...Alejandro Lopez Professor Walter Hernandez ENC 1101 April 18th, 2012 “My First Experience in ENC 1101” ENC 1101 is one of the most difficult and rewarding classes that I've taken, especially because I chose to take it during my first semester of college. It is a general requirement for every student at MDC and is geared to help those who aspire to become a professional graduate one-day. Since I picked ENC 1101 to be one of my first semester college classes, it's been a difficult course for me. My lack of grammar knowledge, experience writing essays and organizing ideas are the three factors that made this college class challenging. Even though it's been hard on me, I now know how to write essays the right way and also how to organize my ideas so I have a clear vision of what I'll be writing about. This is really important to me because learning how to write properly will not only help me pass ENC 1101, but it will help succeed in other classes, life, and my future career. My ENC 1101 Professor Walter Hernandez not only motivated us to become better writers but also shared with us important tips regarding how to write like a college writer. He would always have a positive attitude, making the class amusing and enjoyable. The first week of school, Professor Hernandez showed the class "The ENC 1101 Survival Guide" which is a document containing essays written by Miami Dade College students that represent how his students made it through his class by becoming better...
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...Gianinne Alvarez October 7, 2012 ENC 1101/West Campus Essay # 1 Teenage pregnancies Tears streaming rapidly, the new mother, unaware and unable to contain her emotions, freezes. The boyfriend walks away, fleeing with her hopes, dreams and desires. The pregnant teen realizes that her whole life is gone, just like that, but another life will come. When teenagers tell their fathers- to- be that they are pregnant, normally the men walk away. If the pregnant teenager is unable to afford an abortion, then the teenager must give up school and chances of getting a good job since supporting a child is a full time job on its own. One of the major causes of teenage pregnancy is lack of education. One of the strongest forms of education is through schools. It has been proven that health education classes that discuss about safe sexual behaviors impact on pregnancies. Because of lack of sex education, the number of teen pregnancy has drastically increased throughout the years. Poor education can increase the chances of teens having sexual activities and pushes teens into the risk group of being young parents. Education should focuses on preventatives such as condoms and birth controls. With a good educational system, teens have a better understanding of their sex lives and will not rush into it without properly realizing the consequences associated with sex and pregnancy. In other words, schools need to provide the best sex education classes in order to prevent pregnancy at an early...
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...Jennifer L. Theresa Scott ENC 1101: Comp 1 June 8th, 2016 The Machines of Tomorrow Technology is everywhere. You go out in public and all you see is everyone concentrating on their phones. Technology allows people to communicate with one another and share information. Even if someone doesn’t own a computer or a phone, there is some type of mobile device, computer, or even television that you can get too to get the latest news. I was born in 1999, where technology wasn’t as big as it is now, but it was surely up and coming. I remember being a little girl and I was always on my Gameboy playing games. Sure couldn’t get me off of that thing! Technology is evolving and soon everything is going to be based on it. As it’s slowly doing so now. A world without technology, would be a difficult world. Technology is a big part of my life, as it is of most people these days. Even as a little girl, I would play on my Gameboy, or listen to my Disney music on my mp3, but little did I know that it’ll later affect my way of life. There isn’t a day in my life where I don’t use some type of technological innovation. Even typing this essay I’m in need of using technology. My mobile device is a technological innovation that if I didn’t have it, my life would be in the dumps. My phone allows me to surf the web, connect with others, get the latest gossip and news etc. Most people see having a phone in such a negative way. Mainly because it “disconnects” people from the real world, but in my opinion...
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...Nataly Rodriguez ENC 1101 MWF 8AM-8:50AM Exemplification Essay Optimistic Vs. Pessimistic Optimistic or pessimistic? Being an optimistic person is much better than being a pessimistic person. I think that always being positive and having that good energy around you will bring you more than being a pessimist about everything. The meaning of Optimistic is “believing positively,” always “hopeful and confident about the future.” I believe that I’m an optimistic person. I always like to hope for the best. It's not that I always think every single little aspect is going to come out perfect but I do believe that supportive thinking will help bring a supreme outcome of any situation and will bring more good things than bad ones. The more someone has a good attitude towards anything the more stuff they get done and more good things are attracted to them. Life has many ups and downs but you have to remain strong and look at the positive in every situation. I think that even if those around you are pessimistic you have to keep on being optimistic for yourself and themselves. When people are so negative they miss opportunities, make a bigger problem out of a minor one, and just live a life with negative energy that won't help you with all the situations life throws at us. If you really think about it what's better? To think positive and try to find your way out when you encounter trouble or oppose and sink with the...
