Purpose Statement: The purpose of my study is to see if student’s interest in literature increases if they see more characters that look like them in the text. Research Question: Are children more prone to choose a book with someone who looks like them on the cover? Will students read more if a teacher’s classroom library has more books they can relate to? Theoretical Background: Due to so much diversity in the classroom‚ a lot of children cannot relate to the characters in the story books
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Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler It is eye opening to be able to look at ourselves from the outside. There are times we try to sit and reflect on our own strengths and weaknesses internally and it is hard to do. Often we don’t know the right questions to ask ourselves or we have mental blocks that arise making it hard to visualize our thoughts. But when we can‚ understanding our personal competencies can help in giving us direction because we can see
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things that are of interest to me I am interested in a wide variety of things that are interesting. my brain tends towards the eclectic things much more easily than a single concentrated topic. although I tend to gravitate more towards computers and math‚ I will just as likely find an article on politics‚ religion‚ or even a historical topic just as interesting as an article on how astronauts keep their soda pop fizzy in space(which I’m STILL not sureabout). My interests are gauged by how much
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The results from my interest profiler were enterprising occupations‚ social occupations and conventional occupations. Enterprising occupations include starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business. Social occupations frequently involve working with‚ communicating with‚ and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others and conventional
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One in three women are beaten or raped in their lifetime; that’s one billion women (United Nations). Some would say that is a pandemic. In Canada alone‚ more than 3000 women (along with 2500 children) are living in an emergency shelter to escape domestic violence. Each year‚ over 427‚000 women over the age of 15 reported they have been sexually assaulted. Since only about 10% of all sexual assaults are reported to the police‚ the actual number is much higher. You might be wondering what kind of people
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my own horses and cows and chickens. To have cool‚ lifted trucks and razors for entertainment. I always wished of having something like that‚ far aways from the city so my family and I could party and not disturb anybody. The results of my Career Interest Profiler and/or Personality Type test said that “my personality type is Consul”. I definitely agree with this because when I grow up I want to work for the government. The reason why I want to work for the government is because i’m very outgoing
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“One minute you’ve got a dying person… Then the next job you go to is a man with a cold who needs to see his GP.” [pic] [Lydia Emerson on the right with her co-worker Ursula Cherry on the left] Lydia Emerson‚ a conventional 19-year-old who grew up in a family of four in the city of Southampton is on her way to face the fast paced world of being a paramedic. Now 78 miles away studying at a top medical school called St. Georges in London‚ she discloses some of her most traumatic experiences
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Deven Lorenzo Leonis was born on December 9th‚ 1997. Deven was born with a heart disease and was in and out of the hospital his whole life. When Deven was 12 years old‚ he started to get very sick. He would have sore throats all the time‚ and he never had any energy. After a few years of not knowing what was wrong‚ Deven went to his doctor. In November‚ 2011‚ Deven had his tonsils and adenoids taken out. While he was in recovery‚ the doctors had told Deven’s mother that they had found a white substance
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The question of the week is why should you guys be interested in the NFL Draft? One of the many reasons why you should be interested in the NFL Draft is because it’s one of the most important weekends of the year. Therefore if any sports fan or even college fans that don’t care about the NFL but‚ care about their college team to see where their favorite players on their favorite college team will go and continue their careers. “It’s no secret that the NFL draft is catnip cut with Vicodin for
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The Murugan Temple situated at the top of the Palani hills one of the Six holy abodes The 16th Century Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health at the coastal town of Velankanni Tamil Nadu has the credit of having 34000 Hindu temples which are several centuries Old. The cities in ancient Tamil Nadu is believed to have revolved around the magnificent temples built by the Pallava‚Chola and Pandya empires and therefore most of the cities in the state have a lot of religious significance and
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