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    Patience, acceptance, confidence. Temple Grandin’s story is one of finding yourself, being comfortable with yourself, and not letting anyone stop you from following your dreams and reaching your full potential. She not only proved herself as a female working in a very male dominated field, but she proved herself as someone with a disability defeating the odds and becoming extremely successful regardless of her countless trials. The author of this book is Sy Montgomery. Early in the book Sy wrote

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    Society has created an environment where those with different abilities struggle to be accepted. Doctor Temple Grandin is a remarkable woman who has defied what most perceive when they see someone with autism. From the time, Temple was young she proved doctors wrong. While in boarding school and later in college a few of her professors did not believe her observations or in her work with cattle. They simply did not comprehend the enormous amount of detail her brain absorbed and her connection to

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    Future Choice Analysis

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    MIT for this criteria, due to the fact that it is over $70,000 to attend for a tuition year. The other choices generally ranged from $40,000-$50,000. For the criteria of the size of the campus, I found that both Colorado School of Mines and Vanderbilt both appealed to me the most. Colorado School of Mines has a decent campus with under 20,000 students. Vanderbilt in its whole may have many students, but its College of Engineering is also decent in its size. The lowest rank college is Harvard. Even

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    The work of Temple Grandin Mary Temple Grandin, also known as Temple Grandin was born August 29th, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was younger she was different from the other children and they made that known. They called her a number of name but some are: "Retard" and "Tape recorder". Temple was diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome, where she had a lack of speech and sensitivity to touch. She has made a change not only for the cattle and pigs but for the slaughterhouses

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    talking bout me and this paragraph I will talk about me such as how I learn And what I am on 4mat learner profile. First of all I will be talking about myself and who I am. First of all I love dogs and I am driven to be a veterinarian from colorado state university. And I want to be A person who helps the common good. Now I will talk about who I am as a learner. As a learner, I am principled and smart. I follow directions and I love to be on the honor roll That is who I am on the MYP learner profile

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    Historically, people of color have had little to no success when applying to universities until recently. The first-time minorities became a part of the American social system was after President Kennedy passed the executive order of Affirmative Action, which first barred government employers from discriminating based on “race, creed, color, or national origin” (Kennedy, 1961). Overtime the use of affirmative action moved from jobs to the education system. Affirmative action in schools truly gained

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    Denver Colorado had a problem where the police did not have a positive relationship with the lower status residents in the community. To try to help bridge the gap between lower status residents and police, the Denver Police Department created the Law Enforcement Advocate Program (LEA) (Addison, 2011). The Denver Police Department met with the Denver Juvenile and Family Justice Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (DJFJ TASC) to try to come up with a plan on how to improve the community’s

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    the experiments. However, the lecture content is enjoyable because you’re always learning something new.” I then proceeded to ask Dr. Beyette what the best advice that she could give a student enrolled in her classes and other classes within the University. Her answer was the best advice that I have received since starting college. Dr Beyette said, “Science and technology is fascinating, but the first two years are hard because it’s like learning the alphabet. It isn’t fun in the beginning because

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    destroying lives is necessary to obtain it. This is what classifies a monster in fiction and nonfiction, and in the past, present, and future. A monster can be eight-foot tall abomination, or a twenty-four year old college student from Aurora, Colorado, all a monster needs is a motivation to drive

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    since I was in high school. At the age of sixteen I was behind the scenes leader of stage crew, The state treasurer for Colorado Technology Student association. All while keeping up in my studies. I want to continue my studies to achieve my current goals. The only way I can achieve my goals is to achieve a bachelor’s degree in a field of my choice. I have chosen Colorado State University- Global for a few reasons. The first is to follow in the footsteps of my father. The second is I believe that a business

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