The biggest factor that divided me from my classmates in high school was my family’s socioeconomic status. I come from a divorced family and both of my parents are remarried. My dad owns his own business‚ so he tends to have a large income. My mom is a sales manager at Aflac. In this job‚ she gets commission off of her sales and her team’s sales. My mother is a very good saleswoman‚ so she tends to do pretty well financially. I first noticed this in middle school. I had the newest phone most of the
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However‚ certain population groups are more susceptible to obtaining asthma than others. Socioeconomic status (SES) is a rough marker of a variety environmental/behavioral exposures and a very important determinant of differences in asthma prevalence and severity among ethnic minorities in the U.S.1 Ethnic minorities have a higher risk for obtaining asthma in the United States due to low socioeconomic status. The mechanisms by which SES influences the prevalence and severity of asthma in ethnic
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Journal Preferences of Study Time and Academic Performance among Third Year Nursing Students DEMLYN ZANDRA DOTILLOS ALTHEA PAZ ORONG ALEXANDRO PAYANGGA MHALCOMB PROEL XENIAH MAE SIMYUNN CYRUS DAN TORREGOSA College of Nursing Liceo de Cagayan University Abstract - The study aimed to identify the study time preference of the Nursing students in Liceo de Cagayan University. With this study‚ the researchers determined the academic performance among the respondents and the relationship
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Life nowadays is impossible without technology. Modern inventions make life easier. Most of the people‚ especially professionals and students are using every single piece of modern technology. One of these modern technologies is what they called “Internet”. Internet is known as the ocean of information. It is very useful‚ especially to business and academic purposes of a person. It consists of many privates‚ public‚ government networks‚ of local and global scope‚ that are linked by a broad
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Introduction Availability of health care and socioeconomic status are current fundamental issues within American society. A recent report suggests that‚ “16.3% of the population‚ 49.9 million people‚ did not have health insurance in 2010. Households with an income of $25‚000 or less made up the largest proportion of the uninsured‚” (Maruthappu‚ M.‚ Ologunde‚ R.‚ and Gunarajasingam‚ A.‚ 2013). In addition to this‚ the report briefly discusses a correlation between the decreasing amount of access
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race or cultural background” (Garrett‚ 2001). On typical late November nights on university of Ghana campus‚ one would find students at various places even in awkward positions cramming obligated to catch up on studies for papers due in December. This is because deadlines and due dates are non-existent for students until the night before their papers. They engage in student activism‚ sports‚ partying and overall good times which lack libraries and study sessions which expel more excitement than the
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF WORKING STUDENTS OF TEACHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN OCCIDENTAL MINDORO STATE COLLEGE A Research Study Presented to the Faculty of the Teacher Education Department in Occidental Mindoro State College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor in Elementary Education JAMILAH E. DELA CRUZ BENJAMIN M. DEBISME MA. VENUS F. MAGAY LYKA SALAZAR ERLINE RIVERA 2012 CHAPTER I BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
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significant differences in academic performance of students of …………. University with regard to their social background. There are social differences among students that create social inequality‚ mainly due to the existence of classes in society. Students representing different social classes can achieve different results in their career paths. The paper’s point of departure is that there are great deals of socio-economic factors that can affect the academic performance of the students. These include the
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE NON AVAILABILITY OF COMPUTERS AT HOME IN THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE FIRST YEAR BACHELOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS AT DON HONORIO VENTURA TECHNOLOGICAL STATE UNIVERSITY‚ BACOLOR‚ PAMPANGA BY: ESTOLLOSO‚ JENIBETH MERCADO‚ DIANNE PINEDA‚ CHRISTINE SALANGSANG‚ KRIZEL MAE
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and Human Dynamics 12-1-2011 E Effects of Internet Use on Academic Achievement and Behavioral Adjustment among South Korean Adolescents: Mediating and Moderating Roles of Parental Factors Soohyun Kim Syracuse University‚ skim67@syr.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://surface.syr.edu/cfs_etd Part of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Kim‚ Soohyun‚ "E Effects of Internet Use on Academic Achievement and Behavioral Adjustment among South Korean Adolescents:
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