simpler live. Let me be the one to say I am not perfect and I make mistakes, but I am a woman enough to admit it. Being able to own up your flaws is part of becoming a responsible adult. Life is what we make it, so the sooner we stop point the finger to sooner we can start living it. I know no one can stand in the way of my success but me. I am responsible for how far I go with my education. Yes, life has its obstacles but, I have to take control if my own personal responsibilities. To me personal responsibility
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Personal Responsibility To me personal responsibility means being accountable for your actions and taking responsibility for the outcome of your life. Proper time management, staying focused, disciplined and consistent are some of the qualities I consider when thinking about personal responsibility and its definition to me. As I go through life I have noticed that unsuccessful people can make up many different excuses for why they are not where they want to be in life or why they have not achieved the
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I have an associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education from IVY Tech Community College. While there I did a practicum at Methodist Temple in the three-year old room. Through this experience, I learned that communication with the parents is key to a child’s success in the classroom. I am currently working on a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education at USI. I have done a practicum at the Child Learning Center, where I was in the 3-5 year old room. During this experience, I
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There is really nothing too special about it, it was a one horse town with the closest supermarket being 15 minutes away. Did I mention that my backyard was a corn field? Well, it was and being from a small town I definitely learned a lot through my education and community involvement. I lived in Marcellus my whole life and attended school there from kindergarten through my senior year. The school was small, everyone knew everybody, and you basically stayed friends with the same people from kindergarten
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day, I value and respect my education more and more, and will forever do so. Why? Think about it: Life can take away everything from its people; however, it cannot take away his or her education. In fact, Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”—this is true (“Nelson Mandela Quotes,” n.d., p. 1). Today, I believe that I am making a difference in the world with my knowledge, especially in the world of education. The knowledge that I have
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Why shoot us down with bad grades? You want to see us succeed, right? In the article “What our education system needs is more F’s,” by Carl Singleton, he argues why he feels that students should receive more F’s instead of passing grades. He gives a great argument about his position, and he points out things such as, why teachers don’t give F’s to students and How that is affecting kids from elementary school to post-graduates. Although some may feel the education system may need more F’s, the grades
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These pages were downloaded from Writing Personal Statements Online, available at https://www.e-education.psu.edu/writingpersonalstatementsonline/ Short Personal Statement by a Geology Student Growing up in Canada with a life-long fascination for Canadian geography, I have always been interested in returning to the country. Although my family moved to the US before I entered high school, I have always kept my eyes turned north, especially in recent years as I began to read journal
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I’m here to tell you about the cultural event/interview I did. This interview was established November 25, 2011 when i interviewed my grandfather Brint Lavender about his childhood. I will discuss why this cultural event was important. First, I think the cultural events are important to the college mission because they help bring cultural to the community and it helps you be well rounded in the culture of other ethical groups that are spread around the world. Learning about other cultural events
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Describe your initial contact/connection with the agency. a. Was is smooth or was it difficult? Why? It was not difficult for me to initiate contact with Food Recovery Network. The Food Recovery Network at Calvin College was well managed by the students. I was blessed that my friend (who leads the program) introduced me to the program last year, so I was able to have knowledge about the program beforehand. He sent me the resources via email and then I signed myself on the list in minutes. The leaders would
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I think that literacy cannot just be defined as the one only might think of it as. Furthermore, the connection between literacy and the form of literacy itself, which people use as a necessity, was also mentioned in Literacy and the Politics of Education by C.H Knoblauch as a functional literacy, and he basically explains that this kind of literacy used when people process the information, such as “reading sets of instructions” (Knoblauch 76). Even though Knoblauch agrees that this type of literacy
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