Being a leader is influencing peers to do something good for someone else, and learning more about you at the same time. I feel that my greatest leadership role was being a cadet teacher and instructing a first-grade Mexican boy how to read in English. ... That little boy showed me that no matter how long it takes, if one person has faith and believes in you, that you can truly do anything. Not only was I a leader by teaching the young boy to read, he was leading me on another discovery of myself that education would be a field of study that I would like to pursue. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It happened during a reading discussion that I decided to share my thoughts about the story we had just read. ... My teachers never got to know about the wealth of knowledge I had, my curiosities, who I was, where I came from or, even worse, if I understood what was being discussed in class or whether I was learning. ... I graduated with my business degree and gave the business world a whirl, but it did not fulfill the discoveries I made about myself and the impact and change I wanted to make in our classrooms. ... He was an intelligent, respectable tall boy that was placed in my kinder ...

• Word Count: 948
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Paul didn't stay in this town very long when he was just a young boy his father, Rev. ... Paul never strove to be a hero to his people and purposefully accomplish all the goals he had so far, but that was the most admirable quality about him, he was never cocky about his accomplishments he was just doing things in life that he loved and he just happened to be good at all those things! ... Another admiring quality of Paul Robeson was his uncanny ability to get along with just about anybody. ... Through out the readings I found myself immensely interested in what I was learning about Pau...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is seen as normal or natural for a boy to be attracted to a girl and a girl to be attracted to a boy. ... Gary Hollander, a psychologist, talks about sexual identity formation in his article in the School Psychology Review (2000). ... Like everything in life families have to be educated about behaviors that are foreign to them. ... Other families that are somewhat accepting because they are educated and rational are still left to worry about the degree of harm their child will encounter. ... With organizations such as these families can learn and educate themselves about this issue. ...

• Word Count: 4517
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate