...sixteen year olds ready for this task. Driving a car is a task that should only be taken on by teenagers over the age of eighteen, because they are more responsible and understand the risk involved. Sixteen-year-olds brains are underdeveloped and most of the driving they do is unnecessary. I don't think the driving age should change. Its worked for so long, why change it now? In today's society the idea of sixteen and seventeen year olds operating cars has become a way of life. But if one stops to think about it, there is no need for these drivers to be on the road. Most of these drivers still live at home and have no job because they're still in school. So they have no job to drive to or from. To go to school they can take the bus or be dropped off by their parents. I know there's so many times when I want to drive somewhere because my parents aren't home or I just want to be by myself outside of the house. I'm sure a lot of teenagers that are younger than sixteen can't wait to be able to get on the road. Maybe they aren't responsible enough, but then they shouldn't be driving. Another problem with these drivers is they are very irresponsible and put other drivers in danger on the road. Recent statistics show that most drivers who are caught speeding or involved in automobile accidents are under the age of eighteen. This is because the drivers have no responsibility and cannot handle the task of driving a car. In Georgia congress members have noticed this problem and are working...
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...pinnacle of my existence over the past few years. Numerous things happened in my life that made it extremely hard for me to continue with my education. Unable to attend school because of financial reasons, I settled to working full time. Six years have passed since I graduated high school, and because of the resources available to me, I am now able to get a college degree and become the first person in my family to earn one. Currently, I am a freshman majoring in Computer Science. I am incredibly passionate about social work. Recently, I was fortunate enough to have been a Tutor Coordinator for School on Wheels in Southern California. As a tutor coordinator and oversaw the activities of roughly fifty tutors, and oversaw recruiting and training new volunteers. Moreover, my duties also included supervising children on school trips, and recruiting students from numerous areas within Downtown Los Angeles. School on Wheels is a non-profit organization, and it provides academic tutoring to children living in shelters, motels, cars, group foster homes and on the streets in Southern California. It provides homeless students stability in a time of stress and transition, and helps them achieve educational success so that they may break the cycle of...
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...Gonzaga I am more than delighted to be a part of your class. I have always had an interest in the technological field and can't wait to learn more about it. Ever since I was a young boy I could write, read, and spell well. As a matter of fact I was apart of the national spelling be in the second grade. One of my questions or concerns is whether or not you ever give your students a re-take test to make up for their worst test score. I went to university high school in west Los Angeles and was a party of the debate club and took and passed more than three advanced placement classes. I graduated high school with a 3.3 grade point average and got into four colleges. Arizona State University was the school that I chose of the four. I enrolled into the W.P. Carey School of Business and enjoyed it at first. Then something terrible happened, I started to smoke marijuana. This drug became my one true love or addiction. Every waking second all I wanted to do was watch pornography and smoke pot. My academics were immediately affected by it and to top it all off I joined a fraternity. The fraternity was called Sigma Nu and it took me by storm. The guys were great and all but I myself just did not have it together. The next semester I would reside from school and move back home to Los Angeles and start over. Long story short I had to go to rehab for marijuana and currently have two years of sobriety under my belt because of it. I'm really trying to make something of my self so that I can become...
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...As we sit in the theatre’s lobby at the University of Illinois in Springfield, the nerves and tension begin to settle in all of us. Most were either playing cards or gossiping about the other shows. The rest of us were quietly thinking about the fate of our show. As our coach came out of the office, we headed outside. He holds up a small piece of paper and flips it over. We all start screaming, hugging each other. My greatest success is being the stage manager for a state winning theater program. “Hey, Tom you ready for the play this year?” My coach Mr. Wargin says as I walk into the little theatre. “Of course! It’s my senior year, it is going to be the best year for us, I promise!” As the other stage managers and I stand on the stage taking attendance and pass out the calendar of practices and events, Mr. Wargin tells us a game plan. “We meet every Tuesday and Thursday; occasionally we’ll have a Saturday where we work all day. We’ll use those Saturdays for when we are falling behind and need to finish big projects that we can’t finish during the school week. We provide lunch if you come, and it is greatly appreciated if you do.” He continues to say, “We have two sets to build, one for each play, and we have about a month and a half to complete both”. He explains that our contest play is “The Picnic” and we are going to build two houses, with faux grass, something we have never done before. Our other show, the group interpretation, is “A League of Their Own”. This show...
