...Cheating has been and continues to become a serious issue. This action harms the ones involved, the university, and their peers. Those involved can face serious consequences and their character is damaged. A University can lose its credibility which, can lower its ranking. For the other students this becomes problematic. If the University no longer has its high standings the degrees can be affected. Since the students are affiliated with a University that is not considered to have a high academic integrity, the degrees value may decrees. Oklahoma State University (OSU) or as some may call it “America’s Brightest Orange”, is located on 413 Whitehurst Hall, Stillwater, Oklahoma. OSU was created on Christmas Eve, 1890, when Territorial Governor...
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...I think college athletes should be paid. One reason I think this is because they basically put they're life on the line to make other people money. Granted, some athletes are better than other but all of them should get some money from their sales they bring in. Such as if their jersey gets sold out servel months in a row or something. It just makes sense. Other reason for them being paid is that they live off nothing. Most of them are to busy playing football and keeping good grades they can't get a job. So how are they supposs to feed themselves to make themselves all star football they need to be. Also, if they get injuried in the game, they are completly in the wrong. They have to pay the whole medical bill. How are they suppose to do that without any money?...
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...I already knew about the structural influences on mate selection (Zinn, Eitzen 227). I particularly found it interesting, however, the way they explained these in plain text. When the book was talking about how college restricts the pool of potential mates I clapped my hands in agreement. Not particularly that I find it fair, or even good, but one of the reasons I chose OSU compared to a community college was so that I would be around people from a different social class than the one I was a part of back home. Social structure really does limit how navigating through status, class, etc, work. It sounds awful, but wealth relates heavily to resources, and mama needs a new pair of shoes. Not really, but it makes sense that those who you are surrounded by will be the people who potentially mate with and social structures generally keep people away or with each other in terms of race, status, class, and ethnicity....
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...I would first like to say thank you for allowing me to one of the recipients of The OSU Military Dependents Merit Scholarship Fund. My college experience thus far at The Ohio State University has been noteworthy. I often sit and reminisce on how far I have come as a young woman at this vast university. Coming from a small town near the mountains in North Carolina, I can proudly say I am one of the few African Americans who refused to believe that college was beyond my capabilities. In addition, I profoundly foresee myself being the first in my family to graduate from college. In the past three years, I have learned valuable lessons about others, the world, and myself. I have come to the realization that being timid will no longer get me to...
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...Hard Work Pays Off In many ways college is the most important stepping stone to one’s future. College is the transition from being a child to being an adult. By being given more freedom, and also a heavier workload, college makes young adults learn how to better manage their time knowing that there is no longer anyone sticking their necks out pushing them to succeed. For many, a college education, and eventually a degree is a goal they set for themselves long ago. For me, my college education, although helpful towards my future, isn’t necessarily being accomplished to please myself. I was raised, as one would consider a privileged child. By showing my parents respect and doing simple tasks they asked me to do, I was provided the best childhood one could ask for. I wouldn’t consider my family rich by any means, but my parents always found a way to give my brother and I some of the finer experiences in life. From travels, to gifts, to a roof over my head, and food on my plate, you could say I lived a very happy life. Growing up my parents always pushed me to do my very best in school. Though they made it seem like a choice, I knew they wouldn’t truly accept anything but my best effort. I pulled as many A’s as I possibly could, spent most my nights skipping social events to study, and sacrificed a lot of “being a kid” to make my parents proud of me. I was always told that my hard work would pay off in the end. Through out high school I continued pushing myself to get the most...
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...A 19 year-old straight “A” valedictorian with a full ride scholarship to a four year college who was taught since birth that she should never get anywhere near alcohol drops out of said college after only one years worth of attendance. Why did this happen? Because to the law an 18 year-old is an adult, but is not seen responsible enough to drink. She was never exposed to alcohol and because of that went absolutely crazy in college because of the taboo allure paired with peer pressure from other students that may not know the effects of alcohol. Alcohol should be entrusted to all adults, and as the law sees the age 18 as “adult” then that should be the cut off mark. This would have brought attention to the colleges that drinking may happen on...
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...And the college I want to go to is OSU and I hope I go there. I might be going to iraq when my sister’s finish high school because we come to the usa just for my mom and my sister get’s her surgery we're going back I don't know why my dad wants us to go back but I'm mad because I want to stay in the usa instead of go back to iraq all my cousins and uncle’s live in the usa but my aunt's all live in the usa and my mom miss them and I hope I will come back when I grow up and finish but I hope that I come back to the USA when I'm finished and be docter I actually have to go to kuwait because there are a lot of people need help and I want to help them but before I start I will come to the usa one thing usa has made my life better then it was in iraq in school if you...
