...different. This is why I think there is no definite answer as to whether or not one should go to college. For some people, college is the best thing that ever happens to them. These people are those who do not mind going to school. If one hates school, college will most likely not be a positive experience for them. College is just like anything else if you dread it, it will not be a positive experience. More so, those who do not enjoy going to school may not graduate. This would be an extreme waste of money for some people. Starting college but not getting a degree is like lighting your money on fire. There is no point in paying for college if one’s desired career does not require a college degree. If someone...
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...College Essay Most college scholarships ask you to write a 500+ word essay, which isn’t that bad, but what is the reason behind it? Do most people that require an essay ever read them? Seriously, who has time to read a 1000+ word essay and chose from the best. Personally, that doesn’t seem to be fair because most people have trouble writing a paragraph, and then we are expected to write a huge essay telling about something in our life or respond to a weird question with a topic that most people won’t even think about. With topics such as, “Explain how your life changed with a death of a parent,”or “How would college affect your career,” or even “Why I deserve this scholarship.” Well, I’m going to explain everything I possibly can. The death of any parent would make anyone change, because no one is the same; we are all unique. With my dad’s death I didn’t know how to act for the longest time, and I still don’t; I say this because the day my father died, the doctor called all of my family back where he lay, hooked up to life support, lifeless. Just looking at his body, I didn't feel anything; however, I looked at the situation as is he wasn’t really dead because I was 12 and didn’t know...
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...Why should athletes not be paid? I’m going to tell you why the college athletes should not be paid. You should care about this topic because it is a problem that colleges face and if you want to play sports in college you might want to be paid for them but you get to choose to play sports or not. What some don’t know is that you shouldn’t have to get paid to play a sport that you chose to do. Today, I am going to try and persuade you why college athletes should not be paid. In college playing a sport is a privilege because most people that play sports in high school don’t play in college. What reason do athletes need more money, each year there are billions given to college athletes, the athletic scholarship averages over the schools tuition. Here is an example Ohio State of a little over $10,000 a year and the scholarship is $17,856 (Anderson). If they wanted to get paid let’s say a $100,000 salary that isn’t bad but a salary is affected by federal and state taxes. A student with a salary would have to pay a total of $34,900. That means the student only has $65,100. And college expenses get to $65,000 then then what was $100,000 is only $100, so is getting paid and having a salary better...
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...High School, 2014. I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to come and be your guest speaker. The speech that I am going to give today will influence your life in many ways. You have the choice of taking the following statements for granted or listening and follow these simple steps that I am going to give to you today. There are many ways students entering Pierce College will succeed in their academic performances and many ways to fail as well. I am going to discuss with you the process of failing at Pierce College and not being able to get to the place you are all expecting. A bad student behavior consists of poor habits, traits, characteristics, and academic performance. There can be many reasons to failing in college. One reason is that college is simply a big change from high school. Students who were once good students may find their grades slipping in college. There are many reasons why some students don’t thrive at a university and begin failing their courses and in my opinion these are the major reasons why they fail. Most of students do have a lower expectation of the workload that will eventually stress them out. I’m going to give you direction and guide to the way not to behave before class, during class and after class. Make sure you do not do any of the followings and prepare yourself for a good start in Pierce College. Before coming to class, students tend to not review their notes for a quiz and they wait until the last minute to do homework. Doing...
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...homeschooled for many reasons. If parents are always going one-on-one with them, how are these children ever going to be able to talk to other people? Communication skills are lost when a child is homeschooled. Kids can work independently at school, but going to school lets them work with other students on projects, homework, etc. They won’t be able to work with others. Children work for knowledge while homeschooled, but we strive for that at a public school too. We also care about grades, because it helps us learn it is okay to fail or do bad. Kids that go to public school can do just as well as homeschooled kids on ACT and SAT tests. There are less kids homeschooled and more kids that go to public school, so averages are higher for homeschooled children. Homeschooling can be bad in many different ways. The Negative Effects and Aspects of Homeschooling, shows how homeschooling can be bad. The topics the author writes about include: time, cost, socialization, lack of facilities, patience, and motivation. The author is saying parents need to invest time and money, the child won’t be able to interact with others as well, kids don’t have facilities to use, and it is hard to be patient and motivate your child while homeschooling. The author of this article is against homeschooling. These are all reasons why homeschooling is a bad...
