Personal Experience Essay

whose going through life’s up and down told us we will be sailing if we cruised along the road trip to the unknown or uncertainty. Should we take their advice with a pinch of salt? Before this, I had my time of taking pleasure in the life-changing experience. However, pleasure went aloof…

I had an experience with the opposite reaction today. I was eating with my parents in the living room. They wanted to watch the football game that was on, so we ate on trays. When I was getting up, my knee bumped into the tray. It wasn't enough to knock it over, but when it wobbled back in place, the plate and cup on it kept sliding. The cup was empty, so I reacted quickly enough to keep the plate on the tray, though I had to put my hand down in it to do so. Hand was messy, but kept it off…

Throughout my first year of driving, I have had anything but a traditional, safe experience behind the wheel of my 2-ton car. It seems like anytime I get behind the wheel of a car, something somewhere in the universe decides to test me once again. However, despite being a firsthand witness to my awful luck, I also astonish myself every time I experience these situations with how I handle and learn from them. This is one of those times. After having my license for about 8 months, you would think…

Locke’s central thesis was that personal identity consists, not in sameness of substance, but in ‘sameness of consciousness’(Shoemaker on the Memory Theory). When something psychological like soul, memory and something immaterial etc. are assumed to account for persistence through time, which is the numerical identity between objects at different times(Seymour, Lecture 4/4), they are categorized as the non-physical accounts. In Locke’s view, consciousness was used as a synonym of memory…

knowledge, experience, and ability to create viable…

Proceeding our online conference and hearing the discussions about whether addiction is a disease or not I had developed an assumption that the most explanatory model would be the disease model which contradicted my personal view. However upon completing the assigned reading and unit notes that assumption had disappeared and the belief that the blended or biopsychosocial model was the most explanatory model worldwide. Addictions are very complex and experienced differently among people. The…

Tarule investigated the ways women create meaning of their experiences. Their study focused on 135 women of various ages and backgrounds who were interviewed about their upbringing, relationships, decision-making skills, and personal goals – knowledge acquired throughout their lives. Through their analysis of these interviews, Belenky et al. challenged traditional androcentric knowledge theories (e.g. Perry, 1970). From their life experiences women develop ways they view the world, or…

Once more to the Lake, by E.B. white, is a personal narrative that allows the readers to slip into the shoes of E.B. White and relive the memories he had with a lake in Maine. This personal narrative theme is more illusive, going back in time where E.B. White lived in delight as a kid who visited a same lake each summer. E.B White reflects his childhood memories when he took his son to the same lake that he grew to love. These reflections and memories are both pleasurable and saddening as he…

The definition of wisdom has shown to be a controversial yet personal discussion among many people, differing from person to person. In the case of Socrates, his definition is explained during his speech for his trial. He states “for the unexamined life is not worth living for men” (38a) showing his strong stance on how being able to question everything you can is what drives wisdom. It also shows his thoughts on how wisdom is personal and something only you can do for yourself, that without…

Motivation Questions for Nipissing-Sponsored Leadership Experiences Question 1: Given your personal, academic and career goals, outline three main reasons why you are applying for this opportunity. On of the main reasons that I am applying for this opportunity stems from my desire to return to Africa. Two years ago I took part in a volunteer trip to South Africa that profoundly changed my life. I had the chance to work in an elementary school assisting in the construction of new buildings and…