...reading short stories, poems, and nonfiction books but I didn’t like historical stories, research, or long books. I’ve never a finished a book until high school because I never found a book I liked considering I never tried since I didn’t have an interest in reading. Although, now I can say I like to read if I find the right book when i use to say that i hated reading. The youngest I remember writing was in 6th grade when I would write letters to my dad. I wrote letters to my dad after my parents got divorced since I didn’t get to see my dad from it. My letters would be about how much I missed him, how school was going, and how things were different. I wrote...
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...The Military is a big part of the United States protecting, serving, and risking their lives for our safety. Without the military or any army, the U.S would not have become a nation, without any war or protection, or threats it would be chaos and nothing would get done. But the price the Military pays is with their lives, which is a big price. In D.C there is a monument that represents all people that fought or joined the military, and have died or gone missing but not found or identified. With that monument there is a wreath that you can lay down to respect them, that would be a big honor to lay it because you are chosen out of all of the 8th grade along with three others. You would be respecting all those heroes who died for us. I think it would be a big challenge to join the military because your mindset is on dying because they don't know if they are coming back. And neither does there family, I think that would be so hard. Their job is saving us and the U.S, so in a way they are heroes. I really respect all those that serve for this nation, especially because my grandpa served like most grandparents. And I'm glad he came back because I wouldn't be here if he didn't....
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...Final paper A huge issue that the United States has is the High School education system. Students have little or no preparation for life after high school compared to other nations which poses a disadvantage when trying to further their education. The United States is one of or the most powerful countries but continually flows short in the educational system. One of the major issues is the lack of the arts within the academic system. They focus today is typically how to take an exam. For example, Florida focuses so much on the FCAT that they typically focus only on English and Math. High Schools keep using this “Teaching to the Test “technique, which only teaches students how to prepare for the FCAT and this narrows the curriculum a lot. This issue leads to the question, “Is the Geography and Math knowledge of an American student as good as European student?” Every year a test is given to every student in High School. This test has basic questions about Geography and it measures the level of every student within their grade. Back in 2010 after collecting back the test from students and grading it, the National Assessment of Education Progress publicized that only a 25% of American schoolchildren passed the test and that only a 20% of 12th graders passed. This is probably one the saddest news America had to deal with when speaking of education. After the news was published to the public, Daniel Edelson, vice president for education with the National Geographic Society...
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...to him the importance of doing his own work and writing that using someone else’s ideas or writings is an ethical violation. It’s a form of theft. “Plagiarism is passing off other people's ideas or words as one's own. It is doubly offensive in that it both steals and deceives” Ruggiero, V. (01/2011). He continued to look through the website which offered all kinds and research papers and term papers. I ask him do you have values. What are your core values? He looked at me peculiarly as if I shouldn’t be asking him such a question. He told me that he does and the only reason he is thinking about purchasing a term paper is so he can focus more time on his other classes and be able to complete all assignments. I reminded him of the school honor code and possibility of being caught and failing as well as being possibly expelled. I also told him that in my opinion he’s rationalizing why he is thinking about purchasing a term paper or justifying un-ethical behavior. He asked me what I meant and told him you think it’s necessary, it’s ethical. It the false assumption that if something, like his term paper, is necessary it doesn’t make a difference how your assignment done. This kind of thinking is an ends justifies the means reasoning. I asked him how you would...
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...Resume Guide for Teachers This packet is intended to serve as a starting point for creating or improving your teaching resume. Included in this packet are best practices that the Career Center have researched and found to be true. Information and sample resumes within this packet are not intended to be taken verbatim. Constructing a teaching resume is an art, not a science. Make your personal resume unique and stand out by making it represent you. The resources this packet highlights are available to all students; take advantage of the Career Center and the services it provides you. What to Expect Teaching Resume Aesthetics, Content & Editing…………..………………………..Page 3 Three necessary components of a great teaching resume are detailed Key Elements of a Successful Teacher Resume……………………………………...Page 4 Mandatory vs. optional elements in a successful teaching resume Poor Teaching Resume Example……………………………………………………..Page 5 Details common mistakes of a teaching resume Transferable Skills & Action Verbs…………………………………………………....Page 6 A comprehensive list of transferable skills and action verbs that have potential in a teaching resume Constructing a Proper Achievement Statement (bullet point)………………………Page 7 Creating a bullet point stress you out? Here is a fool proof way to construct a proper achievement statement. Buzz Words……………………………………………………………………………..Page 7 Answer the question, “What are buzz words and how should they be used in a resume” Teaching...
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...Analysis of Business Issues, Writing In the Disciplines (WID) BADM 2003W (95440): BADM_2003W.SEC.12 Tuesday Combined Class: SEMESTER: Spring 2014 LOCATION & TIME: Duques 353, Tuesday 11:10 AM-12:25 PM PROFESSOR: Dr. Bret Crane Department of Management Office: Funger Suite 315N Email: bretdcrane@gwu.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2 PM or by appointment TEACHING ASSISTANTS: |Erin Vander Wall | | |Leigha McReynolds | | |Mark De Cicco | | |Tess Strumwasser | | |Daniel Berkhout | | |Sam Yates | | |Vicki Brown | | | ...
