...Reflection of Mission Blue Dr. Sylvia Earle’s “Mission Blue” is to protect the ocean in the same way we protect the land. To an Environmental Studies student, it may not appear as though protecting the oceans would be so easily swept under the rug; however, this documentary proves otherwise. As was mentioned in the video, “as the ocean’s dying, it looks the same- the waves are the same.” Perhaps because of this reason, we have postponed action in conservation efforts of the sea. Most people do not have the opportunity to see under the waves and therefore have no visual for the extent of the damage we have inflicted on our oceans. At the surface, a person does not see the schools of millions of fish that no longer swim, or the once colorful corals that...
Words: 575 - Pages: 3
...Katherine Gloede Final Reflections: Missions and Revival When it came down to taking this course, I had a surge of excitement about it. I’ve always been curious as to how I could possibly share my faith and the Gospel with someone I’ve never met, much less talked to. As a Christian, and as a servant of God, I know that you have to be a disciple. This came down to me having to remember that if God will bring me to any problem or challenge, then He will certainly bring me through it. I have recently felt the Holy Spirit pulling me towards more of an urban discipleship versus the traditional path, and this will bring come challenges. As a Christian each of us must be willing to participate fully in the church to help spread the Word of God and to bring others to Christ, this much all of us know. But how can it be possible to take those teachings we all have and translate it into an urban setting? Herein was my problem. I am a Christian, and I live my life as one, we all promise to follow the example of Christ in our everyday lives and try to act in good faith and to do good in the world. But how can I expect others to suddenly want to follow my lead? Today’s world, and not just in urban settings, it has become more and more increasingly materialistic and it becomes harder to fulfill the true promise of discipleship. Some people can even go as far as to say that many people lack real faith because they do not attend church on a regular basis, refuse to live their lives...
Words: 1401 - Pages: 6
...My Reflection of Mission Command Did you ever notice how in a staff meeting most Noncommissioned officers (NCO) do not strike up a conversation, but officers seem to have no problem speaking to each other? Waiting in the conference room, I sat back and observed how NCO and officers interacted, while waiting for a staff meeting to start. We, were all waiting on the commander to update us on the up coming deployment and what his commander’s intent would be. I am now assigned to a new unit and I am wondering how I will use knowledge and ideas of mission command. I will drive the team’s mission command operational process to develop my team’s inner and outer side together with advice and influence to build agile and adaptive leaders. Responsibility My responsibility is to serve as Senior NCO observer/trainer during the conduct of Brigade level mission command staff training (MCST) exercise using computer simulations to prepare units for their wartime mission. Assist in the planning, coordination, and execution of simulation exercises. Provide verbal and written observations of exercised units. Coach and mentor the NCO battle staff of an exercised unit command post and tactical operations center. Serve as a duty military occupational specialty (DMOS) subject matter expert for the exercise branch. Provide guidance and direction to the branch chief regarding all NCO matters. Knowledge and Ideas Communication and observing go hand in hand in the mission command...
Words: 536 - Pages: 3
...Reflection Exercise: Chapter 10 Information Technology Goal: To expand your understanding of worldview and goals, from Chapter 10 of Breaking Ground: Keys for Successful Online Learning, by conducting a series of personal reflective exercises. Steps: 1. Complete 2 reflection exercises: Complete 2 of the 3 reflective exercises for this chapter. a. 2. Upon completion of the appropriate exercises, save a copy of your answers to your computer, by clicking the Export as PDF button at the bottom of the page. 3. In Blackboard, access the submission link for the Chapter Reflection Activity 3. a. Upload your files. b. Submit your assignment. Your Name: Course Title: Chapter 10 Reflection 1 1a Where are you at present in your career? Just beginning, midcareer, career-changer, or nearing the end of employment? 1b What do you want from your next job? 1c What work opportunities spark your interest? 1d What values do you want to express through your work? 1e What strengths or skills do you bring to your career? 1f What work goals do you wish to accomplish? 1g Thinking about work settings, do you prefer to work alone or as part of a group? 1h Do you prefer to work independently (for yourself), for a small company, or for a large corporation? 1i What sort of compromises are you willing to make for work? (Think about relocation, hours/days of work, and obligations to family and other demands.) Reflection 2 ...
Words: 363 - Pages: 2
...LeNeka Goldsmith Bus 490 Dr. Karnes Ethics and Strategy Paper #1 When a business determines their mission and vision statement they must use them as a plan of action. Everything that is stated in the vision and mission should be aspects of the business that are regularly overseen in order to ensure they are being properly executed. A vision and mission statement should not be empty words that make a business look good on paper, but goals that businesses strives to achieve on a daily basis. Businesses should treat their employees with the upmost respect. This should be a non-negotiable, not only because it is the ethical thing to do, but because their employees are a direct reflection of the company. When management mistreats their employees these employees often discuss this with family or friends and this in return gives them a bad image of the company. Also mistreating employees may result in a high turnover rate that may show a bad reflection of the company. Employees should have a voice and a means of reporting when they are mistreated. Some companies have toll-free numbers to report company wrongdoing but they also need to know that it can be used for employee mistreatment. Matthew 7:12 says “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets (NIV).” This says it completely. God wants us to be kind to others just as we want others to be kind to us and just as God is kind to us. Management has...