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...for High school, and High school prepares young adults for the work force or college. School is designed to prepare people for the next stage of their lives, I think of it as practice. I am in college to prepare for a career and not a job, my education is the difference between being happy with my work and working to live, as of now I am not fulfilling my duties as a student. I often ask myself why am I here, sometimes I ignore the question other times my answer varies from “to make your dad proud” or to “prove your mom wrong”. Neither of those answers is honest or is a product of consideration and deep thought. The actual reason why I’m here is because this is the only way I can get to where I want to be in life. I want to teach preschool and I am here to prepare and educate myself on what it takes to be an educator. I am going to be honest, I am a very lazy person and if I am going to work I want to be doing something that I actually enjoy doing. I want to live to work and not work to live. I don’t want to work hard at something and my only reward is the money at the end of the day, I want to go home and be proud of what I’ve spent my day doing. I feel like money is often mistaken with happiness so people worry less about what makes them happy than what makes them money. I can’t bring myself to do this so I am here to prepare myself for my future career and not my future job. I’m not going to say that my education means everything to me but it is very important....
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...1. What is your intake on college athletes getting paid? 2. If any, are there any benefits of paying college athletes? 3. What are the cons of paying athletes? 4. If they did decide to pay athletes, how do you think the process of paying the athletes work? 5. How would paying athletes affect the NCCA? 6. Would the wealthiest programs get all of the best talent? 7. How would it affect professional sports like the NBA, MLB, NFL, and MLS? 8. Would players stay in college longer instead of going pro? 9. Would it be fair? 10. What would you to if it did happen? Compiling sources (due May 24-26): List the specific sources that you are using for your research. For each, you will describe the information from the source. You will need to answer these questions for each source: What new information did you learn? Was the information helpful in adding to your knowledge about the topic? Why or why not? Would you recommend this source/site to someone else doing research on your topic? Why or why not? Source 1: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-08-31-pros-cons-pay_x.htm New Information you learned: I learned why it is good to pay college athletes and why it is bad to pay them. Your opinion of the website as to whether it helped you to further your understanding of the topic and if you would recommend it: Source 2: http://www.thepostgame.com/commentary/201103/paying-college-athletes-whats-right-amount New Information you learned: I learned about controversy...
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...FRATERNITY PROBLEM AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN TAGUM CITY Research Paper Presented to Prof. Esterlita Pacal English 201, 7:30 Caser, Novy Jane H. Tambis,Jennel Calledo, Jappet John S. September1,2014 Acknowledgement Every project big or small is successful largely due to the effort of wonderful people who have always given their valuable advice or lent a helping hand. We sincerely appreciate the inspiration; support and guidance of all those people who have been instrumental in making this term paper a success. We, Novy Jane H. Caser, Jennel Tambis, and Jappet John S. Calledo, the students of University of Mindanao Tagum College (UMTC), we extremely thankful to our beloved advicer Mrs. Esterlita Pacal for his exemplary guidance, monitoring and constant encouragement throughout the course of this termpaper. The blessing, help and guidance given by her time to time shall carry us a long way in the journey of our life. Besides our adviser, we would like to thank our Parents: Mr. & Mrs. Antonio P. Caser, Jr, Mr. & Mrs. Joselito R. Calledo for supporting our studies financially and emotionally.We also thank them for their unconditional love and trust even though they’re not always in our side. We would like to thank also these following persons : Ms. Rheabel Kaye Hernandez for helping us and guiding us to make this term paper, without her we never complete it successfully; Ms. Marissa Doylabo for lending her laptop ; and Ms. Marjorie...
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...interesting news. It seemed my kindergarten teacher had already decided on an area of careers that I was going to pursue. When they began talking the first thing that she told them was, “ I can already tell just by watching Dylan this year so far that he will have a career with hands on social activity. He is not afraid to talk to anyone and always helps everyone when they are sad. He’s also very importunate as well.” I was repressed this story until I was about 16 because that was about the age I told my parents I want to do something with Psychology. I feel as though I am someone who’s very accost. I also watch a lot of criminal investigation shows as well, which helps with the forensic part of my pursued career. I usually can guess why the assumed killer committed the crime he or she convicted. I already know a decent amount of knowledge about...
