was exemplified by attaining a place on the Deans Honour’s List.
In my fist semester at George Brown College I completed the Work and Life: A Career Counselling Perspective course with Professor Diane Moore. Throughout the coursework …show more content…
Even though the church imbued this. Our parents taught us to be respectful and accepting of every person regardless of their sexual orientation. One of my fondest memories from taking “An introduction to Sexual Diversity Studies” class was attending a book reading event by author Ken Setterington’s “Branded by the Pink Triangle”. The author talked about the many factors that made Berlin the gay capital of Europe in the first decades of the 20th century during Hitler’s rise to power in 1930. Setterington spoke of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came into power, the daily reality of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear such as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions. The concentration camps that were built, imprisoned homosexuals along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn into the prisoner’s uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. Hitler’s objective of “purity” was as much about heteronormative sexuality and childbearing as it was about having a “pure race.” I left the event that evening quite emotional. By the same token I am greatful to my parents who instilled in us to “love thy neighbour”, regardless of creed, or sexual orientation. It is my view; that this teaching has certainly provided me a platform of utter understanding that has created an underlying sense of honesty that permeates my character to this
Sixteen months ago, I began a college career after a major life altering experience that would lead me down, an unknown path in this expeditive Career and Work Counsellor program. Taking an assemblage of courses that furnished me with a multitude of experiences. From year one the, Work and Life: A Career Counselling Perspective I was mentally prepared on relearning how to function as a mature student on this path of higher learning. I have been fixed the earnestness to study intensely; this was exemplified by attaining a place on the Deans Honour’s List.
In my fist semester at George Brown College I completed the Work and Life: A Career Counselling Perspective course with Professor Diane Moore. Throughout the coursework …show more content…
Even though the church imbued this. Our parents taught us to be respectful and accepting of every person regardless of their sexual orientation. One of my fondest memories from taking “An introduction to Sexual Diversity Studies” class was attending a book reading event by author Ken Setterington’s “Branded by the Pink Triangle”. The author talked about the many factors that made Berlin the gay capital of Europe in the first decades of the 20th century during Hitler’s rise to power in 1930. Setterington spoke of the persecution of gay men by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When the Nazis came into power, the daily reality of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear such as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions. The concentration camps that were built, imprisoned homosexuals along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn into the prisoner’s uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. Hitler’s objective of “purity” was as much about heteronormative sexuality and childbearing as it was about having a “pure race.” I left the event that evening quite emotional. By the same token I am greatful to my parents who instilled in us to “love thy neighbour”, regardless of creed, or sexual orientation. It is my view; that this teaching has certainly provided me a platform of utter understanding that has created an underlying sense of honesty that permeates my character to this