...University of Phoenix Material Academic Success Answer each question below in at least 75 words per question, reflecting on your current abilities, and identify resources to strengthen your skills. Refer to the videos, readings, and other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |Understanding and knowledge of things being taught. A list of knowledge, skills, and attributes a| |readiness? |student should possess to be ready to succeed in entry-level college courses | |What concerns, if any, do you have |The only concerns I have with academic writing and reading is that I ready slower than other, so | |with academic writing and reading? |it takes me longer to get things done. With writing I feel like I don’t have enough information. | | |I plan on using the center for writing excellence to help me. | |What two university resources will you|The two resources I will be using the most are, Center for writing excellence and the technical | |use to strengthen your writing and |support number. I have already explained why I will be using the center for writing excellence as| |reading skills (refer to your Student |far as writing. I plan on using the technical...
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...memorable day for me as I was re-enter in university after 7 years, I became a student again after I married and also been a father, this is one of the greatest milestone of my life. To USTC, I really have a lot of emotions. When I was at middle school I was heard a lot of story about USTC, I know this is a great and special university at China. I really wish I can be the student of USTC, but I know that is impossible because I know that I can’t reach the admission scores. When I was the senior class at university, I was participated the USTC master entrance examination. But I was failed; I didn’t catch the admission scores. So I was thought, USTC for me is only a dream at my heart. A very scared place for me. Last year, I want improve myself, I want be a master and have master degree. So again, at that time, the dream comes back again. I want be one part of USTC. So I apply the postgraduate enrollment examination again. But at that time, my wife is pregnancy and also I got a heavy workload at that time. I don’t have time for the examination preparation. I was giving up and didn’t want participate the exanimation. But in the end, my wife encouraged me to do a trial. Very fortunately, I reach the B line. Fortunately I pass the interview and became one part of MBA. During the two days orientation learning. The schoolmaster, the lead of USTC Management college and the outstanding schoolfellows was delivery the speech during these two days. These two days let me know more about...
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...teller for a living. I was going to get married by the end of the year. It was a little early but John, my fiancée helped me organize our wedding and we went to so many places. We looked for cakes, the venue and decorations. As we were driving, we saw Mishra alone; no one was going to her. A lot people have been saying that her telling’s are true; a lot of her costumers got scared. I didn’t believe what the others were saying. I believed in what I believed in. I went up to Mishra. I wanted to give it a try and I wanted Mishra to feel that she was still getting costumers. Mishra had a different way of telling people their future. She used cards, not by hand or any other things. She would pick ten cards out of twenty and I would pick five out of the ten. Those five cards I picked would be telling my future. She laid out the cards one by one as she was laying them one by one, the first card was an Ace with a gun, second card was a king which had a baby on it, third card was a queen which has bad guys killing a woman, the fourth one was a jack which had a broken heart and the last one was a ten which had death. I was really shocked with the result but then again I didn’t believe it. I was really skeptical about a lot of things. As I left, Mishra ran to me because I left my phone. While I was driving I couldn’t stop thinking what Mishra showed me. I was feeling very nervous and I didn’t feel good. As soon as I got home I had a hot shower and went to bed. John wasn’t...
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...Even being bored generates interest in anything because you can begin by asking yourself why you are even bored. This can lead to more questions and to even more answers. When huge amounts of information is being thrown at you, you could shift through all the data and organize it into different categories so you can establish the relationships between each information to help you understand what you have gather much easier. The world is full of unknown and discovering new things can help change who you are and what you do for future benefits. Willing to take the risks at challenging tasks, it may sound foolish to tackle these things but in the end you gain valuable lessons from it and can use it for the future. Being able to gather knowledge from different environments and present them in new ways to create good opportunities. When faced with a task and hardships that follow, it is good to experience that discomforting situation in order to learn how to endure it and get through with it. Nothing good comes easy. After reading this article I feel that there are so many things to do and learn that can help motivate myself to improve and grow. It is important that I become more open to new things so I can experience the good things that can also be overshadowed by bad things. Motivation - I'm just not in the mood Pg 57-59 This article talks motivation is an established habit developed through practice and practice. The terms self-discipline, willpower, and motivation...
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...I remembered to do this because of priming. My roommate asked me to help him with his calculus homework, then making me remember what I had to do. This self-observation did not help me remember my homework this time. Friday, February 6, 11 p.m. When trying to leave for dinner I could not find, or remember where my wallet was. After thinking about the last time I had it, I found in my pants I had worn the previous day. I forgot this because of absent-mindedness. When I changed the night before I was distracted by being tired and wanting to go to sleep. Because of that I forgot my wallet in the jeans I wore. I remembered where it was by re tracing the steps my night before and remembering the distinct times I knew I had my wallet. When looking for it I thought of this project hoping it would create priming and help me find a way for me to find my wallet. Saturday, February 7, 9 p.m. When given a list of things to do at work, I failed to remember all of them. I found that I only remembered the first and last task I was given to do. I failed to do this because of an encoding failure. When he began to tell me my tasks I focused on the first one and, did not hear what he said after. I was thinking about what I had to do for that task that I didn’t listen to the other tasks. I was unable to remember what else he said so I had to go ask him to repeat himself. I thought about this project in hopes that it would help me find a way to...
