...George Washington Narrative Essays Describe your “perfect” post-M.B.A. job. (Limit to one page, 250 words.) The most practical career path for me would be to take my extensive experience in sustainable design and “green” engineering and use my MBA to transition into management and business development in the same field. However, my “perfect” post-MBA job would be to run a nonprofit organization that would focus on the education of children and teenagers. I would do this because I have truly enjoyed the satisfaction of making a difference in someone’s life. My own experience has shown me that there is a serious shortage of role models for young people and the first place that this shows is at school. I believe that if young people are not accountable for their actions, it is unlikely that they will strive for greatness. My main effort, along with inspiration, would be to work with their parents. I would make my best effort to hold parents accountable for their children’s education and I would provide them with the necessary tools and materials for their child to be successful. The George Washington MBA Program will give me the knowledge and tools to effectively manage the organization that I have described. I will strive to learn the best way to market this organization to attract donors, volunteers, and employees so that I can achieve this dream. I plan on devoting much of my life to donating my time and money to others and I would love the challenge of running...
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...I remember the day well when I was first introduced to computers. I was a wide eyed eight year old who was on spring break, my mother didn’t have anyone to watch me so off to work with her I went. As she led me thru the doors into the Tektronix CPID hardware engineering division I was mesmerized. I knew that day that I wanted to know everything I could about how these machines worked and what I could make them do. I have always had a passion for learning, but for most of my life that passion was fulfilled by educating myself. Either by reading fieroucously about a subject on my own or jumping in with two feet and learning something new. After spending nearly a decade working in and around technology, I realized something was missing. I had hit a ceiling, I knew there was more to know, more that I could learn. I wanted to take my hobby, and turn it into a career. A career that could blend together my passion for technology, and my skills in customer service and communication. It was then that I decided to pursue a degree in Information Technology. When I decided it was time to go to school, I went looking for someplace local, that I could work at a steady pace towards my goals and still work a full time job. This led me to Pioneer Pacific. I received an associate’s degree in Information Technology, which I had already planned to continue thru to a Bachelor’s degree, but between my underclassmen classes and moving on to the second half of my Bachelor’s degree I went forward with...
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...American lives have changed greatly in the past two decades. The increased availability of the Internet has not only provided us with expanded access to information, but has also altered the way we communicate with one another. In ways barely conceivable to most people twenty years ago, we can instantaneously acquire information and communicate with one another. Easy access to the Internet has changed the way Americans research topics, learn of current events and interact with each other on a daily basis. The Google search engine was introduced in 1998. In just fifteen short years, the colloquialism “google it” has become a part of the American lexicon. We can type a few words or a short phrase into a computer search engine and instantaneously access volumes of information about a subject. Research can be conducted anywhere that a person has access to a computer and an Internet connection. Vast amounts of information that once may have required a long drive to a library or an interlibrary loan are now available immediately in digital format. The result is that information can be acquired more quickly, easily and inexpensively than twenty years ago. This easy access to information is not limited to research, but also includes daily news and events. In 1993, most people received information of current events via the television, radio or newspaper. The television networks would break into regularly scheduled programming to broadcast an important story. The downside...
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...The Board of Registered Nursing defines the nurse practitioners as “registered nurses who are prepared by advanced education to provide primary care including medical procedures that may be required for a specialty area “(BRN, 2012). Additionally, nurse practitioners must ”possess additional preparation and skills in physical diagnosis, psycho-social assessment, and management of health illness needs in primary health care and who have been prepared in a program conforming to board standards” (BRN, 2012). Advanced practice nursing, simply said, is a licensed registered nurse who has completed graduate training as a clinical nurse specialist, nurse anesthetist, nurse-midwife, or nurse practitioner. (Medical-Dictionary, 2012). The nurse practitioner is managed by standards in collaboration with the supervising Physician. The advanced practice nurse, is first and foremost a nurse. This role carries life experiences from hospital to clinical settings. The registered nurses role sets the basis for expanding the nurse practitioner role. This expanded role allows the family nurse practitioner to examine, assess and treat patients under the doctor's supervision. They can function in much the same way as a physician but does not have the same license or education as a doctor. Ylisela states, “In a family practice, the nurse practitioner sees patients of all ages for routine physical examinations as well as for illnesses and minor injuries. The family nurse...
