Cy Young Award

1. Describe your work experience with award packaging. Award packaging is when the student’s cost of attendance and needed funds to attend a school are calculated to determine what award they’re eligible for (Pell grant, scholarships, work-study program, or student loans). I am familiar with award packaging from working at Brookhaven College Financial Aid Office, but no work experience. 2. Please describe a difficult customer service situation that you have experienced and what actions you…

bad habit of not seeing a point in trying or being motivated without a something to award them with afterwards. Participation trophies are crutches that have begun to take over the minds of those competing. Trophies are made to have a meaning. It is stated that, “Participation awards are place holders in life. They are records of accomplishment” (Priceman). At a young age, many kids see a participation award as a prize of what they have overcome. It motivates them to continue trying, however…

motivation, receiving participation trophies instills false values and expectations in young athletes. Participation trophies are given to children regardless of how well they played. Ashley Merryman, author of Top Dog: The Science to succeed. Instead, it can cause them to underachieve” (n. pag.). Giving children participation trophies indirectly teaches them that even if they do not succeed, they will be given an award or prize. Also, participation trophies do not give children room to make…

Did you know trophy and award sales are now an estimated 3 billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United states and Canada? This is because trophies have become a bigger thing than a while ago. If everyone gets a trophy for just participating, Yes kids get to many trophies for just participating because if everyone gets a trophy, they will lose their meaning, and if everyone gets a trophy kids won’t know how to fail. If too many kids get trophies, they will lose their meaning. According to…

things that award your for working hard and winning something. Some think though that participation trophies are necessary for kids to gain a sense of hope which is wrong to do because things like this won't happen in life and will give them a false sense of hope and security and won't help them learn that for some things in life you might lose and not receive an award. Participation trophies are unnecessary and need to be stopped because they give kids a false sense of reality and awards them…

Many young people receive a significant volume of pressure to live up to their families ' expectations. Additionally several parent expectations can damage a child 's self-confidence, self-image, and mentality. Even if the parent means well, children can perceive their good intentions in a different manner. As a Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez felt pressure from his mom and other family members to shield his dark skin from the sun, he speaks on his insecurities in Complexion. Rodriguez…

don’t look where they’re going,”(173) shows children are not aware of themselves falling into adulthood until it is too late. The feeling holden gets when he sees obscenities written on the wall in a place where children are reenforce his idea that young children need to continue to mature slowly. While Holden is walking through the halls of his sisters school, he came across few choice words. Holden tells that “(He) saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody 'd written ‘Fuck you’ on the…

studying sources as well as materials to reach new conclusions and establish facts. For this reason, research is very crucial, especially when it relates to children and young people. It requires that various concerns relating to consent, ethics as well as the methodology of dissemination be in the best interest of children and the young people. There is a significant impact originating from the influence and nature of variations in the relationships that exist between those being researched and…

What are the aims of the Cultural Comprehension Resource, and how effective do you think the activities in the program are in achieving these aims? Aim: To improve and promote positive outcomes for young people through increasing harmony, safety, empowerment and wellbeing (O’Shaughnessy et al, 2011). Objectives: Decrease culturally related violence and improve safety for school students. Promote harmony, diversity, acceptance and tolerance amongst school students amongst school…

These young people commit horrible crimes when they are young and end up getting very long sentences (Rideau). A person who commits a crime in their twenties doesn’t need to be in jail for the rest of their lives. This won’t help the person at all, and it obviously hasn’t reduced crime at all. It does no good for our society to exile a young person for the rest of their lives. As I stated before, it would be more beneficial…