Professor Joy Versluis English 121 24 Sept 2012 Smoking among College Students The reason why this topic motivates me is because I have many family members who smoke cigarettes. Both my grandfather’s heavily consumed cigarettes throughout their lives. They both became ill from cigarette smoking and got cancer which is a common disease in result of smoking. The disease eventually took both their lives. I would like to study this to learn more about tobacco use and the illnesses caused by it. Smoking
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Rivercrest high school. A Highschool where people from every background comes from‚ and where they are at now. In highschool‚ Morgan was a happy and loud band student. Now‚ He is a jolly Toys r us bathroom attendant. So jolly‚ he would compliment anyone and everyone he saw‚ and offer them limited towels and soaps‚ and unclog toilets for the customers. Despite being your everyday Toys r us attendant‚ he lived in a Mansion in South Colorado with his grandmother and four birds. In fact‚ he loves birds
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that high schools and colleges should require students to take a personal finance class so they can be financially literate in their lives. Students attend college mostly for one reason: money. College graduates earn an estimated fifty percent more than their high school diploma coworkers‚ and over a lifetime this can equal more than one million dollars. (study). With graduates earning so much more‚ then why doesn’t everyone attend college? There is a variety of factors‚ but one is that high school
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Off the Map: Extracurricular School Food Open Campus Lunch B Y M A R LO R. M IUR A ‚ M A‚ JD PU BL IC H E A LT H A DVOC AC Y I NST IT U T E This brief addresses “open” or “off ” campus policies that allow high school students to go off campus to purchase and eat food during their lunch periods. The brief highlights issues related to open campus policies and complements the separate Legal Notes: Open Campus Lunch‚ which highlights some of the legal issues related to off campus lunch and
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FACEBOOK ADDICTION AMONG STUDENTS * “I’ll just check facebook once before I start studying” is what the students tell themselves and they end up online for hours. Every day‚ millions of students go on a social media website. To many of them‚ social media is like a drug. There’s a euphoric high that comes from having a new notification or post‚ like the high from a snort of cocaine or smoke of marijuana. The lows of not being able to check it when they want is like the draw of an addictive drug
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High school graduates are starting to feel that they must go to college. Teachers and counselors sometimes lead us to think that we only have one option to be successful. College might not be for everyone! From my research‚ I found many articles on reasons why people go to college‚ reasons they do not go to college‚ and statistics on going and not going to college. There are many leading factors on why people might not go to college. The financial aspects of college‚ the tests you must take to get
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High School Students – Prepared or not Prepared A big question today is‚ “Are high school students prepared for college?” The answer to that question is seemingly unknown. Research‚ from McMahon and Myers‚ has shown high school students are not being properly prepared to enter college straight out of high school. This makes it my goal as a future teacher that all of my students will be properly prepared for college‚ when they have finished my class. When unprepared high school students enter college
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all the students in the United States that have dropped out of high school. According to dosomething.org‚ the U.S‚ which had some of the highest graduation rates of any developed country‚ now ranks 22nd out of 27 developed countries. Stress‚ low self-esteem‚ and poor support from family members are all responsible for leading students to dropping out of high school. However‚ the United States have been improving in that area and they’ve been efficiently‚ increasing the number of students that earn
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Research shows that high school dropout rates are on the rise and many factors contribute to this social problem. This rise impacts the communities since research shows that when dropout rates rises‚ so does unemployment and crime. Data shows that low socioeconomic‚ low parental involvement‚ and poor support from administrators and educators are among the most important factors that contribute the rise to high school dropout rates. Classrooms are overcrowded and that leaves students without the proper
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The debate for school uniforms still rages on. School administrators taking one side of the argument. Even though uniforms are difficult to enforce in public schools‚ school uniforms should be enforced because they can help students resist peer pressure to buy trendy clothes and diminish economic and social barriers among students. Parents and teachers are not the only people concerned with the argument of uniforms in school. In President Clinton’s 1996 State of the Union speech‚ "if it means teenagers
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