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...I have been pursuing my nursing degree for over 20 years, and throughout my journey I have had to overcome many obstacles. I took a small fourteen year leave of absence to raise my children, moved around the United States several times, and have had to overcome many personal setbacks. But I have always maintained the same plan to accomplish my short term and long term educational and professional goals. I have very specific educational and professional goals. My first goal will be accomplished May 8, 2008, when I graduate from Austin Community College with my associate nursing degree. After graduation I hope to work on a NICU, Labor and Delivery, or a Med/Surg. unit within the Seton Family. In January 2009, I plan on attending the online Associate to BSN program offered by the Texas Tech Health Science Center. Shortly after I obtain my BSN I will continue on to pursue my MSN. I will eventually be certified in one of the previously mentioned specialty units, and will use my MSN degree to be an educator within the Seton Family of Hospials and/or the local area colleges. All of this will be accomplished while working and attempting to further my career with Seton. I believe God, my determination, and Seton will help me accomplish my goals. My first clinical rotation in nursing school was at Seton Medical Center, and I never left. The moment I stepped onto the 6th floor, I knew that I always wanted to be a part of the Seton Family. They were dedicated to each one...
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...Webster University Entrance Essay: I have always thought nurses are among the most intelligent people there are, and I want to be one of them. I believe the laity does not realize the amount of education required to ascertain employment as a registered nurse or the continuing education required to maintain such employment. One of my missions is to assist front line nurses demonstrate their, hard earned, knowledge to the clients they serve. Nurses need all the encouragement and support possible in order to maintain the stamina required to carry out their wide variety of daily duties, and I want to be a source of such encouragement and support. Nurses must receive continuous education in order to stay abreast of ever changing practices, and I want to be a catalyst of such education. I am convinced that earning a Master of Science in Nursing at Webster University is my key to attaining these goals. I expected each step of my nursing education would be my last. Employment as a nursing assistant after high school graduation was just a means to pay for a special education teaching degree. Certification nursing assistant class was just a way to keep my job. Eleven years later, a practical nursing license was a means to earn enough money to allow this single parent to support my toddling twin daughters. Seven years later, the Associate Degree in Nursing was a scheme to convert from long-term care nursing to acute care nursing. Ten years later, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in...
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...The P.U.H. stands for Personal Underwater Habitat. With my bag of baitfish and my gigantic prize, I swam up to the entrance. This entrance was unlike any other entrance to a home. This entrance was at the bottom of a building attached to seafloor by chains. The P.U.H. was shaped like a half globe with small portholes along the midsection. To an outsider, it looked like I was living in a flying saucer. As I poked my head through I pulled down the cable from the pulley attached to the ceiling. I ran this cable through the dead brown groupers mouth and out through the gills. I quickly threw the bag full of tiny fish onto the habitat’s deck and started to pull the fish up. With the fish finally out of the water, I took my face mask off and unhooked my regulator from the oxygen tank. Slowly, I brought the oxygen tank to the refilling...
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...Everyone has things that they excel at. Every single person is extremely blessed in at least one aspect of their lives, and right now you’re probably thinking, “Where is this kid going with this?” Well, I excel in two things, being pro, and being a boss. Being pro is the ability to be more than amateur, and being a boss is better than being an employee. People like to say that they are a boss with no real reasoning behind it, but I’m here to tell you I’m no sham, I am indeed, a boss. I run things around here, when people need something done they come up to me and say, “Hey boss, I need something done” and I just say “What’s up, or what’s that? Sounds like I already finished it.” That’s how expediently I tend to matters of importance. Another boos like quality I have obtained over the years is the ability to build things. Not just material buildings, but social pyramids can be constructed at my will. I run my lunch table and the order that they go about their business, where they’re located and even who gets to talk in what order. Also I can build an elevator, BAM. I would like to close my boss qualities with the fact that I’m a boss because all my b*tches love me, you aint f*cking with my dougie. I am a pro. What am I pro at? “Everything” so say Mrs. Trotter of Hays High School. I’m a pro at all things ranging from sports to Pokémon, and face it, who doesn’t love Pokémon? I’m so pro that people often times ask me how I can possibly maintain my...
