...A Charter School is a school established to provide students and parents with more choices in the types of educational opportunities and programs that are available within the public school system. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School Board approves of community-based charter schools. All Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (MSBSD) Charter School programs are open to student’s applications who reside within the school district. Starting a charter school is truly a community effort. However, the rewards we may find by creating a new educational option for children are well worth the effort. The first question we want to answer is why do we want to start a charter school? As a charter developer, we need to have a clear answer to this question. Matanuska-Susitna Valley residents desire a school that provides a rich and comprehensive educational program for students with talents and potential in dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, and visual art or media arts. This school will provide students and parents with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system to maximize each student’s special talents. Our graduates will increase the quality of their life, the lives of people who surround them, and the respective communities of the Valley. There are many people interested in helping to start our charter school waiting for recruitment. These founders will include parents, teachers, school principals...
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...Point: When students, especially high school students, are faced with a problem/challenge, they tend to just give up when they hit a ”roadblock”. However, motivation and guiding them through the thinking process drives them to continue working on the challenge, and helps them even solve it in a way they wouldn’t imagine solving it. Observations: Today at AVID was back to normal. The students were back to doing their regular tutorials. With the first sophomore class, with only 2 tutors out of the regular 6, it was very hard grading the tutorial request forms. But myself and my partner Brian got it done. I was in charge of leading a geometry group consisting of 5 sophomores. Each of them had a specific question that had to be...
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...displays the age distribution of the world's billionaires as reported by Forbes Magazine in 2001. ??This distribution is best described as: ?A. Approximately normal. ?B. Strongly skewed to the right. ?C. Bimodal. D. Approximately uniform. 4) Which of the following correctly ranks from smallest to largest the measures of central tendency of the data displayed in the histogram below? ? A. Mode < mean < median.? B. ?Median < mode < mean.? C. Mode < median < mean.? D. ?The answer cannot be determined from the information provided. 5) The scatter diagram below displays the relationship between age and net worth (in US$ billions) for the world's 20 wealthiest people as reported by Forbes Magazine in 2001. ??If 45-year old Bill Gates, the world's wealthiest person, is considered an outlier and removed from the data set, what will be the effect on this relationship? A. The value of the correlation coefficient will decrease. B. ?The value of the correlation coefficient will increase. C. ?The value of the correlation coefficient will stay about the same. D. ?The correlation will become perfectly linear. 6. The data in the Excel spreadsheet linked below gives the net worth (in US$ billions) and ages of the world's billionaires as reported by Forbes Magazine in 2001. ??The correlation coefficient between age and net worth: A. ?Is...
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...The assignment is to write an analysis of the erdely essay on binge drinking among young people. In your crritique discuss the writing techniques that erdely uses to make her illustration essay convincing. Use this analysis as a springboard to address the issue of drinking in our culture and the often tragic results of drinking irresponsibly. Share personal views, as well as experiences and/or obervations related to the issue. Think of targeted audience for your essay as well as your purpose for writing. Below is the essay that we are to do the analysis of: Binge Drinking, A campus Killer by Sabrina Rubin Pregame tailgating parties, post-exams celebrations and Friday happy hours-not to mention fraternity and sorority mixers-have long been a cornerstone of the collegiate experience. But on campuses across American, these indulgences have a more alarming side. For some of today’s college students, binge drinking as become the norm. This past February I headed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, rated the No. 2 party school in the nation by the college guide Princeton Review, to see the party scene for myself. On Thursday night the weekend was already getting started. At a raucous off-campus gathering, 20-year-old Tracy Meddler struggled to down her beer as fist-pumping onlookers yelled. "Chug! Chug! Chug!" In the kitchen, sophomore Jeremy Budda drained his tenth beer, "I get real wasted on weekends," he explained. Nearby a 19-year-old estimated. "I’ll end up having 17,18 beers...
