...American Dream (A discussion on how knowing where to draw the line inspires the choices I make.) The “Ten Principles to Live By” that are shown in James P. Owen’s book, Cowboy Ethics, are things that some people know and live by or things that people live by, they didn’t know about them. The principles range from “Talk less, Say more” to “Always finish what you start” and all of them have positive meaning and are good to take into consideration when you want to make decisions in your life. The most significant one is “Know where to draw the line” and although some may disagree, it is one that everyone follow to a certain degree. Knowing where to draw the line occurs in our everyday lives when we make choices. Do we test the teachers limits...
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...Robert B. Johnson EDU 210 August 17, 2013 <Instructor> Knowing where you come from. Marcus Garvey once said a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. If education is that tree, constantly growing and sprouting leaves, then we must know our roots so we can keep this tree strong. Education has come so far over the course of time, and though constantly evolving, has seen many adversities. Overcoming segregation, culture diversity, and the struggle to implement programs that create equality, shows the desire to build a better future. However, have we truly learned from our problems of the past or are we headed to a state of regression? It’s no secret that our nation is built on a dark history of slavery and segregation. However, the second the first slave owner taught his slaves English to better communication and increase productivity, he also inspired the desire to learn and sparked a flame of change. Though this change was on the rise the need for segregation was still enforced. In 1892 Homer Plessy a Creole man who could easily pass for white, sat in a white’s only car of the east Louisiana Railroad and proclaimed his was African American. Plessy was arrested for his actions, and in 1896 his case was made that the law which stated separation as long as equal was unjust and went against the 13th and 14th amendment. Unknown at the time his arrest would pave the way for a major educational change (Womer...
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...CheckPoint: Knowing Where You Placed Your Document By: Juan C. Williams University of Phoenix- IT 206 Dr. Chris Barrett, PMP 07/28/2011 From my experience, many individuals when saving a document save their documents into any random folder that comes up. Unfortunately this is cause for misplaced documents when trying to locate them at a later date. Thankfully, there are many helpful ways to locate recently saved documents. One step would be to click on the Office button which is located at the top left of your Microsoft Word document, and once the box drops down to the right-side panel will be the top nine recently saved documents. A quick reference would be to click Save and that will take you straight to your default Save designated folder. There are some various ways which have been utilized to lessen the routinely misplaced saved documents which will ultimately make it effortless to locate your recent and/or old files. First, you should create a title for your document, something that you will easily remember in the future to be able to locate it. Now if the document is important, it is best to save it in an accessible file such as your “My Documents” folder or your desktop. One recommendation would be to create a New Folder for example “School” that way you can create a less cluttered work space which will Inevitably help you end up locating files quicker. It is understandable to be in a hurry to save, but, in order to create...
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...2/11/2016 School name: Seedling IB World SchoolSession: 2015-16 | Piyush Tejwani | TOK Essay | “In gaining knowledge, each area of knowledge uses a network of ways of knowing.” Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge. | 11 FEB, 2016 IB Theory of Knowledge “In gaining knowledge, each area of knowledge uses a network of ways of knowing.” Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge. Knowledge is the basis of living in our generation, knowledge can be anything like if we know what type of combination in clothes we should wear, or what type of food we should eat and even if you know how to propose a girl or a boy then that can be known as knowledge too. But where the focus goes on is the place where the knowledge comes from, it can be taken as an important question while pointing at the ways of knowing. Ways of knowing are the origins from which we gain knowledge such as TV, newspaper, radio, books, internet, family, etc. These were some examples of ways of knowing with which we can relate our daily life. But as far as I studied the main points for ways of knowing are: * Emotion * Faith * Imagination * Intuition * Language * Memory * Reason * Sense perception Now we must know what the areas of knowledge in Theory of knowledge are. Actually it is the division of knowledge into different areas: ...
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...Not knowing Singapore’s past has been central to the process of nation-building in Singapore Xing Siyuan As a “young” country established in 1965, Singapore has been beyond success over the last 20 years in both economic and educational field. However, there seems less to be thought as local history in Singaporean school due to its short past. Knowing about the past of one’s own country is a really important part of nation-building for any country. Singapore is no exception. It can work at the very beginning that Singaporean without knowing the past can develope their country fast and good. But for a country to have continues vitality and vigilance. “Knowing this history(how Singapore succeeded against the odds to become a nation) is part of becoming a Singaporean. It is the backdrop which maks sense of our present, it shows what external dangers to watch out for, and where our domestic fault lines lie...our young must understand Singapore’s unique challenge, constraints and vulnerabilities.”[1] As the prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said, not knowing Singapore’s history make people apathy and lack of willingness to meet challenges, especially for the young generation that had never go though the hard time. “I thought our people should understand how vulnerable Singapore was and is, the dangers that beset us, and how we nearly did not make it.”[2] Lee Kuan Yew, regard as father of Singapore, also state the importance of knowing the past to the future of national building...
