...Students who lack passion and enjoyment during their studies, strive for average instead. In Mike Rose’s essay, “I Just Wanna Be Average (1989)” he expresses his idea of overcoming the desire to just be average. Rose eventually escapes the mind set of being average. His rebellion of breaking this ‘social norm’ is asserted when he says, “Champion the average. Rely on your own good sense. Fuck this bullshit. Bullshit is everything you and others fear is beyond you” (15). Rose grew up lacking a great deal of interest within the education system. He grew up in a working class neighborhood, where his peers lacked a lot of the same interest. Students lacked the passion, however teachers lacked the ideas to grasp the students attention. Teachers...
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...Bradley Colwell ENG 095R Essay #1 Summary of Rose I Just Wanna Be Average summary essay Mike Rose in his essay, "I Just Wanna Be Average", tells us about his life in high school, all the ups and down he had to endure in his tenure at his vocational school, otherwise known as the bottom level class, and his experience at a regualr school. He was placed in this school by a mistake the teachers made by mixing his name with a different Rose that took the same placement test. Rose tells us about his teachers, friends, and things he notices throughout his essay. He tells that his teachers seem as if they could care less about actually teaching their students. Once aggravated with their students they would occasionally turn to...
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...“I Just Wanna Be Average”—Mike Rose Summary: In “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Mike Rose recounts his years in vocational school, also known as the bottom level classes. Rose was placed in these classes by accident, but decided to keep his enrollment with the lower level students. Rose goes in depth about his teachers, fellow classmates, and observations throughout his essay. He explains that his teachers act like they could care less about teaching their students and instead use physical violence or a lack of lesson plans to control them. Rose also notes the various personalities of his classmates. He comments that many of them have no desire to learn and are notorious for slacking off, partying, and getting into fights. Although these kids seem to be a mess, Rose notes special qualities about them that show their true personalities and that they aren‟t just troublemakers. One classmate that really stood out to Rose was Ken Harvey, who when asked for an opinion about working hard to reach achievement, said he just „wanted to be average.‟ Rose expands on this statement by explaining why he thinks this, and how crazy and confusing life is while in your school years, and that by embracing average standards, kids can catch their breath and just live and move on. As Rose puts it, „Reject the confusion and frustration by openly defining yourself as the common Joe.‟ (187). Rose questions this concept and realizes that when he eventually moves out of the vocational program...
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...the core reading. I chose Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna be Average”. I am hopeful my writing will provide you with a summary and response as directed in writing project 1. My peer review by one classmate was quite helpful. In her review she stated which sentences, and where to find them, that needed the most help. She commented on the fact they were hard to follow and confusing. She also pointed out that I needed to elaborate more on the summary. I only mentioned Ken, a classmate from the excerpt, once in my paper. I need to introduce him in my summary to understand my reference in the conclusion. I should also explain more of Mike and Jack MacFarland’s relationship and why that reference is so important to this story. She mentioned, I should use more quotes and details in my response to back up my opinion. My second review was not very helpful. That peer review was vague. It echoed the first review without a lot of details that will help better my paper. I made an effort to revise my paper. I incorporated my peers review into it. I gave more details about the relationship between MacFarland and Mike. I also included Ken into my summary to help with the confusion of who he is. I also reworded sentences that were confusing. I’m hoping my revised final draft will give insight into this excerpt by Mike Rose. Ashley Reuzenaar Professor Hickman English 111 05D 2 September 2015 Summary and Response Educational scholar Mike Rose authored I Just Wanna be Average excerpt from Lives...
