In my learning at Bryant and Stratton College, I am learning that being a self-motivated student will come a long way in the education field, and in my career field in criminal justice. The author discusses the ability to have and keep a positive attitude in the work field. Having a positive attitude is first and foremost the best competencies and skills listed in the article. In the criminal justice field, it is very important to maintain a positive attitude for both the offenders and the employees
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Constructing Meaning through Critical Literacy Keona Shorter Grand Canyon University: EED-475 Curriculum, Methods, and Assessment: Reading April 17, 2016 The Poem I, Too, by Langston Hughes, is a literary classic. It illustrates the societal struggles America has been through and reflects a common perception about a class of people in that day. Students can use this poem to learn about social issues and societal norms of 1925 while also developing an opinion about how to treat other people
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health literate Health literacy is essential for successful access to care and use of services, self-care of chronic conditions, and maintenance of health and wellness. Health literacy is fundamental to healthcare that requires individuals to have a more active role in decisions and management. Problems with health literacy affect all people, but the elderly and chronically ill are most at-risk, and also have the greatest healthcare needs and expenses. Poor health literacy is a stronger predictor
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Poor health literacy is a “silent epidemic” that challenges the functioning of the healthcare system. Low health literacy levels are associated with higher risks of hospitalization, inability to manage health conditions, poor health outcomes, and inability to seek proper treatment and understand options available (Palumbo, 2015). Those with inadequate health literacy are more likely to be poor and uninsured (Levy & Janke, 2016). According to a study done by Pati et al. (2010) concerning maternal
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Sample Persuasive Presentation Purpose: To convince the company to help fund the City’s literacy program. Key Ideas (Note: This is NOT a complete outline. These are the main points for each section.) I. A ten-month old baby dies because her mother can't read the printed directions on the child's medicine. II. Millions of Americans are functionally illiterate. III. Project Literacy matches volunteer tutors to people who need help reading. IV. Imagine the lives we can save
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I was sitting in my room behind my computer and was looking and the blank screen on my laptop and was thinking to myself what story I should tell about my literacy? I’m not really sure if I can come up with anything! But then I start to think about the time when I was just a little kid, and I couldn’t read or write. I was very interested in reading since I was a child growing up in Iran. I remember that I was grabbing my mom or my dad magazine’s and look through all the pictures and wondering what
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Introduction Overview of the Leitch report In 2004, Lord Leitch was asked by the Westminster Government to consider what the UK’s long term ambition should be for developing skills, in order to maximise economic prosperity and productivity and to improve social justice. There is consensus that we need to be much more ambitious in the UK and a clear message that the UK must ‘raise its game’, urgently. • The UK has a lot of important strengths – an excellent higher education system where more people
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prescribed by WHO. Poor quality drinking water is adversely affecting the health and diarrhea is an important cause of infant mortality. Traditional Indian communities being male dominated, women have been suppressed till recently. While the average literacy rate in rural areas is around 50-65%, it is as low as 20-25% among women in backward areas. Education of girls was felt to be unnecessary in the past and this has seriously affected their quality of life. Illiteracy has also suppressed their development
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Visual learning is described and defined many different ways. Our textbook defines visual learning as, “The competent creation and consumption of visual messages” (Learning to See: A Guide to Visual Literacy, William Ryan, 2012 , 1.2). The textbook is basically stating that visual learning is having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to bring (and use up a resource) visual messages into existence. In the video, Brian Kennedy (TEDxDartmouth 2010) describes visual learning as, “The ability
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community book festival, City of Chicago (2010), Creative thinking, therefore, will become increasingly important to provide reading material for those who would otherwise go without. This could be accomplished through several means including a literacy children's fair, incorporating large and small businesses, and engaging diverse cultures in the Chicago area. Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles, with an official population of 2,896,016
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