...Experiential Learning Essay Template Review this check list in prior to submitting your experiential learning essay. If you have completed all of the items listed below, you are ready to submit your essay. Keep in mind, your evaluator may still request additional material, however, the list below will guide in your essay submission preparations. Not adhering to these guidelines will cause a delay in processing. ** Review each of the items below and check if you have completed each of them: 1. I have selected an approved essay topic from the essay course descriptions page. http://www.phoenix.edu/admissions/prior_learning_assessment/experiential-essays/essay-topics.html 2. Some essays have specific experience requirements. I have checked the essay description and I meet all of the experience requirements listed. 3. I have written and included a 1,500 to 2,100 word autobiography; autobiography is only required with first Experiential Learning Essay, subsequent essays do not require additional autobiographies. 4. I have written an experiential essay: 3,000 to 4,500 words for 3 credit essay 5. My essay is written in first person (1st) without references. 6. I have written to all four (4) areas of Kolb’s model of learning. 7. I have addressed all of the required subtopics in each of the four areas of Kolb’s model of learning. 8. I have included supporting documentation that validates my personal/professional experience with the essay course description/topic. 9. My essay is based on personal...
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...My grandmother changed my life by teaching me to stand up for those who are persecuted for whom they love, or for what their skin color is. She found ways to educate me on the importance of social justice even before I turned seven years old, when she died. Nothing in the world was more important to my grandmother than equality. Now nothing is more important to me than a future where everyone can be who they are without fear. When I visited my grandmother’s house she would always give me a new pin. On the pins were various phrases such as “Straight not narrow”, “No war!”, “Equality for all.” After she gave me a pin she would talk to me about her personal experiences in fighting for equality. My grandmother told me that the first house my mother...
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...of this overlook. God has played a major role in my life since I was a little boy and without the faith of his teaching, I don’t know where I would be. The peace of mind I receive when I read the bible or go to church is one I wish I could let everyone feel. But I am doing my duty to spread as much of the teachings of Christ as possible. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that I know God has pulled me through. My grandmother has always given me the word and it has taught me how to deal with other situations that I would have leaned on my own understanding to solve. With God, all things are possible and I am thankful to have this opportunity to write to someone who may not know about him. At one point in time, I lost my job. My mother was not able to help me and all I was able to do was pray. One Sunday, I went to church and my pastor, without me telling him, asked if I was still working. Just like that out of the blue, I was shocked. I told him about my situation and he let me know one of his colleagues was looking for a part-time worker, the next day I interviewed and I got hired on the spot. Had I leaned on my own understanding and not went to church to pray and worship, I would not have the job that I’ve had for two years. God is always there when I need him, and he can be there for you too. There is nothing that I can do without Jesus Christ. He has gotten me through many trials and tribulations. My faith is what gets me through the day. I can honestly...
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...“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’connor is a short story about a family whose vacation trip turns quickly into a tragical experience when meeting a runaway criminal known as the Misfit. The story mainly focuses on the definition of a “good man”, by exploring this the story reveals the gender roles that are being played in the story. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” shows how women are being treated and are portrayed in the story. The female characters in the story demonstrate how a woman should dress and act in ordered to be considered “good” to a “good man”. According to society, a couple of the many expectations of a women is being understanding and submissive; In O’connor’s story, the grandmother demonstrates these qualities when...
