Throughout lower and middle school at lab‚ the buddy program was always my favorite. I loved the connections and friendships it made‚ and I was always excited about the challenge of being a big buddy. Because I was always one of the quieter‚ gentler people in my class‚ I was often paired with the shyest child in the class we had been partnered with. I felt as if I had the potential to begin to understand them‚ maybe even a bit more than some of classmates‚ because I had been very similar to them
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My initial or immediate reaction to the lesson on race and ethnicity through our lecture‚ readings‚ individual and group participation was slightly surprising. I discovered I didn’t consider myself the same as society classified me. This discovery was actually rather frustrating. I don’t want to be known only as a 34-year-old‚ Caucasian‚ female. I don’t want to be aggregated or perceived as someone who is lumped into the same category as everyone else. I want to be perceived as I see myself
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If there has been one thing that the book Ender’s Game has told me is this. Ender has made me a better reader by showing me my likes in science fiction‚ tactical decisions‚ and overall how to be a leader and the benefits of being one. This has always been a part of me but this book and character has truly spoken to me in a way no other has done before. Ender is a character who thinks out every action he does‚ every word he speaks‚ and every peer he makes friends with. He always enjoys and prefers
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helped evolved my brain in another level of success‚ and my ability to use a broad vocabulary. Since I have been in this class my vocabulary has really improved I have used some words that I normally wouldn’t have used in high school. While writing my essays the biggest challenge that I have run into is using terms and quotes from other sources to back up my main points and explaining the quote. Before I came into this class I had a little understanding of how to place my quotes‚ but after learning from
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Sociology Reflective Essay I went to Khan el-Khalili on a Friday afternoon and it was about 40 degrees. My plan was to observe the different reactions between the people in the Egyptian souk and the people around the goldsmith’s shops and Naguib Mahfouz coffee shop‚ to my norm breaking outfit. I planned to stay an hour in each area. I chose to wear a very heavy wool jacket and a pair of Uggs‚ (calf-high boots made of heavy wool) with a pair of jeans and winter accessories. My expectations
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“Reflection is active‚ purposeful thought applied to an experience to understand the meaning of that experience for the individual” (Ashby‚ 2006 p.28). Reflective practice is vital to the nursing profession. Although there is little evidence based information of the benefits of reflective practice (Schutz‚ 2007)‚ there are many benefits pertaining to reflective practice and resulting in a holistic patient approach and therefore nurses are able to provide better care. There are many models available to
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analysis of its contents (McMullen‚ et. al.‚ 2003). A portfolio captures learning from experience‚ enables to measure learning‚ acts as a tool for reflective thinking‚ illustrates critical analytical skills and evidence of self-directed learning and provides a collection of detailed evidence of a person ’s competence (Gray‚ et. al.‚ 2004). For Dewey‚ reflective thinking consisted of two parts: a state of doubt and a search to resolve that doubt. Thus‚ constructing a portfolio is an act of revealing one
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I was exposed to the idea that the dissimilarity that each person possesses may be a factor that leads them to communicate and interpret messages in their own way. The rationale for that suggestion lies within the different types of culture and society that they were raised in‚ as it may contribute to the noises that exist during a communication process. Also‚ every person has their own piece of mind on different issues; thus‚ conflicts and criticism are most likely to occur. The world is separated
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Presenting the poster presentation was very intense even though it was a 5 minute presentation because I don’t normally present something that last more than a minute to the audience and it was my first time representing something like this. I only took a minor role of presenting a topic when in a group or instructing on the board how it was done in my past life. I never talked for a long period of time. During the day of the poster presentation‚ my first time presenting something as an individual
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During the school year 2014/2015‚ I have practised the Clil module in the Vth C class of the Human Sciences High School‚ for a total of 22 hours of lessons. I followed in most parts the project module and my internship was splitted into two parts: one of 11 hours‚ (from module 1 to 9)‚ the second of 10 hours‚ (from 10 to 12). Some differences that arose between the provisions and the achievements are due to several factors: first‚ I had not properly calculated the times‚ both for skim and corrections
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