Advanced Placement

Chapter 4, Stress, of John Medina’s Brain Rules, I found to be tremendously accurate in showing and capturing all the effects that stress has on our bodies and the effects of stress long term physically and mentally. Pages 64-65 demonstrated both the physical effects, the immune system, and mental effects, memory and problem solving. How Medina writes about stress’s effects on people I found to be accurate and a good warning to people who are constantly stressed. In my personal life, stress…

Agency is a place where human resources and services are provided for families who are homeless as well as at the risk of homeless. The agency has a designed program to assist families in crisis that need services on shelter placement, rapid re-housing/permanent housing, school linkages, employment assistants, physical and mental health care, and other supportive services. In the agency, the case manager will conduct assessment to determine individual case plan. However, agency might act…

Eric Russell: High school english teacher, Advanced Placement Coordinator, yearbook advisor, husband, father of three, and my Helene Tucker. Dick Gregory once wrote, “Everyone’s got a Helene Tucker, a symbol of everything you want” (pg. 168). Symbol, by definition, means a mark or character used as a conventional representation of another. My high school english teacher, Mr. Eric Russell symbolizes me in many aspects of life, such as, accomplishing goals set in life, achieving infinite, intimate…

In an ideal world, all children would be given an equal opportunity to obtain a quality education regardless of their race, socioeconomic status, or family situations. The national graduation rate for black males was 59 percent, 65 percent for Latinos, and 80 percent for white males annually for the 2012-13 school year (4). It is apparent that the world is not perfect and all children do not have an equal chance to obtain a quality education. There is a plethora of problems that tie into…

great deal on testing. There are several types of tests that are used for evaluation purposes, including but not limited to yearly standardized tests (In high school and below) such as the California Achievement Test that determines if a student advanced in academic growth during the school year. Other tests that are taken during a child’s educational training during high school are the SAT/ACT’s. Students take these particular tests before applying to colleges. These scores are supposed to…

4. If you had the ability to change one thing about your high school, what would it be and why?* I would change the amount of funding my school receives. My school is much underfunded. As a result of being a small high school in a rural area, students and teachers often suffer due to a lack of sufficient funds needed for success in education. Due to taxes in rural Wilkes County being so small, there is almost no money left for education. There are many ways that the lack of funding directly…

The insertion site of the needle is 1 cm inferior and 1 cm lateral to the junction of the middle and medial thirds of the clavicle. The needle is advanced toward the tip of the contralateral index finger, which is placed in the suprasternal notch. The direction of the needle is now aligned with the central axis of the SCV, minimizing the risk of puncturing the subclavian artery, pleura, or apex of the lung [46]. By keeping the needle in a horizontal plane, the risk of arterial or pleural injury…

Swiatek & Benbow (1991), designed a study to address many of the concerns regarding the accuracy of past experiments and the data collected to compare academically advanced students to non-advanced students by conducting a ten year longitudinal investigation into the issue. The study focuses on two primary academic concerns related to acceleration: burn out and poor retention. The investigation found that addressing the issue…

Apparently, most high school graduates think they know exactly what major they want to go into before becoming a freshmen in college. Others, however, don't have a clue to what they want to go in as. But for me, I'm fully dedicated to helping improve people's health and possibly finding cures for diseases. I absolutely agree that the School of Nursing would be the best choice for me to choose. Since health is the most important factor for human life, I believe that this school will be the one…

I used the CDP activities to assess my current skills working on those areas that I can further develop, areas I am weak in as well as skills I assumed I would need in the future. So, in doing that I could identify my specific learning needs, based on expectations of my future job role, performance, professionalism, and career aspirations. One of the many CDP events I attended which I found to be important is researching company information as how would I work for someone not knowing anything…