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...Once, when I was a child, my grandmother, father and I were walking in a nature reserve. We had recently had a barbeque and my grandmother was carrying a plastic bag full of hamburger buns. Soon a gaggle of ducks began to follow us. They trailed along, quacking, butting their heads into our legs, click-clacking their little webbed feet down the cement pathway. Finally fed up, my grandmother spun around and faced them. "Leave us alone, you needy ducks!" she shouted. "Go home! Your parents must be worried sick." When the ducks wouldn't leave, my grandmother started hitting them on their heads with the plastic bag of hamburger buns. It was funny. If you'd known my grandmother, how defined by hardship her life was, you would have found this incident even funnier. My father, who knew his mother's struggles all too well, had to lean against a tree because he was laughing so hard. Sweet mercy, there is nothing like humor to ease the soul. If you've got a funny story, poem, or essay of your own, here are some places that might be a good fit. Enjoy! THE ALARMIST is a fresh, new, dark, funny and twisted printed literary magazine published biannually. It’s not about trying to prove how clever or well-read you are, mind – we’re not the Paris Review. We want to buck the modern trend, and tickle and entertain with what we publish. ASININE POETRY is the journal of asinine poetry, a quarterly publication of asinine poetry, poetry that is, shall we say, asinine. To wit: Not necessarily...
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...An Analysis of “How I Wrote Jubilee” Margaret Walker’s essay “How I Wrote Jubilee” is an essay that summarizes the author’s vast research for the Novel Jubilee. Based on stories her great-grandmother portrayed as bedtime stories in her childhood, the novel itself depicts the life and times of a character named Vyry that went through slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction. This responsive essay gives way to an establishment of educated and factual data through timing, oral history of the stories of those who were in slavery, and primary research of the subject matter, thereby providing ample documentation of the credibility of her novel. When gauging whether an author’s writing is credible, one must first inquire what their educational background is. Keeping this in mind, there are several references of the educational background of Walker in the essay “How I Wrote Jubilee.” Graduating from Northwestern University in Iowa at the young age of 19, Walker went on to obtain her master’s in English from the University of Iowa in 1939, graduating in just a year in 1940. Here she studied at the Writer’s Workshop and began writing her thesis on the Civil War, compiling and reading a laundry list of books about the South, the Negro during slavery, and the slave codes in Georgia. Although Walker’s poem “For My People” was published in 1942 her father heeded warning by stating, “I would have to eat if I wanted to live, and writing poetry would not feed me (Walker 52).” It is clear...
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...English Composition 101.0816 October 31, 2013 Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgment The author’s essay “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments” by Robert Heilbroner discusses about the many faces of stereotyping. Heilbroner reminds us that stereotyping affects many areas of our lives from how we view the world as a whole to how we view each individually. According to Heilbroner there is nothing positive/good about stereotyping. The author states that it makes people lazy thinkers and that it harms both the people we are stereotyping and ourselves. The author gives us three ways we can stop stereotyping people. My grandmother believed that all hispanic people are illiterate, dark colored and dangerous. I didn’t understand why she believed this; she didn’t even meet many hispanic people. I have never heard my grandmother say anything positive about hispanic people until my mother was part of the family. She must have seen or heard something negative said about hispanic people and now judges all hispanic people the same way. The judgment on my grandmother’s part is very unfair. She has not met every hispanic person in the world, so she can’t say that all hispanic people are illerterate and dangerous. She could say that a group of hispanic people was beating on a single person or wasn’t able to read, but as the author suggests we should not judge everyone by one man or just one specific incident. Which the first way the author gives to stop stereotyping...
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...Alexis Martin Hour 3 English 2 Essay 1 A relative that I will never forget… Jodi Marie Ross was an amazing woman! She was known as the first female contractor in the state of Missouri! My lovely grandmother had many jobs before becoming a female carpenter. She also worked as a florist for about six years but soon after that she started her own company ,whom is now run by her youngest daughter Jodi Dale, Ross Management! Jodi always helped a lot of people that had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. Many of the people that worked for my Grandmother where people that had been standing on streets corners either soliciting or begging for money. The people who she helped the most were people that wouldn’t so much beg for money but they would ask for food. I remember when I was six, almost seven years old, my grandmother and I were heading home from her work on a Friday evening. We were leaving 52nd and Wabash and we stopped at the light right before Churches Chicken which had graffiti all over it and busted out windows. There was a guy standing on the corner who had the cutest little boy with him. He looked to be about three or four years old. The guy was holding up a sign saying “Food Please!!!! God forgive me for my sin!!” When my grandmother saw this she began to cry! She pulled her car over into the Churches Chicken parking lot. She told me to stay in the car then she opened her door and got out and begun walking over to the man. I couldn’t quite...
