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Mental health in schools

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 Assignment 2: Mental health poster In this case, I decided not to be subtle about it. I believe mental health is a sensitive topic for all the wrong reasons - there’s still too much stigma around it, too much ignorance regarding its impact on our daily lives and not enough recognition for the psychologists’ work for our wellbeing. With that said, I went for what and how I would like to promote this - in a straightforward way.  This poster was made on Canva, the default background color for any design is white, but I deliberately decided to leave it like that as I associate white with a number of positive things: calmness, peace of mind, health, and even, the chance to start anew. From my own experience, I know firsthand how useful it is to just “empty” your mind during stressful periods, anxiety attacks, or whatever event that triggers an extreme emotion. So, leaving your mind white, for me, is not the goal, but the first step to enhance our overall mental health - get rid of...
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What makes a good school

 Asisgnment 1: What makes a good school (Extracted from the original .doc file) By: Miguel Esparza I believe that, to answer this question we have to ask ourselves what a isn’t a good school. I will focus on three kay points that make for a deficient school. And for that, I can draw from experience. But before going into detail, I must clarify that most of comes from working at private institutions, and that I’m fully aware that this may not always hold true for public schools. To begin with, pretentiousness. Although I don’t believe that some schools should be considered “better” than others, nor do I think private education should inherently be preferable to public education, I do appreciate certain schools’ efforts to enrich the standard curriculum. However, this comes at a cost—and let’s be real, true private education (think ASA, Cristo Rey, San José, Inter, CDI, and others) is expensive, even elitist. That said, private schools that charge slightly more affordable tuition...
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