...that a good education was the key to success in life, and that only through education and education alone will they achieve such ‘success’. Indeed, I must agree with the majority that by having good education, which is in terms of getting Aces in your studies and topping in your classes, they may be ways to help you in achieving success in life. As to many people, success may be symbolized as getting a highly paid job, earning a high salary, driving in a big flashy car and living in a posh house. All of these are materials, which can be easily attained when you are very well educated as jobs will then came knocking to your door instead. However, this might not be true all the time as there may also be other exceptional cases when sometimes even if you have received good education while studying overseas, you might not get a well-paid job. This is for the reason that, the skills you have picked up overseas may not be applicable and useful in getting you the job you want in Singapore. Thus, in this case, a good education may not definitely be the way to success in life. Other than this, a good education is also not the only path to success. You will also need a spank of luck and chances to strike occasionally to make it to success. That explains why there are successful people with low academic results being published on newspaper, as they are the ones who believe in their own efforts and know how to grab hold of rare opportunities which will help them to success even though...
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...they live or how their living their life. In the novella, “The House on Mango Street,” the view is shown through Esperanza, in many different vignettes about her neighborhood, some good, and some bad. Both Alicia and Esperanza view education and writing as a way to a better life. Through these and other characters, Cisneros suggests that education offers a path of freedom. Many people would agree that a good education will lead you to path of freedom and success. In many instances, Cisneros talks about getting an education, and how it will get Esperanza out of Mango Street. In the vignette, “Alicia who sees Mice,” Cisneros writes, “ she doesn’t want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin” (Cisneros 32). This shows that like everyone else, Alicia wants to leave Mango Street as soon as possible. Alicia realizes that the only way she can do that is if she gets a good education. She studies hard, and yearns for the days away from Mango Street....
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...person in life is your own personal responsibility. What you say, think, or do is a part of being a human, but you are accountable it’s your responsibility. Getting an education is my personal responsibility to become a better person. Having a preliminary plan is the key to success in education and everyday life. Our mind is like a sponge it observes everything and it’s our personal responsibility to choose the right path of life. Taking responsibility for ones actions and the consequences behind is personal responsibility in my opinion. It is all about you and the choices you choose in life, even if it’s good or bad. In life we all go through that stage where we want to fit in with the cool crowd. We have to go through things to find out that being a follower is not all that it seems. The time comes when being ourselves is all that matters; it’s a part of personal responsibility. Continuing my education is my personal responsibility and not putting it on hold anymore is a responsibility. Having to go to college and not get a job in that field can be so discouraging. It made me not even want to try again at the college world. Having to work jobs that only paid bills, and barely did open my eyes up to going back to college. I told myself that maybe that wasn’t my career path it was my responsibility to see what was. Setting a good example for my three boys that education is the key to success. Having a preliminary plan for my education is my personal responsibility in my life. Making...
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...2018… What does this year mean for you personally? For football lovers, 2018 means Russia… With the world cup being held there. For Ski lovers… 2018 means Pyeongchang, with the winter Olympics being held in South Korea. For others, 2018 is just another number, another year bearing no remarkable importance. For me… 2018 is a year of utter importance, it is the year I’ll realize my dreams. What dreams? Some of you may wonder… While growing up, I never dreamt to become an astronaut, never dreamt to become an actor, nor become the president. I had one dream, and that is to become a millionaire. Thus 2018 for me is the year I will make my first million. Oscar Wilde once said “There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.” Today, we will be discussing the one thought that possesses every man, the one thing that every man and woman covet, and that is money. It was once said by Henry Wadsworth, an American poet that “Music is the universal language of mankind”. Today however, music has ceased to be the universal language of mankind, and money arose to become the prominent language that connects all people across the globe. Rupees, Pound, Yen, Lira, Dinar, Euro, and Dollars; languages that every single one among you speaks, languages that all men speak. And to master that language; to become a fluent speaker capable of communicating and influencing others, one ought to become a millionaire. Thus, as a student studying business...
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...that a good education was the key to success in life, and that only through education and education alone will they achieve such ‘success’. Indeed, I must agree with the majority that by having good education, which is in terms of getting Aces in your studies and topping in your classes, they may be ways to help you in achieving success in life. As to many people, success may be symbolized as getting a highly paid job, earning a high salary, driving in a big flashy car and living in a posh house. All of these are materials, which can be easily attained when you are very well educated as jobs will then came knocking to your door instead. However, this might not be true all the time as there may also be other exceptional cases when sometimes even if you have received good education while studying overseas, you might not get a well-paid job. This is for the reason that, the skills you have picked up overseas may not be applicable and useful in getting you the job you want in Singapore. Thus, in this case, a good education may not definitely be the way to success in life. Other than this, a good education is also not the only path to success. You will also need a spank of luck and chances to strike occasionally to make it to success. That explains why there are successful people with low academic results being published on newspaper, as they are the ones who believe in their own efforts and know how to grab hold of rare opportunities which will help them to success even though...
