University of Phoenix NUR/408 December 2012 Neighborhood News Abstract Public health is an intervention to improve the health and quality of life through prevention and treatment of disease‚ including physical and mental diseases. It focuses on the community as a whole and the health status of the community. Neighborhood News Neighborhood News contains episodes concerning public health issues in two different communities. One of the issues is an environmental issue with water pollution
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STEPHANIE RODRIGUEZ 354 Van Houten Avenue‚ Passaic‚ New Jersey 07055 Phone: 862-926-8754 smarierod24@gmail.com To Whom This May Concern‚ I would like to express my interest in all qualifying positions. Throughout my job search‚ I have come to respect the professionalism that characterizes your organization and its employees. I am confident that the team’s values and objectives would highly complement my own strengths and enthusiasm. I have been seeking a position with an institute that is clearly
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Questions for Discussion 1. One way to read Richard Rodriguez’s essay is as a discussion of two discrete educational philosophies. What are they? The two discrete educational philosophies are bilingual education and teaching a second language. 2. What does Rodriguez mean when he says‚ “[I]n a way‚ it didn’t matter very much that my parents could not speak English with ease…. And yet‚ in another way‚ it mattered very much” (para.15)? I think when Rodriguez’s said it didn’t matter to him
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(1) I thought the video was very well thought out and had a lot of good points. First off‚ I would like to jump straight into my favorite part of the video‚ which was when Daniel Goleman talked about a story of speed dating‚ and how a woman’s brother remained single because he only talked about himself when he was doing the speed dating rounds‚ he never asked anything about the woman he was talking to .I liked it so much because I never fully realized how many people actually do talk about themselves
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Neighborhood Memories - July 2008- When I lived in Broward‚ I had a humongous mango tree that my cousin‚ Kenneth‚ and I liked to climb. It was still summer when we decided to get an old mattress and put it by the tree so we could relax there. One of those days my little cousin‚ Kevin‚ wanted to learn how to climb the mango tree. Back then Kenneth was still young and devious; he treated his little brother and sister (Kevin & Kelly) horribly. So that one day someone‚ I’m guessing it was Kenneth‚ moved
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Matthew Wong P. 6 12/1/14 Luis Javier Rodriguez: “You ‘Will Never Believe it” Luis Javier Rodriguez is a well-known American poet‚ novelist‚ memoirist‚ journalist‚ critic‚ columnist; his work also includes short story writing and children’s books‚ but before his writing career‚ he was an active gang member during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Born in the United States-Mexico border city of El Paso‚ Texas‚ Luis grew up with diligent and honorable parents. Luis’ father was a high school principal‚ while making
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Banking Concept or Problem-Posing‚ Which is the Better Choice? Paulo Freire proposes two styles of teaching: the banking concept and problem-posing education. Through Freire’s lens‚ Richard Rodriguez would be seen as a banking student‚ but could later be seen as a problem-posing student throughout the course of his life. Both styles are still viewed today in teacher-student relationships. Freire describes the “banking” concept of education by saying that “Education thus becomes an act of depositing
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The article “How Does Your Neighborhood Define Who You Are?” States “ Where you live profoundly shapes who you are. “I would go as far as to argue that what is truly American is not so much the individual but neighborhood inequality‚” ( In the world we live in‚ we are given a label that summarizes the house we live in‚ the clothes we wear and the car we drive. This label only counts for people who let it. I am one of many who decide not to acknowledge this label nor let it define who I am as a person
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Richard Rodriguez and Paolo Freire write of education as the core factor in one ’s life. They feel that education itself lends people to either "achieve" greatness or fall into the majority of "bankers." "The Achievement of Desire" by Rodriguez and "The Banking Concept of Education" by Freire greatly resemble each other; however‚ they also differ on some points. Despite their differences‚ both texts come to the same conclusion education makes a person who he/she can become. Rodriguez and Freire
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Samatina Essay on “Complexion” by Richard Rodriguez and “Life Principles Integration” by Bill Harris. In the essay‚ “Complexion”‚ Richard Rodriguez describes the effect of his dark complexion on his self-image as he grew from a child into a man in order to heal himself‚ understand how his dark complexion became the governor of his existence and also to help readers interpret their own beliefs regarding their own metaphorical “complexion.” He uses a surprisingly light tone to describe his feelings
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