My Life Research Papers Samples For Students

Helen Keller’s The Story of My life

They Story of My Life is an autobiography written by Helen Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor’s degree in arts. Her educational achievement is even more notorious considering that at the beginning of the twentieth century women had limited educational and work opportunities. At 22 and while still a student at Radcliffe College she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life, which had appeared the year before in installment form in the Ladies Home Journal magazine.1 Helen Keller opened the doors to education and opportunity to many blind and disabled people not only in ...

As exhibited by virtual life, I have definitely gone through various experiences in my life, both positive and negative. I have been a very productive individual throughout my life but as I grow older, my productivity has ultimately diminished and I am now restricted to just exploring life as a retired individual. I am no different than any other individual who is going through the late adulthood and I therefore think that I will definitely have to contemplate on my life experiences and think whether or not I have led a successful life. During this time period, I will reflect back on ...

Studying abroad is a watershed moment in life for a student. This is because the new environment provides students with new opportunities of learning foreign language and interacting with a different culture of people. Further, studying abroad is quite interesting since one is able to learn of the new environment effectively through direct interaction with the environment instead of reading text concerning the new learning new country. This paper depicts my watershed moment in life as a result of undertaking my studies abroad in the United States.

The breaking of the news that I was to undertake my studies abroad, in the United ...

Introduction

Across various professions, including nursing, stress has and remains to be one of the most comprehensive factors that prejudice an individual’s professional progress, and performance. This paper limits itself to discussing a wider array of factors that are closely aligned with stress. Precisely, this paper comprises of two parts; Part A, and Part B. The first part of the paper; Part A will offer an analysis of various theories on stress; hence, come up with a personal definition of this concept. In addition, this paper will offer a reflection of a stressful situation I had in my life. As such spiritual, maturational, ...

Interview with an Older Adult

Interviewer: Please tell me about your childhood, family and school life.
Michael: Son, My name is Michael and I was born in New York in the year 1949. The journey from my childhood until the day today is very long, but to me it seems like a blink of an eye. I lost my father when I was around five years old, and I have mixed feeling about my childhood. As a kid, I was always fond of breaking my toys in a curiosity to know what was inside it. In my childhood, I had many friends and most of our ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Throughout my life, it has become clear to me that many people decide once they completed their formal education, they believe that they are done learning. They receive their certificate, or degree, and they no longer have the desire to learn. From a young age, this appeared very sad to me, and I always wondered how I could avoid being this way. It is my wish to continue learning throughout my life, but in order to do this, there are many things that I need to understand. For instance, I need to be informed that I must be my own ...

Acts of Kindness

Group I Know
My family had never travelled to Europe and they have always craved about taking the whole family to Europe. But, my father spent most of his money on his children’s education and a suitable home for us. After working hard for past few years, I decided to give my family a gift and take them all to Europe. I booked everything myself and gave my family surprise on my parent’s anniversary. I will remember the happiness on my parents face when they learned about my surprise gift. Even better was their happiness when they ...

Understanding one’s behavior is essential to the maintenance of proper communication channels. In fact, lack thereof compromises the possibilities of understanding the actions of individuals lacking the capacity to express themselves vocally. In many cases, verbal communication does not fulfill all the interaction requirements, therefore, creating the need to appreciate the essential concepts of behavioral psychology. Specifically, the operant and classical conditioning are essential concepts that seek to explain the nature of the behavior of people and animals. A Russian psychologist, Ivan Pavlov, first proposed classical conditioning and it emphasizes the placement of a neutral action before a ...

It is very common for parents in the past to take roles, pick choices, and make decisions, even big and life-changing ones, when it comes to their child’s activities, preferences, and interests. Even I was not exempted from this parenting norm (Wertsch). My activities, preferences, and interests when I was a kid was also influenced by my parents.
According to a past study conducted about child development, parents meddling with the interests of their children is a common scenario and usually, it leads to positive results, especially later in the children’s life (Carton, Vygotskiiv& Rieber). What I wanted as a ...

Decision

It is imperatively important for every individual to consider how he or she can influence his or her future. Equally important is to consider how decisions individuals make change the course of their life and ultimately the future. This paper analyzes a life-changing decision that my brother had to make concerning his profession. This issue is important to me because today is the third anniversary of the day that i made that most important decision in my life. The decision was to quit a job with AIG stores in a hurry, in order to start working for McDonald’s on Monday, November 1, ...

Philosophy of Forgiveness

1. Write one page on forgiveness. If you are Simon, do you forgive the Nazi? Do you think he was right to remain silent and let the soldier die in agony without forgiveness? Are there limits to forgiveness? Or is it limitless? What do you suspect Jesus would do? How about Nietzsche?
For Simon Wiesenthal, “When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it” (Wiesenthal.com). Forgiveness is called by many names: benignity, condonation, exculpation, kindness, mercifulness and pardon. It is a willed change of ...

