...things in my life that give me a great sense of achievement. I have had many accomplishments, but only a few can actually make me feel good about myself. Having my son, graduating high school, and choosing to start my journey back to college make me proud of myself. All accomplishments take hard work and dedication. Anyone can achieve anything that they set their minds to. The main accomplishment I have in my entire life is my son. He is the absolute best thing that could have ever happened to me. We had a rocky start at first with me being a first-time mama, but our routines fell into place quickly. Every time I look or even think about him I get the biggest smile on my face. I would never have imagined that I could love anyone as much as I love him. He makes me so proud in everything he does. He is my whole world and he is by far my greatest accomplishment....
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...I have found my most important accomplishment to be my assumption of the presidential position in my high school’s robotics team, TorBots. As president of TorBots, I have made a difference in my school through the diligent support of STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) education. I have grown very proud of this accomplishment for it has changed me to become socially outgoing, innovative, hardworking, and effective at teaching. My connections through FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and my presidency in TorBots have also led me to FLL (FIRST Lego League), an organization in which I volunteer, teaching middle school students the basic fundamentals of Engineering. My most important accomplishment...
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...government funded program present in high schools. The JROTC program offers great opportunities to assist high school students in building their educational attainment and career achievement. The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, better known as JROTC is a youth development program for high school students implemented by the Department of Defense. JROTC delivers a character and leadership improvement curriculum to high school students enrolled in the program, which are known as cadets. Since JROTC is supervised and guided by retired members of the armed forces many people are of the mistaken opinion that JROTC is a program to convince students into enlisting in the military. The fact is that less than 30% of students in the program enlist in the military. The main purpose of the JROTC program is to inspire students to obtain the value of citizenship, service to our country, personal responsibility, and a sense...
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...Beginning my school career, my ideas and opinions were often overlooked due to my age, so reaching high school allowed me to take advantage of positions that would allow me to speak my mind. Joining activities such as student council, golf, and student advisory were a few activities that allowed me to let my opinions be heard. I went on to become Student Council President my sophomore year and Ornithology Leader and President my junior year, positions that carried on until graduation that truly allowed me to lead and speak in ways that I chose effective. These accomplishments led me to discover a path I would want to pursue in the future. Leadership is a quality I find in every adult I meet, not necessarily in a leadership position,...
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...Prompt: Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. As a young Mexican American adult I have experienced the best of both worlds. My parents came to America a long time ago in order to establish a good foundation for their children. When my parents first moved to San Diego they bought a house that fit their budget. They bought a home in a community called SouthEast San Diego, which is considered a dangerous and inferior community when in reality it is full of culture and unity. Unfortunately the schools in the community were not helping me succeed as a student, so my parents enrolled me at Our Lady of Angels, a private school I attended until the eighth grade. After eighth grade my parents chose to move to Coronado Island so that I could attend Coronado High School. My experience in the private school system is where my religious beliefs and athletic ability really began to develop. Although I had been raised a catholic before I attended the private school, I never really took the subject seriously and religion wasn't a big part of my life, but Our Lady of Angels has taught me how to get closer to God and how to love him/her for all God has done for me. Our Lady of Angels also inspired me to pursue sports, there I played flag football, basketball, and soccer. I have played sports in my yard and at clubs before, but I never played sports with so much love and ...
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... Essay Question #1 Explain how your past accomplishments have prepared you for the W. P. Carey MBA. “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” A famous saying from the movie Forrest Gump pretty much describes my situation. In my earlier life, I never thought I would come to US for my master of engineering, work as an electrical engineer at Force10networks (it was acquired by DELL recently), and now pursue an MBA. My past accomplishments that have prepared me for the W.P. Carey MBA include teaching mathematics in Taiwan, coming to US to improve myself, earning my engineering masters at the University of Arizona, and working as electrical design engineer at force10networks. Before I came to US, I had taught mathematics from high school level to college calculus for seven years. The reason that I like teaching is I like to sense students’ issues of learning mathematics. I like to communicate with them, and to help them succeed in achieving their mathematics grades. The teaching experience made me learn to listen to students’ needs, to develop an efficient and easy way for students to learn mathematics, and to become a good mentor. As I believe, having the ability to sense people’s needs and to develop a solution to make people happy made me a popular and successful teacher in Taiwan. At that time; I was satisfied with my...
