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One goal of mine may strike people as “weird” or “stupid”. I want to be able to walk into the mall and buy six pairs of shoes off of one check. I love shoes; shoes are what I am into to. Right now I can barely buy one pair of shoes off of one check, and depending on the price of the shoes I can’t even get one pair. I remember back a couple of years ago I went to the mall to get a new pair of shoes. I walked in the store and walked around until I saw the shoes I wanted. I picked them out, tried…

If CCMS received one million dollars this is what I would improve the cafeteria, update the 7th and 8th grade wing, and sports. I would improve the cafeteria that way it could hold more people that way we don't have to have 1st and 2nd lunches. I would also improve the 7th and 8th grade wing because it's not really the best. First, I would improve the cafeteria. We need a bigger place to eat because everyone is all bunched up and it's way to crowded plus I think this might help other…

External influences are people, places, things, or events that have an impact on your life. Sometimes they may be significant, or sometimes they may be small things, such as seeing your kids after school. Regardless, they are all around us, and impact our daily lives. External influences can either have positive or negative effects on us. In the article Talking to Our Devices, there are multiple examples of both positive and negative external influences. A positive external influence that we…

Target market segmentation is an approach where, a number of different segments can be used to divide the aggregate market for educational services into relatively homogeneous subsets. The target market approach, when adopted by universities, creates value among the university’s stakeholders. These stakeholders include the financial supports, the employers of graduate, alumni, current student and prospective students. The target market approach is preferable to the mass marketing approach in…

Commentary: (750 words) Government intervention, specifically taxes, are used in almost every market system in order to serve as a solution to market failures, such as negative consumption externalities. A negative consumption externality is a situation where a good or service is consumed and a third party (someone not directly involved with the transaction) experiences a loss as a result of the transaction. Market failure is defined as any situation where the allocation of resources by a free…

Adepeju Folasade Olaniyi EDLL 6040 One of my favorites saying can be traced to Socrates who submitted that an ‘unexamined life is not worth living’. This holds well for me because I believe it is beneficial to look back once in a while and get some valuable feedbacks from events and happenings in one’s life. Not only that, reflection is linked to the notion of experiential learning which helps in looking at lessons learned from past experiences and proffer different approaches…

Interior design, baking, and teaching are my top three career choices. I chose Interior Design because I always loved watching the HGTV shows where they would remodel an old space into a new one. I always thought it would we nice to do it myself. Baking would be my second choice because I love to bake. There are so many recipes that you can try and having your own shop of baked goods would be rewarding. I 've always loved kids so teaching in a Kindergarten or Elementary school would be a dream.…

In what ways were you invited to read children 's literature when you were in elementary school? Young adult literature when you were in middle and high school? What kinds of texts were used within these contexts? My literacy history in elementary school is somewhat vague. Most of the classrooms had one reading center that included a stereo system and bulky headphones. The teacher would place us in groups of four in which we were required to listen to an audio recording of a story and follow…

The name of the student I will be describing is Jose Garza. He is 8 years enjoys playing video games. Jose lives with his father, mother and sister Lisa. Jose’s parents can only speak Spanish and are immigrants from Mexico. Jose and his family came to the United States when he was only 2 years old and has been attending school ever since. His sister is the only other person who can speak limited English in his house. Jose is currently attending Grande Elementary School and has been closely…

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost After attending Mark Sheridan Academy for nine years, choosing a high school wasn’t easy. Freshmen year of high school was the year that I chose my less traveled road. Enrolling in Chicago Hope Academy, a private Christian school, wasn’t always the plan. Instead, I had hopes of getting into Muchin College Prep., which is a public school in Chicago. Although attending Chicago…