three adjectives that describe me perfectly is ambitious, attentive, and gregarious. There are also a few adjectives that I need to work on to help me in school and in the world, being independent and truly confident. I believe that I am very ambitious both in school and outside of school. By being ambitious I am able to achieve good grades in school. Being ambitious to get good grades, I complete any assignments that are assigned in my classes. I also push myself to work and make time for those…
justification for hostility. (33). On the contrary, the author Wes’s sisters, Nikki and Shani, served as positive role models for him, with the former going on to run her own business and the ladder attending Princeton University and Stanford Law School.…
ethnic minorities in America. Whereas the Dominican Republic is extremely tolerant of those who are members of the LGBT and that there are always events going on supporting them on the islands. I was surprised to find out that despite attending a small school of about 400 students, Edgardo knew a good handful of those who have different sexual orientations. What most definitely shocked me though was the fact that Edgardo had never experienced or witnessed in person any type of extreme racial…
Most people have a general sense of what the common core is but they are uneducated just to what it actually entails. In 2009 the standards for teaching in our schools that we know as the common core were launched. According to the common core’s website, corestandards.org, the common core was created in order to have equal standardize across our nation. Before the common core, states were able to mandate their own expectations of their students leading to an unbalanced education system. These…
public school, and Oklahoma City University is a private school. So they have different major objectives. The first one has a major objective of offering good education to students. The second one focuses more on making profit by offering education of good quality as a tool to realize this objective. University of Central Oklahoma needs to maximize its output of its services or programs, generally in the form of offering degrees of professional training. Another major difference is school policy…
In the mid 1800s, the desire for public education began to strive, as many American children were not given the oppurtunity to attend public school and learn vital information that would be crucial to their adulthood. Horace Mann, also known as “the father of American public schools,” led this movement for public education. Mann was born in 1796 and grew up with his poor family in Franklin, Massachusettes. Throughout his childhood, Mann would go to the Franklin public library, with the few…
Start programs around the neighborhood instead of letting her just go. Right across the street from my site, there is P.S 386. The public school starts from preschool to elementary school. When the kids come out of the school there is always a crossing guard there that make’s sure that kids cross the street safely. There are also many different public schools around the area as well. Bronx Community College is only ten minutes away walking distance. I go there sometimes when I don’t feel like…
typically tend to vote for the party that they most identify with and develop an emotional tie. The text tells us that to run for president as an Independent, a candidate must register and petition each state through obtaining a certain number of voters’ signatures (Ginsberg et. Al, 210-213). Many candidates who enter the candidacy as an independent eventually move into the democratic or republican parties depending on which side most their beliefs lay. I have chosen to write about Democratic…
the question using ‘smashed’ as the verb would elicit higher estimates than the question using ‘bumped’. Speed estimates were in fact similar for the two groups. Reasons for the failure to replicate the results of the original are discussed. The independent variable was the verb used in the critical question to describe the collision; one condition would be ‘smashed’ and the other would be ‘bumped’. The dependent variable of the experiment was the speed that the participants estimate the…
Introduction This report explores the benefits of a Kent Denver sponsored Independent Study Program and finds that a flexible and informal program is pragmatic, easy to implement and enhances the excellence of the Kent Denver academic experience for willing students. Part II outlines the first draft of the plan and includes explicit procedures for the continuation of the research program, which will run for the most part, independent of interference from the Kent Administration and Faculty.…