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...Know Your People Brandon Andrews COM340 Instructor Oguntolu Week 5 Proposal June 17, 2013 Know Your People Overview Technology has overtaken our lives and we have become dependent on computers to complete everyday task. Even the process of completing a degree program from a major university has migrated to the online spectrum. Ashford University is one of the many institutions that are offering students degree plans online but in order to remain successful it must provide the student with more support, reliability and maintain more consistency for students. Formally known as St. Clare College, Ashford University was founded in 1918 as a junior college in Clinton, IA. In 2005, the school was purchased by Bridgepoint Education and the name was changed to Ashford University. The school intends to foster learning on all levels through technology. Although they do a good job of fostering learning, there are a few shortcomings that are being noted by students in all career fields. Statement of Problem The communication seems to break down between students and advisors over time. Upon initial enrollment the student is assigned three important contacts that play an important role in the initial success of the student. The enrollment, financial, and academic advisors do a good job of initially keeping in contact with student. Once the student begins to get in the flow of his/her schedule, the advisors seem to become less and less involved in the students...
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...POLICY CHOICES IN SECONDARY EDUCATION IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES SEEN FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES IN AN AFRICAN COUNTRY A CASE STUDY OF TANZANIA MAINLAND AS SEEN BY TANZANIA TEACHERS’ UNION (TTU)1. A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE LAUNCH SEMINAR OF THE NORWEGIAN POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR AFRICA (NPED) ORGANISERS: THE WORLD BANK, WASHINGTON AND MINISRTY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ROYAL NORWERGIAN GOVERNMENT, NORWAY PRESENTER: EZEKIAH T. OLUOCH DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY TANZANIA TEACHERS’ UNION (TTU) PLACE: VOLSENASEN CULTURE AND CONFERENCE HOTEL OSLO, NORWAY DATES: 13RD – 14TH SEPTEMBER 2006 1. INTRODUCTION: The United Republic of Tanzania was formed out of the union of two sovereign states namely Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Tanganyika became a sovereign state on 9th December 1961 and became a Republic the following year. Zanzibar became Independent on 10th December, 1963 and the People’s Republic of Zanzibar was established after the revolution of 12th January 1964. The two sovereign Republics formed the United Republic of Tanzania on 26th April, 1964. However, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania is a unitary republic consisting of the Union Government (Tanzania Mainland) and the Zanzibar Revolutionary Government (URoT, 2005)2 and it is guided by the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania...
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...Personal Responsibility Jermaine Warner GEN/200 February 26, 2013 Janet Madden Personal Responsibility There is no success in life without personal responsibility. Success can be achieved only when one realizes that it requires some form of responsibility whether it is time management, prioritizing, or simply paying attention. The amount of success have is measured by the ability to be responsible for your own actions. Personal responsibility knows no class. Whether you are poor or rich, personal responsibility has a role in your life. In this essay I will identify with personal responsibility and the effect will have on my academic progress. My initial responsibility is to never repeat the cycle in which I was raised. I grew up in a single parent household with two brothers and four sisters. Life was very difficult growing up. With no father figure in my life, I was never shown the way to pursue success. I just gathered my memories of all the hardships from my adolescence and vowed to never repeat the cycle. My family was evicted from our home several times with no remorse. As a child I never understood why this was happening, as I grew older I realized my mother did not make enough money to pay the monthly bills on time. I am a strong believer that no matter how difficult the journey to adulthood was, there is no excuse to repeat failures you have lived through once before. Personal responsibility was introduced to me at a young age. I moved away...
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...Introduction The Ministry of Education of Bhutan takes charge in providing children with general education from the pre-primary level to Class 12 through the primary education. It is also responsible for training teachers and for the developing the curriculum and teaching-learning materials used in the classrooms. Primary education is provided free for six years under the goal of universal access to this level of education. Primary schools are inexpensive for parents but some of them cannot send their children to schools because of financial difficulties. To address this problem, the government has established the Bhutan Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper to improve access to and quality of primary education. Since the introduction of planned development in the early 1960s, the education system in Bhutan has grown from a mere 400 students in 11 schools to over 160,000 students in over 550 schools around the country. Education today is playing pivotal role not only in meeting country’s human resource needs but also improves the quality of life, which ultimately contribute to the achievement of GNH. Today, we have realized that the success of the country goes through the education system. Towards this, the education sector in Bhutan aspires to provide an education to every single citizen, such that they become the natural resource of the country, not just in terms of helping to plan and implement the further development of the country, but also by acting as a saleable resource...