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... The most important reason why I want to become an Elementary school teacher is because of the students. I have always loved being around young children. Especially once they start attending school. I love seeing how differently kids learn. I adore watching kids learn and get excited about learning new things. When I babysit this one boy, he is 7 years old, one of the first things he shows me when I walk in the door is his backpack filled with books, papers, tests, and the homework he wanted me to help him with. I thrive on watching this boy learn and grow. Knowing that school is fun and important to him makes me want to be a teacher someday, and it drives me to be the best teacher I can possibly be. The least important reason to me would be job autonomy and control. I really would not like to do the same thing, all day, every day. After a while, I would no longer enjoy doing that, and I would regret it. I plan on making my classroom fun and exciting for all of my students. I realize that a room full of young kids will be hard to control, but they are more fun than anyone else that I would rather deal with all day long. Some of the pros and cons of becoming a teacher are pretty drastic. Some of them I would not have been able to think of on my own if we had not gone over them in class. For example, one con of becoming a teacher is that with the economy the way it is, teaching jobs are very difficult to find and maintain. Schools downsize their staffing due to...
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...district final game, I get fouled on a three pointer that barely misses the bottom of the net. Three shots. I shoot the first, and it drops through the nylon, making that beautiful swish sound. The second shot feels off when I let it go, and it clanks off the back of the iron and bounces in. Tie game. The away crowd feels the tension while the home crowd cheers with excitement. The referee passes me the ball for the third free throw. When the ball hits the tips of my fingers everything stops. I cannot hear the fans yelling or the stomping of the bleachers. I am laser focused. I can hear my heart pounding and the blood running through my body. I line up the last free throw and take a deep breath to calm myself and to ease the pressure. I go through my routine and release the ball at the perfect point. The rotation on the ball has the perfect spin. Watching the ball gliding through the air, everything looks perfect and I assured myself that I had made the shot. As the ball...
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...Twenty years cannot handicap your mind for your future English 219 Jan. 28, 2015 It was time. It was overdue. She tossed the empty water bottle into the trash and opens the front door to leave her home, in the quiet neighborhood. As Laney walked into a clean updated looking office, with her scarf around her neck, she didn't want to be too late for the job interview. After all, these years, a real job interview first time in a long time. She handed the security guard an appointment card and went into the elevator, she exhaled noisily. "I'm never doing this again, I can’t believe I’m doing it now." she said, closing her blue colored eyes for a moment. Now on the second floor, she opened the glass door to Suite 2 and glanced at the welcome sign of the Medical Facility. The receptionist looked up from her desk with a smile and asked Laney to hand over her resume. Once she took Laney’s resume the receptionist let her know that it would be a few moments until Rachel, the head of HR, finished with a client and invited her to sit in the lobby to wait. With her sitting straight in a modern mustard chair by the door, Laney folded her hands on top of her legs to wait and couldn’t help but ponder her past. It was May of last year, three months after she had turned 45 and over 20 years since she had held any kind of a job. Laney never intended to become a stay-at-home mother for this long. "I loved the whole thing," Laney...
