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Sadly, this is a situation many universities have set up for their students, benefitting themselves and corporations. Universities must put the students first, not themselves, by providing school credit towards graduation and by ensuring that internships posted on campus and campus websites are paid internships. Explanation of Problem Unpaid internships only benefit universities and corporations instead of the students partaking in the internships. Universities are able to make money off the…

All students should attend college and receive an education. Becoming a college student is hard especially by yourself. But working hard is an important way to be able to be a successful person. For example, some can relate to working hard because they grew up doing sports their entire life. They either ran track and field, cross-country, volleyball, cheerleading, basketball, flag football, soccer, and more. In high school, being a student-athlete was tough because of the traveling, school work,…

Campus Accessibility, argues for more college campuses to accommodate for students with disabilities. She starts off her essay with a wheelchair-bound college student at University of Texas at Austin, Wes Holloway, and his struggle with campus accessibility. Throughout her essay, Deshpande explains the benefits for people and the university, once they meet the campus requirements for disabled people. Furthermore, in her essay she explains to her opposition why it is effective to improve campus…

The article, “Why Laptops in Class Are Distracting America’s Future Workforce” was written by Timothy D. Snyder in 2010. His purpose in writing this article was to persuade professors against having laptops in the classroom because he feels they are a distraction. The arguments Snyder uses against laptops in classrooms are, they distract students’ attention, students miss out of the best part of American life, and he generalizes that this lack of attention will spill over into the workplace.…

Sometimes the only way a person can better know herself is through the recognition of herself in others. My typical day illustrates who I am and my values, which I perceive in the attributes of a typical day at Northwestern University in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Further insight into the school bridges a connection between Northwestern and myself, leading to a realization not possible from reflecting upon either one alone: the person behind Northwestern, the student body, whom I…

the rowing teams and the sport will become less popular, but Bilas declares: “ That’s a lie. It’s all a lie” (qtd in Peebles 8). After, he says this they will not cancel the programs if it is in the universities’ and athletes’ interests. He continues to talk about the the interest of the universities’. Next Bilas pronounces, “First of all people will say ‘What's next?’ Do you want to pay high school players next?” (Qtd in Peebles 4). Following this he talks about how high school athletes are…

A Hydrate’s Empirical Formula Aaron Meehan Ethan 11/06/17 Kotiba 09J I have read and agree to the terms of the Academic Honesty Statement. _Aaron Meehan____________11/06/2017_____________________ Student Signature Date Purpose This experiment conducted during lab was designed so that the students would be able to formulate the hydrate’s empirical formula after heating and observing the effects of heating a hydrate salt. By taking careful measurements and the usage of stichometry, the…

“(We have) more to do for the young woman in East St. Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn’t have the money to go to college (Obama, para 6).” Interestingly, he follows this statement with an attempt to dissatisfy one of the commonplace arguments against liberal policies. Mr. Obama says that these people do not ‘expect that government will solve all of their problems,’ but that they are willing to work hard in order to achieve their…

Joshua P. Hochschild, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., points to the flaws of the current American student-loan system in the article “Welcome to Ginger and Pickles University” published March 11, 2015 in The Wall Street Journal. The article deals with the important issue of student-loans and the store like exchange America places on education. Hochschild’s article is written in response to President Obama’s signing of a “Student Aid Bill of…

Corvias Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals Corvias original mission was specifically designed for their military housing partnership, which was the companies first partnership, however over time as the company evolved, therefore the mission had to evolve. The mission had to become broader to include other branches of partnership such as campus living. The same message is conveyed in a more general statement that can be applied to each partnership Corvias has. The mission statement is; “Our…