tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57946599167372637372024-03-14T00:11:19.552-07:00Education BestAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-14077402952896204872012-11-07T22:20:00.000-08:002012-11-09T22:20:58.912-08:00Read About Availing Government Grants for Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Everybody knows the importance of acquiring good education for
having a settled future life. But most people who go for higher
education courses struggle through their college days for tuition fee
and other monetary needs. This has made some of them to drop out of
colleges to pursue certain menial jobs. Comforting news for such people
is that government is providing a lot of grants and support for those
who are going through their studies. Many students are not aware of this
opportunity for continuing their education without struggling in life.
It would be highly rewarding if you could just search for grants
available for the courses you are undertaking or planning to pursue.<br />
Money
thus availed from grants can be used for paying tuition fees, buying
books, buying study materials, arranging housing facilities etc. Once
the money reaches your hands, you can spend it on your education as you
like. Not all grants work in the same way. Some of the grants are paid
directly to the institution where the student is studying, thus
exempting the student from paying the required fee to the institution.
There is no restriction on the number of grants that can be availed by a
student during their period of education. Therefore it is better to
send applications to all available grants by government and other non
profit or welfare organizations.<br />
There is no need to be afraid of
any kind of money being taken from you or you may need to repay the
amount. Grants are very much different from how loans work. Loans given
for studies are to be repaid. It is done for the profit of the issuing
institution. But grants are special amounts set aside for aiding
students in pursuing their studies. It is not to be repaid or there is
no bond to be signed. It's just like a gift for supporting you.<br />
There
are different kinds of grants provided by the government. Some of them
will be given at regular intervals, for a particular student, till he
completes the course. But, most of the grants are given as a one time
support. Some grants are provided to help certain specific projects
during your course. This will require you to provide the details and the
work progress at regular intervals. Most of the time, the government
grants are more than sufficient for our needs. There are PELL grants
which is the alternative form of Federal Grant Programs. It is easier to
avail grants if you are having any special talents in your field of
study.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-55054582498646364342012-10-18T22:19:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:19:59.661-08:00Online Accredited Degrees Save Time and Money<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Old and young professionals alike are finding increasingly
important to take part in continuing education. Technology changes daily
it seems, and with it so does the work place. If you do not keep up
with the changing times, you will be left behind. The good news is that
you no longer have to quit work or change your hours to fit in time for
your college courses. Online accredited degree programs offer quality
educational training at your convenience from the comfort of your home.<br />
Even
professional fields that have long been regulated to specialty schools,
such as teaching and counseling are now available online in the form of
masters and doctoral programs. Professionals who are ready to move up
in their organizations or are ready to take the next step in their
personal careers are well served to pursue these higher education
degrees online where they can take classes that are immediately relevant
to the work they are doing. These programs are often accelerated,
meaning that a degree that may take two to three years on a traditional
campus can be completed in just a year or a year and a half in an
e-learning environment.<br />
The fields of accounting and finance are
also prime candidates for online degree opportunities. Often high school
graduates will pursue an associate degree or even if certificate in
some area of accounting to get an entry level position. These
individuals can continue to work as always but pursue their bachelors
degree and possibly even more through a distance education situation.