A definition of self-identity: transversal analysis of the philosophical problematic of the self and the quest for self-acceptance and happiness.

If there is a pertinent question to be asked, as many times as a mind gets lost in the world of ambivalent feelings, decisions, choices, vices, uncontrollable passions, deep boredom, despair and fears, as well as excitement, pleasure and joy is this one: «Who am I?». It is not an innocent question and it does not allow an innocent answer, as all possible paths leading to it are rooted in the most important quest any human being can go in search of: the quest for self-acceptance and happiness. It is a long expedition to the roots of any life, involving the past ( ...

Meaning of Life

I am sure that everyone thinks over the questions of life meaning from time to time, someone more seriously, while others just in a matter-of-fact way. One of the characteristic features of such questions is that answers to them are constantly changing along with the way a person evolves and develops. Moreover, this question is largely influenced by the person’s environment and the time period, in which he/she lives. Although there are major differences between different world views, it is possible to single out certain tendencies in the life meaning perceptions that are prevalent among people. And these tendencies don’ ...

Introduction

As a diabetic educator nurse responsible for the health of the general society as well as that of individuals. My professional goals are to promote, restore and protect health. As a diabetic educator, I possess sufficient knowledge and experience on diabetes management, diabetes prevention and pre-diabetes. My role is to support and educate people who have diabetes. My career is in alignment with preventive measures which is in alignment with health reforms to reduce costs in the healthcare sector.
My mission statement is to assist individuals living with diabetes manage the condition as well as educate the society on ...

Intro

Emily Dickinson is an American poet, who is probably the most recognizable name in American poetry. Not much is known of her motivation regarding her poems as only 12 of the 1800 she had written were published during her life time and she left little in the way of explaining her thoughts regarding what she had written. What is known is that she did not think the majority of her poems were worth public consumption and had told her sister Lavinia (Vinnie) to dispose of them after her death. This was probably due to her poems being heavily altered ...

Values of Life

Our values are important in our daily life and work. It is our believe that these values help in day to day activities. If the values in our life match our behavior in daily life then we are content and satisfied with our life. Economic value measures the benefit that is provided by a good or service to any person or an economic agent.
Defining one's personal values is a tough proposition as we are confused about what we want and what we do. Our personal values helps us to identify what is good for us, the values that ...

Hinduism, the dominant religion of India and Nepal, consists of several different traditions. With teachings on daily morality and traditions referred to as Shaktism, Shaivism, and many others, the culture surrounding Hinduism is rich and vibrant. In order to understand it better, I sought to have a religious experience involving Hinduism. On March 19, 2014, I attended the Malibu Hidden Temple, located at 1600 Las Virgenes Canyon Road, Calabasas, California, 91302. It was my hope to have a religious experience that would enlighten me to the ways of the Hindu culture.
Upon first arriving at the Malibu Hidden Temple, I ...

Introduction

In many societies, in the world, the role of women was that of caregiver or nursing care. The nurturing of children by mothers gave people the supposition that the women can provide the same care to the ailing and wounded in the society. Nursing history, as a piece of women’s history, has faced the paradox of being women’s work: invisible, devalued, and underpaid and yet a critical necessity to society (Judd et al., 2010). In the early years, there were no learning that existed for the caregivers, it was a trade passed from one generation to another or through try-out ...

Final Topic Paper – “I am Bartleby”

In light of the professor’s and group comments, I have made several changes to the paper. First, I removed all explicit mentions of schizophrenia in the work, as that would be ahistorical, and made arguments about Bartleby’s mental condition more even-handed. Most substantially, I have included more work throughout the text of the paper exploring Bartleby’s motivations for his actions throughout the story, focusing somewhat more on his frustration with the futility of capitalist society and its emphasis on hierarchical work structures. I have also completely changed the final paragraph to make it more of a comprehensive ...

Part I: ARTICLE SYNOPSIS

- Purpose and/or Hypothesis(es) of the Study: The importance of implicit theories affects the formation and belief in group stereotypes
- Results of the Study: Positive support for the hypothesis.
- Method for testing the hypothesis (5 experiments conducted):
- Measures: Implicit Person Theory Measure and Stereotype Measure.
- Participants: Male and female undergraduate students between the ages of 16 and 42.
- Procedure: Variations on self-reporting questionnaires.
- Implications for the Results: It is possible to understand why one individual engages in social stereotyping more than another.
- Purpose ...

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Just two days ago from today, my city of Ferguson, Missouri was nothing but an insignificant city amongst the United States. That all changed when Darren Wilson murdered my brother, Michael Brown, in cold blood. I heard from the news that they will be having his funeral soon, and it will be hosted at Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis.

The TV in the living room suddenly shuts off.

“Mom why did you turn off the television? There talking about Michael!” I said urgently
Mother stared at me with sadden look, “I’m tired of seeing these horrid police on the news ...

