...This class has helped me learned many things about what to expect in college. The first thing I learned in class was the location of the Writing Center. When I moved to college, I did not have a clue where any of the buildings were located. However, I soon learned where the Writing Center is located because we had a class there. It is important for me to know where the Writing Center is located because it is likely I will need to go there while I am in college. Another thing I learned in class was how to form an appropriate email. In class we had an etiquette email assignment. I always knew how to write an email, but I never knew how I should address a professor in college. I learned that for this class I could say “Dear Kate”, but if I emailed...
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...is a process of gaining general knowledge while college education is a process of building in-deep knowledge, decision-making abilities, critical thinking, and self-management mentally for mature life. Therefore college education is very important to me because it provides me invaluable knowledge for my personal abilities for growth; meaningful and useful experience; and especially higher career opportunities. Firstly, college education equips me from invaluable and in-depth knowledge to obtaining qualities, skills for myself to grow. College theory and practical courses, assessments, tests, homework encourage me to read, to do research , to think and to ask questions as well as to discover new ideas and information. All these assets will help in contribution for my development and growth. “College is a small introduction to what life will be like after college, on a personal and professional level. Most importantly college helps to gain knowledge in personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is a state of being that enables you to hold yourself accountable for your actions and make independent choices.” Therefore college education gives me strength, power and confidence in my life because it helps me know how to analyze problems, be able to figure out suitable solutions to those problems and be able to make my own decision through experience that I learn every day from college lectures and college life. Secondly, college education is not only to gain knowledge; but it...
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...must include the entire legal notice at bottom. Contributors:Elyssa Tardiff, Allen Brizee. Summary: This resource describes why outlines are useful, what types of outlines exist, suggestions for developing effective outlines, and how outlines can be used as an invention strategy for writing. Four Main Components for Effective Outlines Ideally, you should follow the four suggestions presented here to create an effective outline. When creating a topic outline, follow these two rules for capitalization: For firstlevel heads, present the information using all uppercase letters; and for secondary and tertiary items, use upper and lowercase letters. The examples are taken from the Sample Outline handout. Parallelism—How do I accomplish this? Each heading and subheading should preserve parallel structure. If the first heading is a verb, the second heading should be a verb. Example: I. CHOOSE DESIRED COLLEGES II. PREPARE APPLICATION ("Choose" and "Prepare" are both verbs. The present tense of the verb is usually the preferred form for an outline.) Coordination—How do I accomplish this? All the information contained in Heading 1 should have the same significance as the information contained in Heading 2. The same goes for the subheadings (which should be less significant than the headings). Example: 1. VISIT AND EVALUATE COLLEGE CAMPUSES 2. VISIT AND EVALUATE COLLEGE WEBSITES 1. Note important statistics 2. Look for interesting classes (Campus and Web sites visits are equally significant...
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...pointless because I felt like I wasn’t going to learn anything that was going to be useful. But when we started gradually going into good conversation and started having discussions about things that would help us in life my thoughts began to change. What I found useful about cornerstone was the topics we learned and the discussions we had. I found the GPS assignment to be really helping it gave me a lot of help and made me more knowledgeable about college. And I found the True Colors activity we did in class helpful in the course also. Every single time we did a presentation in class I always left the class with something knowledgeable and useful to me that was one key reason why I love attending class. I like how the discussions we had made you think and put the way you think or how you act into perspective. I feel like what we learn will help us in the future as individuals because there’s not many courses you take in college that you can later in the future put what you learn to use. The topics about critical thinking helped me evaluate and rethink the way I handle situations. I also found the professor to be helpful also because every time we do have presentations he would give us...
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...controversy on whether or not "smart drugs" should be allowed on college campuses, is if they give an unfair advantage against students who do not use smart drugs. What makes using Adderall a bad thing? Well, along with all other drugs, Adderall has many side effects. Some of these include; weight loss, loss of appetite, dizziness, and nervousness. When deciding to take Adderall, the consumer should be informed of the do's and don'ts to prevent these harsh side effects. When using this drug properly, it can make a college students learning career more smooth and effective when it comes to retaining information. What makes using Adderall a good thing? Students become more alert and focused on school work when taking Adderall. It also makes studying a lot easier and allows the brain to retain more information that will be needed on test day. In my opinion, I feel smart drugs, such as Adderall, should be admitted to college students across the U.S. I feel if more students could have legal access to using Adderall, it could make their college learning experience more beneficial. In a recent survey conducted by me, I took the time to survey a total of 35...
