Essays on Critical Reflection

This report is a reflective essay of a critical incident analysis (CIA) which is authored by a second-year student of the Operating Department Practitioner (sODP). The paper analyses a multidimensional and multifaceted critical incident using the Gibbs Reflective cycle (1998), which focusses on communication, multidisciplinary...

The film “The Big Short” is a film showing three separate yet parallel stories that are loosely tied to one another. Each story is about a group of people and their actions leading up to the house market crash in 2007 and 2008. In one...

Apart from Book One, Book Four was the most enjoyable read in St. Augustine’s On Christian Teaching. Augustine’s discussion of the qualities and nature of good rhetoric and exposition were enlightening. In a culture that frequently emphasizes the importance of just having the Holy Scriptures,...

The film Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle is about an 18 year old Indian boy called Jamal Malik, he is from the slums of Juhu, Mumbai. The whole film focuses on his whole life journey as he appears on the Indian version of ‘Who...

An Eco critical perspective of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavioras a clarion call about climate changeAbstract: Eco criticism is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways...

I have always been interested in Japanese culture, art and cinema. Probably this interest began because I grew up watching Japanese cartoons and animations when I was a kid. But when I went to Japan for the first time in 2013 my interest for Japanese...

The argument presented in Manifesto for Silence by Stuart Sim is to campaign for the warring conflict against noise and the preservation of silence. Stuart Sim writes that silence helps us keep our humanity and sense of self, explaining how noise pollution is responsible for...

In St. Augustine’s second book, he delves into the nature of logic and symbolism in relation to the text of Scripture. Having stepped out of the relatively abstract thinking of the first book, he begins to practically break down steps to interpreting and understanding Christian...

I think that The Odyssey portrays two different types of woman. Women who are pro-marriage and pro-family and women who are anti-marriage and anti-family. Penelope for example, is pro-marriage and pro-family. She is a faithful wife to Odysseus and waited twenty years for Odysseus to...

In Jules Howard’s article “The ‘grieving’ orca mother?’ Projecting emotion on animals is a sad mistake”, the author explains this view towards the concept of animals possessing emotion. He begins by explaining the recent documentation of a mother orca grieving her dead calf and questions...

A man, a clone, and bond stronger than just blood will be tested through a perilous game of wit and will. The book I read was The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer written in 2002. This was a book that I have seen...