...Mensa Foundation For as long as I could remember, I have wanted to be a veterinarian. I have been responsible for the care and feeding pets ever since the first grade. In middle school, I volunteered at the local Vet, whenever my animals get hurt I look up what it could be and try to help them get better and normal it helps but, depends on how big is the problem I can handle. To reach my goals, I realize that I must pursue an eight-year college education which will begin with Fall 2016 semester. I am very excited about my further and feel that with the opportunity your scholarship will provide, I can help many animals. My love for animals has been encouraged by my family. My grandparents have a farm and I love helping or being around animals...
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...I am very obliged to be presented with the opportunity of The Dereck Whittenburg Foundation. If I am awarded the Foundation scholarship It will help boost my confidence in knowing that hard work does pays off. Dedication, determination, talented and always striving for excellence are the characteristic that I possess that qualify me as the best recipient. Not only I can speak the truth I also volunteer and give back to my community. As I hold the title Miss Honor College in the Honor College Association Program, I contribute in many activities for example habitat for Humanities, trash pickup, Lemonade stands, 9/11 Service Day Project and basically any community service available that the group or myself can attend. Also, as a phenomenal woman...
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...From September to June, I live in the hallowed “Orange Bubble”— Princeton, New Jersey. About an hour south from my hometown of Clifton, Princeton offers me a state-of-the-art education and endless opportunities. However, this summer, I would like a change of scenery. I would like to walk the historic streets of Athens, Greece as in intern at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s mission is one that is particularly appealing to me. There are many organizations around the world that do a lot of good, but many people do not realize what it takes for these organizations to function. Many non-profit organizations are backed by good ideas and good intentions, but they are often in desperate need of funds. I learned...
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...SCHOLARSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS AND OTHER MINORITY STUDENTS (More Than $50 Million Dollars in Financial Aid Available!) Published by Urban Ebooks/ Dante Lee Publishing www.urbanebooks.com This ebook is the personal copy of Corketa Martin (CorkeLou@aol.com) SCHOLARSHIPS WITH JANUARY DEADLINES #1 - Ron Brown Scholar Program for African Americans: The Ron Brown Scholar Program provides scholarship awards to African-American high school seniors who are excelling in their academics, exhibiting exceptional leadership potential, and actively serving in community service activities. For more details, visit www.ronbrown.org #2 - Gates Millennium Scholars Program For Minority Students: The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (also known as the Bill Gates Scholarship) awards scholarships each year to African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American students who plan to enroll full-time in a two-year or four-year college or university program. For more details, visit www.gmsp.org Copyright © 2016 All Rights Reserved. This ebook is the personal copy of Corketa Martin (CorkeLou@aol.com) #3 - Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship: The Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship awards a full scholarship to one student to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors with high academic records. For more details, visit www...
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...Raising a Successful College Student Carol Woods GEN/200 In order to be a successful college student personal responsibility must be learned at an early age. Children must learn personal responsibility, time management skills, and family values when they are young. If children develop a strong responsibility foundation they will develop into a successful college student. Personal responsibility is something that is taught to you throughout your childhood and developed throughout your adult life. A child is taught family values daily from the time they begin to walk. Parents begin to pass on their own values system and this is what a person’s responsibility foundation is built on. In order for a student to be successful in their college career they must already have been taught personal responsibility throughout their childhood. Children should be given household chores at a very young age, like picking up their toys, making their beds, and even feeding the family pet, at this age they are exposed to the family values at its core. Children begin to realize what responsibility is through these chores. Experts believe that any type of household responsibilities, are important for kids (Dunnewind, 2004). When they develop into adolescence they should be given more responsibility. School work becomes a priority, social groups draw their interest and now they begin to develop their time management skills. Learning how to navigate between class assignments...
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...philosophy to your personal and business decisions. To really have a sound foundation for ethical decisions, we have to have an understanding of how our worldview influences the decisions we make and how we perceive reality. Too often, we barely understand what our worldview is all about and how it impacts decisions. As such, our decisions in life may or may not be informed by sound principles. This is true even for Christians, who may even have unbiblical ideas influencing their worldview. The non-Christian faces a different challenge: trying to make sense of life in a meaningful way without a Biblical, theistic starting point. All of this will be discussed in the series of article for this assignment. Defining Worldview • A worldview is the intellectual, emotional, and perhaps even spiritual framework by which we apprehend reality and assign meaning to life. • Everyone has a worldview; it may not be very developed, but nevertheless, everyone is approaching life based upon one. The Worldview “House” • To speak metaphorically, our worldview is the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual “home” in which we live all of our lives. It may change drastically, undergoing serious renovations or damage as we go through life, but it is always with us nevertheless. Furthermore, regardless of how nice the house is on the inside (furniture, upholstery, decorations, etc., etc.), if that worldview home is not built upon a solid foundation, or a strong skeletal...
