...high school. A pilgrimage depends in travel, and so a pilgrim, or high school student, must be prepared to go far and wide. High school is a pilgrimage, every student is a pilgrim united under a common goal: Graduation. The obstacles that are overcome in The Pilgrim’s Progress by the main character, Christian, correlate to the obstacles a student faces on her way to Graduation. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, the pilgrims face a series of obstacles and thwarters on their way to the Celestial City. They have to overcome their obstacles one by one. For me, achieving the grades that I needed to be successful in high school was not an easy thing for me to do. Over the course of my high school career I struggled to maintain a grade point average (GPA) that I thought would appease my parents and would also be high enough to get me into a good college. I have never been the greatest mathematician. It is difficult for me to remember to check my simple addition, so I have always struggled with making many small errors when it really counts. I have a big problem with rushing through equations. During a test, I am worried that I will forget how to do something that I studied...
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...Psych 100 Term Paper Psychological factors can be related to many different problems, one problem that had personally affected me was the grades I got my freshman year of college. I started my college career struggling a little bit and often wondered how I could raise my grades and improve my GPA until I was satisfied with the grades I would get. Coming to college I was finally on my own with no one to wake me up, make me do homework, or go to class. These all led to my GPA not being exactly where I wanted it to be along with a number of psychological factors that have all been introduced throughout lecture and the readings. The four different chapters I can relate this problem most too would have to be those on stress, personality, motivation and social psychology. Stress is one of the main leaders for college students and low GPA’s and I believe it had a lot to do with my original GPA from my freshman year. Living here on campus is extremely overwhelming at first for a freshman here at UMass Amherst. There are so many events that you can attend, RSOs that you can join, and other things in town and campus. It is also the first time moving away from home and that can lead to stress because no one is around to remind you about things that you may forget to do. The classes here at UMass were also extremely different from any classes I took at my high school. I was used to smaller classes of about 20-25 students that were all mostly my friends, now I was being thrown into a...
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...amount of sleep we receive each day affects a number of different parts in our lives which makes sleeping such a vital part of a person’s life. This is why I am so interested in this topic about how sleep affects your performance in school positively or negatively. “An area that researchers study is the impact that a lack of adequate sleep has on learning and memory. When we are sleep deprived, our focus, attention, and vigilance drift, making it more difficult to receive information” (Harvard University, 2008). Sleep plays such an important role in learning because if you are not getting a good amount a sleep, you won’t have the energy needed to possess the information that you are being taught because your brain didn’t receive the proper amount of rest to help it function at its best. “Without adequate sleep and rest, over-worked neurons can no longer function to coordinate information properly, and we lose our ability to access previously learned information” (Harvard University, 2008). Getting enough sleep every day is important because it affects your daily life in so many different ways that causes your academic performance to slip as well. The effect of sleep on academic performance affects college students the hardest. “Many students believe that it is a rite of passage to stay up all night during college and it’s kind of fun” (Yahalom, 2007). “But if you use all-nighters, your GPA is slightly lower than average. Pulling all-nighters compromises your overall sleep and makes...
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...years at Wingate Christian School (a representation of Briarcrest Christian School in the Suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee), his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuophy, and on to his position as one of the most highly popular prospects in college football. For her performance, Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The film itself also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. For 17 years, Michael Oher) has been in foster care with different families. Every time he is sent to a new home, he runs away. One of his friend's fathers, whose couch Mike had been sleeping on, enrolls him into a Christian school, after the father convinces the coach that "Big Mike" is a natural athlete, yet he refuses to beat people to the ground. The coach convinces the school principal to enroll him in the school. After school one day, Michael(Quinton Aaron) meets Sean "SJ" Jr. (Jae Head), who quickly make friends with Michael. Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) is a interior designer, mother to SJ and Collins (Lily Collins), and wife to Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw). After a pre- holiday Thanksgiving school festival, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road, shivering in the freezing cold; she pities his situation and offers him a place to spend the night. The next morning, much to her dismay, she finds Michael...
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...students share and differ in these aspects of high school. Three-a-days in addition to summer workouts, practice five days a week, a multitude of games, the playoffs, the injuries, and the pressure are all the difficulties and grinds a typical high school student-athlete faces. Whereas regular students face the standard seven-hour school day, maybe an hour or two of club activities, and then seven free hours to do whatever one might desire. A student-athlete faces practices and workouts until the evening only to come home to eat a quick dinner and hit the books hard studying late into the night. With practices or games lasting so late into nights, student-athletes face restricted time in available free time for necessary studying and sleeping. On the other hand, regular students arrive home from school in the late afternoon with hours ahead of them before even a family dinner or a primetime television show is broadcasted. Thus, providing regular students with necessary study time to achieve “nerd” status and make the oh so honorable “straight A’s”. Although student-athletes struggle in receiving necessary study time and free time to achieve high grades and do as they please, they are required to go to school (forget about those few jocks that skip) five days a week and take the same classes, receive the same number of...
