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write a letter to the editor of the washington post news.

you now will have the opportunity to voice your
own thoughts, impressions, and conclusions about the literary representations of American values and ideals across the centuries. 
To accomplish this, you may have to do:

  1. A letter to the editor of the Washington Post newspaper of at least
  2. 500 words.

You may also want to take a look at an article written in 1984 by L. Robert Kohls, Executive Director of The Washington International Center, Washington, D.C.,
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/alee/extra/American_values.html.
Here you will find a reevaluation and examination of the values Kohls identifies as central to Americans’ lives and self-perceptions.

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Pastoral Care, Counseling and Conflict

Book: Eclov, Lee.  Pastoral Graces: Reflections on the Care of Souls.  Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2012.
 

  1.  Reflect on God’s call in your life, especially the periods of questioning and doubt through which you may have been led.  Do you have any special thoughts or insights on that process, now that you are in Divinity training?
  2. How do you respond to being under authority?
  3. What are your thoughts about becoming an authority figure, exercising moral, spiritual, influential, and organizational authority?
  4. How do you plan to grow in wisdom as you provide ministry?
  5. Which of the examples of public grace especially resonate with you?
  6. What is your plan to grow in the grace of effective public prayer, in the face of the “Evangelical Prayer Voice” that speaks in “Baby Babble Prayers”?
  7. How will you practice “Ministry By Walking Around” in your ministry?
  8. What elements of “portable grace” do you think will work best for you (not limited to those in the book)?
  9. Talk about how you can “paint with the colors God gives us” in the ministry in which you see yourself.
  10. Do you tend to be a “Yes” person or a “No” person?  How can you minister God’s “Yes” in Christ to people in your ministry?
  11. How can you discern where someone is in their journey of recovery from sin’s brokenness, and bring grace and equipping to that person?
  12. What are some ways you can bring grace, peace, and healing into situations of conflict in a ministry?
  13. Do you believe that you can RECEIVE ministry in your chosen ministry position?  How can you accomplish this?
  14. How will you sit under great preaching in order to become a better preacher, be mentored by a great counselor in order to become a better counselor, and so forth?  Do you have the humility and the intentionality to do these things regularly?
  15. How will you best “help make people homesick for Heaven” in your ministry?
  16. Think about the markers of ministry success that GOD values.  What do you think He will want to see in your life and ministry as you become experienced in the practice of ministry?
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Education Assignment

Purpose
The concept of “educating for social reconstruction” speaks to the humanitarian side of the teaching profession. We live in a world engulfed in wars, disease, hunger, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, and global warming, to name a few of the problems that afflict people around the world.
Instructions
For this Assignment, you will write a paper on the subject of global education. Your paper should draw upon the ideas of philosophers like John Dewey (1916), Paolo Freire (1970), Henry Giroux (1981), and other academics who seek to improve the world through education.
Focus on one of these topics for your paper:

  • What reasons justify that we (American educators) should take a global view of education? Are there any reasons why we should NOT take this view?
  • How does global education differ from “multicultural education” in both purpose and form?
  • How does global education affect the methodologies that are present in our classrooms today? Do they support or diminish their effective influence on student achievement?
  • How does a global view of education coincide with the academic expectations of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) for the education of all students? Is this legislation a threat to the idea of incorporating a global view of education within American schools today? Why or why not?
  • Compared to the other pedagogical philosophies you have read and discussed in this course, how much support does global education have among today’s educators? Does today’s educator embrace all that a global education can offer to our students or have we completely taken on a 21st Century idealistic perspective of how education should look within our schools?

You can use your Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography Assignment to start building an outline for the paper. The outline might look something like this:

    1. Introduction: Define and describe global education and give a brief summary of what this paper will be about.
    2. Body: This is where you will address the questions in the Assignment directions. This will be 6-8 pages and you will support your ideas with the sources you identified for your Annotated Bibliography.
    3. Conclusion: Wrap up your paper here. Discuss why the topic of global education is important in the 21stCentury. Remember that technology is a big factor in why schools should be concerned with globalization and teaching America’s children about other cultures and countries.
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Whole Foods Market, Inc.

Assignment 3: LASA 1: Whole Foods Market, Inc. and MyAccountingLab

Review Whole Foods Market, Inc’s 2010 Annual report, company information and investor information(see the link: Whole Foods Market, Inc. Investor Relations in the webilography) and write a 5-7 page paper following APA guidelines which addresses the following:

  1. Summarize the company’s financial performance for 2010. Do you think they satisfied stockholder expectations? Why or why not?
  2. Explain three business risks or threats that might threaten Whole Foods ability to accomplish their financial goals for the next 3 years. Use examples and references to support your response.
  3. Describe three examples of control activities Whole Foods Market, Inc. could use to minimize these risks.
  4. What is your overall impression of Whole Foods Market, Inc.’s annual report? Is it a financial accounting document or a managerial accounting document? Who is the target audience? Did the annual report present a positive or negative image of the company? Provide support for your responses.
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Monitoring Observed Policy Outcomes

 

  • Discuss the relationship between ill-structured problems and approaches to monitoring. Then, describe a real or hypothetical problem and recommend at least one effective way to monitor the policy outcomes. Support your position.
  • Use at least two threats to validity and develop a rebuttal to two of the following statements: (a) The greater the cost of an alternative, the less likely it is that the alternative will be pursued. (b) The enforcement of the maximum speed limit of 55 mph increases the costs of exceeding the speed limit. (c) The mileage death rate fell from 4.3 to 3.6 deaths per 100 million miles after the implementation of the 55-mph speed limit. (Refer to Figure 6.13 before responding.)

 

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"Changing the Dynamics of a Public Leader

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research assignment

Anita Tan, 2050! (Of course change name unless you are Anita Tan). You are encouraged to dream up your own title.
Where are you now, where do you want to be in 30 years, and how might you get there? This is NOT a “research assignment,” it is a challenge to DREAM STRATEGICALLY. DO NOT look on the web, do NOT look in any library about career planning, just THINK just DREAM. Talk to your husbands, boyfriends, kids, wives, teachers, bosses, coffee buddies, ANYBODY, but mostly talk to yourself. Then make a CHART OR OUTLINE, and fill it in with POSSIBLE STEPS that may take you from HERE AND NOW to THERE AND THEN.
Thinking long term is the starting point of strategy. Give it a try for your OWN life! Of course, NOBODY CAN PREDICT the future, so you cannot predict any path for your life. But you can sketch out some dreams. And any dream usually requires some preliminary steps, some preparation. Talk about things you may like to achieve, and talk about things you may attempt along the way, steps you might take, to help improve your chances to achieve your long term dreams. No footnotes, NO RESEARCH AT ALL. Just THINK, and WRITE. One more time, DO NOT look on the web. You should try to put your thoughts into 2 or 3 pages. The MAIN goal here is to get you in a frame of mind to think STRATEGICALLY, to think LONG TERM.