institutional investors‚ even private companies and wealthy individuals have been falling over themselves to stuff money into promising little entrepreneurial startups. The average investment made by venture-capital firms in America has doubled from $3.5 million to 1992 to more than $7 million today. However‚ venture capitalists have to find a way to get out when a new firm can stand on its own feet. Over the past year or so‚ venture-capital firms’ exit strategy has changed. More and more entrepreneurs
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Should College Athletes be Paid? Maybe it was the annual spectacle of March Madness and the fact that UCONN came out of nowhere as an underdog to win their 3rd national NCAA men’s basketball title. Maybe it was the excitement of watching the UCONN football team playing in its first ever BCS Bowl against Oklahoma last year. Whatever he reason‚ the media and sports critics always ignite a fresh debate over the merits of paying college athletes for their services to the schools. Over the past few
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Why Students Drop Out of College Diann Fisher Each fall a new crop of first year college students‚ wavering between high hopes for the future and intense anxiety about their new status‚ scan college maps searching for their classrooms. They have been told repeatedly that college is the key to a well-paying job‚ and they certainly don’t want to support themselves by flipping hamburgers or working at some other dead-end job. So‚ notebooks at the ready‚ they await what college has in store. Unfortunately
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My PersonalGoals I have many personal goals I hope to attain as a college student. Along the path to my degree I will be setting an example for my children‚ building my own self confidence‚ and starting a lifetime of strategic learning. My parents are both college graduates. I watched my parents obtain their degrees while I was growing up‚ and it instilled in me a sense of the importance of a good education. I was raised knowing that sometimes early in life things happen to knock one off course
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There has been much debate over the past year or so as to if college athletes should be paid‚ independently of their scholarship‚ for their hard work and dedication to their school and team. The life as a student-athlete is not easy because of the time dedicated to athletics and the time they need to dedicate to their studies. For example‚ the life of a Division 1 athlete might include waking up‚ going to class‚ going to workout and practice‚ staying after for film sessions‚ and then only getting
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It is no secret that one of the most talked about topics in the world of college sports‚ especially football is the rule of the school transfer. As of right now‚ the rule is if a player decides they want to transfer schools they are not eligible to play immediately‚ the player must sit out one year and then the following year they become eligible to play the sport. This is the rule for every college sport‚ however‚ it is most talked about in football. This is problematic because it causes players
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We all know someone who is attending college. There are lot of issues that affect college students. One of them is money. In order for college students to succeed‚ they need to have enough money to take care of their bills including tuitions. If we dont have money to take care of our bills‚ we will be worry and stress out which will eventually makes us to be unfocus during class time. So it is important for a college student to always have enough money to take care of
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Cam Kirk Eng Daste kjnkjgjhgj “There are approximately 176‚000” (NCAA) student athletes currently playing sports in college. If you ask people whether College athletes should be paid‚ most would say yes‚ but most people don’t realize the factors that go into that decision. With that being said college athletes should not be paid because they receive more benefits than other people on campus by receiving free things like education‚ clothing/accessories‚ and the cost for the staff and for transportation
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cheating is lying and stealing its basically turning into something thats completed but you copy and paste taking someone else work. wrong is wrong and right is right but cheating is wrong to do when you copy someone work word for word then turn it in .Another work for cheating is plagarism. Its stealing someone else idea by copying a book report off the internet and turning it in as if his or her original work. alot of people cheat because they are busy or lazy to study and wants to receive a good
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You have a choice to go to college after high school or not‚ but most people choose to go to college because having a degree makes it easier to find jobs. When people go to college most people go for a bachelor’s degree and there are 59 million people who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. In college. So many people go to college each year and some people say college is the best four years of your life and can be true but it will cost you. For most people college is really expensive for all but
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