...Deciding what high school to attend is the first real step toward your future. In choosing a school you're essentially investing your trust in the institution to guide you on the correct path toward your college aspirations. That is why I would like the opportunity to entrust County Prep High School with my future. As an institution County Prep offers the best combination of elective courses, diverse and tolerant student life, and clubs to push me in the right direction on my journey to becoming a psychologist. Coincidentally these are all on my metaphorical high school checklist First on my high school checklist are elective courses and the elective courses offered at County Prep are second to none particularly your Medical Science program. Having a wide variety of electives to choose from is important in showing how extensive your knowledge accumulated throughout high school is to college admissions offices. I hope to take psychology my junior year followed by abnormal psychology and sociology my senior year from your medical science program. In addition to taking courses offered in your...
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...certainly doesn’t mean I don’t want to project my concern about the wellbeing of others. I want to make an impact in this world- even if it’s minor. In order to grow as a person and expand this personal aspect, there are goals I want to accomplish: preparing myself for college while still attending high school, majoring in social work, and developing my future career. Deciding to be a social worker wasn’t always a career path I initially wanted to choose. I had trouble narrowing down which career I wanted to pursue, because knowing...
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...Throughout my high school career, I have demonstrated excellent leadership abilities both in and out of school. Having two younger brothers, I have always felt it was my responsibility to be a leader to them, rather I liked it or not. I’ve always wanted to be a good example for them, and I feel that they are part of the reason I am so successful today. Although we have a great father, who raised us in a safe, stable, and happy environment, I knew he did not want me, and my brothers to take the same path he did. Instead of coming straight out of highschool and getting a job to support a family, as he did, he wanted us to go to college, experience life, and travel, before having to worry about supporting a family. From a young age, I always knew...
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... English 215 09, December 2013 Fight Club Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk uses violence for most of recorded history, violence has played a major role in our lives; for example, through country conflicts to world wars, violence seems to be the tool to our defense. Even in our daily lives, when encountered a conflict, we humans want to make it disappear as quick as possible. We do this by using violence unconsciously, whether it is verbally or physically. To the same effect, in his novel Fight Club, Palahniuk reveals violence to be an inescapable cycle. He does this effectively by using violence in the lives of the characters; acting as a form of escape, a gateway to self- realization, a tool for control and a boost of self- esteem. In this novel, Palahniuk uses violence as a form of escape. Fight Club is a support group that is aiming to escape frustrations and to help release built- up emotions; “They never say stop. It’s like they’re all energy, shaking so fast they blur around the edges, these guys are in recovery from something. As if the choice they have left is how they’re going to die and they want to die in a fight” (Palahniuk 139). In other words, Tyler mainly formed Fight Club to allow men to relieve their tension and stress. It is a form of escape for not only the Narrator and Tyler but for the countless other men who flock to Fight Club as well. Moreover, violence seems to have...
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...The Riot Club Essay - September 2015 Introduction We see tendencies of a divide in social classes everywhere in the world. However, it is very interesting that this divide in social classes plays such a big role in one of the most globalized and industrialized nations in the world. Today, children from the wealthiest families gather up in the best elementary schools, high schools and universities in which they get provided the best teachers and the best education as possible. This tendency leaves nothing for the people in the lower classes. The film The Riot Club from 2014 describes these differences very well. It is about Alistair Ryle and Miles Brown, two students at the Oxford University, which both come from rich families. They get invited to join the Riot Club, which is a closed society for the 10 best students at the university. Throughout the film we follow their development in the Riot Club and also touch upon their different point of view on lower social classes. This assignment contains analysis of setting, characterization of main person and themes in the movie The Riot Club. When we are talking about the setting in The Riot Club, we may conclude that we are dealing with the upper class and the richer part of the British society. The film takes place at Oxford University, where we are following two new students. We know Oxford University as one of the finest universities in Great Britain and maybe even one of the most promoted universities on the entire planet...
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...Not only did I improve my writing skills through composing many articles, but I also became involved as I wrote about the various activities that were going on in my school. Most importantly, however, I was doing things that I had never imagined myself doing. In one such instance, I found myself organizing and leading a team that would be interviewing the superintendent of the Middle Country School District. My hard work and commitment in this one project had shown me that I was a leader. My teacher had seen this same talent within me as he promoted me to the editor in chief of our school newspaper. When I say the words out loud, it seems surreal because I did not know that I was capable of doing something so important, just as I did not know that there was still so much of me waiting to be discovered through this position. I soon began to leading a talented group of over forty writers who respected and looked up to me. Together, my team and I have produced the best content that our club has seen in...
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...mastery of these subjects, and I have greatly enjoyed the process. My motivation of taking astronomy as my career started in high school through popular science magazines and books but most importantly, in search of my loved grandfather in the night sky. I made a 12.5 inch dobsonian telescope in my high school and also, participated in many events organized by various astronomy clubs in my city. As I joined college...
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...Have you heard of the Early College program at Waipahu High School? What about the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society? Did you know that Waipahu High School’s Early College program is associated with the Phi Theta Kappa organization? Today, not many Early College students are aware of the Phi Theta Kappa organization being offered at Waipahu High School. Phi Theta Kappa is a college honor society that is also offered to early college students at Waipahu High School. Students are participating in Early College courses, however, are not choosing to be involved in the Phi Theta Kappa organization. Because of this issue, it is important to raise awareness of the availability of honor programs, so students would be motivated by their high achieving peers...
