When I was in freshman year at college, I always thought that I had to be perfect, or people would think that I’m not smart. It wasn’t until after this experience in my sophomore year that I realized that it’s not possible to be perfect. I also learned that what people hated the most was not nearly as bad as everyone had thought. My experience with failure is probably the best that I have ever had in college. Failure allows...
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Growing up, the word ‘college’ is everywhere. Whether it’s at school or family and friend gatherings, it seems like you are repeatedly told how earning a degree can benefit you in the long run for your future. People would say, “A good education will take you farther than what love will”. It is so easy to say to yourself, “Why is going to college or earning a degree so important?”. What you don’t understand prior to starting college is that...
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Help is what many people require at certain points in their lives. As for students, they need all the assistance they can get. This to a small extent helps them get through the bustles of college life. In addition to their studies, students tend to write essays and many assignments as part of assessments in their educational pursuits. However, only a few can undertake these without additional help. In this paper, I am going to consider the most common types...
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The Cambridge English Dictionary defines plagiarism as “the practice of taking someone else's ideas or work and pretending that it is your own” (Cambridge Online Dictionary, 2022). The word derives from the Latin ‘plagiarius’ meaning ‘kidnapping’. To further clarify plagiarism, Diane Pecorari (2015) attests that there are three main forms: ‘textual’, which describes the use of words/ideas without correct attribution, ‘prototypical’, describing unattributed words/ideas of another without appropriate attribution and with the intention to deceive, and ‘patchworking’, which is defined...
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The idea of student loan forgiveness has been a hotly debated topic in recent years. While some argue that it is a necessary step towards achieving equality and providing relief to those struggling with debt, others believe that it is not a viable solution to the problem. In this essay, we will explore why student loans should not be forgiven. From the responsibility of individuals to pay off their own debts to the potential negative consequences for the economy and...
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Speech 1: A Message of Unity Dear fellow students, As we embark on another school year, I wanted to take a moment to speak about the importance of unity within our student body. We come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, but we share a common goal: to learn, grow, and succeed. In order to achieve this goal, it is essential that we work together and support one another. Unity does not mean that we all have to agree on everything...
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Hello fellow students, My name is Nick Jameson, and I am running for the position of student council secretary. I am excited about the opportunity to serve our school community and be a part of the team that helps make our school a better place. As your secretary, I promise to bring organization, enthusiasm, and creativity to the table. As the secretary of the student council, I will be responsible for taking accurate minutes and keeping a record of all...
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Speech 1 Good afternoon, parents, teachers, and fellow graduates. It is with great joy that we gather here today to celebrate the graduation of our little ones from pre-school. As parents, we have watched our children grow and learn over the past few years, and it is truly remarkable to see how far they have come. Our children have learned so much during their time in pre-school. They have developed social skills, learned how to read and write, and discovered...
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Social capital is essential in the success of alliances between universities and firms, both types of social capital (cognitive and rational based on case study) play a different yet important role. During an alliance, there might be tension that arises due to many reasons. One of these tensions is that firms concentrate on short-term goals while universities focus on long-term goals. For the alliance to be successful, the tensions need to be mitigated to allow for a type of relationship...
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The purpose of higher education is to develop learning and knowledge, in addition, to obtaining goals to have a satisfying career. Another prevalent view of higher education is becoming a better person and more qualified than before, as well as learning about life skills. Yo-Yo Ma, the writer of ‘Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education’, mentions the three necessary edges that exist which include: education, arts, and empathy. When students attend university, it is their choice to study. It is...
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Alike any situation where certain results are to be perceived as an outcome of the implementation of a desired scheme, various effects are to be expected from any concerned country after achieving the goal of quality education. The projections include the improved overall health of individuals as a result of being properly educated, therefore minor mistakes that result in major health issues, e.g., neglecting symptoms, are more likely to be eliminated, accordingly decreasing the urgency of government expenditure on healthcare...
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There are two types of students: those who feel happy with more than 90 marks and those who feel happy with just passing marks. These grades are not based on cleverness or intelligence, no student is born perfect, only time shapes students. In this essay, I will focus on how to become a successful high school student. Success has different definitions according to different students. For some having a perfect 'A' GPA is a success while achieving in sports and...
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During most college students’ four years of studies, they are required to live in dorms. As expected, dorms are usually shared between two or more people, which automatically makes them your roommates. Throughout these four years every student gets to meet many different types of people, coming from various countries and backgrounds, and most times students are required to share their living spaces with those same people. As time progresses, we, students, are predisposed to live with a variety of...
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Note-taking is the act of writing down or generally recording key points of information. It is a significant piece of the research process. Notes taken during class lectures or discussions may fill in as a study tool, but taking notes does not mean jotting and scribbling down words leisurely. Note-taking abilities are an important device to have and utilize with regard to considering when studying. By using notes, studying for a test or quiz can be made a lot easier....
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Student loan debt. You’ve probably heard this term at least once. It affects everyone, whether it be now or later on in life. During the 20th century, around the end of World War II, the federal government recognized the wasted brain power due to the lack of higher education for the majority of society except a few wealthy white people. Later the government began supporting higher education through a series of laws, such as the 1862 Morrill Act, which allowed...
