Essays on Resilience

Everybody has to face a stressful situation or traumatic incidents at some point in their lives but people deal with these difficult situations differently. Some people get drained, emotional and exhausted while others cope and deal head on with the situation. People generally adapt well...

Resilience is one’s quality to remain stronger after being knocked down by a situation in life. According to Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2014), resilient individuals recover easily from a tough moment and stand stronger than before rather than giving room for failure to run over and...

It can be very hard at times for children to be resilient to the traumas that they experience in life. When they are resilient they react to these traumas in healthy ways, moving past them after some time and allowing their lives to return to...

Introduction Social work practice brings about many different ethical dilemmas on a day to day basis. Doel (2016) recognises that these dilemmas can happen because of a conflict between our personal values and our professional values. Our values shape our identity and what’s most important...

Introduction Community wellbeing is dependent on a number of factors. The aspect of wellbeing itself encompasses good health among members, stable economic conditions, mental wellness among residents, environmental health among others. Combined together, the mentioned elements affect or rather determine the outcome of growth and...

The term resilience literally means to ‘bounce back’ from adverse conditions. Resilience as a concept can be viewed from two different perspectives that are, resilience as a personal trait and resilience as a process. Resilience can be described as a relatively stable personal characteristic or...

In a research by Le Cornu (2009), she examined the role that professional experiences (practicum) can play in building resilience in pre-service teachers. In particular, it focused on a learning communities model of professional experience with its emphasis on relationships and its attention to the...

Lit Ioc Domicilium is a poem portraying Hardy’s idealistic view on nature through his description of his childhood home and the surrounding landscape. The poem is split up into two separated by a time shift; the first section is on the current state of the...

Reflection Puerto Ricans and Dominicans encountered discrimination and prejudice when they settled in Chicago, Pennsylvania and Florida. Both created ethnic enclaves in order to preserve their culture. When they arrived to the United States they struggled with the language and adjusting to the community. In...

My essay is on the topic of “The Art of Caribbean Regional Resilience. ” It gives a description of what it is to be resilient at a time when many of our regional island territories in the Caribbean were devastated by hurricanes, such as Irma...

Noah’s Road to Resistance and Resilience In elementary school, students are only told briefly about the history of slavery. In high school, we are shown a new perspective that only highlights the violence and numerous deaths that went on during the transatlantic slave period. While...

When it comes to the technology industry, Sony has always kept up with the times, and is often one step ahead of other companies. Ever since the company was founded, it has always funded and developed new technologies, pushing in entertainment industry further than most...

In 2014, the abortion rate in the United States was 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women. It is the lowest abortion rate recorded since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States in 1973. One of the fears of the...

Throughout the course of The Year of the Flood we see how Toby’s character has developed into the level-headed and capable adult surviving after the waterless flood. What is particular to Toby’s character is the presence of these valuable traits before the onset of the...