...about what the servant-leader does in order to better themselves all together, how they take criticism within their work, how they look into making their actions improve in order to reach out to more and more individuals, and how they use what they do every single day to renew what they want to do in regards to servant-leadership. Within the Wade Center, they work every day to better their “Habits” in order to reach out to more and more children. The employees and other volunteers that I interacted seemed as if they always were working towards bettering their approaches towards the children in order to make a bigger impact on them. They looked to me as if they were constantly trying to see what they were doing that could be improved within their work with the children. Instead of just doing the same thing towards the children every day, they seem to act as if they are striving to change the way that they work with the kids for the bettering of the child...
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...the advantages of having diversity in a collaborative learning environment? I like being about to talk to different people all over the world and hearing their experience. I think that is really helpful in the learning world because I don’t feel like I’m talking to made up people, its actually real life and real problems and real success. It also makes it a challenge to have a conversation because when you write something and someone writes back you feel compelled to do the same and it actually makes you think about the question and it’s not just home work anymore. Its meeting new people and bettering yourself as a person and bettering your communication skills. • How might factors such as diversity, attitude, learning, and work styles affect collaboration? Well I think that work style affects collaboration more than any of the others, because some people work better by just doing the work and not having to collaborate with other people. I had to get use to speaking with the other students. I have noticed that some of the other students are old and feel that they have to be in the parent roll and I sometimes have to bit my tongue because I don’t live with my parents I don’t want someone being bossy like my mother while I’m trying to learn. The diversity , I think it helps because it introduces us to people all over the world with different lives and it give an insight to the a bigger picture. • How does personal responsibility influence the work and success...
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...the most important virtuous trait because improving the human race as a whole defines morality. Morality includes bettering oneself, but the way to enhance oneself is to improve others. One of the most ethical character, the Knight, puts others before himself by his love of “chivalrye, trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye” (Chaucer 45-46). Chivalry associates with characteristics such as courtesy, justice, honor, and manners, each quality relating to interaction between people. The Knight uses these favored traits to cooperate with those he fights for, therefore assisting them while offering respect. Next, bettering the church and those who attend it motivates the Parson. He makes himself available to everyone at the church despite uncontrollable situations such as weather or sickness: “But he ne lafte nought for rain ne thonder, In sickness nor in mescheif, to visite” (495-494). His determination to help those in need despite the inconvenience for him builds his character and improves the life of others, achieving the basis to morality. Also, the Clerk would “levere have at his beddes heed twenty books, clad in blak or reed, of Aristotle and his philosophye, than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye” (296-298). His motivation to gain knowledge about his world and differences in point of view makes himself a more capable, well-rounded person. By bettering himself, he improves his community by his aspiration to teach: “And gladly wold he lerne, and gladly teche” (310)....
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...Sitting in the NICU looking into an isolette at my baby boy that came in to this world 3 months sooner than I expected. With fear in my eyes, relief in my heart knowing everything will be ok. So thankful for the nurses, doctors and technology and medication in this world that made it possible for my son to be here with me. This was the moment I realized my job now as a mother to this beautiful baby boy is to make sure I gave my son a life with opportunity’s, safety, love and support. Being 19 with no idea how this world works, but having the strength and love to push me to better myself so I could be the best mom I could be for my son Trevor. As Trevor grew and I started to learn what it would take to get to the life style I wanted to live with my son I found my interest of caring for others and my dream of being a nurse formed....
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...Emmanuel J. Crespo Ms. Coleman Honors World Literature April 13, 2016 Killing for Human Life An analysis of the justification for criminality with the argument that it will better humanity in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Crime towards humanity has never been rightly justified, but it seems as if the crime towards humanity misinterprets the goal of the crime. Criminals would like to believe that their crimes were done for humanity rather than towards humanity. Fyodor Dostoevsky exposes the argument of bettering humanity as a scapegoat for criminality in his novel, Crime and Punishment. The wealthy and those in poverty have had a strong dissonance for hundreds of thousands of years, usually caused by envy and frustration of the poor and the arrogance and lack of empathy of the rich. Raskolnikov, frustrated that he could not finish his studies in law and had to drop out of law school, has grown a type of soft hatred to the pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna. Due to her wealth and unfair treatment to the people that pawn items to her, Raskolnikov undoubtedly turns his soft hate into violent thoughts. He envisioned murdering her and taking her money, but the moral side of him always brought a sense of disgust to his own thoughts, and Raskolnikov would not want to go through with the crime. Although he tried to take the idea off his mind, the struggle of him having owe the landlady dues as well as him already behind on payments, Raskolnikov’s thought turned to a plan...
