I believe the greatest obstacle facing our generation is how to pay for college. The soaring costs and confusing financial aid systems are a hindrance to receiving an education‚ and it crushes those who do graduate with student loan debt that affects their life choices years after college. For most‚ higher education is the key to social mobility‚ financial stability‚ and self-actualization. Living-wage jobs are difficult to find‚ especially without an education past high school. Workers are competing
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Egg Drop Project By There were five forces that where acting on my container there where gravity‚ inertia‚ air resistance‚ shock‚ and impact. The contraption is trying to lessen the gravity for it would be so light weight that it will glide on the wind and not hit the floor so hard. And it is trying to alter the air resistance force so like I said to try to glide on the wind. Some of the feature of the container was the square block so no matter where it hit it would have the same amount of stuffing
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Egg Drop (lab writes) In our science class we did an egg drop experiment. We used the scientific method to answer the question and solve the problem. Our question for this particular lab was “will an egg break or be secured‚ if covered with thick sponges and drop from ten feet above the ground?” our idea was to secure the egg from breaking and we wanted to design something that would provide a lot of cushioning directly on the egg. We came up with many different ideas until we choose
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Use among College Students\ Research Methods in Psychology I Tierra Adams 12/3/2008 Dr. Brenner Marijuana is the most frequently used illicit drug in the United States‚ with approximately 32 percent of all Americans having tried it at least once in their lifetime (Marijuana Use among Students‚ 2008). The Harvard School of public Health College Alcohol Study‚ conducted in 1993‚ examined the drug and alcohol use of 17‚592 college students nation-wide (Marijuana Use among Students‚ 2008). The
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Students are wanting to switch rooms within the first three weeks of school because of problems with their roommates. This problem impacts others and me because people are constantly switching rooms‚ the fighting is getting out of hand‚ and there are not enough rooms available for everyone to be able to switch rooms. Some people are also dropping out because they do not like their roommate and nothing is being done to help with the conflicts. They said if something would have been done about the
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It was August 2011‚ when I was watching television together with my family. We sat together in the living room like we usually do. There was nothing special in the news so I didn’t really pay attention about what was going on‚ I kept reading my book and talked to my mom. A little while after that I heard the newscaster say about the war what was happening in the Middle East between the countries there (Afghanistan‚ Pakistan‚ Iraq‚ Iran‚ etc.) and United States of America. I already knew that they
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College Should Be Less Expensive Most high school students after graduation will attend a community college for a degree in his or her choice. Some students will have the luxury of their parents to pay for their college expenses. However‚ most students will not have their parents to pay and they will have to rely on student loans. Depending on which degree the student chooses is the deciding factor in the cost of classes. Most credit hours in a community college range from 100-369 dollars per credit
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When choosing a college‚ student always have trouble deciding because of the tuition. Students debate whether they want to go to a University but have a large debt or go to a Community College and be able to pay everything off. As tuitions rates continue to rise‚ students are even debating if they should attend college. Since tuition rates are rising it has become harder for students to pay off debt and has even caused students to drop out after a year of attending college. Tuition prices have been
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Schedule: Tuesday: 10:00 – 11:30am Friday: 10:00 – 11:30am‚ 1:00 – 2:00pm Why Not Get Out of the Box? Most of today’s perspective deals with one’s incapability of running out of his or her comfort zone in a more practical way. So often‚ his or her life repeatedly revolves around a routine that he or she sticks to. But somehow‚ one recognizes the conspicuous fact that it gets tiring and boring when you do the same things: eat the same food‚ watch the same show‚ and talk to the same people
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“What Cousin Tryphena did not know about the way the world outside of Hillsboro was run would have made a complete treatise on modern civilization. (Fisher 1195) In the short story‚ “A Drop in the Bucket”‚ by Dorothy Fisher‚ one of the main characters Tryphena lives in the town called Hillsboro. She has lived in this town for fifty-five years‚ and is overall shutout to the rest of the world. Jombastine another character moves into the town and he is somewhat of a socialist. He has a great influence
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