...since day one on this earth. If there was any problem that I ever had she was always there to solve them with me. If there was anything that I ever needed she would see to it that I got it. She is my number one supporter in my life and she always keeps it real with me no matter what which is one of things I admire about her. She doesn’t sugar coat anything, she just tells it like it is and I love that about her. My mother keeps it 100. She tells you exactly what you need to hear and not what you want to hear which is how it should always be. Honesty truly is the best quality in my mother’s eyes and you can always expect nothing but the truth from her. I admire my mother for several reasons so many that I can’t even name them all in this essay. She was there for my brothers and I when we needed someone most. She was there when we had nowhere else to turn or didn’t even know what to do or how to feel even. My father had passed away going on 6 years now and it was the most difficult thing that my brothers and I ever had to witness in our lives. Losing a parent is no easy thing to bounce back from and get over. We are still going through it till this day. If we didn’t have our mother to be here for us I don’t know where we would...
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...Three Parts of an Academic Writing By: Novita Paradise Academic writing is the type of writing that students are expected to produce in response to content they learn about in an academic setting; for instance, school. It’s how they formally join the “scholarly conversation.” And it can begin at a very young age, when a child writes a report about a book he has read or a topic she/he has learned about. It is not a personal experience, nor a story, nor merely a description. Academic writing tells us what the writer thinks and what evidence has contributed to that thinking. The evidence can include the writer’s personal experiences, information found in other books or sources, or information gleaned from talking with others such as a parent or expert. Knowing how to write academic essay is essential for developing good composition skills. It gives the author an easy format for clear organization and explanation of a topic. Many literature and composition classes require academic essays because of the simplicity and clarity they bring to a specific topic and that is why understanding academic essay is important. Academic essay consists of three parts—the introduction, the body, and the conclusion—and each part plays a role that is vital to the structure and presentation of the essay. The introduction sets the foundation of the paper and is concluded with the thesis statement, which is what the rest of the paper will address. The introduction consists of one paragraph following...
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...Academic reflective essay The essay will focus on the patient involved in the given case study named as Mrs. S. In addition, the essay will give a relevant and brief history of the patient. It will also define the term ‘bio-psycho-social’ and its relevance to holistic care. For the point of discussion, the essay will focus on the management of care for patient with gastrointestinal illness resulting in stoma operation and will discuss the biopsychosocial factors affecting the patient and how this changes ‘normal’ biology, psychology and sociology. The individual chosen to focus on is named as Mrs. S. The patient involved in this case study Mrs. S. is a 48 years old lady who works in school as a teacher. She lives with her husband, Mr. S, in a small town. Her husband works as a builder, which has long working hours, leaving him not much time to look after their children. They have two girls and they are aged 12 and 10. They are a loving family. Mrs. S looks after the children, takes them to school and pick them up. Mrs. S is a very active lady with a very active social life, she likes to meet up with her friends during the weekend; she swims four days a week with her children, and she balances her time with family and her job. She is suffering from mild hypertension, drinks minimal amount of alcohol during the weekends and smokes 5-10 cigarettes a day. The term ‘bio-psycho-social’ refers to the relationship amongst biological, psychological and social characteristics of an...
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...My Plan for Academic Success Nick W Are we truly prepared for any possible event that may happen in our future? If I were to gauge my academic success so far, I’d probably give it a 7/10. This is because while my freshman year was amazing, and I did well for that year, my sophomore year was terrible, pessimistic and depressing. I did the bare minimum of everything that was assigned to me, and what I did do was terribly prepared and the effort that was put in was the bare minimum as well. But, as I did poorly, I still managed to obtain decent grades. Even though I was depressed, I still managed to gather the energy to be at least somewhat better at the subjects I did like. But all in all I must say I do not like school. The major problem...
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...one of adjustments that a student may experience in college is balancing academic life and social life. Pujari (2006) defines socialization as the “process whereby an individual learns to adjust to a group and behave in a way approved by the group.” Moreover,...
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...Plagiarism and Academic Integrity Being able to write an essay while working with sources is not easy especially when the essay requires the writer to provide some type of evidence. It makes the assignment frustrating and difficult for the writer to come up with ideas. Even though constructing some words can be challenging it does not mean a writer should not give credit to the author instead provides the readers with information that is not supported. He or she leaves the reader knowing the writer plagiarized and was dishonest in his or her academic work. This leads to the writer being penalized for plagiarism, which is the dishonesty of a person ruining his or her reputation by cheating and stealing any form of work from other people, as well as academic dishonesty that is the person losing the...
