Jerome Paul Witkin The work of art that I chose is Jeff Davies‚ an oil painting painted in 1976 by Jerome Paul Witkin. It depicts a man‚ presumably named Jeff Davies‚ standing and taking up the entire frame of the picture. He is wearing a plain tee shirt which is stretched over and exposing a bit of his protruding stomach‚ a pair of worn jeans‚ a huge down coat‚ and a hat. He stands in a plain‚ dirty-looking room. At the very bottom of the painting is the edge of a table and a mostly empty plate
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At 27 years old I find myself in a great dilemma; should I accept the fact that I have reached my full potential at a career I have worked long and hard at? Although I am content for now‚ I know that my sense of accomplishment will soon fade and I will regret not having improved myself for the future. This brings on the inevitable question‚ should I return to school? The answer is clear to me‚ I must return to school in order to become the person I want to be. An education is the single most important
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TA 300 23 September 2012 From West Side Story to Spring Awakening: The Evolution of the American Musical Broadway‚ also known as The Great White Way‚ no matter how you chose to describe it‚ they describe a place that for over one hundred years has put on the most spectacular musicals in the world. From Ancient Greece to the Globe Theatre and finally to Broadway‚ these places have all been known for being “the” place for plays and musicals. “Broadway is the street in New York that has come
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be more interactive with their audience as a whole. In both speeches‚ Tony Robbins and Mel Robbins share some of the same qualities in their deliveries. They are both are extremely passionate about the topics that they are speaking on and each have built their careers from the content of their speeches. Mel Robbins uses a more comical style to get the audience involved‚ while Tony uses a different approach. Tony Robbins uses a more emotion invoking style in his
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. [pic] The argument in Alexandra Robbins‚ The Overachievers‚ is why should many high school students get pressured or feel the need to take all AP classes or do extracurricular activities so they can get into an Ivy League college & be successful. Alexandra Robbins tells us about the lives of nine students when they were attending Whitman high school. Many parents pressure their children to be on top of all their classmates
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the production of locally made items[pic][pic][pic] ideas ∙ thinkers ∙ practice jerome bruner and the process of education Jerome Bruner has made a profound contribution to our appreciation of the process of education and to the development of curriculum theory. We explore his work and draw out some important lessons for... [pic][pic][pic] ideas ∙ thinkers ∙ practice jerome bruner and the process of education Jerome Bruner has made a profound contribution to our appreciation of the process of education
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1. What concepts in this chapter are illustrated in this case? System vulnerabilities Computer crime: using computers as instruments of crime to defraud the bank‚ customers‚ and other financial institutions Internal threats from employees: Jerome Kerviel has access to privileged information; he was able to run through the organizations system without leaving a trace Business value of security and control: Organizations can be held liable for needless risk and harm created if the organization
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that has covered up his mistakes. In the Societe Generale and Jerome Kerviel scandal‚ it is a simple matter of fraud and abuse of authority. On the part of the bank‚ they have failed as they lacked control over the actions that has put the existence of the bank at peril. There was an abuse of trust in Jerome which has partially made the Bank liable for these own losses. It is also a surprise that in the trial for the conviction of Jerome Kerviel that the Bank escaped with a mediocre fine of $4 million
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Jerome Bixby’s ‘It’s a Good Life’ is a short story following an unusually gifted‚ three-year-old boy named Anthony Fremont. In spite of his age‚ Anthony has the capacity to transform other people or objects into anything he wishes‚ think new things into being‚ teleport himself and others where he wishes‚ read the minds of people and animals and even revive the dead. If either citizens or animals of the area do not comply with Anthony’s capricious whim‚ grim consequences occur‚ often Anthony placing
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Bruner (1960) opposed Piaget’s notion of readiness. He argued that schools waste time trying to match the complexity of subject material to a child’s cognitive stage of development. This means students are held back by teachers as certain topics are deemed to difficult to understand and must be taught when the teacher believes the child has reached the appropriate state of cognitive maturity. Bruner (1960) adopts a different view and believes a child (of any age) is capable of understanding complex
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