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...ENC 1101 February 13 2013 Causes and Effects of the Computer/Information Revolution By illustrating the lifestyle of the computer revolution through advancements in human society whether it be medicine, school or businesses, computers paints a vivid image of a world that is interconnected providing further advancement upon our society; only to create a bigger, faster and more efficient world. The 21st century is known as the information and or computer revolution. As Hamming states, "the industrial revolution released man from being a beast of burden; computer revolution will similarly release him from slavery to dull, repetitive routine" (Hamming 4). The revolution began after World War II and to this day continues evolving at a rapid pace enhancements made to it’s speed and size, has led to more and more information being found and processed on a daily basis. According to Linowes, more information has been produced in the last thirty years than in the previous five thousand. Changes to the lifestyle of the everyday human are quite prevalent. Nowadays, people have access to what seems to be an endless pool of information, whether it is social networks, instant messaging, electronic libraries while businesses use the internet and information technology to operate their organizations. People communicate every day and transfer data every day at an alarming rate. The computer revolution has shaped or current environment into one where the internet is central to todays society...
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...Maria Pavon ENC 1101 Professor Irving Oct 7, 2014 You Don’t Know What You Have until It’s Gone It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, and don’t think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself, until I was faced with the shock, and undeniable truth of my cousin’s death. I don’t think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. My mom had been going to school in San Pedro Sula a city from Honduras and staying at my Aunt Gloria’s house. She had been away for two weeks and wanted to come for Christmas. My mom had suggested that I go back with her and visit museums, shop, go to movies and just spent time together. I had been feeling pretty sorry for myself since she had been gone. I had been working a lot as a maid and helping my dad run the house, I was getting very irritated with my siblings as I felt that I was the only family member doing my part to help my dad. I was really excited to have a week with my mom myself. The whole ride over we were talking about what I wanted to do that week. Making plans and having “me time” seemed very important at the time. I woke up Monday morning excited for the day I was going to spend with my mom. I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking fresh coffee listening to my mom and aunt tease and joke around about how paranoid my mom was about doing well in her classes, my aunt was telling her...
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...ENC 1101 13 October 2014 Becoming the Seminole Athlete Coming to FSU as a student athlete is a life changing experience as you shift from being under your parents into being on your own and managing yourself. You get to start early as a baseball player so that you can become acclimated with class and morning workouts. You are taken on a weeklong athlete orientation called Summer Bridge a week before summer classes begin. You along with other freshman athletes get to become familiar with the campus and what is expected out of an athlete here at Florida State. During the week, you are grouped with people from other sports so that you can get to know other people besides your teammates. In your group you do small bonding exercises and team work activities. One activity was a campus scavenger hunt where you have to take pictures in front of certain buildings and this allows you to get familiar with your new school. Summer is an easier adjustment from high school to college compared to fall. During summer you are required to take only two classes and have only early morning workouts. Having the afternoon to yourself is a good feeling because there is not much free time in the fall being a student athlete. Being a baseball player, you live in Whitehall Apartments which is right off campus. Living in the apartments with three other teammates and right next door to four others, you get to bond easily with each other. Transitioning from having your laundry done for you and having...
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...Necessity knows no law. Bần cùng sinh đạo tặc. In December 2008, just a few months after the U.S. financial system imploded, New York City was hit by a flurry of bank robberies. On the Monday before New Year’s, four banks were attacked in an hour-and-a-half; one daytime raid took place just steps from the Lincoln Center in downtown Manhattan. The week before, San Diego had seen four bank holdups in a single day. Criminologists wondered if the holiday spree was the first sign of a looming crime wave in recession-battered America. Take an uptick in poverty and economic misery, toss in budget cuts to police departments across the country, and that should be a blueprint for chaos—right? Except, as it turns out, the exact opposite occurred. According to FBI statistics, crime rates went down across the board in 2009. Way down. Murder, rape, robbery, assault, auto theft—plummeted, one and all. Then, this week, the FBI released preliminary data for the first six months of 2010, and again the same pattern emerged. Violent crimes and property crimes alike have been falling in every region of the country. What gives? Have experts just completely misunderstood what causes people to commit crimes? There's certainly no shortage of theories for why crime rates have gone down over the past two years. The simplest is that crime just isn’t closely related to economic conditions. Consider, after all, the two big crime epidemics in the twentieth century—the first took root in the late 1960s...
