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  • Money On A College Degree
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    June 21, 1999 Learning is for everyone The institution called a university, or many times a community college, is an institution that should welcome anyone who is willing to make the effort to face the challenges that it brings. As William A. Henry writes, 'In the real world, though, mostly people go to college to make money'; (The Museum of Clear Ideals, 146). I point out that there are a variety of different reasons for which people choose to enter into college. Some of these reasons do includ...
  • College Students
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    Truancy and the school system How far has the school system advanced in the last century Some would say not far. I feel differently. In my opinion, schools have advanced from cesspits of enforced obedience to happy environments where learning is looked forward to instead of required. What has brought this about Some would say technology; some say teaching techniques have advanced. However, there is proof that truancy has been the key to advancing education during the last century. Truancy is inc...
  • Thirty Minute Section With Regular Math
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    The Sat, scholastic assessment test, is used for colleges to measure what a student may be able to do on any given day. Colleges use it as a basis for whom they accept to their college. The SAT is administered by the ETS, or educational testing service. Overall, the SAT is a long, grueling test that tends to cause mostly anxiety among the test-takers. The SAT is a three hour-long test including two ten-minute breaks after Section Two and Section Four. The SAT is divided into 7 sections, which ca...
  • Core Curriculum N Colleges
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    Wasteful Repetition 12 years of our lives are spent learning the basics, 12 years. Yet, after those twelve years of near, colleges require us to relearn what we already know, knowledge that may be irrelevant to our chosen major. Core Curriulumn is a waste of time and money. Each year for twelve years we wake up on a day around August in order to attend required schooling. We learn english, mathematics, sciences, health, and history. School becomes our lives, almost a career that lasts approximat...
  • Social Life Stress
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    Showing you what it is like entering the first year of college. Have you ever been in a situation where school can be stressful in many different aspects? I found out being prepared has its likes and dislikes. Here's my experience on time management, financial, academic, also social life stress. One thing you must know is when I receiving a acceptance into the college my life was just begun to be stressful. The first problem that comes to mind is financial aid. Financial aid provides you with th...
  • College Students
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    Times Have Changed Times have changed dramatically in the past thirty years. The style of living, the sizes of families, and education have all changed dramatically. During the fifties, sixties, and most of the early seventies teenagers were thinking about going off to war or starting a family. Very few teenagers coming out of high school we rethinking about college. Slowly as times started to change, more and more people were going off to college. Today at the end of the nineties, very few peop...
  • College Admissions
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    Have you ever wondered who gets to attend the country's selective colleges and universities? The really smart kids, the hard workers, star athletes, artists, singers, mathematicians, writers, alumni children? Of course universities want them all. But what about when it comes to race? Suddenly the stakes of getting in are raised. How many African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Whites should there be in each class? Should acceptance to a school depend on a person's race? Well I believe that acc...
  • College Student Dread Their General Education Courses
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    With living costs as high as they are in this day and age, it is completely unreasonable to expect the average individual to squander already limited resources. Receiving a bachelor's degree today requires an assortment of classes that often are not directly related to one's career objectives. For some, they find this to be an enjoyable adventure, broadening their knowledge and learning about new aspects of life, but for others this is just burdensome. However it is looked upon, the college curr...
  • Twenty Five Percent At Du Sable
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    A Tale of Two Schools: How Poor Children Are Lost to the World Jonathan Kozol wrote a book titled Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. A Tale of Two Schools: How Poor Children Are Lost to the World is an excerpt from the book. The excerpt tells the story of two high schools in the Chicago area. The Chicago area has a variety of high schools. Du Sable High School in Chicago and New Trier High School in a Chicago suburb are at different ends of the spectrum when speaking of the over...
  • High Risk For Rape
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    Violence and Women thought that our discussion went well. We had a small group of about six people but three of us were leaders so we had a lot to talk about. Each of us went around and asked one question because we did not have time to discuss them all. But that did not matter because the other leaders had similar questions to mine. I was able to retrieve different responses from the others in the group for three out of my four questions. My first question asked why rape was so much more common...
