...could ever hurt me. In other words, you could say I was optimistic and too naive to be afraid of anything. However, during the time I had tears rolling down my face and feeling as if nobody could hear me. “Am I dying?” I thought to myself. At that very moment I made myself believe I would not ever be able to walk on the earth ever again. I myself had never felt so petrified in my life. “Oh do you remember those sweet, almost innocent choices that the Indian boys were forced to make?” (Alexie 144) You should always think before your actions. One night of “possible fun” could change your life forever. Your life can be taken abruptly. So you have to make your choices wisely. Consequently, my friends and I had made the decision to go to our first party this Friday night. We had been drinking all night long and decided to go race four-wheelers. Which led to a huge mistake, resulting the reason I was on the ground screaming for help! I had tumbled off a 10 foot cliff drop off, and the four-wheeler landed right on top of my body. With it slamming down and smashing my head to the ground, I felt as if I couldn’t move. I opened my eyes and ahead I could see the river that I had missed by about 15 feet. Nobody had even noticed yet that I had flown off the cliff for at least ten minutes, but it seemed like a lifetime. It is safe to say that anything can happen to anyone at any time! The year this happened was my sophomore year in High School, therefore, I was 16 years old,...
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...differentiate, compare, and contrast appropriate and inappropriate content that can be utilized in a PowerPoint Presentation. Students will execute the procedures for developing a multimedia presentation as well as the methods of delivery and distribution of a presentation. Students will generate, design, and present a Powerpoint Presentation. The Materials that will be utilized in this lesson will be: PowerPoint Presentation DIgital Activity Module Worksheets (Step by Step) I-Pads Computers Critique Rubrics IMovie I will begin by grabbing the student’s attention by showing them a clip of a Saved by the Bell television show where the students had to create a PowerPoint Presentation, some were appropriate and some were inappropriate. In order to activate the students’ prior knowledge, after watching the video clip I will have the students fill out a K-W-L chart that will consists of what the students already KNOW about presentation, what they WANT to know about presentations, and at the end of the lesson they will utilize this same chart to fill out what they have LEARNED. Next I will have a classroom discussion with the students about the basics of presenting a PowerPoint Presentation. After the brief discussion I will cover and define content on purpose,...
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...What I Learned at Driving School Driving school was quite the experience for me. To say the least, it was extremely interesting. I learned so much from this course, which I did not even know I could learn so much about driving in four hours! Throughout my paper, I will talk about the main topics that I learned and what I expect to make me a better driver. The Alabama Graduated Drivers License Law was one of the main things I learned during this course. This law is very important today and became affected on October 1, 2002. A Fifteen year old with a valid learner’s license are to be accomplished by a parent or legal guardian of the age of twenty-one with a valid divers license. This law states that six-teen year olds must not operate a vehicle between midnight and six a.m. unless certain procedures. At this age, you must also not have more than four passengers in your car (three friends, driver, parent—MAX!) This law is extremely important. If residents do not follow this law, it can cause danger to other drivers. Traffic laws are something EVERYONE needs to follow. While attending driving school, the main reason why people were attending was for speeding. Including myself, driving school has taught me the dangers of speeding. Speeding is not always the cause of crashes, but it is a main event in this situation. Alabama’s basic speed law provides that you must never drive a vehicle at a speed that is faster than the reasonable speed. Weather, roadwork, and your car conditions...
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...2007-2009) III. Organizational Stakeholder Impact A. Help prioritize key issues and develop procedures (Nike, INC, n.d.) B. Must engage to avoid issues again from the 90’s (Nike, INC, n.d.) IV. Societal Stakeholder Impact A. Reviews report for transparency (Nike, INC, n.d.) B. Had most recent report re worked to seek more candidly about lessons learned from both successes and failures (Nike, INC, n.d.) V. Current Status of Corporation Nike pays 25 million annually to implements and follow Corporate Social Responsibility. (Arias, 2010) However, Nike refused to pay 2.2 million dollars to Honduran workers in severance (Arias, 2010) when two subcontractors closed down their facilities. Years later they agreed to pay 1.54 Million dollars to help these workers. VI. Strategic CSR Nike agrees that innovation through the lens of sustainability is fundamental to achieving their vision of growth that is not dependent upon constrained resources (Arias, 2010) As a market Materials and manufacturing represent the greatest areas of impact amongst workers communities and the environment (Nike, INC., 2015) VII. First Chosen Driving Force of CSR A. Sustainability- seen as a powerful opportunity to innovate B....
