Personal Experience Essay

What personal qualities and practical experiences will make you a good health care worker? To be a patient is to be vulnerable, to trust, to need, to suffer and to worry. I know from experience. My mother ankylosing spondylitis and has had three joint replacements. I have had four rounds of physical therapy myself. I know what it is like to be the patient, and to have a loved one receive care. These experiences, in part, informed my decision to become a physical therapist. When providing…

An individual’s perception is made up of stacked lenses that alter the truth, which summarizes their own slice of reality. These lenses are experiences, and they can have major consequences to one’s quality of life. The experiences one buys and commoditize for status elude them the farthest away from the truth, and are the most spoiling for their character. Our money driven society feeds these illusions to individuals with a bias that they do not necessarily understand and purposefully…

real is a direct result of experience, it is plain to see how imitation of this reality, due to learned or innate knowledge, could become just as easily accepted as true to the subject. It is often thought that “seeing is believing”, however, I believe sense perception is not necessarily required for belief and things are real even before we have seen them. This idea is arguably true through the two different types of knowledge; personal and shared knowledge. Personal knowledge is in reference…

Memory and personal identity are an integral part of our lives. These characteristics and traits assist us in the way we make decisions and approach situations. Memory in relation to personal identity is a topic that has been studied by several Philosophers. The question of whether or not memory presupposes identity is a circular one, and therefore makes this question important. To study this, I looked at Parfits theory of Psychological continuity, and how it was seen as problematic due to its…

asked personal questions continuously, some may freeze up or even give into the client’s questioning. Thanks to the workshop, I was able to politely enforce that I would not answer any questions about my personal life that the client may have. The client understood this and we were able to continue with the check in without any issues. The knowledge I acquired from the workshop, allowed me to work with this client in an effective matter and give her the services she deserved. This experience…

The Art of Fiction,” American writer Henry James implies that the secret to good writing is to infuse it with experience, whether vast or limited, authentic or cultivated through imagination. James reiterates that the writer’s process of gaining inspirational experience is never complete. Furthermore, he affirms that genius lies within the writer’s ability to openly collect experiences, and he notes how those “on whom nothing is lost” may take even the simplest of moments and develop them into…

diversity plays a major role in shaping the human experience, as well as in forming identity. Diversity itself is a complex issue that is affected by various variables such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, political ideology, and sexual orientation. These variables also have the capacity to create experiences of power and privilege. Thus, depending on the way in which these differences impact an individual’s life, one may experience oppression, marginalization and alienation. …

Nevertheless, in my personal education, I experienced a great amount of diversity due to the school system I was in. With the diversity also came a great deal of failure…

Many unique and challenging life experiences have shaped my life and have positively influenced my aspiration to be of service to the community. At age eighteen I was addicted to drugs and alcohol. I was homeless, uneducated, and destitute, but I sought help from an inpatient treatment center. During this time, I was evaluated and diagnosed with a depressive disorder. Due to this diagnosis, I received mental health services in addition to participating in the rehabilitation program for…

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 understanding these issues it was easier to explore my own personal…