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...Analysis of Business Issues, Writing In the Disciplines (WID) BADM 2003W (93752): BADM_2003W.SEC.11 Monday Combined Class: SEMESTER: Spring 2014 LOCATION & TIME: Funger 209, Monday 2:20 PM-3:35 PM PROFESSOR: Dr. Bret Crane Department of Management Office: Funger Suite 315N Email: bretdcrane@gwu.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2 PM or by appointment TEACHING ASSISTANTS & WRITING LABS: | | | |Section # |Begin |End |Day |TA |Email | |30 |08:00 AM |09:15 AM |Wed |Mark De Cicco |mdecicco@gwmail.gwu.edu | |31 |09:25 AM |10:40 AM |Wed |Mark De Cicco |mdecicco@gwmail.gwu.edu | |32 |10:50 AM |12:05 PM |Wed |Tess Strumwasser |tstrumwa@gwu.edu | |33 |12:15 PM |01:30 PM |Wed |Tess Strumwasser |tstrumwa@gwu.edu | |34 |01:40 PM |02:55 PM |Wed |Daniel Berkhout |berkhout@gwmail.gwu.edu | |35 |03:05 PM |04:20 PM |Wed |Daniel Berkhout |berkhout@gwmail.gwu.edu | |36 |04:30...
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...aspiring managers can employ to cope with the challenges inherent in the implementation of rapidly advancing technology. The course presents fundamental knowledge essential to managing an information technology successfully within a larger organization. It considers strategic and operational issues, the significance of rapidly advancing technology, and human and organizational issues related to technology introduction and use. The course describes management systems and models of successful behavior that capitalize on opportunities and avoid the numerous potential pitfalls. LEARNING METHODOLOGY The learning methodology used in this course consists of lectures, class discussion, case analysis and discussion, homework, term paper, and exam(s). PRE-REQUISITES Graduate standing. COURSE OBJECTIVES The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the issues and...
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...INTRODUCTION Purpose/Justification Problems related to reading comprehension have been besetting both private and public educational institutions all over the country. In the Philippine setting evidences revealed that 2009, 2010 and 2011 NAT results exemplified that the second year students struggled much on reading comprehension as shown by the three mean percentage scores in English subject. In particular, the mean percentage scores of Macario B. Asistio Sr. High School—Unit I for the school years 2008-2009; 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 are 43.11, 36.57 and 36.60 respectively (Department of Educational Testing and Research Center, 2009; 2010; 2011). Likewise, comprehension related studies conducted locally have verified and supported that the students showed difficulty in reading comprehension (Columna, 2013; Ayles, 2009 and Dela Cruz, 2004). In a study conducted by Columna (2013), results revealed that the students were struggling to comprehended texts in their L2 with majority of them fall under instructional level and a significant of them fall under frustration level. In the same manner, Dela Cruz (2004) found that the students in the secondary level have difficulties in reading materials in the content areas especially in Mathematics and Science. The researcher posits that these comprehension problems have rooted from the questioning pedagogical strategy employed by the teachers. Chin (2002) found that questions, particularly those asked in response to wonderment, stimulate...
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...PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE Welcome to Psychology 1010 Fall 2015 (Tu/Th, ________ – ______ p.m. / Marlboro Hall – Rm. #1104) (August 25 – December 3) INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Janet E. Barber Psychological & Sociological Sciences and Human Svcs. OFFICE/HOURS: Marlboro Hall –M1104/2057 (Tu/Th, 3:25p - 4:25p) The best way to contact the professor is by email. By appointment: Online Office hours via Bb IM: Thursdays 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PHONE NUMBERS: Professor: (301) 322-0900 x 4143 Social Sciences Office/Phone No.: Marlboro Hall #2054 (301) 546-0525 EMAIL ADDRESS: BarberAJ@pgcc.edu (24 hour response time) The best way to contact the professor is by email. Note: All credit students (with the exception of Howard Community College students enrolled at Laurel College Center) are required to use Owl Mail for all college communication. Students, please be sure to place PSY1010-LD14, 16 or 17 in the subject line so that your email will not be overlooked, confused with another class section, or mistakenly deleted. Thank you. Monday – Friday your emails and phone messages will be returned within 24 hours. Your weekend...
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...first automatic telephone system, he was a grade school teacher, Union Lieutenant in the 8th New York Calvary in the Civil War, and lastly an Undertaker for twenty years post Civil War("Almon brown strowger," ). In 1888 Strowger invented the automatic telephone exchange from a round collar box and some straight pins with a wiper attached to a pencil in the center of the contraption long enough to reach each pin("Almon brown strowger,"). With each subscriber having one of these switches and proper manipulation of the wiper and shaft could make a connection with any contact desired. Almon patented the first automatic telephone exchange in 1891 and the first automatic telephone exchange was installed in La Porte, Indiana in 1892("Almon brown strowger,"). So there it was, the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange that cut out the operators’ use and became standard equipment in the telephone systems worldwide until the touch-tone dialing in the late 1970’s. Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electronic engineer born in Petoskey, Michigan in April of 1916 to a line of New Jersey settlers. Shannon’s grandfather was also an inventor and designed the first washing machine ("Claude shannon,”). Shannon was also fond of inventing at a young age and actually built an off-balance unicycle that made it easier for the rider to juggle while operating the bike. Shannon is known as the Father of the Information Theory from a paper he published in 1948.Besides being responsible...
