...and Latin American Studies Minor: Spanish Overall GPA 3.875; Honors each semester Study Abroad: Bogota, Colombia - January 2012 Related Experience Library Assistant, Cervantes Library, ABC University Sept. 2009 - present Assist students with research best practices Designed a presentation, published to University website, outlining how to most effectively use all of ABC University's library facilities in undertaking a basic research project Perform general administrative duties to support professional staff Founder and leader, Harry Potter Book Club, New York, NY Jan. 2009 - present Discuss the origins of one theme from the Harry Potter series with roots in classical mythology or parallels to modern history each week with middle school students Supply external primary sources, teach students how to make connections between these documents and the work of fiction Bring the conversation to modern day events and lessons applicable to students' everyday lives Hold weekly readings by middle schoolers open to younger children for half an hour before each discussion Intern, Calles y Sueños Cultural Space, Bogotá Spring 2011 Helped design and implement programs in which community-based artists traveled to schools to work with children, teaching them about expression through art Assisted in teaching complimentary English lessons to community members English Tutor, Queens, NY Jan. 2010 – May 2010 Assisted student in writing and proofreading essays, focusing on...
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...Mendez Georgia Southern University Abstract This paper explores the phenomena that we see in Olympic Swimming. Whites dominate this sport and African Americans hardly ever participate in this sport. This research paper explores why that is, by examining numerous sources. These sources were obtained using the internet. From the research conducted, their seem to be varying answers to this question. However the main ones are genetics and socioeconomic factors. Consequently, the genetic research is not a direct correlation to why African Americans don’t participate in swimming. Genetics only points out that differences in muscle composition, bone density, and buoyancy have some effect on a person’s ability to swim. The major cause for this goes into the past to segregation and economics. History of Olympic Swimming Swimming was learnt by prehistoric people in order to cross bodies of water. This can be proved in ancient egyptian paintings( 2011 Olympic. Org). Swimming did not truly become an organized sport until the early 19th century when British swimming clubs began to hold competitions. Swimming was added to the Olympic in 1896. History of African American Swimming Now lets look at African swimming. In 1451 when Europeans began exploring Africa. Europeans regarded Africans as “ The best swimmers in the world.” They attributed these swimming skills to constant exercise and “ From being brought up from infancy to swim like fishes ( 2010 Black Swimming hall of fame).”...
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...They are found in waters of about 900 feet in depth. They spend most of the day closer to shore and move into deeper waters at night in search of prey. Adults live either alone, in pairs or in very small schools. While, young scalloped hammerheads live in large schools. To adapt to their surroundings these sharks can feel electrical fields using special organs called the ampullae of lorenzini. They are located in the snout of the shark. This adaptation allows them to feel the electricity that is released from other animals, making it easier for them to find prey. These sharks are also nocturnal, making it easier to sneak up on fish, however it makes it harder to see and that is where their ability to feel the electricity comes into play. Also they do form large schools in their youth to protect each other. Reproduction only occurs once a year for these sharks. The males will bite the females until she agrees to mate. The males will then transfer sperm into the female using claspers. Claspers are the male reproductive organ in cartilaginous fish. The scalloped hammerhead give a live birth and have an egg yolk placenta. Their gestation period is between 9 and 10 months, similar in time to human beings. The adult females move...
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...Welcome to Franklin court. If you didn't know my name is Jayla. Im a 7th grader at the middle school at Exploris in Raleigh, North Carolina. This trimester, everyone got assigned to a specific historical park. We had to do a lot of research, in order to create a brochure and a speech about our historical park. Franklin Court was the home of the American Patriot Benjamin Franklin. While you're here, you can visit the: Benjamin Franklin Museum, Printing office and Bindery, and the metal outline of where Franklins house once stood. The house was torn down in 1812, by Ben Franklin bache. In 1976, the ghost house was built by world famous architect Robert Venturi. The Franklin house was a 3 story brick home, with 10 rooms. Also in 1976, the museum...
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...detentions, poor conditions and beatings of detainees by guards at Lindela Repatriation Centre, assaults by police officers involved in the arrest of suspected illegal immigrants, and arbitrary and verbally abusive conduct towards asylum-seekers by Department of Home Affairs officials (Amnesty International, 2001). Xenophobia is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as ‘fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of what is strange or foreign’ (Mish, 1997). The literal meaning of the word suggests that xenophobic people would dislike all foreigners equally, as it is their ‘foreignness’ that makes them objectionable. However, the patterns that emerge of the targets involved in incidents that are attributed to xenophobia, as well as empirical research investigating xenophobia, suggest that this is not the case. Particular groups of foreigners are targeted, and the ethnic origins of...