There are many schools and universities that boast outstanding faculty
members and offer online accredited programs that will prepare them for
careers as CPA's, staff accountants, and cost accountants. They may even
become chief financial officers and financial managers.<br />
Adult
professionals in the field of information technology are particularly
obligated to keep their educations honed and up to date. Information
technology changes constantly, as does corporate America's methods of
using this technology. There are many different web based programs
available by which professionals can earn their diploma in this field,
be it bachelors or a PhD, or anything in between. The demand for
information technology professionals is rising and will continue to do
so for years to come; this is a great career to advance in because as
long as your skills are up to par, you will never have trouble staying
employed.<br />
The advances in technology have made yet another new
degree possible. Many of us find ourselves years into your careers, and
while we have no degree, we find that we have more experience and
knowledge than many of the graduates around us. If this is an
observation you have made about yourself, you will be interested in the
new concept of the life experience degree. This is an accredited degree
that is available through a variety of sites online, in which your
experience and training that you have accumulated throughout your life
is examined, and if eligible, you will be granted an accredited,
recognized degree based on your life experiences.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-47178546699297984072012-10-04T22:18:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:19:02.316-08:00Pursue an Online Medical Education and Become a Healthcare<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
The healthcare industry in India has witnessed rapid development
over the past few decades. As a result of this, the industry is now
capable of offering a plethora of employment as well as learning
opportunities for aspiring students. The improved quality of medicines
and healthcare advisors today, stand as testimony to the massive growth
of the industry. For all those who wish to learn about the diverse
elements of medicine, but have held back due to a lack of time, there is
good news. You can now attain intensive training in the healthcare
sector online. This means that you can now accomplish your dream of
becoming a healthcare expert despite working fulltime.<br />
Several
top healthcare management institutes offer an online medical education
these days. In keeping with the diverse needs of the industry of health,
the courses offered ensure to cover all the aspects of this vast
industry. Be it a diploma in hospital administration or an MBA in
hospital management, a student of medicine can pursue an online learning
course in any of the subjects of his choice. Post graduate programmes
such as a Masters in Healthcare Administration or Masters in Hospital
Administration are extremely beneficial for individuals who aspire to
apply their honed management skills in the medical industry.<br />
Clinical
research as a subject and industry too has grown leaps and bounds over
the recent past. It has emerged as a viable career option for
individuals interested in studying medicine. Therefore, being a doctor
is not the only profession that can be pursued within this discipline;
there are several other prospective fields that can be considered as a
commercial line of work by medical students. The study of new and old
medicines and related treatments is an engaging subject, drawing many
interested students to it. Online courses in clinical research offer a
holistic approach towards training along with facilitating the
accomplishment of a dream career in today's leading Clinical Research
Organizations. Courses on drug trials and clinical research are emerging
as a popular choice among young students who wish to provide the
society with more effective medical treatments and medicines through
their perfected skills and profuse knowledge.<br />
Quality management
in healthcare is another extremely important skill and there exist
several specialized educational courses for the same. However, for those
Clinicians who may wish to build a career in a specific segment of
healthcare like diabetes or primary care of the heart diseases, training
in diabetic courses and cardio courses help cater to their determined
objective. Be them not too popular courses for accidents and emergencies
or fresh new fields such as Paramedics, the industry of healthcare now
offers a wide spectrum of learning opportunities for aspiring medical
students.<br />
Online medical education has facilitated the relatively
easy attainment of knowledge and professional training in any of the
numerous fields of healthcare. Now, even if you are working full time or
unable to attend college, you can acquire holistic training in your
subject of interest. Enroll with a reputed institute that offers online
medical education and accomplish your dream of becoming a healthcare
expert!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-42826670685013324212012-09-27T22:17:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:18:03.040-08:00The Current State of Mathematics Education In This Country<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
You probably already know that the current state of mathematics
education in this country is very bad. What you may not know is exactly
how bad. Harvard recently released to the news media the results of a
study about mathematics. Their findings: (1) the US currently ranks 31st
out of 56 countries, and (2) only 6% of our high school students take
higher level math courses. Another statistic you may not have heard
(except from me) is that the failure rate for first year Algebra
students is a deplorable 50%. That statistic has direct bearing on the
Harvard results; and, as if these statistics aren't bad enough, you need
to understand that the 50% failure rate was true in 1972 when I started
teaching and it is still true today. Doesn't this just make you want to
shout "Why isn't anyone doing anything about this?"<br />
In
reality, mathematics educators, education specialists (seems like an
oxymoron, doesn't it?), and universities have been trying for over 40
years to make positive changes. During my lifetime I have experienced,
to varying degrees, at least six different methodological changes. (1) I
grew up using the "skill and drill" of the old days. This method
produced temporarily strong basic skills but very weak application or
understanding; and without the latter, the former fades quickly. (2) In
1972, I started teaching just after the pendulum swing to "New Math."
All math books started with a chapter on set theory, out went rote
memory, and in came understanding. In theory, if students understood the
why of mathematics, then they would create the skills on their own. Of
course, none of that happened, and mathematical understanding actually
decreased. It is now universally agreed upon that "New Math" was a
miserable failure. Fortunately for me, I was raising a family during
most of those years and didn't have to teach it very long; but I often
wish that we could apologize to the students of the 70's and early 80's.
"New Math" caused you more harm than good. That shouldn't have
happened.<br />
Since the final death of "New Math" in the early 80's,
there has been no overriding mathematical philosophy for the country.
