...ripped away from what could have been a brighter future. In the Precious Knowledge documentary, the opportunity to take part in the ethnic studies program was taken away from future generations. As for the Waiting for Superman documentary, it was heartbreaking to see young children crying after not being chosen to attend a new, and improved school. It is sad to me to see children who actually care about their education and future be cast aside or be unable to participate in something that would improve their chances of success....
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...person to perform one’s own decisions. These qualities are considered by the people for their basic leadership. This paper represents the case study of Edward Snowden who is a defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, leaked very confidential information about the activities of USA’s National Security Agency (NSA). In June 2013, Snowden confessed to passing characterized records to columnists at The Guardian and The Washington Post—revealing the details of NSA observation programs that gather and perform information mining on a huge number of U.S. telephone calls and Internet...
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...school campus. Unfortunately, child development is one of those programs getting cut. The child development building itself will no longer exist as a preschool for the local community or as a learning facility for high school students who seek experience in an education career field. Sam Barlow High School and...
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...values of the people that I met. Despite the contrasting lifestyles and material wealth I witnessed in each country compared to what is in the US, I also saw how similar my values and beliefs are to those I met. In each case, the people I met helped make me a more well rounded person. I only wish I could have stayed longer. 2. Do you have any foreign language skills, either reading or conversational? (*) Currently, I would characterize my knowledge of Spanish as: Speaking = conversational, Listening = basic, Writing = conversational. I studied Spanish in high school and was fortunate to have the opportunity to complement my studies with the knowledge that came from conversing with the Latin American employees of my father’s various farming operations in their native language. After, moving away from home to attend college, I continued to study Spanish; however, I quickly realized that my knowledge and application of the language was deteriorating, as I was unable to use it in real-life situations everyday. 4. What activities have you pursued to familiarize yourself with the culture of the country? (*) Prior to business school, I worked for a large packaging distributor based in...
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...shelter beds and 16% to permanent housing, Pine street served 15,00 homeless people a day and 12,00 annually (Varley, 2013). Funding began to decline in the early 2000’s (Varley, 2013). In 2004 Pine Streets revenue fell from $29.6 million to $26.9 million. This led Director Downie and the Board of Directors to commission 2 studies to help find an answer to help balance the budget and use the funding wisely and efficiently. The studies commissioned were a Length of Stay Study and a Cost benefit analysis study. The studies showed great insight to where money was being spent and where resources were being allocated. The cost benefit analysis study showed that they had two programs, the Nursing Clinic and the Clothing program, were programs that could be outsourced and save Boston Pine Street Inn $1 million. The Nurse Clinic cut was not taken lightly and even caused a board member to resign in protest of the decision. Because the clinic was run by nurses it was not eligible for Medicaid funding, however they had a partnership with Boston Health Care for the Homeless and they did have Medicaid funding. This made sense to outsource the clinic to BHCHP. The clothing program was costing the shelter $300,000 per year (Varley, 2013). Downie...
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...Abstract / Proposal The purpose and frame for this study is to look at the various MBA programs in three types of colleges: state, private and for profit. The schools we selected for the study consist of Boise State University, Tulane University, and University of Phoenix. Time Frame The Time frame of the study will be November 11, 2013 through November 25, 2013. Data Collection Methods The study relies on personal accounts, student observations, and voluntary surveys. Interviews will also be conducted will local business leaders in order to give a secondary view on the appropriate school and gain an understanding of how they view the MBA program for a professional standpoint. In addition to conducting the personal accounts mentioned above the study will also incorporate research using the library, and internet (only professional and academic sources) to analyzing trends and patterns to try to determine which MBA programs will be more widely accepted in the business community. Also which students surveyed report they are the happiest, state, private, or for profit. We also intend to narrow the decision making process for students when they are considering an MBA. Research Questions The study looks at the overall organizational structure at each MBA program. Evaluate the mission statement of the organizations to determine if the respective organization is living up to their promises. We will look at how the three different programs differ, how they are alike, and provide support...
