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I have had the pleasure of enrolling in this intensive six week course on Adult Education and have learnt so much about community learning for social justice through the application of adult education principles and activities. I have previously taken an Adult Education class with Jennifer Chan where we learned about institutions of Adult Education, however, I learnt a completely different aspect of Adult Education in this course and learned to appreciate the existence of this course. Although…

Access to health care is characterized as the timely use of service to achieve the best possible health care outcome. Active-duty military and veterans get their health care through the DOD's military health system, TRICARE, and the VA's health care system, respectively. Discontinuity of care in both those systems does occur. Electronic health records offer the guarantee of limiting fragmentation of care, however the DOD and VA have not yet coordinated their health records. There are…

It is known that the interpersonal networking is a vital part of leadership skills which leads to better performance, better problem-solving and better success. During my working years as I software developer, it has been giving me a chance to build strong relationships within and outside of organizations and expand my networking with people from different organizations, different sectors as well as different countries. When working on development of software systems, it is important to contact…

The article is about being educated, and what it means to be educated. In this article the author is not missing much he is on point with most of what he is saying. Being educated in today’s world is not just about having a formal education, knowing all the right answers for a test and being good at following instructions. In today’s world you have to have the ability to be creativity and inovatitive; means having the ability to think for yourself. The old definition of educated is someone who…

which is done by an examination of a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Along with examining a priori and a posteriori knowledge he states that each type of knowledge is acquired through a faculty. A priori knowledge is obtained by cognitive faculty (analytic) and a posteriori knowledge is obtained by sensorial faculty (synthetic). In Kant’s Of the difference between Pure and Empirical knowledge, he explains the difference between a priori and a posteriori knowledge. “Knowledge altogether…

Introduction The five forces model was first established in 1979 by Michael Porter in an article written in the Harvard Business Review, “How competitive forces shape strategy”. This model of analysis helps to examine why industries are able to hold different levels of productivity. This is model is use worldwide to assist in examining the industry structure of companies and its corporate strategy. Porter has founded five forces that help shape every market and industry, these forces are used to…

Health behaviors are the silent causes of mortality in “advanced economy” countries (Armitage, 2009). Khaw, Welch, Luben, Day, Warhead, and Bingham(2008) have found the decreasing mortality risk is related to increasing number of positive health behaviors. Among the positive health behaviors, physical activity (PA) has been considered as an effective factor that has a protective effect on a number of disease, such as stroke and breast cancer (Miles, 2007). While PA remains a public health…

1. The writing I have done in high school and ENGL 1301 helped me how to understand the literature and essays deeply. I took literature classes when I was in high school. In those classes, I needed to write what the purposes and subjects of the novels or poems were. For writing, I figured out implied meanings of sources, backgrounds of the authors for better understanding, and lessons or messages the authors wanted to deliver. Surprisingly, college-level writing in the first semester was quite…

In “Introduction: Rethinking Secularism” by Calhoun, Juergensmeyer, and Antwerpen, the authors discuss how until recently it was assumed that public life was secular (3). The authors say on one hand people could write about economics, politics, and social behavior without it being connected to religion or as though religion didn’t exist at all (Calhoun et al., 3). They go on to say, “Secularism, on the other hand, appeared to have no ideological significance on its own, other than the…

College Writing: Thought “CrossFit is famous for its extreme workouts and lax commitment to keeping participants alive,” is the argument that Eleanor Robinson suggests throughout her persuasive essay, “CrossFit: The new fitness craze has a lot to tell us about western capitalism.” Robinson’s negative opinion on CrossFit is indisputable throughout her essay, as she believes the new fitness trend is dangerous and potentially threatening to the health for those who partake in the trend. The…