...bowl into a world much bigger than my own experience.Through this class i aspire to improve my composition skills to prepare myself for an environment that requires much more of me than i am currently capable,and as well to create a plethora of bonds with those i meet on my journey through Comp 1. The current level of the composition skills i posses , as seen in this essay,rest somewhere between an ignorant writer and an overconfident high school student..Through this class i'll endeavor to participate in and research thoroughly the assignments, with the goal of insight into writing elements in mind,offered. in order to not only sufficiently improve my skills but to exceed that of which will be required of me.With great effort and help,from the wonderfully humorous and eccentric ,Mr.Cornette I believe in earnest that i can greatly advance my writing abilities.In order to accomplish this I have taken it upon my self to study dillegently both in and outside of class as well as to not pass off any assignment giving in to lethargy and apathy.What i make of myself is what my goals make of me and I will aim my goals towards truly experiencing this exciting new oppurtuniy given to me by Composition 1. A matter of great importance...
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...Competency Goal 1 To establish and maintain a safe and healthy learning environment My goal is to establish and maintain a learning environment that is safe and healthy for children. This goal is important because children need a safe and healthy learning environment in order to get the best out of their experience at school. If they do not feel safe, or their families feel as if they are not safe, then they are in a non-suitable environment. A classroom should provide environments as safe as possible to reduce the inevitable situation of accidents Safety To meet my goal I will keep the playground as free from harmful objects and people as possible. I will also make sure that the classroom cleaning chemicals will be put out of children’s reach. I then will post fire drills and tornado drill directions clearly in the classroom and practice them frequently with the children. I will also provide a first aid kit readily available for adults to use and be knowledgeable of proper usage. On a regular basis I will check the toys in the classroom for broken objects and remove anything that poses a threat to the children and keep myself informed of any safety recalls or alerts on any toys or other equipment in the classroom. Healthy My goal is to have a classroom that encourages healthy practices to keep both the children and the teachers safe and free from disease as possible. Healthy children are always the best type of children. When they are...
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...Date: September 6, 2015 To: All Project Management Staff From: Tia Marina Subject: Tips for Getting Started with Project Management. As everyone knows changes and promotions take place frequently throughout ones career. During this time transitions can be tricky and confusing for some. This is especially so for those who take over new roles of overseeing others within project management. To help in these transitions some information has been compiled and summarized for use. These tips come from article found online called, “Tips I Wish I Knew When I First Began Managing Projects,” by Esther Schindler. So you’re in charge of a new project. The task now is getting everyone on the team headed in the right direction. Some of us have someone we can turn to such as a mentor, and some of us are not so lucky. Without that guided advice, trouble is sure to surface, especially for someone new to the job. So help from some experienced project managers is always helpful especially in the form of advice. First, even if I can do a task better, I must let the junior people do it. Meaning, as being the one in charge watching over the team is the main priority, not doing the job myself. Delegation is not only helpful but it allows the team to learn how to do it as well. This also frees time up to be doing other things that cannot be delegated to others. Next it is also important to know when to fight for more time and budget. Plain and simple you cannot always have it the...
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...Cool In my 39 years I have heard a lot of people talk or express what they think is cool (electronics, technology, music, movies, cars, and ECT.). However I have never once heard anyone talk about the coolest thing in the world which I will share with you further in this essay. Yes I find all these things to be cool but they are material things and meaningless in my opinion when it comes to what’s really cool which is motherhood. I feel that motherhood is cool because it’s so amazing how a woman could love you unconditionally no matter what you’ve done right or wrong. Motherhood is the most special and coolest thing that this world could ever have due to the fact that she will hold you in her bosom and kick your ass all at the same time while giving you all her love and strength. I’ve found that we have lost site on what is really cool because of the material things that we indulge in on a daily bases. Cool is motherhood for her love, support, tears, and fear the ass kicking’s and the understanding of our rights and wrongs in life. Motherhood is cool for the things that she teaches us past, present and the future to come. Cool is when your mother looks at you and you see the tears in her eyes because of the struggles she went through to provide a life for you that was better than her own. Material things are cool. However we need to stop and think hard about the things in our lives that are really cool, motherhood because without her we are nothing. Let’s embrace her for...