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...109 Interview Questions & Sample Excellent Responses: PART 2 of 2 By Gary L. Melling This Whitepaper includes 50 of the most typical interview questions that you may either ask or face in job interviews; Part 1 of this series contain the previous 59 questions. Developed by eLancer, questions are in no particular order, so take your time and go through the entire list. Whether you are about to graduate from University, a seasoned professional or an HR Practitioner looking for questions to use, there is something here for everyone. 60. Tell me about a time when you had to go above and beyond the call of duty in order to get a job done. Sample excellent response: Although I had already punched out, I stayed behind to help a colleague solve a problem. A customer was very angry as he had waited very long for his coffee. My colleague was new, she was quite slow. I came out and explained things to the customer. Although he was very angry at first, I just listened to him and told him that we try to bring our best out to each customer who walks in to our store. After a one-hour discussion, he left with a happy face and was satisfied. 61. Give me an example of a time when you were able to successfully communicate with another person even when that individual may not have personally liked you (or vice versa). Sample excellent response: During my time in the theater, I had one director with whom I absolutely did not work well. However, because of my track record, she would assign me...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V January 20, 2013 VARK Analysis Paper According to the VARK Questionnaire, kinesthetic is the type of learning style that is the strongest. There is a big difference in the scoring, where the highest score was kinesthetic at an 11 and the lowest score of 4 went to aural. Visual and read/write scored about the same where visual is a 5 and read/write is at a 6. Taking the VARK questionnaire has been able to bring to light a lot of issues and insecurities about preparing for assignments and exams. Knowing which learning style a person is and understanding the proper strategies for learning can help increase the knowledge base for that person. The learning style that has proven best for this student is more of a hands-on approach of the material that is being taught. It is similar to jumping into the deep end of the pool when first starting to learn how to swim. The online program has had better success with this method compared to a lecture and exam setting. Seeing the whole picture first and then breaking down the steps that build up to the final product helps understand and retain the information. This is similar to a study performed to see the optimal learning environment of students in the healthcare field. Kim A. Noble conducted a study and found that “nursing students were classified as more field-dependent than students in other health-related disciplines” (2008, pg 245). Which makes it a little hard...
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...10 Dr. Pots “School Reform: Raising Student Achievement by Focusing on Intermediate and Middle School Literacy” The current trend around the country is a push for early education with a focus on literacy. According to the publication “Every Child Reading: An Action Plan” (Learning First Alliance, 1998) literacy success should be formed by the time a student reaches the first grade. This trend is appropriate in helping to close the gap in student achievement in urban schools across the nation (Learning First Alliance, 1998). The detriment of this strategy is that there are generations of children who have already moved beyond this age group. These children sit in 4th-8th grade classrooms bringing havoc to their peers, teachers and most damaging, themselves due to illiteracy. A majority of these children are considered “at-risk” and attend inner-city schools. They have slipped through the safety nets of quality education because of educators who are ineffective as well as incompetent, administration and central office more concerned with the affects of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and parents striving to make a living while leaving little to no time for active parental involvement. At the most vital time in a child’s life, the educational system leaves these nine through thirteen (9-13) year olds to either sink or swim. The sad truth, unfortunately, is that too many of these children simply sink. A genuine focus on intermediate and middle school literacy can raise...
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...At first glance, it seems that student success is easy to obtain, attend your classes, complete your work, study the material, and you’ll succeed, Or at least that’s what students often believe. Students always view success as an option, you either want to, or you don’t. The research makes it clear that it is not so black and white. A student’s mentality towards student success can be morphed as we excavate further into research such as essays and documentaries. An analysis of the research leads us to believe that Anaheim High Schools can improve student success only if The amount of time invested in schools is increased, An emphasis is put on student effort rather than natural talent, and schools promote student involvement in extracurricular...
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...Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood? The rich array of microbiota in our intestines can tell us more than you might think. By PETER ANDREY SMITHJUNE 23, 2015 Eighteen vials were rocking back and forth on a squeaky mechanical device the shape of a butcher scale, and Mark Lyte was beside himself with excitement. ‘‘We actually got some fresh yesterday — freshly frozen,’’ Lyte said to a lab technician. Each vial contained a tiny nugget of monkey feces that were collected at the Harlow primate lab near Madison, Wis., the day before and shipped to Lyte’s lab on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus in Abilene, Tex. Lyte’s interest was not in the feces per se but in the hidden form of life they harbor. The digestive tube of a monkey, like that of all vertebrates, contains vast quantities of what biologists call gut microbiota. The genetic material of these trillions of microbes, as well as others living elsewhere in and on the body, is collectively known as the microbiome. Taken together, these bacteria can weigh as much as six pounds, and they make up a sort of organ whose functions have only begun to reveal themselves to science. Lyte has spent his career trying to prove that gut microbes communicate with the nervous system using some of the same neurochemicals that relay messages in the brain. Inside a closet-size room at his lab that afternoon, Lyte hunched over to inspect the vials, whose samples had been spun down in a centrifuge to a radiant...
