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Hello Class, I am Dr. Connie Watson but you can call me Connie. I have a BA in Psychology from Western Michigan University, a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology from Emporia State University, and a Doctoral Degree from Columbia University in Adult Education and Leadership. Besides teaching here at CCP, I teach a class at Temple University in the Urban Education department and I consult in the area of organizational development and leadership. I was born in Toronto, Canada but grew up…

Dean Edwards Smith was born on February 28, 1931 in Emporia, Kansas. (Dave Nightingdale) His parents were Alfred Smith and Vesta Smith. Both of his parents were public-school teachers at Emporia High school and his father was the coach of the varsity basketball team. Dean Smith graduated and went to the University of Kansas and majored in mathematics, but still played sports such as varsity baseball, varsity basketball, and freshman baseball. Dean Smith was not just a respected…

clean Ua’s and been doing a lot better. I am working at walmart in Roeland Park. I am going to a CNA tech program to get my CNA license. I am still deciding what college to go to, currently I have gotten accepted into 5, but I am most interested in Emporia State for there nursing program, I still very much want to be a nurse. I have been thinking about going further into that career, after that I was thinking about becoming a tech surgeon or a neonatal nurse practitioner. I haven’t really…

Brian Banks, a form Polytech high school football superstar, had his dreams crushed to become a USC football player when he was wrongfully accused on raping a girl he had known since middle school. Brian came to Emporia State University on Wednesday, November, 8th to talk about what he has gone through and where he is at today in life. Before Brian came onto stage, they played a video that gave us some background information about Brian and the case he went through. When Brian came out onto…

Running head: BIMS COMPARED TO BCAT 1 Brief Interview for Mental Status Compared to Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool Joshua Hall Emporia State University April 30, 2017 BIMS COMPARED TO BCAT 2 Brief Interview for Mental Status Compared to Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool. The primary goal of the study is to determine which instrument is more sensitive in identifying degrees of cognitive functioning. This article is attempting to exemplify the differences between a brief interview for mental…

wasn’t popular, but it certainly changed how libraries operated. It went from people having to read the books there to taking home the books to read. I feel that the library is still being used as a place for social peace. Through my course work at Emporia state I have read articles about how some libraries become active in the homeless community to help them find jobs and help. I also want to point out that Ferguson’s library was used by community leaders in the days after the shooting,…

The building of growing commercial centers and emporia cities was also a major draw for travelers to different regions. At these hubs, ideas and inventions were also traded, which further facilitated long-distance trade. However, the impacts of cross-cultural interactions in the state building and economic…

After many difficult, time consuming, painstaking hours of practice, it was the day of my first high school gymnastics meet. My team and I had been preparing for this all summer. Our dual against Emporia we were destined to win. Both my mom and my dad had came to watch me show off my hard work and cheer me on. That made me feel great, until it became time for me to compete on beam. Beam has never been my strongest event, but I can still pull off a no-fall routine in competition. As I saluted…

If one comes, we all come Two years ago I moved to the United States with my mom and brother from Bolivia. This important and drastic decision was not planned at all. I think this decision was the hardest thing we have made so far. We never thought about coming to live here but all of a sudden we did not know what to do because our lives were about to change forever. I remember in the middle of June two years ago; my brother was talking with my mom about his friend taking the SAT in order…

responsibility. I cooked, and she clean. When people visited with us, I ‘d offer them a bit to eat. When they finished, they would say, this is delicious!” “who taught you how to cook like this? I’d say, a beautiful gray-headed woman from my home town, Emporia Virginia. By the time I was 21, I was married had my own little family. When my husband first took me to Louisiana to meet his family. The first thing she ask him is, “can she cook?” I held my breath, while replied,” yes mom, she can cook.…