Textbooks “More Americans have learned the story of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind than from all of the learned volumes on this period” -Warren Beck and Myles Clowers The book Lies My Teacher Told Me was written by James Loewen. I choose to read Chapter 5: “Gone with the Wind”: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks. The chapters that I read discussed how in many of the American History Textbooks‚ that many young students
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twelve years of school thus far‚ I have come up with three main goals that I want to accomplish in a lifetime. The first goal is to finally be able to say that I graduated and got a degree. My second goal is to use my degree and get a career going. Finally‚ my last goal is to get married and have children. These are the main things that I want in life and plan on achieving each and every one of them. School has always been a real pest in my life. I’ve never really been particularly fond of the idea
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filled out a goal sheet. On this goal sheet‚ I wrote my goal as: "My goal is to be more open and trusting of others. I want to be more spontaneous and able to let go." While working with Ericka‚ I found that this was not a SMART goal for me. There were larger issues that kept me from trusting‚ and they would take a lot more than five coaching sessions to work out. Ericka challenged me to come up with a new goal‚ a SMART goal. This was the goal‚ I emailed Ericka a few days later: "My goal is to be
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For this assignment‚ I have analyzed and set my major goals and values‚ thus giving me a better understanding about what I want to achieve in my future and how I should achieve them. The values that I discovered from my evaluation of myself have also helped me to know myself better in terms of what kind of person I am and what kinds of decision I will most likely make. When I am making important decisions such as choosing my courses or the post-secondary institution I want to go to‚ the knowledge
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personal long term SMART goals that I am working on to improve myself professionally and develop my leadership skills. My very first goal is to complete school and get my Master’s degree. I have been using all my free time to study and weekends to work on quizzes. This is achievable by continuing my studies at Western Governors University. With a Masters I will be able to move up within my company or any other company into a management position. I did change my degree plan‚ so now my graduation date has
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My first goal was to complete a 200 pound bench press. I selected this goal because I wanted more power in football. My second goal was to do 75 consecutive push ups. I chose this goal because push ups are a great exercise to increase your bench press. My third goal was to get really cut and lower my body fat percentage. I increase cardio and changed to a healthier diet to achieve this goal. My fourth goal was to weight 150lbs. I chose this goal because having some extra weight will help me on the
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Goals and never-ending ambitions. Sound waves travel into different organism’s ear canals but what happens when sounds are interrupted by dense walls or by a simple thin bag? Many factors can prevent multiple screams and shouts to effectively alarm and demand assistance‚ but in many cases‚ the sounds are successfully concealed as the perpetrator accomplishes their malevolent actions. Reality can cause a grown man to tremble at the sight of death and violence just like how a child begins to tremble
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My educational goal is to receive a Bachelors Degree in Behavioral Health and Human Services. This will help me with my career goal of becoming an Intensive Case Manager for individuals with mental health challenges. As I think about my educational goals I realize that‚ up until three years ago‚ I never even thought about furthering my education. I was in my early fifties and I had never graduated from high school or gotten a GED. This was one barrier in my life. This changed in May of 2006
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Reaching my financial goals Research suggests that the reason people do not stick to their budget is that they do not have spe-cific financial goals. You probably already have a good idea about what you want to do‚ if you are able to improve your financial situation. If you are single‚ it will be easy to set goals. If you have a partner‚ it might require some negotiations and it will be even more important to write down the goals you agree upon. Either way‚ a written plan will help you keep on
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many goals from‚ graduating from college to having a successful career at the top of my field. My short term goals include maintaining my 4.0 GPA through the end of this semester and to be involved more with the school and my future fields of science and charity work. My long term goals are to graduate UNCW with a job or internship already lined up for me right after‚ and to be fully financially independent after graduation. I choose UNCW to help me not only complete but thrive at these goals because
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