you demonstrate the ideals of SCHOLARSHIP, LEADERSHIP, SERVICE, and CHARACTER to be selected into NHS. * I feel that I demonstrate the ideals of Scholarship, Leadership, Service and Character in a very unique way. To start off, I have maintained a 3.7 cumulative grade point average throughout my high school career while being highly active in a year round travel team and holding a job. Since freshman year, I have been enrolled in honors and A.P. classes, and am currently in my third year of Project
probably change the way the schools are currently managed in the twenty-first century. In my opinion, my “Ideal School” would be an independent school that educates children from Kindergarten through Eighth grade. In addition, I will incorporate a classroom for toddlers and infants for parents who do not have the luxury to spend time with their children on a full-time basis. In this school I will try to provide challenging programs for all grade levels. The school will offer classes in a variety
and stereotypes. Our authors’ state that, “Our behavior in almost all situations is framed within our knowledge of ideal gender” (p 159). As our country becomes culturally diverse, this becomes a problem as not all cultures fit into our values and expectations, especially as related to masculinity and femininity. We have learned to ‘do gender’ throughout our growing lives in school, at home, and through the media. I believe that some of this ‘gender doing’ has relaxed and broadened in the recent
are relatively my attitude, my personal values and beliefs to life that developed throughout my life. “Values are the constructs that we hold as important and beliefs are constructs that we hold to be true (Collins & Chippendale, 1995)”. Meanwhile, attitudes are relatively lasting clusters of emotions, beliefs, and behavior tendencies directed towards specific ideas, people or objects (Baron & Byrne, 1984). Generally, my family members, friends and the experiences I had contribute to my sense of who
Part I: During an exam in my high school Math class, one of my classmates was cheating off me for practically the entire test. As soon as everyone left the classroom, I stayed just only to talk to my teacher. I told her that I felt uncomfortable about that test because the person sitting next to me was copying my paper. This just went against all my hard work because I feel everyone should produce his or her own work when taking an exam. I felt wrong about snitching on my classmate, but I know I would
graduating senior in high school, the most important decision they have to make is about which college to spend the next four, or maybe more years of their life attending. I know that when I was trying to make by college decision I had to research, visit, and compare and contrast all the schools that I liked. It came down to two very excellent, but very different schools. I fell in love with, and got accepted to Saint Leo University, and Boston College. My deciding factors on which school was better for me
Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment is in an area that is comfortable, safe, and free of noise and other types of distractions that can get in the way of me studying. I want to ensure that the environment is organized and relaxing, so that I can think clearly and complete my work accurately and in a timely manner. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study
and society that you belong to. While different genders face different body related issues society pressures each gender in its own way. Cultural standards of gender and the body can be hard to meet. While they effect everyone differently they lead to my personal battle with anorexia. Many men and women go to extreme lengths to meet society’s demands. Looking at this example through the three bodies paradigm we will be able to more precisely see where the cultural and societal pressures of gender and
My opening paragraph: * will consist of what I think an ideal society means? * My ideal society will be based on Islamic beliefs, values, and traditions. However, I will be incorporating other ethnics and religious backgrounds in my ideal society and that is where my goal comes from. * There will be brief description of how an ideal Islamic society will look like and maybe back it up with scholarly references. * - my goals for this particular society. * Ie. To achieve
Introduction Throughout the past six weeks I have been exploring some of the key concepts involved with the teaching and learning of literacy and mathematics. Through the weekly readings and activities I have been able to develop my knowledge of these concepts. During this time I have considered the similarities and differences of the English program in the Australian Curriculum, as compared to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, and the implications that these factors will have on myself
each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study place is somewhere quiet with country or classical music playing low. Somewhere with no television unless that is what the music is playing on. It would be somewhere with a large amount of coffee and where no one can bother me. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Some of the distractions that might hinder my study progress or my performance in an online
thrown into maturity at a young age. While other girls of my age were too concerned with school, the mall, going out to movies, being into boys, and going out with the family, I was at home raising my brother and myself. I did not have the ideal life nor family, I thought I wanted but I did make the most of it. The contributing factors to whom I am today as a person are due to my father being incarcerated, my mother not being around, and my best friend’s death. [ Revise this sentence to exclude your
time. Since my freshman year in high school I set my mind to graduating my junior year, and as of June 7th, 2012 I met that goal. Attending Southern Maine Community College for Medical Assisting has allowed me the smallest taste of what college truly offers in hopes to progress as a person, in life, and in a profession. The experience and knowledge is something I look forward to building after my transfer to Husson University. As a commuter at a small community college I miss the ideal college life
One of the most predominant themes in Arthur Miller’s drama Death of a Salesman is the concept of the American Dream. The American Dream is a life that an individual believes is ideal and wishes to achieve in America and what he or she will have the freedom to achieve. The American Dream varies from person to person, and typically includes dreams of success and prosperity. The concept of the American Dream means something different for every person. No two people have the same dream; some may wish
grants the undocumented students of this country to gain legal status after studying here for all of high school and 2 years of college or have either joined the armed services. I wonder why the government of this country doesn’t help the undocumented students. In my research I came across the following questions that lead me think what reason does the government have to not pass the DREAM Act. My first thought was why does the government try to deport or imprison educated undocumented students? Then
compass pointing to truth contribute to my call to ministry. ARROYO: Out of all your ministry responsibilities, which ministry responsibility do you enjoy the most and why? STANKEWITZ: The ministry responsibility I enjoy most is being accountable to the people who I lead and do life with because I love people. ARROYO: Now, on the other hand, what ministry duty do you enjoy the least and why? STANKEWITZ: Responsibilities that become monotonous such as paperwork.
opportunities of British Women were severely limited, due mainly to the extent of provision provided and most schools encouraged the traditional role of women (the angel in the house). On one hand the sources suggest that the changes in schooling did help to improve opportunities for women in the second half of the 19th century. The sources imply that schooling challenged the traditional Victorian ideal of ‘angel in the house’. Source 14 shows this by saying it “broke the mould” implying that women were
When schoolchildren tell their parents that they are being bullied or made fun of at school, their parents would recite the age-old idiom, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” But does that saying hold true? Paul Zimmer's “Zimmer in Grade School” and Marge Piercy's “Barbie Doll” show two examples of children who are adversely affected by the opinions of others. Both poems are about how bullying does not just affect a person at the time of incident, but how it also
At my time at the food bank, I received all of the food donations, weighed them in, and placed them into their appropriate place. Whenever I would see a homeless person on the street that asked for some change, I would always give them the change that I had, but sometimes there would be this nagging thought in the back of my mind if the person was going to use the money for food or for their own illicit purposes. Volunteering at the food bank gave me the self-satisfaction of knowing that my help
years of living in Vietnam has allowed be to be reasonably aware of my ethnic background, culture, and traditions as a Vietnamese. Like in a typical traditional Asian family, my wise, yet stern father is the head of the household, so any seemingly relevant or major decision must be carried out under his approval. The problem lies in the fact that I have spent the last eleven years of my life in America, going to American public schools on the weekdays and spending time with Americanized friends on the