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...Road to Success Kyi Brown Sociology 185 Mr. Joe Smith DeVry University June 12, 2011 Road to Success Leaving home at eighteen to go out on my own and start my own life, there were many things I wasn’t prepared for. In today’s society people are to concern with living by the second, not by the minute, the hour, nor by the day. The second I receive my high school diploma I felt gratified. The next minute I was off the stage, tossing up my cap towards the sky, and then off to hugs and kisses. A quaint celebration and said goodbyes to fellow classmates. The following hour becomes your Hollywood moment, a benefit in your honor with family and friends, with flash burst from all the cameras. Congratulations! The next day you awake with something poking you in your side, finding you slept with your diploma all night. I rose up from a good sleep wiping the cold from your eye’s gazing at the accredited sheet of paper completely appeased. I was supposed to be satisfied with high school diploma, but I feel shallow as if it was all for none. Back to reality, my socioautobiography given my young age, I do not yet have a long life history to look back upon, which is why I have all the more reasons to thoroughly explore the 38 years of my conscious life to find solutions to the current situations. Most of my adult experience belongs to my children and my school era, an era indeed since my life could have ended a couple of times in the time when hustling was the most importance...
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...also help me prepare for success after college, and I will have a sense of accomplishment in achieving my goal on my own. Some people wonder why a college degree is important to have, but it can take you far in life by being a good role model, succeeding in life, and having confidence. Working to get my degree I became a positive influence in my family members. Growing up in a home where no one had a college degree was a rough situation for me; I used to think to myself that the only way to get out of this situation was to have an education, so I decided to further my education by going to college. By the time I started college I realized that I would be the first in my family to get my degree; therefore, I became an inspiration to my siblings at home. Some of my siblings told me that they're not going off to college, but they beg to differ since I said to them that “Education is key to success.” They knew that it was the only way for them to achieve their goals in becoming something that...
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...responsibility can go a long way, not only in education, but in everyday life as well. When you are responsible, you get things done in a timely manner. You make sure everything is done correctly, and you do not need to be reminded on a daily basis to do your work. Personal responsibility gets you the education you need, and you do not have to rely on others for the rest of your life. “The willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards” (Haskins, 2009). Even though not doing your homework or being responsible means you will rely on others, doing your homework and having a curriculum will help lead to college success. When you do your homework, that is taking responsibility to furthering your college education and personal responsibility also means you can be a leader in life because you can handle things. Homework When you do your homework, and you have a curriculum set, this will help lead to college success. You learn more information when you do your homework, rather than copying it from someone else and cheating. You not only risk your education, you risk not learning anything. Plagiarism only gets you expelled, and your hopes of getting knowledge and an education are forever haltered. You go to school so you can provide for yourself and family, all the while doing something you are going to love for the rest of your life. When you do not do your homework...
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...My Success Strategy Plan Randall Wayne Priddy Colorado Technical University Online UNIV101 March 17, 2011 Success Strategy Plan Step 1: Student Success Strategies For this step of your plan you will reflect on Student Success Strategies that you have learned in this course that will help you be a successful student. Please do this by answering the questions that follow. (You may want to review the answers that you submitted from the Phase 2 Discussion Board. You will want to also review your instructor’s feedback and integrate changes as necessary.) 1. What three success strategies (from the Student Success Strategies Guide) will you plan on using throughout your degree program to help you be a successful student? * Time Management * Making a work/study schedule * Staying Motivated 2. Why will these strategies be most beneficial to you? * These strategies will allow me to schedule my work and study time around my family time and allow me to achieve my goals. 3. How have you changed your routine throughout this course to integrate these strategies into your day to day activity? * I now manage my time more efficiently to allow for my studies to not affect my home life. 4. What did you learn from your classmates’ discussion board responses that will help you become a more successful student? * I have realized I am not the only person trying to manage completing their education while having a family and...
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...disabilities. Instead of hiding or ignoring the disability, models of advocacy and early intervention are espoused as being key to helping disabled children have academic success and also learn the social and life skills needed to transition in their adult lives. Introduction: Many years ago, when a child exhibited a potential developmental disability parents were advised to let a child ‘grow-out of it’. As the field of special education has evolved and grown, it readily acknowledged that catching issues early, not ignoring them, is the most effective way to help the child. “Early childhood experts agree that the earlier intervention begins, the better. Child development expert Burton White, who has conducted years of research with typically developing infants and preschoolers at Harvard University’s Preschool Project, believes that the period between 8 months and 3 years is critical to cognitive and social development:“to begin to look at a child’s educational development when he is 2 years of age is already much too late”(Heward, 2009, p. 535). The consensus, however seems to be that the earlier a deficiency or disability is discovered the better chances for helping a child learn to navigate the world to come. So now that the mode of thinking has changed, what does it mean for the field of education and the assistance it provides to...
