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College Campuses and Merton's Deviance Theory

desire for material security, success, and comfort on one hand, and limited opportunities to achieve these things on the other han...

Higher Education Increases in Tuition for Washington State

pursue higher education at a public institute. "As an independent student and as somebody who is not supported by their parents, ...

Programs of University and Online Distance Learning

Japan were incorporating their own variations into their respective educational curriculums (Matthews, 1999). By the early twenti...

Contemporary College Campuses and Multiculturalism

values, there were also sectional differences and the differences would translate into ethnic and racial tensions which persist, t...

Single Mother's Economic Struggles

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

College Faculty Lack of Minority Representation

is necessary to relate specific variables that can impact group process and social perspective. This study incorporates a view of...

College Education Benefits

off the job as well (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). The DOE also points out that a college education provides a grea...

Americans with Disabilities Act Title III, 42 USC 12182 Provisions

of disability" (Shipley, 2002; p. 327). In 1975, "the Education for All [*328] Handicapped Children Act was passed by Con...

Speech Codes on Campus

Court cases have revolved around the notion of First Amendment rights pertaining to content and place, with the high court often r...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

Psychology College Student Language Observations

interact and evolve. Such students take little convincing to become ready informants in our current quest to understand language ...

Spending Habits of 2 Female Northern Kentucky University Students

counselors across the country is that we are not taught money management or even how to weigh decision-making between options avai...

Going Back to College, its Benefits and Challenges

What Will It Take? An adult returning to college is certain to have a very different set of circumstances to deal with than thos...

College Campuses and Smoking

reported that the teachers are considering their position and may file an un-fair labor practices claim as a result of this smokin...

Sociological Perspective on College Drinking

Adolescents and young adults who choose to imbibe do so without considering the detrimental effects of such heavy consumption, ren...

5 Primary Reasons to Choose a College

schools like Harvard or Yale. Students must consider comparisons of any college within the collective of similar schools. Studen...

Psychology Students and College Campus Linguistic Subcultures

my guide in understanding how he and his fellow students actually comprise a subculture in their use of such jargon. I, of course...

College Campuses and Homosexuality

are given the opportunity to buy condoms at greatly reduced prices. Even so, "Only 48% of heterosexuals and 36% of gays claim to ...

Alcohol Advertisements and College Student Binge Drinking

missing classes, falling behind and ultimately losing whatever funding may have accompanied ones higher education is but one repre...

College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Research Proposal on University Student Absenteeism

By studying the phenomena of absenteeism in universities there are many advantages that maybe gained by the use of that informatio...

Andrew Zimbalist's Unpaid Professionals

the most part, his examination of this particular field of study is "firmly grounded in economic theory and free of the rhetoric t...

Hamlet as a Reflection of Past and Present Times

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

College and Issues Involving Women

issues that are more likely to effect women than men, but may not be constrained only to men. Issues such as family commitments an...

Beer and Circus How Big Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber

according to Sperber, is not casual social drinking but a phenomenon known as binge drinking. Adolescents and young adults who ch...

Liberal Arts Degree and Personal Development

competitive? One has to think that those obtaining a liberal arts degree are not confined by the limitations of a box with a tit...

Interpersonal Liking and Psychology Research

Storr and Tedeschi, 1993; p. 237). This statement is enough to invoke caution on the part of the reader, serving as a sign that t...

Public Relations' Role in Handling NCAA Basketball Scandal

his papers for him? Scandals of those types have been highlighted many times over the past two decades. The most important conside...

College Basketball Player Recruiting and the Application of New Technologies

which is Macintosh/Windows compatible, features nearly 200 video clips of IU students, faculty and graduates talking about courses...

Exotic Dancing and Moral Nihilism

who has decided to take up smoking, go for an extended trip to the country, or fix dinner. "What I relate," Nietzsche wrote in The...