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...In the past few years, numbers of high schools in Fog city school District received negative report cards due to low performance on truancy, achievement gap and test scores. Studies show that majority of the truants will drop out of high school and conduct criminals’ activities. The rest of them most likely will end up with low wage jobs. These truants also directly impacted the academic performances in fog city school district. Their behavior influenced other students to think that school is not their priority. The unhealthy study environment results the whole school district scored below statewide average scores on state reading and writing exam. We have to take initiative to try whatever we can to get our school and students back on track, and I think the PASS – Promoting Achievement and Student Success program will just does that. PASS is a rewards program that rewards outstanding students base on numerous categories such as attendance, standardized test scores, community service activities, following school code of conduct and Participating in school-sponsored extra-curricular activities. It will also reward quality teachers who worked hard for our next generation. This new program has presented its initial success in other cities. As a member of school board, I fully support implementing the program with exception of reward for standardized test scores. I have mix feeling on using incentive as a tool to improve students’ grades. I agree to award students who improved...
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...is the oldest of his siblings. He has two young sisters who are away at college studying. His mother is in good health but his father has not been in good health due to severe heart attacks. John graduated from college with Certified Public Accountant degree two years ago. He returned home to help his father with farming because of his father’s illness and the farm is located outside of rural town in southern minnesota. John’s plan is to work as an accountant. He has been accepted...
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...MMH Design Guideline “Home away from Home” Introduction MMH Lounge, located in the Statler Hall, is an exclusive space dedicated to the students in Master of Management of Hospitality program. In this design guideline, we established the emotion characters of the new lounge to be home, relaxing, belonging, and warm, control and connected. All the design need to follow the base emotion characters of the new space. A list of detailed functionality and respective physical requirements are also detailed in this guidelines, such as study, eat, rest, presentation etc. Building on the required functions, the new MMH lounge will be relocated at the back of the existing one and the space will be double to 850 Sqft. Emotion Character Keywords: home, relaxing, belonging, control, connected, vibrant, neat, trendy, warm The base of emotion character generation lies on the analysis of target users, who are the MMH students. As graduate students who are in such an intense program, MMHers spend majority of their time at school even on weekends. The base line of emotion we want to high light is the feeling of home, where the concept of “home away from home” comes from. Derived from the base emotion, we can set other emotions that we want to express through design process. Relaxing: The feeling of home is relaxing and stress free, so the design of MMH Lounge should be able to convey the emotion of relaxing. Most of MMHers take on six to seven courses each semester which impose...
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.... College students, especially freshmen, are a group particularly prone to stress (D'Zurilla & Sheedy, 1991) due to the transitional nature of college life (Towbes & Cohen, 1996). They must adjust to being away from home for the first time, maintain a high level of academic achievement, and adjust to a new social environment. College students, regardless of year in school, often deal with pressures related to finding a job or a potential life partner. These stressors do not cause anxiety or tension by themselves. Instead, stress results from the interaction between stressors and the individual's perception and reaction to those stressors (Romano, 1992). The amount of stress experienced may be influenced by the individual's ability to effectively cope with stressful events and situations (D'Zurilla & Sheedy, 1991). If stress is not dealt with effectively, feelings of loneliness and nervousness, as well as sleeplessness and excessive worrying may result (Wright, 1967). It is important that stress intervention programs be designed to address stress of college students. However, in order to design an effective intervention, the stressors specific to college students must be determined (Wright, 1967). The Student Stress Survey (SSS) was used to determine the major sources of stress among college students. The scale consisted of 40 potentially stressful situations. The scale addressed interpersonal, intrapersonal, academic, and environmental sources of stress. The items in the scale...
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...show if the amount of time the children spent watching television would hinder their comprehension and the second part is to show what programs where watched when the children did watch television. The surprising thing was from both questions being answered, the one that made the most impact on the children was the time the children actually spent watching TV. Playing video games or doing anything in front of the television is time away from socializing with peers and family. Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability The two part panel consisted of elementary children from second to fourth grade. These studies were conducted in a Dutch elementary school using 1050 students. The study was conducted to find out if television helped or harm children’s reading performance. THE amount of time spent watching TV The first part of the study was to understand if the amount of time children watched was effecting there reading or comprehension levels. The amount of time did have an effect on the children in a negative way. This statement automatically makes people think; oh TV is bad, but not necessarily true. There are few but good programming out there that will help teach your child the, alphabet, problem solving, and other scholastic properties. However, the television is just another outlet to consume time away from something else that might be more constructive or productive, such as been social with family and friends or being physical...