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...importance of sleep that leads to control weight issues and boosting our memory. Main Idea : 1. Boost our memory 2. Control weight issues Introduction Attention Getter “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book”, which is from one of the Irish proverbs. Due to more laughter and sufficient sleep, we could live longer. As a teenager, we need to get at least 8 hours of sleep every day. So, are you getting enough sleep? Reveal Topic For your information, in average, human will spend about 20-25 years sleeping time over 75 years of life span. That is about one-third of our life time. This figure is quite shocking as we never realise that sleeping has become our essential life process. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), sleeping plays a crucial role in good health and well-being throughout our life. Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Moreover, sleeping will bring positive effects to our daily health, including the most important defence of our body, the immune system. Thus, getting less sleep than the recommended time per night may reduce the effectiveness of our immune system. Establish Credibility According to Professor Carlyle Smith, who do researches on psychology in Trent University; found out that students who study all day long and party hard at night in the weekend may lose a lot what they have learned. Sleep deprivation may cause a deficit in learning of about 30%. Most of the student...
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...according to the rules of George Mason University. You have until 1:00 PM, Tuesday, December 10, 2002, to complete the following questions. I estimate the exam should not take much more than one hour of your time to complete. Turning in your exam You may physically hand in your exam at the Economics Department before 1:00 PM by either handing it to me personally or to one of the department secretaries (Karen or Cathy). You may also email your exam to me before the due date/time. Finally, you may also fax your exam to 703-993-1133 (note the fax number on the syllabus is incorrect). 1. Suppose it is late in the semester and you have two exams left. You must decide how to allocate your working time during the study period. After eating, sleeping, exercising, and maintaining some...
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...yourself in middle school by taking the most rigorous math and English courses that your middle school had to offer. Some middle schools don't have tracking for their classes, but some do offer Honors courses as early as seventh or eighth grade. Being in these courses will set you on a path to honors courses in high school, so make sure you've laid the groundwork for this. * You can move up in English more easily, but once you're "locked" into a math track, it'll be harder to move ahead. For example, if you're in regular Algebra in 8th grade, you'll have to go to regular Geometry in 9th unless you've really proven yourself. Ad 2. 2 Learn how your school chooses its valedictorian. Some schools rank students with an unweighted GPA, while others award extra points for harder classes. Most schools do offer extra points for taking harder courses so you should aim to take these; and even if your school doesn't offer extra points for harder courses, you should still aim for success; after all, if you want to be valedictorian, then you...
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...could possibly and most likely happen then the teachers should reconsider. If my first and second period is important for my GPA and for my college credit and I am half asleep with all of those symptoms then my grades will fall all thanks to the school starting early. The article goes on to say that a teacher from Minnesota shifted the starting time of the school from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Both the students and their parents were please for what the teacher had done for the students. Here is a review from Edina a tenth grader “I am completely awake in my first class, where before I was tired for the first few hours of school”. The teacher even said that since she shifted the time to later many kids were getting better grades and not falling asleep during class. The teachers at our school should change the time so that we could get better grades for their class and also so that we do not fall asleep in their class and not understand anything that they say. It is important that the teachers change the starting time of the schools so the children can do better and focus more during their class period and not doze off when the teacher is teaching. This matters because it helps kids be able to learn more and understand what they are learning and even help out with their speech. If the teachers change the starting time of the school to match with the kids sleeping pattern the children would perform better at academics and have more rest. If the time changes both the students and their parents...
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...assignments. Doing the same thing over and over again becomes tedious and boring, which lead me to put more time in sleep because when sleeping, there is always something new that I dream about, which sparks my interest. In psychology, there are four stages of sleeps, in which each of the stages plays a necessary role in one’s health. The first stage of sleep is the beginning stage in which you are half aware of your surroundings and beginning to feel your heart rate lower. The second stage of sleep is when you are not aware of your surroundings and you become more unmobile. Waking up at this stage could cause one to not remember a single thing about what they were dreaming about. In stage three of sleep, the person’s heart rate begins to slow down and brain activity rises. In stage four of sleep, the person is in deep sleep, and blood pressure lowers. In this stage, human growth hormone is released to help heal the body, by growing and repairing. Rapid Eye Movement is also a key process in sleep that helps restore the brain and filter out all the junk cramped inside. Non Rapid Eye Movement is another key process in sleep that helps restore the body, and releases growth hormones to help the body repair and grow. Non Rapid Eye Movement also help the immune system fight off infections. These stages are necessary for the body because without sleeping for seven to eight hours, the body will not be able to conserve energy and allow the brain to recharge. In my case, if the brain is...