Instead, different states--even individual school districts--have been
searching for that perfect solution. (3) Some school districts returned
to "skill and drill" by adopting the Saxon method. Of course, the
problems that existed with "skill and drill" the first time still
existed. Returning to a method that was unsuccessful before is not
logical. Math people should know better. (4) In 1983, the University of
Chicago conducted a great deal of research into why Algebra students
were failing in large numbers. Then they created an entirely different
approach to teaching mathematics. In 1988, I was very fortunate to have
been working in Colorado Springs when my district (Air Academy School
District #20) adopted the UCSMP (University of Chicago School
Mathematics Project) textbook series. UCSMP was truly revolutionary and
inspired. To learn more about how it came to be and how it was
different, read my article "Frustrated With Everyday Mathematics/UCSMP?
Why Is It So Different?" For the first time ever I saw large numbers of
students improve both their basic skills and their understanding of
mathematics. UCSMP continues to this day in various parts of the
country, although the extreme difference in approach coupled with the
fact that our society is now highly mobile have caused major
difficulties, especially for parents. For UCSMP to have a positive
impact on the country, it would have to be adopted by all schools. And
we all know that will never happen.<br />
Two other approaches bouncing
around the country are (5) Project-based and (6) Activity-based
programs. Project-based programs give classes a "situation" and that
situation is worked on for weeks or months. The Pit and the Pendulum is
the project I have heard the most about. This approach works well with
certain students, but you haven't read anything about startling success
because that hasn't happened. Activity-based programs are similar to
project-based programs except for length of time spent on the activity.
The activities might last a day or a week, and then change to another
activity. In both of these methods, the math skills are taught as they
are encountered in the situation. Classroom management issues arise with
both of these methods. And, again, you aren't hearing shouts of joy
over the positive benefits to mathematical understanding.<br />
In
addition to the philosophical changes, there have been many smaller
changes in teaching techniques and classroom changes. Some still exist
in some places, but most have been replaced with the newest and improved
techniques. Cooperative learning was all the rage for a time and it is
still a useful technique. I have lost count of how many of these
teaching fads have come and gone over the past 40 years. You will
notice, however, that the failure rate remains unchanged. So where are
things now? Floundering. While school districts and states are bouncing
around trying to find that magical solution, No Child Left Behind is
slowly but surely destroying what little enthusiasm for learning still
exists. No Child Left Behind may very well be the final death knell for
mathematics education in this country.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-22879501722987446022012-09-20T22:16:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:16:40.678-08:00Good News If You're Considering a Career As a Court Reporter<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
With the tough times of today's economy, many people are
considering a career change or a field with plenty of job opportunities
and chances for advancements. If this is the case, a career as a court
reporting professional may be just the answer you are looking for. Court
reporters, or stenographers are in high demand, earn a competitive
salary, and have plenty of opportunities to advance with extra training
and certification. This makes this career an excellent choice.<br />
If
you are interested in obtaining a career as a stenographer, there are
several different options you have. But you must first pass the Court
Reporting exams. To prepare you for these exams, you will need to take
courses at a school or enroll in a program at a community college or
major university.<br />
There are different licenses that a court
reporter can hold and most states require you to obtain at least one. To
obtain your license, you'll have to demonstrate that you can accurately
complete the skills you learned in your education and training. The
type of license you'll need varies depending on what kind of court
reporter you have trained to become. Obtaining your degree as a court
reporter will take approximately two to four years. In a court reporting
program you will learn many of the skills that you will need to be
successful in your career such as typing skills, courtroom language and
terms, how to use a stenotype machine to transcribe what is said in the
courtroom, and computer skills.<br />
Once you've finished your formal
training, there's still quite a bit of on-the-job education you'll need
in order to be successful in your career. As much as you might have
practiced during your schooling, there's nothing quite like going into a
courtroom and trying to keep up with the fast pace of everything that's
going on. Because this is such a demanding job, you're bound to make a
few mistakes here and there. Learning how to handle these mistakes and
improve your accuracy is something that your education can't always
prepare you for, but is definitely one of the requirements most desired
by prospective employers. When you're learning to be a court reporter,
you need to be very observant and see firsthand how things are done in
the courtroom. A good way to gain experience is to contact someone at
the courthouse and get them to take you inside so that you can watch the
proceedings. You could even talk to the reporter on the case and ask
for tips on how to do the job more efficiently. This will also be
beneficial when you are finished with your program because you will have
established contacts that may help you in obtaining a job.<br />
Becoming
a stenographer requires a lot of skill, dedication, and education, in
order to be successful. Good candidates must have strong typing skills,
good grammar, and an interest in the legal system. If you're interested
in becoming a court reporter, you might find it helpful to shadow
someone in the field before beginning your training program.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-5008546868927228992012-09-13T22:14:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:15:28.145-08:00A Middle Aged Mother and Her Search For Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
<b> Did you know that scholarships are available for mothers in any situation? </b><br />
These
scholarships exist to help women earn a degree and get a good job.
