Academia

Sports and Physical activity help improve child’s health and academic performance There is no question that sports and physical activity is great for kids: It teaches them to socialize; it also helps develop their muscles and maintain a healthy weight. Getting kids active is an important part of their upbringing and a healthy habit to continue into adulthood. Physically fit kids perform better in school, are happier and they pride themselves in achieving academic success. Kids that…

Academic integrity is the key building block to the foundation of any successful professional or student. As a student prepares for the real world, he or she must learn many different lessons to prepare them to be productive employees and provide value to their employers. This paper will cover a variety of the skills required including educational and professional goals, writing and how successful writing will increase learning potential and growth as a student as well as an employee, and…

There is widespread recognition in the literature of the pedagogical issues involved in teaching academic writing in the ESL context, and the challenges it poses for the majority of NNSE learners. There are a wide range of different approaches to teaching academic writing, and different methodologies to suit diverse groups of learners. Older approaches are not necessarily replaced with the emergence of new approaches (Paltridge, 2004: 49). This section provides an overview of the most popular…

Graff then reveals the logical conclusion behind his adolescent story, “I see now that in the interminable analysis of sports teams, movies, and toughness…I was practicing being an intellectual before I knew that was what I wanted to be” (383). Through the analysis of street smart subjects, Graff discovers the basics of critical thinking. Thus, Graff is living proof that street smarts have intellectual depth. This in turn, reinforces the reader’s earlier insights and solidifies Graff’s argument…

Unfortunately what critics lack to admit is that normal student’s face these same issues, being involved in on campus clubs and other ordeals those normal students face no one truly has a lot of time to get a job. Athletes have built in connections that non-athletes do not have, so being on an athletic team is by far more advantageous then simply being a student. So why should student athletes be the only students benefitting monetarily for their hard work (College Athletes). No one is enslaving…

Exciting story to draw in audience and transition as to why this sparked my interest in becoming a PA. Imagine waking up one morning and looking into the mirror only to see an unrecognizable, aged face. You are in a foreign house with strangers surrounding you. They insist that this is your home, and that they are your family. You have an entire history of memories, but today you cannot remember the day or even the year. This is how my great-grandmother described her journey with Alzheimer…

Universities need the athletic program just as much as athletes need the athletic program. Although colleges benefit more from the relationship, the only route for athletes is through the university. By having college sports, a university is able to market the athletic department as a reason to come as well as a make a profit from the department. On the other hand, athletes have the chance to study and broaden their knowledge; practice and play against the best athletes; access to the best…

Students go through changes throughout the process of achieving an education. Some have drastic changes made in their lives while others see slight changes. When people think about how education changes them as a person they tend think of the common transformations, which include: gaining knowledge, having more opportunities and having a better income. But there is more than that; education is powerful enough to allow a person to become assimilated into the culture of education and language,…

Introduction Eastern Kentucky University. This essay covers the faculty shadowing report. Dr.Martin Brock was contacted for the shadowing assignment from the department of chemistry, Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). The visit was paid on Wednesday, December 2nd 2015. EKU is a regional comprehensive university located in the Richmond, Kentucky. It has around 16,000 students and out of which around 2000 are postgraduate students. Department of Chemistry Chemistry department has 400…

Walking through the halls of an elementary school, I could only hear the sound of my footsteps. When I stepped outside to the playground, the leaves were flying in the wind and the birds were singing, not a child to be seen. I wondered where the children are and why is it so silent. Rhea believes that children were built to move and when they do not have the choice to have the unstructured play they need these children begin to shut down and perform poorly. She explains that when a child is…