Keystone Reflection

The purpose of this action is to strive for equivalent open doors for everyone paying little heed to race or skin color. Race has always been a controversial factor in the college admission process. Critics who are supportive of the action say that colleges reach out toward minorities since they are the least diverse in the college environment. With the demographic they display they are urged most of the time to apply for college admission. Often these institutions offer some help to those minorities such

Along with incessant competition, Goodman also contends that emotional stress is a contributing factor of high medical bills. She makes interesting use of diction by comparing Chem 20 to a “psychological laboratory”. She does this to indicate that the class not only tests knowledge, but also emotional endurance. The use of the word “laboratory” implies that students are analyzed microscopically and meticulously as to whether the medical field is the correct choice. This creates a stressful tone for the reader. Goodman then compares the class to a ¨combat mission¨. She does this to insinuate that the class’s environment is much like that of a war zone. As many soldiers

I was hopeful that the day would be a success. It was the same routine in a new environment. Fortunately, my first day at Larned High School started like every first day before. The principal, Mr. Langdon, gathered all the students and welcomed us into a new school year. His speech filled the room with excitement and optimism for the new year. After the ground rules were set we set forth for our first class. I would never have realized the challenges I would face in Biology. My instructor, Miss Moser, started off the year with a stern no-nonsense policy. Fear swept over the room. For the first two weeks, I did not dare speak, and I did not wish to cause any trouble. As long as I did not say anything I could not be wrong. To start the class, we began reviewing what the class should already know. It was difficult to figure out what I needed to know because she had such high expectations for the class. After the longest hour of my life, the class was finally over. I bolted

Some students are subject to unequal representation at school, particularly those in a minority group. In the past, there were vast amounts of racial biases that spread across the United States. Unfortunately, racial bias still exists today, in the 21st century. There are those who feel that certain groups of people should not be given equal opportunities based on their skin color or how they may talk. They are not given the same opportunities as many others are given, and in this case, are assigned an impediment on their education. This paper will illustrate what disproportionality is; some factors that play a part in it; and what can be done and what is being done about it. This memo is being written in the hopes that it will be viewed by the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and that he will see what has been happening over the years and do his best to provide more advances in making a change.

Recently, Dr. Terry Echols- Program Director and Founder was recognized by Noel-Levitz for his outstanding commitment and success in the creation of the Minority Male Initiative. More institutions around the country have started to implement similar programs that focus on the success and retention of males of color including the creation of the Federal Title III Predominantly Black Institutions Grant which is currently offered at many community colleges. Retention, Graduation Rates and Academic Success are focus areas that should be addressed and improved, and the Minority Male Initiative provides a great model to research.

When Roach wrote about memorials held in medical schools for the student’s cadavers, she explained the room to be “silent and somber” (39, Roach). This exposed the care and respect the medical students put into their cadavers. Along with this Roach goes on and explains other feelings the medical students had about their cadavers. Roach spoke of feelings of “gratitude” and of having “grown attached to their cadavers.” (38, Roach) These as well expresses towards to the reader of the admiration the cadavers are held due to their

Despite the fact that UT Austin does not have an enrollment capacity cap, the overwhelming demands from the Top Ten Percent Law admittees, however, lead to an extremely vigorous competition among those that are not eligible to enroll under the Top Ten Percent Law. In short, the likelihood for applicants like Fisher to receive a seat in UT’s general admission pool is as small as 7%, from a total of over 17000 exceptional candidates. According to the office of admission at UT Austin, even if the petitioner was a minority applicant, the result would not have changed. (09-50822 5th Circuit Court of Appeals,

Although this problem may seem daunting, there are proposed solutions that I have carefully thought of to resolve this issue. The sponsorship of clubs designed to help minority and low-income student can help.

In education, the main goal is for all students to receive an equal and optimal opportunity for success, which also includes students with special needs. To ensure this aim is reached, schools ought to have measures in place to establish students who necessitate special education services to achieve and progress in their schooling. Contradictory to this idea, nonetheless, learners are inaccurately referred for special education placement. The process begins to become questionable when it happens recurrently and predominantly to one group of minority students, as is the case for African-American students. There is certainly a problem of disproportionality in special education population and creates a cause for concern and investigation. As stakeholders examine general education program practices, they will discover that there are many factors contributing to the overrepresentation of minorities in special education. The characteristics of educators having the greatest influence on their decision to refer African American students for special education are cultural differences, insufficient professional development, and poor general instruction.

Anatomy, the study of the human body, is a discipline of the medical sciences that flourished beyond precedent during the 17th and 18th centuries in Western Europe. During this time, many physicians, anatomists, and doctors began to not only investigate anatomy more seriously, but also to teach anatomy to more people. Dissections of cadavers became more common at learning establishments and more accepted by the general public, and by government authorities. Anatomical theatres were constructed for the mass teaching of dissections, and any and all bodies from criminal hangings were donated as cadavers to the universities. As trends grow and become popular problems are bound to become known. In anatomy, this problem was the shortage of cadavers

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

There are a number of factors that contributed to the majority being the minority at Billings Technical School. For instance, the school has state of the art equipment, the school has received awards and positive press feedback for student achievement after graduation. The district is constantly giving them funds, and the funds are being used to continue to make consistent changes to the program and its effectiveness. The principal is an effective leader because he holds his teachers accountable for their growth and progress, and recruit’s students that will flourish at his school. He maintains a high excellence of standard by ensuring that he maintains a positive track record for proving students with the best education. The school’s population for 2015-2016 consisted of 131 African Americans, 49 Hispanic, and 45 multiracial. There’s a total of 410 students at the school with 225 of them being minority students. More than 50 percent of the school consists of minority students. With the success of the school and the opportunities it has provided to minority students, It’s understandable that stakeholders would support the schools mission

The program started because they wanted to “give a home to minorities in STEM fields”.

Education should be a fundamental and constitutional right for everyone. For minorities, this is not always the case. Researching the history of race in America, I question how did this topic develop and why is it still of concern? Consequently, the history of special education among minorities resulted from discrimination and exclusion (Skiba, Simmons, Ritter, Gibb, Rausch, Cuadrado, & Chung, 2008).

For the next 50 years, donating one’s body for scientific cadaver use would become more acceptable and commonplace. However, it wasn’t until 1882 that a medical institution, the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, would offer a curriculum that incorporated cadaver dissection (Perry & Kuehn, 2006). It wouldn’t be until 1918 that an organization, The Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, would manage the body donation program for medical research and educational institutions (The Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, 2013).