Getting a degree, heck even a single semester of college, is extremely
expensive.<br />
<b>Are you ready to take the plunge? </b><br />
If you
are considering education, are you ready to take action? Do you dream of
a higher paying job? An education makes a higher paying job possible.<br />
Whatever
your situation, the costs of living make paying for education
difficult. I believe many women would like an education but are unable
to afford one because of other responsibilities.<br />
Don't depend on
others to support yourself. As you grow up you learn how depending on
anyone else for our own well being is usually a mistake. Depending on
yourself makes you strong and stable, the kind of person everyone should
be. These scholarships help you to graduate and get a high paying job
for yourself.<br />
<b>Making the right decision right now could improve your life. </b><br />
Raising
kids is very expensive. Not to mention all of the other costs we must
take on. At some point you make the decision to move your life in the
right direction, often that is a college diploma.<br />
So we have the
situation where the good jobs require a degree, but without a higher
paying job now you can't afford to get that degree. What should you do?<br />
<b>Here is the good news...</b><br />
Plenty of scholarships exist for mothers looking to cover the costs of education for themselves or their children!<br />
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<b> To apply for this grant...</b><br />
Take just a couple
minutes and apply for this $10,000 scholarship right now! If you are a
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-84087569831132149942012-08-30T22:12:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:12:22.387-08:00New Roles For the Manufacturing Marketer<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Marketing communications is going through a major shift. If
you're an industrial marketer, you're probably more keenly aware of this
than most. The shift is from traditional marketing methods (print
advertising in trade journals; industrial P/R through trade journals;
trade shows; direct marketing through the mail; hospitality events,
etc.) to Internet based marketing tactics such as strategic website
optimization; social media marketing; blogging; email marketing; online
article and news release marketing; webinars and podcasts; and even
video marketing through sites like YouTube.<br />
People
still go to both offline AND online sources for information, research,
vendor sourcing, and networking. This makes an industrial marketer's job
more challenging, and not just because you have to stretch your
marketing dollars across a broader range of tactics. Convincing execs to
give the thumbs up to less proven methods can be difficult.<br />
If
you can relate to this, it may be time to create allies and evangelists
in other departments, including your bosses, if you want support for
your online initiatives. If marketing is your world, you are probably
more educated than those around you about the shift from offline to
online marketing tactics. You also have a deeper understanding of the
need to reach your target audience at as many "touch points" as possible
in order to build brand awareness and credibility and achieve "top of
mind" status. If you want to help your company keep a foot in both
marketing worlds, you now have two more titles added to your job
description: marketing educator and evangelist.<br />
Gain more
acceptance for a marketing plan that includes less conventional methods
for connecting with customers and prospects by involving people from
other departments in your initiatives. By doing so, you'll not only help
to educate them but you'll also tap into a wealth of knowledge about
your company's products or services that is rarely volunteered. Here are
some examples:<br />
1) Production / operation managers in your company
can talk all day long about what you manufacture. Enlist their help in
producing a short series of videos that you can post on your website,
YouTube, and other social media sites. As you meet and work with them on
the project, you will have teachable moments when you can communicate
the impact that this kind of communication can have in terms of
positioning your company as an "expert;" driving more traffic to your
website; and improving your search engine rankings.<br />
2) Spend a few
days in the field calling on customers and prospects with some of your
key sales staff. Take along a camera or video or voice recorder. This
will enable you to do two things: 1 - document conversations with
established, HAPPY customers that can be crafted into testimonials for
your website, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other SM sites and 2 - hear
firsthand how your sales team overcomes a prospect's objections or
responds to their greatest challenges and then ties your products /
services back to their solutions. If you have a voice recorder, you've
got some good raw material for blog postings, tweets, even LinkedIn
group discussion topics. (Of course it goes without saying that you need
to request permission to video or voice record ANYONE.) Soliciting the
help of your sales team makes them feel part of the marketing process
and gives you opportunities to again - discuss the impact of various
online marketing tactics.<br />
3) If your company has engineers on
staff, they are a goldmine of information for online marketing. Most
engineers are more than willing to write a technical paper covering
their area of expertise. Perhaps you could even convince them to do a
series of papers dealing with the basics of a multi-step design process.
