Category: Critical Reflection

In both towns, Janie speaks as an outsider. The men’s stories feature silent women who are included in the stories as objects for the men to lust after or win, rather than active characters with their own emotions. They only include women in the stories about men. These tales cast women as men’s objects of…

Their eyes were watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Nationality: American Purpose: to create the life of a black woman who tries to find herself through experiences while using symbols throughout the story that symbolize different things: eternity, power, love, etc. It also shines a light on the way of life black Americans lived in…

Realistic, striking, and raw diction in a POV piece imbues feeling and therefore belief in the reader. In the case of The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, post-war O’Brien admits to “…making up a few things to get at the real truth” (81). When post-war O’Brien reflects on the young dainty man he saw…

The first reason is because when Mary arrived she was clueless as to what she was gonna find in Vietnam. She was a reminder, for the soldiers, of the comfort back home and the innocence they too had before the war. War can cause anyone to lose themselves and who they were because they are…

There are two mindsets someone can have about a subject whether it be related to work and school or something in one’s personal life and the difference directly affects one’s ability to succeed in any. Carol Dweck explains the two mindsets known as a growth mindset and a fixed mindset in her article “Brainology”. The…

Most critical incidents in the classroom (Tripp, 1993) are not at all striking or tragic but are very much ordinary and prevalent events that occur frequently in the practice of teaching. What makes them ‘critical’ is the fact that they have prompted us to think and reflect at that given moment. In the context of…

My biography and critical reflection indicated a personal experience of discrimination, exclusion, and marginalization as a queer person of color in a gay dating mobile application called Grindr. Particularly, I was faced with the issue of toxic gay masculinity and subordination at the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. This experience of ‘othering’ reflects…

I am comparing the works of Frida Kahlo and Ben Quilty to my pieces when investigating how their culture influences their artworks. How does their cultural background, whether the culture of their country or their people, affect the art that is produced and how people view that art from their point of view and reference?…

This reflective essay is going to analyze the professional experiences I’ve undergone during my time being part of the University of South Wales BA Sports Journalism course, whether that’s been during my studies lectures or outside of campus with work placements or other opportunities I have taken which further relates to my development as a…

Will you believe me if I say the person who was rejected several times for the simplest job, is now a successful entrepreneur and one of the richest people in the world today? We all know success and failure are a part of our life, it is up to us whether we get disappointed with…