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...take their driving test and when they pass, they’re off into the streets. Some people believe however, that the age should be raised to 18. They believe that just because people are 16 or 17 that they are immature and cause most of the accidents. They should not blame all teens for others actions, because most of them have just learned how to drive. First of all, people should not raise the age to 18, because people have to get use to driving. My point of view is that even though they past the test; they aren’t use to driving around other cars and need to get use to it. Some teens may get nervous on the road. They try to stay away cars which ends up making them crash into the cars they aren’t paying attention too. Other teens think that they know how to drive when their around other cars, so they pay no attention to the important things. Then they end up in a car crash. Next, why should we all be punished for others people mistakes? When teens end up in crashes they either survive or don’t. Either way it goes they learned their lessons. Parents should pay attention to this and talk to their teenagers. They shouldn’t let their teenagers drive unless they’re with them and then once they see how teenagers are doing on the road, they can either let their teenagers drive alone or sit their with them until their sure their teenager is ready to handle the wheel with out their parents by their side. Finally, Some people believe that it would be good to raise the driving age to 18...
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...River. There were no neighborhood children for me—I it was a special treat just to make the miles-long trip remember driving only three minutes in the car to spend the night with my best friend, Natalie. My memories are made up of, riding around in the big green John Deere tractors with my dad, with the feeling that I was on top of the world, and being chased by a rather large brown cow when family time was spentwhile trying to get the herd back into the field. While most of the other boys and girls other kids my age were busy playing tag in their quarter- of- an- acre backyard, I was busy creating a world of make believe with my sisters, in the sprawling countryside we called home. playing games that my sisters and I invented, in my twenty acre make believe world. Growing up on a farm has been one of the biggest blessings in my life. I havetaught me learned things that could never have been taught picked up on the sidewalk of any neighborhood. The concept of hard work has been instilled into brain. From sewing seeds in the greenhouse, to putting the plants in the ground, to helping my dad sell our produce at our local farmers’ market every summer to harvesting, I know what goes in to the produce we buy at the grocery store;, and even more—what it takes to be successful in the business of agriculture. As we opened our farm to the public for our first-ever Corn...
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...a final exam first hour. I was a normal senior with the thought of graduating on my mind, and nothing else. Waking up late became part of my schedule once the second semester of school started. I became used to rushing and making it in the class with a couple seconds to spare. I hopped up out of bed and headed for the shower. Cold showers were becoming a normal thing because if I let the shower warm up, by that time I would be late. By this time my mom is in my room wondering why I wasn’t out the door. I then get out of the shower and let my mom know I’m running late. She then realizes I need to eat and makes me some food to eat on the way. But that day was different, that was the day she got sic of making me food and rushing because I was always late. Knowing I had an exam first hour meant if I didn’t show up before the bell had rung I would fail and I would not graduate. This made me fear being late, and at the rate I was going, late seemed like a very possible situation. At the time I owned a Cadillac CTS. This was a decently fast car and I liked going fast. I’ve drove anything I could get my hands on from when I was just a little kid. Cars have always been in big interest to me. I knew how to do a lot with cars from drifting in the snow, to speeding around back roads, all the way to blowing cars up for fun also learned to respect what could hurt you, and cars can definitely become dangerous in a snap of a second. The day I learned my biggest lesson was today, Tuesday...
