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    Albert Einstein said: “ I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious”. Talent is something that people achieve a particular exceptional skills that others cannot. Today’s world some people believe that talent is given by God when a child comes to this world, and all you need to succeed at anything is talent. It is clear that everyone is gifted with a talent by God but the level of it differs. Some other, on the other hand, claim that any person can be trained to be talented; therefore

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    This semester I completed my service learning experience with Succeeding at Work. I was originally doing my hours at a new site but was redirected because of the duties of the assignment given. Succeeding at Work’s mission is to foster ethical, social, and professional development within the community. The focus is to train, educate, motivate and empower clients to excel in the workplace. This organization has many different programs to which the vision is to support the client’s personal growth

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    common theme is, when you work hard, you open opportunities to yourself and others. This theme helps make the reader feel empathy for the characters. For example, In The House of the Scorpion, Matt got back to Maria and became ruler of the Azlatan Empire because of hard work. In Where am I Wearing Nari and Ai send back a lot of their money to support their families. And in The Scholarship Jacket, Martha earned the Scholarship Jacket. All of these examples support that hard work is a common theme. In

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    Self- Reflection and Discussion Questions 1. What are some of your earliest memories? Are they mainly joyful or painful? Identify one specific early memory and reflect on the significance this early recollection has for you. What value do you see in the Adlerian technique of having group members recall their earliest memories? Can you think of ways to use this technique in groups you may lead? My earliest recollections are mainly painful due to my eldest brother getting in trouble at an early age

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    STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Nevertheless nothing comes without hard work, these are simple words but contain a great significance as it motivates one to keep learning and striving for more knowledge. Starting from schooling I would describe my education till now as a constant search to find answers to questions. Right from working of a simple mechanical appliances at home to that of a complex locomotive machine, anything that involved mechanistic modelling, enthralled me in high school and constantly drove

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    a bug. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor always tries hard and works very hard for his family. Gregor explains how difficult his profession is but he still puts up with it for his family. "what a demanding job I've chosen! Day in,

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    successful. Stressing to get the perfect score on a major grade or finding the determination to do a challenging assignment. We wonder if all of our routines and tips used for school work actually guarantee our success as a student. As it may only help somewhat and not give us the result we desire. Our mindset and amount of work provided guarantees our success. Being successful as a student requires determination, preparing for situations you will encounter as a student, and stopping procrastination in

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    “allows the students to make as many of the decision about what the drama is going to be about as possible.” (Wagner, 1999. P.9) In one way this approach works well for various people such as Adam Proctor, as for Adam he found that like Dorothy Heathcote he believes in the children’s ability and potential, therefore, he likes to approach his work with a sense of improvisation, where decisions which the children make in the lesson determine the overall outcome of the workshop, but this being to a certain

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    at the start of the year Richard decided to off load several tasks to his three projects team leaders Ian Campbell, Carole Devlin and Joanne Cassidy. Richard only believed that Carole had the necessary experience and commitment to take on the extra work load issued and he did not consult his other staff nor did he explain the job role that it entailed. It is clear that Richard is a manager and not a natural leader after encouraging the other department

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    representation of that author’s work as one’s own, as not crediting the original author.” (Dictionary.com). The above information is correctly formatted with quotations. Quotations are placed at the beginning and end of the information. This sentence written with quotation plagiarism is written like this: “An act or instance of using or closely imitation the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as one’s own, as not crediting the

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