Advancing or furthering your ability to excel in your job or career is a smart reason for considering graduate education. The new skills and knowledge it gain as graduate education can improve my ability to do best work and better position to me for more opportunities for advancement in career. While a graduate degree does not automatically lead to a promotion in title‚ salary‚ or responsibility‚ it can be very personally‚ if not also professionally‚ rewarding. Hopefully my investment in yourself
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a delightful story of a young boy and his many adventures. Many of the situations Huck finds himself in require a specific sense of “street smarts” in order to successfully overcome these various predicaments. To that end‚ I believe that Huck’s so-called “street smarts” prove beneficial to his endeavors‚ if only to a certain extent. One skill that Huck seems to have successfully mastered is the ability to lie without a single prick to his conscience. For instance
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The Very Personal Another perspective—a poignant one at that—about the shortcomings of Abstinence–Only comes from Elizabeth Smart‚ the young woman who made headlines after being abducted for nine months at age 14. At a Johns Hopkins University forum on human trafficking‚ Smart (who was raped repeatedly by her abductors) spoke out against the abstinence-only education she received as a child‚ suggesting that it deterred her from escaping her captors. She said that abstinence-only education makes
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“The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” by psychologist Carol S. Dweck is a scientific research article focused on encouraging parents and teachers to promote growth mind-set rather than fixed mind-set to allow students to be successful in school and life. A challenge many teachers and parents are facing today is due to society’s stigma that innate intelligence produces success. Teachers and parents are praising the intelligence of kids rather than valuing the process of learning to be successful; as
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The next “industrial” revolution: Robots and smart machines reshaping work Smart machines and robots will redefine society. One of the main economic and business trends - robots and smart machines. From the very beginning human was searching for something that could change his lifestyle. First sticks used as weapon‚ first mills to reduce handwork‚ first vehicles to cut time in transportation... Robots now are now being deployed as receptionists‚ banking assistants and even prison guards‚ while
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This week’s article‚ Struggle for Smarts? How Eastern and Western Cultures Tackle Learning‚ was written by Alix Spiegel on November 12 of 2012. It goes over the cultural norms regarding education in the United States and compares it to the schooling systems in Eastern Asia‚ particularly Japan and Taiwan. The biggest differences he pointed out were the widely contrasting views on struggling in the learning process. In America‚ he points out‚ struggling is a sign of weakness. If a person struggles
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market that’s shifting rapidly towards smart phones‚ Nokia puts its American marketing might behind phones with less functionality. 2. In a market where the top smart phone manufacturers have close partnerships with carriers‚ Nokia has few. 3. It has big consumer awareness problems: When asked to name the top smart phones‚ people will think of the iPhone‚ Blackberries‚ even HTC and Samsung before they’ll think of Nokia. 4. Nokia simply hasn’t marketed smart phones much‚ or well‚ here. Nokia
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the reason I am getting behind and cramming doing the report is because I have not allocated the time to work on it. I want to elaborate a SMART goal setting that allow me to complete my weekly work assignment and the biweekly report. Goal: To reconcile the Medicare report biweekly on time‚ and without affecting my regular workflow. This goal fits the SMART model as follows: Specific: because I am the only person involved. The reason
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with a side drop-down menu bar to the left and some selections had better layout than others. The information- though very good- is somewhat hidden under layers of unnecessary sub-links. If the first page more information on it‚ explaining the “Get Smart Campaign” and the purpose of the given selections would help make it more “attractive” to viewers.
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Invention Report - Smart Reservation System Background Information My invention can help to solve the problem of long wait times at some restaurants. The purpose of this invention is to reduce wait time and to ameliorate customer satisfaction. Dubé‚ Renaghan‚ and Miller (1994) say "For financial success‚ a restaurant’s management must make the connection between service attributes and return patronage." Wait time is a crucial element for restaurants and is one of the factors to whether customers
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