Life Essays

For this reflective piece I am going to write about a situation I encountered whilst on my community placement with the district nurse. To write the essay I will be following “Johns model of structured reflection” as a basis to structure my reflection around. Johns Model of Structured Reflection (Johns …

For this placement I was on an elderly male medical ward. As I have had no previous experience of care in a healthcare setting their where numerous thing with which I had to a customise myself with. Johns Model of Structured Reflection (Johns 1998) 1.Write a description of the experience. …

I was asked to complete a pre-operative assessment on an elderly lady for cataract extraction, using an I.C.P. for intra ocular surgery under LA. During the assessment process she expressed several times that she was extremely sensitive to things going near to her eyes, also during the assessment I observed …

J.D. Salinger, in his coming-of-age novel The Catcher in the Rye, repeatedly uses Holden Caufield’s red hunting hat as a symbol to show Holden’s growth from a young man terrified of becoming an adult to one who begins to accept that he must be able to live in an imperfect …

The character Rodion Romanovna Raskolnikov from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment, is a classic example of a tragic hero. His life as a man of many redeeming qualities takes a turn for the worst as his desires to improve his existence lead him to surrender to temptations that inevitably …

1.Tan opens her essay by stating, “I m not a scholar of English or literature,” then states, in the next paragraph, “I am a writer” to show she is not critical, but passionate about language. It is important to her because she was able to excel in English, even though …

There are a number of perspectives that a critic can use to interpret a work of literature. One perspective, the psychological approach, deals with interpreting the text by using what is known about psychology. Some critics will try and understand the writers while, “still other critics employ methods of Freudian …

Since the birth of the United States, the issue over how strong the national government should be has always been a controversial one. While some believe that decentralization will inevitably lead to chaos, others contend that a powerful central government will inevitably become a tyranny. Although the United States would …

For my short essay I will focus on a postmodern reading of Joyce Carol Oates, “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Corrections and Began My Life Over Again.” More precisely, as a postmodern text. Postmodernism refers to texts that reject coherence in a narrative, objective truth, …

Hove you ever wondered how it would feel to have the courage of your ancestors? In the two poems “Lineage” and “Courage” the authors Margret Walker and Edna St. Vincent Millay uses descriptive words to describe their ancestor’s abilities. There are several similarities and differences contained in these two poems. …