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...Non-Governmental Organization Benefiting Women and Children: Umeed Foundation in Punjab, India Non-Governmental Organizations or NGO’s are organizations that are neither a part of a government nor conventional for-profit businesses. Usually set up by ordinary citizens, NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations or businesses or run by volunteers (Wikipedia). In this paper I will discuss the Umeed Foundation, based in Punjab, India and focused on rural development of the Punjab region through economic empowerment and healthcare programs benefiting many women and children of the area. I will cover the core values of this foundation, the programs the foundation creates and supports as well as the impact to the community and my commentary of the resources they provide. The Umeed Foundation was created by Chairman Arvind Khanna in 1997 as a way to work with the impoverished region of Sangrur in the Punjab region of India which was a locally marginalized area that had been wrecked by years of terrorism, fighting in the region and lack of development by state resources. Local residents were unable to earn a fair wage and were thereby unable to support themselves and help develop future generations and that system was creating a long term poverty cycle for the area that was unlikely to be broken. Khanna believed in working to empower the local inhabitants through a small loan program and skill development training as well as by setting up a more reliable healthcare system...
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...Personal Ethics Development Personal ethics are beliefs and values that guide every individual in his or her daily lives. It represents a boundary for actions by individuals. From early childhood an individual starts to develop his or her personal ethical system and establishes ground rules to follow for the rest of his or her life. As an individual develops and matures in life so does his or her personal ethics. Developmental Aspects Personal ethics starts to develop at a very early age. My mother and father raised four children and empowered each with useful developmental tools. They instilled the same ground rules and ethics for each of the children to follow. Even though they raised each child the same, each one has a different mindsets concerning personal ethics. So in some ways personal ethics are also an interpretation of the individual. Underlying Ethical System Growing up with a military family, we followed the military ethics mindset. My father was a career military man and believed in nothing less than the ethical ways of the military. Growing up we traveled and met different people from many walks of life. My mother and father built an ethical foundation or an underlying ethical system for our family that helped us throughout our childhood and into adulthood. It was the basic foundation of treating everyone the same and treating people the way a person would want someone to treat him or her...
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...Grades 3 to 5 • Personal Health Series Peer Pressure KidsHealth.org/classroom Teacher’s Guide This guide includes: • Standards • Related Links • Discussion Questions • Activities for Students • Reproducible Materials Peer pressure gets a bad rap. For many people, it brings to mind an image of kids influencing other kids to do risky things like smoke, drink alcohol, or shoplift. But it can also be a force for good, exposing kids to positive new ideas and role models. Help your students explore the benefits and pitfalls of peer pressure with these activities. Related KidsHealth Links Articles for Kids: Dealing With Peer Pressure KidsHealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/peer_pressure.html How Cliques Make Kids Feel Left Out KidsHealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/clique.html Standards This guide correlates with the following National Health Education Standards: Students will: • Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. • Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. • Demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. • Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability...
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...Personal Responsibility Sheronda Guy Gen/200 Foundations for General Education and Professional Success September 17, 2012 Jeremy Vencel Personal responsibility is the characteristic of accepting complete responsibility for your actions, while acknowledging the possible consequences that those actions may have on others and your academic career. It is the understanding that what you do impacts your overall personal success. There is a direct relation between personal responsibility and college success. In fact, it is the foundation needed to ensure your academic goal is achieved. Because of its importance, it is necessary to develop a preliminary plan for practicing personal responsibility in an educational environment. Having personal responsibility not only determines the level of success one will achieve in society but also academically. College success is closely related to personal responsibility. In order to successfully reach your goal of obtaining a college degree you have hold yourself accountable for how well you perform during your academic career. Accountability is the understanding that your progression while attending college is solely your responsibility and your actions ultimately determine your level of success. Accepting personal responsibility is accepting that whatever the outcome will be is at no one else’s fault but your own. It is the ability to acknowledge that you are personally responsible for everything that you say and do. Canfield...