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...personal essays . Some focus on the underlying problems of the educational system Others focus on the difference in educational experiences that people from different backgrounds have . Still , there are those who attempt to tackle the experience of learning through the classroom and how this learning affects their development as individuals . Mike Rose , in his essay , I Just Wanna be Average ' and Richard Rodriguez , in his work The Achievement of Desire ' focus on two prominent issues of education in society . The former tackles the problem of underachievement br while the latter speaks of the cultural differences between the home and the school most especially for the working class children Both use their personal experiences as an example of the they are pursuing . Mike Rose recounts his experiences in vocational education in to elaborate on the problems of such system . He uses his own underachievement to highlight how the system fails to inculcate and teach the students the proper skills and knowledge that will prepare them for working . Rose (2007 ) stated Vocational education has aimed at increasing the economic opportunities of students who do not do well in our schools . Some serious programs succeed in doing that , and through exceptional teachers .students learn to develop hypotheses and troubleshoot , reason through a problem , and communicate effectively - the true job skills . The vocational track however , is most often a place for those who are just not...
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...Olivia Dowling Professor Mark P. Cancellieri English 101 23 September 2014 Homeschooling: The vocational track for homeschoolers. Up until 5th grade I flew through school. I always did the bare minimum and really did not care what the outcome was. I was bullied for keeping to myself and I soon hated school all together. My mom became worried and took my low grades as the school failing to teach me properly and failing to discipline the bullies. She eventually ripped me out of school. We looked at many different options, but she decided on homeschooling me. In many ways, homeschooling is very similar to what Mike Rose describes as the “vocational education track”. After experiencing seven years of homeschooling, I can definitely relate to Rose's opinion on the educational system. Although, after reading through Rose’s essay, I found that his experience got better towards the end and it made him the man he is today. So I agree that the educational system is corrupt at times, but it also has its upsides, which sometimes turn students into exceptional young men and women. There are many different points Rose makes that remind me of the homeschooling system. One of them being, "School can be a tremendously disorienting place." (Rose, p3) Whether you are in actual school or being homeschooled, this is always true. All the school aspects on top of social ones can detrimentally put severe strain on your mental wellbeing. All this pressure placed on students result in poor...
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...You get what you give “ College isn’t everything. In my opinion your work ethic is what your success will be based off. In the essay “The Case Against College” I believe proves the point of showing college isn’t everything. If you give 20% you can expect to only get about 20% back out, but if you put in everything you have you will end up having a lot better results. Determination and the amount of effort will decide how far you go in life. I believe Linda Lee has a very good understanding of how college affects your future, based on the amount of effort you put into it. In the author’s essay she stated that she asked herself if her son was receiving $1,000 worth of education, where she decided that “heck no” he wasn’t. I believe that...
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...In this paper I will analyze the role that observation plays in the discovery of learning disorders, in reference to my own experiences. I will compare my experiences to the writing of Almy and Genishi in Ways of Studying Children: An Observation Manual for Early Childhood Teachers and also the personal narratives of Mike Rose in I Just Wanna To Be Average, and Sandra Cisneros in Woman Hollering Creek. I will use these writings to show how it is possible for students to pass through their education, experiencing difficulties but never being diagnosed with a learning disability that they may have. Such experiences of students are important to note in order to better identify learning disabilities within schools in order to provide students with...
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...no un rival race or supreme race. If there was what would be the point of America. Because American values even say, every man woman, boy girl is a American, not by color but by heart. Finding out about a strike on a social affair of people or their place of withstanding is an average event, and from time to time shocking. These attacks appear on many levels and in many structures. It can start as some person physically beating someone in a workroom, or children rough housing in school, People should pick up from history, with the objective that it won’t repeat itself. The world today is a changing spot since people aren’t learning from the past. I mean look at it this way, I get judged everyday. I get called a liar for writing a simple essay then ridiculed by my own teachers, witch then in time makes me wanna cry later on at night because everyone in the class laughed at me because of her actions. How is that professionial bullying your own student who would do anything and everything in my own will to see my grade pass. Today’s society is like a big social melting pot many will go down unless change can come. My ideals are honest and truthful, and if you have a hard time not beleing me then you are just like the other millions of people who look down on anad frown upon any movement or action that wouldn’t even have been believed without them being present. Some times a persons reputation isn’t ruined by himself, it could most certainly be ruined by the on lookers who have power...