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...Studies classes, you will approach topics from varying perspectives, and take classes in many different departments. For example, you might take an English class that focuses on literature and popular culture, or a history class that focuses on the rise of the modern city. In the second semester of your senior year you will focus exclusively on your senior research project. Other classes might bring you to the Psychology, Economics, or Political Science departments, just to name a few. Prerequisites Before you can officially declare yourself a Media Studies major, you need to complete these four courses, drawn from four different academic departments: Media Studies 101: General Media Studies History 200: North American History Since 1860 Political Science 101: Introduction to Politics Sociology 101: Introduction to the Social Sciences It is possible to substitute another introductory social sciences class for Sociology 101, although you need to submit a formal request to your Media Studies adviser before class registration. In order to allow enough time to complete your upper-level courses, you need to complete all prerequisites by the end of your sophomore year. Core Courses The four core courses of the Media Studies curriculum focus on essential issues within the discipline’s broader field of study: Media Studies 102: Communicating Visually Media Studies 220: Mass Media in the Modern World Media Studies 301: Journalism and Culture Media Studies symposium chosen...
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...Studies classes, you will approach topics from varying perspectives, and take classes in many different departments. For example, you might take an English class that focuses on literature and popular culture, or a history class that focuses on the rise of the modern city. In the second semester of your senior year you will focus exclusively on your senior research project. Other classes might bring you to the Psychology, Economics, or Political Science departments, just to name a few. Prerequisites Before you can officially declare yourself a Media Studies major, you need to complete these four courses, drawn from four different academic departments: Media Studies 101: General Media Studies History 200: North American History Since 1860 Political Science 101: Introduction to Politics Sociology 101: Introduction to the Social Sciences It is possible to substitute another introductory social sciences class for Sociology 101, although you need to submit a formal request to your Media Studies adviser before class registration. In order to allow enough time to complete your upper-level courses, you need to complete all prerequisites by the end of your sophomore year. Core Courses The four core courses of the Media Studies curriculum focus on essential issues within the discipline’s broader field of study: Media Studies 102: Communicating Visually Media Studies 220: Mass Media in the Modern World Media Studies 301: Journalism and Culture Media Studies symposium chosen...
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...Service Quality and Students’ Overall Satisfaction with University University experience is rite of passage for many young people. Students often leave their homes for the first time to live with their peers in another city or even a different country (Hendrickson, Rosen, Aune, 2011). With this coming of age experience, come many unique challenges and obstacles. One of the major adjustments to university life for many students is adjusting to the quality of the cafeteria services (Hartwell, Edwards, & Brown, 2011). Students have various eating habits and preferences and it is the responsibility of the cafeteria services of the university to attempt to provide both nutritious and palatable food for diverse student body. With little alternative to the food provided on-campus, students often have to rely on the cafeteria service to supply them with their daily caloric intake. Add to this the caveat of international students from all over the world and the problem becomes even more challenging A unique challenge is dealing with the adjusting to a diet that is based on principals foreign to the student. For example, a school that provides a vegetarian diet would be a unique experience for many international students. Living in such a context may be challenging for them. As such, how does this experience with such a diet impact the student’s perception of the food services? In addition, does such an experience with the food have any affect on the students’ satisfaction with the...
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...Mission The General Education curriculum helps build the foundation for understanding historical traditions, contemporary issues, the interdependence of local, urban, national and global communities and the importance of psychological, artistic, religious and scientific inquiry. This program is designed to give the student the opportunity to interact with the multifaceted forces that are continually transforming and reshaping our world. The broad based, interdisciplinary scope of the area requirements is designed to help students acquire the knowledge, perspective, skill and professional acumen that is necessary to become thoughtful and responsible citizens and leaders in an increasingly complex world. The General Education curriculum is focused on fostering urban leadership by developing the cross-curricular emphases of writing effectively, thinking critically, managing information successfully, valuing diversity, practicing social justice, presenting orally and visually and learning to learn. Curricular Emphases: To accomplish these goals the general education curriculum, through its cross-disciplinary approach, provides exposure to a wide variety of disciplines while focusing on developing the essential, broad based, intellectual abilities of problem solving, decision making and leadership with a commitment to lifelong learning. The general education program emphasizes the development of oral and written communication skills; knowledge of the arts...
