During my search for the proper college for me, I came across Macalester - a college with national reputation for its outstanding professors, friendly students and ivy-caliber education. ... Because my interests are in so many fields - History, Humanities, Economics, International Studies, I feel that liberal arts education suits best my personality. ... I have performed Bulgarian folk dances for 12 years and I believe that it will be interesting for my future fellow students to get acquainted with a different culture along with its specific temper and customs. As for my academic contri...

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For the past two years, I have participated in the Academy of Finance, an intensive two-year academic program designed to give high school students a background in accounting, finance, international business, banking and economics. ... CGI Finance is the place where Citigroup receives all the financial statements of Citigroup subsidiaries and analyzes it to make sure that there isn"t any fraudulent numbers, if they met up with their earning forecast, etc. ... After I finished with the task, I was asked to participate in a conference in which I had to present to a number of people a summary of ...

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In today's world, more emphasis is put on academic learning because it is good grades, not good morals that help children get into college and find good jobs. ... This includes "purposeful reasoned, goal-directed thinking that involves solving problems, formulating inferences, working with probabilities, and making carefully thought out decisions (Weiten 32)." This is done through teaching children the "basics": reading, writing, communication, mathematics, science, history, geography, civics, economics, arts, and health & fitness (Bergeson). ...

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A person with a college education will very likely be successful in this business climate. ... These teaming skills will help a person to adapt easily to different and changing environments, enabling a person to work within a variety of organizational cultures and with a variety of different management styles. The college experience also provides students with the opportunity to develop effective technical skills. ... Pesek, a professor of economics at The Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, and David F. Merriman, associate professor of economics at Loyol...

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My dream is to build my very own business, and I believe The George Washington University will help me become a well-rounded, generally educated, and most importantly, socially conscious businessman. ... I have witnessed my parents, uncles, and aunts emigrate from India with practically no money to support their families. ... My interests extend past economics and mathematics as I am also interested in political science. ... In a few months we will be making a trip to a Washington, D.C. convention where we will debate with other chapters, and will continue to learn about the politics in our de...

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An actor is almost always busy, what with the shootings, press cons, and other actor-y stuff they do. ... For example, in economics, you will know things about supply and demand, marketing and strategies in it, production, and more. ... The proper education gives us all these, things that will help in running a country. ... We hope that the reasons we have presented above would help people realize who are the rightful persons for the job and the unworthy ones. ...

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There are many theories in education that have been drawn from psychology some of these have to do with teaching and others with learning. ... An educator must create his or her teaching environment into a learning environment in which students will sense a great amount of respect, trust and are willing to be successful with they"re objectives having to be done. ... If the lesson the teacher is teaching has the encouragement to help the students want to participate in the activity or lessons; when the teacher uses an act of motivation on the students and get the students to want to learn mo...

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Even though there are countless professional workshops that can help teachers with the common core standards, the state (New Jersey) seems to be coming up short with test scores and the production of college ready students. ... Technology and demographic economics have been changing for years, and because of this, education follows. ... This includes different ways in teaching, different forms of assessments, and different strategies to help each and every student thrive. ... Three strategies that can help future teachers are: 1. ... Everything is changing around us; it's about time we ke...

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I think they did it because their teachers and peers didn't offer them any moral support to help them through the problems that they had. ... My high school never had any real life skills classes to help us learn ethical approaches to life. ... To give an example, one of my peers in my Economics class senior year did absolutely nothing in that class "he hardly even showed up most of the time "but somehow he still managed to graduate. ... One other thing is the teachers didn't ever sit down and talk with the students. ... I remember one of my teachers was like this; He had t...

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The increasing number of schools with the programs leads to the effectiveness of the programs. ... Since the origin of the school breakfast program lies in providing breakfast to children of low-income families, many may feel ashamed to participate in the program, but there are ways in which teachers can get involved with getting children more involved with the school breakfast program. ... Teachers should include nutrition tips and guidelines in their curriculum, especially with younger students. ... If educators can help prevent bad eating habits when children are young, the numbers of obesi...

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