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...Matthew “Indiana Cuts Prison College Courses”, Prison Privileges and Education. March 2012, p40, web Clarke wrote that “9 million in financial aid for college programs for prisons has been cut”. The DOC will now concentrate and put the money into programs for work skill certificates or on a two year associates degree. The information provided by Clarke was helpful and very useful because it was written by a prisoner. The information he provided from his point of view on the inside of it all helped to add research and arguments into my research. It also helps you understand more on what type of education was provided to the inmate and why. Good read for anyone who is doing a research on schooling or inmates and their education. Rawe, Julie “Indiana Prisons End College Degree Programs” Indiana Public Media 26, June 2012 Web As of June 2012 the prisons around Indiana cut the budgets, now the DOC is trying to decide if they should bring the education degrees for the inmates or work release programs to allow a job to the inmates after released from prison. Rawe explains why the cost for inmate education has been cut and the new programs they are looking into for the inmates to have a better life afterwards to not make the same mistakes. Some inmates take the education to heart and use it after release as for some just do it to get an early release date. The info was reliable and easy to understand, Rawe explained from both points of view why the colleges can’t afford to educate...
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...According to Stewart Todd, an expert on college graduation rates around the United States, most of 59% of Americans over the age of 25 do not have a college degree. In fact, the education rate of Americans has decreased in the last century or more. Obviously, many students are not completing degrees in higher education. Although college is challenging. I will be successful by listening to advice from experts, by developing strategies, and by taking advantage of the benefits offered by my college. I realize that college will be challenging for me because I am a high school graduate from another country, and I am going back to school after nine years. This is my second semester in college. During my first semester, I had English as a Second...
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... It is a process that assists you in organizing your information. It also is useful in the fact that you are able to keep all of your steps in order. The steps that are in the Scientific Method are Observation and Questioning, Hypothesis, Testing, Results, Explanation, and New Question. The Observation and Questioning step is very important. In this step we look at what we want to do an experiment on. In the Hypothesis step, you guesstimate what the outcome of the experiment will be. I feel that the Testing step is self-explanatory. In this step you perform your experiment and test the hypothesis you came up with in the previous step. After you perform your experiment, you have the Results step. This is where you have your outcome. If your outcome supports your hypothesis, then you are able to go onto the next step of the process. But there are times that your outcome will be different than your hypothesis, if this is the case you go back to the beginning of the process. If this happens, you have to do all of the steps all over again. Next we have the Explanation step. You need to figure out an explanation that addresses the question that you are experimenting. The final step is the New Question step. Here you come up with the conclusion to your experiment. Quite often your conclusion could lead to a whole new set of questions, in which would lead to new experiments (Axia College, n.d.). For the online experiment, I picked the question of “Have you ever wondered...
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...Out of College: 101 College is like looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane. Many students may question themselves on rather they should drop out at least a couple times a week. It just is not for some people, but worry no more. I am going to explain how to flunk out of college swiftly and efficiently. No more crying at least three times a week and eating ramen noodles for every meal. Where one sits in the classroom says a lot about someone. First, sit in the very back of the classroom. This basically indicates no fascination in being there. This is great because shopping online and texting is so much easier. Oh, and falling asleep. This is so simple to do and requires completely no effort at all. It is one of the best things to do. All one has to do is stay out all night partying with friends. Partying can be the next step to the process of flunking out of college. Parties happen quite often in college so finding one isn't hard to do. Joining a sorority or fraternity can also guarantee to be invited to parties. Make sure not to be one of those boring people at parties. Learn how to do it, and do it well. Who cares if there is a test to study for the next day, stay out all night and don't go home until the sun is coming up. The main goal is to not know anything on the test so failure is basically a guarantee. Next, do not take many notes in class. Whatever the professor is saying is not useful in flunking out of college, so who...
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...The Electoral College: The Fear of Mobocracy Katherine Kinert Olympic College, Bremerton Abstract The Electoral College is a very important part of the United States Electoral System. However, very few Americans actually understand how it works. The lack of political efficacy in this country is a large reason of why some people do not think the Electoral College should be abolished. However, as Eric Black (2012) stated in an article on PBS News Hour, “Polls for many years have reliably shown that a majority of Americans would prefer a straightforward popular vote for the presidency.” Originally the Electoral College was established to prevent majority factions from having too much power causing mobocracy to occur. However, this system is outdated and the conditions that prompted the founding fathers to institute this precaution no longer exist today. Also, the fact that almost all the states use a winner-take-all system to determine which candidate gets all of the electoral votes for the state. Will abolishing the Electoral College rid the United States from mobocracy? Introduction The Electoral College is outdated and does not follow the true spirit of American Democracy. David Stewart (2013), a lawyer in Washington, D.C., states that, “Because most people knew little about public events or leaders from distant states, the convention delegates reasoned, they would not make a wise choice between presidential candidates.” Today, people have access to information through TV...
