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  • Coaching Philosophy

    Coaching Philosophy

    As a new and inexperienced coach, you have a lot to prepare yourself for in your first season. Of course, you are excited and eager about your first head coaching position. You most likely have planned what you are going to do and believe that you are ready. But are you truly ready? Do you even know what it means to be ready? Have you thought about the why's and how's of everything you will

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: regina
  • Cognitive Learning Theory’s Impact on Curriculum

    Cognitive Learning Theory’s Impact on Curriculum

    Nicole Phillips Learning Theory Paper Curr 558/Foundations of Curriculum and Instruction University of Phoenix Dr. Ginger Lewis Jacobs April 4, 2008 Cognitive Learning Theory Introduction Cognitivism focuses on an unobservable change in mental knowledge. Cognitivism came about as a rejection of the behaviorist views. Psychologists believed that mental events, or cognitivism, could no longer be ignored. According to Blanton (2007), there are many general assumptions of cognitive learning theories such as some learning processes being

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Bred
  • College Essay Jeanette

    College Essay Jeanette

    "Find a penny, pick it up. For three days, you'll have good luck." The first time I heard that expression I was watching an American movie in a theatre 50 miles from my house. It just so happened that I had never seen an American before, and I was so amazed at how they looked so different, yet sounded just like my friends and family. The next day home my father explained to me the

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Edward
  • College: Is It a Waste of Time?

    College: Is It a Waste of Time?

    Controlling Pressures There are many college pressures presented to students today. College is such a stressful time for students. It's a time when students try and find out who they really are and realize their own identity. In William Zinsser's essay, "College Pressures", he analyzes four different kinds of pressures he feels college students currently face. He states that students do have the ability to control some of the pressures they put upon themselves. He

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: regina
  • Colonial Williamsburg

    Colonial Williamsburg

    Make a Gift Mission of CWF Information History Restored CW Journal Careers at CWF News Releases One visit to Colonial Williamsburg and it is hard not to stand back and be impressed by what is indeed a thrilling and awesome achievement. Once home to the budding ideas of independence and democracy and a catalyst to revolution, this historic town was literally restored from the ground up. Today it is a living and working town on

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Victor
  • Colonialism Versus Origin

    Colonialism Versus Origin

    Colonialism versus Origin Within Wole Soyinka's and Tsitsi Dangarembga's intricately weaved novels, both pieces of literature successfully intertwine to portray the estrangement and hardships dealt with through the main characters in settling within a separate environment apart from their origins; culture and adopting the colonial mentality which is imposed upon them. There is a negative portrayal of the colonial mentality that manifests onto the African society. There are three major categories within these two texts

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Common Pagan Rituals and Beliefs

    Common Pagan Rituals and Beliefs

    Paganism is an ancient type of religion which has quite an inauspicious reputation today. There are many types of paganism, most date back thousands of years, which include Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism, and a few other lesser known and practiced variations. Yet all of these religions are similar and share common beliefs. Wicca is the most common of these, as it also demonstrates the shared belief of doing good that is common to most forms of

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    Submitted: January 10, 2009 By: July
  • Common Pagan Rituals and Beliefs

    Common Pagan Rituals and Beliefs

    Paganism is an ancient type of religion which has quite an inauspicious reputation today. There are many types of paganism, most date back thousands of years, which include Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism, and a few other lesser known and practiced variations. Yet all of these religions are similar and share common beliefs. Wicca is the most common of these, as it also demonstrates the shared belief of doing good that is common to most forms of

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Anna
  • Communism

    Communism

    Share an experience through which you have gained respect for intellectual, social, or cultural differences. Comment on how your personal experiences and achievements would contribute to the diversity of the University of Michigan. Since the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., I have become to realize just how different I am. It is funny but up to that point, I thought of myself as any regular citizen living in this country. The attacks have shown me

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Communism

    Communism

    Communism Communism has been around for a very long time. The American Indian tribes that were here before the invasion of European culture lived a communistic life style. The first major communist revolution occurred in Russia, in 1917 under Vladimir Lenin, which ultimately failed. Karl Marx, the philosopher credited for the birth of communism, predicted it to be the last social order, that one day, when the conditions were right, the world would live in

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Bred
  • Communism Vs. Capitalism: The Never-Ending Debate

    Communism Vs. Capitalism: The Never-Ending Debate

    Will Rogers once stated, “Communism is like prohibition; it’s a good idea but it won’t work.” Since it’s inception in mid 1800’s, Communism has been an idea that has had its ups and downs. Based on the idea of eliminating class antagonism, Communism is a synthesis of two separate entities. In a class system there exist owners and workers. Owners control the majority of the wealth and means of production. These persons were referred to

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: July
  • Compare Oedipus Rex and Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey; How Much Control Do You Think one Can Have on the Power of Fate?

