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Personal Problems Good Grades
522 wordsThe article "How to Make It in College, Now That You " re Here" by Brian O'Keeney, have gave me more confidence and ambition to remain in college. O'Keeney article gives me excellent advice and new insights in how to succeed in college. By giving me good tips in how to make good grades, keep up with all my responsibilities without going crazy, and how to deal with personal problems when they get in the way of my studies. O'Keeney article will help me achieved my goals by: teaching me how to pass...
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Good Grades People Cheat
1,418 words"I'm preparing for the real world. Business is unethical. Cheating is just good training. I'll be better able to handle what's put at me when I get out. "'Oh, it " ll only be this once' or 'Everyone else does it, so why shouldn't I?' " Sly glances at a neighbor's work, an open book on the lap, or even high-technology methods - the resources of the cheater are many and varied. Whatever the methods, there are many statements like those above to justify cheating. For example, in the United States, ...
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Native Speakers Target Language
1,801 wordsEver since God punished the people who wanted to build the Tower of Babel with the confusion of tongues in the time of old testament, people around the world have faced the problem of communication. When giving out a historical overview of second-language teaching in Second-Language Acquisition in Childhood, McLaughlin stated: As early as the third millennium B. C. , in what was probably the worlds first great civilization, the Sumerians had scribed devoted exclusively to education. When the cou...
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Ultimate Goal Target Language
1,809 words... ion experience coupled with the amount of exposure to the foreign language assures that students have the necessary language skills to deal with the curriculum in the upper elementary grades. (Met) Bill Snyder, a graduate student of TEFL program at Bilkent University in Turkey also pointe's out one crucial advantage of an immersion: no language is a direct translation of any other, and if you really want to get the feel of the target language, you have to learn the target language in the tar...
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Television Shows Substance Abuse
1,525 wordsEach and every person was born in a family. "The family is an arena in which virtually the entire range of human experience can take place. Warfare, love, violence, tenderness, honesty, deceit, private property, communal sharing, power manipulation, egalitarian decision making- all can be found within the setting of a family. " (web) In society every place people turn the issue of family life is always being portrayed. Most movies and television shows try to represent the ideal perfect family. B...
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Risk Taking Behavior Peer Pressure
723 wordsDescribe the developmental issues associated with the "transition to school"? Becoming a member of a peer group is one of the immediate effects of transition to school. Peer groups influence adolescent society and identity by allowing young people to explore individual interests and uncertainties while retaining a sense of belonging and rank within a group of friends. There may be costs associated with becoming a member of a group of people, which include substance abuse, risk-taking behavior an...
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Long Run Good Grades
524 wordsCheaters Never Win. Or Do They? Numerous studies have shown that both high school and college students often cheat and lie. There are different methods and severalties of both offenses. I believe any incidents of cheating or lying is wrong and unacceptable, but unfortunately it is becoming more and more accepted by students as time goes on. A study was done by the California-based Josephson Institute of ethics. This study interviewed 8, 965 young people throughout the nation. The results of the ...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized War On Drugs
977 wordsOne of the biggest issues argued about all over congress, the media, and in public resides in our country s War on Drugs. One of the primary focuses of the War on Drugs targets the controversial drug marijuana. Marijuana remains the most widely used illegal drug and stirs up constant debate everywhere. The debates center around if marijuana damages our health badly as once believed, the huge discovery of it countless medicinal purposes, legalization of it, and about the prison sentences given to...
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Point Of View Six Weeks
473 wordsDriving Age How long did you have to wait to get your license, was it three weeks, six weeks maybe? Well, we have to wait 6 months after we get our permit. Now, you didnt have to wait that long, did you. For the new bill that has passed in Kentucky says that students must wait six months to get their license after you turn sixteen. Do you think that that is right? Can you remember how many times you crashed the first six months that you got your license? I am here to convince you that raising th...
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Good Grades Based Solely
836 wordsGetting Rid of the Letter Grades As our country moves into the twenty-first century, it must closely evaluate its current system of doing things. However, an evaluation of todays students would not be positive. This is because students fear failure and fear getting bad grades. A simple solution to this problem would be to eliminate grades altogether and to reinstate the power of learning to gain knowledge and character, not to get a letter grade. Abolishing grades would work toward eliminating t...
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Length Of Time Good Grades
322 wordsToday s world is very competitive. Today s world is so competitive college is a must. Without college it would be very hard for anyone to find a good job and be happy with that job. Getting a good job requires hard work in college. Hard work in college will not only make you smarter and a better person, but will make it easier to obtain a job. College students goal is to maintain at least a 3. 0 overall GPA; however, grades do not come easy to some people. People who have a hard time making good...
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Teacher Didn T
2,708 wordsBefore I started high school, elementary school teachers told me that no one cared about you at the high school. It was a different world and you had to do everything on your own. As I started my first semester, I was working with A? s and B? s, and great conduct. I learned a lot though. It was true; most teachers really didn? t care about their students and followed a lesson plan that had been in repetitive use since the 70? s. But that wasn? t a problem. I like looking at things from all persp...
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Personal Problems Good Grades
395 wordsOne of Okeeney primary tips is how to make good grades. In his article he explains few tips in how to make good grades. By setting up a quiet study place, it wont keep my mind distracted and I wont have much to do except study. When studying I should reward myself by taking a break and do things that I like to do. Also by taking notes on what I am studying, the reason being I can easily review my notes instead of reading the whole book. These helpful tips have showed me a way to find a good plac...
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Students To Get Good Grades Pressure On Students Lot
265 wordsIn today s society the pressure is on for students to get good grades. Every one stress s how important it is to get a degree in something. Without a piece of paper saying that you are qualified in a certain field, then don t bother looking for a job that will set you straight for the rest of your life. What puts pressure on students to get good grades, I think involves parent s, pressure from others, and college. Parents definitely play a big role in school life. They just want the best for the...
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