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...Chris Roman Mr. Krause/ Hr.2 AP Literature 2 April 2014 In the poem, Facing It, written by Yusef Komunyakka, he expresses his emotions as he walked around the Vietnam Veteran Memorial in Washington D.C. The reader is able to encounter how much of an emotional experience it was for him. Throughout the poem; he uses many different rhetorical strategies to help the reader understand the exact way he was feeling. Strategies that are present throughout the poem are personification, comparing and contrasting, and multiple examples of imagery. Without the variety of rhetorical strategies, the readers would not be able to completely understand how much of an emotional rollercoaster Yusef went through while he was walking through the memorial. The museum had a much deeper meaning to him rather than if it was just a person with no ties to the war walking around and that is because the museum was a healing factor of his war-time experience. One of the first examples of personification is found in line nine. Yusef states, “-the stone lets me go.” Within this line he is trying to give the stone the ability to take him back to the war. He is giving the stone a human like quality. This allows the reader to understand that once he saw the stone with all the names engraved in it, it took him straight back to the past and his mind started racing with thoughts. He became consumed within his thoughts as he was staring at the stone. Yusef referred to the stones as a mirror; “they have a mirror...
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...As a middle class family having migrated from India, education has always meant security and promise for a bright future where the possibilities are endless. Being first generation born I learned at an early age the value of education and understood the unspoken expectations of my parents and their parents before them. To succeed was paramount, and failure was not an option. I endeavored hard throughout my secondary experience to prove myself as number one and was determined to live the dream my parents had put forth before me. My hard work and resolve proved most useful as I aced exams, entered the gifted and talented program at my school, and became the role model for my entire family. However, my rise to the top of my family pyramid proved to be part of my undoing when I entered my first year at the University of California, Davis. The first semester began like any other school year for me: choosing classes, picking up textbooks, buying school supplies, and acquiring a new wardrobe. Everything seemed just the same, just bigger and with more freedom. Believing that nothing had changed, I entered full steam ahead into a computer science and engineering major; for which I was severely unprepared and had significantly underestimated. The grades I received after my first set of midterms tore through any sense of disillusionment I had. I was not doing well in any of my courses and was straining simply to keep up. I found it difficult to adjust to my new environment in...
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...An Exceptional Student is the Product of an Extraordinary Teacher Approximately 13 years ago I left a lucrative career in health care to become an educator. Since, making that transition I look back with pride for embracing my destiny which in part is teaching, but now I need to do more. When I think about all the students’ lives I have touched in a positive manner over the years, my entire being fills up with joy. Knowledge I gained from completing my Master in Education in 2010 gave me good solid insight on how to enhance my teaching techniques; which meant improving my students’ learning processes. The most important fact I learned as a grad student is an extraordinary teacher can produce exceptional students because they can pass their passion, dedication and commitment onto their students. In addition, knowledge I gained earning this degree afforded me the ability to facilitate and assist my co-teachers; in developing strategies to aid them in improving relationships with their students and better management of their classrooms. While assisting my co-teachers I pleasantly realized the positive impact I had on students increased by assisting these teachers; this realization is the motivation behind my decision to pursue an educational specialist degree. I believe an Educational Specialist Post Master degree, at U of M, concentrating on leadership will enhance my present understanding of leadership. Although, I have a philosophy of education this degree will also develop...