I would like to start with my own explanation of what it means for me to be a part of a community in which people with different backgrounds, religious education, traditions and even languages exist near each other. I would like to mention that I have never faced direct racism towards me but I have seen several times how the race affected the attitude towards some of the people I met in my life. Moreover, I am a very lucky person and I met very positive people in general who were interested in our cultural differences but no one ever made any ...

I wrote this letter in regards to the denial of my application to UCI. I was very disappointed because I truly believe that I am an ideal candidate for admission. I do admit that my academic record is not perfect. However, I have had a strong reason for being greatly distracted last year. I hope that once you read my explanation, you will reconsider your decision.
It all started in 2011, as I experienced extreme hardship when earthquake and tsunami hit my hometown of Minamisoma city, Fukushima. These disasters have had a significant effect on my family and our lives. In a ...

Pledges are common in many professions. They are solemn declarations to adhere to specific guidelines, terms of services and to some extent allegiance to specific people in authority or God. The nursing profession has had its share of the same. The Nightingale Pledge is the pledge use by nurse upon graduation. It is named after Florence Nightingale in honor of her contribution in the nursing profession. She is credited as the founder of modern nursing and also the actual initial idea of pledging. The pledge was created in 1893 by modifying the Hippocratic Oath by Lystra Gretter and a the ...

While searching job websites like Monster.com (2013) and professional social media sites such as LinkedIn.com (2013), it is easy to see that there are not many teaching openings available at the elementary, middle, or high school levels. This may be a function of time--teaching jobs tend to be posted in the spring rather than the fall-- but even those teaching jobs available are spread geographically far apart (Ma and Macmillan, 1999). The average teacher’s salary varies by state, but according to Monster.com (2013), which compiles information on posted job listings and potential income, a teacher’s starting salary is nearly ...

- Identify the key premises used by Nava and Dawidoff and by Sokolowski in their arguments regarding the legalization of same-sex marriage. Identify which type of premise each is. Diagram and evaluate both of the arguments. Should the definition of marriage be limited to a man and woman and intrinsically linked to reproduction as Sokolowski argues, or should the definition change to take into account changing views of marriage and family? Present an argument supporting your position, referring back to the role of definitions discussed in Chapter4 0n pages 118-119 (It is about Social Errors and Biases "One of Us/One ...

1. Discuss Erickson's theory of adult development. Apply that theory to simba's development (lion king movie), and apply the last four to your own development. Erikson’s theory of adult development consists of an eight-step adult development stages. In his theory, Erikson argues that each individual must undergo eight stages of psychosocial crisis in order to mature fully. He refers to the “Psychosocial crisis” as emotional conflicts that one experiences in his social and psychological life as he develops into adulthood. The chances of successful development increase when one accumulates many positive dispositions. They enable him navigate through the ...

Introduction

I come from a country that is not that wealthy and where poverty and lack of opportunities are cause for concern for a majority of the people. I come from a place where not everyone has a job and not everyone has a decent education. I hail from a family where we had to work hard for our living and where my education is the only asset that I have. In other words, I come from a situation where only my hard work and dedication would see me through life and hence, this is the bottom line for my life. Finally, I come from a country that ...

Introduction

This paper is about the challenges posed by the credit crunch, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics on the organizations that are equipping themselves to deal with these challenges. A description of each of the challenge along with an example of a company that is grappling with the challenge is described in this paper.

Challenges

The ongoing credit crunch has severely affected the functioning of the businesses across the chain and is responsible for many bankruptcies and foreclosures of the banks and other institutions. It started with the sub-prime crisis and quickly spread to the other sectors leading to a situation where ...

I have re-occurring dreams of tidal waves coming toward me as I’m on the beach that are scary and overwhelming. It is a situation where I could be crushed, drowned or swept away. I may be able to ride them through, swimming against the draw of the current. However, there is no guarantee I will be able to do this. The only thing that is sure is whatever happens; it is not going to be pleasant. I see the waves rushing towards me, and am filled from inside with a wave of fear, then I wake up before the “dream ...

There are various instances in my life that compare and contrast George Dawson’s life as revealed in the book Life is so good. Although, like in the Dawson’s time, parents take their time to instill some values in their children, the quality of life for women and minorities has improved tremendously, and there have been phenomenal changes in work ethics.
George Dawson grew up in Jim Crow South, a town whereby the minorities and women did not have much say. The two groups lacked opportunities to make their lives better. This was made worse by the prevailing ...

Overcoming Anxiety

Anxiety is an everyday thing that almost everyone undergoes the difference only being in their severity. Anxiety, which mainly affects adults like me, can be loosely defined as a state of worrying over a particular thing, situation or event; a stressor. Anxiety is usually characterized by uneasiness, fear or worry. When these characteristics extend over time and intensity, the individual may suffer from anxiety disorder (Davison, 2008). While anxiety is considered a normal part of life; age, occupation and environmental factors are some of the predisposing factors to people suffering from anxiety and worse still, anxiety disorder. Adults are more prone to suffer ...