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My e-Portfolio!

I have actually already finished my e-Portfolio using the online website maker weebly.com. Ideally, my portfolio will be useful as a tool for applications and professional development in the future. Because of this, I use a tone that is professional … Continue reading

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Advocacy Plans

For my advocacy project, I have decided that I will be making a sort of commercial or informational video that could be seen as an advertisement calling ordinary citizens to action to support universal healthcare. After talking to Mrs. Babich, … Continue reading

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Advocacy Project Ideas

For the advocacy project, I am considering going in several different directions. The first idea would be a movie or commercial supporting universal healthcare (oh, did I mention that I changed my topic?). I am pretty committed to this one … Continue reading

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Persuasive Essay: Universal Healthcare

The United States is considered by most to be the greatest country to ever grace the face of the planet. It has the largest military, the largest economy, freedom of speech and religion, one of the first “successful” democracies and … Continue reading

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Persuasive Essay/Advocacy Ideas

Thinking through various topics for the persuasive essay, I have come up with some interesting ideas. For all of them, I have made sure that I could easily use them to do the advocacy project as well. Here are my … Continue reading

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Moderator Philosophy Statement Draft

I think that the most important aspects of moderating are to ensure adequate input from all individuals involved so that one or two people are not dominating the conversation. To coax more from those more shy or quieter individuals, I … Continue reading

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How to moderate?

Next week during our moderations, I think that my first issue will be to keep us on topic. It is very easy for people to stray away from the main idea, so I will have to ensure that that doesn’t … Continue reading

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PCD Chapter Nine!

For the Political Communication and Deliberation presentations, I was placed into a group with Shqiponja and Olivia. We were assigned chapter nine, which deals with international deliberation. It mainly focuses on international forums that have in the past or currently … Continue reading

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Deliberation Issues

Over the past week, I realized that the deliberation forum was only going to be able to be successful if it occurred over a short period of time. People usually do not follow a thread for much more than a … Continue reading

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Online Deliberation Site: Premedical Issues

I have found an online deliberation forum, primarily for premedical students. The site encompasses issues ranging from “Is my MCAT score good enough?” to “How many hours of clinical exposure do I need?” to “How advanced is medicine today?”. I … Continue reading

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