I found many of the topics discussed in Becoming a Learner useful‚ but the things I found most useful were how most college students go into college and how it is wrong. Sanders describes how many students go into college with the assumption that college will give them a good life. Talking about this he says‚ “The problem with this conversation is that it can turn education into an obligation instead of an opportunity” (Sanders 26). I can relate to this because many times I have thought that college
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Everyone has a purpose in life . . . A unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with services to others‚ we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit‚ which is the ultimate goal of all goals.” Becoming a Social Worker is one of the ultimate goals in my life. As a product of the foster care system‚ I have looked up to Social Workers and became inspired to become one. They go beyond limitations and expectations to solve problems and create stable
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a successful Guidance counselor. Becoming a guidance counselor allow me to have a more one on one relationship with students. In many cases you are able to teach children in small group setting teaching ideas that children are able to take for the rest of their lives. Having a guidance counselor that is able to advocate for the children is so important. Education has changed through the years in my option it has changed for the better. In the United States many children are able to attend Private
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Ana Palacios Prompt essay 8/30/10 Who makes a better leader: Someone who is loved or someone who is feared? A leader who is feared is a leader that can’t have control over whatever they are in charge of unless those people have fear of them. That shows that‚ that leader can’t control over the situation unless he shows that he is mean and he is the one who is in charge. The leader who is loved will be respected without been fear. That leader
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Shyla Henry September 11‚ 2012 Becoming a Teenage Mother I never thought having unprotected sex would lead to a teen pregnancy. However‚ I was wrong. Being young‚ immature‚ and thinking I was invincible led me to becoming a teenage mother. The disbelief came first‚ followed quickly by panic‚ before the realization and acceptance arrived. I had sex and I had to be mature and deal with the consequences and grow up faster than most teenagers. The days of my carefree teen life are now behind me as
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My response to Stacey Waite’s Becoming the Loon: Performance Pedagogy and Female Masculinity is hopefully as she expected it- a renewed understand and deconstruction identity‚ and how it’s been expected to be played out in our everyday lives. I enjoyed this reading‚ and it’s intelligent and simultaneously intriguing wording. The "flashbacks" were well done‚ flowed together‚ and were creative in their comparisons to the main text. The paper was also easy to read‚ which made me all the more intrigued
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I realize that becoming familiar to a new school was one of the hardest adjustments I would ever have to make because of the many ways it contrasted from a public school. Becoming familiar in a new area of life is considered becoming literate. According to Patricia Aufderheide‚ “Literacy is the ability to access‚ analyze‚ evaluate‚ and create messages in a variety of forms.” (qtd. in Livingstone 3). Evaluating how I became literate in a new school is a form of literacy. Becoming literate in a new
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Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again? When I was younger I always wanted to be a Veterinarian Physician. I always thought to myself‚ could I really be a veterinarian because I have a huge heart for animals. I don’t like the fact of putting an animal down and I always wondered If I could actually do it. I have a huge heart for animals and knowing what I might have to do is hard. My grandma is a huge
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ESSAY ON BECOMING A TEACHER One of my favorite memories as an elementary school-age child is the summer that I created a treasure hunt for “little kids” in my neighborhood. I was so excited to see the smiles of happiness as the children embarked on their hunts‚ and to see them succeed in finding clues and obtaining the treasure. I want to be a teacher for many reasons‚ but I think that the feeling of reward I experience in bringing happiness to‚ and encouraging growth in others‚ is my primary motivation
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Running Head: ACCOUNTING Accounting Latoya Bullock Bryant & Stratton College Comm150 Instructor Santella 06/09/2013 What is accounting? Known as the “language of business‚” accounting is the system of analyzing and verifying summarized business/financial transactions and reporting their results. Accounting is more than just adding numbers and being good at math. Accountants have to “ensure that financial records are accurate and that taxes are paid properly on time.” (Bureau
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