Death is a topic some people often like avoiding because it can be followed with a variety of emotions, usually saddening ones. The reason is because we truly don’t know what happens after death, and losing a loved one can be quite emotionally taxing. I remember one of the first assignments I had, a scavenger hunt, left me pensive in wondering how other people view death and the topics surrounding it. I requested assistance to look for greeting card that revolved around death and dying, and I received, for the most part, weird looks and bewilderment. The sales associates asked me why I was taking the course and if I ever left the class feeling depressed. I answered honestly; that it was a requirement and that I was actually interested. Additionally, …show more content…
I always like a challenge, however, and I surely was able to exercise my time management skills. I genuinely enjoyed the question of the day because after lecture, and even throughout the day, I pondered it. For example, once during lecture we were asked if funeral arrangements had been considered for ourselves or our parents. Later that week, I found myself discussing this topic with my long-time significant other and mother. I recognized that this question is not something to think about temporarily this semester, it is a real situation that will need proper consideration as I will face it eventually. Another question of the day that stood out is when we were asked about taking care of business before we died knowing we had a short amount of time to live. I remember being stuck in responding to this question because it is something I would really have to think about, a whole class time is not enough. I appreciated the fact that the lecturer shared her personal stories and experiences surrounding death and dying to also serve as juxtaposition with lecture topics. I could not help but feel empathetic and wonder how the lecturer must have felt discussing these subjects as they hit close to home. That being said, I also liked how involved my classmates were in regards to course discussions. It was interesting to see the different perspectives the students had as well as hearing about their life experiences in relation to the weekly
Lossography is the concept that death can be meaningful based upon cultural values, traditions, and personal beliefs. There are many situations that pertain to the concept of Lossography one particular relation is death education. According to Lossography pertaining to students studies show that students tend to express the issues of death more elaborately through writing (Bolkan, 2015). This is an important aspect of Lossography due to the students being able to express how they feel about death, and be able to express their experiences and cultural beliefs pertaining to a loss loved one. According to the study the most frequent reported death is the loss of a grandparent; many students have encountered the loss of a grandparent at an early
This course and as in Honors Biology, we were taught in a more oneself teaching rather than a lecture. I like the idea of not having a lecture, but when the teacher took a day to do a quick overview of each chapter, I learned the material and understood the material the best. I wish that we had that in each unit because I truly do like biology and when I understand a new concept fully it made me feel 10 times more comfortable on the test and the
Over the past year I have grown as both a person and a writer. My writing has improved
As the class ended, I feel that we all accomplished being able to think outside of the box. We learned the value and importance of being more socially mindful. By being able to more mindful of the other people around us and the lives they have lived, we are able to understand where other people may becoming from or why they have the opinions that they have. Overall, the class has truly been an eye opening experience and has instilled new values within myself about how to handle people that will cross my
As a second language learner I have never expected myself to be a perfect writer throughout the semester. Even If English was my first language still, I would not be a perfect writer. It is not about first or second language, it is about how well I understand the learning objectives. Then organizing and writing with my own ideas and putting them in my paper. I am going to be honest, I am not good at English subject and English subject is my strongest weakness than the other subjects. In this paper I will discuss and analyze my own writing, reflecting on the ways that my writing has improved throughout the semester.
Exploring the assumption that whilst death may be inevitable, and although grief is managed in different ways, it still instructs us through emotional and intellectual encounters with mortality.
When someone speaks of a death, a hush falls over the room. Death has always intrigued me in some way; why do we avoid speaking of something that inescapably happens to everybody? I have never been able to grasp how we know so little about what happens after death and yet every living thing experiences it. Death has been a thing that has terrified me since before I can remember. Therefore, I obviously wanted to learn more about it. Death and dying seems to be ever so far away in my eyes. I really have no knowledge of it, even when I have experienced my own losses in life. When my grandfathers died when I was 14 and 11, I had a really hard time dealing with the grief and processing the loss. Reading and writing about entire process of death, helped me become more aware of my own grief and the deaths that occurred in my family. One of the main things that will help me further in life is the fact that death is a natural life event and as well as the final stage in our development. Looking at death as a stage of development instead of an end helped me see the while it is painful and challenging, sometimes it is for the better of the loved one. Having this new information on death would help me cater to clients who are going through bereavement periods. What might have helped me when I was initially grieving was the idea of how it is a
When I scheduled the class Persuasive Communications, I had no particular interest in the subject matter; I just needed to finish the general education requirement for a second writing course. It fit my schedule and sounded reasonably interesting, but I did not think I would gain much from it. It was a general education class after all, and would not be very high on my priority list. Now that the semester is almost over and the class work is complete (albeit after this paper), I feel as if I gained a lot from this class. The class’s main objective was to expand our skills as writers, but it served in teaching us many other things that hold value in our education and future careers.