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...Lexi Fatheree KINE 1311 Doctor Ballard 24 September 2014 Philosophy Paper Introductioin: Who am I? Well I am still trying to figure that out myself. I am only nineteen and there are so many things that I have yet to experience. There are so many people that I have yet to meet. But I am taking things day by day, one at a time. I have thought long and hard as to what my philosophy on life is. And that philosophy is “Never Be Satisfied.” Coming from a family of nothing but athletes, this phrase is used in my household a lot; almost every day, actually. It is something that I live by in athletics and in life as well. However, growing up I never fully understood what “never be satisfied,” meant. My Philosophy: The moment I started high school was when I truly began to think about what never being satisfied meant. I already knew how the phrase fit into my life athletically, but athletics was not my entire life. It took me a few years, but I finally realized what “never be satisfied” really meant. To never be satisfied means to never stop growing as a person. Never stop growing emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Different experiences have affected me positively and negatively, but they have also made me grow as a person. Mentally and emotionally, I have been tested and pushed past my breaking point, but it was an experience that I would never trade for any other. The knowledge I have acquired throughout the years has helped my outlook on the people that surround me and...
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...Women’s Equality In 1995 at The United Nations’ fourth world conference in Beijing, China, Hilary Rodham Clinton speaks out on the injustice women have endured. She is getting people’s attention by bringing this topic out in the open. Her speech is effective in motivating world leaders to improve the lives of women because she focuses on the unity and the importance women in the community play, She also exposes the challenges and abuses women face around the world in order to invoke an emotional response in her listeners and she is sure to make a point of the experience she has with women’s issues and shows her determination to end the discrimination. Throughout her speech Clinton centers on the unity and importance of women’s roles in society. She uses repetition to stress the importance that women play on the family and community. In the beginning she uses the words “family” and “flourish” several times in one paragraph and points out how families cannot survive without the work of women to hold them together. Clinton also lists the many jobs that women take part in when she says, “At this very moment, as we sit here, women around the world are giving birth, raising children, cooking meals, washing clothes, cleaning houses, planting crops, working on assembly lines, running companies, and running countries” (3). Through that statement she expresses the true value of women. A couple of paragraphs below she states again the different jobs women have in the community but lists...
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...George Coritsidis History 210/AAS 290 Professor Spivey The Souls of Black Folk Analysis II The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is a powerful literary piece that expresses what consequences hatred and segregation can have on the black population living in the south. Du Bois makes it clear what profuse determination and inner power black people must have in order to overcome and resist the “Veil” of oppression. This Veil contributes greatly to Du Bois sense of resentment towards white society and the strong schism that exists between white and black lives in America. The power of education is a prevalent theme and message to fellow blacks throughout The Souls of Black Folk. Over time the “Negro ideal” shifts from simply desiring freedom, to a political demand for voting equality with the 15th amendment, and ultimately graduating to the push for education. “Slowly but steadily, in the following years, a new vision began gradually to replace the dream of political power, ---a powerful movement, the rise of another ideal to guide the unguided…it was the ideal of book learning.” In Du Bois’ mind, blacks educating themselves is an absolute necessity if they wished complete with the oppressive white society on an intellectual level. Education and book learning to him is far more important and effective even the Emancipation law itself. Education would help black ultimate lift “the Veil” of oppression. Blacks for Du Bois should not be taught merely to earn money and...
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...Michael Dell vs Andy Grove Michael Dell was the founder of a computer company. He came across as an intrapersonal business man. He based his company’s foundation on pleasing the customer; giving the customer what they want. His goal was to build and run a company that was people oriented and allowed everyone involved to have a voice in the process. The importance of being a good listener can take you far. Andy Grove was the founder of a computer chip manufacturing company. His business philosophy was to either sink or swim and nothing in between. He felt that because he had the best product that there wasn’t a need to worry about the competition, look into bettering the product, or even thinking about the future of the market and appealing to the consumer’s wants. It took time, but he did grasp the concept wrong strategy and poor execution will lead to failure. One should look to the past to predict the future of the market and what appeals to the customers. Always be willing to make changes to your product and even the little man can have a good ideas. Ultimately, listening is the key concept for the two businessmen. The manufacturing of the Olympic without knowing if that’s what the customer really wanted, didn’t give the results they were expecting. Bulk packaging a product might not be the best choice; what’s good for one may not be good for the other. I didn’t see much resistance for this CEO because of the way he went about doing business. There was the time...