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...successful and what lessons if any can be learned from their LIG program. In 2007, Steven Prokesch attended the four day Leadership Innovation and Growth (LIG) program at General Electric’s leadership development center in Crotonville, New York. A year later he revisited the 19 senior managers who had attended with him to see how much influence the program had made. “The answer was plenty, “ Prokesch writes. New initiatives had been launched and businesses created. Manager’s genuinely trying to modify their roles and behavior in order to stimulate and promote growth. Prokesch cites five main reasons for LIG’s success in bringing about those changes. 1. Team training accelerated the pace of change by giving managers an opportunity to reach consensus on the barriers to change and how best to attack them. 2. Participants were encouraged to consider both the hard barriers to change (organizational structure, capabilities, and resources) and the soft (how the members of the leadership team individually and collectively act and spend their time). 3. The traditional management challenge of balancing the short term and the long term—or simultaneously managing the present and creating the future—was explicitly addressed. 4. The course created a common vocabulary of change—“literally words that became part of daily communications inside and across GE’s businesses.” 5. No academic exercise. The program was structured so that a team would emerge with the first draft of an...
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...to where I am today of being married and how I have learned from prior mistakes that was made in my life. And I will also tell how our love for each other has grown stronger and how we have become closer in our path of life. This is a hard journey to accomplish and make it last a lifetime. Life Changing Experience 3 A Wonderful Life Changing Experience I was young and had lots to learn about being married and becoming a wife, the thought I had in my mind that marriage was supposed to be easier, as they make it look in fairy tale stories. I then realized it was not so easy. I was married to a man that never took marriage seriously and it affected our relationship drastically. Our marriage lasted for only six months. In those six months he refused to work to support our family. After several months of financial struggle, I woke up one day with the realization that my sons and I did not deserve this type of life. I decided to move on and search for someone who valued a marriage the same way I did. When I think back on when I first met my husband, it still gives me butterflies. Our first encounter was while we were doing laundry at a local laundry mat. I was standing there folding clothes and when I looked at him I felt my heart melt, like a hammer to a nail in a board. . A few days had passed and my friend introduced the two of us. I thought for sure it was love at first sight. He was so sincere and respectful to my home...
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...farm When I was young I lived on a farm. We had livestock of cows and pigs to take care of. Living on the farm was very hard work with the upkeep of the animals and their pens. Life lessons were taught at a young age that stick with me today. When I was big enough to ride a bicycle my father got me a dirt bike. I was the happiest boy in the world, but little did I know my father had other uses for me and that dirt bike. It was around that age my father started waking me up early summer mornings and taking me to the barns with him to feed and water the animals. He explained to me that the animals were our life and there life was ours. If the animals got sick, wasn’t fed or watered then all the things we love and enjoyed at the house would not be there such as my new dirt bike. So making sure all the animals were healthy was the first and foremost most important thing on the farm. After many years of taking care of the animals, some do get sick no matter how well they are taken care of. Spending hours in a pen with a sow till she gives birth was boring yet exciting at the same time. Then taking care of them, watching them grow you start getting attached to the animals. It was hard at a young age to care for and love the animals to watch them grow and let them go. The lessons I was taught living on the farm were harsh. I get attached to animals I took care of for years knowing that they were food and what kept our family alive. Even knowing that did not make...
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...It went downhill from there Roderic Smith got pulled over by an Arlington police officer for in Arlington for suspicion of driving without insurance. However, Smith had a handgun and several ounces of marijuana in his car. Police spokeswoman Karen Standback said that “he faces charges for both offenses”. Later that day, Police Chief Will Johnston tweeted “This person is not having a good start to his birthday today”. They accidentally pushed the SUV’s emergency call button. Police came. Busted. Andrew Johnson and Sarah Harrison, both face charges of possession of a controlled substance. However, Andrew Johnson also faces a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. The pair got busted by the police when they accidentally pressed the SUV’s emergency button. Police officers were sent to their location to determine the reason for the call, however, the officers found the pair intoxicated and with large amounts of marijuana in their car. Grand Prairie Police stop drug peddling with new bike...
