Cornell Notes

Math can be a challenging subject to learn and that is exactly why I enjoy it, but it can not be the only subject I learn. To begin with AVID gave me a headstart in preparing for college, from learning how to take cornell notes to visiting campuses and doing research on specific universities. AVID has also helped me improve skills I had a great difficulty with such as writing. Writing has always been an enormous stressor for me and always will be, unless I change the…

You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress.” ~ Malcolm X As the ideological father of the student led activism that Ibram Kendi notes in his book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, Malcolm X and his ideology are a perfect reference to decide its success. In his epilogue, Kendi argues that the BCM has pulled the “knife” out several inches since its inception, by either…

Notes Conclusions 1°9 I Wollstonecraft uses her illuminating expression "morals and manners" to describe the literature on the relationship between the sexes in her time. See: M. Wollstonecraft's "Introduction", to: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,…

On August 3, 2015, the Department of Education invited higher education institutions to apply for participation in Second Chance Pell, a pilot program under the Experimental Sites Initiative. If approved, higher education institutions collaborating with federal or state prisons will allow inmates to receive Pell Grants while incarcerated. State and federal prisoners had access to Pell Grants until 1994, when Congress banned access, claiming that allowing inmates access to Pell Grants…

Questions from Problem One: Does Virginia have a militia? Yes, Virginia does have a militia. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration’s official website details the establishment of a militia in Article 1 Section 13 of Virginia’s Bill of Rights, located within the Virginia Constitution: That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in…

The question always asked is what is a BSN. A BSN is having a Bachelor’s degree in nursing. You become a RN, this is a registered nurse once you’ve became a Registered Nurse then you must work your way up from registered to a Bachelor’s degree for it. A bachelor’s degree in nursing is the highest you can go once you’ve become a nurse, besides master’s which is an extra two years. It can usually take up to four years to get a bachelor’s degree at a nursing school or just a college. Students…

How are capitalism and religion related? In Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, flourishing capitalism and dying religion are highlighted through various symbols and events; therefore the two are related through an inverse relationship. Multiple characters in the novel have a rapacity for wealth. Also, Fitzgerald fills the novel with numerous religious allusions, and characters that hold onto religion are portrayed as financially challenged. Capitalism connects wealth and religion, as…

the lecture and are taking hand written notes. Carr talks about a study in his article that was conducted at Cornell University. Half a class was allowed to use laptops connected to the Internet, while the other half had to keep their laptops closed. When a test was given to see how well the lecture was retained, the half that was allowed to browse the web did not do as well as those who had their laptops closed. The results show that taking computer notes or reading via an electronic…

To elaborate, by incorporating plants into indoor spaces, we need to keep in mind the resources that are needed to keep them alive. Thomas Weiler, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York notes that the fluctuations of temperature are greater indoors. Further, he says that there is usually less humidity and light (Sandberg, 2004, para. 10). He also mentions that a plant is not a personal plant, thus, it is nobody’s responsibility…

social messages increased the turnout directly by about 60,000 voters and indirectly through social contagion by another 280,000 voters, for a total of 340,000 additional votes (Nature, 2012, 2014).“To put these results in context, it is important to note that turnout has been steadily increasing in recent U.S. midterm elections, from 36.3% of the voting-age population in 2002 to 37.2% in 2006, and to 37.8% in 2010” (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2014) . So the more the politician…