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A College Education or a Job?

in a young persons life: for the first time you will be earning your own living and the importance of this milestone cannot be ove...

Colorado’s Amendment 36 - Why It Failed

of the states nine electoral votes and Kerry the other four (Saffron, 2005). As the system is structured now, all nine went to Bus...

Steroid Abuse in Major League Baseball

2007, p. 128). After all, if 23 New York Mets players have either taken in the past or are currently taking performance-enhancing...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Case Study Questions/Cognitive Development, Young Adults

those who hold beliefs or attitudes different from themselves (Broderick and Blewitt 354). Angela is clearly at this opening level...

Admissions Essay for Springfield College

addressed. I believe that as a family lawyer, I can help people with mental illness by becoming an advocate for people like my si...

Differential Association Theory and Drug Use: A Literature Review

to peer influences related to drug abuse. The review of literature begins with information directly from Sutherland and his peers....

Two Educations

were doing nothing but scraping along wondering if we will be able to survive until the next check, life can be very difficult and...

Communities Define Our Lives

college because they love learning, or want to get a good job, or are fascinated by a particular field. Many of them are there to ...

Average Weekly Hours Students Study

going into statistical explanations, every empirical study establishes a confidence level that reports how much confidence the res...

College Student Housing

The student is familiar with their "roommates" and thus does not have to have any additional stress concerning relationships when ...

Endicott’s Purpose of Education

on internships, as well as through the pedagogy practiced by its faculty. As the mission statement for Endicott College implies, i...

Student Debt: Whose Fault is it?

to make changes in the federal student loan program that will make it more costly for students and their parents to borrow for col...

Cabrini College Mural

homeless children in New York (McCabe, 2008). It is also perhaps important to understand that this mural may also be depicting an ...

How College Program Supports Career Goals

and even the safety of the elevators (Salary.com, 2007). This is an extremely broad requirement of the job and, in fact, says the ...

The Spelman Experience

much interest sparked. Perhaps the primary reason for this is the low student to teacher ratio as well as the caliber of the staff...

Personal Action Plans

ensure that anything handed in is original student work. This includes taking steps to ensure that materials that are utilized ar...

Staffing in a Food Court

This 3 page paper looks at some operational issues which may be faced by a canteen on a college campus. The paper looks at matchin...

External Influences on Different Types of Organizations

as a luxury when it is undertaken to leisure purposes. If there is an economic downturn within an economy, such as one which is oc...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

Procrastination and GPA

health when deadlines are far off" (Chu and Choi, 2005, p. 245). On the other hand, the Tice and Baumeister study also reported th...

Effective Ecological Volunteerism

while people care about global warming, they do not care enough to "give up their cars or sacrifice a standard of living based on ...

Should Race be a Consideration in College Admissions?

former Harvard University president Derek Bok and former Princeton president William Bowen, have maintained that preferential trea...

Basic Skills Initiative

2007). These are considered the foundation skills for success in college level education (Illowsky, 2007). The BSI itself is inten...

Is the "Freshman Fifteen" a Real Phenomenon?

gaining weight in college is no myth. It is a reality for many students and there are reasons behind the phenomenon. A study rep...

Teaching Diversely Aged College Students

2001, p. 3). Adult learners may need help in structuring their time, learning good study habits, etc. just as much or more so tha...

History of Aging

has long been recognized that people do not age at the same rate. In early modern Europe, the period during which a person is cons...

Pricing Parking - Case Study

decks have led to a $100,000 deficit. Even in the most crowded months in the year, the new parking decks are only about half-full....

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Interview/GED Program Administrator

achievement, relates to the requirements for program completion. In order to pass the GED exam, which demonstrates that the studen...