  • Financial Aid Available To Older Students
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    College Costs Introduction It's no secret that financing a college education is getting tougher. College costs have skyrocketed over the past decade or so, and there " so relief in sight. Average tuition at four-year colleges will increase 7 percent this school year, double the rate of inflation. Student aid is not increasing fast enough to plug the growing gap between tuition and family finances. In addition, there is a growing number of older students entering college today. These students hav...
  • Student's Research Papers
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    The internet is a great invention because it makes things a great deal easier for us nowadays. It is also helpful in many ways, especially, in the way of convenience. Rather than go somewhere to pay your bills, you can just do it online with a credit card. You can also check your bank statements and find out where you stand financially. These are example of good ways that the internet helps out in the world. I would have to agree with David Rothenberg when he says that the web is ruining student...
  • Abortions Among College Students
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    ... dents are a part of. An understanding of the stress and pressure that is already upon college students is needed to comprehend the impossibility of undertaking, and following through with, a pregnancy during these years of life. There are many people that consider themselves pro-choice, but pro-life for themselves. These people need to be recognized as leaders, in such that, they have made an opinion for their own bodies but are not willing to make the same decision for the rest of the world...
  • College Students For A Great Cause
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    18 October 2000 HAZING According to the California Hazing Law, hazing includes any method of initiation or pre-initiation into a student organization or any pastime or amusement engaged in with respect to such an organization which causes, or is likely to cause, bodily danger, physical harm, or personal degradation or disgrace resulting in physical or mental harm, to any student or other person attending any school, community college, college, university or other educational institution in this ...
  • Black College Presidents
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    forum sponsored by local business leaders. Soskin presented similar reports last week on NASCAR events, Bike Week and Biketoberfest. The visitors attending the reunion spend $101 million at area businesses, Soskin said. That far outstrips the $32 million the area would get from tourists during a nonevent spring weekend. Reason Number 2 Sponsorship of BCR is an excellent way to expand your image within the African American cultural arena. Your association with this large cultural event goes beyon...
  • College Students
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    Literacy-The state or quality of being literate; specifically, the ability to read and write. This definition is as ambiguous as they come. Depending on whom you ask, you may get a completely different answer as to what literacy is. In the United States, this has always been a tricky debate. The circumstances that go along with being literate or illiterate are profound. It carries with it significant implications on how we are supposed to educate people. Mike Rose in Lives on the Boundary explai...
  • My Final Goal Concerns Life After College
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    Between sun yellow walls adorned with pictures of friends and plaques of past glories and beneath a wooden shelf aging with chipped paint and slanting volumes of classics, a desk occupies space. Once neatly organized, this desk has been transformed into a collage of brightly colored college catalogues. Piles of pamphlets, booklets, and brochures cover the surface of the desktop and overlay the floor. When I close my eyes, this is the picture that scans through my brain as I reflect back on the c...
  • Aises Member And Engineer At Intel
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    When I decided to continue to pursue higher education, I chose Dartmouth College. I encountered an array of intelligent individuals, but, however, what I found to be delightfully surprising about college is meeting Native American students that represent their nations. These Native American students share the same desire to develop their potential and utilize their knowledge to infinitely benefit society. I was going to Marcos de N iza High School in Tempe, AZ when I first heard about AISES. As ...
  • 1 Student's Name
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    Joseph and Anna Gartner Annual Holocaust Essay Contest - 2003 The Joseph and Anna Gartner Annual Holocaust Essay Contest is open annually to all middle, high school and undergraduate college students throughout Monroe County. We believe that studying the Holocaust, which occurred over 50 years ago, and learning from it, can help us create a world where hate is not allowed to thrive. The question your are going to address in your essay is: What can happen when individual human rights are not prot...
  • Chances Of Educational Opportunities For Minorities
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    Affirmative action is wrong. Affirmative action was set up to improve the educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women. It is not fair to choose students of certain nationalities over others because the school is not diverse enough. Every student has a fair chance to get into college and it just so happens that certain nationalities are admitted into colleges more than others because they perform better during their stint in high school. Admittance into colleges should not b...

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