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    Choosing a Career There are many opportunities for success in the criminal justice career field, ranging from computing in an office to directly being faced with the nation’s toughest criminals. However, the hard part is finding out which career would be best for you based on your interests, strengths, and weaknesses. If you look hard enough there is something that can interest almost everybody, even if you do not plan to pursue it in the long run as your career. As an academic adviser I will be

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    Did you read Annie Dillard’s “Total Eclipse”? As I read about "Total Eclipse", It was in interesting how to become a story about the Eclipse. She explains every detail what she was seen and feeling. The detail she being telling was very simple and creative how she explains while driving and looking at things and ompare life of with Eclipse. Did you get to see the eclipse? Where? Who were you with? Did you get to experience totality, or not? What was its effect on you? I got to see the eclipse

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    written by Nancy Mairs. Every actor shows an emotion of hope as to one man can really change the world. The physical gestures that each actor expresses through sign language expresses more than words could ever say or describe. They want the “deaf community” to not be segregated based on their hearing disabilities. The media makes people with hearing disabilities feel as they are unable to do things that those without disabilities can do. There is a part in the video were a judge is yelling at someone

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    there, I immediately tried to spot someone who was signing outside the church. I had no luck in doing this so I resorted in entering the building. Inside the church, I the first thing I realized was that the first 5 rows were reserved for the deaf community. Due to the fact that my grandmother is really weak and fragile, we sat in the 6th row. The next thing that I did was to try to have a conversation with one of the people in front of me. I attempted to have a conversation with a women who looked

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    DB was the name he gave himself. DB lost more than 80% of his hearing when he was a little child. Because of DB’s deafness, his father abandoned him and walked out on the family DB grew up and attended college. Even with Cochlear Implant (CI), he still needed a sign language interpreter in classes and at study groups to ensure him capture all that was said and taught and to converse with others. One day, his interpreter failed to show up at a study group and, again, a few days later for DB’s

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    Journal Analysis #1 “Bi-Bi to MCE?” By: David A. Stewart 1) How did you select this research study to analyze? That is, what search terms did you use? What database did you use? What was your rationale for selecting this particular study to analyze over the others identified in the search results? What is the full reference for the study in APA format? When I searched for this article I first started by going to UNF’s “One Search” from the Library home page. I selected the options “full text

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    interpreter role is due to the unprofessional interpreter teaching them what to expect out of laziness and contempt. Interpreters in a high school art class who participate in the projects alongside the students are showing every participant in that setting (Deaf student[s], hearing students, teacher, colleagues, school administration) that our job role enables us to participate in the activities

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    Windshield Survey

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    Abstract Windshield Survey A community is a group of people who live in the same area, interact with each other, and share certain norms and values. A community is defined as a locality-based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting societal institutions, informal groups, and aggregates that are interdependent and whose function or expressed intent is to meet a wide variety of collective needs (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). Community health is the process or characteristics

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    Windshield Survey

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    A windshield survey is an assessment and evaluation of a community performed by traveling throughout the community in a car or public transportation to make observations about a community. The data gathered will help identify health care strengths and weaknesses in the specified community. A community is a social group established by geographic boundaries or common values and interests. Its members know and interact with one another and function in a particular social structure and exhibit and

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    Living and growing up in a small town is better than doing so in a big city. Everyone knows your name; there is a sense of community spirit and just going to visit your neighbor can be rewarding. On the flip side, city life breeds a more dangerous lifestyle and leaves no chance for getting to know your fellow townsfolk. Small town life was especially meaningful to me and I remember it fondly. Things were much simpler back then, because we lived in less complicated times. We did not have video

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