March 2008 Why Do College Students Cheat? Cheating among students in college has worsened over the years and not much is being done to stop it. Where is the line drawn when it comes to cheating in the classroom? And why do kids do it? In today’s world people are growing lazier and always looking for ways to do less work and a lot of that has to do with improved technology. Improved technology has also made cheating easier. Students can send each other e-mail’s back and
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Journal of Social Issues‚ Vol. 58‚ No. 1‚ 2002‚ pp. 9--31 Relationship Formation on the Internet: What’s the Big Attraction? Katelyn Y. A. McKenna‚∗ Amie S. Green‚ and Marci E. J. Gleason New York University We hypothesized that people who can better disclose their “true” or inner self to others on the Internet than in face-to-face settings will be more likely to form close relationships on-line and will tend to bring those virtual relationships into their “real” lives. Study 1‚ a survey
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Students and the Effects of Social Networking Because roughly 150 million people use MySpace and Facebook‚ the door for social networking abuse is left wide open. Over the past several years‚ social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook have exploded in popularity‚ especially among children‚ teenagers and college students. However‚ recent events involving child predators and other dangerous individuals using these sites have raised concerns about safety and security. Many parents view
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A social worker is someone that is employed to provide social services to people‚ especially the disadvantaged. There are many different types of social workers. There are social workers in administration policy and research. They do research for stuff like questioning diagnostics of anxiety in guardianship. There are also child‚ family‚ and school social workers. They often work with families that have had problems with abuse or lose of a home; they also work with families that have serious mental
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Volume 28 Number 7 2002 35 Financial Planning‚ Managers‚ and College Students by Joe James‚ W. Hadley Leavell‚ and Balasundram Maniam‚ Sam Houston State University‚ P.O. Box 2056‚ Huntsville‚ TX 77341 Abstract Prior research indicated workers including many college students were ignorant regarding their own finances‚ future wealth‚ and retirement planning although in their business courses they learn the importance of managing and maximizing other peoples’ wealth. To obtain an idea of
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“freshman ten?” How about the “freshman thirty?” These are some deadly terms students should try to avoid. They refer to the amount of weight gained during a student’s first year at a college. During college years‚ students are still developing the physical and social changes of their life (French). During these years‚ they demand for more energy and nutrition. The problem is that they are not eating healthy enough. College students must learn how to make the right decisions to prevent obesity from taking
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Reasons why students drop out college No one said that going to college would be easy‚ and many students find out the hard way. Complete your education in school is very hard and stressful. Numerous students have to do innumerable chores such as writing‚ do projects and attend to labs. Only the 30 percent of students finish the four years of college education while the rest students leave for many reasons. It is very sad how many students give up‚ and they believe that education is
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on Alex. "He gave me things that were his to do and were inappropriate for me to handle‚" he says. The major didn’t mentor the people below him and it often seemed he was only looking out for himself. He would ask Alex for candid advice on supply issues and when Alex replied with what he thought was his confidential perspective‚ the major would forward on his reply unfiltered to the commander. "I didn’t really enjoy working with him at all. He had this real ’better than you’ attitude‚" he says.
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Optimistic or Numb For years‚ poverty is one of the pressing issues that India faced‚ and being the country that have one third of the world’s poor‚ most Indians are leading a life that people in the modern society can never imaging. They never had ample food to satisfy their hunger‚ nor a place to sleep and of course‚ not having clothes to wear and tear. Dangers were always around them and people would be killed so easily like if one is crushing an ant. And because of this‚ most of them give up
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THE PROBLEM FACED BY THE STUDENTS WHILE LIVING IN THE HOSTELS. This study aims at exploring the adjustment problems and stages through which a non-local student‚ from a different cultural background‚ has to pass in his/her attempt to get well-adjusted at a foreign place. During the process of adjustment in a foreign culture‚ newcomers may encounter the situations that work as stressors for them. These stressors can be physical‚ social‚ cultural‚ functional and biological. Physical stressors include
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