...Bodrick May 12, 2011 The Importance of Education in Today’s World “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”. How you ever seen education as being important in today’s society? In my eyes, I see education as being very important in today’s society because education open your vision on how many people see life. Education is not just for young people, it is for people that are willing to learn and be taught. I am a 45 year old mother that has three daughters. I never had the opportunity to finish my college education because I had to be a mother first. I always told myself that when I was able and focus again that I will go back to school to purse my education further. Education means many things to me such as self-growth, family growth, and financial growth. However, when attending school at 45 year of age, I’m growing as a person. I see that I’m much more open to new and different things and that I am making much better grades now, than when I was in college the first time. When attending an online school I have to be dedicated and focus. Education to me is not just self-growth but also family growth. When I see my daughters attending school and doing something positive with their lives not only make me proud of them, but also gives me the drive and ambitious that I need to make it through. My daughters are what keep me on the right track. When I feel like giving up, I turn and look at them and see the same things that I am going through is what they have to face every day. I know...
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...the beginning. A problem creator is someone who creates their problems that aren't there to begin with (Critical Thinking in everyday life, 2015). They have so much in their mind you start making problems that aren't even their also known as the thinker. According to (Ridel, 2015) a mind is a terrible thing to waste so why wastes your brainpower creating problems. According to “Critical Thinking in Everyday Life” (2015), “They are their worst enemies” so there is no reason to overthink things that are not there. I selected problem creator because this category reminds me of myself. I have so much on my mind at times that I start thinking too much. Thinking too much isn't good. Because, it wears you down having you believe something is wrong. When I’m alone by myself or just sitting, that’s when your mind start wondering about situations you shouldn't be worried about in the first place. Makes you depressed and it can turn worse if you don’t get it taking care of by talking to somebody you’re comfortable with and venting to them to get a solution to the problem. I plan to improve my problem by going to a counselor. Talking to about my life situations. Why am I thinking about problems because it’s causing harm to me which can lead me stressed out or even hospitalized just because of things going on in my mind for no apparent reason? I have to identify the problem what’s the reason for this causes me to think how I am thinking For example I am in college I often procrastinate...
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...Viktor Frankl once said, “Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.” Dealing with stress is not the easiest thing to do, but to overcome it, one must first look at what causes stress, and then how to deal with it. What is most times thought to be the main cause of stress is only a small percentage of the true things that cause stress. Outdoor leaders are faced with stress everyday, and it comes in many different forms. The job of a responsible leader is to recognize that stress, whether it be with himself, some one else, or the entire group, and assist in relieving it as soon as possible and in the best manner available. Physical danger appears to cause most stress in the outdoors, but it is truly the ordinary things that cause the most stress and are the toughest to handle. It is not the most obvious and dramatical situations that cause us stress but rather the everyday trivial proceedings that seem to bring about the most stress. There are many factors that cause stress. Everything from ignorant people to poor planning and disorganization can inflict stress on a person. It’s difficult to list or describe the exact situations that cause stress because of the fact that it’s different for each and every person. Each person has their own pet peeves and annoyances, so it’s not the specific things, but rather the ideas of what causes stress that are of more importance. Nonetheless, physical...
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...any evolving changes that are happening in whatever field you are working. This is just a general plan you can go by, and watch how fast you can move up that ladder to success. I. Something to hold on to ! II. Education, to have or not to have ? III. If you feel like you’re at a dead end with your current job? IV. Its all up to you! I. Something to hold on to! * A: In most Major companies these days work experience is not enough anymore, these companies are looking for someone with the skillset and the understanding of doing the job and getting the best results. * B: The first thing to achieve is securing your Education, A Mind is a terrible thing to waste, always prepare yourself by getting knowledge in the field that you are working. * C: Don’t waste your time alone trying to move up the ladder without any thing to hold on to. II. Education, to have or not to have ? * A: A degree is something to hold on to, that will almost triple your chances of coming into a career doing what you want instead of trying to move up losing time and patience to find out that you will need that degree in the end to move up. * B: That’s your key to success in today’s job market. Don’t get me wrong, even in the fast food industry there now asking for degrees to move up into Management. * C: They want to make sure they have someone that’s going to know how to run their everyday operations such as cash handling, College...
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...A survey of U. S districts shows fewer than one and five high schools begin before 8am. High school students go through a mass amount of bullshit on a day to day basisIf there are any changes that should be made about school it would be the school hours, standardized test and classes. Sleep the time our bodies recover; but what if you don't get enough? Your grades, health, and performance suffers. Teens need about 8 hours of sleep each night, but when you have homework, chores, and hours of studying how can you achieve that with adequate amount of sleep in mind. School should start later so students have enough time ti get work done and get an appropriate amount of sleep. We spend hours deciding and choosing our major and career paths but...