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...teacher as someone who makes their students excel academically and do well on their tests. In the story “I Just Wanna Be Average” the author Mike Rose mentions that society very often neglects and does not see the full value and potential of students. Even though I never got mistaken placed into a vocational class like Mike Rose, but who has never faced difficult situation in school before? However, not everybody is lucky as Rose or I that found somebody that believe in you and help you overcome your obstacles in school. Mr. Wenderoof, I met him during my last year of High School, in my economic class. Even though I only have him for half of the semester, but it was the most meaningful and unforgettable semester that I had for my last year at Eagle Rock High School. When I first walked into my economic class, a boring atmosphere didn't make me feel welcome to the class. But when Mr. Wenderoof walked into the class, everything changed. He made every single of us feel like we're all his children, and he has changed the way I see the world at that moment. He is not one of those teachers that I have ever met before. Mr. Wenderoof not only taught us about economic or how important economic versus government, but also about life and how we have to treasure everything we have in front of us. After six years of High School, and teacher to teacher, Mr. Wenderoof is by far the best teacher I have ever had. He not only sees us as his student but also as his sons and daughters. He keeps the...
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...Children of Light Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones And fenced their gardens with the Redmen's bones; Embarking from the Nether Land of Holland, Pilgrims unhouseled by Geneva's night, They planted here the Serpent's seeds of light; And here the pivoting searchlights probe to shock The riotous glass houses built on rock, And candles gutter by an empty altar, And light is where the landless blood of Cain Is burning, burning the unburied grain. Robert Lowell History History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had-- it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes. Abel was finished; death is not remote, a flash-in-the-pan electrifies the skeptic, his cows crowding like skulls against high-voltage wire, his baby crying all night like a new machine. As in our Bibles, white-faced, predatory, the beautiful, mist-drunken hunter's moon ascends-- a child could give it a face: two holes, two holes, my eyes, my mouth, between them a skull's no-nose-- O there's a terrifying innocence in my face drenched with the silver salvage of the mornfrost. Robert Lowell Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Boston Brahmin family that included poets Amy Lowell and James Russell Lowell. His mother, Charlotte Winslow, was a descendant of William Samuel Johnson, a signer of the United States Constitution, along with Jonathan Edwards, the famed Calvinist theologian, Anne Hutchinson, the...
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...Manual for the GMAT*Exam version 8.0 All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced for distribution to a third party in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information retrieval system, without the prior consent of the publisher, The Princeton Review. This Manual is for the exclusive use of Princeton Review course students and is not legal for resale. GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admission Council. The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University or the Graduate Management Admission Council. Permission to reprint this material does not constitute review or endorsement by the Educational Testing Service or the Graduate Management Admission Council of this publication as a whole or of any other sample questions or testing information it may contain. Copyright © 2003 by Princeton Review Management, L.L.C. All Rights Reserved. 800.2Review/ www.princetonreview.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to the following for their many contributions to this course manual: Tariq Ahmed, Kristen Azzara, Shon Bayer, John Bergdahl, Marie Dente, Russ Dombrow, Tricia Dublin, Dan Edmonds, Julian Fleisher, Paul Foglino, Alex Freer, John Fulmer, Joel Haber, Effie Hadjiioannou, Sarah Kruchko, Mary Juliano, Jeff Leistner, Sue Lim, Michael Lopez, Stephanie Martin, Chas Mastin, Elizabeth Miller, Colin Mysliwiec, Magda Pecsenye, Dave Ragsdale, “GMAT” Jack Schieffer...
