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Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
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The FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) is a non-profit making organization that was founded by 1999 in the United States. The organization focused on the civil liberties mainly in academic and learning institutions in the United States. The primary goal of FIRE is “to sustain and defend individual rights and freedoms at America’s universities and colleges,” including individual rights to “legal equality, religious liberty, sanctity of one’s conscience- an essential individual dignity and liberty quality, freedom to speech, and due process” ( HYPERLINK “http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/123.html” Columbia University Unable to Defend Policy in Public, 2001). America’s universities and colleges are theoretically described as the institutions that are essential in developing critical and intellectual minds and furthering of core liberty values, legal equality, and protection of individual rights and freedoms. Unfortunately, these learning institutions have become the barriers to these fundamental pursuits and qualities by denying the faculty and students their voices, individual humanity, and their fundamental rights and freedoms as constitutionally granted. The universities and colleges therefore advocate for legal inequality, political indoctrination, and assaults to moral reality orthodoxies ( HYPERLINK “http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/123.html” Columbia University Unable to Defend Policy in Public, 2001). The illiberal universities and colleges’ practices and policies must therefore be abolished and exposed to the public scrutiny and criticism in order to create awareness among the public on the violations of students’ basic rights and freedoms that have become common practices in these institutions of higher learning in the United States. After receiving a number of pleas for help and communications from students who were victims of illiberal institutional policies and practices that violated the students’ rights and intruded on their private consciences, Harvey Silverglate (civil-liberties legal expert at Cambridge) and Alan Charles Kros (University of Pennsylvania professor) founded FIRE to respond to these violations and to help in cultural transformation (Sarabyn, 2008).
FIRE decisively and effectively defends the American liberties particularly on behalf of the faculty members and university students who are often oppressed with the rigid institutional policies that limit their freedoms and basic rights. FIRE therefore comes in a legal body that fights against these institutional policies that infringe on the rights of its members. FIRE is responsible for bringing about favorable and desired resolutions for these groups of students and university teaching staff who are challenged by institutions, universities and colleges’ policies that deny them their liberties and fundamental rights ( HYPERLINK “http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/123.html” Columbia University Unable to Defend Policy in Public, 2001). Besides working for individuals, this non-profit making organization, FIRE, nationally works to create public awareness on the liberty fates in the higher learning institutions in the U.S. FIRE primary responsibility is the protection of fundamental rights of students and teaching staff both at the university and college institutions (Sarabyn, 2008). In so doing, FIRE focuses on four main areas: freedom of association and religious liberty, freedom of expression and speech, legal equality and due process on campus, and freedom of conscience. Therefore, FIRE primary goal is to bring to an end debilitating fatalism in the institutions of higher education that paralyzes the faculty and the student body through the provision of legal protection to the helpless victims of such abuses and by exposing to the public these issues surrounding violations of fundamental rights of the faculty staff and students (Sarabyn, 2008). This has been achieved by criticizing the university and college administrators whose activities and principles, in the view of FIRE, constitutes violation of due process rights and freedoms or free speech of the university and college students and the faculty team as outlined under the HYPERLINK “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution” o “Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution” Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
References
” HYPERLINK “http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/123.html” Columbia University Unable to Defend Policy in Public”, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Press Release, March 13, 2001. Accessed October 31, 2013.
Sarabyn, K. (2008). HYPERLINK “http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/9041.html” “Yale Caves into Its Women’s Center’s Speech-Repressing Demands”. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Retrieved 2008-03-25.
Fossil Records
Fossil Records
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Fossil Records
It is often difficult to find complete fossil records because of the environmental and geological processes that affect the process of fossilization. The hard parts of an organism such as teeth, bones, and shells do not decay unlike the soft parts that rot naturally. However, in rare instances, soft parts can be fossilized if the organism is buried in oxygen-free sediment soon after dying before the decaying process begins. Over time, sediments cover the hard parts and mineralization occurs (Stephen, 2009). Minerals such as silica, pyrites or calcite that crystallize out of the water in the sediment usually replace the parts through compression.