    Compare Oedipus Rex and Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey; How Much Control Do You Think one Can Have on the Power of Fate?

    Compare Oedipus Rex and Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey; How much control do you think one can have on the power of fate? This paper is comparing Oedipus Rex and Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey, personalities and the control each one has on their fate. In order to have an understanding of these characters it is best to give a slight description of each play. Oedipus, the king of Thebes, is the protagonist of the play. Oedipus

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    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: regina
  • Compare, Contrast and Evaluate Plato and Aristotle on Human Wellbeing

    Compare, Contrast and Evaluate Plato and Aristotle on Human Wellbeing

    WHEN Socrates was sixty years old, Plato, then a youth of twenty, came to him as a pupil. When Plato was sixty years old, the seventeen-year-old Aristotle presented himself, joining the Teacher's group of "Friends," as the members of the Academy called themselves. Aristotle was a youth of gentle birth and breeding, his father occupying the position of physician to King Philip of Macedon. Possessed of a strong character, a penetrating intellect, apparent sincerity, but

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    Submitted: June 9, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Compared with Hobbes’ Contractarian Theory, in What Areas Locke’s Proposal Is Different, and Explain How Such Differences Possibly Imply?

    Compared with Hobbes’ Contractarian Theory, in What Areas Locke’s Proposal Is Different, and Explain How Such Differences Possibly Imply?

    2017-2018/II/G11 IB Phil/P-2 Preview Reading Worksheet Reading to be previewed: Lock, Second Treatise of Government, Ch.2, Ch.3, Ch.8. Note: please write your response directly on this worksheet (type your response on the blank space) and upload it to your personal file (preferably an independent file named “preview worksheet for optional theme”) in the Google Drive (affiliated to our class Gmail account). As usual, I shall mark and comment your worksheet directly by using Google Doc.

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    Submitted: November 11, 2018 By: jklkn
  • Comparing Religious Architecture

    Comparing Religious Architecture

    Comparing Religious Architecture The three pieces of architecture I have chosen for this exercise are the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Cordoba, Spain, the San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, and the Orvieto Cathedral in Orvieto, Italy. I will describe each building, the reason I chose each one, and how it represents its religion. The Great Mosque of Cordoba is an Islamic Mosque, the San Vitale is an Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Orvieto Cathedral is

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Comparison of Bible Passages

    Comparison of Bible Passages

    Johnna Kincaid Theo 202 November 6, 2007 Paper # 3 Comparison of Passages; Galatians 1-2, Acts 9:1-19, Acts 15: 1-35 As I read each of these passages I was able to compare and contrast the chapters, and distinguish which order they should go in. The passages read narrate a part of Paul's life. His conversion from Saul to Paul was the first passage I read. Then I went on to read the second part of

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Comparison on Friendship Between Aristotle, Epicurus and Martin Luther King Jr.

    Comparison on Friendship Between Aristotle, Epicurus and Martin Luther King Jr.

    Friendship is a special relationship a person can have with any number of acquaintances. It is a fortuitous happenstance that occurs in varying levels of intensity between two people. Aristotle and Epicurus believe friendship is a rare commodity as friendship is a treasured bond of trust that has been proven throughout trials which create and strengthen those bonds. However Martin Luther King Jr. believes that everybody should treat everybody and anybody in a neighbourly fashion,

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Compassion and the Individual Within Buddhism and Christianity

    Compassion and the Individual Within Buddhism and Christianity

    Compassion is perhaps the most valuable and important ethical principle. The dictionary defines compassion as "deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it." Living compassionately means putting the needs and concerns of others ahead of yours. Both Buddhism and Christianity emphasize compassion; this paper will attempt to determine the context in which each ethical system places compassion, and how each system believes the compassionate individual should behave. Buddhism Buddhism

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Yan
  • Compatibalism

    Compatibalism

    The question whether humans are capable of making there own choices has been on debate for as long as men have philosophized. People have different beliefs when it comes to freedom, the most common supported views are: determinism, indeterminism, and finally compatibalilsm. I am a soft- determinist, all the choices that we make aren't pre-determined nor are we "completely free". I agree and disagree with two philosophers that have opposing views on freedom Baron D'Holbach