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...Battle Royale In “Battle Royal,” Ellison uses details of setting to create the mood of horror and repulsion. The horror begins when the narrator listens to a conversation between his father and grandfather, as his grandfather lay on his death bed. “Son, after I’m gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses, undermine ‘em with grins, agree ‘em to death and destruction, let ‘em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open” (256). This statement had a great effect on the narrator, although he wasn’t quite sure what it meant. It set a sense of fear in him. “And whenever things went well for me I remember my grandfather and felt guilty and uncomfortable. It was as though I was carrying out his advice in spite of myself”(257). The narrator didn’t plan on taking his grandfather’s advice, and each time he found himself doing exactly that, it made him feel guilty. “I felt guilt that in some way I was doing something that was really against the wishes of the white folks” (257). This continued path of fear and hatred are carried out throughout the story. Ellison gives the reader the idea of hatred and horror when he sets the scene in the ballroom of the hotel. This is where the “Battle Royal” was to take place. The battle room was filled with...
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...Manners and Chivalry: Dead in Society? Thomas James Composition 1 Mrs. O’Connor 28 November 2013 Abstract Manners and chivalry in society have become a thing of the past. Today’s new technologies and peer pressure and marketing schemes of corporations, combined with lack of parent intervention have negated the skills. From the move of women into the workplace and to their full equality, men have lost their gentleman attitude toward the female species. In combination with lack of proper family time and negative detrimental media output, it has altered the way our youths act in society. Furthermore, turning our whole way of life as it used to be into something where we ask ourselves “do I want to bring a child into it?” Manners and Chivalry: Dead in Society? A glance through history tells of days of women and gentleman and the well-known romantic courtships of history. Evolution of modesty in relationships of past, to the present open sexually explicit relationships displayed on television, have desensitized the worlds youth perspective on moral behavior. Has the gift of technology, and a hectic life’s work schedule, taken the parent away from the home so much, that kids are teaching other kids habits that parents don’t condone? The time has come for society to pull back on the reins on socially and morally unacceptable behaviors. Chivalry, defined by Merriam Webster’s dictionary, states “An honorable and polite way of behaving, especially toward women” (Webster). This is a...
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...The Benefits of Gardening Wendy Christman #413270 WGU Composition 1 TBP1 June 12, 2015 The Benefits of Gardening As a necessity for survival we as a people have always had to be self-sufficient at providing for ourselves. Gardening has been that pathway to nutrition. Along with sustenance there are many other benefits that gardening provides. Gardening provides us with relaxation, respite, nutrition, healthier eating habits, ability to grow organically, and pride in what you have grown. Gardening is hard work, it is a work out to till up the soil and add fertilizer, pull the weeds and keep the weeds from taking over the garden on a daily or weekly basis. Even though gardening is time consuming, everyone should have a garden because gardening provides nutrition, is relaxing and provides better health. The main reason I started a garden was for the nutrition, plus the raised beds were a handmade mother’s day present from my husband and teenage boys. I wanted to provide my family with the best vegetables and know where they came from as well as making them proud. I would know that there were no chemicals used to aid in their growth. I am alright with smaller produce knowing that it wasn’t exposed to chemicals and pesticides. Everyone on our street has a garden, we all grow different things, and share. It is nice to try new things, and learn from each other as well. We all grow our vegetables organically. We are able to give our families better nutrition than what we...
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...The Day After Tomorrow is a movie that stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Emma Rossum and was directed by Roland Emmerich. The movie is based on a paleoclimatologist that treks across America to save his son who is trapped by a sudden international storm that plunges America into a new Ice Age. I liked this movie for many reasons, but it had some draw backs. Summary In the beginning of the movie Jack Hall (played by Dennis Quaid) is at the North Pole drilling core samples for research on global warming. As they are drilling into the ice getting samples, the ice starts to split leaving a very large valley in the ice and some of the samples could be left behind. Jack makes a daring leap across what seems to be a 7 foot crevice in the ice. He makes it across and gets the samples but as he is about to leap back across to the safety of his colleges the ice splits again, and he narrowly escapes falling in the crevice. After getting the samples back to the lab and testing them he realizes that there is an issue with the samples and also that there was a sheet of Ice the size of Texas that broke off, so he goes to a convention to warn other people of the facts that he has learned. Discussion One thing that I liked about this movie is the snow. The fact that the frigid cold could freeze your skin, crystalize your lungs, freeze Jet fuel at -200 Fahrenheit in a matter of seconds. Also it froze the ocean solid enough that it could be driven on and walked upon. It...
