Cortez Orsini Gonzalez English_101_ODC 29 September‚ 2014 Summary Why Colleges shower their students with A’s In “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s” by Brent Staples‚ some of the most interesting things that I noticed in the essay was the topic of how colleges are issuing more and more A’s due to an increasing consumer demand and a stiff competition from competitors. Staples states‚ “Some departments shower students with A’s to fill poorly attended courses that might otherwise be canceled
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FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL Failing to plan is planning to fail‚ or in short; procrastinating leads to disaster. Procrastination‚ a word that is known by many and practiced by more‚ but what exactly causes one to procrastinate? The main cause of this is the lack of preparation in anything that we do. Simple tasks such as our chores and daily routines to more complex things such as our goals in life we don’t take the time to plan how and when we are going to do them. Once we choose the path
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The thought of a booster class that requires little to no effort sounds like a dream come true‚ but where is the hard work behind that perfect letter grade? Where are the tears and migraines that prove your determination? These booster classes may support you now‚ but in the long run these may actually harm you. The professors at the university created a sort of “plan of action” solely for the advancement of the athletes which is absolutely unfair to the other students. This plan is also unfair to
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Should students have a dress code? Is having a dress code going to change a child’s mindset while in class?The idea of a dress code was made to sharply reduce to number of discipline problems. Doing so will require less children to be sent to the office for the attire that they wear. Students should not be required to follow strict dress code rules at school due. That they take away student creativity and individuality‚ cause harassment from other students due to their outward appearance‚ and even
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“History Class Part 2”‚ which is adapted from its original outdoor version‚ creatively reproduces mood of a classroom with twenty three old-fashioned children’s school desks the artist had found in an antique shop are neatly installed in rows. The wooden desktops are carved with barely visible images of contentious events and figures in Thai history that are brought to life when visitors sit down and start rubbing the images with a crayon on paper to reveal them in full. History Class Part 2 is
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Why Shouldn’t School Dismiss Their Pregnant Students? Sexual abusing has become a hot discussion among people these days. People can no longer feel safe wherever they are – not to mention the girls. No one chooses to be raped. Those victims shouldn’t be judge as a bad person when they are all innocent. Well‚ maybe teenage pregnancy may not all because of rape. Some may have consciously chosen to have sex in their early age. Thus‚ this essay shall explore why school shouldn’t dismiss their pregnant
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laptops in the classroom in not the answer. I agree with Choy because with laptops in a classroom‚ students can access the internet and this is a great tool for research and also a means of communication by using tools like chats‚ e-mails and forums. With the arrival of the internet we were confronted with new possibilities‚ challenges and uncertainties in the process of learning and teaching. How can students and teachers adapt to a learning process involving a technology that is becoming increasingly
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for them. Why disobedience? Was that only coincidence? Or is it the nature of man to be limitless‚ boundless‚ put it otherwise‚ free. This fact of life need not be legitimized or even proven to be true. No amount of human intellect needs to be utilized for one to understand that life isn’t life without rules or norms as well as men who establishes or breaks the same. School rules and regulations are made not to be broken. Rules are made for the safety and better welfare of the students in school
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Why students flunk or drop out of college? As high school students‚ most of us were taught the dream of going to college from the importance that it has. The real life examples from our friends teach us the importance of going to college. If you drop out or flunk out of college you may lose yourself‚ your family‚ and your friends. One of my friends dropped out of college because he had a bad friendship. So‚ they convinced him not to go to the school‚ but when he grew up he realized that the college
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freshman. I would tell incoming freshman to make sure to attend every class every day‚ keep their grades up and do as much volunteering and extracurricular activities as possible. Yes there are tons of distractions to side track you from class‚ but your education should always come first. Even when you think you have more important things to do you have to be your own motivation to push yourself to go to class. Not attending class will catch up to you in the long run. When you see them astricts
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