Death and dying is one topic that is very familiar to me. I have experienced the death of my Grandfathers, Great Grandmother, uncles, aunts, close friends and many patients that I have cared for. In some aspects death is a God sent to some people because they are no longer suffering and you know now that they are in peace. In others ways death can be very traumatic because perhaps someone’s life ended too soon. No matter how much you experience death and dying, no death will affect you in the same way. One thing about death that everyone has in common is that it is inevitable, everyone will die someday.
This semester, I worked for an attorney office and saw exactly how the House Bill 274 affected the law firm. I worked for a personal injury law firm which was called the Law Office of Branch & Dhillon. I worked for Attorney Dhillon, Attorney Woron and Attorney Barber. My to go person, a really helpful supervisor and paralegal, was a lovely lady named Judy. Judy let me explore all aspects to working at the law firm and even let me have my own office, key to the firm, and my own special “attorney” coffee jug- all which made me feel like I belonged there.
...nized when it came to the assignments that were due. The most important thing I learned in this class was the ability of working as a team. The group I was in, we did an excellent job of working with each other and the communications was excellent. When working in groups you are exposed to different personalities and it is something you will have to deal with in future careers or jobs, and that was reminder of how working as a team is important. Finally, this semester was fun, but it also put things into perspective of the new life I am about to start. I have been going to school since the age of four and now I am about to entire the career world during this time in my life. It is something that I am nervous about, but also excited and without this class I would not have the tools I must have to complete my career at this university, and start a new one in my field.
The concept that we discussed throughout the semester that was most surprising to me was that of meditation. Coming into this class, I had a biased view of meditation. As a senior in high school, one of my teachers used to make us meditate every Friday for an hour during her class. As seniors, stressed about college applications and lack of sleep, we all thought that this was the perfect opportunity to take a nap during the school day. From my experiences with meditation in that class, I really didn’t believe that meditation was helpful in any way or served a purpose. After taking this class, however, I now understand that meditation is more than just sitting in one position for long periods of time.
Without the discussions that we did in this course, I do not believe I would have gotten as much out of this class as what I have with them. The discussions and simulations have been my two favorite things about this class. It is probably because I love hands-on activities. I have always learned better when interacting with others. The things I have learned in the discussions will always help me in everyday life. For one, I think it has made me more respectful of other people's political views. They have also taught me many things that I had no previous knowledge of before this class. Many of the ideas that my fellow students mentioned I would have never have thought of and probably never would have if they had not mentioned them.
When one looks at their life, at any stage in which they live, it is pivotal to see clearly how they are finding meaning, purpose and direction within their daily decisions. As I’ve learned to value the role of community and covenant relationships in my life, it has been a challenge to continually commit myself to overcoming my flesh and correctly align myself with God’s intentions for my life. As part of this transformative process in centering my worldview on Christ’s love, I’ve concluded that all of life’s ultimate questions are found to have been correctly answered in the Bible; repeatedly in Scripture, and specifically in one verse, I have found that it sources everything in life to the glory of God. Romans 11:36 centers our attention on Christ, from whom we derive all answers to origins, meaning, morality, destiny and identity for our lives: “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (ESV).” Not only does the most credible book ever written support this thesis, but in “Making Sense of your World,” it is strongly communicated that “God alone is the ultimate reality and everything else is derived from him (Phillips, Brown, Stonestreet, 2008, p. 44).”
I was really impressed on how well organized Alexia Hall was with the class she seem to know where she wanted to the class to be at the end of the semester. We were past out with the class policies and a syllabus of what we were going to do the whole semester. I thought this was very convenient so that there was no mixed signals in the group.