1. Statistical Analysis of Cumberland, Rhode Island
The question was asked to me as to why I want to be a teacher. My response is pretty simple, but for all intents and purposes, I will try to keep it less than a page. For those whom know me best would tell you I could host an hour-long talk show without a guest. So I will begin by giving you a little bit of my background. .
I am from a family where my dad is the head of the household and he and my mother collaborate on making decisions for the family. If they disagree then his final say so is what we have to live with. I have two younger brothers and one younger sister. My sister is a year and a half younger than I am, while my brothers and I are eight and nine years apart. Being the oldest of offspring, at times I find it challenging to be the example for my siblings to follow seeing that I don't have someone in front of me to make mistakes for me to learn from. So it then becomes my responsibility to not only myself but to my brothers and sister to make the best and most logical choices in life I can to be a successful person to our family.
Growing up, my dad would often times make me tag along while he did odd jobs around the like changing the light switches; or installing a new toilet in the bathroom if need be. I said he made me do it because I really didn't want to do it. I was more interested in going outside to play football with my friends. He also would find ways to motivate me to help with the maintenance on my mothers mini-van; for if I did not help fix it I couldn't go to and from where I wanted to go. It was a mean of transportation for me as well as the rest of the family. Some times he would pay me. More times he wouldn't. But to me the money was never important. I liked the time that we shared.
When it came to academics, I was always a bright student eager and willing to learn. I would make personal sacrifices to make sure I made grades my parents would be proud to show off.
This trend continued in the early nineties (1991-94): households in the lower tenth percentile slightly increased their participation in total spending, while the spending of the richest tenth remained practically unchanged. As a result, the ratio between the average spending per household of the last and first tenths in the 1991-94 period dropped from 5.7 to 4.8. ...
His defense team proved his mildly mental retardation by looking at his school transcripts that showed he had failed the second and tenth grade and received a grade point average of 1.26 out of a 4.0 scale while attending all remedial classes. His standardized test scores in school also contributed to the cause considering he rarely scored about the twentieth percentile in any tests he took. ...
By the end of the first week the infant begins to gain weight rapidly and, by about the tenth day, has regained birthweight. ... If the infants moves along a given percentile rating, individual progress is likely to be satisfactory for that infant-although short deviation into another percentile channel usually is not important. ...
The word "democracy," as well as the concept it represents, can be traced back to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The beginnings of democracy can be credited to the Greeks of the sixth century BC. The word comes from two Greek words: demos, meaning "the people," and kratein, meaning "to rule." These two words are joined together to form democracy, literally meaning, "rule by the people" (Pious). The Greek system of government was perhaps closer to a true democracy or rule by the people than any other in history. ...