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Literacy is an individual’s ability to read and write. Fredrick Douglas stated that “Once you learn to read, you will forever be free,” and he was absolutely right. Reading can take you to places your imagination could never think of, or help you learn about a particular subject or issue. Writing explained by E.L. Doctorow, “is an exploration, you start from nothing and learn as you go.” It allows the expression of emotions and feelings, and can explain to the reader the ideas of what you hold…

professionals must practice when interacting with people who share similarities with future clients. I practiced therapeutic communication when I volunteered to be a “buddy” for a special needs guest at the “Night to Shine” Prom at Genesis Church in Tallahassee. Tim Tebow’s foundation sponsors proms held at churches and community centers across the nation. The event pairs people with special needs with volunteers who agree to be their “buddy” for the night; the prom’s committee paired Justin and…

The First Seminole War happened in the years of 1817 to 1818 between the United States and the Seminoles of Florida. The first Seminole War was a punitive journey led by Andrew Jackson into the La Florida, which was a Spanish colony in 1818. Many are under the impression that the United States were responsible for the cause of the war and everything that happened in the war, when in fact both sides were responsible for the war, and both were equally to blame for the consequences of the war.…

During second and third grade I devoted my free time to reading about the Civil War and the Spanish explorers that conquested through my native Florida. In fourth grade I remember leaping through a native american pottery exhibit on a field trip to Tallahassee, desperately trying to obtain all of the knowledge the signs held before being dragged away by my classmates and chaperone. On a fifth grade field trip I was left behind at an exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center because I was too…

Murder is one of the most violent malevolent crimes which society has to bear in their every day life. There is a myth, which our society believes in “murderers are both not made”. I believe our society makes a person who he or she will be. No one is born a killer. Serial Killer Ted Bundy is the man who is considered as one of the most notorious criminals in the history of the United States. He described himself as the most cold-blooded criminal: one would have to dig deep in the annals of crime…

You may be asking yourself, why should we care about self-esteem levels? Well if you have ever put off a task to the last minute, you may have experienced a dip in your self-esteem levels; or perhaps you put it off because your self-esteem level was already low. In this paper I discuss the link between self-handicapping in individuals with low self-esteem and procrastination. Although people with high self-esteem also self-handicap and procrastinate, the impact on persons with low self-esteem…

grandfather’s first language was Spanish. My paternal ancestors immigrated to Virginia from the England and then to Florida. My mother was raised in Tampa, Florida and my father was born in Florida, but raised in New York, New York. I was born in Tallahassee, Florida, but raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. The number of people in my family living in the same home as was different depending on what point in my life we are talking about. It was always just my mother and I or my mother,…

Families across America are pressed to find childcare that they can afford, trust and rely on. This researcher intends to identify, correlate and summarize various articles, publications, case studies and academic literature to assist him in this study of childcare conflicts and working parents. Identification. Growth in the number of day care centers and other forms of non-parental care for children has accompanied this increase in working mothers. But for many families, finding…