I participated in my first service learning course during my second year of college. ... The service learning component meant that I was actually out of class somewhere, learning about the subject material through hands-on experience, in this case, volunteering at a local Animal Rights organization. ... The service learning portion of the class is what makes it unique and most important. ... : The Politics of Service Learning, Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer touch on overcoming the "otherness" that students often feel when learning about social issues. ... Combined with the service learni...

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Primarily, they both value the pursuit of learning as key to the development of their model of an enlightened person. ... As Socrates defines them, philosophers are "those who come to love the spectacle of truth" (book V 475 e) Therefore the philosopher's goal is to understand the world through knowledge and learning. Future philosophers spend their whole lives in lessons, studying to learn to achieve their ultimate goal of coming to understand the forms. ...

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Culture, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group c: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation. ... Nonmaterial culture refers to the "values, beliefs, laws, morals, traditions and customs that define people's goals, aspirations, expectations, like...

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Although many people probably do not have a love for learning about the environment, the things we do in everyday life, Wilcove explains, can have a great impact on the future of our wildlife. ... What I do not understand is that Wilcove's goal in writing the book was to let the public know of the problems facing today's ecosystems, and yet, it is not directly stated what should be done to correct these problems. ...

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As times change, so must the world around us and everything that it is made up of. Technology, however, appears to be growing without bounds and is producing new ideas and theories with every passing day. This particular growth has various different effects on those in our society and a huge impac...

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To start more people recycling the world over, learning institutions beginning with grade school should incorporate recycling into the daily agenda. ... I believe the main goal of our generation is to make sure that new generations learn the importance of our natural environment and that we make wise investment decisions based on what impact they will have on the future....

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Establish the concept that there is a clear division of responsibility between management and workers, with management doing the goal setting, planning and supervising, and workers executing the required tasks. ... As a employers, it need to provide a total employment experience that extends beyond money and includes clear career paths, personal development, accelerated learning and skills acquisition, meaningful work, and work/life balance. ...

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Granted some people will remain asocial the goal, as Freud points out, is to reduce the majority that is hostile toward civilization to a minority. ... But these religious ideas are not given to the individual, nor could he discover it for himself, rather they are already there and as he enters the civilization he takes it over just like learning the alphabet. ...

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