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Yesterday I received a letter of dismissal from DePaul school of nursing. I am aware that my grades have been low for the last two semesters in which I take full responsibility. I write this appeal letter to explain the cause and ask you to please consider reinstating me. I wish to state that my poor grades are not due to low ability or not being able to retain the material. Neither was it procrastination to study. Instead, my grades have suffered because I have been trying to juggle between…

Between the years of 1914 to 1918, approaching 1 million British soldiers gave up their lives fighting for King and country (greatwar.co.uk). Wilfred Owens, one of the greater known first world war poets, was one of these. He died at the age of twenty-five, only a week away from armistice, leaving behind approaching 100 poems. Despite his early death, Owen’s poetry has immortalized him, passing to future generations both his experience and sentiments regarding the first world war. Like many at…

With American students falling behind in the world standings of academics, it is time that we review other options of grading and teaching in our educations system if we are going to reestablish ourselves in the world market of education. There is a new concept regarding the grading system known as , Grades out and Badges in, and I believe it would be a sufficient change to assist the level of learning for our students and our rankings in the world education. Grades out and Badges in is the…

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a female astronomer who lead the way for the ability to measure the distance between two planets, along with many other. Leavitt was born to a minister in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1868. She attended a a higher education at Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women, now named Radcliffe College. She graduated the college with a Bachelor's degree, but it was not in astronomy, which she would later dedicate her life to. She did take an astronomy class in her…

There are various reasons as to why I’m deserving of the Etna-Dixmont School Scholarship. The most prevalent reason is my family history and connection with the town of Dixmont. My father and my grandparents moved to from Massachusetts to Dixmont, Maine when he was in second grade. My grandfather bought a house on Route 9 in Dixmont, and some other land in addition to that. The Dixmont Corner Church was built in 1835, and had an active one room school house next to it that was built in 1808. The…

The Opioid Crisis refers to the drastically increased and popularized usage of opioids, especially fentanyl. In Cambridge, the core Galt area is mostly affected by this issue, as many used drug needles can be seen in the surroundings. There have been countless cases of fentanyl overdoses in Cambridge, and kits including a drug known as naloxone is being used to reverse the effects of opioids. There is currently debate surrounding the topic of establishing supervised and safe injection sites, and…

logician, philosopher, college president, teacher, and mathematician are all titles for one man. That man is John Venn. Venn was born in Hull, England on August 4, 1834. He was born to Henry Venn and Martha Sykes Venn. He died on April 4, 1923 in Cambridge, England. He was 90 years old at the time of his death. Over the course of Venn’s life there were several historic world events that occurred. One is that the US bought Alaska from Russia. This happened in 1867 and they bought it for $7.2…

Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist, who discovered the structure of DNA. Rosalind was born in London England in 1920. Growing up, she was the second born of five children, and both her mother and father were involved with a lot of social events, and they had high standard in society. Her Father, Ellis Author Franklin, had wanted to become a scientist, but was not able to receive the education because World War I. rid him of that opportunity. Like her father, she was attracted to science,…

At Cambridge, Newton was fascinated by Mathematics and Physics, although he did not care for many of the other topics. He advanced in Physics and Mathematics, which led him to start dual courses because of his excellent performance. Newton graduated from the Cambridge College but was granted four more years to study for Cambridge. The Great Plague was spreading during that time, and it arrived a Cambridge, making the College shut down. Although the College…

James Chadwick was a very intelligent boy, as a teenager he knew that he wanted to study physics and so he did. James Chadwick went to the University of Cambridge at the age of 17, in the year 1908. When he was 19 he was in his final year of his physics degree. James’ teacher was Ernest Rutherford another famous scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, because of his studies on disintegrating the atom. After James turned in his research paper he graduated with first class honors. For…