October 28‚ 2008 High school vs. College A major part in someone’s life is going away to college and can be a frightening time for some people. Some say that college and high school are very common; I have found them to be very different in many ways. I enjoy college more than I did high school. I have more control over my education in college. I noticed that freedom‚ the amount of work‚ and responsibilities have changed since I’ve been in college. The freedom of a high school student is unfortunately
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College Life vs. High school Life As you graduate high school and begin your first year of college you realize that things are a lot different. In high school your classes are mainly based off of what credits you need to graduate‚ but in college you choose what classes you want to take and when you would like to take them. College is also a bigger expense than high school. You have to pay for all your books‚ tuition‚ and even room and board. Lastly‚ college life comes with more responsibility
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Selling Safe Sex in Public School The article I wrote and I will talk about is “Selling Safe Sex in Public Schools” by Michelle Bryant. The article was about a teenage girl named Shelby Knox from Lubbock‚ Texas who discusses how schools just teach abstinence instead of also teaching safe sex education. In this article Ms. Bryant mentions a very common issue in public schools‚ which is how schools would to a certain extent teach students about abstinence only rather than giving them another form
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following hypothetical: “A student named Christina attends a public high school in small town West Virginia. She practices atheism as her belief system along with both students and adults. Never afraid to assert her First Amendment rights in any given context‚ Christina actively participates in local organizations that share her views and she writes for an online journal concerning the lifestyles of teenage atheists. One day in school‚ her history teacher gives an assignment asking the students to
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Michael Albert Professor Oleferuk 6/19/09 English 120 Condom Distribution in Public School Systems According to the Center for Disease Control‚ there are approximately nineteen million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported every year. While this number seems astounding‚ it is more surprising that nearly half of those instances occur in the 15-25 year age group. Furthermore‚ nearly 300‚000 unplanned teenage pregnancies arise mostly because of poor or no condom use (Ventura 53)
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Creationism and Public Schools The issue of whether creationism should be taught in public schools‚ rather than evolution‚ is a new one. It has only been in the past fifty years that it has even been in debate. Public school science classes‚ when discussing the origins of life on Earth‚ coincided with Sunday school classes. Students learned that the Earth‚ universe and everything else was created in seven days‚ by God‚ as stated in the Old Testament. It was not until recently with the rise
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High school vs. College school plays an important role in our life. Many of us will spend more than fifteen years at school in order to get the qualifications that are required to work in a specific field. Of course‚ those years are broken down into several levels‚ some of them being more liked than others. Two important steps that we go through are high school and college. Even though some people would think they are almost similar‚ yet there are significant differences between them. The cost of
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the newly industrializing northern economy; other people migrating westward to settle new land in the territories; and immigrants arriving by the boatload in eastern seaboard cities. There were few social services. Public health institutions were all but nonexistent. The public school system was rudimentary.” The early nineteenth century proved to be a major turning point for the United States. It was the start of the industrialization era. Factories rose in bigger cities‚ next to rivers and in
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High School vs. College High school and college are similar in some ways and different in a lot of ways. They are similar in such ways that you still have to go to class‚ do class work‚ home work‚ take test‚ and study hard. They are different in such ways that we can have cell phones in class‚ walk out of class‚ wear anything to class‚ and the thing that sets it off is living on campus. I don’t know if my college experience will match up to my high school experience but‚ we shall see. I will
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believe that religious education in schools is a brainwashing tool to children‚ whereas others see it as an important way to teach children about the diverse beliefs held by different people in a multicultural society. The religious issue in public schools has always been touchy. Some argue that religion should be taught in a secular way in public schools to limit the separation of students. Regardless whether the religion is being taught secularly or not in public schools‚ religion should be taught to
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