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...University Avenue, Crookston, M N 56716 | (C) 2182800684 | shang043@crk.umn.edu Professional Summary Knowledgeable [Job Title] skilled in data collection, analysis and management. Works well under pressure and consistently meets deadlines and targets while delivering high quality work. Not full of enough work experience Skills Performance and scalability optimization Data management [Programming language] specialist Strong customer relations Strong interpersonal skills Design review Work History 01/2014 to Current Academic Assistance Center Jamie Fagerholt – University of Minnesota Crookston Help student study the Java programming and calculus course, not only help my knowledge of courses, but also practice my teaching skill, my patience, know new friends and get the approach to work with different people who comes from diverse countries. This work can help me find which parts or sections are hard to understand, and alert myself it is easy to make a mistake. In the freshmen year, I work with a lot of different countries students to accomplish a "bank system" by using the "NetBeans" software. My responsibility was to develop GUI and code for homepage and withdraw of bank. In the sophomore year, I changed to different students group to complete the "restaurant online reservation system" my job is to lead and analysis how to build it by using "Visio" software to create UML diagrams, activity diagrams, Entity Relationship diagrams, class diagrams, pseudocodes, and used...
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...Student Opinions of Tuscaloosa Nightlife Downtown v. The Strip Paper 1 Group 5 March 4, 2014 Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………….2 Background………………………………………………………………………………..3 Research Objectives……………………………………………………………………….5 Specified Population………………………………………………………………………6 Recruitment of Interviewees………………………………………………………………6 Running of Focus Groups/ Interviews…………………………………………………….7 Findings…………………………………………………………………………………...8 Implications………………………………………………………………………………11 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….13 Appendix A: Individual Depth Interview Sample Population…………………………...15 Appendix B: Individual Depth Interview Questions…………………………………….16 Appendix C: Focus Group Sample Population..…………………………………………18 Appendix D: Focus Group Questions……………………………………………………19 Executive Summary Objectives The purpose of this research project was to discover the reactions and opinions of Alabama students on the nightlife options available in Tuscaloosa, AL. We asked students to give their opinions on numerous subjects including: • The factors which influence students to attend bars/clubs • Bar location selection process • Elements of bar selection process • Timeliness of student nightlife activity • Identify demographic segments amongst bars/clubs • Amenities that attract the market segment Methods We used multiple examination methods...
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...COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS Department of English, Foreign Languages and Linguistics Sta. Mesa, Manila Adaptation of Swardspeak to the Language of Bachelor of Arts in English Second-Year Students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Joanna Marie N. Cabanatan Maricon A. Alisuag Jenny L. Carlos Fatima B. Dela Cruz Prof. Evangelina S. Seril CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION I. Introduction Today’s modern generation, many youth are engaged in different languages. Some of us have experienced being near to a group of gays who were talking in quite a different language and you were surprised that you could understand some of the words they were saying. That language is what we called gay lingo but in 1970s, it is Swardspeak. Here in the Philippines, they called the term, "Swardspeak" or "Gay Lingo". Nowadays it is one of the most prominent kinds of language that most of the youth rather people engaged to. It consists of mainly Filipino language, but also uses elements of English, Spanish and other Asian or foreign words (especially Japanese), gays make uses of words that are derived from other words and try to make the words colorful and enticingly comical. It is also their way of speaking and their own mannerisms that make it different to those of the females. Because of the spread of Swardspeak, many Filipino try to engange themselves and makes use of it. . Like any other languages, Swardspeak is...
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...“Undecided,” and “In Transition”: Implications for Academic Advisement, Career Counseling, & Student Retention Joe Cuseo Introduction The objective of this article is twofold: (a) to critically review research on how students’ process of decision making with respect to selecting college majors and careers relates to their persistence in college, and (b) to tease-out practical implications of this research for improving the academic advisement, long-range planning, and retention of first-year students. The majority of new students entering higher education leave their initial college of choice without completing a degree (Tinto, 1993), and national attrition rates have been increasing since the early 1980s at two-year and four-year institutions, both public and private (Postsecondary Education Opportunity, 2002). At all types of higher education institutions, including highly selective colleges and universities, the most critical period or stage of vulnerability for student attrition continues to be the first year of college (“Learning Slope,” 1991). More than half of all students who withdraw from college do so during their first year (Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange, 1999), resulting in a first-year attrition rate of more than 25% at four-year institutions, and approximately 50% at two-year institutions (ACT, 2003). Retention research suggests that student commitment to educational and career goals is perhaps the strongest factor associated with...