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...Argument Essay Unit: Lesson Plan and Class Activities Global Learning Outcomes for this Unit *In the course of completing the assignment students will: • Learn to compose an argumentation-oriented thesis • Defend their thesis with academic-quality research that is properly sourced and cited as per the standard of university level writing • Anticipate and respond to counterarguments • Learn to critically engage the revision process through draft writing, instructor conferencing, and peer commentary • Respond the work of their peers as peer reviewers while providing relevant, productive feedback Class 1 – Introducing the Classical Argument Essay *Daily Learning Outcomes: • Reflect on Informative Essay • Introduce Classical Argument Essay • Break down the assignment sheet *Activity 1: Individual Reflection / Class Discussion (15 min) - Students open their portfolios and journals then reflect for ~10 minutes on their experiences during the Informative Essay Unit - Discuss reflections as a class *Activity 2: Introduce Classical Argument (20 min) - Have students bring a hard copy of the assignment to class with a highlighter: a. Get into groups of 4 b. Read the sheet aloud, highlighting all the action verbs c. Discuss the sheet as a group as instructor makes rounds *Activity 3: Mini-Lecture on Assignment /Questions (15 min) - Powerpoint slides “The Features of an Academic Argument” - Allow time for student questions...
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...Argument Essay Unit: Lesson Plan and Class Activities Global Learning Outcomes for this Unit *In the course of completing the assignment students will: • Learn to compose an argumentation-oriented thesis • Defend their thesis with academic-quality research that is properly sourced and cited as per the standard of university level writing • Anticipate and respond to counterarguments • Learn to critically engage the revision process through draft writing, instructor conferencing, and peer commentary • Respond the work of their peers as peer reviewers while providing relevant, productive feedback Class 1 – Introducing the Classical Argument Essay *Daily Learning Outcomes: • Reflect on Informative Essay • Introduce Classical Argument Essay • Break down the assignment sheet *Activity 1: Individual Reflection / Class Discussion (15 min) - Students open their portfolios and journals then reflect for ~10 minutes on their experiences during the Informative Essay Unit - Discuss reflections as a class *Activity 2: Introduce Classical Argument (20 min) - Have students bring a hard copy of the assignment to class with a highlighter: a. Get into groups of 4 b. Read the sheet aloud, highlighting all the action verbs c. Discuss the sheet as a group as instructor makes rounds *Activity 3: Mini-Lecture on Assignment /Questions (15 min) - Powerpoint slides “The Features of an Academic Argument” - Allow...
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...Second career Self-employment and becoming an entrepreneur as a second career for dependent employees The responsibility for the contents of this report lies with EIM. Quoting numbers or text in papers, essays and books is permitted only when the source is clearly mentioned. No part of this publication may be copied and/or published in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written permission of EIM. EIM does not accept responsibility for printing errors and/or other imperfections. Contents 1 Theoretical framework 7 1.1 Introduction 7 1.2 The transition process: Heuristical tool 8 1.3 Differences between start-ups: Dependent employee versus other types 10 1.4 Demarcation 11 1.5 Contents of the report 12 2 Entrepreneurship in the EU 15 2.1 Facts and figures 15 2.2 Entrepreneurs in the EU 20 2.3 Previous experience of starting entrepreneurs in the EU 24 3 Synthesis 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Legal definition of self-employed 31 3.3 General requirements related to start-ups 33 3.4 Financing the start-up of a business 34 3.5 Insolvency and seizure procedures 35 3.6 Social security systems in general 35 3.7 Social security: Unemployment 36 3.8 Social security: Sickness 39 3.9 Social security: Disability 40 3.10 Social security: Medical costs 40 3.11 Social security: Old age 41 3.12 Social...
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...COMMON PROSPECTUS Master’s Degree Bachelor’s Degree Diplomas Certificates Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068, INDIA | www.ignou.ac.in Price: Rs. 100/- by cash at the counter | Rs. 150/- by Registered Post Electronic version of the prospectus is available for download at: http://www.ignou.ac.in Online Admission & Payment Gateway RECOGNITION IGNOU is a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY established by an Act of Parliament in 1985 (Act No. 50 of 1985). IGNOU Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates are recognised by all the member institutions of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and are at par with Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates of all Indian Universities/Deemed Universities/Institutions. Prepared & vetted at: Student Registration Division © Indira Gandhi National Open University March 2012 Print Production Mr B. Natarajan, DR(P) Mr Arvind Kumar, AR(P) Mr Ajit Kumar, So(P) IGNOU Offers “Round the Year Admission” to its Programmes under the ‘Walk-in-Admission’ Scheme. Candidates can obtain admission application forms from Regional Centre, Student Registration Divisions (SRD), IGNOU Headquarters and also can download the Prospectus and application form from the university website at ww.ignou.ac.in. Candidates can submit the same only at the Regional Centres concerned either by post or in person. Application forms can be submitted online and programme fee can be paid online through the internet payment gateway. CUT OFF DATES FOR WALK-IN-ADMISSION: Please...
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