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...To gain knowledge about God you have to first understand that knowing about God is a personal relationship. Just as you would anyone you have to get to know them on a basic level before you can fully trust them. The first step in knowing about God try reading your Bible or attend Church service and listen to sermons. Talking to friends or family members that have a relationship with God would be another way to learn about Him Going a few times will teach you more than you knew before but you have to continue to study your Bible and continue to attend church to really know God. Secondly, Knowing God is a matter of personal involvement. Just like when you meet a possible new friend you have to commit to spending time with that person in order to get to know them. You can quickly get a first impression of someone but first impressions aren’t always an accurate portrayal. You have to open yourself up to someone and be willing to let them open themselves up to you. Just as you must be willing to commit yourself to knowing about God. Once you do He will show Himself to you. Third, knowing God is a matter of grace. “It is a relationship in which the initiative throughout is with God-as it must be, since God is so completely above us and we have so completely forfeited all claim on his favor by or sins” (Packer pgs. 40-41)...
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...people responsible for him or her. If accountability is not under control, mission capability, and readiness is affected in a bad way. Being a soldier in the United States Army, I am expected to portray myself at a higher standard than the average citizen of my stature. While being on time remains and always will be a vital aspect of military bearing and discipline, without it, we as a whole cannot function to our highest capability. In the army, it is stressed upon every soldier the importance of being where we are supposed to be. It is your responsibility as well as the responsibility of your leaders. They are responsible for your actions and so are you, if you fail to take responsibility of your actions, and it is a reoccurring issue, you can and most likely will be punished under UCMJ Not only is accountability important to complete the mission at hand, but it is more important due to the fact of simply knowing where each individual soldier is at all times. Without knowing where someone is, when they are supposed to be somewhere else, can cause havoc on not only themselves, but to their fellow soldiers, and leaders. When...
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...target demographic for this program. While the average age of the community college student is twenty nine years old, the students enrolled in the first year experience course will range from new high school graduates to working adults. Program Description The proposed student development initiative will be carried out through curriculum revision of a First Year Experience Course. This course will provide a non-lecture, discussion-driven classroom format to allow students to collaborate with peers and the instructor and to share ideas about diversity on campus. The content, structure, and assignments within the First Year Experience course will provide an environment conducive to students’ transition from an absolute knowing stage to a transitional knowing stage. Students will have the...
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...THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING MANAGERS TO BE EMOTIONALLY AND SOCIALLY INTELLIGENT INTRODUCTION: “Knowing others and knowing oneself, in one hundred battles,-no danger. Not knowing the other and knowing oneself, - one victory for one loss. Not knowing the other and not knowing oneself, -in every battle certain defeat." Sun Tzu, The Art of War. “Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work. I.Q is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn’t make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.” Warren Bennis. “Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.” Edward O. Wilson, DEFINITIONS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE : Emotional intelligence can be defined as an array of noncognitive skills, capabilities, and competencies that influence a person's ability to cope with environmental...
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...different, non-standard analytic approach (NA) to WK. Here is one objection to SA: the concept of knowledge can’t be analysed, at least if analysis is understood in the way that (B) understands it.[i] (B) assumes a reductive conception of analysis, according to which analysing a concept is a matter of breaking it down into more basic concepts. Let’s say that a concept C1 is more basic than another concept C2 just if one can grasp C1 without grasping C2 but one can’t grasp C2 without grasping C1. Proponents of SA tend to assume that concepts like truth, belief, and justification are in this sense more basic than the concept knows and that that is why they can be used to specify non-circular necessary and sufficient conditions for knowing. If it turns out that such conditions can’t be given, and therefore that the concept of knowledge can’t be analysed, the net result of combining (A) and (B) will be to make WK unanswerable. If this question is one that we are capable of answering then there must be some other way of answering it. This objection to SA raises the following questions: 1) Is it true that the concept of knowledge can’t be reductively analysed? 2) How should WK be tackled if not by...
