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    In J.L. Austin’s Other Minds, Austin states that when one questions the speaker to verify the truthfulness of their statements, one asks the speaker to expand on their credentials and facts. Some also question the reality perceived by the speaker and the certitude of the speaker in his perceptions. Yet Austin insists that certain metaphysical questions that interrogates into the reality — whether the speaker is in the proper state of mind, whether the object is in its natural state, whether the…

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    Really To Blame

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    narrow down if it contains true or false information. Again, this suggestion may be able to make readers accustomed to fact-checking and being less lazy. In the case they are lazy, a simple check of when the article was written can avoid a person from thinking the news had just been…

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    Workplace Teamwork

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    The United States Economy experienced a recession starting in December 2007 and ending in June 2009 as reported by the National Bureau of Economic Research. (http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2012/recession/pdf/recession_bls_spotlight.pdf) The employment market was directly impacted as evidenced by the growth in unemployment rate. During this period employer reduced staffing to cut costs and protect profit margins. In do so, employers combined approximately 2-3 worker’s positions into one shifting…

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    Coaching Employees Paper

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    able to assess each person for areas in need of improvement and to coach each nurse through the development process (Davis et al., 2008). The purpose of this paper is to outline a coaching and development plan for an identified staff member using the six-step coaching process. Determining Intention Samantha is an RN in the critical care unit who presented with approximately one year of experience in a gastrointestinal procedures department at the time of hire. After a 20-week orientation,…

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    Over two thirds of American public schools offer eBooks to their students according to the School Library Journal. Electronic books, or eBooks, are defined as, “books composed in or converted to digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device,” (“E-book). These are a growing trend in K-12 schools, as well as in colleges and universities, and their value must be assessed. If eBooks are not the best method of providing information to students, then something should be done…

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    Introductions For most people making a decision can be very stressful and they find themselves overwhelmed and stressed out throughout their decision process. Making a decision for most people can be a long and overthought process, filled with indecisiveness. In the book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Heath, teaches you how to make decisions that you can live with and the current mistakes that we make today in our current decision process, which they call…

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    Through research it was discovered that although Common Core has its downfalls, it is more beneficial than not. Common Core will help with critical thinking skills, college and career readiness, and provide an equal set of standards for the nation. Although teachers did state that they were lacking creativity in their classrooms. An easy solution to this would be for teachers to get together to discuss…

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    hours, sleep for 56 hours, eat for 14 hours, and waste an additional 10 hours, then we are still left with 43 hours of free time each week. What we do with our leftover time is up to us. Accompanying this paper is Amanda Hiner’s article, “Critical Thinking and the Techno Brain”. This article discusses the fact that we as humans are developing “techno brains” and that the use of technology…

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    I first discovered my vocation as a teacher by serving as a TA in the Christ College Freshman Program, where I developed valuable pedagogical skills I carry with me to this day. Although I was already considering a career in teaching, working with a cohort of likeminded instructors every Thursday night to prepare to share our knowledge with a small group of freshmen that Monday proved to me to be the ideal classroom scenario. After graduating from Christ College, my teaching career at the…

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    While we have seen that Socrates is good at rejecting incorrect arguments, it is equally important to be able to identify correct ones. The Meno begins with Meno, a friend of Scorates, asking Socrates if virtue can be taught or is it an inborn quality that some posses from birth and others never will. Socrates and his friend then begin to perform an investigation into the nature and form of virtue. When they arrive at the question of how one may know and recognize virtue when it is found,…

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