Essays on Experience

Achieving Education and Career Goals Achieving the education and career goals is challenging due to barriers such as not being able to select the best available considerations, fear of the unknown, and the roadblocks (external circumstances) that always get on the way upon settling on a decision or consideration, among other...

Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": An Exploration of Modernist Poems Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is termed as a pioneer of the Modernist poems, owing to its awakening of the literary world to an entirely new world. The poem is centered on the...

We Learn from Failure We have all failed at doing something and we are even likely to encounter more difficulties. We fail because we are not fully prepared, not confident enough, distracted and ignore the advice. To succeed one has to overcome the causes of failure. Setbacks give us an opportunity...

Trust and Commitment: Pillars of a Successful Team Trust and commitment are two critical pillars of a successful team. They foster collaboration, trustworthy relationships, problem-solving skills, communication, and fulfillment of the set objectives. The absence of trust and commitment adversely affect the way team members communicate while working. The Impact of Lack...

Recently, I stumbled upon the realization that life is a culmination of one’s decisions. Therefore, to live a life of desirable quality, it is important to make plans about the future. Essentially, these plans highlight what one aims to achieve within a given time frame. Currently, many individuals wander from...

The importance of a college education can be viewed from different perspectives. Having a college degree is not only important to the individual but the whole society as a whole. In the hiring process, an employer will employ the most qualified individual on the basis of qualifications and specialization and...

Most college students after choosing a specific course to undertake do not know what next to do about it. They always find themselves at crossroads regarding what follows their decisions. For example, a scholar who majors in cinema may not be certain whether to join a film school or not....

The “Wild Geese” is one of the most arresting poems by Mary Oliver, exploring the relationship between nature and humanity. The primary theme of the “Wild Geese” is the nature’s wonders and beauty, acknowledging how the world would become a better place if human beings adjust themselves with it. Through...

Persuasive Communication in Daily Life Persuasive communication is something that people practice on a daily basis, with or without realizing. At one point or the other, people try to convince their friends, colleagues, and even employers to consider their suggestions or ideas (Stiff & Mongeau, 2016). In the past, I have...

A home is a place where an individual can feel welcomed, love is shown to the individual, and care is shown to the individual. Literally, a home is described simply as a place of residence which implies that home is wherever we ourselves as residents. From a critical or abstract...

Robert Owen: Improving the Lives of Children Robert Owen was born in 1771 and lived through the ages of romanticism and enlightenment (Davis "O’Hagan, 2014). During this period, there were advancements and dramatic changes in the economic and social ideas. Robert believed that he had the ability to contribute to social...

Networking with Successful People For many years, I hold the belief that people are the catalysts to their success. I believe this can be achieved through networking with successful people, accepting yourself, having positive thinking, and inventing a formula for happiness. My story begins on the hot July day of 2017...