Career Narrative “Do what you love, love what you do” My brother always said, “That you should chose a career that you honestly love because you will be doing for it for the rest of your life”. My career goal is to become a child and family social worker. I have chosen this career because I have a passion for helping people and it is something I will enjoy doing. What interests me about it was that I get the chance to help children and families in need of assistance. I think i’ll be successful…
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Research Narrative In the beginning of my senior year of high school, my magnet teacher, Mr. Gutmann wanted his students to research at least five colleges/universities. My top five universities I had chosen was: University of Louisville, Northern Kentucky University, Eastern Kentucky University, Indiana University Southeast, and University of Cincinnati. While researching the five universities, I was considering several different things such as: the size of the university, what type of university…
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As I reflect on the beginning of this semester, I realize how much my perspective on the Vietnam War has changed, leading to personal growth and maturity. Coming into this course, I believe I had a decent grasp on the history of the Vietnam War from learning about it in high school. Now I realize that in high school I didn’t dive this deeply into the material and only breached the surface of what happened in the Vietnam War. This course has not only taught me about the war, but also about myself…
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Learner Profile paper Melanie Horowitz Coyne CCE 577 Winter 2014 How does Ariana learn? What does cognition theory say? Ariana is an adult, a student matriculated in an online university program working toward a bachelor’s degree in education. She received her elementary education in a small town in Mexico, traveling by bus 45 minutes to an hour daily. At the age of 14 she immigrated with her family to Washington State and graduated from high school there. What would the major theorists of adult…
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spend valuable time with him and my family, together. I also wondered why was it that my family or six had to endure living in a one-bedroom apartment when my dad is the living example of the idea of meritocracy highly valued in the U.S. Beginning college two years ago, I have begun to understand the various factors that are responsible for the discriminatory violence, financial exploitation, and the acts of resistance regarding Janitors and their families. There is a vast amount of anti-Mexican discourses…
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In this poem a college student from the South has been attending a northern University to continue her education. Her experiences at the school have altered her personality and perspective on the world. Subsequently, she finds herself disconnected from her traditions and…
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the modern profession that we now depend on. The Bookkeepers Bookkeepers most likely emerged while society was still in the barter and trade system (pre-2000 B.C.) rather than a cash and commerce economy. Ledgers from these times read like narratives with dates and descriptions of trades made or terms for services rendered. Example - Barter and Trade Bookkeeping Monday, May 12 - In exchange for three chickens which I provided today, William Smallwood (laborer) promised a satchel of seed when…
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Later, he wrote his famous Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959), which deal with the rising middle class in the South rather than the old aristocracy that was the subject of the earlier works. As far as his personal life was concerned, Faulkner married his childhood sweetheart, Estelle Oldham, in 1929, after her divorce from her first husband. She brought two children into the marriage, and they had two daughters together, one of whom died in infancy. Despite…
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and the allotted time is 1 hour (College Board, 2024). Section II, or the free-response section, has students write essays that respond to three prompts from the following categories: a literary analysis of a poem; a literary analysis of a passage of prose fiction (including drama); and an analysis of a specific concept, issue, or element in a work selected by the student. Section II reflects 55% of the total exam score and has an allotted duration of 2 hours (College Board, 2024). The major…
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conclusion. LITERATURE REVIEW In order to have some understanding as to why Dominicans migrate to United States we must explore the variables that have driven this group to leave their homeland, Dr. Ramona Hernandez a sociology professor at City College of New York sheds some light on this phenomena: ‘’Dominicans left their homeland pressured by economic needs, the desire to improve their lives, and encouraged by a de facto immigration policy that facilitated their exodus. Once in the U.S., most…
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