I’d like to discuss two things in my additional essay (1) My undergraduate GPA and (2) A few gaps in my work experience. First and foremost‚ I want to talk a little about Bits Pilani and how Indian schools approach undergraduate education. The Birla Institute of Technology and Science(BITS‚ Pilani) admits students through a competitive online exam‚ which tests in Mathematics‚ Physics and Chemistry. Of the hundred thousand plus applicants that take the admissions test every year‚ only the top 1‚000
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increased my awareness of inequality in society‚ such as ethnic differences and discrimination‚ of which I was previously unaware. This interest was enhanced after reading ‘Race and Ethnicity in Education’ by Gill Crozier in Sociology Review. Crozier’s article about ethnic minorities underachieving within the education system made me realise the impact racism can have on an individual’s future and this theme of inequality has pervaded all aspects of my sociological study. The severity and frequency of the
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ensure universal health and education is common to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the National Common Minimum Program (NCMP). The typical notion of the term health education is that it’s about medical education. In this article it is attempted to dispel this notion. A healthy populace ensures better working and lesser man days lost. The contents of Health education are broadly been described in terms of General education and Medical education. Health education starts from the day a child
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Essay on the role of education in society Education‚ has a great social importance specially in the modern‚ complex industrialised societies. Philosophers of all periods‚ beginning with ancient stages‚ devoted to it a great deal of attention. Accordingly‚ various theories regarding its nature and objective have come into being. Let us now examine some of the significant functions of education. 1. To complete the socialization process. The main social objective of education is to complete the
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When most of us are young we may recall talking about when we get older we will be rich‚ drive cool cars‚ and live in a mansion. Maybe not all of us spoke of these events exactly‚ but when you are young everything in life seems so easy to achieve. As most of us get older we all realize that it is not always easy to achieve these expectations. In 1993 I graduated from high school and was three months pregnant. I had no idea when‚ what‚ where I was going after graduation. I just thought I was
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40 years ago. In the past‚ Brunei’s population could only read and write in their native terminology‚ but the present population boast a high literacy rate of 94.9 % (Kon‚ 2012). This is parallel to numerous changes to Brunei’s education in the last forty years. This essay will discuss these changes in the country’s development of literacy and the educational system. According to the Economic Planning and Development Department (2008)‚ the literacy rate has increased by 18% since 1978 and United
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A Stolen Life Jaycee Dugard ! Survivor: a person who survives‚ esp. a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died. A Stolen Life‚ was written by Jaycee Dugard herself with the help of the diary which she kept throughout the years. It puts a new perspective on how someone can live under such conditions without attempting to flee‚ and how one could become aligned with one’s abductor. It also shows how long a human can endure physical and mental abuse long after it seems
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"Alcohol impairs your ability to reason and contemplate repercussions‚ then you’re likely to be more forthcoming when you’re drunk." Said‚ in an article by flask.com. I can completely agree with statement. I was never a person who had to deal‚ when repercussions when drinking‚ until a couple days ago when i went out to a bar with a couple of my close friends. I usually know how to control my drinking. If you have ever drank you know that there are limits. Once you hit those limits its like they say
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college education has become a necessity in todays society. Many students have the ambition to make a better person out of themselves if college was free. Society expects others to have college education knowledge to become an educated person. If we set to have college admission free we would have the majority of teens and adults attend college and have a percent of more people to be well educated to make positive life choices and be mannered than those who don’t have that college education. Free
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sitting on top of black clouds‚ casting over the 14th rank education system in the world. The so called “Greatest Nation” lacks in a crucial department that makes a nation modern‚ powerful‚ superior. As a student in the American public education system‚ I have walked in classrooms that hand out the information‚ and others that make the students work hard to answer their own questions. However‚ I have long awaited a classroom experience that would push me towards my greatest potential. Close to every
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