College Students and Alcohol College student drunkenness is far from new and neither are college and university efforts to control it. What is new‚ however‚ is the potential to make real progress on this age-old problem based on scientific research results. New research-based information about the consequences of high-risk college drinking and how to reduce it can empower colleges and universities‚ communities‚ and other interested organizations to take effective action. Hazardous drinking among
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Effects on Exposure to Video Game Violence Part 1 Video games play a fairly large role in children’s lives today. The majority of video games played today are games found with the rating of mature and have large amounts of violence. According to IMDB‚ the three most popular video games in 2013 are‚ “Grand Theft Auto V”‚ “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag”‚ and “The Last of Us”. The definition for Grand Theft Auto states‚ “Three very different criminals team-up for a series of daring yet profitable
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Video Game Creating‚ a technical job that specializes in creating video games‚ is a career I wish to pursue for animating‚ illustrating‚ and gaming. I have wanted to be in this career since I was around 9 or 10 years old. What interested me was when I was used to playing games with a set-map. A set-map is a map where the character can only go two ways‚ forward or backwards. I played a free-map game‚ a game where the player chooses the quest and/or path/place they want to go‚ and I was curious as
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Running Head: Effects of College Life on Students 1 Effects of College Life on Students Jeremy Hammock English 102 Nevada State College-related Running Head: Effects of College Life on Students 2 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to give an explanatory synthesis to the 2007 article “
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the ‘Typical’ College Student” by Tressie McMillan Cottom. A writer for Slate and PhD candidate in sociology at Emory College. Tressie argues that higher education reforms should reflect nontraditional students more because they are older with more responsibilities and obligations. The article is discussing Obama’s affordability plan and how it is not beneficial to most students attending college. A nontraditional college student is typically a student who is older and attending college years after
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correspondence to Todd R. Stinebrickner Dept. of Economics The Social Science Centre The University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada n6a 5c2 trstineb@julian.uwo.ca phone 519 679-2111 ext. 5293 fax 519 661-3666 Unique new data from a college with a mandatory work-study program are used to examine the relationship between working during school and academic performance. Particular attention is paid to the importance of biases that are potentially present because the number of hours
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ISSUE QUESTION: Are Video Games Considered a Sport? CONTROVERSY SECTION: Although Sports have their origins all the way back to the ancient Greeks‚ it is only through the recent times that people have called into question whether there needs to be an expansion on what can be considered a sport. Traditionally‚ sports are defined as “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.”. Yet within the recent decade
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Rodriguez Professor Fouquette English 60 MW 2 April 15‚ 2013 Community College Often times‚ community college students are depicted by the public and the media as “not smart enough” or “not capable.” For example‚ just recently I was at Barnes and Noble and as I was looking for a book the sales associate approached me. She asked me if I needed help then asked me what school I attended‚ when I told her that I go to Fullerton College her attitude changed. She asked me if I didn’t go to a four year university
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Many students‚ young and old‚ attend either a Community College or an University. All those same students are faced with need of becoming a superior college student and eventually a college graduate. Each student chooses to tackle the daily obstacles of college in their own fashion. In the end‚ the ones who walk across the stage‚ are the ones who took responsibility for their education and excelled through the trials. A superb college student must have a positive‚ ‘ready to go’ attitude‚ precise
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Students committing to the college of their choice are unaware of the peer pressures that arise when one attends school. Many may feel as though peer pressures tend to happen more often when one lives on campus‚ but it can occur off campus too. For example‚ peer pressures can lead to partying‚ drinking and drugs. The want to attend class is a daily pressure because there aren’t any consequences when no attending. Another main college pressure is financial stress. The percentage of partying that
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