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...A reaction paper about the movie SUMMER DAYS WITH COO 1. Cultural Aspect (Past and Present) The movie was about a tiny, solitary kappa marvelously survived in an earthquake over the last 200 years into modern day in Japan. Kappas are from the Edo period. Kappas do still exist in the early period wherein Japanese warriors known as Samurai headed the place. Plane fields are seen everywhere and there is still swamps in the area. Kappas are free to swim in the swamps because it is their home. There is still peace in the surroundings. They can freely do what they wanted to do without being distracted by other. It’s just unfortunate that Coo and his father encountered some drunken guys, one of which is a samurai, and then they were scared that the father of Coo heard their dark little secret. So they prefer to kill the father of Coo. Now going back to the cultural aspects, in the present time, a lot had changed. The surroundings was changed, the means of transportation, the population growth, the clothing, and many more was changed. Even the uttered words aren’t that same as to before. The place where Coo used to live before was now turned into a modern environment. 2. The use of Formal and Casual Japanese Language The movie used formal and casual Japanese language because I have understood some of the words uttered by the characters because it was discussed to us by the instructor in school. The movie was easily understood also by the presence of the subtitle. But then...
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...As an ignorant 8-year-old, I was sick to the stomach with the thought of having to move from California to Florida. I would be leaving my friends, school, and the only house I could remember living in. I loved that house on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, but as my dad showed me our new, typical suburban home in Orlando I became very excited. Feelings of happiness and excitement flourished over me because there was a bright–blue pool and extensive backyard waiting for me in Florida. My family was optimistic about the move and I was ecstatic about my new house. At the time, everything in my family’s life seemed to be going well. However, no one in my family was expecting for our innocent, beautiful home on the corner of a cul-de-sac to become a financial burden that would affect my dad till this day....
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...My Virtual Child Paper My virtual child covers physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development at several age levels. This gave me an opportunity to visualize "the whole child" at various points in development. I raised a virtual child from birth to 18 years of age. Each virtual child has a unique set of characteristics at birth, some of which were influenced by how I answered the assessment I completed when I first logged onto My Virtual Child. These characteristics gradually emerged and affected his behavior and development. My child was a boy so I decided to name him Wolfgang. Wolfgang was born about four weeks premature and underweight (four and a half pounds). To regulate his body temperature, he spent the first few days in neonatal care. After five days, his Apgar score had risen from a six to an eight, which allowed me to bring him home. I was somewhat nervous when I brought him home because Wolfgang was not very hungry and had lost weight. Eventually, he began to eat more and gained weight. My partner and I had decided to breastfeed. I liked breastfeeding because I began to feel a connection hormonally. During toddlerhood, Wolfgang’s language and motor skills developed rapidly. Eventually, he was able to imitate actions and words. He took an interest in his surroundings, causing him to experiment with and study objects. He also started using the word “me” a lot and wanted to perform tasks by himself. He was pretty sociable. He just needed to warm up a little...
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...Fall 2014 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 109-102-MQSection 27 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY – Paddling Skills Mondays 1130 - 1330 in Room C-0137 PLUS Two Saturdays, September 20 and October 4 Course Weighting (0-2-1) for 1 credit Prerequisites: None 1. GENERAL INFORMATION – DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION Course Competency: To improve effectiveness when practicing a physical activity. Teacher name: Karen Oljemark Office: Room C-114A Telephone: 514 457-6610, extension 5746 Office Hours Posted on Omnivox and on my office door. E-mail contact: karen.oljemark@johnabbott.qc.ca 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Course Description In this compressed course, the student will learn the basics of paddling various small craft (canoes, kayaks, dragon boats etc.) on various local waterways. Compressed Course: Mondays 1130 – 1330 PLUS two Saturdays September 20 and October 4. IMPORTANT: You must also reserve the Emergency Cancellation Day of Sunday September 28, 2014. The College reserves the right to reschedule the course trip in case of unforeseen emergency. IMPORTANT: You must also reserve the Emergency Cancellation Day of Sunday September 28, 2014. The College reserves the right to reschedule the course trip in case of unforeseen emergency. 2.2 Course in the Context of General Education The teachers in General Education believe that students should achieve some depth of knowledge in the specific disciplines offered in their programs...
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...MGMT 520 Entire Course Legal Political Ethical Dimension of Business Keller Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/mgmt-520/mgmt-520-entire-course-legal-political-ethical-dimension-of-business-keller/ Or Visit www.hwcampus.com MGMT 520 Entire Course Legal Political Ethical Dimension of Business Keller MGMT 520 Discussions ALL 7 Weeks Posted by All Students 483 Pages Keller MGMT 520 National and International Ethics-Patent Week 1 Discussions 1 All Students Posts 41 Pages Keller Class in this thread we will seek to address essentially corporate citizenship. In other words, when the necessity from help arrives and your organization is the only organization that has what can deliver the society in which you operate in from peril, what do you do? In your discussion of the Bayer problem you will find yourself balancing and wondering, how do you overcome some of the barriers of doing the right thing from the corporate perspective? In the fall of 2001, anthrax was used as a weapon of terror in the United States, when it was sent to numerous media and political organizations and individuals, including Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Dan Rather of CBS News, and U.S. senators…. MGMT 520 Disbarment of Lawyers Week 1 Discussions 2 All Students Posts 35 Pages Keller Class I want to introduce to some “Wolves of Wall Street” who handled business in a Bernie Madoff type fashion, the Ponzi scheme way. Allow me to introduce you to former attorney, Marc Dreier. ...
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