fellow African-Americans aren’t as lucky or as fortunate as I am. For many people‚ college is their first chance to connect with those who have similar experiences and interests. My goal is to be a supportive Turner Scholar‚ and be supportive of students who come from an unsupportive background. I want to help people find where they are safe and loved in
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As a young African-American woman‚ I am often faced with the statistics that define my race and ethnicity. Statistics from jbhe.com and usnews.com says: "Black students graduate rate stands at an appallingly 42 percent compared to the 62 percent of Whites; Black college graduates are twice as likely as Whites to struggle to find jobs; People with ’Black-sounding names’ had to send out 50 percent more job applications than people with ’White-sounding names’ just to get a call back." How can I ever
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The policy that I chose is R-5122. The policy explains the steps on how an educator is to communicate the progress on students. In other words‚ it breaks down the grades and how the educator is to convey what the grades mean to the caretakers. R-5122 states that caretakers are to be informed on their child’s grades every 18 weeks if the child is in elementary and quarterly from grades 6-12. In the policy is recommended that at least one care taker is present during the parent-teacher conference from
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In this Psychology reflection paper‚ I am going to discuss the movie "The curious case of Benjamin button" released in 2007 and apply three psychology theories on the selected scenes. This movie is about the life of an unusual man called Benjamin. He has an opposite life than everybody else’s. He aged in reverse‚ born as an old man and get younger every day. His mother died after giving birth‚ and then his father abandoned Benjamin because of his appearance. He was raised in a nurse house by a woman
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Reflective Introduction: What do you already know about writing? I still am a little nervous taking this class because the last writing class I took was in my senior year in high school. That was back in 2004. With that comes the challenge of remembering what I have learned in the past and translating it to this class. I remember back in high school when an essay is composed of three parts. An introduction‚ body‚ and a conclusion. With the introduction‚ it should grab the readers’ attention
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would be in the city; my question was “What in the world is she be doing sitting in a Christian church?” Curiosity filled the air inside the temple as people stole glances at her every couple of minutes. As it turned out‚ she was a foreign exchange student housed by one of the families of church. She soon became a sensation with everyone bringing a broad smile to each service and giving peacefulness to those around her. Even though she was a fish out of water‚ she never let her differences with those
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“Reflection is active‚ purposeful thought applied to an experience to understand the meaning of that experience for the individual” (Ashby‚ 2006 p.28). Reflective practice is vital to the nursing profession. Although there is little evidence based information of the benefits of reflective practice (Schutz‚ 2007)‚ there are many benefits pertaining to reflective practice and resulting in a holistic patient approach and therefore nurses are able to provide better care. There are many models available to
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helped evolved my brain in another level of success‚ and my ability to use a broad vocabulary. Since I have been in this class my vocabulary has really improved I have used some words that I normally wouldn’t have used in high school. While writing my essays the biggest challenge that I have run into is using terms and quotes from other sources to back up my main points and explaining the quote. Before I came into this class I had a little understanding of how to place my quotes‚ but after learning from
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that math and science can’t. On a smaller scale‚ the arts a UWL provides beauty and entertainment within its own little community. It’s unbelievably valuable to UWL because it provides a successful environment for students interested to learn and flourish in this areas. It also for students and the La Crosse community a place to learn about the many forms of art‚ as well as a place for people to dabble in each area before becoming committed to
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Over the course of the semester‚ I was able to work with a fifth grade student‚ Luke‚ on his reading. Luke is currently reading at an end of first grade level. At the beginning of the semester‚ when I first began working with Luke‚ he was reading at an early first grade level. He has shown much improvement over the three cycles that I worked with him on. Not only did he improve with his reading‚ but also I saw his confidence increase after each cycle. Luke began reading a level F. He had a lot
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