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When I first met Zack, I didn’t think much of him at the time, until one day he initiated a conversation. From the conversation, the way he carried himself and his personality outshines from what I thought based on his appearance. There were hobbies that I could tell were his favorite, based on how he smiled whenever he was talking about them. He told me of his goals and just how he was talking about his goals made me believe that nothing will stop him from achieving his goals. However, Zack…

Self-esteem is the confidence and satisfaction that a person has in themselves. Self-esteem can also be described as the level of self respect someone has. A person's self-esteem is made up of all of the experiences and relationships that one has had in their lifetime. Depending on whether or not a person has high or low self-esteem, they're personal and professional lives can be affected. If someone has high self-esteem they are more likely to have a more successful personal and professional…

effective in the short term. Through consolidating different pieces of literature surrounding the effectiveness of these programs, the authors found that little research has been done considering the effects of the program in the long term. If fact, from what the research they have found, they found that in the long term, there is no difference between those who went through the counseling based group AR program and those who did not. The benefits that the authors found in the short term were “a…

Road Trip Nation Reflection Our Road Trip Nation project consisted of interviews with Larandust Coleman, Senior Assistant Athletic Trainer for Football at the University of Mississippi, and Dr. Rebecca Lowe, Clinical Assistant Professor and Co-director of Speech and Hearing Clinic. Both interviews consisted of a similar set of questions, varying only slightly based on their occupation and field. Throughout the Road Trip Nation interview process, in addition to reviewing the interviews in their…

Turn Back Time, (TBT) is a non-profit working to improve the lives of all children through nature exploration, farm education and play. TBT was created in 2011 and operates on a 58 acre homestead in Paxton, MA. TBT offers farm and nature focused preschool, homeschool, after school classes and runs a summer camp day program. Because of their success, especially the increasing of the demand for the summer camp and the preschool program, the capacity of their indoor facilities are no longer…

There are three main phases to the body’s response to injury. These are inflammation, maturation and the proliferation. The first response is inflammation. This is basically pain and inflammatory of the affected area. This stage can last between 3 and 5 days. The second phase is proliferation. This phase lasts two to five weeks and it is where the body begins to repair the affected area. The final stage is maturation. This stage can last from 3 weeks up to 2 years depending on the severity of…

underpaying the Congolese, he destructed their economy and population. Overall, the legacy of colonization in Congo was destructively negative both economically and socially. In the short term, the social impact of colonization in Congo was mainly negative because of the many deaths due to violence. In the long term, the economic impact of colonization was strongly negative because of the bad economy and trickster rulers who added…

encouraged to go out a “buy luxury” as a means of “becoming apart of the family” (64). The products in all worn by the child are advertised in an authentic fashion that shows valuable credibility through Chrissy Reagans online “banal” persona. The long-term affect however, is what Davies would deem as dangerous as the child’s livelihood is solely objectified as means to sell a product…

requires time and effort. Smaller goals will require less information, therefore, less time and effort. However, our largest life goals require a lot of experience and a lot of time and knowledge. The present society has evolved in knowledge, but on terms of communication, the society has devolved. Mildred was ignorant about the meaning of knowledge, so she focused on what made her happy, which as humans is what we do today. Phones, laptops, and television, consume our lives by absorbing free…

Have you ever witnessed your favorite player be escorted off the field, or thrown out of the game for a type of substance abuse? Did you ever feel ashamed or dispirited? Take Alex Rodriguez for example, or Lance Armstrong. Alex Rodriguez was found abusing an illegal substance after using steroids for three seasons of Major League Baseball, and Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. Both say they were just experimenting when things got out of hand. Furthermore, these are…