Essays on Personal Experience

Emotional Intelligence: My Personal Experience "If you can change your mind, you can change your life," American philosopher William James once said. A lack of personal self-awareness marked my teenage years. Indeed, as a teenager, I've found myself in positions where I've had to decide whether or not what I'm doing...

The aim of this project (II) is to write an inquiry essay and review its structure, writers, audience, and material. Pico Iyer's post, Living in the Transit Lounge, explores the author's experience traveling around the world as a lounger. He vividly recounts his life since he was a child, often...

Hemingway's short stories: Soldier's Home and Big Two-Hearted Rivers Hemingway's short stories, Soldier's Home and Big Two-Hearted Rivers, are epic works of literature that best illustrate modernity. Aspects of sophisticated poetry, subjectivity, and detachment from social structures will be explored through the examination of these two short stories. It is clear...

My First Cruise Adventure When my dad took me to the port, at the same time, I was nervous and overjoyed. That was going to be my first trip on a cruise. My pal Tony has come along. My dad had offered to take me to the dock the night before,...

This article of reflection is on my latest trip to one of the most beautiful sites in the world, Athens, and Delphi. The tour consisted of four days, from Thursday the 1st of June to Sunday the 4th of June, and it was like the sky, like all the good...

Childhood memories have a huge impact on one's adult life. This interaction may be either negative or positive. As a result, there is a strong connection between an adult's behavior and their childhood memories. For example, studies have shown a correlation between teenage exposure to chronic violence and a number...

Thoughts and Memory It is generally assumed valid that thoughts dictate if at the moment we try to return to it, we will recall remembered memory (Rapaport, 2007). As opposed to an event that did not spark any unique feelings, an emotionally fraught situation is always recalled (Reisberg Hertel,...

Impressions of Returning to College David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day offers a description of his impressions as a 41-year-old man returning to college to learn French. The author's classroom experiences have had a profound impact on his life outside of the classroom. He transforms from an outgoing person to...

Three major side effects of addiction A story of teenage drug addiction Author My burden or challenge life? Addiction and its impact I started with taking pills, smoking weed, and alcohol at a very young age. I was at risk of drug abuse as a teenager thereby easily influenced to addiction at age eleven as...

The Ethical Challenge The ethical challenge is to choose from a variety of potential options, none of which can provide a perfect solution. Ethical dilemmas must occur during the course of the work in the social sector. Social workers therefore need to have high decision-making capacities, which will allow them to...

Participation of Sporting Events The participation of a sporting event provides the ability to observe different facets of a country or sports event, such as the Olympics. For example, the Rio games show the existence of a class difference in Brazil (Cole). However, the irony is that a nation like Brazil...

This Thing Called Love I found Lauren Slater's article "This Thing Called Love" interesting. The article explores the interactions of love and the sexual encounters that come with it. The author also talks about the various stages of love that begin when people get married and what happens after that. Scholarly Viewpoint...