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Have you ever thought to yourself, how much longer am I going to go through this storm? Well, these past couple weeks that has been the single thought that has continuously reoccurred in my mind. I remember walking into class on April 8th and thinking this is going to be an extremely tough couple weeks. In class that day we talked about having a healthy self-esteem and authenticity. Authenticity is one of my strong traits, but having healthy self-esteem is something that I consistently have…

Me: Hello and welcome to poetry examination plus on iRadio, during todays podcast I will be analyzing the poem ‘The Little Black Boy by William Blake’ with the help of poetry expert Garth Dee. While analyzing the poem we will address areas such as how the William Blake has represented his values attitudes and perspectives, how he has used language, which engages and influences his readers; We will also talk about how the poem has impacted and influenced teenage readers. Hi Garth welcome to the…

Over the past 25 years the enrollment of first generation students has increased in universities and colleges around the United States. As long as I can remember, the journey to college for me was more than a normal path that every student takes after high school graduation. A higher education was a necessity for my self independence and to helped increase my ability to adapt to situations in times of struggle. As I grew-up in a family where my parents had to work extended work weeks in a…

Governor Sam Brownback, a Republican governor from Kansas, enacted wide scale tax reform, bringing taxes on small businesses down to zero. Furthermore, the tax rate on the highest income bracket went down about 25 percent. Brownback’s assumption, was that if Kansas was home to the lowest taxes in the midwest, then businesses would be incentivized to relocate to Kansas, and businesses within Kansas, with the extra revenue that they traditionally gave to the state, would be able to hire and expand…

Burnt Out, Not Burnt Down Shayne M. Phillips University of Illinois Springfield – MGT310 According to the NonProfit Times, one of the main reasons that nonprofit professionals are less likely to take on new jobs with charities is burnout (The NonProfit Times, 2008). Working in the nonprofit sector, I can attest to feeling some of the types of burnout. Of the three, exhaustion is the category that is most relevant to my experience; however, there were also times when a sense of inefficacy…

Martin Seligman started with a brief history of psychology. The last half century, psychology worked inside the disease model. Some successes include: making fourteen of the disorders treatable and two are curable. In addition, the science of mental illness concepts developed and psychologists invented drug treatments to solve certain mental disorders. Unfortunately, psychology made three critical mistakes: psychologists and psychiatrists became victimologist forgetting people had freewill;…

This is a great option for schools that are limited in the funds they have to take elaborate field trips or who are located in a community without art galleries and museums to take their students to. Finally, having students create their own videos, podcasts, songs, websites, or any other final product that is recorded and can be shared electronically can use technology. Turning the tables and placing students in the position to produce something using their imagination gives them a chance to…

trying to wake a mummy. Some parents may have to nudge and shake their kids just to get them out for the bus on time. This can be the worst possible situation for a parent, especially if they have a job they need to be to time. According to an NPR podcast called, “Parents of Sleep-Deprived Teens Push For Later School Start Times.” “Cristina Sevin knows the drill. Her 15-year-old son Isaac's first alarm goes off at 6:05 a.m. When he sleeps right through it, Mom starts the nudging. But she also…

A new and questionable trend in car shopping has picked up momentum where people have started to buy cars online, without ever seeing it in person. I can't argue with the convenience of buying online and having it delivered straight to my door, but my personal opinion is that this can leave me open for too many scams. I wouldn't buy a new car online for the same reason I wouldn't buy a house online. Cars, like houses, need closer inspection than professionally taken pictures because they cost…

Gabriel Trinity Professor Ryan Keith PSY2012.0T1: Gen Psyc 12 September 2014 In the summer of 1961, an associate professor of psychology named Stanley Milgrim began a research project at Yale University to investigate and quantify the willingness of average individuals to follow orders from an authoritative figure that were at odds with the participants expected moral values. These series of experiments, started in July of that year, came three months into the trial of Nazi…