Words: 399 - Pages: 2
...Workbook and any information about Innovative Widgets that you may have created in the course of completing learning activities in the Student Workbook. Procedure 1. Over the duration of the course, gather information on the Innovative Widgets simulated business from course materials. 2. Over the duration of the course, based on the information you are provided, produce a customer service plan for Innovative Widgets. Your customer service plan should include: a. vision and mission statements that refer to internal and external customers b. product standards that include: i. dimensions ii. tolerances iii. pricing iv. material v. delivery c. policies and procedures for: vi. gathering customer information and conducting market research to identify customer needs using the RATER model vii. responding to customer complaints viii. managing records and data. 3. Develop a one page reflection on your plan and how the design of your plan will work to achieve quality customer service and legal compliance. 4....
Words: 1167 - Pages: 5
...between the church’s social doctrine and the new evangelization comes through the evangelization. The first thing it’s the evangelization, the most original, and that goes back to the origins of the church. The church’s social doctrine, born in the 19th century as an attempt to answer of faith to the great problems which occurred with modernity, as new ideologies that give the body and the political and socioeconomic systems derived from these. The new evangelization is a most recent proposal, from Juan Pablo II, that is intended to realize the meaning and scope of evangelization in the circumstances of our historical moment. Evangelization and mission as a framework The four evangelisms present us a resurrected Jesus who appeared to theirs and charges them a mission: to be witnesses in the villages. The conscience of this mission has been realized in a different way for each historical era. To illustrate the variety and to best understand what the evangelization today is, it will be useful to distinguish the four models of the evangelization. The evangelization of the first Christian times The Christians from the origins went to the Jews, who where the ones in better conditions to accept the message of Jesus. However, soon we witness a radical change: the missioner predication goes out of the Jews environment to address the non-Jews, the pagans, i.e. to all the villages without exception. From Jewish particularism is the big step to the universalism of the gospel. Paul...
Words: 1742 - Pages: 7
...LUO Summary Adult learning Theory is some times referred to as Andragogy. This theory is based on characteristics on how adults learn. The three steps related to adult learning are experience, critical reflection and development. Research conducted on adult learning theory helps to understand how adults learn better and activities can be developed to enhance their learning skills. Adult learning theory is a self-directed learning based on the assumption that education should focus on the development of the adult learner (Merriam, 2008). It enables the adult learner to become more in control and free. Today’s Army is composed of Soldiers who have chosen to serve voluntary to achieve various goals in life (Wilson & Smith, 2012). Soldiers may pursue education to get promoted to the next rank or to be able to get a job when they transition to Civilian life (Wilson & Smith, 2012). Recent studies conducted show the unemployment rate among veterans higher than non-veteran unemployment rates. Many Soldiers transition out with no intention to go to college although that was their intention when they joined the Military. Academic counselor have resolved that adult learning theory as a part of life mission is important in advising Soldiers make career based decisions (Wilson & Smith, 2012). Advisors use developmental academic advising, intrusive academic advising and prescriptive academic advising when they have to let students understand their...
Words: 984 - Pages: 4
...Reflection 1 Short Reflection Paper Marqus L. Harris INF 103 Thomas Hennefer September 3, 2012 Reflection 2 Searching for information on Google is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Is that true? Was the library of the 19th century more efficient? Explain. How is searching in a specific database, such as Ashford’s library, different from searching in Bing, Google, or Yahoo? The founder of Wikipedia has a noble mission – to share the entire world’s information with everyone everywhere, anytime. In what ways has this mission been successful? In what ways has it not been successful? It is defiantly a tough challenge when trying to research certain information that is needed. In my personal opinion I consider it to be a very tough task indeed. Once the information is gathered from Google, then the part of trying to determine is the information is accurate, credible, or more reliable to put in a research paper. Google is the main and most popular website for information, but yet you will at times still come across some misleading information that is not allowed for academic research papers. The web at times can mislead us with certain information missing and misconceptions. Belgian lawyer Paul Otlet in the 19th century understood that each profession was experiencing a substance growth of data. Science was above all the drawback as a result of the increasing publications of such. Otlet...
Words: 614 - Pages: 3
...build homes, community, and hope locally and around the world” (Habitat for Humanity ReStores,2014). The Restore provides a variety of household items that are available for purchase. The services that the Restore provides is assistance with finding the items they are looking for or a substitute for the item if it is not available. The users of their services are home owners or renters. “The geographic areas they cover is in many states and Canada” (Habitat for Humanity ReStores, 2014). The organization’s mission statement is “seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope” (Habitat for Humanity International Mission Statement and Principles, 2014). Our evaluation of their mission statement is that it is a good statement because for many reasons. To start off it is a good length and can be communicated in a short period of time. It demonstrates what the organization is about and its goals. The mission statement hopes to accomplish helping those in need of their service. It clearly states its purpose and it creates hope for those in need. It also gives an opportunity for people to give back to their...
