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During Thanksgiving break, I was able to take my family to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. While some of the aspects of Disney culture is sanitized, the experience of seeing art work and “tasting” food from other cultures was interesting. (As a side note, I did find some of the African food to be spicy, I would hate to see how truly spicy African dish would taste.) My favorite restaurant on the Disney property was “Boma,” this was an African inspired restaurant located at Disney’s Animal…

My experiences as an Early/Middle College member have been invaluable to my growth as a student. The lessons that I have learned as a member of the program will allow me to greater sharpen my skills as I delve deeper into my career of choice. Most notably, these experiences have taught me the importance of independence and challenging myself. My entire college experience has required me to the motivation to set goals and achieve them. Making my own decisions based on what will help me realize…

“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.” This quote was from a man named Dwight L. Moody, a publisher and the man who started the Moody Church. There is a place in Lawton, Michigan who helps us to go away from sin, walk away from temptations, run away from the devil, and sprint to the bible. For the past two years, I am so extremely ecstatic to say I go to Miracle Camp, a year-round retreat camp focussed on helping kids, families, and couples, to grow their…

have made up and can coexist. As mentioned before, Pretty Woman, was supposed to be a “dark cautionary tale” (“Pretty Woman”) since the screenwriter J.F. Lawton, who had heard about the corporate raiders, wanted to include “the idea that one of these people would met somebody who was affected by what they were doing” (Erbland). And because Lawton lived in a neighborhood “populated by daughters of the Rust Belt who had turned to prostitution” (Erbland), he was influenced to write about a…

Dann (1977) described the travel decision making process two stages or factors; push factors are those that make a person want to travel and it mainly social psychological motives. Then, pull factors are external factors that affect where a person travels to fulfil needs or desires. He suggested that anomie and ego enhancement were the basic underlining reasons for travel.  Followed by Dann’s push and pull motives, Crompton (1979) went further and managed to identified nine motives for travel…

Time goes by so fast. Looking back, it feels like I was here just few days back, but it has already been a year and I am here in the United States. Before travelling to United States, I had never travelled anywhere outside my country. So, travelling far away from home to a new place in a different continent with a totally different culture was a very big step in my life. Having grown up in a same place for years, I always dreamt about studying abroad, going to new places, and learning about new…

Importance of Coding in Schools Computer programming or coding is becoming an extensive part of today’s society, we use a programmer’s work daily with our mobile phones and computers. As we continue on in advances with technology, our schools should be providing classes that will keep our nation’s students up to date. Offering these computer science classes to all students as early as kindergarten should be encouraged, because the schools best interest is within what skill sets our children…

bombs, Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima in the middle of the city, almost flattening everything within a 1.5km radius. “Approximately 80,000 people were killed in the instant of the flash, and many more died within hours from severe burns” (Clive Lawton, 2004). Shock waves from the bomb knocked down buildings in a 10km radius, crushing people inside. Debris showered the outside surroundings, ripping skin from bodies, and many drowned trying to escape fires that consumed the city. It became…

Introduction The purpose of this memorandum is to provide information about a legal career and what education level one must obtain to pursue this career; the institutions available; how location may influence this career; expected pay range one might see; while also seeking the long-term prospects of this career. Basic knowledge about the occupation To pursue a career as an attorney, I must earn a four-year undergraduate’s degree while attending three years of law school. After meeting…

personal, and intercultural, with the focus of their research being intercultural area. They found that almost all programs include academic and intercultural objectives; however, the intercultural goals are often “ill defined and unmeasured” (Anderson, Lawton, Rexeisen, & Hubbard, 2006, p. 458). Anderson et al. used the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI prior to departure and four weeks after students’ return to determine the degree to which cross-cultural sensitivity was developed.…