The Better Half

section in a high school band during their band camp, I noticed that my frustrations often transferred to the students and ended up affecting their attitudes. The students were then less motivated to learn and had trouble focusing. To help them feel better about what they had accomplished and to possibly improve their attitudes, I decided to end rehearsal on a positive note by reflecting with them on all the progress they made that day. I immediately saw their attitudes turn around once I…

Effect of Poverty on Children’s Health Poverty has always had a momentous effect on society. It causes grief to all ages, but specifically the young. In the May/ June publication of American Psychologist, Hirokzu Yoshikawa from Harvard University, J. Lawrence Aber from New York University, and William R. Beardslee from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital published an article on the effects of poverty on the mental health of children and youth. Each author contributed with…

what I was going to do. I overestimated my ability and, as a result, lost. The loss made me realize my ineptitude. However, knowing ones own ineptitude is not necessarily a bad thing . After all, not being the best just means that we can get even better. There are a lot of ways to improve ourselves, but they all start with knowing that there is room for…

(“Is There a Right Way?”). It delays me from getting into my writing, which could probably be a lot better than it is right now if I could get myself to concentrate. Procrastination also doesn’t give me enough time to really think about the assignment, what it’s asking of me, what I think about it, and what I could talk about. Another change necessary to improve my writing, is that I need to better consider all the ideas in my first drafts so that I can try to expand and connect them, and to…

As millennials, the generation that has the tendency to become bored quickly, makes up a large part of our current and future workforce, our company would surely suffer a decline in productivity if we do not make changes to our Human Resources and Motivation framework (Carson, 2015). Millennials benefit from the myriad of technological advances that have been made during their time, but it has also caused them to become slack and less motivated to do hard work (Modo Labs Team, 2016; Hamill,…

When I compare with others, a lot of people said to me that I am the very organizing person throughout my life. I personally love to cleaning up or arranging any mass that needs to organize. Even though, from my class notes, I have to make it neatly and putting things as order as understandable. And also, I tried to write with my handwriting as neatly as possible. If someone wants my notes, I wanted to show that I am organized person from small things to a big thing. It is not just showing my…

Apart from the above evaluation of Marks & Spenser, there are a variety of other elements help the company attract the attention of the potential investors, which includes the outlook plans, the development prospect, the company culture, the expected changes of management structure and so on. In the first place, in 2015, the company improved its investment plan towards China, Hong Kong and some other Asian countries and regions. According from the report of an executive director of Marketing &…

In today’s world the vast majority of people have integrated their smartphone into their everyday life. Todays smartphone is not only a voice communication device but a camera, a gps, a internet browser, a video camera and many other things and undoubtedly inventors will come out with new functions that we can only imagine. Can today’s educators integrate the smartphone into their everyday teaching responsibilities? My research answers this question with a resounding yes. Many research studies…

of areas. Whether in grammar or structure, or just the common flow of my essays I feel that I have become a better overall writer over this semester. This was in grave part thanks to my instructors for correcting my mistakes and leading me to the right direction, whether it was tough criticism or not. Mistakes cannot always be seen as a negative, as you can move on and correct them to better your knowledge. From my first essay this semester to my last I have seen a vigorous amount of…

process, my self-critique and my focus of writing form I distinguished the appropriate feedback from the feedback that was not, by looking at how the feedback would improve my writing and help me to develop a better thought out piece of work. The reason why I did this is to become a better writer, to create a valuable piece of work and to input the actionable feedback that I received. The feedback I implemented improved my work by making it more cohesive and organized. I needed to give the…