#6 Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness‚ affecting 66 million individuals worldwide‚ with the majority manifesting blindness are from Asian countries (Stein‚ MD‚ MS‚ et al.‚ 2011). The Unites States continues to experience a significant number of Asian immigrants consequently glaucoma is a degenerative disease that requires additional research and monitoring. Japanese Americans are generally lumped into the Asian population health research and subsequently reported as a sub-population within
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1.0 Educational Philosophy 1.1 Introduction There are five main philosophical schools of thought in education which are essentialism‚ perennialism‚ progressivism‚ existentialism and reconstructionism. However‚ here I have only chosen the philosophies which believe in student-centred approach. There are three philosophies that hold the similarity of being less authoritarian and placing the students as the centre in learning process. These three philosophies reject essentialism and do not agree with
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Developing Countries’ Educational Barriers “The only thing worse than struggling up a mountain of mud to get to school is learning that your teacher isn’t there and that your education ends at age 11” (Campbell 80). This is the bitter educational reality that is faced by many children in Honduras. Similar situations can be found in several other developing countries. Why is education in developing countries this way? What can be done in order to improve the current educational scenario in developing
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encompass or fall under a wide-range of possible circumstances. From what I researched medical errors was reportedly the third leading cause of death in the United States. That fact was highlighted in an article that appeared on the website: Hospital Safety Score. The article was presented on: October 23rd‚ 2013 and was appropriately titled: Hospital Errors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S.‚ and New Hospital Safety Scores Show Improvements Are Too Slow. Another interesting perspective to add
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Assessment Theorist Paper Robert J. Marzano Robert J. Marzano is an educational assessment theorist and expert. He is known for this development of assessment programs and practices being used nationally in K-12 classrooms. He offers practical ways for educators to translate his theory into practical instructional methods that can be used in any classroom. His theory and philosophy can be found in the 25 books and more than 150 articles he has authored over the years. As best stated on
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what you do. If you haven’t found it yet‚ keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart‚ you’ll know when you find it.” (Steve Jobs) Education is extremely important to me personally which is why it is important that I outline my educational goals and plan‚ my career choices‚ and how this scholarship can help provide me with the help I need to achieve the education required by the career that I have chosen so I can do what I love. As Steve Jobs said in the quote above‚ “The only way
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Andrew Wilson Dr. Williams English 121 10 March 2015 The Lame Leading the Blind Leaders are the most important people in our society. They are the ones who are supposed to lead us to betterment by their example. In his novella‚ Candide‚ Voltaire uses the direct characterization of some powerful religious leaders of the 18th Century to target a serious flaw in the religious status quo. He highlights the blatant hypocrisy of powerful and oppressive religious leaders‚ in an effort to enlighten members
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is not an exception. But after what I had been experienced I thought that Vietnamese educational system is still weak. It’s weak because of so many problems that exist on such as bad teaching quality; lecture does not go together with practice and high tuition’s fee. Furthermore‚ the training is not linked with students’ majors. And those problems will ruin the Vietnamese educational system if they don’t change. Nowadays‚ so many Vietnamese students complain that what they had learned are just
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Leading in Times of War When turning on the television‚ reading an article‚ or listening to the radio‚ what mostly is being said is something good or bad of what a leader has done. Every leader has their good side and their bad. Everyone always looks for the intentions that a leader can give out. Presidents will explain what they would do if war was to happen. Leaders should not want war like Machiavelli did and think more about peace about like Lao-Tzu. Lao-Tzu believes that war‚ violence‚ and weapons
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the leading causes of death? Heart disease is one of these causes averaging about 610‚000 death in America each year.() There are so many deaths from just one cause but does being diagnosed with heart disease only result in death? When one gets tested for any sort of heart disease‚ one thing to think about is your body’s new limitations‚ the transfer of genetics with heart disease‚ and the high costs for treatment. People stress that there is only one side effect for the world’s first leading cause
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