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...Todd Terje-Inspector Norse (Dope as Fuck) Twin sister – lady day dream (coo) Twin sister – I want a house (coo) Mr twin sister – Blush (Dope AF) Mr twin sister – Sensitive (nice AF) Clark – winter linn (coo) Mr twin sister – Rude boy (Dope) Jodeci Acapella on soultrain(the intro) Boyz 2 Men – Don’t go/can you stand the rain (live) Jodice – What about us (This is a hit!!!) Jodice – Alone (dope) Isaac Hayes – Ik’s Mood (dope) Mark Asari –Revive (dope AF) Michael Jackson – The Lady in my life (Dope) Ericka Baduh – didn’t u know (ill) Switch- I call your name(coo) Erick Sermon – Fat gold chain (Dope AF) Silver Convention – Fly robin, fly (Checkit) SWV – Weak Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture (nice) Charles Earland – Happy ‘cause I’m goin’ home (Dope) Cortex – Juit Octobre 1971 (dope AF) Cortex – Triypeau bleu (coo) Cortex – Chanson D’un jour D'hiver (This shit is crazy!!!) Carole King – It’s to late (nice) The Shirelles – Baby it’s you (???) Tony! Toni! Tone! – Pillow (???) Luther Vandross – So Amazing (The Montserrat session) (nice) Melvin Sparks – Cranberry Sunshine Kaskade-Fire and Ice (kaskade mix) (Coo) Blank & Jones – Face La Mer (this shit is ill) Zeb – The Circle (This is it!!!) Smadj – Sel (Dope AF) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime (the end is trill) Joe – All the things (the break down in the middle is ill) Earl Klugh –A Certain Smile (intro) Earl Klugh – Another Time, Another Place Earl Klugh – Could it be I’m falling...
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...3.2.5. Intensity of competitive rivalry 8 3.3. Innovation Matrix 9 4. Suggestion and action plan 10 4.1. Apple’s Fishbone Diagram 10 4.2. Monetizing for Apple with Web 2.0 strategy 11 4.2.1. N-sided platform 11 4.2.2. Multiple revenue stream 11 4.3. Platform Innovation 11 4.3.1. Production 11 4.3.2. Creative and Media 11 4.3.3. Accessories 11 4.4. Online Promotion 12 4.4.1. Action Plan: 12 4.5. Sustainable Competitive Advantage 12 4.5.1. R&D input 12 4.5.2. Better customer value 12 4.5.3. Sustainable profit pattern 12 5. Business Model Canvas 13 Conclusion 14 Reference: 15 1. Abstract Apple’s huge success set off a global widely discussion on its secret. According to this essay, it is not difficult to find its success story was attributed to its unprecedentedly innovative business model, which was not rare in the typical case analysis of Walmart, BestBuy, and Amazon who are the leader of corresponding industry due to the innovation of business model. Status shows 11 out of 27 new entering Fortune 500 companies from the year 1998 to 2007 considered their success was owing to the innovation of business models. The percentage approach 50% which is a huge evidence to prove the significance of business model, especially for...
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...S c h o o l of Ac c ount a nc y Faculty of Business Writing F O R A C C O U N TA N T S Edited by Di Lewis i This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. © School of Accountancy, QUT 2003 Produced by QUT Publications 232975 8437 ISBN: 1 74107 014 7 ii Contents Preface Accountancy writing and preparation of documents Writing and accountants Determining the Purpose (aim) Investigating Planning the document Writing the document Revising the document Style of professional documents Good and poor writing Audience Tone Language Overwriting (padding) Overgeneralisation Spelling, punctuation and grammar Abbreviations Expressing numbers Paragraphing Headings and sub-headings Quantitative information Recommendations Letter writing for accountants Claim letter Letter of advice Letter of engagement Letter of enquiry Letter of refusal Management letter Memos E-mails Research Essays, Reports and Resumés Research essays Reports Resumés References and Bibliographies iii v 1 1 2 2 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 13 14 16 17 19 21 22 23 24 26 27 27 31 40 41 iv Preface Writing for Accountants is a brief guide to the types of writing that accountancy students and practising accountants are most often called on to do. It is not intended as a definitive text, but rather...
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