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...views. Thinking Thinking is the ability for a person to put in perspective his or her thought processes (Smith, 2003). Processes that allow a person to develop views on situations based on his or her beliefs and past experiences (Smith, 2003). Thinking uses the data that one previously learned to process the results and put it into action. Humans are the only creatures that can do this, we can think before we react. There is a strong need to express thoughts because it is human nature to want to explore and to learn. The mind is like any other muscle in the body and must be stimulated on a regular basis in order to reach and maintain full potential (Kirby, 2007). The eBook, Thinking: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Critical Thinking, offered these excellent suggestions on how to improve memory: making the information more meaningful, using mnemonic techniques, repetition, and practice (Kirby, 2007). It is like the old saying the mind is a terrible thing to waste. Altered Perception Reality is a concept unique to each of us. My grandmother’s funeral was a week ago today. I was...
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...sounded like me in school, but if I could go back I would have a better mind set in school. Wanting the students’ know everything that they are being discipline is crucial to their future. For example, knowing history, being on time, and so much more. I want to teach the students what they learn in the classroom does rollover into the real world. Regardless how the students may not think it does not make the same mistake that I made. Letting the students know that Knowing your history, getting involved, and your opinion does matter in the classroom. Most students’ feel that history is not necessary in the real world and that also included myself in the equation, but it does. Going out in the real world and applying for jobs. It is a brilliant idea to know the history of the business because the company may have believes that one may not agree. For example, someone apply for a job at PETA, and they require too explain about history their company and their beliefs. Knowledge of campus one application one is not able to explain. Not knowing one would miss out of a job and sometimes working at a job site the more that a person knows the better off that person is. For, example when working for a company they requested us to know the history of their company and write about it. I felt this a waste of time, but after reading on the company, the rich history of the company, and finding out that what things they created or invented. I shocked and amazed by the history I learned....
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...any details that he shares, undertone which implies a meaning that usually points towards the underlying theme of a work, metaphors to enhance his writing in “The Things They Carried.” The way he formatted his book consequently so the structure stood out and which made it not so eloquent. His tone was easy to detect because it was either to inform or persuade us to believe his anecdotes or analogies about the war. The mind and imagination or a powerful tool, but it's not the best when you live in fear. “How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead.” (pg 212) O’brien uses a selection of detail to concretize a feeling the soldiers had. In the dark nights the soldiers lost their sanity. An example would be Rat Kiley, who started visualizing himself dead and to get away from it all, he shot himself in the foot. Speaking or writing about hard times makes it easier to get past them, but what if you have no...
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...Rasheed Juan SJCJC January 27th, 2014 Literature in English: American Poetry Hardy’s Poetry Presents the World as Terrible According to one of the Thomas Hardy’s autobiography, he presents a picture of himself as a sensitive young man who attended church regularly and believed in a personal God who ruled the universe. Then when Hardy went to London in his early twenties and discovered such intellectual ferment as caused by Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means and Natural Selection” (1859), Hardy then lost his faith and never recovered it. Hardy then began to see the world without any ruler or God. He started to think this is why the world is so wretched and terrible because there is no sovereign ruler that could prevent bad episodes from occurring and causing the people of the world to suffer. Thomas Hardy as a poem writer then presented the world as terrible, with the messages that he entailed. After a read into each of his poems during that era, it does appear that the verses expressed the world to be very depressing and utterly unsettling; these poems include “Hap”, “To an Unborn Pauper Child”, “The Man He Killed” and “God’s Education”. The poem “Hap” is a negative poem in tone where Hardy examines how easily joy is taken from his life and the randomness of its elimination, this is suggesting a chaos of pain and suffering. The pessimist tone begins from the start of the poem where Hardy mentions “if but some vengeful god would call to me,”(V-L1)...
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...My name is Aristarzeia Pittman and I am in the sixth grade and I attended Greenwood Elementary School where I am in Mrs. Williams’s class. I want to become a motivated writer just like Angela Davis. She was a woman of her word and very helpful to the people. She really did motivate people when they felt like giving up hope. When I grow up I plan to encourage people with my words and actions and to be mentor to many. Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, where she grew up in a moderately wealthy family. Both of her parents were teachers and they provided a model of black activism. When I go around the world I would like for people to ask me who I am. I will say that I am a mentor, a provider and I am someone willing to help others. Angela Davis attended Elisabeth Irwire an integrated private high school in New York. She received many Scholarships such as the one from the American Friends Southern Negro Students Committee. I also plan to receive many scholarships. She attended college in Waltham, Mass where she went to Brandis University and majored in French. I want to study Japanese something that will add to my being different from most. Angela Davis went to many places to study Philosophy with her college partner Herbert Marcus. After her last trip to study at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfort, she came back to America and began teaching at the University Of California. During college she got hired by the Philosophy Department. Angela Davis had...
