What Being An American Means to Me I believe the term American applies to the entire hemisphere‚ from Alaska to Chile and Argentina‚ assuming that all people fall under the same culture as the conventional United States. Basically I feel like it means being a small part of a huge diversity of people. As an infant‚ like all other infants‚ I started with no culture and slowly learned the cultural values of the United States of America. These cultural values seem almost oblivious as I look back
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Context That Motivates Adult Learning There are four “distinct context” to motivate adult learners according to the research of Malcolm Knowles (Alexander‚ M.‚ Clugston‚ W‚ & Tice‚ E. (2009) these are; Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential and Idealistic Context. Practical context describes one who is motivated by intentional or specific personal gain where you deliberately choose to learn a subject or activity knowing in advance of starting the learning process that it will benefit and /or be
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Desmar Gomes Mr. Otto June 9‚ 2011 Health “What Does Health mean to me?” According to google online dictionary health is defined as the “state of being free from illness or injury.” This definition is correct to some extent but for me personally I feel as though health goes far beyond your body from a physical sense. The meaning of health to me extends far beyond the physical because I believe that being “healthy” is also a state of mind as well as a physical feeling. Keeping oneself healthy
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The four contexts that motivate learning are practical context‚ personal context‚ experiential context‚ and idealistic context. Practical context is doing something because it is what’s expected to be beneficial to succeed. The motivation is the strategic thinking to get to the point and not waste time. Personal context is setting goals for yourself to better your life or possibly the things in it. The motivation could be family or even just the satisfaction of self-achievement. Experiential context
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"What achieving a degree means to me" Hello my name is ______________ I am a twenty nine year old married mother of two. I’ve been married for twelve years and I have an eight years old boy and a two years old girl. Since I was nineteen years old in the fall of 1991 I’ve attempted to earn a college degree attending first Tarrant County Junior College and second Weatherford College stop and starting back again several times over the years trying to reach my goal. In the summer of 1995 when my
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The film Stand by me is a story of boys hanging out and growing up and explores the rite of passage genre as it recounts the tale of the boys’ adventure and their transition from childhood to adolescence. The use of symbolism in the film helps the audience connect not only with each character in the film but also their own personal journey. The use of music‚ Colour and the use of the train and its tracks help the audience to understand that the film is more than just a story about an adventure but
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are ordering food at a restaurant. Every single day we read but this week one paper that stood out to me was a article about football and teachers. I can see how they may not seem as if they relate or if they will ever relate. However the article really shows how we may never know who’s right for the job even if it’s choosing a quarterback for the nfl or picking a teacher. In Most Likely to Succeed by Malcolm Gladwell they talk about a scout named Dan Shonka‚ and how he can’t determine if Chase Daniel
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What are the things that motivate English Major Students as language learner? Direction: put () check to the option you preferred best. Name: (optional) ______________________________________ Section: ____________________________ What are the things that motivate English Major Students as language learner? Strongly Agree 5 Agree 4 Often 3 Disagree 2 Strongly Disagree 1 Advancing in the chosen career Open doors to future jobs To gain social recognition Expansion of academic
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just like what I usually do in order to let the time pass‚ I think of random stuff. This time‚ the thought of me‚ dying and how I will die‚ comes to my mind. I imagine myself not waking up from a bad dream or my really old self dying in a hospital bed due to illness or very old age. Questions like ‘How am I going to die? What would it be like? How does it feel? Where do I actually go‚ wait‚ do I really go somewhere?’ suddenly pop in my head. Among those questions‚ one really stood out –what does it
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stole the American flag being flown over the college campus‚ and burned it on Veterans Day ! The very existence of this issue defies the three core principles of the American flag: freedom‚ patriotism. Those three points are what best describe what the American flag means to me. The definition of the word patriotism is the following: “Devotion to one’s country and concern for its defense”. One aspect of the American flag that symbolizes patriotism is the blue‚ which stands for vigilance among other
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