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Max
  • Competing Theories

    Competing Theories

    William of Occam's Razor is the concept that when two competing ideas seem to explain the facts, the simpler is likely to be the true idea. Basically he feels that when something becomes overly involved, don't make yourself crazy by making a situation more complicated. Simplify your life and you will be happy. A simpler idea is not necessarily true. It is just preferred until more facts or data can clarify the situation. Also, the

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jon
  • Concept of Consciousness

    Concept of Consciousness

    An individual is somewhere in space-time, and not somewhere else. Except for God, of course, who was invented to instantiate all contradictions in blessed harmony. He's everywhere and everywhen, though at the same time, as it were, not in time or space[3]. But the upshot of this is that every individual has a point of view, a perspective, and apprehends the world, so far as it can apprehend the world, from somewhere and not nowhere[4]

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    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Jon
  • Concept of God

    Concept of God

    Rousseau said, "Man is by nature good, it is civilization tht ruins him." What does the Bible have to say about this? First of all, in the beginning when their were no sins on this world, man is good. In the book of Genesis (1:31) God have created the body of man pure and good; there was nothing inherently evil or sinful about it. But since after the fall of man (Adam and Eve) or

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Conception of Happiness

    Conception of Happiness

    Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an expression of Aristotle's view of what happiness is. Aristotle's "happiness" relates to the Greek word "eudaimonia", which refers to flourishing and living well. Aristotle believes that eudaimonia is the highest end, or telos, in life. Aristotle uses the word telos when he refers to an end or goal. He also believes that we, as humans, automatically aim for happiness. Book I of Nicomachean Ethics starts with, "Every sort of expert

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: regina
  • Concerning Suicide

    Concerning Suicide

    Concerning Suicide It seems absurd that a man can injure himself (volenti non fit injuria [= to the willing no injustice is done]). The Stoic therefore considered it a prerogative of his personality as a wise man to walk out of this life with an undisturbed mind whenever he liked (as out of a smoke-filled room), not because he was afflicted by actual or anticipated ills, but simply because he could make use of nothing

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Steve
  • Concerning Technology

    Concerning Technology

    Concerning Technology Within Heidegger's piece of technology, technology is a happening rather than a creation of complexity and his objective is reducing the essence and substance of technology to simpler concepts. His jumbling of terms and philosophical concepts left trying to connect the previous concept to the one just introduced. Introducing the concept of causality, which is designed to reveal the end, is the actual beginning. I lost myself at this point because I didn't

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    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Condoms in Private Schools

    Condoms in Private Schools

    Chapter 1 – Introduction Purpose The purpose of this paper is to educate young Americans on the risks and effects of teenage pregnancy. It will focus on ways to prevent teen pregnancy such as: abstinence, contraception, safer sex. This paper will also include ways to deal with pregnancy at a very young age such as: planning to raise the child, adoption, and even abortion. Importance 468,988 babies are born to teenage mothers each year. This

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Vika
  • Confessions Paper

    Confessions Paper

    Confessions Paper "We can hardly regard this as a trivial matter. But nothing can restore hope to us except your mercy, known since you began to transform us. You know how great a transformation you have brought about. You cured me in the first place of my lust for self-justification to show yourself propitious to all my other iniquities; you heal all my diseases, you redeem my life from corruptions, crown me with compassion and

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    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Vika
  • Confidentiality

    Confidentiality

    Confidentiality refers to an ethical principle associated with several professions for example; medicine, law, religion, and journalism. In ethics, and in some places in law, some types of communication between a person and one of these professionals are "privileged" and may not be discussed or divulged to third parties. In those jurisdictions in which the law makes provision for such confidentiality, there are usually penalties for its violation. Confidentiality of information, enforced in an adaptation

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: regina
  • Conflict Resolution Within a Team

    Conflict Resolution Within a Team

    Conflict Resolution within a Team In an ever changing society more and more companies are incorporating training and moving towards and embracing a team working environment to improve product, services and processes. In a study that looked at reducing conflict between team members, it was found that the most effective strategies for reducing the rivalry were working together on cross-functional teams and visiting customers together on the field (Yu,2001). When you work together on a

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    Submitted: May 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Conformity

    Conformity

    Feelings of disgust fill me when I observe the identity of an individual being crushed by the widespread need to fit in with society and be like everyone else. Differences in character, appearance, and emotion are created by unique pasts, and form the foundation for personal beliefs. When these differences are erased by society^s attempt to create similar beings, individualism is lost. I acquired these values from my personal intuition and taking advice from my

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mike

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