Ashley Smith 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
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College is a huge investment. The working world is full of people with college degrees‚ and the job marketplace is becoming scarce for those without them. A degree is the foot in the door‚ so to speak‚ for most jobs; in fact‚ many places will deny upper level positions without at least a Bachelor’s degree and prior experience. Students spend thousands of dollars every year on books and classes‚ which will help them achieve a degree in their desired field. For many‚ starting at community college gives
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The findings of one study‚ Why Female Athletes Quit: Implications for Education conducted in 2000 by Stewart and Taylor‚ concluded there are numerous reasons why an athlete leaves a sport. Responses with the highest frequency were injury (26%)‚ time conflicts (18%)‚ and coaching issues (16%) and that sports ceased being fun (14%). The findings of the Stewart and Taylor study support the concept that females athletes leave their sport for a variety of reasons. Virtually the same reasons were given
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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 and
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High school students typically have mixed feelings of relief and anticipation as their senior year approaches. Many will plan to go to college‚ or jump right into the workforce‚ and some will pursue other paths‚ such as joining the military. Colleges are making it easier for students who are transitioning from high school to college by offering freshman based events‚ services‚ and groups (Turner‚ Thompson 2015). Although‚ this tends to ease the anxiety that high school graduates have when entering
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While advancing to college‚ countless students begin to possess habits that have a negative effect on his or her health‚ emotions‚ and relationships with others. These habits include drugs‚ lack of sleep‚ unhealthy eating routines‚ and numerous others. College can be a very stressful environment for students‚ causing them to obtain new habits that are very harmful. Students feel as though these habits will help with the stress in their lives‚ but unfortunately it only makes them sick and harms
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changed everything I had planned for my future. After the program‚ I changed my undergraduate major‚ I altered the extracirriculars I was involved in‚ and my career goals shifted drastically from the plan I had in place. As a first generation college student‚ my perspective of possible career options was limited an did not include continued academic pursuits. Through the McNair program‚ my eyes were opened to a new realm of opportunities. For the longest time I had a simple understanding of what "research"
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Why Does Sammy Quit His Job? Sammy is a middle class nineteen year old checker at the towns A&P store. He has already decided he wants more than a middle class life can offer‚ now lays the problem of how to fulfill his dream. Sammy is all about details and immature in many ways. He thinks he is superior to his coworkers‚ opinionated and sarcastic. He is a dreamer and fantasizes as he rings up the customers groceries. Sammy thinks he has everyone figured out in comparison to himself. For example
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Student loans become something that students have to worry about for the rest of their lives. Debt will affect a lot of things in their life that college students don’t think about. A lot of students do not realize that they must back the loan plus interest‚ the interest on some loans can end up being more expensive than the loan itself. After school‚ they must find a job‚ pay for living expenses‚ and pay off their loans. People take on massive amounts of debt and they don’t think of the consequences
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alcohol‚ do they have a significant impact on the lives of college students or just the ones that fall short to the influence? There is a major problem with students using and abusing these substances‚ not only does it have negative effects on the user‚ but on the user ’s friends and family as well. A lot of drugs and alcohol become easily available to college students over the course of their college years. What can be done to help prevent students from abusing drugs and alcohol? Overall‚ drugs and alcohol
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