• How Much Is Enough? • The amount of sleep that a healthy individual needs is largely determined by two factors: genetics and age. Genetics plays a role in both the amount of sleep a person needs‚ as well as his or her preference for waking up early (these are the so-called "larks‚" or morning-type individuals) or staying up late (these are the "owls‚" or evening-type people). Our internal biological clock‚ which regulates the cycling of many functions including the sleep/wake cycle‚ can vary slightly
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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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points on why kids may be deprived from sleep. In this day in age‚ all kids worry about are getting good grades. School was meant for kids to come and receive an education so they can succeed in life‚ but over the years‚ it has developed into a place that kids dread. Studies are showing; however‚ that school related work are causing kids to become sleep deprived. Frank Bruni elaborates on reasons why this is happening and also other reasons kids may be sleep deprived as well. Frank Bruni gets his
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Shopping for an Education Independent college students should cut back on their extra spending habits such as shopping. Young college students are transitioning in their lives and becoming independent. Independence comes with many responsibilities that students will have to deal with on their own. Such responsibilities include things like paying for their tuition‚ bills and other daily expenses. Many college students are not equipped to handle such a large amount of new responsibility while
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Hillard‚ Smith‚ Goldberg - Debate Script Intro: Today‚ we stand during a time of a massive student debt crisis. Today‚ the average student loan debt is $30‚000 -- the highest its ever been. Over 40 Million Americans have succumbed to substantial college debt. To address this issue‚ President Obama has proposed granting incoming community college students free tuition. However‚ my team‚ through research and analysis‚ have come to the conclusion that this proposal is both detrimental to the issue
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from stress are college students because they have many things to do at the same time. Students have to balance their course work and family at the same time‚ and they have to leave their family problems in their home to be able to concentrate carefully on their course work. The university life has become a lot more challenging‚ and it’s much harder than school. I think being in college can be extremely stressful because students have to do everything by themselves. Furthermore‚ students have many assignments
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Nowadays‚ accumulating debt for college students has become a requirement instead of an option. As students we have to borrow money that will enable us to pay for tuition as well as other expenses that might incurred while in college. However‚ we are set with loose clauses as soon as we sign the promissory note; all loans must be used for school expenses. In reality‚ while we are in college everything becomes a school expense. Our loans covered the basics‚ such as tuition and books and we have to
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Drew Burgelin AP English Language 17 October 2012 Reducing the National Debt With the 2012 Presidential Election getting closer‚ we are seeing candidates’ plans to solve our national debt of roughly 16 trillion dollars. With our country’s debt increasing by 4 billion dollars a day‚ we desperately need a miracle in the form of an effective debt reduction plan. With Obama struggling to fulfill this task‚ many people have been coming up with their own ways of solving this crisis. For‚ at this
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Why Students Fail in College William H. Bigsby Jr. Southern Nazarene University 25 April 2013 Abstract The society of the twentieth-first century has put an extremely high demand on attending and graduating college. Some basic employment opportunities today require a college degree‚ where close to ten to fifteen years ago‚ the only requirement was a high school diploma and acceptable ability to perform the specific task. However‚ the twentieth-first century college experience has become
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How the city hurts your brain The city life affects and hurts the human brain in many ways‚ and more than 50% of the world’s population‚ now lives in the cities. In the British newspaper Boston Globe‚ Jonah Lehrer poses these topics in his article “How the city hurts your brain.” Jonah Lehrer’s newspaper article is based on a scientific investigation on how the city hurts the brain‚ and also what experts think the solution is. Psychologists claim‚ according to Jonah Lehrer‚ the solution to the
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