Personal Response Essay Examples

Into the Wild a story that gave a life event and a deranged experience. I personally believe no one would want to experience what Mcandless went through ever. Unless of course they like to be lonely like sir and have " freedom." like McCandless himself. Even then I would still think people out in this world would not want to live what he went through, So frightened to know you prefer being alone with no ones help. To come to think that freedom does exist and you'll have it one day but, will you really

Note 2. A cascade of striking old images and memories are stealing my sleep, old-but-new (and fresh) memories increasingly arising from a past I didn’t recognize twenty-something years ago. Most of the old you already have heard of, the ones that, with your help, I left in your office I don’t know how many times. The old-but-new are fresh and painful – the ones I collected throughout the time since I made the decision to follow my husband and move to California, to leave my country, my community

Imagine you are walking into a library. You pick up a book and start reading the summary. You notice that the character’s life is very similar to what you are experiencing at home, at school, and in your personal life. The character is also similar to you in behavior. What you probably don't know is that what you are relating is characterization, conflict, and narration. I have experienced this too while I read and because of that I can say that literature and life are connected through characterization

Quote Response Success is characterized by meeting a certain social standard either from meeting an outward expectations or achieving a personal dream or goal. Maya Angelou put it as, “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it”. I believe that success should be sought after as reaching personal happiness rather than pursuing a goal set forth by others. I do believe it is amendable for your peers, mentors, and supporters to believe you have reached the level of success

Personal Bias: Response Paper Personal bias is a topic that many do not enjoy discussing, but understanding bias is crucial to social progress and acceptance. The series of articles we read discussed many aspects of personal bias including snap judgements and unconscious bias. The article How Your Looks Betray Your Personality by Roger Highfield discusses in-depth how people make immediate judgements and inferences when they first see someone and how these judgements can lead to overgeneralization

Personal Response Gary Collins provides a plethora of valuable information for individuals in pursuit of life coaching. The presented literature provides clear and concrete information that easy to apply to practice. I think the most influential information that Collins describes is the process of growth and the role of the coach. Tony Stoltzfus states, “Coaching is helping people learn instead of teaching them” (As seen in Collins, 2009, p. 19). Coaches are the individuals who walk through

Personal Response Creation Lenses by Leah Silverman The main theme is humans can find it emotionally difficult to conform to society, but usually end up doing so. The meaning of this theme is that we all want to do things that are practical to society even if it feels wrong in our hearts.The main driving component which draws people too conformity are the desire to be accepted in certain status groups. People fear that if they do not conform to society, they will be

“Night” by Elie Wiesel – Personal Responses Chapter 1 • Moché the Beadle’s story is very disturbing. He had experienced horrible atrocities and risked his life to warn his fellow townspeople. However, the latter did not believe him yet alone listen to him. They called him the madman. This passage is hard for the reader, who knows what is going to happen to the Jews later on (situational irony). Moché was also foreshadowing what was going to happen to the Jews. This warning also brings about the

Question 1: Rebecca, you do seem quite depressed today thinking about your family’s support of your efforts in college. There are just few things I would ask we explore today. As a MSW 1st semester student the workload is intentionally heavy. It is quite natural, and I think most of your classmates would agree, to feel overwhelmed by the course work. Have you explored these feeling and have your discussed the workload with your fellow classmates? Could there be some additional pressure, as the

Every day I stand near the garbage compactor and watch pounds and pounds of produce go down the garbage hole never eaten for many reasons. Some produce is simply too ugly for customers to want to consume, for example like a deformed bell pepper, a bent cucumber, a freckled banana. Some produce is gently bruised like an apple that was pressed a little too hard or a tomato that was bruised from customers “testing” it for juiciness. So much produce that has little to nothing wrong with it is simply