Technical papers can be used for both off and online marketing efforts,
so you'll get double duty out of these! Article marketing can be one of
the most effective ways of building quality backlinks to your website.
If your engineers aren't camera shy, they can also be great resources
for webinars, podcasts, and even short videos explaining a certain
technical design consideration. The key is to get them involved and
while doing so, explain the importance of what they're doing to your
online marketing efforts.<br />
4) Educating executive management may be
your greatest challenge. Busy VP's and CEO's may be hard to enlist for
online marketing initiatives unless they've already started to buy in to
the concept. A couple of ideas for including them in online marketing
are: short video messages for YouTube and website posts; a blog written
in their pen name (this will require you to interview them regularly for
blog content); LinkedIn and Twitter accounts in their name (again, more
writing for you, so you have to gauge whether or not this is feasible
from a time standpoint.) The more they are involved in your online
marketing efforts, the more support you'll receive.<br />
It's human
nature to want to belong to a group with common goals and to contribute
to worthwhile endeavors. The job of the new industrial marketer is to
make the world of online marketing a worthwhile endeavor that your whole
company will want to rally around. That's why today, it's essential for
you to not only implement the marketing strategies, but to also educate
and build a community of online marketing evangelists within your
organization. You're still being a marketer; but along with your
company's products and services you're also marketing a paradigm shift.
So much more fulfilling, don't you think?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-74154689144797522992012-08-23T22:11:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:11:20.325-08:00Internet Marketing and Promotion News<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
The latest news revolves around Internet marketing. The
traditional four "P's " of marketing now with three added for "services"
marketing have all revised themselves and included the Internet as a
powerful medium and marketing tool and discusses the way it has
revolutionized the very function of sales and marketing. Earlier,
product, price, place and promotion; the four P's of standard marketing
is augmented by people, physical evidence and process concentrated on
the core marketing activities ranging from the various internal to
external strategies. But today, Internet marketing and promotion has
earned all the accolades.<br />
Year
2009 has passed and has bequeathed serious responsibility of economic
reforms to the year 2010. Though it has laid a strong foundation on
which the year 2010 can visualize a steady growth, yet it is imperative
to understand the customers, reach them appropriately and strategize
according to them. Due to the increase in e-business, it is wise to
research and develop products based on the marketing strategy outside-
in rather than inside-out.<br />
Internet promotion is one of the most
widely used concepts today, where customers are reached and targeted to
the point where services or products can be customized to the best. As
the Internet has gained a phenomenal presence in industry, education,
mass-communication, social and political segments, promotional campaigns
along the Internet medium are proving to be extremely rewarding. Be it
online reservations, online admissions, online payments, the Internet
has made every transaction extremely comfortable and convenient. Thus if
people are not moving out, there is no use of billboards; if people are
not reading newspapers, there is no use of print advertisements; if
people are not listening to radio, there is no need to go on air.<br />
Internet
marketing promotion in news is just because of the increased acceptance
of the marketing tool amongst masses, whose power branding and
marketing gurus have well realized. Thus it is no wonder if companies
stop advertising elsewhere in the near future and concentrate only on
this small, yet significant medium.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-64600315126760965872012-08-16T22:10:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:10:20.196-08:00Prepare Yourself For Vocational Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Vocational education is a preparation for the skilled jobs, this
is the preparation based on manual and practical activities. The learner
directly participates and develops expertise in a particular group of
techniques or technology and sometimes referred as technical education.<br />
In
Philippines, Vocational/Technical Schools and their curriculum were
accredited and approved by Technical Education Skills and Development
Authority (TESDA). Schools affiliated by TESDA offers a short course
that will last for 3 months and for 2 years. Upon the graduation, the
students take the licensure examination from TESDA to obtain a
certificate or diploma. Some courses for this are automotive technology,
electronic technology, nursing aide, hotel and restaurant management,
computer technology, drafting. Short courses may choose from
housekeeping, culinary, food and beverages, welders, etc. Before, these
vocational courses associated with the activities of lower social
classes. But not for now, as Vocational Education has been developed and
opened a lot of potential jobs and opportunities locally and abroad.<br />
Nowadays,
we are experiencing and battling on crisis. Many companies had been
closed due to recession. Thousands of people lost their jobs. Even the
OFW's are affected. Vocational trainings and education had been the
answer for them to start a new career. Government released a scholarship
program for out-of-school youth and for the students that cannot
continue their college. This scholarship has been the demand of many
parents. Many believe that diploma and certificate from short courses
can be use in advantage and for competencies.<br />
As a matter of fact,
if you will try to search a job online, you will notice that there are
wide list of skilled jobs vacancies on certain job sites. Countries like
Australia, UK, Canada, Middle-East's countries are in high demands for
skilled workers. The problem for this, is most of the skilled workers
can't afford the high placement fees and papers processing of the job
agencies. Good news, that there's a few that offers a salary deduction.
