Personal Experience Essay

Imagination has been thought provoking to say the least. Here is this intangible thing that connects people by way of shared experience. Sam Richards talked about suicide in his Ted Talk, and how through the Sociological Imagination, there is the potential to experience relief or support in stressful times through the understanding that we are not alone in our experiences, however personal we may feel them to be. This intangible thing has the ability to actually produce change as a byproduct of…

comprehend and the narrative, unfamiliar. I tried to decipher this text in two ways. Firstly, I attempted to take what I was seeing and place it within a context that I felt I better understood; one closer to home. Secondly, because I felt a lack of personal connection I tried to look at it as from a film student’s perspective; analysing what I was seeing on screen to unearth deeper themes, Migration, cultural tensions, past and present. I had heard prior to viewing the film that it was “not…

awesome because then I can really have a more personal relationship with a group of students that I can talk to about God and help them through problems that they’re dealing with. The spiritual needs I believe are and were being met throughout the internship with each and every moment, when dealing with the message, life groups, and other spiritual building areas within the youth ministry. I really enjoy the way that the youth ministry that I was interning for ran each and every service. I…

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…

and proximal. Within the distal factors fall, distal contextual stressors, and distal personal stressors. These stressors while all different, are also linked and can effect one another. Distal stressors in general are indirect sources of stress. Distal contextual stressors are those that are environmental stressors that impact individuals on a variety of levels in the ecological system. In defining distal personal stressors, these are stressors that are more individual. Examples of this type of…

What events led you to choose nursing as a career at this stage in your life? Why are you choosing to pursue this degree at NYU? If one’s career choice is typically influenced by personal aptitudes, sociocultural environments and life experiences, as I reflect on my life’s journey, there has been one constant that inevitably shaped who I am. I have often been described as “my sister’s keeper.” My older sister was born with Spina Bifida. In addition to being paralyzed, the severity of her…

something as abstract and purposeful as the pursuit of knowledge, individuality plays a critical part in the process. The knower, or the person who is seeking knowledge, must interpret any given facts or experiences into a consolidated piece of knowledge which would then become part of their bank of personal knowledge. However, any knowledge which is presented to any particular knower is interpreted and processed differently before it can be accepted as such on an individual level. For example,…

resources and minimizing our environmental impact. The experience was incredible and provided me the opportunity to make a great living while working in a sector greater than myself, in something that I believed would change the world. In reflecting on my career trajectory, I realize that my greatest career satisfaction comes from working with organizations and causes that work to bring positive change to the world. Along with the Silicon Valley experience, I experienced tremendous growth…

education being used for interaction with a community, from personal experience it is clear that when it comes to jobs, a combination of knowledge (from education) and the ability to communicate are the two most important factors that distinguish…

very useful experiences from, so when I received an email informing me about a fellowship in the south working to improve schools I was ecstatic. Participating in this fellowship would mean I am taking the leadership pathway and that is the pathway I was looking to be a part of because I think it is probably the best pathway to gain experience that is easily transferable into the work place. The work you do in an internship is very much meant to be work that gives you direct experience in the…