November 12, 2014 Final Report (1st Draft) I am doing my community service with Project Uplift, an organization affiliated with the university, which I have been involved with for almost 3 years now. Project Uplift is a volunteer/mentor program, which helps children around Lee County develop constructive, happy lives. I joined this organization in hopes of helping to make a child’s life better by spending a few hours per week with them. My friend, Sammy, and I began Project Uplift together by
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Leslie’s Career Development Plan Leslie Hicks Jacksonville University School of Nursing Sept. 5, 2014 Staff nurse to Nurse Manager/Nurse Educator I. Personal Goals i. Short-term goals i. Elliptical, power walk or go running 40 minutes 3 times a week to lose 15 pounds. This goal will be achieved by eliminating sugars, and processed foods/carbohydrates. This goal will be achieved by Thanksgiving 2014. ii. Obtain BSN at Jacksonville University
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things about my younger self. As a child I exhibited a secure style of attachment, according to my mother. My separation and reunion isn’t quite binary as I lived in a large family as part of collectivist society. This allowed me to have multiple caregivers whenever I was distressed. My mother specifically recalls a time in which she had to leave and started to cry, however quickly after she saw my cousin pick me up which soothed me. There was an outlier with one of my caregivers, my uncle, Bob. Whenever
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One of the most sought-after goals in the world of marketing is a high degree of consumer satisfaction. But in the world of education, satisfaction by itself should not be the criterion for success. If both satisfaction and performance are high, we have cause for celebration. If satisfaction is high and performance is low, as is currently the case in the United States, we have cause for serious alarm. According to Stevenson and Stigler in "The Learning Gap", American parents whose children generally
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However, even with all this possibility, I still am restricted, grounded by my own laziness and lack of motivation. Doomed with the same fate as Tantalus, desperately grasping at my hopes and dreams, but it always being just out of my reach. So for me, my problem, like many others, is that I find that I never moving outside my comforting box of security, or pushing myself to do more than just the minimum effort of activities. My goal then, is to break this looming curse, and become a more confident and
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April 6 of 2004, I was still asleep when I hear my brother Roberto asking my mother, “ mom are my jeans and my shirt ready” “ I can help you to get them ready” my mom just whispered, “ is not time yet Roberto” “ get ready to eat breakfast”. I could not believe how he was so happy about leaving our hometown to come to a war without guns. On the other hand, I was so sad that I could feel my tears wetting my face. When I get up my mother handle me a suitcase and said: “pack only what is necessary”.
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personal, professional, and academic goals relating to my degree plan and how the SMART goals apply to each goal. I will also explain my accountability plan to overcome challenges and predict future success from my past positive experiences and personality after completing online degree. Taking online courses through Ashford University will help me to achieve my goals in life and create future success for myself. My Goals and SMART Goal Process After asking myself what personal goal I wanted to achieve
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Welding Before I start my essay I’d like to briefly go over the history of welding. Welding can trace its historic development back to ancient times. The earliest examples come from the Bronze Age. Small gold circular boxes were made by pressure welding lap joints together. It is estimated that these boxes were made more than 2000 years ago. During the Iron Age the Egyptians and people in the eastern Mediterranean area learned to weld pieces of iron together. Many tools were found which were made
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questions and concerns immediately surface at the thought of returning to school. “How will I afford this?” “Will I have enough time for school along with my family and working full time?” Last but not least “Who is going to teach me how to use the new technology that kids are obsessed with these days?” Technology has literally taken over the education system today. Kindergarten students have iPads provided by the school, high school and college students are turning every single homework assignment in
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Being able to read and get involved in a book is the best feeling ever. Growing up, I could remember from a young age my mother reading all different types of Disney books to me. I loved the Disney books that had a princess in it because when I was younger, I thought I was going to become a princess when I grew up, of course, that didn’t happen. For most of my life, up to age seven, my mom or teachers read to me because I had a speech delay and a learning disability that made it difficult for me to
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