What has been a significant experience in your life and what have you taken from it?Surrounded by thousands of stars‚ complete silence‚ and spectacular mountains‚ I stood atop a village in Thailand fifteen miles south of the Burmese border awestruck by nature’s beauty and power. Immediately‚ I realized that there was more to life than knowledge and understanding. The world isn’t to be taken granted‚ and I don’t plan to sit on the sidelines as the world passes me by. Ministry to Burmese refugees
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Lauren McFall Mr. Gossett English 10H-4 March 17‚ 2008 You are What You Eat Throughout the past twenty years‚ obesity in the United States has drastically increased. Currently‚ one-hundred and seventeen billion people in the United States are obese. Out of those people‚ three-hundred thousand people die each year because of complications due to being over-weight. One out of every four children in the average school in the United States is over-weight. In an effort to combat this growing
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15-19 years of age. However‚ there appears to be a disparity between the need for sex education and the existence of sex education in California. Therefore‚ to analyze the type of education needed to reduce STDs and teen pregnancy this study compared what topics the California curriculum covers too topics parents think are important in sex education. Multi-method data collection consisted of random one-on-one surveys of parents of current and past students of the district‚ and recent district graduates
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creation in 1983‚ the Internet has continued to grow in popularity and use as a commercial and private communications medium. Millions of people throughout the world use the Internet in a variety of ways‚ ranging from personal conversations to on-line shopping. According to a survey compiled by Nua Ltd in 1999‚ the number of Internet users rose from 26 million in 1995 to 205 million in 1999‚ an increase of almost 700% (Nua Ltd)! With such an explosive increase‚ how then has the Internet affected us personally
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Children in San Joaquin Elementary School’. To be specific‚ this project aims not only to develop 50 students on how to be idealistic for their righteousness‚ but also to train eight freshmen of University of Asia and the Pacific on how to render service for the common good of their country. The
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profit and the firm to uncertainty The concept of entrepreneurship cont…… • Schultz(1979) defined entrepreneurship as the ability to adjust‚ or reallocate one’s resources‚ in response to changing circumstances. • Schultz also adds that “No matter what part of the
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Getaway Every person has that one thing or person that they can go to whenever they are feeling troubled. Not only does it feel good to express what is bothering you out loud‚ but it’s also comforting to know that you don’t need to tell the entire world what you are feeling. Writing to me is the chance for me to express myself with an endless amount of words. There is no limit on what you can say or how much you can say. The opportunities in writing are endless and that is what makes it the perfect
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this sentimental feeling‚ because cursive is being taken out of today’s curriculum. The CNN article” Cursive vs. typing: Which should schools teach?” written by Rachel Rodriguez‚ gives an insight to the touchy subject on weather cursive should be taught in schools. In the United States forty out of fifty states have taken on the Common Core curriculum‚ which rules out the need of cursive writing in the public school classroom. “According to its mission statement‚ Common Core aims to teach skills
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Enrollment into community colleges has increased dramatically through the years. Numerous students are choosing to attend community college for the first two years rather than a four-year university. As tuition inflates each year‚ student enrollment is starting to decrease. “According to the College Board‚ in 2011-2012‚ tuition and fees cost an average of $28‚500 at private nonprofit four-year colleges‚ $8‚244 at public four-year colleges‚ and $2‚963 at public community colleges” (Community college value
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Several years ago‚ I heard someone say‚ “Values are caught‚ not taught.” At first‚ this sounded counterintuitive and completely wrong. Seriously‚ I thought‚ values are so important and significant in the life of any family‚ any organization‚ and to any group‚ how could they be left to be casually‚ haphazardly caught? Shouldn’t a person or group be intentional about how it teaches deeply-held values? It seemed careless to leave the communicating of values to something as nonchalant‚ and perhaps
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