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...My initial plan to improve my academic literacy was unfortunately not as successful as I had hoped. I had initially planned to add resource sheets on spelling, grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to my weekly readings but found these more helpful as a printed document that I initially skimmed over and was able to refer back to as needed. The resources for writing strong essays are another that I have printed and put into a folder for future reference along with a copy of the key principles. I do feel, however the more essay’s and assessments I write and the more feedback I get over the next few years will be vital in my essay and assessment writing improvement. The paper rater and the writers diet websites have become an essential part...
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...In order to succeed in college and in life it is important to learn how to write academic essays in order to communicate various ideas and points of view. Academic essays is composed of there primary stages, the Intro, Body, and conclusion. This formant allows one to stay focus in their writing. Elements such as writing style and tone should be considered as well. One must also consider their audience. Also it is important to establish credibility in the eyes of one’s audience. This can be accomplished through strong sources, personal testimonies and other relevant connections to the subject matter. While the above aspects are important they are not absolute and the best writers are able to strike a balance between these various elements to form a writing style all their own. They are many good examples of good writing yet the best way is to allow one’s own personal experience and personality to come out in one’s writing. One thing on the don’t do list is letting your bias and views of the world stop your from evaluating opposing views and merits with competing points of views and ways of life. Now it begins. Yes, the infamous introduction. Many of my professors told me in the past that I needed to work on my introductions. It wasn’t until I read the book “The Say, I Say “ that I began to grasp the importance of good writing, especially good introductions. Also reading about the “pitch” and how to form one really helped me get more comfortable about my writing .The introduction...
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...Individuals without health insurance coverage have a harder time keeping up with their health, as opposed to individuals with insurance coverage. Americans’ without healthcare coverage have a harder time living happier productive lives than those who do have healthcare. Most American’s main reason for not having healthcare insurance is because they cannot afford the skyrocketing premiums. Approximately 47 million American’s are living without health insurance because they do not have extra expendable income at the end of each month. Congress created the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in order to increase the number of American citizens covered by health insurance companies and decrease the cost of the rising healthcare system. According to the New York Times health insurance has gone up over the last decade by 15 percent since 2001. Some health insurance companies jack up the cost of healthcare because they dominate the healthcare market within their respective state. This simply provides for an unfair market because it leaves consumers only having to deal with the one Healthcare Insurance Company or not having healthcare insurance. Some insurance companies will only cover part of the doctor’s visit or emergency room visit and still require you to pay a co-pay making it harder to keep your insurance while paying for your regularly monthly expenses. According to the International Federation of Health Plans, the average routine office...
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...You’re in class getting ready for a test you studied for so long, but you realize you study The wrong thing, you see a glance of your peer's paper is It worth it to copy and get in more trouble than just failing? academic dishonesty happens everywhere, even in your class, maybe you’ve done it. The academic honor code is a rule to be truthful basically when plagiarising or seeing it. many people are very half and half about this situation. We should apply the honor code because it helps students adjust to new response abilities in school, also it would help to eliminate plagiarism, and learning a fair environment. Using the academic honor code it would eliminate plagiarism in their class or school. “Some may think that copying others easier and it's more common (Kahn)”. “The findings regarding different instructors’ approaches toward academic dishonesty indicate that an intolerant policy will keep dishonest students away, but at a price—it will also detract many honest students (Elliott and Rakovski...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION The purpose of the current paper is to critically review the contributions that two of these studies have made to our understanding of societal perceptions, social support and how it affects breastfeeding attitudes and outcomes. (Kronborg and Vaeth 2004) Defined Social support as the mother's perceptions in relation to the support she receives from peers, family and the society at large. The first paper to be reviewed is written by (Leeming et al. 2013) and entitled 'Socially sensitive lactation: Exploring the social context of breastfeeding'. The second paper is written by (Scott et al. 2015) and entitled 'A comparison of maternal attitudes to breast feeding in public and the association with breastfeeding duration in four European countries: Results of a cohort study. The current paper will summarise the arguments, review the subject matter in both papers and compare and contrast the different methodological approaches taken by the authors with comments on the appropriateness of each method chosen. It concludes by a justified opinion of the subject. (Li et al. 2008), stated that discomfort with the idea of breastfeeding is one of the concerns for some women choosing not to breastfeed or incorporating shorter duration of breastfeeding (Stuebe and Bonuck 2011). Decades of research confirm the benefits of breastfeeding for infants and for maternal health (Cricco 2007) (Tarrant, Dodgson and Wu 2014) (Ingram et al. 2008). 1.1 ARGUMENTS (Leeming et al. 2013)...