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...stress, money, and making time for my family are my three biggest challenges that I personally face. Think about where you are at this point in time. How many challenges have you overcome? The biggest of my three greatest challenges that I face as a college student is stress. There is stress coming from every direction. It comes from places like class, work, home life, relationships, and unexpected setbacks. For me, I do not deal with stress well. There is so many ways to cope with stress, but some people are better at it than others. You just have to find that one thing that you can do to escape from reality for a little while. The reason why I put stress first on my list, is because all of my challenges are directed to stress. I have faced this challenge for a while now. It has seem to become a part of my daily routine. With that being said, I have learned to control it but not to completely erase it from my life. If you figure out how, let me know! One suggestion that I have come up with is putting yourself in a setting where nothing can cause more stress. For me, I like going in a quiet room and finding out interesting facts about random things. I look for silly little books, internet articles, and fun facts that have un-useful information. For example, who invented video games? Though this may not but useful academic wise, it is useful for my stress relief. This information provided for stress management was found in my essay for module three. It explains that there...
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...My Father My father has been the most inspiring person in my life. He is the one person I can say has always been there for me. Anytime I have needed something or as I was growing up if I wanted something he would get it. He worked so hard to make sure I would be well taken care of. He has always been my biggest support and my best friend, but always kept me stable. If anything would happen to my father I would be devastated. When I was young my father worked forty plus hours a week. He had two jobs most of the time, but always made time to spend with me. We would hang out in his garage and I would make things out of wood and nails. He never had a boy to share the man stuff with, so since I was the one who was interested in these things I got to learn them. Which has been a great help through out my life because I there were times that I needed to fix things and no one else was around. So I now can fix just about anything. As I got older he would always make sure to put time aside for me. Since he was such a hard worker, I would miss him a lot. I would wait up for him as late as I could, just so I could spend time with him. Summer time was my favorite time to spend with him because I was able to stay up late and wait for him to get home from work. He would always take me night swimming when he got home. Even though he work a lot he was always making sure I had everything. He work so hard for our family and that is why I appreciated him so much more. He was also a...
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...Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. One of the reasons it is difficult to make lasting change is because we have underlying assumptions that compete with our ability to fully realize our goals or commitments. Use the guidelines and criteria outlined in the article, The Real Reason People won’t Change, to complete this exercise. Column 1 – Using your 360 results, identify a commitment or goal for improvement. I am committed to… Column 2 – Identify your behaviors that are currently working against your first-column goal. Be honest with yourself and list as many specific behaviors as possible that keep your goal from being reached. If you need help with this, you can ask others for feedback, just be open to their honest responses. Column 3 – This column begins to reveal the immunity to change, the hidden agendas that hold us back from significant change. Ask yourself the following questions about your Column 2 entries: If I imagine myself trying to do the opposite of this, what would happen? What worries or fears come up? Translate the worries or fears you have identified into competing commitments. Once complete you should be able to connect the first and third columns and see how the competing commitment “cancels out” your first column commitment. Column 4 – The big assumption is a rule or belief about what will happen if we act in certain ways. Brainstorm all the possible assumptions...
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...The True You Everyone in this world is unique and special in his or her own way. Each individual has their own personality, but when compared to others a lot of traits are common amongst everyone. Finding out your true color, not only helps discover what type of person you are it always helps you understand those around you. I took the true colors test, a series of questions that asked what I prefer, what I would do, etc. While taking the true colors test I had a hard time describing myself and picking exactly which color I was, but I made sure to answer everything truthfully. In the end, I discovered that I am the color orange. The core needs and values of orange are we need freedom, adventure, spontaneity, excitement, competition and we are skillful. I believe that the color orange describes me very well. I personally believe that working on team projects can be a challenge, but after learning about orange I have discovered that I have many skills that I can bring to the table. As an orange I am very enthusiastic about my work. I always want to get a jump-start on my work so I can move onto my next task. I see this skill helping me in a group project because this means I am action-oriented so I will get my job done with the results I desire. I will also make sure that my teammates are doing their jobs as well. I am also a straightforward person, so if I do not like something that is happening in my group I will definitely voice my opinion, in a polite way of course. Lastly...
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...proper behavior by feedback from their friend groups and others. Ego boosters from the general population who we respect help to realize who we are as a person. Ego Busters can negatively affect self-idea since person doesn’t care for being told they are bad or that they ought to change somehow. This can give persons a low self-idea. It can make individuals see themselves negatively. When I look at my life, from where I have been to where I am presently and I look at who can to boost my ego. Then, there are the ones who have negative comments about everything I do which is buster my ego. I will explain in my biggest ego boosters and my biggest ego boosters. I will give information how these people influenced my life An ego booster that I have had in my life would need to be my mom and my father. With respect to my family, they are always encouraging me that would perform to my most ability in school and in addition succeeding in life. My family boosted my ego by continually telling me that I can do it and never to give up. They would let me know that I would be doing a great job showing when in reality we both realize that I was not doing great, but rather to hear somebody letting you know that you are doing great improves you need to do. So when they let me know I was doing great I was being encouraged to show improvement over I was. My family has made me the person who I am today; I generally need to succeed in my life. Then I have had so some ego busters all through my life...
