Reflective Account On Learning Essays and Term Papers
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An Approach to the Development of a Quality Metric for Electronic Learning
Education is life long learning endeavor. It is a process of constantly elicitating, acquiring, organizing and integrating specialized knowledge into a single whole that can be used to help improve one's thinking skills. It is an exciting, relevant and vibrant process. The taxonomy of educational objectives can be found in Bloom (1956). He described the order of sequencing the content of the subject and assessing the learning progress based on the learner behavior. Educating, nevertheless
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Reflection Paper (concepts of Development)
Development, as we all know of it, is an event or a series of events which simply tell us whether our country is improving or if it is worsening. Development may depend on a country’s advancement on technology, continuous construction of infrastructure and the like. Furthermore, development has various concepts which were formulated to support its strategies for the good of our country. But with what our country is experiencing right now, do we have
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Reflective Report
1. OVERVIEW The report puts across a non-bias personal reflective contribution to an event planned and delivered by Event Management students from Greenwich University. It sets out the rationale behind the event in an introduction and briefly discusses the roles of group members in the focus. Through out the focus, the report reflects on incidents leading up to the delivery of the event, and through a critical discussion, points out possible improvements. The discussion refers
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Learning to Drive a Stick
Learning to Drive a Stick Learning to drive a car with a manual transmission is much more difficult than learning to drive a vehicle with an automatic transmission. There are several steps to learning how to drive. You will need to pay close attention to the steps below to be able to become a safe and defensive driver. . The first step to learning to drive is to identify all the important parts. In
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Reflective Paper: Renunciation
Running Head: REFLECTIVE PAPER: RENUNCIATION Reflective Paper: Renunciation Ken McDonald PSYB 214 A March 2, 2008 Reflective Paper: Renunciation Pema Chodron begins her essay on renunciation in this way: “Renunciation does not have to be regarded as negative. I was taught that it has to do with letting go of holding back. What one is renouncing is closing down and shutting off from life. You could say that renunciation is the same thing as opening
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Disclosure and Accounting Practices in the Municipal Securities Market
Disclosure and Accounting Practices in the Municipal Securities Market Introduction Many critically important aspects of American life, from airports to sewers and schools to hospitals, depend on the municipal securities market for financing. All bonds, notes and other debt securities issued by states and local governments and their respective agencies and instrumentalities are “municipal securities.” They are issued by such government entities to pay for a variety of public projects, cash flow and other governmental
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Social Learning Theory
Social learning theory In criminology, Ronald Akers and Robert Burgess (1966) developed Social Learning Theory to explain deviancy by combining variables which encouraged delinquency (e.g. the social pressure from delinquent peers) with variables that discouraged delinquency (e.g. the parental response to discovering delinquency in their children). [edit] Discussion Social Learning Theory was derived from the work of Gabriel Tarde (1912: 322) which proposed that social learning occurred through three stages of imitation: • close contact,
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Distance Learning II
In a distance-learning environment, giving feedback face-to-face can be different because of interpretation. Face-to-face feedback allows a classmate the opportunity to express themselves through emotions such as sarcasm, humor, or sincerity. Using written communication can extract some of the emphasis used in social interaction. Verbal communication allows the personality to reflect with words while using a written communication can make it difficult to decipher between words. In a written format, a classmate could use the
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The House of the Seven Gables - Hawthornes Personal Reflections
Nathanial Hawthorne. Considered to be one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century. But did you know that he hated portraits, and it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A descendant of a long puritan line of Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before Nathanial was born.
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Accounts Receivable Cycle
Accounts Receivable Cycle Riordan Manufacturing, an industry leader in the field of plastic injection molding, has facilities in California, Georgia, Michigan and China. The accounting functions are carried out in each individual location, and consolidated for processing in the corporate offices in California. The Georgia and Michigan locations, being newly acquired, are using systems that are not completely compatible with the corporate offices. This is causing problems on many levels and within this paper, Learning
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Accounting
, when I first started taking classes, which feels like many years ago, I was going to be a paralegal. After taking some research classes, I guess you could say I got bored. Knowing that I can retire from my job with having thirty years and being a young age of 48, I wanted something that I could probably do right from my home and help out with my husbands business. So after looking in
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Is Scott's Fitzgerald's Life Reflected in the Character of Jay Gatsby?
Is Scott’s Fitzgerald’s life Reflected in the Character of Jay Gatsby? After conducting a through investigation on the author of the Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald, one may say that the protagonist of this novel is a very clore representation of the author, himself. There are numerous and meaningful similarities between Jay Gatsby and Scott Fitzgerald’s life, and all of them are far from being coincidence. Their similarities begin in their background. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay
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Accounting in New Zealand
A number of legislative controls are available to shareholders wishing to exercise their rights. If it appears that the affairs of the company are not being conducted properly, shareholders have some options available to them and among which, the statutory remedy for shareholder oppression. It protects minority shareholders against being deprived of their fair share and greatly improves their ability to take action against the company alleged to be in breach of good corporate practices.
