Equality of Opportunity Essay

caseload, but a new variety of clients referred due to drunk driving offense, underage drinking, or low level drug offenses lightened the load. This environment also let me expand my skills into program administration and development. I was given the opportunity to develop a women’s specific treatment group and administer a presentencing program for Operating While Intoxicated offenders. I was doing very well for a 24 year…

“Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams, afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed” (IMDb, 2000, p. 1). This is a quote from William Forrester in the movie, Finding Forrester. The quote is saying that one does not conquer their dreams without courage. Finding Forrester is set in the busy city of New York. Here lives the teenage boy, Jamal Wallace, and an unlikely mentor named William Forrester. As a dare, Jamal breaks into Forrester’s apartment, and…

want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” -Michael Jordan. That quote describes what I felt like after being in Chicago.Last February I was given the opportunity to attend the LEAD conference for Student Council. The LEAD conference is national Student Council leadership convention. The opportunity to go was an experience that I will never forget and an experience that changed my life. Going into this event, I thought it would just be some seminars and would be a…

The Now AWSOME Mrs. Benson took weekly trips my English class asking if I was okay, and to also remind me of how she was a resource if I ever needed her. This new English class gave me such a boost of confidence; this gave me the opportunity to help me accomplish a goal I had set for myself. That goal was to leave the label or code that was place on my test, schedule, or even next to my name as teachers took role for the class. I was able to surpass the label and move…

austerity program and this would include layoffs, salary reductions, and a cease on hiring. This announcement made in 2013 is a red flag because it encompassed one element of the Fraud Triangle. The fraud triangle consists of three elements; pressure, opportunity and rationalization. The layoffs and salary cuts provide the pressure element, because the need for money is the motivation to commit…

In evaluating flexible scheduling strategies, two options are becoming more common, first being the ability for full-time workers to change their shifts to part-time for certain periods of time. Second, allowing the option to work from home, no matter if they are full or part-time employees. Some companies allow workers to adjust their schedules when they have an addition to the family or are caring for a sick family member. This eliminates the need for FMLA, which prevents the employee from…

His bright blue hair(freshly dyed), a tongue piercing, and his left ear pierced with a simple purple diamond stud makes Chris Shore stand out in the SAP office. Chris, a petite, 20 year-old man sits at the front desk attentively. Shore works in the SAP(Student Assistance Program) office assisting any student, staff member, and alike that walks through the front door. Chris assists a student that comes in asking about child care paperwork. He gets up and looks for the paperwork briskly--making…

I row crew. Rowing has taught me how to work hard and dedicate myself to a cause. It makes my hands bleed, my body ache, and my time vanish. It is a 30 hour a week investment with a 45 minute commute 6 days a week. I don’t row because it’s easy, or even all that fun. I don’t row because I’m good at it—believe me, it does not come easy. I row because I love the work. Even more powerful, however, is the sublime harmony of 8 synchronous people working together, fully reliant on each other. Rowers…

If memory serves me correctly, Carter Ryan Evancic was the first of the When Calls the Heart kids that I interviewed last year, and he and his parents are people who hold a very special place in my heart for that and many other reasons. This year, it was exciting to get to chat with him again because he has actually won three awards for his portrayal of Cody in this wholesome and uplifting Hallmark Channel show. RH: Nice to get to talk to you again this year, Carter. CRE: Glad to talk to you…

What you did? I was doing my internship at Douglas County Emergency Operation Center; we were a group of three students who are majoring in Emergency Management. Whitney Shipley supervised and taught us a lot of things during the semester. We had done tabletop exercise with three different agencies; each one of us had to choose to meet with the Police department, Business organization, and Red Cross. I chose the Red Cross and met with them many times. The Red Cross is doing an exercise in the…