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Personal Responsibility with Time Gen200 Personal Responsibility Success in college today is a balancing act of time; without balance between the academic career and a personal life, one will sometimes falter. Most people attending college today have a personal responsibility to a family as well as an academic career. For a person to be successful in college the right balance in both academic and a personal life must be found. Devotion to one without the other can often lead to neglect.

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Critical Thinking Evangelina Villela GEN200 February 11, 2015 Critical Thinking Critical Thinking is a learned skill developed by broadening your viewpoints through clear thinking. It is the process of evaluating issues to form rational, open-minded conclusions to solve problems better. A psychologist named Benjamin Bloom named six levels of thinking. He called them a taxonomy of educational objectives (Ellis & Toft, 2015). The six levels are Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing

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Personal Responsibility Gen200, Version 3 Personal Responsibility Even though we may not all be raised to be responsible people, we generally come to learn that responsibility pushes us toward focus and hard work which in turn helps us to become responsible adults. Dictionary.com lists responsibility as an adjective and defines it as one being answerable or accountable, something within one’s power, control or management whereas personal is one person such as one self. I imagine if there

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Teaching Our Kids Personal Responsibility Scott McMillan GEN200 July 30, 2012 Richard Guliuzza Teaching Our Kids Personal Responsibility The web definition of “responsibility” says this: 1. The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something; 2. The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something. I think the foundation of Personal Responsibility is how well you take care of yourself and others. This is physically and mentally. It all starts with what your parents taught

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Accepting Personal Responsibility and College Megan Forrester GEN200 Accepting Personal Responsibility and College Even with the influences in my life, I am responsible for the decisions I make in my life because I take responsibility over both my mental and physical health choices. What is responsibility? Responsibility is taking action or being obligated to do something because of a value that you hold close to you. For example, taking care of your children is a huge

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and practices. Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION COURSE NUMBER: GEN200 COURSE TITLE: Foundations for General Education and Professional Success COURSE START DATE: 05/17/2011 COURSE END DATE: 06/20/2011 REQUIRED READING: Students are required to read all materials available at the Course Materials site for this

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Personal Responsibility Collin Todd Gen200 02/04/2013 Dennis Golden Personal Responsibility When I was younger my mother would always tell me to be a responsible adult. I really did not understand her until I got older. One day my mother and I got into an argument and never really got along after that. So I moved out and moved in with my cousin. I was only 12 years old. I needed to learn how to be a responsible adult. I had no one to take care of me and I was on my own

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Research Strategy Paper GEN200 August 2, 2010 Valencia Strickland-Mills Research Strategy Paper My life is filled with the every day challenge of balancing work, school, and my family. Every day I wake up and have to complete numerous jobs that are very overwhelming. I have to get my first child off to school, the second child to daycare, go to work for an eight-hour shift, pick my children up and tend to the household chores such as dinner, laundry, bathing, and cleaning. Once all

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Research Strategy Paper GEN200 Research Strategy Paper This research strategy paper is about a problem for me in my day to day life and how I would like to come up with a strategy to solve the issue. I will briefly discuss my problem that I’m having in my day-to-day life. Identifying what kinds of information I can use to help in solving this issue and where I can get this information from. I will be going over the process that I will use to evaluate the information that

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Personal Responsibility Leads to Success Ashley N. Smith GEN200 17 December 2012 Personal Responsibility Leads to Success Personal responsibility is taking accountability for your actions and facing the consequences for those actions. Even though it is not required to succeed in life, personal responsibility is something that one needs to be a truthful and responsible person. “Responsibility is the hallmark of the fully integrated, fully functioning human being” (Tracy, 1). Taking personal

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