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Overview of Accounting
Overview of Accounting By Investors term, accounting is a structural system of recording, reporting and analyzing all the financial transactions of one company or an organization (InvestorWord, 2008). In general, accounting summarizes all the financial activities and data through “income statements, balance sheets, and the statements of cash flows” (Block & Hirt, 2005). The purpose of this paper is to provide the basic information on accounting and finance to the small businesses owners with no
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Accounting
1. Intuitively, which of the three firms would you say is the most risky? Least risky? Intuitively, Amazon is the most risky company and GE is the least risky company. The reason is that GE is in its mature phase of business life cycle, and is a multiple line business, which implies lower risk from diversification. Amazon is in its growing phase and is a single line business. The TJX Companies is a single line
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Personal Perspective on Teaching/learning Model
Personal Perspective on Teaching/Learning Model Paper University of Phoenix Personal Perspective Paper The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the benefits of three major components of The University of Phoenix’s Teaching/learning model. The 1st is rEsource, which is a electronic delivery system of course materials. The 2nd is Learning Teams, which divides classrooms into groups working together towards course objectives and the 3rd is Problem Based Learning which is the learning that results from
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Do Rivers in Humid Areas Reflect Concave Profiles?
Question: Do rivers in humid areas reflect concave profiles? Hypothesis: A graded river or stream is a condition in which the stream of mutual adjustment between the load carried by the stream and the related landscape through which stream flows. This then forms a state that is dynamic and has equal erosion, transported load, deposition, and how much capacity the stream can hold. My prediction of the streams that I have charted is that the
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Talks on the Fair Value Introduced in the China New Accounting Standards
[Abstract] This paper firstly gives the concept of fair value and its application environment, and then analyzes the fair value in the new standards specifically. Finally in combination with the concrete background in China, we put forward some advices on the carrying out of the fair value in the accounting practice. [Key words] Fair Value; China new accounting standard Since January 1, 2007, the China new accounting standards will become mandatory for listed Chinese enterprises.
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Knowledge Learning at Google
History Google, Inc. began its life cycle as a research project for Larry Paige and Sergey Brin, while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University (Battelle 2007). By January of 1996, Paige and Brin started a working together on a search engine called BackRub. Like many graduate students with a shortage of money, the pair used low cost PCs that were "borrowed" from the department's loading docks (Corporate Information n.d.). The two's reputation grew exponentially
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Entrepreneurial Control and the Construction of a Relevant Accounting
Methodology The case is a longitudinal field study of an entrepreneur’s control of his Australian-based multinational packaging machinery supplier with annual sales in excess of $A60 million. The field study began over 10 years ago. It was first written up in 1992 and updated in 1995. At that time it was reviewed by the entrepreneur, who provided clarification and additional information. The case was updated in 1999 and again in 2001. Again, the entrepreneur reviewed
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What Accounts for the Stability of the Tokugawa Regime?
What Accounts for the Stability of the Tokugawa Regime? In the first half of the Seventeenth century, the regime perfected by Ieyasu Tokugawa and his successors was based on the accepted system of daimyф domains which Nobunaga and Hideyoshi had been developing prior to Ieyasu’s rule. It was thus basically feudal in structure, but it represented a highly organised and stable stage of feudalism, unlike Europe ever experienced. The reasons for the stability of such
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Chess in Schools: Moving Towards Unified Framework of Learning
Chess in Schools: Moving Towards Unified Framework of Learning Authored by Malola Prasath T S Ganapathy Krishnan H Malola Priya S Seshadri KR Abstract We summarize the 'Introduction of Chess in schools' and the promising directions for improving the quality of students in such schools, beginning with understanding that the role played by culture is crucial both in prevailing education system and in promoting chess as educational activity. We focus on how Chess reflect the
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Ethical and Legal Obligations in Accounting
According to Marshall (2004), “accounting is the process of identifying, measuring, and communicating economic information about an organization for the purpose of making decisions and informed judgements” (p. 3). Specifically, financial accounting “refers to the process that results in the preparation and reporting of financial statements for an entity” (Marshall, McManus, & Viele, p. 5). While many entities prepare their own financial statements, firms can also contract with a public accounting firm or a Certified
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My Implications and Learned Lessons in Business Negotiation
My Implications and Learned Lessons in Business Negotiation Being a salesperson like me, I must admit that it is a tough marketplace out there and strong negotiating skills are fundamental to achieving and more importantly sustaining career and business success, particularly within a competitive sales and marketing environment. Those of us who want to achieve better results, both at work and in our private lives, need to develop effective negotiating skills. It is worth to
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Accounting Reporting Criteria
Accounting Reporting Criteria When financial mishaps such as the Tyco and Enron scandals came to light; it was evident that the Government needed to step in to ensure that corporations were reporting their finances accurately and honestly. For this reason Congress passed the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOx) in 2002. The Act details the requirements for financial reporting for public corporations and is overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Sarbanes Oxley Act requires all
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