The Graduate Degree Paper Samantha Fazio COM/516 Professional Communications May 14‚ 2012 Jacob Green The Graduate Degree Paper I am pursuing a graduate degree in Education Leadership in order to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to advance my teaching career‚ in the area of special education‚ to a leadership role. I need to build upon my knowledge about special education laws and regulations‚ as well as develop the skills
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white and one woman was of an Asian-American descent. The focus of the meeting was Step #2 humility. There were a few AA birthdays and in general the meeting consisted out of birthday-people reliving their stories and some talking about humility. Prior to the meeting I was expecting to enter into a room filled with smoke and nervous‚ agitated people. My impression of AA and of alcoholics mostly came from movies and my own prior experience with population suffering from different psychiatric
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Personal Explorations Paper Lee Ashton Brooks 7 December 2013 PSY-110HA Professor Moore Over the course of 7 modules‚ different personality aspects of mine have been tested and evaluated and have even revealed things about myself that I was not aware of. The surveys and questions that I answered dug deep into decisions and choice I make‚ how I think and how I feel to reveal certain characteristics about myself‚ some of which I was aware of and others that I was not. Things such as my expression
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AA Meeting Mandeep Kaur RN 40L July 02‚ 2013 Group Selection: I selected an Alcoholic anonymous meeting. I wanted to see what they do and how it works for people who are alcoholics. I searched alcoholic anonymous meetings in Fresno and found this community service group online at http://fresnoaa.org/home/ Purpose of the group: In Alcoholic Anonymous meeting‚ people gather from community in groups to help one another achieve and maintain abstinence from alcohol. These meetings are free
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AA Meeting This was my first experience at an alcoholics anonymous meeting and it was very interesting and in a way uplifting. At St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Middleburg‚ Fl. the AA group was called “Soul Savivors” there were people who had come from different walks of life such as a single parent that started when she was fifteen to a School teacher that started when he was eight. The group meeting that I attended was rather small‚ a total of six were in attendance and 3 were missing
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depict the area in which I am interested. I chose nutrition and dietetics as a career because I believe that my skills and personality are suitable for this profession. My desire to pursue this path grew even stronger after writing the career exploration paper. Having the chance to talk with a dietitian and a senior student was an enlightening experience that motivated me to keep on working towards my goal and to gain the skills and knowledge to thrive in this field. In conclusion‚ this reflection
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When I saw on my syllabus that I had to attend an AA meeting‚ I was vey nervous‚ frightening and anxious. Walking through the door of my first AA meeting was‚ stressful and uncertain‚ since I did not know what to expect. Being an observator among total strangers‚ who‚ willing wasting their lives away by driking without any regards for their families and friends was not my idea of time well spend. There are hundreds of studies that had shown‚ alcohol have destructive short term and long term effects
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inconsiderate. Krumbolz talks about controlling what you can‚ and letting go of what you can’t‚ which is exactly what I tried doing when working there and dealing with these kinds of people. Furthermore‚ Robert Lock describes the importance of self-exploration and personal values in his book Taking Charge of Your Career Direction. He encourages readers to think about their own strengths and weaknesses and use those to figure out what career path they should take. All of the positions I have had involve
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AA Meeting After reading and hearing about everyone’s experience with alcohol I decided to attend an AA meeting. I chose this for two reasons‚ one because I wanted to see if these meeting are effective and second because after hearing everyone’s stories I began to doubt myself. I consider myself a social drinker because I like to go out and party mostly every weekend. After learning so much about alcohol I started to wonder if I depended on it in order to have fun. Honestly it is quite scary to
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MH31 Mitchel Lodzhevsky AA meeting paper Due 11/12 12 Steps Of Hope At first glance the basement of the church was dingy and dusty. Almost felt second class. Why would anyone ever hold meetings here? Soon enough the meaning of this location would be exposed. Thirty minutes before the meeting starts; a man in a leather jacket walks by me in a empty hall. The fellow asks If I came to join the AA meeting. He was chewing gum so furiously‚ it wasn’t clear at first why.
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