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...College Essay I believe my nursing philosophy started forming while I was a child growing up with my grandmother in Jamaica. Looking back I can remember my grandmother fixing meals for the sick and the disabled. At times I was asked to deliver these meals and even helped with little chores as needed. I tried to resist my inner feelings for service because quite a few of my close relatives chose health care. Instead, I carved my own pathway and became first a kindergarten teacher. Later, I went on to college to become a Home Economics teacher. As the years went on my path took me to the United States to join my parents. Here I went into banking, taking classes here and there while stating away from the health industry. As time went by I decided to pursue my BS in Nutrition. This was all the way in Washington, leaving my family in New Jersey and New York. While at the university, I met some students who were caregivers. I was encouraged to try working as a night caregiver. This suited my schedule and I was able to find time to keep up with my rigorous school schedule. It did not take long for me to realize that I enjoyed my new job. My residents grew on me and they were like my family. Eventually, I also realize how rewarding it was to be of service to others. One of my residents was at the early stage of Alzheimer disease. This resident along with her family developed a great relationship with me. She was aware of the seriousness of her disease and knew that later...
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...Every time I wake and start a new day I think of the new opportunities for experiences and learning. An education serves an enormous purpose for everyone, while taking advantage of the experience. As a student, I would like to focus on my studies and set new goals for the future. My primary goal is to increase my GPA, and to accomplish this I will dedicate more time to my studies. I find that creating good objectives helps me stay focused. Setting up a scheduled time for studying and always asking questions when unsure of a particular problem is the route to success. There’s always an answer to every problem. Hence, I would like to take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself and not look back at the mistakes I have made. My greatest strength is not giving up when things look bad or take a wrong turn. I have come to the realization that without an education life can be bleak and with no purpose, and I have set out to make my education a priority in my life. My family has always been supportive of my decisions especially when it came to my education. In addition, my oldest sister has been the source of inspiration in my life. She is a single mother of two beautiful kids, and graduated with a BA in Business Management and managed to graduate with honors. Now, this is amazing! I cannot describe the joy I felt for her when she finally accomplished part of her dream. We all need people who inspire us to be better and achieve the best in life. Someday...
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...possible. However, the second I saw Nova’s dirty blonde hair make its entrance into this world I knew my thinking was flawed. All the trees in town were barren, their leaves long since made their ways to obscenely large black trash bags and compost piles. November had just said goodbye, while me and my wife we’re anxiously awaiting our chance to say hello to our first-born daughter for the first time. Having been carrying the burden of two for every bit of two hundred and eighty days, my wife was exhausted. We spent hours on every mommy blog we could find -- filtering through all the myths on how to naturally induce labor in hopes of finding something that actually worked. We tried them all; Spicy foods and certain teas, but, as one would expect, none of them worked. That is until we read about how walking could help encourage labor. While it might have been coincidence, during a short walk around the block my wife’s contractions started screaming it was time....
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...Advantage and disadvantage of entrance exams to universities in China and US As we all know, students who want to go to college must take exams which are called “entrance exams to Universities”. College entrance exams are considered to be the unique approach that the students are admitted by the colleges, and a significant factor that determines a student’s future development. They’re even regarded as one of the turning points in their lives. The similarity of the college entrance exams in China and that in the Western countries is that they are both the ways of selecting students for the colleges. Well, it's a must door for all the Chinese senior students to the higher education. It may be considered to be too exam-oriented, or too narrow and strict to the students, however it has last for decades. It is actually useful in choosing talented people. To take an even spectacular example, in order to get a good result, students must be hard working, considerable, insistent and knowledgeable, and these, are just what the society needs. In total, everything exists has a reason. I think the exam is workable in some way, but can still be improved. In China, more than half students take exams on June 17th and 18th, in China. In that day, many students march in the classroom to wait for the examinations. Whatever the weather is hot, they full of confidence and stress to write down their answers. Even though they are ill and cannot give up the test, for they cannot live up to...
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