...without with out being forced to attend class regularly and professors should find different means to encourage students to come to class. Many people consider University years to be the golden years of their lives. A college student grows from an adolescent to a mature adult during these years. Students grow by making all their own decisions, whether good or bad. One of the many decisions a student makes is the choice of whether to go to class or not. I do not think the University should make the decision for the student. Every student has a unique method of studying and revising for tests and exams. In this day and age, technology has improved our lives in ways nobody could have imagined, an example of this is that many professors post their notes online for all their students to see. Many students need only their textbooks to take an exam, so for most classes a student can do just fine without attending class regularly. Michael Villagrana, a student in my class states, “I feel that if you're able to attain a respectable grade without a perfect attendance, then you shouldn't be penalized for missing class.” Another thing that I have noticed is that students might still do poorly even if they do attend class, so just because there is an attendance policy, it does not mean that it would increase a student’s learning potential. On the contrary, if everybody were forced to attend class, there would be many who would not be interested and would end up Mohammad...
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... Personal responsibility is paramount for college success for several reasons. As a student who does not take ownership or responsibility of his actions, but instead finds excuses or points his finger at others for his accountabilities, he may want to rethink the long journey he has ahead. Without responsibility for an individuals’ own success, he will need to reconsider his yearning to attend college. Taking Ownership Although the degree of personal responsibility may vary among individuals, it is important to recognize that each individual must take ownership for his actions and behaviors as success is dependent on the individual. An important strategy for students is to take ownership of his success while attending college. For those individuals who do not take ownership of his actions or behaviors, there may be consequences to pay. As Denis Waitley stated “A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.” My personal responsibility will include time management, collaboration, and a positive attitude. Responsibility Whereas personal responsibility must start with us as individuals, one must also note the importance of personal responsibility in a team environment. Personal responsibility will not only enhance a collaborative working environment into a positive experience...
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...Page 1 of 5 Communication Guidelines Every member of The Lyceum team has been assigned an email address. It is a vital life line for the flow of information and for communication. To use email efficiently, it is important to understand the difference between information and communication. Email is not intended to replace face-to-face communication or phone calls. The following are guidelines for communicating via email, phone and meetings. Emails: The following is a guideline for communicating by means of emails. 1. Be precise and to the point. 2. Complete one segment of your communication before moving on to the next. 3. When responding to an email. a. If the answer requires some research, first acknowledge that the email has been received and let the person know when a complete reply will be sent. This will enable the person requesting your response to advise you of her/his priorities or the importance of your response. This will enable you to adjust your schedule if required and proceed with more focus. b. In all other cases an email should be answered they same day. 4. Under no circumstances should you delay your response beyond 24 hours. 5. Emails should be clear and easy to understand. Using bullet points where possible makes reading and comprehending easier. 6. Keep it simple. Telephone: Telephone calls are necessary at times as they are immediate. The following protocols should be followed. 1. All communication via telephone calls should be followed up by an email...
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...instincts as the breakdown of society occurs and rules disappear. Once civilization disappears, which occurs since the boys are stranded in an island, it becomes a free-for-all type of mentality. Also, the author uses fire and flies as a symbol of evil, savagery, and pandemonium. Finally, once all evidence of a civilized culture is erased from their hearts and minds, the boys resort to murder; which is thought to be the ultimate sin. Golding develops his theme that savagery and survival is an innate sixth sense, which is present within everyone, and is demonstrated by the actions of the...
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...on Personal Responsibility and Academic Success Personal responsibility is important in life, especially while going to college. In order to be a successful student, personal responsibility is essential. It is accepting accountability for one's actions and is vital when pursuing an education. Personal responsibility and college success are dependent upon one another. Personal responsibility is accepting accountability for one’s actions. As personal accountability expert Linda Galindo defines it as, “When you’re personally accountable, you stop assigning blame, “should-ing” on people, and making excuses. Instead, you take the fall when your choices cause problems,” (Galindo, 2010). Personal responsibility is not about blaming others for what has gone wrong. For example, if a student received a bad grade on a project, the student can not blame the teacher for giving the bad grade. The teacher did not do the project, the student did; it was the student’s work. The student would need to accept personal responsibility and accountability for the work, and take it as feed back to work harder to get a better grade. Accepting failure is a part of accepting personal responsibility for what has taken place academically. Referring to data collected, 85 percent of an individual’s success is from steps the individual takes for themselves, rather than 15 percent being from other people (Galindo, 2010). Personal responsibility is important when pursuing...
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...Part 1 Analysis The first purpose of this section is to offer background information for the action about to unfold. It's important to note that at the time the play was first produced, most people in the audience would have known the story of Medea and Jason when they came into the theatre. The myth was part of Greece's cultural and societal heritage. The interest in coming to the theatre, for the Greeks, was to see how the playwright illuminated larger questions of human existence by telling the story in his particular way. This particular playwright's viewpoint appears in the conversation between the Tutor and the Nurse, specifically the Tutor's reference to selfishness ("everyone loves himself more than his neighbor"). The two main characters in this play, Medea and Jason, are models of selfishness. Both of them are concerned with meeting their own needs, acting on their own desires and doing what they think is right without any consideration for anyone else. They both take their selfishness to extremes. Jason leaves his wife for a younger, prettier and richer woman just because he wants to, and the excuses he gives for doing so in Part 2 are just that - excuses. Medea sacrifices four innocent lives because she so desperately wants to cause Jason pain. The question of whether she's justified in that desire will be examined later. Note that this is a different question from whether she's justified in killing her children. The Chorus functions in a similar way to choruses...