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...3/20/15 How I Learned to Drive After completing the play “How I Learned to Drive” I couldn’t help myself but to try and put all the pieces together. There were so many messages that weren’t clear and the listeners really needed to take advantage of their critical thinking skills. This play’s style is epic theatre, this means that there is a lesson to be learned within the play. In the play they try and teach the lesson as if you are learning to drive a car. There are many different gears in a car, just like there are many different gears in your life. We have our childhood gear, this is where we learn the basics of life like what is right or wrong. We have our teenage gear, this is when we learn how to adapt into the real world and learn the knowledge to succeed. Next, we have our adult gear, this is where you take everything you learned and make a life for yourself. Lastly, we have our teaching gear, this is when we take everything we learned in life and we are able to teach and mentor our family. It all comes full circle just like how the student becomes the teacher. In our mind’s it is very simple everything comes in chronological order. Unfortunately, this does not always happen this way. This play was the perfect representation of that. Growing up Lil Bit was finding her life to at a rapid pace. Her body was maturing quickly and so was the interest in her by people of the opposite sex. Lil Bit was always feeling targeted while she was growing up since she has always been...
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...I read the Realistic novel, No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis. The book is told from the point of view of the first person told from Valli. Valli is an orphan girl who always gets left overs from her cousin’s food that sometimes they don’t have leftovers and all in all she has a horrible life. So, one day she was working (she works by picking up coal) while she was loading up the coal truck she decides to get in the back of the truck while the people that is gonna drive the truck walked away for a minute. The 2 men driving the coal truck never noticed until they started to unload the coal. So, the 2 men are arguing on what they should do with Valli. The 2 men know a woman who takes care of little girls that don’t have homes. The men take her to the woman and the woman puts her in a shed and gives her food and water. Then she...
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...Joel Molina Kata Alvidrez ENG 101-133 29 September 2013 Reckless Driving I have learned my lesson. Growing into my mid teen years, I would always hear my parents rant about safe driving. I can hear it in my head every second of everyday. They would tell me “better safe than sorry”, but I never listened. I was 16 years old and super happy with my brand new license, ready to take on the roads. I treated the roads like a vehicle playground. I drove like a street racer on “Fast and the Furious”. Stepping on the gas like it was my job, I would zip through traffic. This made me feel like a boss, street racer, king etc... Neglecting my parent’s advice on safe driving, I would test my limits on the road. I am in a vehicle with air bags ,as well as a great crash rating ,and I thought to myself, “what’s the worse that can happen?” that is until one day, I realized my parents were right. As my date with my girlfriend was coming to a conclusion, I was on my way to dropping her off. We had a great time filled with laughs and romance. The night went perfect. As I was driving to her house to drop her off, I was ripping the streets . Speeding all the way from the riverside to her house in my mom’s super small car. While I was speeding, my girlfriend starts to laugh hysterically at her phone. Not knowing what she was watching, I decided to take a peek at her phone. I took my eyes off the road for a second only to look at her phone and BAM! I had just crashed. I was scared for my life...
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...teamwork will enhance the efficiency of a health care organization, the manager is responsible to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction within a department. As a manager for a busy call center, I have notice the volume of calls have doubled over the past year causing long queues for our internal and external customers. Upon review of the budget there is an additional $20,000 to spend on improving efficiency and customer satisfaction within our department. Objective Our objective will be to focus on teamwork to assist with improving efficiency and customer satisfaction through customer service and team building training. We will also look at the importance of teams, see how other industries use the team approach, and review the lessons learned from other industries. Goals The goal is for the team members to understand that working together out ways working individually. Methods Planning is an important process for problem solving. The team will be using the five step planning process to support problem solving. Importance of Teams Teams are essential to health care for a multitude of reasons. The most important reason is that a team has a common goal and that is to achieve the best possible effective functioning of the health care organization (Buchbinder.2012). Teams are made up of a group of individuals who are able to come up with different strategies for the benefit of the health care organization. Their experience and knowledge enables them to provide...
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