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. I was selected in my junior year based on my academic performance an...
Home Phone Email OBJECTIVE I am seeking an office job including various tasks, computer, typing, light bookkeeping, phones, and filing that has a starting salary of at least $22,000 per year plus benefits. SUMMARY .I am a self starter and a perfectionist who can work on my own or with ...
Schools are in great need of systems, processes, and personnel who are able to support the needs of students with problem behavior. Research indicates, however, that information has not been made available to teachers and other professionals in a format that allows these strategies to become commo...
In New Zealand, the majority of children attend mainstream schools but increasingly, others are opting for a lesser known alternative, home schooling. Home schooling has numerous advantages and benefits that you do not get in regular schools. Home schooling is a great opportunity to learn the wa...
LEARNING PROFILE OVER THE COURSE OF TIME THERE HAVE BEEN ADVANCES IN THE METHODS USED TO DETERMINE HOW A PERSON LEARNS AND UTILIZES IMFORMATION. VARIOUS STUDIES HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED, AND YEARS OF RESEARCH DEVOTED TO ACCURATELY MEASURING A PERSON"S INTELLIGENCE, LEARNING STYLES, AS WELL AS THE STRA...
Do you think certain types of clothing promote violence or gang activities? Or do different clothing distract classmates from learning in classrooms. According to an article in Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library "School Uniforms": "...[A] case of academic improvement following a schoo...
In summary, I believe that for learning to be successful, it has to shift from traditional setting of knowledge acquisition to knowledge construction where students engaged actively and be responsible for their own learning and be able to see the use of knowledge in real world situation. ...
Summary The purpose of the experimental research design conducted by Kimberly McDuffie, Margo Mastropieri, and Thomas Scruggs was to examine several factors; the effects of a peer-tutoring intervention on the academic achievement amongst students with and without disabilities, differences in students' academic achievement between co-taught and non-co-taught settings, and what is the added value of peer tutoring is implemented in the context of a co-taught setting (McDuffie et al., 2009). ...
Using Films to Develop Learner Motivation Movies may be employed in the classroom in a manner which both facilitates language learning and further encourages motivation. For anyone involved with language teaching there can be few more professionally demoralizing experiences than a class totally lac...
Reflection Paper Scriptural Passage: Romans 12: 1- 13 (Life in God's Service) I decided to reflect on the scriptural passage above for the simple and guided reason that it has helped me realize the kind of life that God wants me, and every Christian to live. It is significant in that it is a ...
Organizational Burnout Increasingly, employees work in job settings in which human values place a distant second behind economic ones. Workers are yielding their time. They are working longer hours. They are taking work home, often continuing after hours on computer equipment they ha...
It is vital that parents, teaching staff, administration and students recognize that improving the health our country is the responsibility of all members of society. For this reason, there is no doubt that Health and Physical Education (HPE) holds an essential and valued part to any school curricul...
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to compare three empirical articles used in our comparison matrix to show the correlation between socialization and self- identity. For this paper, we will explore the research question, literature reviews, sample populations, limitations, and results of eac...
This is an academic summary of an essay by Richard Rodriguez, "Achievement of Desire". We are to summarize Rodriguez's essay and then expand on it using a recent personal experience. I am looking for help with proofreading and any ideas you may have on how to expand this essay further. Thanks. In th...
Executive Summary: Over the past four years, President Bush has failed higher education in many ways. He has failed to properly distinguish the differences in K-12 and higher education. His administration has shown indifference to skyrocketing tuition costs. Most importantly, Bush has not provid...
Although "Coach " is his title, he is much more to his basketball team. A man that can see more than athletic ability or what the individual sees themselves to be. Based on a true story, the film, Coach Carter (2005), tells of when Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) returns to his alma mater Richmond High School to fill in the newly opened head coaching position to save a struggling high school basketball team. Coming to the team, he brings his "my way or the highway " coaching style. ...
Is the play "Educating Rita" a humorous or a serious play? In this essay, I will discuss the distribution of comedy and seriousness. The main theme is that Rita in the age of 26 decides she wants to be educated. "Educating Rita" also deals with serious themes as in: alcoholism, suicide and relationships. But in this play the writer have been able to make it exciting to read by making the characters humorous. ...
Imagine you are an incoming college student with a full load of classes and that, at the beginning of the semester, you are assigned to do a book analysis that is due at the end of the semester. You see which book is appointed for the assignment and realize it is an easy read. In this case, you tell yourself, "Oh that book doesn't seem so bad, I can finish reading it within a week and have the analysis written that same weekend; no problem!"" However, the unforeseen pile up of assignments from your other classes and social commitments have made it difficult for you to get around to that b...
Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From Outside, In" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reports her own childhood as a little girl of two diverse, but similar languages. One of her mother tongue, "Black English," which she could use with her own community in a warm environment, and the other of the "others," "Standard English," which was used for articulate communication with the public that made her more influential and persuasive, as well as appear to be more educated. As a...
