UM Tagum College Arellano St.‚ Tagum City Financial Pressure of a College Student In partial Fulfillment of The Requirements in English 201 Joel Ben Borres Ruel B. De Gracia Lisette Jean P. Hingpit Introduction Background of the Study Filipinos hold close several values. One of them is education. We have complete faith in formal schooling as we have the notion that to be educated is to have a better life. Education is regarded as a gateway to improving our social and economic status.
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College students facing academic‚ social‚ and other stresses such as finances and how to cope with them. The most common stress most college students face is the stress from the work load that is common in a higher education system. This is the major challenge‚ and you will be facing without the close guidance you may have previously enjoyed from a teacher or parent; Social stress seems to be more prominent with underclassmen leaving home and there support structure from home but can affect any college
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Credit Education for College Students Credit history is a record of someone’s payments to creditors‚ and it is tracked and updated by three major credit reporting bureaus: Experian‚ Equifax‚ and TransUnion. Credit history is expressed in a three-digit number‚ and it is also known as a FICO score. This score is tied to consumer’s social security number‚ so different companies can request a credit report every time person is trying to get a loan‚ a new contract on a cell phone‚ or an insurance quote
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EFFECTS OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES A meta-analytic review of the video-game research literature reveals that violent video games increase aggressive behavior in children and young adults. Experimental and non-experimental studies with males and females in laboratory and field settings support this conclusion. Analyses also reveal that exposure to violent video games increases physiological arousal and aggression-related thoughts and feelings. Playing violent video games also decrease pro-social behavior
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Managing Stress as a College Student Imagine you are back at your first day of college. You are trying to forget the fact that you have left your family‚ friends‚ and old life behind and beginning to accept that you are staring a new one. You walk into your first classroom and instantly forget all the good and exciting aspects and start to realize exactly how different this whole experience is going to be. After taking a look at the syllabus you begin to get anxious and overwhelmed. You start
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Kevin T. Ellis English 155/Ms. Quinn 26 March 2013 Essay Should Colleges Accept Senior Citizen Student Imagine sitting next to someone’s father or grandmother in a classroom‚ at first it may feel awkward having a senior age classmate. Later you find they are just well on their subjects both in the classroom and online‚ and might be someone to consider as a study buddy on a class project. Keep in mind to those older Americans returning to school‚ the world of the classrooms‚ can seem both foreign
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October 2012 Problems students encounter while in college Students are likely to encounter many types of complications while attending college. Balancing school and work‚ paying for tuition‚ and partying are serious issues students face each semester. “Drinking Deaths Draw Attention to old Campus Problem” by Mindy Sink and “Earning and Learning: Are Students Working too Much?” by Martin Kramer‚ both have excellent examples to show how these complications affect students in college. The cost of tuition
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College Students and Credit Cards Lee Hannah University of Phoenix Online University Composition and Communication II COM/156 LaKeah Wilkins / Instructor October 3‚ 2010 College Students and Credit Cards Many students obtain a credit card while attending college. Credit card companies go to the campus to target college students. Most students apply and receive at least two credit cards while enrolled in school. Credit card companies see college students as good customers who will use the
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DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF VIOLENT GAMES Although less research has been done on the impact of violent interactive entertainment (video games and other interactive media) on young people‚ preliminary studies indicate that the negative impact may be significantly more severe than that wrought by television‚ movies‚ or music. Playing violent video games has been found to account for a 13% to 22% increase in adolescents’ violent behavior; by comparison‚ smoking tobacco accounts for 14% of the increase in
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today‚ a college degree and education is no longer considered an option for further education‚ but rather a necessity for a supposedly a superior job. College is investment of funds and time. College causes student loan debt and many college graduates become employed in professions that do not require a degree. In the 1980’s‚ bachelor’s degrees earnings and the earnings of high school graduates were nearly equivalent‚ likely causing the pressure families put on their children to go to college. According
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