Even in my current extracurricular activities, such as on my Varsity football team, sacrificing my need to be a 'star' and instead serve the common good is a necessity. Teaching the novice debaters is an integral part of my duties on my school's Lincoln-Douglas Debate team. I must help them see the world from competing perspectives, and to see issues in terms of grey, rather than stark black and white. I am so thankful for the people in my life who have taught me this spirit of community: the people I met over the summer in Texas taught me what it means to be a good neighbor, the children and senior citizens I have befriended who have shown me that friendship knows no age or socioeconomic status. I have, despite the shortness of my life, tried to craft an open soul with few fences, with no barbed wire around my heart. The poet Robert Frost mocked the cliche "good fences make good neighbors." I disagree with such a sentiment as well -- to be a good neighbor is to extend a helping hand, to rebuild a home, to open a mind with knowledge -- not put up a fence. I hope to bring that same spirit to the Residential College System of Rice University and uphold not only the traditions of scholarship I learned at my high school, but also the lessons of service I have learned from...
Deeply committing to one's education is one of life's greatest joys. This is the atmosphere I seek at Rice: it is a university that will prepare me for the competitive marketplace and is rigorously academic, yet it will also offer me a kind of safe space to explore my academic passions. At Rice I may go fishing for knowledge, cast many lines. Eventually, with the support of my professors and fellow students I will graduate not just with knowledge, but with the security that I have learned how to learn. Rice offers an intensive commitment to undergraduate education combined with the resources of a research university. It stands on the cusp of a wider world and strives to engage in significant knowledge-gathering and analysis in a useful fashion. But Rice also sees that much can be gained learning from a perspective that is not purely pragmatic. Its course offerings span entrepreneurial leadership and the rhetoric of leadership; business communications and the culture of capitalism.
With the changing global economy this is unlikely to change any time soon. References Bonnis, G., & Steenblik, R. (1998). Water, Agriculture and the Environment. OECD Observer, a (212), 28-30. Readers Guide to Periodical Literature Che, T.N., Kompas, T., & Vousden, N. (2006). Market Reform, Incentives and Economic Development in Vietnamese Rice Production. Comparative Economic Studies, 48(2), 277. Retrieved October 22, 2008, from EBSCOhost database Clement, M. (2004, February). Rice Imperialism: The Agribusiness
Education The Affects of Block Scheduling on Student Academic Achievement The overall strategy of utilizing block scheduling is to organize the day into fewer, but longer, class periods to allow flexibility for instructional activities. Block scheduling is used primarily at middle school and high school levels. Currently, block scheduling is defined as a restructuring of the school day into classes longer than the traditional fifty-minute period classes (Adams & Salvaterra, 1997; Georgia
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input/output devices will you be using in the next one to three years as "computing" devices? Which features/components/form factors will be prominent? Why? Which features/components/form factors will be important to you? Why? Which applications will you be using on these devices? How may these devices change your life in terms of benefits and risks? (Two pages) A survey of experts identified five major themes that will carry forward through the next
The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). With that said, the needs of students with specific educational challenges are diverse and complex, and the solutions to their needs are not revealed in the results of standardized testing (Crawford &
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