The movie Precious based on the novel Push by Sapphire about a 16 year old girl named Claireece “Precious” Jones who was raised in an abusive household with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend‚ where she deals with verbal‚ physical and sexual abuse from both her mother‚ and father who lives in a different home. Precious has one child with Down’s Syndrome‚ but her mother doesn’t let the baby stay in the house with them so she lives with her grandmother and the only time Precious gets to see the
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My thoughts and reflections were summarised over the four weeks and captured in the ensuing journal. Sustainability I hadn’t considered the inter-plays that exist between the social‚ environmental and economic aspects of sustainability‚ I subscribe to the three pillars of sustainability (figure 1)‚ that is each has an impact but they are independent of each other. Figure 1: Three pillars of sustainability Source: Wallis‚ A. M.‚ Graymore‚ M. L. M.‚ & Richards
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In this ever-changing society‚ healthcare plays a major role in rendering medical assistance at community and national level when natural disaster and health crisis occurs. According to World Health Organization (2009)‚ nurses and midwives are important in the global healthcare workforce as they have a part in delivering care to primary‚ acute and community settings. Recently in Singapore‚ there have been debates suggesting to make nursing as a national service for all females for the purpose of
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Writing a reflective essay is considered an easy task to complete for those people whose profession involves writing and creating pieces of work on the paper. However‚ students at colleges and universities are also asked to complete a reflective essay‚ though they are not taught and trained to fulfill such tasks. This page has been created to assist students with reflective essays in their academic assignments. Reflective essay supposes the use of all the knowledge gained in this course‚ as well
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Reflective Essay Conclusion: During writers craft the genre that I enjoyed writing most was poetry. I love everything about poetry. Poetry is a piece of writing that can be interpreted in many different ways while being written in one. My favorite part about class was writing poetry and the many different types of poems we wrote. I was not too big on the fact of reading poems in class sometimes that where too hard for me to understand. I am more of a reader who likes to know what is going on
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Feminism Thoughts in Precious (2009) In 2009‚ an American drama film entitled Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Saphire orsimply called as Precious was produced. The media mogul‚ Oprah Winfrey was interested to promote itwidely by taking the position as the executive producer. The reason of Oprah’s interest to the film wasunquestionable. For so long‚ she has always been known for her deep concern on women’s issues‚ andthis is the film all about. Precious is a film which
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suffering of a girl‚ Claireece Precious Jones‚ who experienced sexual harassment‚ committed twice by her own father‚ having as a result two children by him. Considering the cruelty of the act itself‚ which is also reflected in the language the novel has‚ Precious never became a criminal or committed suicide instead she learned how to cope with every hard situation she went through. The question is how did this young girl went through all this bad situations? Precious had people that had interest to
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through all of the trouble. At first As I was reading I thought that the mother would of have the courage to stop the father from abusing precious‚ I mean its his own daughter‚ who would do such a sick thing. I was wrong; because the mother didn’t even do anything about it instead she as well abused her physically and mentally. 2. The ways that the main character precious is strong is the fact that she went through all the abused in her life all the drama and she still stood high with her head up. She
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Reflective writing and theories of Reflection There are several types of reflection. As mentioned by Taylor‚ All types of reflection are important and a combination of these may be used to make sense of practise and to bring changes. Technical Reflection is generally used to look at clinical practices and procedures along with the scientific knowledge. However‚ values play no part in this. Practical Reflection on the other hand judges human experiences and assumptions. It also develops common values
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Examples of reflective writing An example of good reflective writing – integration of theory with personal experience; justification and explanation of person experience using relevant theory as support; provides insight into the author’s observations of the theory; appropriate use of language; analysis of theory within the context of own experience. Organisational change and development theory suggests that models are a good way of providing change practitioners with strategies to plan‚ implement
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