Words: 900 - Pages: 4
...technology. (APTS 3, INTASC 6) Assessment Tool Selected 1) Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan 2) Reflection Essay Specific Performance/Task(s) Select and implement appropriate technology and resources. (APTS 3.11) Select and use research-based strategies to engage learners. (APTS 3.12) Relevancy of Task to Teacher Candidate Demonstrate the effective use of technology to foster active inquiry, promote collaboration, and support interaction in the classroom. Assessment: Student Prompts/Teacher Directions Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan (e-Portfolio Assignment) In Modules 2-6 you will be drafting the component parts of a Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan for use in a 21st century classroom. The Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan will include the sections listed below. Drafts of these sections will be submitted throughout the course for instructor feedback and will be revised for inclusion in the Benchmark Assessment, due in Module 7. A Reflection Essay will also be prepared to accompany the plan. The plan is composed of the following components: * Section One: Mission and Vision Statement * Section Two: Communications Plan * Section Three: Integrating Instructional Technology * Section Four: Software to Support Assessment * Section Five: Technology Ethics in the Classroom * Conclusion * Section One: Mission and Vision Statement 1) Review “Overview: Framework for 21st Century Learning,” a required reading for...
Words: 3012 - Pages: 13
...War is a place that has been romanticized dramatically, reeling young boys into a dark abyss, stipping their innocence within a matter of seconds. This soon turns to a graveyard of youths miscarriages, never getting to experience the blissful adventures of life such as, first drink, sleeping with someone, marriage, etc. In the book Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, it shows Richard (Richie) Perry, the protagonist, on the adventures he has with his platoon, exploring the dangerous depths of the boonies during the Vietnam War. Coping mechanisms such as self reflection, humor, and escaping reality are essential when innocence is blown to smithereens, literally. Fallen Angels shows the true horrors of war, giving the reader insight of just...
Words: 397 - Pages: 2
... Personal philosophies of education are at the core of what makes up a good educator. Strong personal beliefs are the core reasoning for why people choose their professions. In education, personal philosophies are essential, meaningful, and so important because those beliefs will affect thousands of other stakeholder throughout ones career. For schools, understandings and commitment to philosophies is the driving force behind curriculum and instruction (GCU, 2010). It is important for school leaders to examine their own personal philosophies of education to determine which of the five educational philosophies it falls into; perennialist, idealist, realist, experimentalist, and existentialist. The following material accounts for a reflection on the results of my own personal philosophy according to Wiles & Bondi (2007) and their personal preference philosophy assessment. Following the results is d as well as my own relations and beliefs of educations in correlation to the five educational philosophies. What is your Philosophy? =============================================================== 8 =============================================================== 7 =============================================================== 6 6 6.2 Strength of Belief Strength of Belief =============================================================== 5 5.4 =============================================================== 4 4.6 4.4 ` =============...
Words: 506 - Pages: 3
...Learning Team C Week 2 Reflection FIN 571 January 20, 2014 David Binder Learning Team C Week 2 Reflection “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton Mission, vision, and goals provide a professional and moral compass for corporations. In the case of Arthur Andersen’s decent, compromises were made that in the end destined the accounting firm to cease to exist (Parrino, Kidwell, & Bates, 2012, Ethics Case). The learning team’s discussion surrounded the blatant conflict of interest, greed and the breach of fiduciary duties of the firm to provide objective evaluation of its accounting practices and independence from its clients. Greed Joe and Jeffery pointed in there reflections the change of the market during the 1980’s resulted in a boom of mergers and acquisitions, and additionally the consulting practice of the firm experienced an extreme growth. Andersen partners began realizing the potential in profits from consulting contracts as companies were on a spending spree. Eventually, its auditing services was no longer the main source of revenue for the firm Soon tension started between the two groups which lead to some of the auditors forming their own auditing firm. Auditors remaining with Anderson were now forced to sell consulting services to clients to gain market share in the consulting business through their audit clients. This and other tactics was the first of many decisions that contributed to unethical business...
Words: 666 - Pages: 3
...Explain how different leadership styles would affect group communication in your chosen organization. Southwest Airlines was the perfect choice to research because this company is not as affected by economic downturns as other companies seem to experience. The founders of Southwest Airlines Rollin King and Herb Kelleher had a clear vision of what their organization should be and is reflected in the company mission. “The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit.” ("The Mission Of Southwest Airlines", n.d.). In order to accomplish their vision, both King and Kelleher adopted a charismatic leadership style. To their credit after 40 years Southwest Airlines has made a mark in the industry and is still going strong. The leadership style within this company is to maintain an open line of communication from the bottom up. This is a major change from the status quo of communication from the top down. In order for Southwest Airlines to be successful, King and Kelleher had all the key characteristics of charismatic leadership. They were both able to articulate their vision and express the importance that their vision would have for the future of the company. King and Kelleher took great risks and experience personal sacrifice in order to achieve their vision for a great company. In order to reach their goals, King and Kelleher felt a great sensitivity...
Words: 999 - Pages: 4