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...self-discipline and social responsibility that makes us continue to strive for improvement. It promotes self-discipline, self-direction and focus that come from personal responsibility; this is one of the driving forces that continue to push us to achieve our personal, professional and educational goals. Self-efficacy is a key component when dealing with responsibility and success, it’s a person’s capability to organize and execute the courses of action that will assist him or her to achieve goals and success. The direct relationship between personal responsibility and college success is crucial and requires a good amount of time and effort. This relationship is vital to overcoming the ground work necessities of researching any and all class assignment and other requirements. These requirements are not limited to the class room only, they reach out to the day to day necessities that we run into and must deal with to be successful. By accepting and understanding the duty of our personal responsibility it will stimulate motivation to succeed in many aspects of our education and career paths. In order for us to accept personal responsibility we need to develop the ability to seek out and to accept help for many other resources such...
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...the numbers are staggering and the reality is sobering. Young Black men — across the board — score below their counterparts in other racial and ethnic groups when it comes to graduation rates, literacy rates and college preparedness. And many African American men, in turn, are virtually locked out of employment and are filling up the nation’s prisons in disproportionate numbers Receiving a good education helps empower you, thus making you strong enough to look after yourself in any given situation. It keeps you aware of your given surrounding as well as the rules and regulations of the society you're living in. It's only through knowledge that you can be able to question authority for its negligence or discrepancies. As a whole, people can bring about development only when they know where improvement is necessary for the greater good of mankind. Education helps you understand yourself better, it helps you realize your potential and qualities as a human being. It helps you to tap into latent talent, so that you may be able to sharpen your skills. Another importance of education is that it helps you gain sufficient academic qualification so that you are able to get suitable employment at a later stage. A decent employment would be combined with hard-earned remuneration or salary through which you can look after your personal expenses. While you earn for yourself, you gradually begin to realize the true worth of money and how hard it is to earn it. You realize the significance...
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...responsibility to your country. Obeying the laws of the land like taking care of Mother Nature by not littering or polluting are just some examples. There are other lawful responsibilities as American citizens that we have to abide like “no drinking and driving”. The way society is today most young generations just don’t care about their responsibility and just want to do their own thing. As parents it is our responsibility to raise our kids to follow the right path of life but in reality they need to learn the hard way. They will fall once or twice but they can always get back up. “The demise of personal responsibility occurs when individuals blame their family, peers, economic circumstances, or their society for their own failure to meet standards” (Haskins, 2009, Sequence of personal responsibility, para.1). Those are life lessons that are taught through making good and bad decisions. With great responsibility comes life changing results. When I decided to join the military I knew I was doing something with my life that my family...
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...Personal Responsibility is linked to College Success Gen/200 July 1, 2013 Jeremy NeVille Personal Responsibility is linked to College Success As George Washington Carver said, “Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” (LeadershipNow, n.d.). Although, people are naturally unable to take responsibility, college success is attainable when an individual accepted personal responsibility. With an early behavioral intervention set at a young age, academic success is easily adaptable and reachable. Continuing higher education such as attending college is an individual’s personal responsibility of choice. Higher Education offers a place for learning and practicing skills such as; setting goals, manage time, resolve conflicts, and learn new skills. Recognizing our potential can advance our ability to gain lifetime-acquired skill for success in college. Accepting personal responsibility is to own up to his or her mistakes. When an individual accepted personal responsibility of his or her actions, he or she takes full control of all the decision-making. Pointing fingers or making excuses for any circumstances are not a trait of an individual who takes personal responsibilities for his or her life. Acknowledging your own mistakes is an admirable trait of a responsible individual. In every family household there are different sets of values and approach on teaching their children personal responsibilities. These children are taught...
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...Topic: What causes students to drop out of college? With a competitive job market like these days, employers ask for not only real experiences but also a certain degree in university when you apply for a job. The higher your degree is, the more decent the salary is going to be. Knowing this fact, however, some students still fail to finish their degree before graduating. There are many reasons, subjective and objective ones, why people cannot follow the higher education path till the end. The following three are the most popular causes among the uni-droppers. The first and main cause is financial burden. University fee is a nightmare for most students who just receive little or no support from their parents because it normally accounts for over one third of their income. Besides, they have to cover not only tuition fees but also textbooks which are not cheap for tertiary education. This is not to mention about the students who go to university in another region. They will have to pay for other expenses such as house rent, bills, commuting, medicare, etc. So, there is no choice but to work part-time to pay for the university. By working and studying at the same time like this, it’s easy to fall behind and quit if they are not a good time-manager. In contrast, some students who are well- supported financially want to try how different life is outside the school gate. They suddenly realize that they have made a wrong decision to waste time on daily commute to school, handing...
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