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...Life Is Better With Music Western Governor’s University Life Is Better With Music Learning to play a musical instrument is a lifelong journey with benefits that begin from the very first day you touch the instrument. The courage to try something new is the first psychological win in a string of confidence builders that continually help to shape your personality and foster growth. The subsequent and on-going health benefits derived while honing your craft provides further proof that playing a musical instrument is an instrumental decision in your life. The art of music is in the mechanics of mastering an instrument, of discovering and creating new music, of challenging yourself and feeling the satisfaction of accomplishment in learning or writing a new piece. Mass media will portend that musical performance is the art. While entertaining for many, artists, famous and otherwise, will tell you that the performance is the payoff. The art is in learning, refining, and creating, which typically happens in unspectacular private places far away from notoriety. There is a personal space between you and your instrument where only you live and where you have full control over what you do, where there is no interference. That space is where art is born and where the benefits of playing affect your life and where we will focus this discussion. My musical odyssey began at age eleven in the sixth grade school band with percussion. While challenging at first and awkward, I realized...
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...Chris Johns What made me interested in reading the article was the reader pointing out that the public service waring Drink, Drive, Lose isn’t really working nowadays and most states are going to a new program called 24/7 Sobriety. This new program should make sure that people who drink and drive really think about the consequences to their actions and that most states are not playing anymore. I think this article was written for people who have a problem with drinking and driving and for the people who are angry that people who drink and drive are not being properly punished. This article should reassure people that some states are working towards making sure that the punishment fits the crime. If you drink and drive the punishment will be swift and sure of, instead of just a slap on the wrist. The purpose of this article is to show that some states are serious about the consequences of drinking and driving. If you keep on drinking and driving and risking people’s life you will do jail time. You may also lose your job, your wife, and you will definitely lose money due to court costs and lawyer fees. This information could help us now because it is showing that states are really starting to crack down on drinking and driving. You won’t be able to slip through the cracks anymore. You will be held accountable for your actions. This article left a lot of questions unanswered. A couple of which are who has to pay for the breathalizers, who has to pay for the wristbands, and...
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...Evaluative Argument Essay Tia Pace Western Governor’s University Student ID: 334765 Evaluative Argument Essay What is product quality? One website, www.encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com, defines product quality as: “The collection of features and characteristics of a product that contribute to its ability to meet given requirements.” Whose requirement is the product meeting? Is it the consumer? Consumers expect many things to determine the quality of a product, take for instance, bottled water. Consumers will evaluate based on the following questions: Does it taste good? Is it safe for me and my family? Does its cost reflect its value? Bottled water may score a “yes” in one of those three questions; it tastes good. The reason this product scores so low in product quality is the container it’s packaged in may leach harmful chemicals, the water, itself, also contains harmful chemicals that are not regulated properly, and bottled water is expensive. The ever-so-popular plastic bottle may be the worst part of the product. Over 20 years ago consumers got a big scare because plastic was made from a carbon-based synthetic called Bisphenol A (BPA). Manufacturers quickly changed the process and started listing products as BPA free to sway consumers in believing their product was safe. Now we are faced with a new plastic problem. Water bottles, today, are mainly made of polyethylene...
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...The operating system on the computer I use at home is Windows 7 64 bit. It runs on Windows service pack 1. This configuration requires a minimum of a 1 gigahertz processor, 2 gigabytes of ram, 20 free gigabytes of free hard disk space, and a dvd rom drive. Some of the features of this edition of Windows are incorporated libraries, my computer, network sharing center, control panel, and the command prompt. Libraries are the folders of all the content on my computer. In the libraries you can find any document, picture, video, or program, all of which, are in a specific folder/file structure. This way when you are navigating through the folder it is easy to identify where you are going and what folder you have come from. Next is My Computer, this is a lot like the index of a book. This is the directory for where everything in your library is located. You can also find other information here such as multiple hard drives, hard drive space, any attached devices, and by right clicking on my computer and clicking properties more information about the hardware installed in your computer. This is a quick, though not as detailed, way to get an overview of your computer. The network sharing center is next. This shows you all the connections going into and out of your computer. It shows everything that is shared with other computer and all the information that you are sharing with other computers. This information is limited to the specific network that your computer is on. You can also...
