Unit one: Principles of personal responsibilities and working in a business environment Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk • Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference • Then‚ go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My
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The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (Pages: 271) Publisher: Random House (2001) In The Botany of Desire‚ Michael Pollan counters the idea that humans fully control the crops they plant for their own use. Instead‚ Pollan uses a “plant’s-eye view of the world” to argue that plants have manipulated humans for evolutionary advantage as much as humans have manipulated plants. The book centers around four main plants that exploit our desires: The tulip gratifies our desire for beauty‚ the potato
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Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire” A middle class Spanish boy from Sacramento‚ who calls himself the “scholarship boy”‚ overcame a whirlwind of emotions‚ decision and regrets in trying to become an educated man. He looked to his teachers as his parent figures‚ mimicking and idolizing them. To him education was imitation. He became very puzzling to his family because he wanted to change who he was by trying to cover all trace of his Spanish heritage and soon even lost his accent. He
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realize how fortunate‚ not only I‚ but the rest of my community is. I loved helping the people in Asheville because I knew that it is something they
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cleaning houses to be able to pay rent and buy food. So you’re stuck taking care of babies‚ cooking‚ and somehow still managing to finish your schoolwork. This is what life in the small community of Lake Worth‚ Florida is like. Knowing about this motivated me to get more involved and help the Guatemalan community through service. As a student of Immaculata La Salle high school‚ I decided to join a club called SALTT‚ (service and leadership today and tomorrow).
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Our community is known for its love for fun and entertainment. Every year‚ we usually host a festival in honor of our patron saint‚ and this weekend is full of song‚ dance and of course food. On top of this tradition‚ you can also see our commitment to entertainment and fun by simply checking out the regular activities of most individuals in the community. Everyone loves to hav fun‚ like social dances and even playing social bingo every weekend. Lottery is also a favorite past-time in our community-
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Richard Rodriguez’s essay “The Achievement of Desire” can be described as an autobiographical text in which the author includes some self analysis in comparison to what he describes as the only description of “myself”(Rodriguez p.547): The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. What Rodriguez is doing by writing this essay is to add further notion of the “scholarship boy syndrome” for future scholarship boys. His motif for doing this could be to make the reader reflect on the advantages and disadvantages
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I am the problem in the black community: I am unplanned pregnancy‚ educational malpractice‚ welfare - shared and borrowed EBT‚ stolen uniforms in exchange for street opium‚ the overdose and the uncomfortable pain of going cold turkey. I am ghetto life‚ extreme poverty‚ gun violence and genocide in the streets. A piece of me lie motionless in a yellow square reading crime scene on a square block that inherits the plight of failed urban development and public policy. A St.Michael’s prayer card is
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much I would change about my community. It is wonderful as it is. Columbus has plenty of diversity within. The people also know how to come together when times are rough. They are not afraid to help each other out‚ and to be there for complete strangers. The one problem with the community on the other hand is the drug problem. It would be wonderful for drug abusers to get the help they truly need instead of the whole epidemic being shunned away by the rest of the community as if it does not exist.
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Module “Conflict Management” Facilitated by C-T. H. Bayer & B.T. Schernick Organized by FES YLDP Module on CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Table of Contents Training Approach .......................................................................................3 What is Conflict ?........................................................................................5 Five Basic Styles in Conflict Situations .................................................7 Different Behaviours in Conflict Handling
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