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...“The Extent of Moral and Financial Support of the Parents in Relation to the Academic Performance of the 4th Year BSHRM Student of St .Therese-MTC Colleges, La Fiesta Site” A Research Proposal Submitted to the Faculty of St. Therese-MTC Colleges, La Fiesta Site, Iloilo City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Research (Introduction to Research) For the degree of Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management by: Acullador, Joseph Brillantes, Kevin Dabi, Angel Fame Pabiona, Krizza Ariadne Verified by: GRACE T. SULLEZA, RGC, M. Ed. Research Adviser June 2011 Chapter 1 Introduction Background of the Study Education is the most important wealth that parents could give to their children aside from money and legacy. It is one thing an individual could be proud of. The statistics were shocking for a culture that prizes education. The California Standardized Test scores for San Francisco public school students showed that Filipinos in 6th, 7th and 8th grades have “the highest percentage of students below ‘Basic’ among other Asian groups and whites in both English-language Arts and Math, ranging from 19% to 37%.” It doesn’t get any better. “In the 9th-11th grades, 42% of Filipino students fall in the ‘Basic’ and ‘Below Basic’ levels on the Star Math Test.” (http://www.asianweek.com/2008/10/01/sub-par-performance-of-filipino-students/). According to the Family Code of the Philippines (1988); The Article 194: Support comprises...
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...Grades in the realm of education are standardized measurements of varying levels of comprehension within a subject area. Grades can be assigned in letters (for example, A, B, C, D, or F), as a range (for example 4.0–1.0), as a number out of a possible total (for example out of 20 or 100), as descriptors (excellent, great, satisfactory, needs improvement), in percentages, or, as is common in some post-secondary institutions in some countries, as a Grade Point Average (GPA). GPA is calculated by taking the number of grade points a student earned in a given period of time divided by the total number of credits taken.[1] The GPA can be used by potential employers or further post-secondary institutions to assess and compare applicants. A Cumulative Grade Point Average is a calculation of the average of all of a student's grades for all semesters and courses completed up to a given academic term,[2][3][4] whereas the GPA may only refer to one term. Keith Hoskin argues that the concept of grading students' work quantitatively was developed by a tutor named William Farish and first implemented by the University of Cambridge in 1792.[5] Hoskin's assertion has been questioned by Christopher Stray, who finds the evidence for Farish as the inventor of the numerical mark to be unpersuasive.[6] Stray's article elucidates the complex relationship between the mode of examination (testing), in this case oral or written, and the varying philosophies of education these modes imply, both to teacher...
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...Chairperson Patricia A. Stokowski, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Graduate College Date: November 30, 2009 ABSTRACT The thesis addresses the relationship of class size to student performance in a rural state. It presents findings from a longitudinal study of a cohort of students who were tested with state assessments at grade 4 in 2000, again at grade 8 in 2004 and, finally at grade 10 in 2006. Graduation rates for five large-class sized schools and five small-class sized school populations were established in 2008. All scores (n=1137) were matched across time enabling students from similar socioeconomic backgrounds from schools that were considered small (average class size, n=11) to schools that were large (average, n= 20). The paper’s focus is on the extent that students from schools that maintained large and small classes differed in selected opportunities to learn and educational outcomes. The approach to the study utilized both large scale state databases for student backgrounds and outcomes and interviews with school personnel in order to identify school policy and practices that might be linked to performance differences. The primary goal of this research study was to...
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...COMM 225: Production and Operations Management Course Outline (Fall 2015) ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION * Instructor: Peter Rosenthal, eng., M.B.A. * Lectures: Wednesday 17:45-20:15 Room MB 3.270 * Course Website: Moodle * Email: peter.rosenthal@sympatico.ca * Phone: 514-848-2424 x 5492 * Office: MB 12-104 * Office Hours: Wednesday 16:45-17:30 and by appointment ------------------------------------------------- COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is an introduction to contemporary operational issues and techniques in the manufacturing and service sectors. Among the topics covered are: operations strategy, forecasting, materials management, total quality management, time-based competition, and queuing theory. Mathematical modeling in resource allocation is also introduced. Cases and computer-aided quantitative tools for decision-making are used throughout the course with an emphasis on the interactions between production/operations management and other business disciplines. Prerequisites: COMM 210, COMM 212, and COMM 215 ------------------------------------------------- LEARNING OBJECTIVES Operations are the core of every business. Successful implementation of any business strategy cannot be achieved without the proper execution of operations. Global and local companies that are experiencing a surge in market share owe this success...
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