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...Journal #2 I came to America for study when I was twenty two years old. I felt very excited because I would study in a new country and a new environment. I was born in china and I lived in china for twenty years until I finish my high school. In Chinese’s education system, every student has no option to select his major before student graduate from high school. Because of this this reason, I did not consider the about my major until I received the matric from San Jose State University. I found a note in this envelop when I opened it. It said student must declare his major before sophomore, so I only had one year to make a decision. The note also emphasizes the importance of major decision for you future, so I would do some research and analysis to find the best area of interest for me. I selected Industrial Technology as my major, and I believe my major decision is under control in the matter. I was really interested in the field of engineering and automation control system, so I prefer to be an engineer. While I understand the decision was not made by your passion because sometime your decision may not the test answer. For that reason I tried to spend my summer time to work in a real factory. I found a non- pay internship in a testing laboratory. For a security reason, I could not do the real test, but I could write down the date on the lab manual. I attended more than ten test during the summer time. The test usually needed two days for setting up and data entry, and take...
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...720 Old Knoll View Alpharetta, GA 30022 MICHAEL BOHLMANN bohlmann@uga.edu (678) 446-2429 910 College Ave D Athens, GA 30605 EDUCATION University of Georgia, Honors Program, Athens, GA Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance GPA: 3.72/4.00, SAT: 1430 (Math 800, Verbal 630) Honors: Zell B. Miller Scholarship, Certificate of Merit, Dean’s List Expected May 2015 WORK EXPERIENCE Frisch Capital Partners, Investment Banking Analyst, Athens, GA May 2013-Present Work for a boutique investment bank that specializes in private placements and acquisition financing Research and qualify capital sources for various transactions; sources include asset-based lenders, mezzanine funds, private equity firms, and hedge funds Met with various private equity and mezzanine firms in Atlanta to discuss transactions Make initial and follow-up calls to potential capital sources in pending transactions Produce lender materials including: Executive Summaries and lender slide presentations Selected Transaction Experience: Ferrous Metal Casting Foundry Refinancing (pending) $5 million revolver paired with a $2.5 million term loan Health Club Capital Expenditure Revolver (pending) $4 million revolver Yoforia Frozen Yogurt, Cashier, Johns Creek and Alpharetta, GA August 2010-August 2012 Promoted to Manager to open up a new location Summer 2012 Helped with many aspects of opening up a new business, including: interviewing and hiring initial staff; preparing for final Health...
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...Informational Analysis Exploring the Deep By: Savanna Wills For the final literary analysis that was assigned, I went into writing this paper with the notion that this might just be the least exciting analysis of Children’s Literature that we were ever going to have to do. To my surprise, I gained much knowledge from taking the time to read an informational non-fiction children’s book. I realized that if I were to find a concept in a children’s informational book that interested me, I would gain knowledge I didn’t realize I wanted or needed as a sophomore in college. For our final analysis, I chose the book Exploring the Deep by Chloe Rhodes. In all honesty, I didn’t have a lot of choices for books that I really wanted to read, but Exploring the Deep stood out to me because I realized that our oceans are wondrous and full of mystery. This strange and interesting piece is a fantastic non-fictional book for children who want to learn about the planet’s oceans and everything that occurs, lives, and is found within it. As soon as I began reading I found the book very intriguing. It captivated my attention, and taught me things I probably never would have learned in the rest of my years living. This book was filled with interesting facts about our planet’s oceans. It gave significant details of some living creatures that make the Earth’s oceans their home. Along with giving detailed facts, there were very real pictures of the wildlife that lurks beneath the waves, allowing...
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