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Year-round schooling: enhanced student learning or costly, ineffective practice? The Traditional School Calendar Can Continue to Work in the Future Robin Lockett Carter contributed numerous research reports while a graduate student at the University of Alabama. Carter strongly believes that the year-round schooling system is not correlated to performance of students, because an individual’s academic achievement depends on him/herself and the environment. This article argues the setbacks of…

For the purpose of this assignment, I decided to use a recent community meeting of my residential neighbourhood back home in Calgary; Meadowlark Park. Meadowlark Park is one of the smallest neighbourhoods in the city, located in the SW quadrant, there are approximately 275 homes and just over 600 residents. Being located next to the largest and most popular mall in the city, as well as two of the major roadways (Glenmore Trail and Elbow Drive), the community itself has developed and gone through…

Chapter 14 - Management and Leadership Development The importance of effective management is an area that most organization seem to struggle with in today’s workforce. Each organization needs to make sure to incorporate the value of personal development for all managers, allowing them to be equipped and prepared to manage as well as to take on leadership roles. Knowing how to lead and motivate employees through their workplace is a crucial part of the larger scope of management and…

must have an “altered state of consciousness.” She then leads her readers to the refutation, in which “other people” argue that creative people, because they are inclined to mental health issues, are more inclined to abuse drugs. She utilizes the Calgary Vision and Ageing Lab’s argument to support the refutation. To further the refutation, Doyle quotes Shelly Carson, a Harvard psychologist, who states that high creativity has strong correlation with drug abuse. She then continues on with…

Homeschooling Homeschooling is the choice of a parent/guardian to educate his or her child at home instead of attending a traditional public or private school. Around both the country and the world, it is an enlightened evolution which began in the 1970’s. Flourishing by 7 to 15 percent yearly, According to the National Home Education Research Institute, more than two million U.S. children are homeschooled. It is lawful in many foreign countries and in all fifty states. Though many families…

What I love most about Iron Mountain is you’re never too far away from the wilderness. I routinely have deer, rabbits, and other woodland critters in my yard, and it’s not uncommon to come across bears, coyotes, or even moose on the way to exams. Outside of work, there is no shortage of camping, boating, fishing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, hunting, and hiking opportunities. The Fumee Lake Natural Area, just outside of Iron Mountain, has miles of trails to enjoy scenic views, wild life and…

Have you ever just taken a step back and thought about how much our perception of what being a celebrity entails has changed in the past 20 years? Where will we stand 20 years from now? Take a look at Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian for example; besides the obvious differences in their upbringing and how they both made their way into stardom, they are also very different in how they maintain their celebrity status. As stated in Broadcasting Yourself by Drew Pinsky “the explosion of reality T.V…

This method may cost too much to modify machines, and hiring experts may waste time. In this case, to achieve the goal of fully successful waste-water treatment, it is essential to build a small secondary sewage treatment plant, which the cost is unseasonable high, and the complex operations management must also be equipped with professional worker, which greatly limits its widely used. I doubt any firm will be willing to pay this extra efforts to to use this method to eliminate waste-water. …

Foundation of Personal Communication Defensive Climate is a situation where one perceives or anticipates some form of threat and feels like they need to defend themselves from the unknown and become cautious with their surrounding and people around them. For example, your supervisor makes statements that imply that you are always late, and you know you have only been late once: you tend to be defensive. On the other hand, Supportive Climate is a state of a stress-free and healthy environment,…

Identity can stem from many places for example; people may pull their identity from achievements and experiences, many draw identity from their hometowns and places they’ve traveled. Place can be central to a person’s identity, while physical landscape and all the resources that it holds can shape ideas of value. Canada is known since written history, and the history before that as a place with unbounded natural beauty, unique to itself. Canada, as a whole, in a physical sense, in an emotional…