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    Service can be defined in many ways and by many actions; personally, I view service as helping or doing work for someone, especially work that one may not be used to doing in everyday life. Volunteer work is truly my idea of service, mainly because of the fact that no charge is incorporated into the work, keeping it centered with good intentions and pure motives. I applied this exact attitude towards my work for UIndy’s Super Saturday of Service, specifically when I was sent to South Circle Farm…

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    though, who made words or who made the dictionary?, Our who made words the way they are today?. Well your in luck today because I am going to tell about an important man name Noah Webster. Well Noah Webster impacted our contry by giving us the first American dictinary, he simplified spelling, and he also gave us the alphabet. this is why he is an impact on us and many more he has done so much for our contry. Noah Webster made are first American dictionary it helped our country…

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    The Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services (bureau) received a state complaint from Megan Collins, Esquire, on August 26, 2016, alleging that the Leon County School District violated federal and state laws relating to the education of students with disabilities. The complaint did not contain all of the required components. During a telephone conversation on September 19, 2016, the complainant provided the facts that supported an IDEA violation. Specifically, the issues are: ISSUE…

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    cosmology. He also done many other things as well, he has written many books, and has taught as a professor at several universities. Stephen Hawking was born on January, 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. His parents were both well educated, and knowledgeable people. Both his mom and dad went to college at the University of Oxford. After college, Stephen’s dad became a medical researcher. Hawking is the oldest of four children. He had two sisters named Mary, and Philippa, and a brother named Edward.…

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    Patricia Jordan, long-time Buck Hiller, passed away on October 10th. Born in Brooklyn to the late Estelle (Sanders) and I. Jerome Riker, and the sister of the late Stanley Riker, Pat was educated at the Berkeley Institute, The Packer Collegiate Institute, and Columbia University. A writer and the author of a humorous book “Under the Dryer,” she married the love of her life in June 1950 and began her family. Pat discovered Buck Hill in the 1960s when she was looking for a place close enough to…

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    Learning Agility

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    on the importance of learning agility, why they should adopt it and how it can be used to a student’s advantage. Definitions of Learning Agility Oxford dictionary defines ‘learning’ as “Knowledge acquired through study, experience, or being taught” (Oxford University Press, 2015), whereas ‘agility’ is defined as “Ability to move quickly and easily” (Oxford University Press, 2015). However, ‘learning agility’ as a phrase has never been definitively defined, but only discussed in literature.…

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    College in the 21th century should have general version of majors, and when a person gets their masters or PHD when they get more specific. But there are different opinions from Liz Coleman a speaker on a TED Talk video, Walter Kirn a personal story of his journey for knowledge and Aristotle giving the reader three Rhetorical Appeals and Minerva a new age college, as well as mission statements from different colleges. The way Liz Coleman summarizes her argument is that she wants a broader…

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    McClelland, Edward. “The “Middle Class” Myth: Here 's Why Wages Are Really So Low Today.” Pg. 92-94 in Focus on Social Problems: A Contemporary Reader, edited by M. Stombler and A.M. Jungels. New York: Oxford University Press. Edward argues that wages are low because technology and immigrants are willing to do jobs that should require higher pay to be done at lower wages. He talks about how Americans would do certain jobs and that people from Mexico would because they do the same thing from…

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    Definition Of Success

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    The word success to me means that there’s an accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Success is things you achieve that you want. In order for me to do that, I do all my homework and study for tests and achieve my goals. When I do that action, it has now been considered successful. When people enjoy their work, and if it gives them an opportunity to spend time with their family and have a balanced life, they’d consider themselves successful because it happens and it works. Success is when you…

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    The word success to me means that there’s an accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Success is things you achieve that you want. In order for me to do that, I do all my assignments and study for tests and achieve my goals. When I do that action, it has now been considered successful. When people enjoy their work, and if it gives them an opportunity to spend time with their family and have a balanced life, they’d consider themselves successful because it happens and it works. Success is when you…

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