Significant Life Experience Essay

After reading the chapter “Project Classroom Makeover”, readers may have spotted that expert knowledge and collective knowledge, as well as crowd sourcing, were mentioned in the story, and more importantly, were being labeled as two completely different forms of knowledge acquisition that are in constant battle with each other. In fact, Cathy Davidson, the author of the story, stated how “crowd sourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be…

Caring for my RealCare Baby was exceedingly difficult. The RealCare Baby could not be soothed by your voice, like a real infant. The RealCare Baby did not have a regular routine like an infant would. With a real baby, you cannot feed it four times within 40 minutes. If someone does this, their baby will gain excess weight and could cause it future eating habits. A real baby will usual fuss before having a full-out cry. With the RealCare Baby, it would cry randomly and without warning, unlike a…

The best way to get to know a person is to walk a mile in his shoes. This famous saying illustrates that it is hard to know a person and their situation, until you have taken a step back from your life and viewed their perspective. This is often better said than done, a few reasons being emotions can get the best of people in certain situations, stubbornness and the refusal to see any other way but their own, or they have absolutely no emotion to cope with others’ perspectives. This would also…

perspectives attempt to understand the concept of jealousy. From the perspective of natural science, jealousy is often approached as a variable that can be measured by experiments or surveys. Such measurement is possible by stepping out of the subjective experience in order to grasp the objective meaning and any causal laws which might govern the cause and effect of jealousy (Stenner and Lazard, 2016). However, it has been argued that what appears to be a quantitative measurement of jealousy…

“It’s very easy to be judgemental until you know someone’s truth” (Kate Winslet). In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” the story starts out introducing 4 men that have been chained up in a cave their whole lives, not being able to move and only being able to stare at a wall in front of them. Behind these men is a fire with people walking across it carrying objects and things shaped as animals or creatures. Since the men have never once stepped outside, they believe this to be their reality. One day…

Additionally, this year was made special since I finally choose to stay after school and join a program that has changed my life forever and given me various opportunities. Indeed, I decided to join the chess club, also known as the only club that was big in that school year. Anyhow, to begin to understand just how enormous the change the chess club provided it is important to understand that prior to the club Esperanza Middle School had earned no trophies. Even more, the chess club was the…

Most of us find it easier to experience empathy with people we can relate to in some way, but we may find it difficult to empathize with those people whose interests appear to be in conflict with ours (Sadri, 2015). Empathy is the ability to ‘put yourself in their shoes’ and to try to understand another’s point of view. As a clinician, you will encounter many different scenarios over time. Empathy is not agreeing with the client’s behavior but trying to understand the behavior (Clinton &…

Up until now, I have put on effort to polish any discovered skills, and gain experience that will deep my understanding of life. However, there was one incident that I have always been proud of even though it weighs as much as a grain of sand in many other’s eyes through my life so far. This incident occurred when I was about 12 years of age. On my way home from my recent trip to China to visit my mother and her family. I had to wait to be escorted to the entrance to my airplane by an airplane…

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…

discussing the challenges of cross-cultural management, Google’s training program runs for two years, and sends APMs accepted into the program on a 16 day four city trip during the second year not to work in the Google offices, but rather to experience everyday life and to visit Google in other countries rather than work there full time (Levy, 2007). While on the surface it seems very superficial and having little…