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    world follow their personal goals or dreams (Just 8% of People Achieve Their New Year's Resolutions. Here's How They Do It). Most of the 92% of the population left does not follow their goals due to lack of motivation from others or lack of the expectations received from community members. Personal goals are set in order to create a better version of you or to better your future. An expectation from your family or community could lead you to not follow these personal goals. For example, if you wanted

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    Believed Expectations I know what your expectations were of me from day one and so far I felt like I have met them. But these next couple of years won’t be easy, it’s not going to be a walk in the park and it’s essential that I step up, make that leap from the next hurdle to the next which is gradually inclining I plot my expectations on a graph like my math’s teacher does on the whiteboard, some people only want to be situated at the equilibrium, but I need to be above, a step ahead. But sometimes

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    Setting goals are the first step of turning dreams into a reality. For as long as I can remember, going beyond than what is satisfactory, and striving to become a chemical engineer became my goal. Ever since I was nine, my parents pursued me to become a chemical engineer as my career. At first, I didn’t grasp the idea well and neglected what my parents had pursued. I thought that my parent’s expectations of me would be forgotten over time, and I would settle for a satisfactory job. But as I grew

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    It is my goal to make a positive difference in the lives of my students every day. In order to do this, I must be the best; not even that, but, as Ronda Rousey says, “you must be the best on your worst day” (71). As an aspiring teacher, I believe that being the best on your worst day means having a positive attitude despite any challenges, continuing to emphasize personal growth and learning undeterred by obstacles and truly being present with your students through the distractions of daily life

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    Great Expectations: A Journey of Self Discovery through Sacrifice Sarah Dessen once said “It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly where you needed to be.” This idea of self-discovery through sacrifice is echoed by Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expectations. The central character Pirrup, otherwise known as Pip, receives “great expectations” early on in the novel that seem to promise a perfect life. However as Pip matures throughout the novel

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    characteristics are: has good classroom management skills, teaches for mastery, and has positive expectations for student success. The effective teacher exhibits positive expectations for all students. Having positive expectations simply means that the teacher believes in the student and that the student can learn. Students will live up to the expectations you set, and to be effective- your expectations should be positive for all students. The effective teacher establishes good classroom management

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    capitalizes upon society’s expectation of a character to emphasize the struggle to achieving his goals. Ian, one of the central characters in the plot line, is heavily impacted by these expectations, which hold a substantial influence upon his decision’s regarding his future. To teenagers an expectation: a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future, is nothing but a restriction upon them. Ian believes he is contained within these expectations; to the point where he does

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    Material Goal Setting Worksheet Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe one academic and one professional goal you have created using the SMART criteria. Explain why you selected those goals. The Academic goal I had created using the SMART criteria is being realistic, because I had to be realistic by putting my information and answers in my own words. I know that by being realistic it showed how much I was able to understand how it is to wrire in my own words

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    Going into the stock market game, my initial goal was to make enough money for a down payment for a car once I am out of college (around $4,000). To achieve this goal, my two main strategies going into this game were to invest in familiar companies so that I would better understand and foresee changes in the company 's price, and invest in companies that have had a long history of stock market consistency so that my investment isn’t likely to flop very quickly. In order to earn $4,000 dollars by

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    than retention, which is a numbers game. Retention also provides a measurement for something as abstract as success. Ultimately, I often feel at a loss as to how to define success or bridge the college’s goals with the student’s goals, and my lack of experience shows up most conspicuously here. Over my four years at this college, I have learned to deal with this issue in two ways, and both directly deal with the students: one is to approach the issue through providing outside support, and the other is

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