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...heroic soul of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin began writing his autobiography in 1771, but before he could finish writing his whole life story, he died in 1790. One challenge the book poses for us, then, is that it doesn’t cover a lot of the interesting and important stuff that happened in Franklin life, like the American Revolution or the time he spent working as a diplomat in Paris. Through his work as a writer, printer, statesman and inventor he forever established himself as one of America’s greatest figures. We see Benjamin Franklin’s influence during his lifetime, in the majority of major developments in U.S. History. His hard work and dedication to bettering himself and the lives of fellow American’s actually paved the way for Colonial America to separate itself from Great Britain and establish it’s self as a major world power. “A Man story is not told by list of his grand accomplishments, but rather by his smaller daily goods.” We see how his influence, which derived from his dilegence and dedication, helped shape the course of U.S. history. Benjamin Franklin was an American pioneer. It is amazing the vast amount of contributions he has made to U.S. history and American life. When one thinks, “What we can learn about U.S. history from this autobiographical account of Benjamin Franklin’s life?” you have to know that is actually a simple question. We learn that he helped make it possible for the, then...
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...I would paint ‘be an anomaly’ on the Beta Bridge. The word anomaly to me is an inspirational and goes beyond the basic definition of deviation. It is rather something that constantly pushes the boundaries of acceptable. The word anomaly often applies to the many great people, innovations, and beliefs present in the world today. I would like to innovate something others would not have thought of. In order to be an anomaly in the sense of bettering society, I would argue you must think outside of the box and go beyond the programmed ideas of society. Throughout history, patterns within society have been broken, ways of life have changed. Usually this is at the hands of an individual or a groups of individuals who see the world in a different...
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...Imagine a society where one is told that they matter. That they have a voice to express; a voice that holds power. A world where one is trained to be a good citizen, a good person, and each be their own personal best (John Taylor Gatto). At a young age, schools instill these qualities into children, so that they shall grow and be nurtured into degeneralized, unoriginal bodies. To ensure there would be no resistance as the veil of deceit thickens around ones very eyes, they manipulate you to their personal desires. Through the diagnosis of students' social roles and capabilities, they sort them and train them in their strongest field as far as the social field will allow, and no step further (Gatto). Schools not only are complete ruses for the...
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...years before World War Two (“Joy Kohan Biography”). A great extent of the author’s childhood would have been during World War Two. In addition, Japanese families were mistreated by Canadian government officials during World War Two (“Joy Kohan Biography.”) The poem represents how war can be avoided. The poem used the wall as a symbol of conflict between nations. The poem gives peaceful methods of overcoming the wall, such as, “around, over, or through / there’s a gate.” (3-4) and then nonpeaceful methods, e.g. “there are methods of torture” (11) and “bettering rams” (16), to get the same results. The Berlin wall is an iconic landmark that represents World War Two (“Berlin Wall History”). I believe that Joy Kogawa chose to base the poem around a “wall” rather than a similar obstacle like a “fence” or a “mountain” to symbolize the Berlin Wall and thus associate the poem with war. The poem also used military objects to create an image of war by referring to methods to cross or destroy the “wall.” For example, “Battering rams / armies with trumpets / whose all at once blast / shatters the foundations” (16-20). Lines “16-20” appeal to the senses of touch and hearing. “Trumpets” and “last” are both associated with war sounds. “Shatters the foundation” (20) appeals to the sense of touch, creating the image of an earthquake. Morse code is often associated with World War Two and is represented in this poem “special codes to tap” (24). Morse code was used during world war two by...
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...It is with great pleasure that I write this letter of recommendation for Adriana Sanford. She has demonstrated her passion of teaching and learning through her collaborations with other professors, and participation as a radio co- host in Beyond the Curve show and as a guest speaker at CNN Dinero. I had Professor Sanford for Law ethics and regulations in Business two semesters ago and she is one of the most caring professors I have had in my college career. She is always willing to answer questions and go the extra mile for her students. Apart from being an exemplary professor, Professor Sanford is great role model for all students. As a student of hers, I learned the great lesson of bettering yourself. Although she has an impeccable resume,...
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...Robert Aquilone Robert Aquilone What are the obstacles to bettering yourself in the Indian culture and in the American culture? Here I will take a look at these two cultures and compare the difference and similarities. What are the obstacles to bettering yourself in the Indian culture and in the American culture? Here I will take a look at these two cultures and compare the difference and similarities. Indian and American Jobs [Type the document subtitle] Indian and American Jobs [Type the document subtitle] The world is comprised of many people and many cultures, there are so many that we as a whole have lost count and some lost interest in knowing what those other culture are or how they work. I will take a look at two different cultures, the differences and similarities. The thought that people would not want to understand where other people come from or what they have gone through in life is normal in today’s society. We tend to think only for or about ourselves. I have chosen to compare the Indian culture to the American culture looking specifically at the employment opportunities within these cultures First we will have to look at a little history or background of these cultures to gain some perspective. “India is a very diverse country, and different regions have their own distinct cultures. Language, religion, food and the arts are just some of the various aspects of Indian culture.” (Zimmermann, 2013) The Indian culture is one of long history and pride...
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