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...Homework is an issue that affects both students and teachers on a daily basis. As teachers we must expect great things from our students and for our students to achieve great things, we need them to study and do work at home to help emphasize new information and concepts being taught in the classroom. Teachers must teach self- motivation and actively engage their students to do homework and study on a nightly basis. For students as well as their families homework can often be seen as chore that they must find time for between afterschool activities, their parents work schedules, and just wanting to play. Teachers must find just the right balance of homework to help reinforce what is being taught in the classroom while allowing for family time as well as accommodating the busy schedules many American’s face. Ms. Zalogwe has a zero-tolerance homework policy due to problems with students and homework in the past. She clearly lays out the policy at the beginning of the year and sends parents a handout so that they are also informed of her policies. It is important as a teacher to clearly explain to students as well as their parents exactly what is expected from them. I do believe a teacher should allow for some flexibility in their homework policies, while at the same time teaching self-motivation. Homework should reinforce what is being taught in the classroom and allow for positive social interaction. Homework should accommodate the varying learning levels found in the classroom...
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...employers, employees and customers will be truthful and honest about the business. (CRT, 2015) “Just weight” as quoted from Deuteronomy 25:13-15 is encouraged by White and it is corresponding to Caux’s open and fair trade. Employees should be able to provide a service for which they are being salaried for. The business should sell products that are equivalent in value to what the customers are paying for but not cheating them out of their money for substandard products or wanting services. (Cotton, 1998) Personal responsibility as White refers to it is the ability of a person to come out and be transparent if they have done wrong. Humans are prone to error but the ultimate test will be whether one is able to fess up to their mistakes and be held accountable for them. Business should have this sense and stop making excuses...
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...to the clerk and offered to drive her to the meeting. Knight recognized Castro as the father of a young girl that had attended the same school as her. Thinking it was safe, she agreed to let him drive her. Castro and Knight then walked out to the parking lot where Knight first noticed that Castro’s car had a note stuck to the window that advertised puppies for sale. She told Castro that her son liked puppies. This was a fatal mistake - as that statement gave Castro an excuse to bring Knight to his house. “I just wanted to pop into my house to pick up a puppy for Joey,” Castro told Knight. She followed Castro out of the car and watched as he locked his gate. “It’s a bad neighborhood,” he explained. They entered his house, and Castro then locked his front door. “The puppies are upstairs,” he told her. But there were no puppies. Castro was able to coax Knight into a room, where he locked her in and held her there for eleven years. About a year later it is April 21, 2003, one day before sixteen year old Amanda Berry’s birthday. Around 7:30 PM, Berry had just finished a shift at her job at Burger King, and she needed a ride home. A middle aged man named Ariel Castro took note of Berry’s need for transportation and offered her a ride home. Berry accepted, and she called her sister telling her that she had a ride. That was the last time her sister heard from Berry, as Berry never came home. Worried, Berry’s family reported her disappearance. The FBI originally classified her as a...
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...7 Habits of Highly Profitable Traders. Habit #1 - The Habit of Trading ONLY with Risk Capital Many people have entered the activity of trading with money they could not afford to lose and as a result they started off trading with "scared" money. They' re fear of loss was bigger than they're desire for gain and they traded with a nervous and anxious state of mind. Scared money never wins. It's wrong to borrow money to trade or take out a second mortgage on your home for trading capital. The way to begin is to determine how much you could afford to lose financially and then from that amount determine how much money you could afford to lose emotionally. Many beginning traders will look to their accountant, financial planner or spouse for advice regarding the amount they could lose financially without considering the emotional side. If your accountant says you could afford to lose Rs. 5, 00, 000 without it severely impacting your financial status, the next thing to do is ask yourself "How would I feel if I lost Rs. 500000 trading in the next 12 months"? As you can see, financially allocating an amount of money for risk capital is very different form emotionally allocating it. Anything can and will happen in the market. Develop the habit of only trading with money you can afford to lose financially and emotionally. Habit #2 - The habit of accepting full responsibility for their own trades. Successful traders always take full responsibility for their own actions in all...
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...Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility: A look at the role letters play in the text. Sense and Sensibility is constructed in the period of 1790 – 1810 under Georgian rule in England. This forms a vital role in deciphering the book by Jane Austen as societies’ expectations on woman were what gave inspiration to the book itself. Ascertaining their role to find a suitor, woman went out to find not only the greatest gentleman but also a man whom was wealthy enough to support her (and her children) and this was combined with their own societal status. During this period letter were seen as a formal way of communication and they were written in the highest English language known to the writer, it was never the case as in today’s society that it was a form of rumour or conversation. Jane Austen got the ideas behind the book by contrasting two of the major characters against one another Elinor - “Sense” and Marianne - “Sensibility”. Elinor is the sense or wisdom she is all that is moral and just with the world within the book she does what is expected both looking after her family after the death of her father and behaviours which are expected of woman in the period. Marianne is the sensibility of vulnerability of emotions within the story she exhibits all the weaknesses in life of the period. The book unravels the story of both the siblings through the death of their father and how they battle to find an emotional and physical state of calm afterwards. It continues uncovering the relationships...