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...SUCCESS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Success isn’t just about accomplishment. It’s also about how the things we do in our lives motivate & inspire others to do something motivating & inspiring in theirs. It’s about helping people you come in contact with. It’s about making other people’s lives better for having been a part of it. It’s about making a positive difference, no matter how small. Success has a lot more to do with what isn’t immediately visible than it does with trophies, awards, wealth, or material things. Every person is thinking different about being prosperous in life and is defining success in another way, so there can´t exist a definition that is suitable for all. It is somewhat like how we mean success based on our own goal and objective. The bottom line is that we should know exactly how to define success in life. There should be an awareness of what success and accomplishment in general means. I define success as the opposite of failure, the status of having achieved and accomplished a goal or objective. Being successful means the achievement of desired visions and planned goals. To some and is more common success can be a certain social status that describes a prosperous person that could also have gained fame for its favorable outcome. The dictionary describes success as the following: “attaining wealth, prosperity and/or fame”. Other people define success as having luxurious cars and a huge mansion, whereas others consider a life full of joy and happiness...
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...When I was in second grade played ice hockey . Around fourth grade I was looking for another activity that involved skating. Then I heard about figure skating from a friend. Then I went to Arts Academy Charter Middle School to audition for instrumental music. The people who were auditioning me asked what I wanted it do as a secondary art form. if I got into the school I chose figure skating as a secondary (that I will later change to my primary art form). Over my skating career I have had many accomplishments. One of my accomplishments are I performed at half-time in a hockey game at the ppl center. I also performed many times at the steel ice center. I have also been in symphony on ice with the people in my figure skating program at my school....
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...attended Del Rio Elementary School from kindergarten to fourth grade and Buena Vista Elementary School from fifth to sixth grade. Towards the end of sixth grade, my friends and I talked a lot about junior high. Sadly, I had to go to a different junior high than them, which was Tevis. I had heard that junior high was much harder than elementary school and was more confusing. I was very concerned about having different classes and having to find them because I felt that I would be late on the first day. During my first week, Tevis was scary to me. After a few days, I was used to Tevis and it wasn’t so scary anymore. Junior was way different than I expected. I found junior high much easier than elementary school. It wasn’t confusing at all. The most difficult classes I had were seventh and eighth grade math, my math teachers were Mrs. Hartnett and Mrs. Fritzen. The way they taught, to me, was very confusing and I hardly understood the math. After a few days, I began to not do the math homework due to frustration and stress. I met my mathematical challenge by asking for more help from my teachers....
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...As a child growing up, my mother and father were both teachers, my mom a kindergarten teacher and my dad a visually impaired teacher. I can remember every night before bed how both of my parents would read stories to my sister and I so we could fall asleep. From kindergarten on I learned to read and write simple words such as; the, this, and why. Learning to read and write was one of the most exciting things for me as a child. Knowing that I could do something that everyone else already could, and being quite good at it for my age. Considering that my mother knew all the tricks to teaching and knew how I would best be able to learn from her, I eventually was able to pronounce and spell harder words than the other children in my class. From then on I “blossomed” as a writer and reader in all of my classes. Once a week our class would get to visit the library and our librarian would always pick a few children that were a little more advanced to help the others choose books appropriate for their reading level. I was one of those lucky children and it was a huge accomplishment for me. Another memory I can recall from my childhood is from a family dinner one night; as the five of us sat there, I noticed my older brother wearing this green shirt with large white lettering across the front of it. As everyone began to eat I blurted out the word on his shirt. Although I can’t remember what it was now, I do remember being ecstatic that I could read a word so complicated. Everyone at...
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...Plan Grand Canyon University: EDA 575 7-6-11 Developing a Motivational Plan A motivation plan for any school is extremely important for the success of any educational program. Students who are not motivated will not learn and in turn won't succeed. Many components should be included in a motivational plan so that all the needs of students are met and each student has goals that are attainable and can be reached. According to Hersey (2008), "Goals should be set high enough that a person has to stretch to reach them but low enough that they can be attained." Goal setting, rewards, both tangible and non-tangible, and a sense of belonging are motivational components that should be included in a motivational plan. The first part of a motivational plan that I would feel essential for my school would be goal setting. At the current school that I work at, I feel like this is a missing part of our motivational plan and it greatly affects our students. Without goals, the students don't know what they are working towards, this creates confusion and a detachment from the meaning of education. Although some students may set personal goals, I feel like it's important for there to be group goals so that the students can work together to achieve them and be more motivated. Goals should be set high, but not so high that students can't achieve them. Goals that are too high would do the opposite of motivate, it would create despair and students would give up eventually because they would...