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...Academic qualifications ensure success in life. Do you agree or disagree? Too much emphasis is put on academic qualifications nowadays. It is said to be the sole determiner of success in life. In Malaysia, for instance, jobs are secured by only those who achieve well in their academic performance. In my point of view, academic qualification may be vital but it is not the only factor to ensure success in life of an individual as the ability and the willpower of oneself are also the determiners of success. Success cannot only be measured by academic qualification as the skill and ability of oneself should be considered as well. Skills can be categorized in many ways, for example, social skills, language skills, and computer skills. It is not guaranteed that an individual with the most A’s or perfect grades will get a job as some employers may employ workers based on their skills. This is because academic qualification is solely based on one’s performance in their respected schools, colleges or universities. It is not based on what they are yet to execute in the working environment. Hence, skills are far more important in determining a successful life in the future. Furthermore, the willpower of an individual is another secret to success in one’s life. When an individual is determined to achieve a certain goal or vision in their life, they will undeniably be victorious in their future. This does not matter whether they have a good academic qualification or not as not all...
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...I have always believed that I was destined to do great things. I went from being an ESL speaker to becoming one of the best speakers in my high school and community. I did so well in high school that I was given the honor of being recognized as an academic honor student and community leader by the school board, but I wasn’t always this motivated. My aunt, Heriti was the motivation behind all my achievements in life. She took me in as her own, because my parents were unfortunately not able to be present. I was able to feel loved for the first time in my life, because of her. Despite the struggles I went through, I was able to accomplish something no one believed I could. I was able to be the first one in my family to graduate high school and be blessed with the amazing opportunity to go to college. As a first generation student and determined student, I was awarded various financial aid including the UNT Academic scholarship, which helped pay a majority of my tuition off. This scholarship gave me tremendous hope and made me feel like for once in my life, I could actually create change and chase my dreams. However, I wholeheartedly believe I would have not been given these incredible opportunities without the endless effortt, support, and motivation that my aunt instilled...
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...Educational Research and Reviews Vol. 6 (7), pp. 522-527, July 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/ERR ISSN 1990-3839 © 2011 Academic Journals Review The effects of poverty on academic achievement Misty Lacour1 and Laura D. Tissington2* 2 Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA. th University of West Florida, 1732 N. 13 Avenue Pensacola, Florida 32503, USA. Accepted 12 May, 2011 Poverty, which forms a specific culture and way of life, is a growing issue in the United States. The number of Americans living in poverty is continually increasing. Poverty indicates the extent to which an individual does without resources. Resources can include financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical resources as well as support systems, relationships, role models, and knowledge of hidden rules. Poverty directly affects academic achievement due to the lack of resources available for student success. Low achievement is closely correlated with lack of resources, and numerous studies have documented the correlation between low socioeconomic status and low achievement. Several strategies exist to assist teachers in closing the poverty achievement gap for students. Key words: Poverty, family income, achievement gap, academic gap. INTRODUCTION In the United States (US), the gaps in achievement among poor and advantaged students are substantial (Rowan et al., 2004). Through multiple studies, The U.S. Department of Education (2001: 8) has indicated...
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...around the world. In fact, there are many English levels in which one needs to realize when studying English. For example, in beginner or pre-intermediate levels, English seems to be easy for most people, because people just gain some basic words and most time they use English for only communicative purposes. However, far beyond these levels, learners will enter a much tougher level of English-studying, especially English used in many academic domains or many literary purposes. Thus, in these fields, English is no longer something easy; people have to meticulously understand how to precisely use English both in words and many grammatical points. For one thing, it is very easy to use English in many informal contexts, people feel free to express their ideas, talk about what they think and so on… Nevertheless, in some formal situations, particularly in academic writings, it is very difficult for us to determine who will be readers. In practice, the audiences may be our friends, professors or someone else. Therefore, we have to devise a formal essay which not only shows our respects to readers, also give them impression of what we wrote. A problem here is how we can know or have an idea whether the way we are writing is formal....
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