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...expenditures? The Red Cross Charity Foundation, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and United Way Charity all have made false claims involving the public’s finances toward their missions to assist the underprivileged and the sick. These articles show that the people’s generous donations have not being going to the actual project that they donated to, for a specific cause. The charities seem to be getting involved with politics, and using the money for personal reasons and not giving it to the people that they said...
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...Personal Ethics Development PHL 323 John Banks UOPX February 14, 2012 Individuals are born without any personal values or beliefs, babies are born with the ability to cry when he or she desire food, attention, or some form of attention. Ethics are learned and developed when a individual is born into the world and ethics continue as a individual goes through life. A parent goal is to develop values in his or her off springs to establish the capability to encourage him or her to make correct judgment and ethical decisions. This paper will focus on personal ethics, business ethics, ground rules, and ethical development. Ethics are principles and the sources from which ethics derives, people, institutions, events and so on. The decision making factors a individual employ to revise his or her values will also be explored. Personal ethics development, are result of personal experiences or examples. This paper will explained why ethics are needed in an organization and how ethics are imparted into organizations to achieve goals and directions. Individuals exist with different values and ethical standards, and other may have ethical standard similar to other people, however no two individuals have identical standards or values. A person ethics and values are related to his or her own culture, background, and environment. An individual mother and father teach their children traditional values which becomes the foundation of his or her upbringing...
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...ethical behavior and its relevance in demonstrating to God we trust, believe and belong to Him. Society is built on a foundation of ethical principles important in both personal and business connections. This expected Christian behavior is the foundation of God’s desire for us to not only believe in right and wrong, but to live it through our actions. As references in Leviticus 19:35, “Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity,” we learn the great importance God places in being faithful and honest. These concepts directly relate to the fields of accounting and finance as witnessed through professional associations, ethical decision-making, and numerous biblical teachings. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) was established as a professional organization to assist members with their role and responsibilities as accountants. More specifically, the foundation of their profession is built upon a Model Code of Professional Conduct guiding members in the basic belief and framework of ethical conduct. These guiding principles call for an “unswerving...
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...Overview The Smith Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to fund public awareness campaigns and research programs about eye care. The foundation was founded over forty years ago with a multimillion-dollar endowment from industrialist and philanthropist Charlie Smith. Currently the foundation is operating on an annual budget of slightly less than $1,500,000.00 (Santora, 2006, p. 362). Their newest chief executive officer (CEO) is Dr. Rhonda Clark, an organizational outsider with no work experience within the foundation. Although only offered a one-year appointment, Clark has great academic credentials in the form of a PhD in political science and policy analysis from a major U.S. West Coast university, as well as a graduate school professorship. The 54-year-old also has an enviable amount of management experience in the nonprofit and public sectors. In the last thirty years, Clark has held positions as a director or research for a major statewide political office holder, the director or planning in a large metropolitan hospital, and the director of programs at a small foundation (Santora, 2006, p. 363). Very early in her new position as head of the foundation, Clark set about quickly learning the key decision makers and stakeholders on the board and in the larger community. She also established her initiatives at a board meeting where she detailed the major elements of her latest proposal. Realizing she did not have the full support of the entire board, Clark...
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...that (a) prepare people for work or assist them in current employment and (b) engage in the development and refinement of competencies, attitudes, and knowledge through formal and informal means (Nadler, 1985). Many approaches to education-for-work are based on models that were developed during the agrarian age and industrial revolution, and have been shaped by practice rather than philosophic principles. Education-for-work needs to adopt or develop well-defined philosophic principles that will guide, support, or create practice in changing workplaces. In order to meet the needs of the workplace of today and the future, education-for-work practitioners must be aware of the philosophies that promote both technical-vocational needs and personal development. Education-for-work practitioners must select and adapt appropriate philosophical views that will guide practice in terms of purpose; much like a master painter, who takes paint from a palette, mixes it appropriately, and applies the mixed paint to the canvas using experience and skill to complete the envisioned picture. Education-for-work practitioners must be more than transmitters of knowledge; they should be like master painters or craftpersons, professionals engaged in their art or craft and using their experience and creativity to design and make a quality work. Philosophy has been defined as "a system of principles for guiding practical affairs" (Stein, 1980). Philosophical query asks why practitioners conduct practice...
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