The fossils formed are subjected to harsh geological processes such as erosion and subduction, and excessive pressure and heat. In turn, these conditions destroy the formed fossils reducing their chances of survival. Fossil records comprise of the fossils that have survived the harsh conditions and should be present at a location being explored by people for them to be found. In addition, the explorers surveying the possible locations of the fossils should be able to identify the fossils found. Fossil records are usually incomplete because there are few entries of fossils since the majority of the dead organisms do not survive to form fossils. Moreover, other existing fossils have not been unearthed and identified for them to be entered into the fossil records. These factors account for the incomplete fossil records (Stephen, 2009).
Despite the fact that fossil records are incomplete, their importance is indispensable. Taxonomists rely on fossil records in identifying the phylogeny or evolutionary past of an organism. They usually utilize the available data to place an organism in various taxa depending on similar molecular and anatomical characteristics provided by the data entered in the fossil records.
Reference
Stephen, D. (2009). The fossil record – the prodigal son returns. Charles Darwin & Evolution. Retrieved on 6 Oct. 2013 from http://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/pages/index.php?page_id=f7
Forward Looking Statement
Statement of Purpose
My academic and professional achievements have been characterized by hard work and continuous effort. Just like in a race, I have thrived to reach the finish line by preparing myself well in advance and equipping myself with the required skills and knowledge. To this point, I can say that I can see the finish line but I still have to instill the final debonair attempt to avoid those who are behind me from crossing the line ahead of me. To do this, I have to push my self beyond but not past the elastic limit. This is the reason behind my interest in joining Masters of Science in Medical Informatics.
I believe that I am by all ways among the smartest people. This has been propelled by my quest for excellence and my never dying eagerness to defy my ultimate frontier. In my previous education, these qualities have made it possible for me to realize self-transcendence. Whether in my undergraduate studies in B.A. Psychology or my Masters in Business Administration or Ph.D. Business Administration; all undertaken in the most recognized universities, have all been achieved from end to end through strong self-discipline and perseverance. I believe that life is designed like a journey and my application at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies will propel me to greater heights.
My professional journey has helped me gather the most competitive talents in the country. From all the awards of performance, team building contest and presidents’ Club Winner attained at Pharmaceutical Company (Fortune 500) in 2003 and 2004, to the position as the Regional Sales Manager in the same company and later the Senior District Sales Manager, have helped me grow and expand my team spirit, individual accountability and critical thinking. I later worked as Senior Director of Sales and Marketing in Marketing Company and it is here that my interrelation skills have been sharpened. My current position as the Vice President Customer Relations Technology in an Internet Company has made me competitive and has enhanced my basic skills in Microsoft Office, Microsoft CRM, Adobe Acrobat, Lotus 1, 2, 3 among others (Kindly refer to my resume for comprehensive information).
The old proverb goes “All work and no play make Jack a dull boy”. In my quest for attainment of my academic and professional goals I have also engaged myself in extracurricular activities. I was once the public speaker in National Organization for Women, Elected delegate and Elected Chairman for a National Political Party and also a Developer –Community Outreach Program at St. Francis Memorial Hospital. These roles have helped me realize the importance of teamwork, interrelation skills, and managerial skills. These skills are undoubtedly going to be important in my future studying and practicing Medical Informatics.
The motivation behind my decision to take up the Online Master of Science in Medical Informatics at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies lies behind the integration of my psychology background to the exposure I have had in the Internet Company. Medical Informatics is a field of study that links health and the use of information technology, in such a way that patient care and records are monitored electronically. Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies is a university in the United States that is attributed to best graduates in the world and is well known for its superior scholarly culture. It is also a renowned, eminent, veteran, high-ranking and a university that equips its students with leadership skills.
Employment in the Medical Informatics field according to research is also bound to augment by a significant 18% through to the year 2016. It will expand my demand as a medical informatics proficient in healthcare management, clinical IT Leadership and research related organizations.
In seeking to attain the most that life can offer, I believe that concurring different hurdles and setting new goals to be attained are involved. My quest for further education is one of my new set hurdles. By undertaking my studies at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies for Master in Medical Informatics will put me ahead of my challengers and what better way to do it than to enroll into a university of factual world stature.