During the first semester of senior year‚ my father lost our only means of income. At this point‚ I had to provide for myself when it came to personal expenses. After obtaining a job‚ it was hard for me to balance my schoolwork‚ extracurricular activities‚ and community service. Due to my circumstances‚ I lost focus on the importance of school and my grades did not reflect my fullest capabilities. Everything became stressful and the only time I had became devoted to sleeping. This also made it very
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Self-Assessment and Reflection of a Visual Learner Marcia Weaver COM/516 May 6‚ 2012 Denise Corso Abstract In this paper‚ I take the reader through my search and the processes I went through as a visual learner to decide on my choice of instruction‚ online or traditional. I identify my strengths and highlight how I have used them in this course; uncover my weaknesses‚ and present strategies on what to adjust to accommodate them. I also analyze the sources of my preconceived notions about
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information I had learned the previous semester as a student. As my desire to spend more time in the lab increased‚ I was offered the opportunity to participate in a five-month internship at Henkel Laboratories by a valued professor who admired my work as his assistant. I spent my time reverse engineering several products using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and High-performance liquid chromatography. I also learned how to accurately document the findings of my personal research to present
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Self-Reflections and Implications for Managing Others According to Deborah Ancona1‚ different people have different characteristics / preferences in their daily activities & work‚ that is‚ meeting with others‚ generating information‚ making decisions‚ and choosing priorities. In today’s business world‚ I think meeting with others (i.e. comunication) is one of the most important most skills of managing others. There’re two main behaviors which reflect how people to meet with others – introvert
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Nakisa Pirooz SLWK-200 September 26‚ 2013 Reflection Paper 1 “I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom‚ just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity‚” is a famous quote in “Long Walk to Freedom‚” by Nelson Mandela. Young African Americans arrested for drug possession are forty-eight times more likely to end up in prison than Caucasians are. Racism applies to other races as well from all
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Nowadays‚ having a positive personal relationship is essential to all people as it is admittedly beneficial to academic‚ vocational and social aspects. When facing a problem‚ we can also receive lots of physical and mental assistances from the friends. Thus‚ personal relationship is indispensable. When studying in secondary school‚ I was a passive and inactive child. I did not realize the importance of communication and personal relationship. I was not willing to talk with people who I never meet
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I found this project to be challenging at times. It seemed very unclear to me in the beginning and overwhelming‚ however‚ as time when on it seemed to become more clear. During the first group meeting we all established the areas that interested us and from there we assigned research topics accordingly. It turned out that we were slightly off base on how the project was to be completed and when we met for the second time as a group we reassigned topics to group members. I was given the topics
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50/50 When working on this project I made a point of working diligently on what I was assigned. I finished all of my work on time‚ and whenever the group requested adjustments‚ I made the necessary changes promptly. I was prepared to help edit other group members papers and even did so out of school when I deemed it necessary. I was candid about anything that needed changing‚ but tactful. If a group member suggested any extra drawings (as well as the crossword) I was the one to do it. I feel that
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My enthusiasm in social work began during high school. At my high school‚ all seniors were required to complete what was called a “Quest Project”. The purpose of the benchmark project was to focus on a social issue that affected the community‚ find research on the social issue‚ and find any possible solutions to the issue. Given that my social issue was focused on social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents‚ I had worked with a school counselor‚ who was also a marriage and family therapist
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Self-Reflection I didn’t think that management and law were important to me before I came to the UK. I did accounting in my high school but it was all just about getting high marks. This is because I have always been studying scientific things and I didn’t think that the lack of knowledge about law and finance would affect or bother me. This was until I moved into a house‚ and the landlord refused to pay me back my deposit as we only had an oral agreement; no contract was made. Furthermore
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