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...common? Why do you think that is? The top 30 highest paying jobs are all jobs in the medicine industry. They all require at least 5 years of higher education and when you are done, you are considered a professional. I also believe that these jobs require a lot of responsibility because sometimes you have other people’s lives under your care. And a person that goes to a hospital doesn’t want anyone who isn’t a professional and undergone lot of learning and studying to take care of the surgery or chemotherapy. MDs in the US receive between 2 and 5 times as much in salary in comparison with most European countries and Canada. One explanation is that the numbers of medical schools in the US are relatively low compared to other industrialized countries and it restricts the number of medical students the country has, and ultimately the number of physicians. The number of law schools in the US has increased with about 50% since 1963 to 200 today. And the opposite has happened with medical schools. Today there are around 130 medical schools in the US which is 22% fewer than what they had 100 years ago. They used to have 166 even though the population has increased by 300%. While the number of medical students has more or less remained constant at 67,000 during 1994 until 2005. Now consider the factors that shift the demand curve – evaluate them for the market for recently graduated medical students. In general, would you expect the demand for medical students to be increasing? Why/why...
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...out of my mouth. I like taking actions, and making a change knowing that I can make a difference. For example: I have been a part of the African American Student Association club for now four years. When I first joined, I was one of five members in the club. I was flabbergasted. How could a school with 700+ African American students only have five members in the club that is suppose to represent them? At this time I was a freshman, yet to fly out of my cocoon, therefore I was too shy to go and recruit some new...
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...class. I kept myself occupied until it finally came time to go to class and I gratefully picked up my stuff and left. The transition from high school to college is exciting, but can be very challenging. When you enter college you face new teachers, a new campus, new classes, and new friends. Most people enter a college knowing no one or few people and it can be difficult to create new friendships. For a freshman commuter, or a freshman who has difficulty meeting people, it’s even harder to develop relationships with fellow students because there is no opportunity. This is an important dilemma and changes should be made in order to benefit the school and make the transition to college for these freshman easier. I propose that, to help get these incoming students more involved and to give them an easier chance to meet people, a new “Freshman Club” should be created at UCR. It’s important for freshman to get involved with the university and to meet new people. If they don’t become involved they don’t feel connected to UCR, and end up not enjoying their life as a student that much . In an informal survey, other freshman commuters told me they have had trouble feeling part of the school and meeting people. Cailena Villa, a first-year commuter student said, “It’s harder to meet people as a commuter, especially since I can’t attend the club meetings I want to be a part of. Most the time, I just go to my classes and then go...
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...The government funds all public school across the country, meaning their ownership over these schools must follow what America stands for based on what's said in the Constitution. In the First Amendment, the clause on Freedom of Religion states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (The 1st Amendment). This secures that all students in school have the right to their own beliefs and practices. This becomes very controversial when multiple ides start to cross paths. Influence or persuasion in any form...
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...Goals I Plan to Accomplish Through a College Education Belleville Township East High School Goals I Plan to Accomplish Through a College Education A college education is one of the most important assets to being successful in the workforce. In today’s society you need at the least an Associate’s Degree to acquire a well-paying job and to live comfortably. I have many goals that I would like to accomplish through my college education. I would like to study Computer Science, join organizations or clubs, and most of all I would like to meet people who have the same values that I do. The reason why I chose Computer Science as my major is because I have a lot of experience working with computers and I enjoy using them. Throughout my senior year in high school my teachers always told me when choosing a career, chose something that I love and enjoy doing. I learn something new about computers all the time, and with information technology changing year after year, computers will always have my interest. While attending college I would like to join organizations and clubs that allow me to help others in the local community and world. I believe it is an important to contribute to society the gifts and talents given to me from God by connecting with people who share the same values as I do. Personals values are very important to me. My parents have instilled strong Christian values in me and my goal through a college education is to continue to share...
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...seventeen years. My education and experiences have led me to be the person that I am today. Without these experiences, good and bad, I would not have been able to grow into the person that I am today. It is through these life lessons that I have learned very important principles for everything from everyday life to personal more situations. I have also been able to have the privilege to be involved in many extracurricular activities that have also strengthened my knowledge. Through these activities I have able to acquire many different important life skills, in everything from public speaking to music comprehension. As a high school senior, I have been required to, in a sense, look back on my high school career as a whole. This process has been very...
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...Dressing Appropriately In high school, there were the preps, the skaters, and the burnouts, just to name a few. These groups were not only distinguished by the way they acted, but they were also differentiated by the way they dressed. By looking at a particular student in high school, one could probably infer the clique he/she belonged to. So if a person had on big, baggy pants with a oversized T-shirt that had a Etnies logo on it, one could conclude that person to be a skater and if a person had on khakis and a gap sweater, one could deduce that person to be a prep. What is a possible reason that high school students dress as they do? They might use clothing style as a sense of identity(clique) or maybe to stand out among others. I too, in high school, wanted to be included in a group and stand out. During my freshman and sophomore years, I became a skater. Also during this time in my life, my father introduced me to the game of golf. He bought me membership at an exclusive country club and the first day I went I was rejected obviously because of the way I dressed. Private golf courses require strict rules of dress which is mandatory: khakis and a collared-shirt. Ironically and unknowingly I had gone to the course with an almost exact opposite of the requirements: 38" wide jean pants and an XXL t-shirt! Embarrassed by the situation, I began to realize that there are certain modes of dress appropriate for different occasions. Now, as a college student, I try to...
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