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...Google. I typed "medical billing, job availability, no experience, associates degree" in the search engine. I got 317,000 results. I went through the first two pages and found two useful hits. I looked for websites specifically ending in anything other than .com. The first website I found useful was www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/getting-first-mabc-job/. The page that loaded was a video on how to get a job without any experience, after...
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...INTRODUCTION Education aims to provide learning and knowledge, also to enhance the skills and abilities of every student, to bring competence, and guide them with positive attitudes and values. Quality education is considered as an important factor to produce globally competitive professionals in order to build a strong nation and to bring out the best way to get along with global competition. Education is facing challenges in terms of worldwide movement of international students mostly from the Asian and African continents to universities in the West to provide an important source of income to those receiving universities (Biggs and Tang, 2010). In trying to strengthen the quality assurance system in Philippine higher education, institutions of higher learning were mandated to upgrade higher education curricular offerings to international standards (Valdez, 2012). There is a growing worldwide concern among the stakeholders of education that the present educational system does not prepare students adequately for life and work in the 21st century. (ncrel.org) In order to remain responsive to these challenges, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) need to continuously assess correctly the organization’s strategic needs and ever-evolving business process requirements in terms of core, operational and management competencies. This has prompted many educators across the globe to explore new ways of designing education including a review of the curriculum, the instructional processes...
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...Student success reflection This is my first semester in America. Like what I expected, I spent a wonderful but tension life here. Before I came to America, I have heard that learning in America is a burden for every student. Although saying like this is a little negative, when I faced various papers and assignments, I believed. However, the best achievement I have gained from here is organizing my time better than before and adjusting to new life more quickly. When I was in China, I gave little presentations, but after I came to America, I gave approximate 5 presentations in one semester. From others’ presentations, I also have learnt much healthy and useful knowledge that I cannot learn from class. During this whole semester, all classmates are divided into four groups to give their own presentations. Four ladies are the presenters of the first presentation, whose topic is community. They introduced us different forms of community, like religion community, sport community and learning community. Since this is my first year to live in a foreign country, religion community is very unfamiliar to me. However, through their introduction, I acquired that some community is organized based on faith, so the people who have the same faith can communicate their views with each other. For me, I barely socialized in school, but after their presentation I want to participate in some communities, because I learnt that there are amount of benefits. For example, joining to a learning community...
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...time frame. However, most of the articles are within the last 5 years. Some of the search keywords used was organizational change, organizational behavior, and resistance to change. The results of the article analysis found that organizational change is a very complex process. Leaders, managers, change managers and employees have a lot of factors to consider and find solutions for in order for a change to be successful. Some of the common reasons that caused changes to fail are; employee’s attitudes, lack of employee empowerment, forcing employees to change the status quo, employees felt threatened by the change, perceived loss of jobs, new boss, new responsibilities, employees don’t understand the intent of the change, change doesn’t make sense, past experiences and group dynamics play a part. Resistance can be overt or covert. The differences in value congruence and organizational culture of small working groups, the individual and the organization as a whole must also be considered. In order for the change to be a success the leaders must study, analyze, and develop the plan around these conditions. The plan has to be well thought out, the intent and goals understood by the employees, the employees should be involved, identify, fix, and solve conflict or resistance issues that form, and lastly the plan must be adaptable as the process of change occurs. Annotated Bibliography Bouckenooghe, D. (2010). Positioning Change Recipients’ Attitudes Toward Change in the ...
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...Influence of Moral Reasoning Focusing on the actions, not the abuse, select one person involved in this case(Assistant Coach/Athletic Director/State Attorney General/School President, etc.) and discuss the following: * What were the actions taken by the person you chose? * What was the impact of those actions? * If you had held the same position, what action would you have taken? * How did your moral reasoning impact your decision? Focusing on the actions by the college athletes involved in this article, they apparently needed to have sufficient grades to be eligible to play in “bowl games” for their sports. Some of those who were lacking academically, but still wished to compete in the bowls, looked for an “easy out.” They found this easy out in the form of schools offering online classes which only lasted 10 days. These courses didn’t provide much substance or learning for the students, however they did get the student athletes an “easy A” so that they would be academically qualified for bowl games. The student athletes who chose this route may have managed to academically qualify themselves for bowl games, but it could be argued that they did not gain anything from doing so. The courses described in the article would likely be easily passed by a grade school or middle school student. The courses lasted only 10 days, so even if there was some sort of substance to be taken away from the class, these student athletes wouldn’t have had very much time to absorb...
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