I Need For A Cornerstone Class

The most challenging topic for me was the Unit 6: A Normal World. At first, I had difficulty understanding the Standard scores and Percentiles of a distribution. However, the seminar and discussion posts in Unit 6 helped me a lot to get through and have a better understanding of the Normal distribution.

Firstly, choosing a topic that you’re truly interesting in because it can provoke your passion to engage more in this particular

One topic that interested me was the nutrition and weight status goal. The goal for this topic is to “promote health and reduce chronic disease risk” by having a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy body weight. This has been a goal during the past decades and since it hasn’t been met in the past it is on this decade’s goal list again. This webpage talks about the importance of nutrition and a healthy weight along with the risks of being overweight. Those who take care of themselves by eating right and maintaining a healthy weight are less likely to develop chronic diseases, experience complications during pregnancy (women), and die at an earlier age. This webpage also gives statistics on how we are performing as a country. This is important to see what still needs to be done to achieve these goals by the end of the

Lastly, was the topic I found most compelling, community colleges. Did you know 55 out of 100 graduating students at a university actually went to a community college? That's an amazing statistic because it gives a second chance for those of us who didn't meet university requirements. Not to mention, some of the faculty told us they graduated from Goldenwest as well. This information made me feel more secure that I was on the right track to my academic success.

This course has not been anything remotely close to what I imagined it would be. I pictured a class where we discussed voting, civil service, and the community. One which involved little to no reflection or inner thought. However, I have found myself reflecting and digging deeply. This class has put many of the major issues facing America’s communities in the forefront. We have traded lectures on paying taxes for discussions on privilege. Through the assigned readings and classroom content, I have found myself more knowledgeable on the topics at hand, and more established in my own beliefs.

I chose the topic are college athletes given preferential treatment over non-athletes while in college because it is something very controversial in college athletics. Besides being controversial, I also find the topic very interesting. It is interesting to me to find out why college athletes get special treatment to play a sport when in reality the special treatment is probably a disservice to the athletes. Another reason I enjoy this topic is that I love sports in general and college athletics are some of my favorites to watch.

Include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the topics relate to your field.

Students chose topics with different amounts of passion. For some, I needed to make suggestions, provide them with a limited list of “controversial” topics. For others, they automatically understood the idea of choosing a problem which others had already debated and endeavoring to use research

A topic I find extremely engaging is that of the Criminal Justice field. The technology that has been developed over the years to solve cases is extremely interesting and sometimes it is hard to believe how new some of the technology really is. Take Gel Electrophoresis for example. Gel Electrophoresis uses electricity to separate out different DNA fragments by their size as they move through a gel matrix and was created in the 1970s. Gel Electrophoresis allows for investigators to take DNA from a crime scene and to process it to get a simplistic visualization of the DNA collected which they can then compare to the DNA samples of the different suspects. Since the development of Gel Electrophoresis, DNA profiles have been used to solve a plethora

A subject that inspires me U.S History. I have always wanted to learn more about our country. I have never been the best at math or science, but whenever I go to my history class I was always eager to learn more. I would always show up early to class and read the chapter we were learning about and ask questions to the teacher.

Learning about my interest improved my understanding of hard you have to work to get where you want to be. What I learned about my interest is that it takes a lot of

I chose the topic of teamwork because, teamwork is an essential part of our nursing careers. We will continually have to work with other nurses and doctors to help our patients receive the best care they can receive. Not only is teamwork essential in the hospital, or nursing home, but, it is essential in everyday lives, and I think that is why this is

As I walked into the first Cornerstone class of the semester on August 20, 2015, I believed it was going to be a breeze. I asked myself “What could I possibly obtain from this?”, and truthfully I assumed the answer would be, slim to none. However, my expectations could not have been any further from the reality. During the Cornerstone course, I was able to attain certain assets that I did not already possess. Out of the many topics and ideas discussed throughout the course, the three most influential have been: True Colors the Go, Picture, Scribe and Dr. Tawils’ speeches about life.

Without a doubt the lessons and exercises on time management were the most meaningful to me. They brought insight into why I seemed to be constantly working yet still never really got anything I wanted to accomplish throughout the day finished. I realized the majority of the activities I had been spending the most time on didn’t reflect my values of hard work and self discipline and long term academic goals to be successful in college. This motivated to completely change the way I managed my time by effectively striking a balance between my maintenance, committed, and free time.

My opinions on specific topics have also evolved throughout this course. For example: my group project group chose to tackle the issue of capital punishment. “What goes around comes around. Or does it? I believe my awareness of this issue started when the five of us decided which side, pro or con, we were going to speak for. Originally we had four for pro and only one for con. Well, this was not going to be a balanced paper obviously so I said I would join the con side. Therefore, I had to research a view that I previously had discounted.