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...students are those who are following the normal flow of the given subjects to be passed, while irregular students are those who may have difficulties or problems in their given subjects. Those problems and difficulties may be defined or given, but needs further explanation. “There have been a number of studies researching the factors that affect a person’s grade point average (GPA). Many of these factors include family life, personality characteristics, employment, and extracurricular activities. Lee and Lee (2007) found that family closeness is a key factor in determining a child’s academic performance. Their results indicated that students who rated their family closeness at a higher level displayed an ability to adjust to their schools better, which could enhance academic performance because they were more comfortable in their environment. Although not suggesting that the closeness of the family is a predictor of GPA, the Halawah study (2006) did indicate that children whose parents were involved in their education and encouraged them to do their work had significantly higher GPAs.” (The Impact of Sleepiness Levels on Academic Achievement for College Students Vol. 7) Though it is not a requirement to have personal closeness with the family members, the study have concluded that having supportive parents gives a huge impact on the student’s academic performance. The less...
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...had never heard of a scribe but it sounded like the perfect job. I took a chance and applied. Once I passed the training I found out there were only three 12 hour shifts to available: 6AM-6PM, 11AM-11PM, and 6PM-6AM. At the time my schedule was incompatible with weekday shifts; the same was true for most of my newly hired co-workers. They could only promise me one shift a weekend. Working only one shift a week wasn’t going to bring in enough money to pay for any college or living expenses. During those months I continued to work at Chick-fil-a. They didn’t let me cut back on hours so I was working 30+ hours a week on top of being a fulltime student. Every free minute during that time was devoted to studying or sleeping. My social life was sacrificed to maintain a high GPA and the clinical experience scribing gave me. Although I earned decent grades during that time, I was still disappointed with the fact that I got three Bs. I didn’t want work to interfere with my goal to get into medical school. I knew I had to cut back at work to ensure better grades. From that point forward I made my class schedule around the three 12 hours shifts at the hospital. With the extra hours there I was able to quit Chick-fil-a. Even then, it was challenging to find a work/school balance but once I did I began to look for volunteer opportunities, specifically those with clinical experience. The hospitals close by had volunteers but they could only work desks or the gift shops. I stumbled upon Legacy...
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...Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Survey estimates that mental disease, including stress-related disorders, will be the second leading cause of disabilities by the year 2020" (World Health Organization: 1990). In today's fast paced society it is common for people to experience stress in various aspects of their lives. Due to the ever evolving and increasing amounts of responsibilities the average college student has to manage on a daily basis, there is an urgent need for appropriate stress management skills in the following main causes of stress in a college student’s life: personal, academic, and financial. Let's further clarify these areas. Personal - balance of family and social life; academic - challenge of maintaining mandatory GPA; financial - stress of the cost of education and the need to garner and maintain gainful employment to cover these costs. Academic success is contingent upon the student's ability to properly manage these top causes of stress by implementing a regiment of academic time management, dietary and social health wellness routines, and by consistently harnessing available resource networks. Let’s consider how the effects of stress impact the economy. Although the term "stress" is used in a wide variety of contexts, it has consistently been proven that individuals with stress and related conditions experience impaired physical and mental functioning, and increased use of health care. Subsequently, this has caused an increase in global economic...
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...understanding among students and parents about Pre AP classes and General Biology classes. Many parents are not enrolling their children in Pre AP because they are told the class is fast pace, rigor and only for top students in the school. This leads to: overcrowding of General Biology classes, mixture of slow and fast pace learners and many discipline problems. This memo is a request to change the name of the biology classes to Pre AP- 04, Pre AP- 03 and Pre AP - 02 Biology. There are several reasons why General Biology should be eliminated. Students think they have to work less, the work is less challenging than Pre AP, the class is an easy “A”, less is expected of them and they will be graded on a curve. These students are sleeping through their education. If we required more of them, we will get more. If the name sound more challenging, I believe they would work harder. Jacobs (2004) states that teachers and administrators must consider “… the empty chair …” which represents all students in a given school or district, and “… all work must focus on Johnny, and all comments and questions are welcomed as long as they are in his best interest” (p. 2). Second, if it is in the students’ best interest to change, modify, stop, start, or maintain curriculum practices, programs, and/or other related issues, there must be data-based proof to do so (Jacobs, 2002). All teachers should differentiate instructions to meet the needs of all students in every class, not just reserve...
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