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...Student loans are becoming more of a problem for college students across the U.S. because of increasing tuition and decreasing scholarships and grants. A lot of people will tell you it’s just what you have to do but it’s not. If you take out student loan debt there is a good chance you’ll be paying on it long after you graduate. Thats why its a good idea to try and pay for it other ways. Over all people think debt is okay because it’s getting you a higher education, but it’s not worth going into debt. Tuition has become so expensive it seems nearly impossible to pay for it without going into debt, but there are ways to make it happen. Such as starting early, save as much as you can whenever you can, save the money you get from christmases and...
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...Should Credit Card Companies be on campus marketing to College Students? Brandie Olivier Com 1 172 Gennifer Marconette April 13, 2011 Credit Cards are an amazing piece of plastic that can change your whole life in an instant. A case in point Tom Meitner a student at the University Of Wisconsin has a balance of 8,000 dollars in credit card debit still to this day. That’s why growing up it was always said that if you really need to something than pay with cash, Otherwise you really don’t need it. I wish that when I was younger I would have been a lot smarter with the knowledge that I have now have with Credit Cards. I wish I would have used a lot of the advice that I got when I was younger maybe today I wouldn’t be in the debt that I am in now. This is why I feel that Credit Card companies should not be able to go on campus and market there product. Credit Card Companies should not be on campus marking to college student. This idea is case in fact used to teach young kids who were going into adult hood to be wise with money and to not get caught up in the world of plastic. When you are going from High school to College you are at a stage in your life that the credit card companies yearn for. You are at the starting age of adult hood that is able to take on the responsibilities of everyday life. You have an opportunity of going away and leaving home to embark on the new experiences...
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...Society? People always have interesting, abnormal thoughts going through their head. Those thoughts could either be good, or bad. Here in the United States of America, Americans have the right to do certain actions. The first amendment in the Bill of Rights is Freedom of Religion and Speech. According to the Bill of Rights, this amendment allows Americans to express their thoughts, whether it is good or bad, and not have to deal with any type of consequence. The United States of America is at the point where the first amendment is being altered, or being taken away from Americans. In American public universities, there has been cases in which politicians and public speakers have...
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...Back to College Narration Brandy Balma Crola College Online ENG: 101{30031502} Prof, Benta Kay Hallem Abstract My main reason why I decided to go back to school and obtain my Bachelor Degree is not anything out of the ordinary. In today society, I see several working individual adults pursuing their degrees to acquire security and self-fulfillment. While others are searching for the advancement in pay and position in their current or new job. There are a number of those who need to obtain more confidence in their skills to do a good job for their company and feel that by getting a degree, they can achieve this goal. All of them pertain to me. Especially to the current economy, I strongly feel that there is a great advantage to having a degree versus not having one when it comes to searching for a job. The potential benefits of obtaining College education are numerous but differ for every individual. For several years, I had entertained the idea of returning to school, but I always managed to create an excuse as to why the time was not right. Underneath all these excuse was low self esteem, lack of time and fear. My past failure crippled my enthusiasm. To my surprise, that is about to change. I am the oldest child of three, one sister, and one brother, we are raised by my mother, in a predominately Hispanic community, in Elpaso, Texas. My mother is a young industrious lady who has always instilled...
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...guys riding horses, or the dark skies, or precipitation of cats and dogs? When college basketball removed five seconds from its shot clock, going from 35 to 30, many were declaring the move an abomination to the senses. That, despite the quality of playing already being ho-hum, the abandonment of five total seconds on the shot clock would result in some horrific things. Remember all of those people? I do. Outside of an E! "Where Are They Now?" special, most have gone the way of the dinosaur. You will read few, if any, columns on the idea that the 30-second shot clock did not work in the 2015-16 season. Thing is, it was always going to work. Not because it would mean more efficient basketball, which ended up happening anyway, but because the tempo of games would alter. There would no longer be 10-second meaningless motion sets to start a team's offensive set before the coach allow his players to make an honest attempt at...
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...What is your opinion on why college athletes being paid, because I have my own. I feel if we did pay them they would kill the joy and the excitement of playing college sports. I think it would absolutly destroy college sports. Paying the college athlete’s would take the fun out of bowl games (football) and March Madness (basketball). They should not get paid because they get a free education, they are not professionals, and they would not take their education as serious. My first opinion is that they should not get paid because they get a free education. I think this is the main reason on why they should not be paid. The College athletes are provided with the opportunity to earn a degree, engage in college life, and play their favorite sport...
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