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...makes them exceptional and why they will become an outstanding physician. You are invited but not required to provide additional information in this essay. Some applicants tell us about hardships and challenges that they have faced in their lives and how these experiences have helped them become caring and compassionate individuals. Other applicants use this space to emphasize a particular passion they have related to their future career in medicine. If you are not a resident of Wisconsin, you may want to tell us why you are interested in the University of Wisconsin or about a special connection that you may have to our state or people who live here. Our goal is to gain insight into you as a unique applicant. You may include anything in this essay that you feel is relevant. (Limit response to 500 words.) Being a first-generation immigrant from India, and having visited...
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...SAMPLE ESSAY #1 -- Good Example Nursing is a Way of Life When contemplating a career choice, psychologists often suggest revisiting the activities that one took pleasure in as a child. Unwittingly, children engross themselves wholeheartedly in activities that bring them the greatest delight and contentment. As adults, those qualities equate to stimulation and satisfaction–two elements necessary to sustain a successful career. In my youth, I enjoyed playing “schoolteacher,” more importantly however, from the ages of six to fifteen, I tended to the needs of my chronically ill grandmother. During this period of time, the idea of playing nurse never crossed my mind; rather, care giving was a way of life. The magnitude of influence that caring for my grandmother had in shaping my career decisions is immense; although it was unknown to me for quite some time. A distinct correlation was made early in my employment as a Clinical Assistant at Seton Medical Center. While holding the hand of a patient, as he passed through the stages of a stroke, I recognized the tone and delivery of my words as that which I used when comforting my grandmother during a similar event. Amidst the chaos of the medical team, I became overwhelmed with a sense of complete wholeness that I had not felt before. I become acutely aware that my childhood care giving role had provided me with a unique ability to invest myself fully into the health and wellbeing of others, in the very same way that I had done with...
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...poverty as a mind-set. In this essay I will analyse and comment on Bernard Hare’s essay, based on a study of the writer’s use of contrasts and the use of his own experiences during the essay – lastly with an investigation of the writer’s intention. (115) Bernard Hare’s essay was originally broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 as a radio essay in 2012, later on, it was reprinted on BBC’s website. The story basically takes place in Leeds, in the North of Britain. We are following Hage through his upbringing in a poor environment. His father worked as a coal miner, and his mother was a shop worker in a department store. The events of the story are listed in chronological order - from back in the days where Hare was a child, spending his days among the cobbled terraces of east Leeds, to 1968 when his family got their first black and white television, and lastly he is taking us to the present, through his experiences as an alcoholic, drug addicted, thirty year old man. The story is told by a first person narrator, Bernard Hare himself. The essay encompasses a lot of personal histories and trough the whole story, we are dragged into Hare’s personal universe. That leads to a very conspicuous form of appeal, the use of ethos. Through personal stories, Hare is telling a stirring story about poverty and its cause....
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...The Importance of a Grandmother’s Love Many grandmothers are important people because many times they give love to their family. Their love can make their family comfortable, make life easier, and unite family members. Patricia Hampl, “Grandmother’s Sunday Dinner,” describes how her grandmother ruled over her family with her authoritative personality. And also, Hampl’s grandmother made her family members united with her professional cooking skills. Similar to Hampl’s grandmother, my grandmother rules over my family. My grandmother’s personality is not authoritative, and her cooking skills are not good compared to Hampl’s grandmother. However, her love sill makes out family united. Although both grandmothers have different personalities and cooking skills, they still make their families become one. Hampl describes her Sunday dinner with her family, and she describes her good memories at her grandmother’s house. Hampl’s entire family often gathered on Sundays at the Grandmother’s house (Beardslee 100). Hampl’s grandmother’s cooking skills were really professional because she had worked in the house of Justice Butler for many years (100). Because Hampl’s grandmother was so good at cooking, she always made many different kinds of meal for her children. Hampl’s grandmother not only was good at cooking but cooking was also a passion in her life (99). Hampl’s grandmother loved to feed her family, and she always asked her children to eat more: “She flew between her chair...
