I now feel after being a student in this class that being successful in business or school requires the ability to organize‚ arrange‚ and compose thoughts into a comprehensible format. Without these skills it is impossible to convey thoughts and emotions grammatically. Reflecting on the past eight months‚ I notice that our English class has taught me skills necessary to develop personal‚ informative‚ and persuasive essays. These are essential attributes needed to become successful in today?s society
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Three Cups Of Tea Throughout his experiences Greg Mortenson learned some life changing lessons. On of the most notable of these is when Greg learns from Haji Ali that Americans think that everything has to happen very quickly and that America thought by using a shock and awe tactic towards the war that they could end it before it event began. Also Haji Ali teaches Greg to share 3 cups of tea to slow down and make relations ships and as important as building things. This quote is very striking
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perfect. Each character has their own flaws and there are lessons to be learned from watching them. In John Steinbeck’s The Pearl‚ Kino‚ a young pearl diver from La Paz‚ Mexico‚ finds a huge pearl finds a huge pearl one day while diving. After finding the pearl demonstrates some major character flaws that lead to problems afterwards. Flaws such as being greedy‚ having his judgment impaired and being ruthless and violent. Kino learns his lessons‚ but only after through extreme circumstances. The reader
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Dear Prof. Pretorius‚ I passed this course with flying colours because I learned to study smarter‚ not necessarily harder. I now realise that I haven’t always studied correctly. When I started this course‚ I thought I knew exactly what terms such as “competitive advantage” and “positioning” meant…but I soon found out that I had so much to learn. I have made mistakes‚ but as Hugh White said "When you make a mistake‚ don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then
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And Lying: Lessons Learned All Around Several factors come into play when a child lies or breaks the rules. There are also several consequences to be given. However‚ there is a certain way to give the consequence and a certain way for the child to learn their lesson. Also‚ one thing to consider is why the child lies. The consequences also have to be clear and focused on what the real problem was and why she did what she did. The child may be wrong and will have to learn their lesson but there is
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My teaching this semester occurred in a third grade classroom where I learned so many different things about this developmental level. The first and most obvious thing I learned this semester was that every single student works at their own pace and this can vary substantially from one student to the next. My co-teachers and I taught a unit on writing a book with our students and when students were working on writing their actual book the progress levels of students were incredibly broad. On one
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Communication and Command Lessons Learned from Disasters of National Significance Allen Wade Marks Columbia Southern University Abstract There have been many different disasters in the past that have been considered on a scale to call them incidents of national significance. Man-made disasters such as industrial accidents‚ war‚ terrorism‚ and natural disasters such as hurricanes‚ tornado outbreaks‚ floods‚ drought‚ wildfires‚ famine‚ ice storms‚ blizzards‚ earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions
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“HOW THE PAPER FISH LEARNED TO SWIM” Jonathon A. Flaum Synopsis: About 500 years ago there was a young origami master named Daishinji who lived in a small fishing village in Japan. Daishinji was beginning to become well known for what she could do with a single sheet of paper. One day she decided to fold a sheet of paper into a fish. Amazed by her creation she then called it a masterpiece with its almost real-liked looked. After listening for a long time‚ the paper fish finally
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2006 I felt really disappointed when I accepted the fact that I wasn’t going anywhere outside my country after finishing High School. I had tried my best to score well on my SAT and on my grades‚ along with several extracurricular activities to build up a personal profile that would be good enough to enter an American University. But things did not work out back then. My family was struck by an inconvenient event‚ and I was forced to make a last minute decision to stay. I felt devastated. I did not
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Energy conservation is the basic performance of diminishing the amount of energy consumption that takes place in our daily lives. energy conservation is that it can save households and businesses money. Energy Information Administration. (2009‚ May). Energy Kids Page. Retrieved August 10‚ 2009‚ from Energy Information Administration: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/geothermal.html Energy Informaiton Administration. (2009). Financial News for Independent Energy Companies
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