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...shiver to the tips of their gilded tails under that deep wave of sound; all the porcelain gargoyles tremble on their carven perches; all the hundred little bells of the pagodas quiver with desire to speak. KO-NGAI—all the green-and-gold tiles of the temple are vibrating; the wooden goldfish above them are writhing against the sky; the uplifted finger of Fo shakes high over the heads of the worshippers through the blue fog of incense! KO-NGAI!—What a thunder tone was that! All the lacquered goblins on the palace cornices wriggle their fire-coloured tongues! And after each huge shock, how wondrous the multiple echo and the great golden moan, and, at last, the sudden sibilant sobbing in the ears when the immense tone faints away in broken whispers of silver, as though a woman should whisper, “Hiai!” Even so the great bell hath sounded every day for well-nigh five hundred years—Ko-Ngai: first with stupendous clang, then with immeasurable moan of gold, then with silver murmuring of “Hiai!” And there is not a child in all the many-coloured ways of the old Chinese city who does not know the story of the great bell, who cannot tell you why the great bell says Ko-Ngai and Hiai! Now this is the story of the great bell in the Tachung sz’, as the same is related in the Pe-Hiao-Tou-Choue, written by the learned Yu-Pao-Tchen, of the City of Kwang-tchau-fu. Nearly five hundred years ago the Celestially August, the...
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...Scott, I know you have a lot on your plate with play offs. Let me start by saying I am not trying to stir up crap and feel that the head coach has made a good impact on game play, leading to a great season. My concern is with other part of being a coach (and what we have had problems with that lead to other staff being removed) that someone needs to mentor him on, which is the part of being a role model, mentor and leading young men to become good student athletes and citizens. Just a couple items… I know I sent you a text about it, but just to provide more fidelity. Originally, Trevor was going to try and meet coach Wolkoff on Saturday prior to practice, but practice was cancelled. So Trevor sent coach a text Friday about meeting with...
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...DO1-136-I ARAVIND EYE HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS Original written by professor Ángel Díaz Matalobos at IE Business School, Juan Pons, Motorola Spain. and Stephan Pahls, University Hospital, Basel. Original version, 15 June 2010. (R.L. 19 January 2012). The authors acknowledge the generous support of Aravind while conducting the field research. Published by IE Publishing Department. María de Molina 13, 28006 – Madrid, Spain. ©2010 IE. Total or partial publication of this document without the express, written consent IE is prohibited. INTRODUCTION Improving efficiency in health care is an acute issue. In the developed world this is due to increases in costs and quality issues (Aptel and Pourjalali, 2001; Spear, 2005); Western Europe currently spends 9% of its GDP on health care, and, if the trend continues, will spend over 20% by the year 2050 (Drouin et al., 2008.) In the developing world on the other hand demand exceed capacity; it was estimated that in 1997 over 12 million people were blind in India from cataracts, while a further 3.8 million new cases are developed each year, and current capacity for surgery is far below this level (Thulasiraj et al., 1997.) Better health care operations are clearly required to deal with issues of ageing population, increased costs and unmet demand. One case that provides clues to such means is Aravind, the largest eye care provider in the world, with over 2.5 million operations performed and 20 million patients treated in...
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...Over the years technology has made things faster for society to move forward, making things easier. Being able to drive allows people to get to places quicker than by taking a bus with many stops or walking. Also having the ability to text others on their cell phones speeds up the process of communication. People who own cell phones try to combine texting and driving to make personal calls or for business matters. While driving they check their emails or even go on the Internet! Texting while driving is a highly controversial issue and is discussed constantly all around the world. As a result of texting and driving, many more car accidents occur each day and because of this, research has been conducted about why people text and drive, the dangers of texting while driving, the statistics, laws in New Jersey, and ways to prevent texting while driving. Not only can texting and driving be dangerous for yourself, but it can be dangerous for others around you. When first getting your driver’s license, you are taught to keep your eyes on the road. You are taught to drive with no distractions and to concentrate on what is ahead. After becoming comfortable, drivers soon realize that they can do a lot more than just have two hands on the wheel and drive. Nowadays it is very common to see drivers glancing down at their phone or even holding it up to the steering wheel. Is this because drivers are addicted to texting while driving or is it a matter of just no self-control? Atchley’s study...
