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education. A brief history of adult education worldwide is provided, as well as a discussion on the different modalities and delivery methods of adult education. An in-depth discussion of Britain’s Open University is included. Aslanian, C. B. (2001). Adult students today. New York, NY: The College Board. This is an exceptional resource for statistics about adult learners and their motivation for returning to school. The author presents a study spanning 20 years that…

Ryleigh Jones Mrs. Lozares English II 15 February 2017 Dreams to be a “Dogtor” 1. Ever since I was little I have loved animals and admired the people who care for them. Becoming a Veterinarian would be my dream come true. A Veterinarian is one of the most needed job occupations in the country. Veterinarians work with all animals small, large, tall, and short, depending on the type of clinic, However almost half of the vets in America work with companion animals rather than large animals. To be…

time.” Being a women in the early and mid 1900s was a challenge. Let alone being an African American women. This women just wanted to count. As a NASA mathematician, she was smart. She was not only an inspiration because of her work, but because of how she ended segregation in NASA. “Here at NASA we all pee the same color.”- Al Harrison. Katherine Johnson showed that even though she was an African American woman, she can still do the same things if not better than others . Background Katherine…

to see, we fail to look at the truth. As the United States becomes an increasingly diverse nation, the lack of Black legal professionals is cause for major concern. The complex look into the obstacles facing African Americans reaching the status of judge will be examined. Furthermore, we will examine the process it takes to become a judge, the education as well as social disparities faced amongst African Americans. The lack of African American Judges can be attributed to the process in which it…

1926, thurgood attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. It is one of the better know historically black colleges in the United States. Other than marshall more remarkable figures attended the University such as Cab Calloway(famous jazz musician) ,Kwame Nkrumah(future president of Ghana) and lastly Langston Hughes( a great poet). Furthermore after finishing up at the University of Lincoln with honors as a scholar in 1930, he later tried to be enrolled at University of Maryland Law School.…

industry” (Veterinarians Bureau). Other positions include teaching at colleges and universities, laboratories, and in the government. Eighteen percent of veterinarians are self-employed (Veterinarians Bureau). 17There are also several organizations that veterinarians can be members of. These include, but are not limited to, The American Kennel Club, American Veterinary Medical Association, and the Humane Society of the United States (Veterinarians Oklahoma Career). These organizations work with…

actually do” (Allen, page 1). I find this crazy that this is a field nobody knows about but there is a reason to why nobody really knows. The reason why is because when a lot of people were interested in going to college, there weren’t a lot of courses that were offering ethnic studies. If the college did have did have ethnic study classes, they weren’t part of the general education credits. In ethnic studies there’s a model called hypothetical model and it helps show the process of being…

named Isa Maud IIsen started a National Association for Music in Hospitals in 1926. Years later, the first music therapy college training programs were created in the 1940s. The first academic program in music therapy was established in 1944 by Michigan State University and then other universities started to establish the same programs including University of Kansas, Chicago Musical College, and College of the Pacific and Alverno College. National Association for Music Therapy was founded in…

The Controversy of Professionalism in Nursing Sierra D. Smith Purdue University  The Controversy of Professionalism in Nursing When you think of a nurse, what do you think of? Do you picture the typical, traditional nurse – a woman dressed in monotone scrubs standing in a hospital? Now, try and add more detail to that image; add her nametag. Under her name, there is a big red label that clearly states R.N., registered nurse, in bold white letters. If you were to add even more detail, you might…

Complex maneuvers are performed which challenge the limits of the body.” ("Cheerleading as a Sport") Cheerleading started in the 1870’s when Thomas Peebler led the crowd in a cheer at a Princeton University football game. (McCoy, Cheerleading, 2004) “Thomas Peebler…