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...and wonder why things were named as they were. A group of people I thought who put a lot of meaning into what they named things were the Native American Indians. All of the places, people, even animals they named were very symbolic, and had an important meaning. I feel as if in today’s world we don’t put as much thought into the things we name. Even when parents name their kids, some just slap a name on their forehead (not literally.) They don’t think about how they want their child to be raised, or they want them to become as an adult. My good friend was given a made up name when he was born because his father was drunk. To me that’s just cruel. For one thing, it would be rather hard for him to complete an essay like this, but also knowing your name which is a big part of you, has no real meaning. My name, Owen, was passed down 3 generations before me. I asked my father “why has our name been passed down this long? Why did you name me it?” he told me that his great grandfather was born into slavery and explained to me how he was not given a name until he was released and shipped to Jamaica. There, he was adopted at a young age into a family. The family said my great grandfather was a fighter; taking a lot of abuse and seeing a lot of negative things. Still at the end of the day, he was still smiling and loved to joke and laugh. “Owen” is a name that originated in the tribes of ancient North Wales. It is a patronymic of Owen, which is derived either from the ancient Celtic...
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...Pursuit of Interpersonal Communication Pursuit of Interpersonal Communication Interpersonal communication is a very vital part of everybody’s life and success. This is because in our everyday lives, we communicate with people directly even if we do not want to. It was said by Confucius “Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.” This is very true because people tend to forget things that they are not interested in. So if your interpersonal communication is good, they will be more interested in the conversation and will recall that information more precisely. For this reason, interpersonal communication has been studied and perspectives or views have been made to distinguish whether certain communication is considered interpersonal. One of the earlier perspectives that were created is called the situational perspective. The situational perspective is a view that communication between people is interpersonal depending on the factors that are distinct to certain situations. There are five factors or characteristics that make communication interpersonal in the situational perspective. These factors are small number of communicators, in close proximity, maximum sensory inputs, no intermediaries, and immediate feedback. Small number of communicators means that there cannot be a lot of people involved in the communication. Usually two or three people are the norm for interpersonal communication in this perspective. Other...
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...Acquires business case report Executive summary In these report we will assess and evaluate the issues and causes face by acquire solutions. We will assess the company measures through treating employees equally, knowing their prospects, salary, company ownership, various individuals and cultures, cultural values, knowing the problems and providing goods and services these criteria will help us to come up with an effective decision. Then in the report the alternatives would be discussed for the issues and causes faced by the firm, as various alternatives and conduct that helps to assess the issues and causes, as comparing of these alternatives against the decision criteria would help us in undoubtedly in classifying and choosing the good and lower desirable alternatives which includes employing well diversified people, retraining of the current staff, providing bonuses, improving customer relationship and creating a plan for board of directors. In the next stage we would get the solutions to the issues and causes from the suggested alternatives with the justification for the issue and causes, which consists of:- • Retaining employees • Having employee owned private organisation Then will look at how these solutions would be implementing the organisation. The report we have assessed the causes and issues that’s affecting the firm but the limitation is that we actually don’t know when the next financial crisis are going to occur because we can really forecast sales, revenues...
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...Knowing what must be done to accomplish the goal, is the beginning of achieving the desired objective. When following the intent planned, no one else has to understand what is being done, for the goal is only meant for the creator of it. In the short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, it states that, " they seem to know where they are going" (Guin). The story is stating that the townspeople do not know where the others go when they walk away, but yet the ones who walk away do know. Showing that others do not need to know about others intent for that goal to be accomplished. Each person is different,“Some [people] have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there" (Guin). Knowing what holds a goal safely may scare some to change, while others will be content with knowing what must be done. While knowing what the future holds will help towards making a...
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...portfolio of products... International Expansion (Apple Iphone 5) International high price (Apple Iphone 5) Please edit this page to add a description… Volatile Currencies (Apple Iphone 5) Volatile currencies make Apple Iphone 5’s investments difficult, because costs and revenues change... gray market (Apple Iphone 5) Please edit this page to add a description… Intense Competition (Apple Iphone 5) Intense completion can lower Apple Iphone 5’s profits, because competitors can entice consumers... Change in Tastes (Apple Iphone 5) Consumers can change their tastes very quickly. Apple Iphone 5 depends on knowing which goods and... Political Risk (Apple Iphone 5) Politics can increase Apple Iphone 5’s risk factors, because governments can quickly change... Volatile Costs (Apple Iphone 5) Volatile costs mean Apple Iphone 5 has to plan for scenarios where costs skyrocket. Cautious... Volatile Revenue (Apple Iphone 5) Volatile revenue m Online Market (Apple Iphone 5) The online market offers Apple Iphone 5 the ability to greatly expand their business. Apple Iphone 5... Innovation (Apple Iphone 5) Greater innovation can help Apple Iphone 5 to produce...
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