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...model(s) on the cover page. When you are ordering replacement parts, please refer to this Parts Catalogue and quote both part numbers and part names correctly. 1. Modifications or additions which have been made after the issue of the Parts Catalogue will be announced in the Parts News. It is advisable that you make the necessary corrections to the Parts Catalogue according to the Parts News. 2. Abbreviations The following abbreviations are used in this Parts Catalogue. “UR” Use specified parts number. “UN” Use as many as needed. “AP” Alternate Parts “LM” Locally Made (Parts need to be ordered locally) “F#” Frame No. (Applicable machine No.) “O/S” Over Size 3. The number of components for assembly • Parts, which are to be supplied in an assembly, are listed with a dot (.) in front of the part name as shown below. • The numeral appearing to the right of each component part indicates the quantity of parts for each assembly unit. PART NO. 2F5–83310–60 115–83311–60 DESCRIPTION FRONT FLASHER LIGHT ASSY .BULB (6V–18W) Q’TY REMARKS 2 1 6. The asterisk (*) before a reference number indicates modified items after the first edition. 4. Applicable colours of graphics are represented in the “REMARKS” as shown below. PART NO. 3J1–24240–10 DESCRIPTION .GRAPHIC, FUEL TANK Q’TY REMARKS 2 1 MXR FOR MXR 2N4–24110–00–X5 FUEL TANK COMP. 5. Note that the illustrations for reference in finding parts numbers are not to be used for assembling. When assembling, please use the applicable service...
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...Peter Patrick Composition Rough Draft 1 There are many people who have impacted my life and have inspired me to lead the life I live today. Among these people is my step-father, who came into my life at about the age of nine. Essentially, he has taught me how to be a man, and how to handle situations in such a way that a real, mature man would. He is one of the most dedicated and hardworking people I have ever known, and has shown me by example how I should act, work, and respect others. If it were not for him, I may or may not have some of the great qualities that he has imposed on me, merely by leading by example. My step-father stepped in at a crucial time for my family, and I learned to love him, especially for all the support he has always provided for us. He is the perfect example of the "Right Person, Right Place, Right Time," and my life would be much different if it were not for him. The moment he stepped into my life is the moment I would describe as a Kairos. This Kairos has shaped and molded my life into what it is now, and I can thank him for playing such a vital role. One factor of this Kairos is the ethos aspect. Through a showing of incomparable work and dedication, my step-father has exhibited rationale for me to follow his footsteps. A great level of respect and trust was placed into his hands when he came into my life, and he guided me by showing me how I should act and work, not by simply telling me what to do. I was asked to join him for a day of labor...
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...East, Suite 100 Draper, Utah * * * Wade J. Van Tassell - Certified Realtime Reporter Registered Merit Reporter DepomaxMerit Litigation 801-328-1188 Wade J. Van Tassell July 3, 2014 Card v. American National Property and Casualty Spencer E. Richards Page 2 APPEARANCES For the Plaintiff: Kenneth L. Christensen Matthew Hansen Jake Lee CHRISTENSEN & HYMAS 11693 South 700 East, Suite 100 Draper, Utah 84020 For the Defendant: Sade A. Turner STRONG & HANNI 102 South 200 East, Suite 800 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Also Present: (Via Telephone) Dorothy Clay Sims Oregon Hunter Page 4 *** INDEX EXAMINATION By Mr. Christensen By Ms. Turner By Mr. Christensen PAGE 3 132 157 EXHIBITS No. 1 No. 2 3-19-14 Ltr, Turner to Richards 11-14-13 Deposition Transcript Excerpt 86 86 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 3 Uh-huh. MS. TURNER: Mr. Christensen, these are the medical records because we didn't print them all out. MR. CHRISTENSEN: I figured. And you had sent me those, but I appreciate you bringing them. We might open them up and refer to them, actually. Q. Did you happen to have in your file your billing for your services at all? A. No. Q. And why is that? A. My wife takes care of that so I don't keep a record with me of billing. Q. How does she typically do that? MS. TURNER: Objection. Foundation. Answer it if you know. A. I give her the hours that I spent working on the case and then she sends an invoice. Q. And where is the documentation...
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