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...Alabama 36082 Office: 334-670-3195 office jteng@troy.edu Dr. Joe Teng Troy University Chair, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods 334-670-3195 jteng@troy.edu Telephone: E-Mail: Troy Department Chair: The syllabus for this class includes the TROY Department Chair contact information for Dr. Teng. This is provided in the event you cannot resolve a situation with me, your instructor. PLEASE do not contact (e-mail or phone) Dr. Teng with a question, problem, or concern unless you have first contacted me and you have not received a response from me within 24-48 hours, or if you do not agree with my response. Thank you for your help in this matter. Students: Please place IS 2241 XTIC in the subject line of any emails sent to me. NOTE: For a course syllabus posted prior to the beginning of the term, the instructor reserves the right to make minor changes prior to or during the term. The instructor will notify students, via email or Blackboard announcement, when changes are made in the requirements and/or grading of the course. INSTRUCTOR EDUCATION: Ph.D., Management Information Systems. The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee MBA., Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas. B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois. BA., Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois. Page 1 of 11 IS2241 – Dr. Joe Teng TEXTBOOK(S) AND/OR OTHER REQWUIRED MATERIALS: The textbook provider for eTROY is MBS Direct....
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...Marketing Principles FALL 2012 Marketing 345 – Section 004 Instructor: Phone: E-mail: Dr. Gwen Fontenot 337-482-6136 fontenotg@louisiana.edu Class Time & Location: MW 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. – MX 103A Office: Office Hours: Moody Hall 332 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. -- M, W 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. -- M, W 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – T, R Students are advised to email the instructor to schedule appointments for meetings (even for meetings during office hours) to ensure that the instructor doesn’t have other appointments at those times. PREREQUISITE: Students must be in Upper Division. REQUIRED TEXT: Marketing, 3rd Edition by Grewal & Levy; ISBN - 978-0077632694. You must have access to Connect. REQUIRED SIMULATION LICENSE: $25 Marketplace Simulation Live COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides an introduction to the vocabulary, theories, and practices of the business functional area of marketing to include segmentation, target marketing and positioning. It emphasizes developing and implementing marketing strategies and deciding appropriate product distribution, price, and promotion strategies for identified target markets. COURSE LEARNING EXPECTATIONS: The expectations of this course are for you to: 1. Define and apply marketing terms and vocabulary. 2. Explain the role of marketing in an organization, the philosophy of the marketing concept, the marketing mix, and how ethical and environmental factors affect marketing decisions. 3. Explain how marketing theories...
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...the good is given in instinct; however, with the advent of reason we have the capacity of the human being to choose that which is not given by nature. This means that it is unclear that our immediate impulses guide us correctly; there must be a standard to be argued for, since the immediately given is not satisfactory. It is in ethical reality that the degree of difference of intelligence between man and the animals is perhaps equivalent to a difference in kind. Because of this, the human good, as opposed to the natural good, is inherently questionable. In this class, we will be looking at how it is that philosophers have concerned themselves with this question. We will look at 3 of major different ways in which the question the ultimate ethical principle has been understood; the utilitarian, the “deontological” and the “eudaimonistic”, by considering a few of the primary texts that deal with these. Requirements, Expectations, Grading You are expected to attend and attentively participate in every class period. The grade for this course will consist of two exams, midterm and final (25 % each) , weekly response papers (40%), and class attendance and participation (10%). You should expect to spend at least 6 hours each and every week studying and preparing for this class, in addition to your regular attendance. Your professor is of the belief that the study of the liberal arts and the sciences, or true...
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...Notes on Existentialism Compiled for PSY 345 (Fall 2004) Existentialism provides a moving account of the agony of being in the world. The spirit of existentialism has a long history in philosophy. But it became a major movement in the second half of the 20th century. Existentialism is not a systematic body of thought like Marxism or psychoanalysis. Instead, it is more like an umbrella under which a very wide range of thinkers struggled with questions about the meaning of life. Much of the appeal and popularity of Existentialism is due to the sense of confusion, the crisis, and the feeling of rejection and rootlessness that Europeans felt during World War II and its aftermath. Existentialism’s focus on each person’s role in creating meaning in their life was a major influence on the Phenomenological and Humanistic traditions in psychology and on the “human potential” movement that emerged from them. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) said, “Conquer yourself rather than the world.”. To modern existentialists this means that the World itself has no real meaning or purpose. It is not the unfolding expression of Human Destiny or a Divine plan, or even a set of natural laws. The only meaning is that which we create by acts of will. To have a meaningful life we have to act. But we should act without hope. Acting is meaningful but it doesn’t create meaning that lasts beyond the acts themselves or beyond our own lifetime. You are what you do – while you are doing it – and then nothing. (Very...
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