ERIC DIGEST ® EDO-FL-00-01 APRIL 2000 Promoting a Language Proficient Society: What You Can Do KATHLEEN M. MARCOS AND JOY KREEFT PEYTON‚ ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS Interest in and support for language study has been strengthened in the United States in recent years by the growing recognition that proficiency in more than one language benefits both individual learners and society. For the individual language learner‚ research has found a positive link between second
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You’ve described your current project well and how you’ve succeeded despite many changes and sometimes incomplete or changing requirements. You’ve been very flexible in many ways‚ including; Some sprints have lots of work and other sprints having very little work. Changing requirements. Downright odd code review criteria. Not merging with the main codebase for 8 months only to spend nearly a month doing the "mega" merge. You’ve handled yourself well during all of this. Your lead consultant has said
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Discuss how the laws in your local community may be different from those in other communities around the state or country. Nevada laws are different from other states due to more lax laws regarding hot topics such as prostitution‚ homosexuality and drug laws. In Nevada‚ prostitution was made legal. Although brothels have been open and operating in Nevada since 1902‚ prostitution wasn’t officially legal until 1937. Another example of differing laws versus other states is the Domestic Partnership
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Writing to Support Your Opinion Directions: An author tries to convince a reader that his or her opinion is correct by giving evidence. Writers often use one of these four kinds of evidence to convince a reader: FACTS‚ EXAMPLES‚ QUOTES FROM EXPERTS‚ and REFERENCES/DESCRIPTIONS OF REAL EVENTS. Before writing your essay‚ brainstorm and research to fill out the chart below. Your audience will be much more likely to believe you! Use can use the facts from the course resources for your information. FACTS
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The challenges associated with Diversity within the new working economy. Academic Writing and Research Skills 901.022 Workplace Diversity can be defined as “A workforce made up of people who have different human qualities or who belong to different cultural groups.” L‚ Daft & Pirola-Merlo p356‚ (2009). Throughout this Literature Review‚ various views will be analysed with regards to why diversity is a challenge of working in the new economy. Diversity is an incredibly broad field and
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educational universities.Many people believe that college students should be giving back to the communities that raised them‚ however how you would implement a policy that is meant to help people could either make it a success or a resounding failure and discriminatory policy. The mandatory community service for college is discriminatory towards minority and lower-income students‚ as well as their respected communities. The loose wording of key definitions along with systematic societal challenges makes for
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provides a range of community services. The services that they provide are homelessness & social housing and tenant support services‚ Substance Abuse & Addiction support‚ mental wellbeing and disability support‚ employment‚ skills & training‚ Youth mentoring services‚ families & children services‚ Policy development & advocacy and Research & evaluation. (Missionaustralia.com.au‚ 2015) Mission Australia works collectively as a team to diminish homelessness and enhance communities throughout Australia
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Local and State law enforcement agencies have many duties‚ functions‚ and responsibilities. Most people think that all law enforcement agencies are the same. They do have similarities‚ but also have differences as well. Some duties‚ functions‚ and responsibilities of local law enforcement agencies are to serve and protect our communities. Local law enforcement agencies arrest criminals‚ they do routine patrolling‚ they patrol our communities to stop and prevent crime. They investigate crimes that
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Ethical Practice within the financial services industry Why is ethical practice important? Firms that operate within the financial services try to be as open and honest with their consumers with all types of business in order to create confidence among customers. Not all banks/services have profit as their primary goal‚ there are several financial services which focus on creating social and environmental benefits. So why are ethical policies important? Well it comes down to the customer and their
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Community Service in the Heart of Hurricane Sandy Community service does not have just one single meaning; it has many. Community service means something different to every person in the world. To me‚ community service means helping not only your community‚ but also your school‚ state and country. It means to be kind and caring to others‚ to help out those who are less fortunate then you. Community service is when you take time out of your life to do something that will better other people
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