Exploded Opportunities: Brett Miller’s Story If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to serve and risk everything for your country‚ Brett Miller is a good example to look to. When Brett Miller decided it was time to leave his seventeen year fire department job and join something bigger‚ he had a good idea about what he wanted to be. Brett says that “In 1998‚ I joined the Army National Guard because I wanted to pay for school‚ augment my income‚ and be a part of something bigger than myself. Training
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The Startup Movement: Opportunities in Alternative Education Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi - Undergraduate School - CLEAM Graduation Thesis by Luca Bovone - 1532274 Tutored by Carmelo Cennamo‚ Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Plan 2 Ai miei amati genitori e a mio fratello per l’incredibile sostegno 3 4 Index 1. Introduction 2. What is the Startup movement? 3. Is there still a need for ‘traditional’ education? 4. The new opportunities 5. Massively Open Online Courses
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Oxford OPHI WORKING PAPER NO. 39 A Dissimilarity Index of Multidimensional Inequality of Opportunity Gaston Yalonetzky * November 2010 Abstract A recent literature on inequality of opportunity offers quantitative tools for comparisons and measurement based on stochastic dominance criteria and traditional inequality indices. In this paper I suggest an additional way of assessing inequality of opportunity with two indices of dissimilarity across distributions. The indices are based on a traditional
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The Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools‚ or DEIS strategy‚ introduced in 2005‚ aimed to focus on inequalities in education in disadvantaged areas in Ireland. This strategy‚ which has remained almost unchanged since its introduction‚ was placed under review in 2015 by the Minister for Education and Skills. In the time since DEIS was implemented‚ Ireland has undergone vast cultural‚ social and economic change. As outlined by Callinan (2015)‚ in the IMPACT DEIS Review Consultation Submission
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1042-2587 © 2010 Baylor University E T&P How Opportunities Develop in Social Entrepreneurship Patricia Doyle Corner Marcus Ho The purpose of this article was to extend existing research on opportunity identification in the social entrepreneurship literature through empirically examining this phenomenon. We used an inductive‚ theory-building design that surfaced patterns in social value creation across multiple case studies. The patterns showed actors seeing a social need and prospecting
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Opportunity is defined as the favorable juncture of circumstances‚ and success‚ is the fulfilling of a given task. Now let us imagine success‚ without opportunities; without the opportunity to prove your worth‚ without the opportunity to even get a chance to attempt to work towards a goal. Life is meaningless without opportunities‚ and success thrives on these very opportunities. I would like to share a story with you. One day‚ a young boy decided to buy a goat. After paying up‚ he later found
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EEOC Presentation Resource: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) website Explore the EEOC website (http://www.eeoc.gov) to learn more about the organization. Click the About the EEOC link and select Newsroom. Select a press release about an employee lawsuit published within the last 6 months. Search the Internet to find at least one news item about this lawsuit‚ preferably from a news source in the state in which the incident occurred. Federal Jury Awards Exel Employee
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Do you agree with the view that the education act of 1870 was a significant step forward in the educational opportunities for girls? To a limited extent‚ I agree with the view that the education act of 1870 was a significant step forward in the educational opportunities for girls because they were given a compulsory education‚ whereas prior to the act‚ many girls did not attend school at all‚ formally or informally. All sources agree with this as they express that girls were now forced to attend
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Opportunities and Challenges of Assimilation Katherine Malone ETH/125 June 25‚ 2011 Lillian Chenoweth Opportunities and Challenges of Assimilation Over the next 20 years as there is an increase in diversity within the United States there will be new challenges as well as opportunities for Americans of Asian and Japanese decent. As more Japanese and other minorities emerge as activists‚ you will see more involvement by them concerning issues they feel affect them. Politically‚ you will see
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Date of submission: 01 April 2011 Title: Given that disasters create opportunity for active learning‚ why do they repeat? 1. Introduction Natural and manmade disasters are a gloomy recurrent feature of today’s reality. The 1986 nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl‚ the 2004 hurricane in Brazil and‚ the same year‚ the devastating Tsunami in East Asia; the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan‚ the BP oil spillage in the Mexican Gulf in 2010; the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; and the latest tragic
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