105/Persuasion/Audience Peers 9/30/14 eBooks vs. Textbooks We dont all prefer to carry around 10-20lbs. worth of books in your backpack all day. College students should want to save space‚ save money‚ and be able to carry less weight to reduce back pain by using e-books. Saving space in college is key. While youre in college Im assuming that most of you are in the dorms and/or sharing and apartment or house with multiple people. Considering while in college is one of the only times to be socially acceptable
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The Untitled Title I’ve been asked to write a 500 word essay on who I am. Well‚ thats impossible. You want me to describe a life changing experience‚ or a person that has greatly affected me. You want me to write my depth and soul on a piece of paper just so you can take a glance‚ with the good possibility that you will just toss it aside? Well that’s bullshit. You have thousands of applicants‚ thousands of essays...this is not in any way personal‚ and honestly it’s kind of hard for me to take
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tell me one specific person who would not want to have a degree under their belt along with attaining a very high paying job in the future. What a lot of people fail to realize is that prior to accomplishing a degree‚ and reaping the benefits‚ adversity as well as many different problems has to be conquered first. These same adversities and problems are the leading causes why most college students were and are still unable to graduate and they just give up and dropout. That is because when starting
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The Disparity in Income and The Cost of High Education: Will making college free benefit the economy? The economic inequality is increasing and it has weakened neighborhoods and families that are unfortunate. People who have low income cannot afford to have a high education. Technology has changed employees‚ shifts for single-parent families‚ and produced growing income gaps between families and neighborhoods. “In addition to growing differences in the resources spent by poor and rich families
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have the credits required and also they thought I was too young to be in that grade. Given that‚ they wanted me to repeat ninth grade as if that was even an option for me. Therefore‚ my options were: stay in Texas with my family and lose two years of high school‚ move to California or Mexico where I could be in 11th grade. Of course‚ I did not want to leave my family‚ but also I did not want to hurt my future‚ thus why I decided to move to California. I lived in
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imagine ourselves playing high school football and having the skills of Odell Beckham or being the one who score so the most like one of the best soccer players like Messi or Ronaldo. I do it too tho I see myself scoring touchdowns gaining yards on the field or making tackles where you would cringe to see in person. But all we do is believe that we can just be as good as anyone. Students get scholarships and go to college to play sports and then make the NFL are what all of us high school football players
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College Application Essay Cynthia Sprince Four hours‚ six minutes and thirty-two seconds. These numbers do not represesnt the amount of time spent studying for a physics test nor the quality of sleep I recieved the revious night; but rather‚ how long it took for me to think of the perfect essay topic for my college application letter. The though of writing about my dream occupation with plans and goals to reach theat dream seemed overdone. And the typical essay question: "Why did you choice to apply
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A Modest Proposal Analysis Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay “A Modest Proposal” demonstrates how the writer uses satire to enlighten the reader on the critical state of Ireland‚ at that time. In the essay‚ Swift suggests that the poor should sell their children to the rich so that they can “contribute to the feeding‚ and partly to the clothing‚ of many thousands.” Swift doesn’t simply want the poor to pay attention but wants to point his chagrin towards the politicians as well as the catholic citizens
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Aayush Amin Mrs.Gordienko College Essay January 9 2014 Time I Experienced Failure When i was in 9th grade I almost failed my history class and I was concerned about my gpa as well. Coming into 9th grade I thought it was going to be really easy in 9th grade but I think the real problem was that I was not focused At that time i really didn’t know what gpa was and when i got to 10th grade after the first marking period i had a 3.0 gpa‚ i didn’t expect that because in the first period of
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E-books or Textbooks? Technology keeps advancing every day‚ and E-books are taking over removing the textbooks from schools. The article “The future of Education: Textbooks vs. eBooks”‚ mentions all the good things how eBooks can help many‚ for example how eBooks are cheaper for college students and how they are more convenient in the way college students don’t have to carry the heavy traditional textbooks. Also‚ we know that as a college student we have a tight budget and purchasing textbooks every
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