whom are young adults or teenagers‚ these sites are an excellent way for organizations to appeal to the youth of this generation. Colleges should be allowed to use social media and take advantage of its various academic benefits. Some colleges are already using social media to verify the integrity of their applicants. Ten admission counselors out of the top 500 colleges in the United States already use social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace in the admission process. Admission counselors use
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hosting parties and loads of sinful events. My senior year of high school is when it hit me‚ hearing the sirens and the police officer questioning me and trying to take me away really opened my eyes. After this disappointing event my parents started to keep somewhat of an eye on me and what I was doing at all times. My parents also started making me go to church. I can honestly say I hated church at first I was resentful and stubborn. After consistently going to church for months and months I felt different
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of higher education is academics‚ or at least it used to be. In the article Why College Football Should Be Banned written by Buzz Bissinger‚ Bissinger claims that universities today focus more on “the social well-being of students as opposed to the obsession that they are there for the vital and single purpose of learning as much as they can to compete.” (Bissinger 4). I agree that this may be the case‚ considering college athletic programs have grown exceedingly in the United States over the past
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are the pros and cons of the Electoral College? An interesting point to this discussion is that many of the “pros” are argued by some to be disadvantages‚ and many of the “cons” are believed to be the advantages of the system by others. It could be said that the Electoral College was created for a different time in this country‚ but by some degree of fortune and foresight it is one of the staples of our government today. A definite benefit of the Electoral College has been the squelching of other
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as well as save up for college. If schools were to be longer‚ many teens that need to work to help support themselves would have difficulty finding a job that will fit to their schedule. It may also be hard for teens to hold that job. Another reason why schools should not be loner is because longer days would mean little extracurricular activities. This is very crucial‚ since it is one of the key factors that help many teens get into their choice of college. Colleges not only look at their grades
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Informative Speech Why we should brush our teeth Goodmorning‚ Let me ask have you ever been on the train and been sitting next to someone with terrible breath? Or been on a date and you kiss the person your with and they have a horrid smell seeping out of there mouth. These simple smelly encounters would be easily avoided if we all keep up with out oral hygiene. My name is Nicholas Ruiz and today I am here to inform you of how to keep your oral hygiene up to par and why it is so important to
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Give The Condoms! Prisoners‚ just like any ordinary person‚ should have the right to protect themselves. For decades now‚ sex in prisons across America has become‚ unfortunately‚ commonplace. Even the most heterosexual of men and women are at times forced into homosexuality as a form of punishment‚ a showing of dominance and at times‚ simply as a relief for an otherwise mundane existence. Because of reasons often traced back to what has caused the incarceration in the first place‚ prisons have
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society always want more -- always expecting more. In life we all work hard to achieve whatever we set our minds to. Specifically in college‚ students can easily gain a misconception of finances and rewards. As a current high school student involved in athletics‚ the main goal has become to receive a scholarship so that the burden of financial loans will not be as severe. A controversial issue has arisen as to whether or not college athletes should be paid or not. Although athletes are the primary source
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Narin Gopaul Professor Flanagan Enc1101 8/4/2013 It ’s the year 2014‚ and we are in the state of the financial crisis which is still being felt across the nation by the majority of Americans. Many Americans who have worked on minimum wages are struggling to live on a salary that is below the poverty threshold. In 2012‚ the U.S census posted that in a family of three; their income is 18‚552‚ (U.S Census). In most case‚ one member of the family is working on a minimum wage salary which is below
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Paper 12/17/13 Pay for Play is Not the Answer In recent years‚ colleges throughout the nation have come across plenty of controversy concerning the idea of whether or not athletes should be paid to play sports in college. To this day the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) deems this a violation of their rules‚ and that is no matter what the amateur status of the players who make college athletics a billion-dollar business is not going to change (“Associated Press”‚ 2013)
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