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...1998 ) My personal ethics statement includes my values and ideals important to me as an academic and in everyday life. My ethics are personal beliefs and morals that reflect and define the person I am. The decisions and choices I make every day should be consistent with integrity and respect toward others. These ethics will ensure my happiness and peace if I keep and hold these values. I believe the value of equality for people regardless of race, religion, and handicaps ensure that all people can be treated fairly. Treating people with respect and dignity while holding myself accountable to these principles will ensure that I treat others as I want to be treated. This essay will explore how my personal values and ethical morals come into play in the decision-making process in my nursing career. Being raised in a loving Lutheran Christian household in Stockholm, Sweden I can remember as far back as being a little four-year-old girl skipping to church on Sunday mornings with my maternal grandmother Ingrid, to the day of my serious conformation ceremony as a gangly 14-year-old teenager. Many ideals were formed growing up around my beloved grandparents and they are still present in my everyday life be it personal or professional. I strive to be honest, live with integrity, be non judgmental and respect my fellow man. To quote my grandmother “ Always try to do the best you can or don’t do it at all”. My choice of career was greatly influenced by my paternal grandmother Johanna...
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...Simone Smith Essay #1 My Hero November 3, 2012 Humanities 1301 Ms. Alexander I had never really thought about who was my hero until now and I had to reflect on my past. Looking back over the years I guess I must have taken a lot for granted. I have been lucky because I have a lot of people around me that have helped to enrich my life. The one person, who stands out to me, is my grandmother she really was and still is my hero. As I reflect on good times and bad times, she always seem to be there with words of encouragement and with words I may have not wanted to hear, but she always steered me in the right direction. My grandmother was a woman who wise and good natured and so full of energy, willing to help anyone who needed help. My grandmother believed in family. My grandmother was the seventh of fourteen children, born in Brookhaven Mississippi, in 1926. This was a time when people gave birth at home, so she was born on a farm, where she helped raise and care for her brothers and sisters. The children went to school and helped work the land for the family. In later years, she attended high school where she played basketball, when they only played half court, she was very good and well-liked by her class her classmates. After graduating from high school and having three children of her own, she needed to more income. The cotton fields that she worked, wasn’t providing enough money to sustain a good life. My grandmother knew she would have...
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...Amanda Group Dr. Rogers English 111 B Essay 1 You Are Not Fighting Alone "The Dreamer" by Junot Díaz was first published in a women’s magazine in 2011. In this short essay Díaz writes about how his mother overcame great obstacles and barriers, fought family bonds and held on to a dream that she longed for. "The Dreamer" was initially directed at women, because women would find Díaz’s mother empowering. The audience grew as the story was shared more and more, anyone who has ever had a dream was reading it. This essay gives readers reinforcement that they are not alone overcoming any powerful setbacks they might have in achieving their own dreams. Díaz told his mother’s story of the struggles of living in a third world country, abuse that restrained her, and fate that opened the doors to a world of opportunity on the path to achieving her dream to become an educated nurse in the Dominican Republic. Díaz’s mother didn’t reach her initial dream, but she didn’t give up until she could present her kids with opportunities to achieve their dreams. The Dominican girl, Díaz’s mother, was never meant to leave the mountain she lived on. She was expected “to work on the family farm until she died or was married off” (Díaz 128). During her work on the farm, she was the one who tended to illness. Her grandmother did not like the idea of education, she insisted that “she stay on the farm, that she stay a mule” (Díaz 129). Díaz’s mother longed for an education more than anything...
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