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...very special and I would like to become a section leader In the Force for many reasons. Some of these reasons consist of what band really means to me, why I want to become section leader, things I would like to accomplish as a section leader and some thoughts that would make the band better. What does band mean to me? Band means dedication, commitment, and respect. This band has a reputation and that reputation requires dedication and hard work. Standing out in the parking lot at 9 o'clock in the morning to memorizing drill at 11 o'clock in the beating heat to running the show at 8 o'clock when your body aches, arms are tired and feet are sore, that Is only the beginning but In the end whether we get first or last it is all worth it. Band has become so much more than I ever thought it would be. There are times I think in the back of my mind that I'm just going to quit but honestly I know I won't. I do not know what I would do without band. I have made unbreakable friendships through band. It's amazing what a little music and marching around on a field can do....
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...of their background and religion. ''Pictures'' shows the reader how people can be racially abusive and discriminatorily against people with other cultures. But can people change and develop so they become accommodating towards new cultures and religions? The story takes place in an English town in the 1950s. The name of the town is not mentioned because it is not important information. The xenophobia is namely the same all over the English country in the 1950s, so the writer does not have to tell the exact town to come out with her message. The plot in the text is distributed onto Amina's home and her school. She lives at the back of the shop in which her parents work every day and own. A large part of the text is also set in the school where Amina draws her pictures. The writer uses the school with its teacher and pupils as a comparison, so she can put the foreigner, Amina, up against the English people. In this way, the writer makes her message clearer. Amina is a Pakistani girl, who lives with her poor parents in England. She goes to an ordinary school where they one day have to draw paintings of Mary and baby Jesus. Amina draws Jesus and Mary with black skin because of her background and therefore the teacher does not want the picture to be on the wall in the classroom. Amina brings the picture home because the teacher tells Amina that her parents would love to see it. Her parents own a small store where they work all day long and thereby they do not spent much time being...
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...minimal tasks, provide customer service, wait tables, or serve coffee are among those who earn a minimum wage paycheck. For years there has been much ado among people of the minimum wage class, and those slightly above it, sparking controversy over the feeling that the minimum wage is not set high enough. However, as someone who was very recently counted in that class, I must strongly disagree. From 2011 to 2014 I had various jobs in the food service and customer service industries, all at minimum wage except for one or two of those, and often holding more than one job at a time. My experience and skills that I had gathered eventually afforded me a higher paycheck, but not by much. During my time at these various establishments, I met a variety of different people; from teenagers, young and old mothers, and single people just trying to support themselves, even people who had previously been in jail. I learned from these people (and their attitudes while working) that they did not value their jobs. The famous line among minimum wage employees is "I don't get paid enough for this" among similar sayings. However, if you asked any of the young people without children, who lived either alone or with parents, their wages were adequate and they had few complaints. So why did the older generations feel this way? "Because you cannot support a family on minimum wage". Now this statement always baffled me, because after I had my first child, I...
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...Math History Essay Math is a subject I enjoy doing. Every day when I come home from school, it is the very first thing I do. Math is by far my favorite subject. It is more exciting than memorizing facts or writing an essay. Math involves thinking and solving, and I like to think through and solve problems. Even though math is not my strongest suit, I still enjoy doing anything related to it. Interest in taking Pre-Cal began during my freshman year. Two years ago, I took Geometry and fell in love with it. I enjoyed everything from proofs to finding the area of a shape. I remember people complaining how difficult Geometry was and thinking the exact opposite. By the end of freshman year, I was sad that Geometry was coming to an end. However, I was informed that Pre-Cal is similar to Geometry and is offered my junior year. Ever since then, I could not wait for Algebra 2 to be over. I also decided to take this class because it will build the foundation needed for Calculus the following year. To be successful in Pre-Cal this year, I will try my best to spare time to review notes I took the day before. I will also spend time with a study group so I can get advice by my peers. Whenever I have unanswered questions and cannot contact a teacher, I can rely on my friends who can explain and guide me along the right answer. As a teacher, you can walk around the class when there is extra time to do homework to easily answer questions that I may have regarding the assignment. Each...
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