THE EFFECTS OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES ON PERSONALITY TRAIT DEVELOPMENT BY JOSHUA J. JACKSON DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign‚ 2011 Urbana‚ Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor Brent Roberts‚ Chair Associate Professor R. Chris Fraley Professor Eva Pomerantz Professor Jim Rounds Associate Professor Edelyn Verona ii
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Jack F. Baines‚ Jr. - #1468350 HOMI501_D06 LUO My Salvation Experience As of September of 2011‚ I will have been a born-again Christian for 41 years. My journey to faith in Christ began with the conversion of my father‚ Jack Baines‚ Sr. in 1967. Dr. Melvin Worthington was the pastor of the First Free Will Baptist of Amory‚ Ms and he invited my father to attend a Revival service in Tupelo‚ MS where his brother was the guest evangelist. The first night‚ my dad went to the altar
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In addition to my work experience‚ I have strong communication‚ customer service‚ office‚ and administrative skills and understand with the education theory from some of my modules I completed and have so much passion for the hospitality/tourism field. I am more than happy to learn new skills as this will help me gain experience for my future career and would be thrilled to work for a successful firm like Holiday Inn. Furthermore I can assure you my service will be of benefit ‚I certainly look
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I served as a student volunteer for Hammer and Nails a non-profit organization that works to serve the community with the mission of improving the quality of lives for low-income families through home repair. Most of the home owners in Canton‚ Ohio faced financial hardship and could not fund the extensive repair and renovation that their homes needed and thus relied on volunteer services for help. Through my time spent with Hammer and Nails I savored learning about the families within the community
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My English 1020 Experience English 1020 was a challenge to me because I only like writing about topics of my choosing. I love to write about different topics‚ but literature expands more than our personal opinion. I say it was challenging because I was required to write about subjects that I really wasn’t interested in writing about. Writing papers can be challenging‚ exciting‚ and interesting at the time. English has always been my strong point‚ but English 1020 didn’t go as well as I had
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Experience of the Industrial Visit at Mysore and Bangalore This was our second time during our degree tenure that we were going for an Industrial Visit (IV). Everyone in the class was very excited about this trip. On the 13th of December‚ we left for the journey from CST Station. Everyone were enjoying themselves during the journey. We reached Bangalore Cantonment Station on the next day‚ on 14th of December‚ at about 9am from there we took a bus for Mysore taking us all the way to our accommodation
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The introduction of Donald J. Funes’ book Musical Involvement addresses the topic of music as an aesthetic experience. The preface to the introduction is the realization that truly listening to music requires an active response‚ and this type of listening is not innate. All throughout the day we are bombarded with music and every day sounds‚ most of which remain in our periphery. It can be difficult to focus on a single event such as a concert‚ lecture or any other situation that requires a quite
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Field experience has been a great source for me to be able to understand the teachers’ role and responsibilities better. As I continue to shadow my mentor teacher Mr. Estrada while he was teaching his 4th grade class‚ I happened to come across several issues that a teacher typically might face during his/ her teaching career. It was one of those days again where I started my day by going to Sarah King Elementary School for field observation. Mr. Estrada began his class by greeting the students as
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from practical experience Education comes not from books‚ but from practical experience Education is the transmittance of knowledge or skills from a source to students and other learners. There are two ways of transmitting knowledge‚ via books or by offering practical experience. Unlike the practical experience that hands-on activities provide‚ books are more passive and the authors tend to transmit their knowledge or skills uni-directionally to readers. Practical experience is sometimes important
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various experiences. Everyone has to go through different types of experiences everyday. The experience could either have to do with something mentally‚ physically‚ or even at home‚ work‚ marriage‚ school‚ church‚ or even rehabilitation.Whether it was a positive or a negative experience‚ people still go through it. There are two results that come with experiences‚ it was either a challenge failed or a challenge achieved successfully. Despite the positivity or negativity of the experience‚ there is
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