The other thing is you can search for a job site that will give you the
information of the employers, through this, you can apply directly.<br />
Preparing
yourself for skilled workers opportunities means a better chance of
rewarding and well-paying career that you can be proud of.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087441173870769813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794659916737263737.post-76794747239932896422012-08-02T22:07:00.000-07:002012-11-09T22:07:34.454-08:00Anti-Drug Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Illegal street drugs, their use and abuse, arguably, can be
considered the nation's (if not the world's) number one societal
problem. So what can we, each one of us, do to assist in the slow-down
and prevention of druggie influence in our lives? And what is the
singular thing that we must do to stop the drug culture from its selfish
goal of foisting its dangers upon our youngsters and other friends? We
know we must slow down and prevent the growing abuse of such drugs as
marijuana, ecstasy, meth, heroin, PCP (angel dust), and LSD, to list
only a few.<br />
Marijuana,
alone, contains 400 chemicals in its smoke, 60 of which are proven to
cause cancer. Two things happen to a pot smoker: 1) There is an
immediate burn-up of vitamins and minerals in the body, and 2) The
nervous system changes and the nerves in the body go numb. Unless
treated, these unhealthy body and mental conditions remain a lifelong
problem.<br />
The key goal is EDUCATION.<br />
We can spread the word
about the tragic effects of street drugs upon the mind and bodies of all
who use them. The first thing we need to confront is to take ownership
of the problem. We need to realize that the problem of the presence of
drugs in our society is OUR problem. It is not confined only to the
"other guy," such as school teachers and administrators, hospital
personnel, or those in troublesome, run-down neighborhoods. Each one of
us has to face the reality that "It's my problem" and what can I do to
help, even in some small way?"<br />
There is a valid analogy here
between today's problem of curbing the growing use of illicit drugs in
our society and curbing the unchallenged habits of excessive smoking
that existed some 25 to 30 years ago. As the bad habit of excessive
smoking was more and more challenged (in other words, as more people got
behind the fight against smoking), the decline of smoking began to take
hold. And as we look back and analyze the progress we have made in the
anti-smoking campaigns over these past 25 to 30 years, we can say with
pride, "We did it, we all did it. Each in our own way." We confronted
the problem head-on. We did not allow ourselves to think "it's not my
problem, it's the problems of the schools, the hospitals, the police
stations, and the courts across the nation."<br />
The good news is that
we can readily and easily educate, and re-educate, right from our own
homes, businesses, clubs, churches, or charities at a very low cost to
each one of us? Society's goal must be to fight against drug
trafficking, which leads to lives of despair, depression, violence,
incarceration, and even murder and suicide. "It can't happen to me," we
say. The statistical fact is that there is no community in America in
which drugs are not a pervasive problem.<br />
Almost all drugs affect
the mind. When a person thinks of something, he gets a mental image
picture of it. A person on drugs no longer sees those pictures quickly
and clearly. Instead he becomes stupid, blank, and irresponsible. He
becomes "wooden," unfeeling, and unable to do things. He believes things
that are false.<br />
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