my new one weekend a month officer position. I had to bet on myself that I could secure a civilian job that paid just as well as my former technician position in order to provide for my family. I had to take a gamble that the short term risk would payoff for the long term gain that being…
NCEA Level 2: Conduct an experiment - Grace Thompson Introduction: It is well debated that adding pressure to students improves the time taken and quality to do a task. But long term consequences of this includes students being highly stressed and unable to to the task without anxiety or lack of sleep. Problem: The purpose of this experiment is to find out if adding pressure to an individual decreases their time to write ’The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. I wonder if having verbal…
Objects. Material things that can be seen and touched: tangible sources that play a key role in everyday life, and have the power to alter a person’s character and blur their morals. Ownership of things has been viewed as helpful and detrimental to a person’s moral character and development of self. Philosophers have taken this concept into considerations and argued their thoughts on the theory of ownership. Greek philosopher Plato, defends his view of ownership as being harmful to the…
to college, get a degree, own luxury items, and have children that I can also make strive to make themselves financially successful I must save a great portion of my earnings. Saving the money I earn will be a short-term sacrifice that I believe will be well worth it in the long term when I can earn and receive all things I have ever desired to own or achieve. In my family, my parents were not fortunate enough to be born into a life of luxury; one of my grandfathers served…
accepted from the International Monetary Fund ended up causing more harm than good. The IMF charged them steep interest rates and forced them to invest in short term development. They restricted the Jamaican government from using the money for building up infrastructures like education and healthcare. These projects could have led to the long term growth of their nation, but the IMF knew exactly what it was doing. In the movie they explained that 80 percent of the vote is required to change the…
According to the dictionary a Goal is a person's ambition or effort to achieve something. Everyone has a goal to accomplish whether it's a long term goal or short term goal. My goals are more long term rather than short term. I want to get accepted into Virginia Tech, I want to play on Tech’s lacrosse team, and I want to live next to a ski resort. First, I want to get accepted to go to Virginia Tech. I want to go there because it is my favorite school and my aunt went there. To get accepted I…
I’ve always had a knack for making money any way I could. Even from a young age I was trying to sell anything I could get my hands on. This Trait has stuck with me for all of my life and I want to further expand my ability to make money in the future. During the past year, I have considered many colleges, but Whitewater sticks out in my eyes because of the great business program you have to offer. I would like to strengthen my business strategy at your school to help myself with creating a…
The data in my graph shows that we tend to remember words at the start and end of the list better than we remember words in the middle of the list. I can say this because, in general terms, the line on the graph starts high (at 18 people), and then it decreases to around 1-4 people in the middle of the list, and then it goes up to around 16-17 people at the end of the list. This position effect is called the Serial Position Effect. In this effect, we remember words at the start of the list…
Most people in today’s society consider goals to mean the fastest way to make a lot of money. But, in reality goals should be for what you're passionate about, what your mind and heart thrive for, whether that be the best college or the perfect job. A goal is something you want out of life, the mark you want to leave on the planet after your time has passed. My goals include to get my bachelor of science in nursing, so I can make a difference in the lives of others, as others have done for me. I…
Goals are ideas individuals desire to complete and fulfil in a particular amount of time. Whether they are documented on paper or stored in the brain, goals help individuals grasp a better understanding of where their work and skill can lead them in the near and distant future. In life I have three major goals: 1) Bring others closer to Jesus Christ and His salvation 2) Become a Clinical Pharmacist and 3) Use my talents and love to inspire others to be a better version of themselves. The first…