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...Robby Walker English 100 11/15/15 Lance Berkman Lance Berkman is my idol. In my opinion he is one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the Houston Astros, Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, and New York Yankees. He has the most home runs by a switch hitter in Major League Baseball History. A switch hitter is someone who can hit from the right and left side of the plate. Berkman was well known for being a class act and a stand up gut in the Houston community. He now coaches for a baseball team in Houston, which is a branch off of my Major Kinesiology. Kinesiology is a huge, broad field you can do so many things off of this major, such as, Coach, Therapists, and teacher. Lance Berkman started his career late and that’s because he played in the Major League for 13 seasons. Now, he is in my field of study and he coaches and teaches now. Berkman played baseball at Canyon High School, Berkman then attended Rice University, where he played college baseball for the Rice Owls. He was named the 1997 National College Player of the Year. The Houston Astros selected Berkman in the first round of the 1997 MLB Draft, and he debuted in MLB for the Astros in 1999. Berkman was one of the Astros' "Killer B's" in the mid-2000s, along with Jeff Bagwell, Carlos Beltran, Craig Biggio, and Derek Bell. The Astros traded Berkman to the Yankees at the 2010 trade deadline. He spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons with the Cardinals, and the 2013 season with the Rangers...
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...The Final Chapter: College and Post-high school plans After high school, there are various things I need to do and fulfill in my life and to accomplish my goals. My admiration is not different than the normal individual, yet it will in any case take a great deal of diligent work to get to where I need to be. I have numerous goals, yet to achieve these goals I have to get through many obstacles that could hinder my goals. As of now, I have numerous of goals that I want to achieve. However, the two most imperative are to be happy and successful. If I am not happy in life, nothing else would matter. Accomplishment for me is basically accomplishing something that I have been striving to do. That in itself is a significant accomplishment. After my contract is over with the military, I plan to settle down, get married, and...
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...dreamed of. A day I knew would be full of accomplishments and satisfaction. Finally, all the hard work I had put in would finally pay off, I was graduating. High school had seemed pretty easy for me but I had several rough patches along the way, just like everyone else. I had given it my best though and I felt happy with how it had all ended. I along with everyone in my class had not lived a normal high school experience. Being such a small school we didn’t have the opportunity to have homecoming games, pep rallys, or any traditional senior activities. Graduation was one of the biggest events we had next to PROM which was never what we had in mind. I was about to graduate and I couldn’t be happier to be with all my friends and teachers who had seen me grow along the way. I was fine up until the moment I was going to walk out. All day I had been trying to mentally prepare myself. This day would be one of the most important days of my life. I was about to walk out in front of everyone. My whole family was out there along with my friends. They had supported me the whole way and were as excited as I was. Just thinking about them being...
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...December 12, 1973 in Chicago Illinois He was born December 12, 1973 in Chicago Illinois. He was the eldest son of three sons to Taiwanese family who immigrated to the United States. He spent his childhood Marin county, California. He went to Harvard. Graduated from Harvard University in 1995, with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. During 1994-1995, he started pizza business and started sell in the university dormitory After graduation, he worked for a Oracle Software company only for a year (1995-1996). Cofounded Link Exchange in 1996 He cofounded LinkExchange with his Harvard roommate Shanjay Madan. It was an Internet advertising company Sold LinkExchange $265 billion to Microsoft.. The reason he sold the company was he did not enjoy coming to the work anymore. Joined Zappos 1999 He joined Zappos as an investor and advisor. Swinmurn who founded Zappos, left the company in 2006. Hsieh became a CEO until today.Became CEO 2006 They had hard time and were edge of the bankruptcy too but they still were investing the customer service. The culture-we was unable to rise funding so we weren't able to spend a lot of money on expensive marketing campaigns. As a result, we were forced to focus more on our existing customers. What we found was that the more we invested into customer service and the customer experience, the more loyal they were, and the more we grew from word of mouth. For our own customers, we've noticed many of them migrating to less expensive brands, but they're...
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