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...You park your car in the parking lot and slowly make the what seems like a long lengthy walk to the door. As you walk in, your nostrils are flooded with the overwhelming sensational stench of the glorious processed food that is somehow brainwashed into your mind of being actual food. The line carries throughout the restaurant, and children zip around and past you screaming in excitement to go to the much infected, not so playful playground. Your shoes stick to an unknown substance on the ground. You endure all of this just for...what? Overpriced and over-processed garbage with labels such as “hamburger” and “chicken nuggets”? This is an all too familiar torture most people know as a trip to McDonald’s, where lives are ruined. We have all at...
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...we can’t seem to kick. Can’t get a grip, because we’re trying too hard to be the baddest chick. Like New York Time Square, the city that never sleeps, keeps us tired, bogged down, too weak to pray and make promises to God for a better day, because we’re really too afraid that if our prays our answered, we might not want the responsibility of knowing that this time, right here, right now, we have to shine, straighten up and fly right. Do we still need a parachute??? So are we still procrastinating about calling on God? Or are we going to call on useless idols of a lost ark. Not Noah’s Ark of course. Because with all of the noise coming from God’s creations, we would have WOKE UP A LONG TIME AGO. We think to ourselves, a mind is really a terrible thing to waste, so why aren’t we putting something else on our thoughts, except for Who’s Who? And what is going on in a Video Vixen’s world? Which so many times it’s our own culture that takes us on a whirl, because we think that this is what life is all about, suppose to be like and all that other stuff. This is not a put down note. This is our own personal wake up call. We need to change our own self, love our self and be good to our self, treat our self, respect our self, have great expectation of morals, not quarrels amongst our self. On a scale of one to ten, how do we really see our self? Well that’s easy, A TEN!!!! Never underestimate the power that we have, so we have to go out and grab OUR INHERITANCE!!! Meaning…Take back our...
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...confined farm animals generate more than 450 million tonnes of manure annually, three times more raw waste than generated by Americans. But where does this waste go, it does not just disappear and vanish. Since factory farms have many buildings full of crowded animals, they send all of their urine and manure into massive waste lagoons called cesspools. These pools are disgusting and without a doubt smell extremely terrible. In the United States alone, animals raised on factory farms generate more than one four hundred fifty million tons of manure a day. In 2011, an Illinois hog farmer spilled two hundred thousand gallons of manure into a creek killing over one hundred ten thousand fish. How are these pools healthy whatsoever? The EPA or environmental protection agency reports that the waste generated by animal agriculture has polluted over thirty five thousand miles of river in twenty two different states. (Animal feeding operations unified strategies) Researchers from the department of economics at the University of Essex put the annual cost of environmental damage cause by factory farming in the United States at thirty four point seven billion dollars. (Bringing the food economy home) The CCPA claims that “human illnesses caused by drug-resistant bacteria created by the rampant use of antibiotics on feedlots and the degradation of land, water and air quality because by animal waste too intensely concentrated to be neutralized by natural processes.” First you are hurting our water...
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...to choose and live this lifestyle. The only big picture that they see I guess is that there is a lot of money involved. Instead of looking at the real big picture they choose to go the easy but not safe route. If a prostitute is out and about looking to sell her body and soul she can easily be snatched up by a violent individual and never heard from again. Prostitution should not be allowed because there are several dangerous situations that it could put women in. A prostitute could be easily used for a sick pervert’s nasty fantasy. Not to mention that they can be raped or even robbed for everything that they worked so hard for. I could only imagine living the lifestyle of a prostitute and getting robbed for everything I ruined my mind, body and soul for. Prostitution should not be allowed because they are putting not only themselves in danger but also others. They could easily give and catch a disease. What’s even worse is catching or giving someone something that you can’t get rid of such as aids or HIV. A prostitute could risk getting pregnant by someone they don’t even know on the count of them sleeping with so many people. The prevalence of HIV infection among IDUs has reached up to 52%. Although the prevalence of HIV is still less than 5% among women selling sex, their sexual behaviors and practices place them at high risk of acquiring and spreading HIV and STIs (UNAIDS, 2008). The National Sexually Transmitted Infections/Reproductive Tract Infections...
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...welfare. These are alarming statistics to say the least but left unchecked it will only get worse. While Marques Camp and Susan D. Blum share in the opinion that the state of reading is in a decline, they are also at odds on issues. Susan D. Blum believes that, the dismissal and sometimes outright refusal for recreational reading is not in itself a new problem. As she has reminisced of a time where in her on schooling she didn't view reading as beneficiary. Whereas Marques Camp seems to be under the impression that the problem is a new phenomenon that can be traced back to the creation of the Kindle. I believe the problem lies in human nature itself. We are conditioned to find easier ways to complete tasks. In some cases this is a good thing, being able to minimize your workload and increase productivity by taking a shortcut. Other times is can be...
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