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- 7011: A Liberal Arts Education
- ... desire meaning and understanding of concepts. A liberal arts education provides a strong foundation of knowledge in many fields and subjects allowing students to create new theories, inventions, and connections between fields. With this foundation, great thinkers can build and expand from what others have learned rather than wasting time and effort on what has already been discovered. While it is true that the factual information about each subject is very ... freedom: Seafaring men, for example, range from one end of the earth to the other…They sleep, and they rise up, and they find themselves now in Europe, now is Asia; they see visions of great cities, and wild regions; they are in the marts of commerce, or amid the islands of the South; they gaze on Pompey's Pillar, or on the Andes; and nothing which meets them carries them ...
- 7012: Discuss Your Goals For the Next Four Years and Comment on Your Post-College Plans
- ... they had just occurred. I was finally returning to my birthplace, my home, my origin; my Fordham University. When I arrived at the campus the first person I saw was my former acting instructor, the great Larry Sacharow. Just seeing him set me awestruck with happiness; it was in his class that my career really took off. “Professor Sacharow,” I shouted, over the hustle and bustle of the crowded city sidewalk ... in a nanosecond. After leaving Professor Sacharow, I proceeded back to the subway to catch the number three back uptown to my friends apartment. Waiting on the platform I was reminded of how all the great things in my post-adolescent years were credited to this one place; this profound seat of natural energy and talent where one enters with nothing and leaves like a brimming garden of knowledge just waiting ...
- 7013: Experimental Training Program: Wilderness/Adventure Learning
- ... improvement is necessary to meet the growth of challenging competition. So who defines leadership? What is a leader and how would you raise these skills that may be laying dormant in your subordinates? Organizations need great leaders to help them successfully survive the many difficulties of this decade. Yet, the very notion of leadership has rapidly degenerated into a cliché, a buzz word. In many people's minds, leadership has become ... they only scratch the surface of what an exceptional leader actually does on a day-to-day basis. What do leaders really do to make an organization work well? In my research I found that great leaders exhibit nine different kinds of behaviors that enable them to bring out the best in the people around them. Some of the nine behaviors of leadership listed below involve building participatory teams, some involve ...
- 7014: Cultural Diversity in Schools
- ... one care taker. To make ends meet the single parent had to spend most of his/her time working for money to buy clothes, food, and to keep their children healthy. Madison Elementary had made great strides to improve their efforts to better the students academic progress. The school had instilled different programs like A-Team, Pre-K classes, Reading Recovery, various health services, outreach to families, and many more to ... language arts is the area of study with the biggest deficits. Math, Spelling, and Reading are the main emphasis of the curriculum. I witnessed a one science lesson with the gifted students. Madison has made great strides to improve in the area of language arts, they have improved many students' skills. They will continue their efforts until the students at Madison are academically strong in the area of language arts. When ...
- 7015: Argumentative Essay: Educational Reform
- ... early 1980's, the issue of America's faltering public school system has become a serious concern. The crisis in K-12 education is one of the biggest challenges facing the nation. There is a great deal of evidence to show this problem. The pathetically low results of American students through international test scores is one obvious fault. Another is the failure of many students to demonstrate their knowledge of basic ... stable economy. If our society could find a way to keep more kids in school, our country would prosper, and the educational system on a whole, would be much better. Inner-city inequality produces a great deal of problems in all aspects of life. One way it shows up continuously is in education. Although many people realize this problem, nothing is being done to improve it. Statistics show that wealthy school ...
- 7016: Graduation Speech
- ... some point, and others are terrified about having no clue. The single most important thing I could tell you about deciding on what you want to pursue in life is something that you have a great "Passion" for. Whatever drives you, excites you, or you have a tremendous love for that is probably your calling. Some of us search our whole lives trying to find a purpose, meaning, or sign of what to do, and it invariably comes back to something we have a great "Passion" for. If what you do has tremendous meaning to you, consumes you, and is something you care deeply about you will hear your named being praised, because you will do it to the best ...
- 7017: Education of the Gifted and Talented Student
- ... receive in the regular classroom. The federal government has officially recognized the necessity of our educational system to meet the needs of such students, and has passed legislation mandating policies to accommodate them. However, a great deal of inequality exists in our special education system. Most interest, attention and concern is geared toward educating the retarded and/or disabled, while neglecting to recognize the equally important needs of our gifted and ... that our education system is doing unto these children a grave injustice. First and foremost, who are our gifted and talented students, and for what reasons do we classify them in this way? There is great diversity among gifted and talented children, and as with any child, each exhibits unique qualities. Yet, there are fundamental characteristics that are commonly associated with giftedness and are generally observed in different levels in most ...
- 7018: The Widening of the Wealth Gaps
- ... lower classes cannot avoid their tax. They have no choice but to pay them, and in cases such as this pay them twice. Once for themselves, and again for the company. Their income is not great to begin with, and it shrinks considerably after taxes. They may improve their economic situation slightly, but at the rate that the economy is going, they will not prosper as much as those who are ... the stocks and 90 percent of all bonds. The rest of the population that invite does not gain nearly as much; of those that do invest, very few are middle class. However, there is a great contrast in amount of investment from rich person, and the middle class person. This middle class person will make some money on that investment, but when compared to the investment made by the richer person ...
- 7019: Coke
- ... cash. Here is Enrico’s conundrum: How does he compete with a singularly focused, increasingly belligerent Coca-Cola when he is preoccupied with fixing a conglomerate? The optimistic view is that PepsiCo has been a great company over the years. It owns some of the world’s best brands, so surely it can be a great company again. Enrico is not to blame for the recent mishaps. And he is laying out priorities—greater emphasis on returns, more attention by top management to the intricacies of the business—that seem a ...
- 7020: Corporate Development During the Industrial Revolution
- ... was not a monopolist and disliked monopolistic trusts. John D. Rockefeller came to dominate the oil industry. With one upward stride after another he organized the Standard Oil Company, which was the nucleus of the great trust that was formed. Rockefeller showed little mercy. He believed primitive savagery prevailed in the jungle world of business, where only the fittest survived. He persued the policy of "ruin or rule." Rockefeller's oil ... in some aspect of their corporation building to get to the top. The success of the Standard Oil Company and U.S. Steel company was credited to the fact that their owners ran them with great authority. In this very competetive time period, many new businesses were being formed and it took talented businessmen to get ahead and keep the companies running and make the fortunes that were made during this ...
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