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Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing...
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This book describes how a support structure can be built to enhance peer-to-peer (and also students-to-lecturers) communication and support. It informs lecturers on how they can decide if they should adopt one or more social media tools to facilitate students' learning, communication, and support for an internship program. This book introduces a participatory design approach that can help develop a pedagogy that will make good use of social media...
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Past generations of American students have met the expenses of going to college by pursuing summer jobs and working around twenty hours a week during the academic year; however, such employment is not now so readily available, and with the cost of college tuition increasing, alternative means of funding need to be sought. In an attempt to solve the problem, a number of universities, following the original examples of Cornell, devised programs focusing...
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In Let Me Heal, prize-winning author Kenneth M. Ludmerer provides the first-ever account of the residency system for training doctors in the United States. He traces its development from its nineteenth-century roots through its present-day struggles to cope with new, bureaucratic work-hour regulations for house officers and, more important, to preserve excellence in medical training amid a highly commercialized health care system. In the making of...
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Traces the increase in interns in businesses from the late twentieth to the early twenty first century and discusses the lack of benefits and legal securities granted to interns in comparison to the profits firms bank by exploiting their roles in the workplace.
Every year, between 1 and 2 million Americans work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, congressional offices, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid...
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