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... 01 June 2014 20 Tission road Walmer Cape Street Francis 7722 Dear Robert Daniels I would like to express my disappointment about the delay of a request that I sent to your company four months ago the request of designing and hosting a website to promote my business, Trendline. My vision is to provide clients with relevant product information, online shopping and customer service Unfortunately I noticed that you have disappoint me as you agree that delivery is in two months’ time but still the website is not online .I was hoping we going to do business great I even paid the half of a coast as a deposit .I need website to run a business global and you should have told me if you cannot help me. I should have took my business somewhere else. Now I would like if you can makes up for your delay and help me To resolve the problem, I would appreciate to have my websites up and running shortly. I will also be grateful if you going to make a special offer for me because you kept me waiting more than your delivery time. The website should be now more stunning than before I will Enclosed are copies of my new designs. I look...
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...how each resource might contribute to your success. Scavenger Hunt Matrix |Student resource |List the specific steps you used to locate |Explain how you can use each resource to support your | | |each resource. |academic, career, or personal success. | |Course syllabus |Go to discussion link on the home page and |Course syllabus will help with my success because it | | |look below the main forum where is says |will let me know what assignments and reading need to | | |course material and click on that link and |be done. | | |you’ll be able to access the syllabus. | | |Academic policies |Under the instructor announcement you’ll |Let’s me know what’s expected from my instructor and | | |find the policies and instructor policies. |what are the university | |Instructor policies | |...
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...The cane. Simply put the stigma of the cane alone can be a daunting prospect. Never mind the fact that I don’t have a disability. In all honesty (and ethics aside) I was afraid to use a cane in public because canes are an instant label. Does it make any sense at all that I would be more comfortable using crutches than I would a cane? No? Me either, but that’s the truth of it in a nutshell. Realistically, though perhaps not logically, crutches convey something temporary, an injury that will eventually heal. An injury that perhaps could even be conceivably derived from my athleticism gone awry, a sign of my wholeness on pause that would eventually return. A cane labels you as weaker than the rest, unhealthy even, takes you aside socially, mentally and physically from those that walk and live unassisted, strong, normally. I don’t like thinking that I am capable of snap judgments on the characters of others whom I have never met. I don’t like to think that I am capable of thinking so shallowly. In fact when I am in the presence of someone that is disabled I can’t help but want to help. I consider their apparatus to be a part of their personal space, an extension of their bodies and respect their needs which are usually no more than patience and space. I will always hold doors, reach something for those that can’t or be sure my children are respecting boundaries and be patient around those that need more time to complete tasks. Though, in the confines of my human body, I found...
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...and for me all these fears boil down to the fear of failure- I don’t want to go through all this hardship and end up flat on my face. I even would go as far to say that most of my early life’s disillusionment stemmed from this fear. Rather than try I would just be critical of those who did. Taking my education and viewing it as a life enhancement will help me during the times of struggle towards my degree. Ultimately, whether or not this gets me a better paying job, the tools I learn here will help me in all the endeavors of my life. Taking this approach will impact the outlook when life wont work how I think it should based on what I’ve done. The question now is, understanding the challenges I face, how will I take responsibility of my success? As I’ve alluded to before, the first step is to transform the way I think. It will do me no good when the struggles arise if I look at college with resentment. I must see this as value added. For me, when things are a positive, it makes it easier to handle the bad that always come along with it. The follow through with this will be the pratical application of this mindset. Some of these would be to prioritize my time and make the most of it when I have it. In conclusion, I find that life is a summation of choices and whatever has happened in your life, you can choose how you respond to them. This ability to choose and choose wisely is my responsibility. I have been giving another chance to impact my life and those around me for the...
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...valuable contribution. Speaking of my personal qualities, I believe that my greatest asset is my communication skills that help me to speak common language with people of most diverse backgrounds. I do hate inequality and prejudice and am ready to stand up for any person if I find that others are treating this individual with bias because of race, origin or other qualities related to background that a person has inherited at birth and cannot change. This determination to be fair to all usually wins me a lot of friends and, I hope, relying on my past experience, makes the group of people including me a safer place in terms of being free from prejudice and premature judgments. It is also true that I can organise people into groups of friends by suggesting different leisure-time activities like little outings that provide an incentive for people to get together and be nice to each other. In my view, the ability to hold a group together is a talent in itself as it strengthens social ties between people and can contribute to cohesion and friendliness on campus. My popularity also hinges on my kindness and compassion for other people and sensitivity to their feelings. I have been doing a lot of charity work lately, first volunteering at a day care center, then switching to a hospital to try a hand at my future career. Volunteering at places where people need help gives me a sense of belonging to humanity through meeting the needs of the sick and disadvantaged. It is not only through official...
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