“What do you mean all of this work is preparing me for life?” cried Melissa‚ one of my young trumpet players. “This is just a band concert!” The Beginning Band class had stalled in its progress toward their first performance and I could see it was time for me to convince her how preparing for a concert was about much more than playing the pitches and rhythms. There were lessons to be learned that would be applicable throughout her life‚ regardless of her eventual interests or careers. In the
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community. By obtaining new skills from this class and pushing myself to improve‚ I can now apply these strategies to future courses that I may take or even carry them with me and continue to improve on them throughout my career. For example‚ while I may not have to take another English course throughout my time in college‚ I can still use the same skills that I learned from this class and apply them to both school and everyday life. Not only was this class about learning skills
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I think that Jane Elliot was a woman before her time. What she put together to teach the children about discrimination was brilliant. I not only watched the first and second parts in class‚ I watched all six parts on You Tube. I laughed and cried watching all six parts. I see that just putting the idea into ones mind can make things happen. I think the most upsetting part of this experiment is that if you place children in the subordinate group they immediately did poorly.I feel that more people
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Harvard law‚ MIT Engineering‚ Cornell medicine‚ or Stanford business school are my options. Well‚ not really. These tend to be the choices of upper-class New York families. They have societal standards to live up to. The most amazing part about these standards is that wealthy upper class creates them‚ and the rich upper class complain about their self-made standards. The same applies for social pressures. Most are created by us‚ based on the world around us. The Cuban Swimmer‚ Saga Volume 1‚ “The
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BAHUROOPEE GANDHI Written By Anu Bandopadhyaya Forwarded By Jawaharlal Nehru Forward This book is for children. But I am sure that many grown-ups will read it with pleasure and profit. Already Gandhiji has become a legend. Those who have not seen him‚ especially the children of today‚ must think of him as a very unusual person‚ a superman who performed great deeds. It is desirable‚ therefore‚ for the common aspects of his life to be placed before them‚ as is done by this book
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HR Training Class Organizations are continuously seeking to improve quality in which there is more focus on their customer service and relations. In most organizations the customer service skills contribute to the success of the organization. Individuals with good people skills are the foundation to excellent customer service. The skills associated with good customer service are problem solving‚ team work‚ leadership selection is not an effective way to improve productivity in situations where
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Showing respect in a class room means being open to change. When being open to change you need to look at every individual’s perception for example if someone asks a question you would word it something like this‚ “My understanding of this concept is...” that way your not shoving there problem back in the closet somewhere and they know your trying to help to the best of your ability while listening to there problem. And last but not least the biggest thing to respect in the class room is “treat others
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purpose of my speech was to enhance the audience’s awareness of what marijuana is‚ as well as to dispel many myths that exist around it that emanate from the fact that it is an illegal substance‚ causing often untrue information to be spread. The ultimate goal of my presentation was to leave the audience with a better understanding of what the plant actually is and how it may be of use to society. Introducing a topic during a presentation is one of‚ if not the‚ most difficult part of any speech. If the
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Hero: Class Outline The following notes are based on the PowerPoint slides shown in class. They give an outline of the lecture‚ but they do not represent the class meeting in full‚ which includes a more elaborate discussion of the topics and analysis of specific images. TUESDAY Hero (Yingxiong)‚ dir. Zhang Yimou‚ 2002 Premiere at Great Hall of the People in Beijing‚ December 2002 United States premiere‚ August 2004 Sima Qian‚ Records of the Historian‚ 2nd century BC (Han Dynasty)
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Walking into the room‚ I had the preconceived notion that it would be boring. Because baseball is a boring sport. They don’t even move half the time. I decided to keep an open mind anyway‚ because I needed material to write an essay for my English class and because I was at a new school‚ starting a new chapter in my life. The man sitting in the chair‚ the “on deck” position‚ looked like a cool guy. He was sporting a beard‚ a cardigan‚ and desert boots. All three I approve of. He was introduced
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