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...When I look at this picture of myself, I realize how much I've grown and changed, not only physically, but also mentally as a person in the last couple of years. Less than one month after this photograph was taken, I arrived at the [school' s name] in [school' s location] without any idea of what to expect. I entered my second year of high school as an innocent thirteen year-old who was about a thousand miles from home and was a new member of not the sophomore, but “lower-middle” class. Around me in this picture are the things which were most important in my life at the time: studying different types of cars and planes, following Michael Jordan' s latest move, and seeing the latest blockbuster show like “Phantom of the Opera” or “Jurassic Park”. On my t-shirt is the rest of my life- tennis. Midway through my senior year at the special [school' s name] school, the focuses in my life have changed dramatically. If there is one common occurrence which takes place for every single person in the diverse student body at [school' s name], it is that we all grow up much faster for having lived there. I do not know whether this speeding up of the maturing process is generally good or bad, but I definitely have benefited. The classroom has become a whole different realm for me. Before, the teachers and students alike preached the importance of learning, but it was implicitly obvious that the most important concern was grades. At [school' s name] teachers genuinely believe that learning...
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...Maria A. Tisdale Scholarship Essay CHCI February 18, 2011 Computer Science in Information Technology At one point in my life I didn’t know anything about college life. Everyone would say what college did you attend followed by what’s your major and I would answer never been to college. Now, watching my kids get older and heading off to college hopefully I say what I am going to do with myself. I woke up one morning and decided that I wanted better for myself and I can’t keep instilling in my kids to go to college if I never tried. I always loved to work on computers. My friends call me all the time and ask me to help them clean their computers out and install software so they can get rid of their viruses. When I decided to go to college last year in August I picked my major in Computer Science Information Technology. As a college student I have learn to explore life with great expectations and I am looking forward to the opportunities that I can offer. Attending Thomas Nelson I have come across students that are not computer savvy but also can’t afford to pay for classes to teach them how to use a computer. Students come to me and ask for my help because I place ads around the school, I send emails and I let my classmates know that if anybody needs help with learning how to use the computer they can call me. I don’t charge a fee but I do take donations in any form that you can afford. Sometimes what I do is if you need help with a computer and you are...
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...We Should Not All Be Uniform! Every day, millions of teenagers spend between six and eight hours in America’s high schools. They sit at their desks, listen to their teachers, and do their school work. In some of these schools, however, they are also forced to dress in school uniforms. This restriction is really too much. In America’s high schools, students should not be forced to wear uniforms because they take away a student’s sense of individuality, they do not allow for self-expression, and they absolutely do not save families any money. First of all, students should not wear uniforms because they take away a student’s sense of individuality. Imagine this: 30 students sit in desks in a small classroom. Each student wears tan pants and a white shirt. They sit with their school books and papers in front of them. They all look exactly alike. Does this seem right? Of course not! We are all individuals! We are unique in many different ways. Why try to make all students look alike? This idea is supported by testimony from a 17-year-old student forced to wear uniforms. Her story was reported in National Catholic Reporter of March, 2002, and she said, "Everyone hated it. It completely killed any sense of individuality any one of us had. Everyone looked the same. It was sad to 27 Duddles 2 watch" (3). Clearly, students with experience in wearing uniforms feel that they take away a sense of individuality. Next, school uniforms do not allow students to express themselves...
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...History Brief History of Cainta Catholic College Cainta Catholic College dawned through the CICM missionary zeal. In 1931, Rev. Fr. Jose Tajon was parish priest of Our Lady of Light. Since he ran a school at the Manila Cathedral. his former parish, he deemed it wise to open a Catholic School so that the children of the town could avail of primary education. From charity money and donation, Fr. Tajon was able to maintain the school free of tuition fee but with regularly paid teachers. He indeed established a feat of sort, as he was able to have this arrangement even during the duration of the Second World War. Enrolment increased each year up to 1944. The pupils were housed in three classrooms made of nipa and wood. Before Filipino became a national language, it was already part already part of the curriculum though the students spoke English just as well. The school produced most of the leading Catholics in Cainta. All through the pre-war years until the Japanese occupation and the American liberation, classes were continuously conducted. But in December 1944, Fr. Tajon died at the Santiago Hospital, during the shelling for the liberation of Manila. With his death, Cainta Catholic School unfortunately ceased its operation. In 1959, Fr. Daniel Courtens, another CICM priest, was appointed Parish Priest. Having observed the expenses and the risk, the youth of Cainta faced in wanting to have a secondary education offered in neighboring towns, he decided to re-open Cainta...
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