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Attending college is always a difficult phase for every student because they have to get settled in a different environment and with people from almost all over the globe. Meeting people who are perusing the same profession as you are challenging because you have a lot more pressure and you have to be able to look as professional as them. Career is one of the most important things in everyone’s life. Your career describes what are you going to be...
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My first college course was philosophy, and it changed my life forever. Our first task was to write a short essay in response to Albert Camus’ article 'The Myth of Sisyphus'. I am very nervous about homework and university. However, despite the confusion in the philosophy class, many of my questions about life have been answered. My purpose in entering the university is to obtain an engineering degree. I have always liked the way mathematics has right and wrong answers....
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From the moment young children attend preschool, everything they do in school is centered on one final destination, college. It has been ingrained and carved into their malleable minds that they need college to be successful. Without it, the American dream is deemed unachievable. However, what schools fail to tell these students is that college doesn’t determine their futures, they do. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Geffen, all have something in common besides being wealthy. They never went to...
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All across the United States every year, parents prepare their kids for taking that big milestone to get into a college institution. They have to apply for financial aid, get their dorm room, and necessities, and make sure their kid is in a good environment. That’s beside the point, however, college/universities cost a lot of money; it could be 4-year college, private, or liberal arts school. Almost 370,000 students wanting to attend HBCUs are eligible for new plus loans. Common...
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Being asked whether the humanities should be taught in the university or not, made me question myself on what the profound meaning of the humanities is. After searching it up, I discovered that this is an intellectual pursuit that deals with human society and culture, involving the study and analysis of history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, politics, and the like. Having learned more about the meaning of the humanities, I thought about how important it is for the people and the...
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Deciding where to live is one of the most important and earliest decisions to be made by students at the time of joining the university. Usually, there are two prominent options, living with the family at home or living in the college dormitory. I have experience of living in both situations. These two living situations vary in many prominent aspects, such as privacy, responsibility, access to university facilities and many others. But in this essay I am going to compare...
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What is an eating disorder? Is it a mental illness or is it a disease? According to the article ‘What are Eating Disorders?’ written by Ranna Parekh, she says that eating disorders are illnesses in which people experience severe disturbances, neither eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. Every year thousands of students are recruited to be student athletes at colleges, and every year approximately 8 million individuals suffer from eating disorders. According to ‘Psychology Applied to Modern Life’, eating...
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In the article ‘College Isn’t for Everybody, and It’s a Scandal that We Think It Is’, the author, Thomas Reeves, argues about the issues regarding under-preparedness and the consequences of it when going to college. Reeves talks about the declining ACT scores nationwide over the years, as well as the millions of dollars that are being spent on remedial education. He addresses the fact that in a few places such as Michigan, Colorado, Texas, and New York academic tests have...
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The humanities traditionally encompass those disciplines that treat human culture, experience, and perception as an object of study, while simultaneously treating the person as a knowing subject, and that pierce to the core of culture and the human condition. According to the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the humanities are differentiated in terms of substance and process, in a community of education disciplines, from the physical, biological, and, somewhat less decisively, social sciences. The humanities require the study of all...
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Colleges develops our skills to be effective and successful in our careers in the future. Not only that, according to Ciardi (1940), this type of education lets us go in the minds of many amazing authors. These authors help us to understand what the world is and what the world should be. In today’s world, the humanities are the subjects that gives life to those authors. It makes sense why it is taught in colleges. I do believe as well...
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If the main focus of the humanities are men, why should there be a need to study ourselves? According to Gaff and Ratcliff (1997), the humanities talk about the life of others, people whom we have never even met before. The life of others gives us stories and ideas on how life was back then. The humanities are commonly focused on aspects that are deemed to be useless and unpractical, when in reality, the humanities prove to have the most...
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The development of a professional identity is crucial in any profession. This literature is based on using the information in the NMC code (2018) to explore the meaning of professionalism for nursing students. Professionalism simply means acting appropriately and acceptable manner while conforming to a professional code of conduct (Dejong, 2014). Professionalism is displayed by acting in the best interest of the patients in your care, notwithstanding the position of the caregiver or nurse at where the care is delivered....
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My professional aspiration and personal ambitions intersect in accounting. On the career forefront, what I enjoy most about being an accountant is the knowledge that I can gain in respect to the various fields relating to the organization and the country I work in. I am extremely gratified to have secured a place for a master's degree in Accounting program at AIT and highly confident that the course will help me acquire concrete skills and techniques to serve the corporate...
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As I tumble through the air, time seemed to slow since i landed here. I have fallen hard many times before, but even before I hit the ground, I can tell this fall is different. The biggest reason to study abroad is the opportunity to see the world, and in today’s world, recruiters value graduates with international experience and education. Studying abroad helps you to learn new languages, appreciate other cultures, overcome challenges of living in another country and gain...
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My passion to pursue a career in nursing was largely contributed to my volunteer experience at Kenol and Exotic Private Hospital, where I worked as a health educator and health care assistant. In this position I had sole responsibility for taking care of some patients’ daily needs, such as cleaning, feeding, exercise and educating them on how to live, improve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Through this hands-on experience, I learned the importance of service to humanity and developed a...
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