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...education budget cuts and the motion for higher standardized test scores on the raise, many schools have been forced to cut some of their programs. Those hardest hit are music, art and physical education classes. The issue is that cutting these programs may do more harm to students than good. Studies have shown that music, art and physical activity have many positive effects on student development and learning. Physical education has become especially important today. With childhood obesity become an increasing problem, physical health and proper nutrition has become a great concern. Music and art also have also shown to have an impact on physical development. These are the classes and programs that promote creativity, self-expression and individuality, and for many students are the classes that they look the most forward to and are often the highlight of their day. By taking them away are we not robbing our students of the opportunity to learn through different mediums? What about the future musicians, artists and athletes? Are we not robbing them of the opportunity to follow their dreams and be who they are? There is no question that music, art and physical education is important in many ways to the lives of students, and there are many reasons why keeping these programs in schools are a must. Many cities and school districts have begun to create programs, many outside of school, to ensure that students have the opportunity to...
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...some of our most cherished beverages such as tea, coffee, and cola are drugs. However this paper focuses on drugs that are abused by teenagers. Surveys show that cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and inhalants are the most commonly used drugs among teenagers age thirteen through eighteen. One of the most startling findings from recent data is the degree to which to which teenagers are now involved in drug use. This drug abuse problem has gotten worse. Perhaps our society must hit “rock bottom” before changes can occur. According to the Michigan Institute for Social research, reported the results of their 1992 and 1993 national survey of nearly fifty thousand American high school students across the country ages thirteen through eighteen. Studies show that a gradual decrease in the use of most illicit drugs by younger people. The peak year for illicit drug use by high school seniors was in 1980. The 1992 and 1993 surveys reported an alarming shift, a modest but statistically significant increase in the use of several drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and inhalants. This survey attributes the increase in drug use to students’ perceived risk or danger in using a particular drug. In 1992, thirteen year-olds were less likely to see cocaine, crack and marijuana as dangerous. But in 1993, there was a significant increase in marijuana use by seventeen and eighteen year olds and a significant increase in marijuana use by thirteen year-old students. Cocaine use by seventeen and eighteen...
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...“Missy Thoma Professor Murphy English 131 9 October 2014 The Arts in Public Schools: Is It a Priority or Not? Everyone has taken some type of art program in school. Whether it was music, art, drama, creative writing, or visual arts. Some students may have learned something from it like any other class. The arts programs are very important to many students especially when they reach high school. They want to take that class and turn it into their career. Though some say it is not an important class and a distraction to the more important classes such as math, science, and English. The art and music programs in public schools are very important to the education for students. There is a debate that is currently suggesting that the education of art and music is linked to the “Educate America Act of 2000, which outlines the goals and standards for the nation’s education” (Flynn, 2011). According to the “Educate America Act lists arts education as a part of the core curriculum, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the NEA are the federal agencies that are responsible for the federal funds for arts education; and to them the arts education is one of the lowest priorities” (Flynn, 2011). Many public schools offer art and music education at the levels of elementary school. It is a more local decision that is made to fund art and music education in higher school levels, which higher levels provide art and music classes that are optional to the students (Flynn, 2011). Seven...
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...with the normal functioning of heart, blood and vascular system. * Leads to poor lung development (meaning that their lungs never grow to their full potential). * Studies show sudden infant death syndrome occurs in infants that are around smoke. * * Insert your second reason here. * Insert your third reason here. Secondhand Smoke Poses Hazard to Infants Listed are a few reasons why this topic is important * Infants that are around people that smoke are at increased risk for infections such as ear infections. * Being around smoke can interfere with the normal functioning of heart, blood and vascular system. * Leads to poor lung development (meaning that their lungs never grow to their full potential). * Studies show sudden infant death syndrome occurs in infants that are around smoke. * * Insert your second reason here. * Insert your third reason here. Secondhand smoke is the smoke a smoker breathes out and that comes from the tip of a burning cigarette, pipe and cigar. It contains about 4,000 chemicals. Many which are dangerous and can cause cancer. Anytime children breathe in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. Do you want your child to get an infection or possibly die? Then please stop smoking! QUIT! Keep your child away from secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is the smoke a smoker breathes out and that comes from the tip of a burning cigarette, pipe and cigar. It contains about 4,000 chemicals...
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