eye toward it. According to Learn-About-Alcoholism.com‚ 90% of the alcohol consumed by teens is consumed in the form of binge drinking. Binge drinking is a widespread phenomenon on most college campuses‚ including the University of Massachusetts Amherst‚ and has harmful and dangerous consequences as well as significant impacts on the goal higher education. First‚ it is important to establish a definition for the term ‘binge drinking.’ The National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA)
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on December 10‚ 1830 as Emily Elizabeth Dickinson in Amherst‚ Massachusetts. Her paternal grandfather‚ Samuel Dickinson‚ was well known as the founder of Amherst College. Her father worked at Amherst and served as a state legislator and her mother was Emily Norcross. Emily Elizabeth had two siblings‚ an older brother William Austin and a younger sister Lavinia Norcross. Emily Dickinson received her education at Amherst Academy (now Amherst College) for seven years and the Mount Holyoke Female
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The Great Debate: Are Private Schools Really Academically Better Than Public Schools? Introduction Education is a major topic of controversy in this country. People often wonder if private school is worth the money it costs and if public schools have what it takes to produce well educated‚ disciplined young adults. There comes a time in every parents life when they must decide what is best for their child and what school will prepare them for the best possible future. It is a topic
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Do something‚ anything‚ to help them – whether a friend‚ classmate‚ or community member. EMT training will prepare me to care for others in the future‚ as I hope to become a general practitioner at a clinic. Much like ACEMS does at Amherst‚ I want to treat community members from all walks of life. Participating in ACEMS will allow me that chance to help people sooner than later. 2.List what other extracurricular activities you are involved in (work study‚ student organizations‚ sports
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Diversity Programmes? For most of us‚ college life may not be significantly different – we would still interact with people from other social groups‚ and I believe Amherst will still aspire to be ‘diverse’. However‚ we would definitely have a much limited capacity in reaching out to shyer applicants unsure about their place in Amherst‚ which is still often characterised as school that caters to a select kind of person. Besides‚ what does ‘diversity’ actually mean anyway? With the #OscarsSoWhite
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In 1992‚ David Stannard published a book that depicted the struggles of the American Natives from the time Christopher Columbus landed. His book‚ American Holocaust- the Conquest of the New World‚ is a story of ruthless countries trying to gain land in the Americas at any and all cost. The story takes place in North America from the late 1400’s forward. Stannard’s book raised many questions of what exactly took place during this time period and where it actually stands in the over brutality of
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years in school‚ Dickinson never left her hometown of Amherst‚ Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house‚ and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door often left "slightly ajar." This seclusion gave her a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns’ people‚ and perhaps increased her interest in death (The Belle Of Amherst‚ Dickinson). Some knew Dickinson in Amherst as‚ "the New England mystic‚". Her only contact to her
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Out of all the places I have ever lived‚ Amherst has been my favorite. The main reason I love this town is the house I grew up in. When I was four my family moved to Amherst from Georgia. We stayed in a little house and then a couple months later moved into the house I live in now. It is a large old house that sits adjacent to a farm‚ a forest and a street. It has always been a comforting environment full of family friends sports teams and other people who stop by. What has been even better though
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second book‚ North of Boston (1914). The American public took a liking to the 40-year-old Frost‚ who returned to the U.S. when World War I broke out and bought another farm in New Hampshire. He continued to publish books and taught and lectured at Amherst‚ University of Michigan‚ Harvard‚ and Dartmouth‚ and read his poetry at the inauguration of President Kennedy. He also endured personal tragedy wy Evening." The poem‚ beginning with the famous line "Whose woods these are‚ I think I know. His house
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Walker Memorial Medal two consecutive years for his excellence i sports. After graduation from high school‚ Drew attended Amherst College in Massachusetts on an athletic scholarship. He was named an all-American halfback and won the Thomas W. Ashley Memorial Trophy as the most Valuable Player on the team He would be only one of sixteen Black students to graduate from Amherst during the years of 1920 to 1929. In 1926 he graduated and received the Howard Hill Mossman trophy due t his athletic excellence
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