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...

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...

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 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 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...

The Odyssey Reflection Haley Rotter 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...

Cameron criticized Brown’s NSS as “a list rather than a strategy”: “I think it would help that instead of announcing a series of things that the Defense Secretary or Home Secretary is going to announce that he actually just told us more clearly what he’s...