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Zackary Sawyer Mrs. Crooks ERWC, Period 2 26 September 2016 The Journey: High school to College College is something that everyone wants or wishes to attend but most do not have the willpower to start or finish the journey. Most all seniors in high school say they want to attend college, but in reality only 65.9 percent of seniors actually go to college. I want to be a part of that percentage for many reasons: One, college is a fun and amazing experience that everyone should get the chance to…

There are three basic questions that can be used to evaluate nonprofits; whom should nonprofits benefit? What kind of acts should they undertake? And how should they operate? These questions never have easy answers and certainly don’t have any one answer. Nonprofits are an area that instead of being a structured entity, they fill the gaps that the structured for profit, and government organizations fail to, or are not equipped to address. Frumkin’s For Being Nonprofit addresses the conceptual…

Question: what is the effect caffeinated energy drinks have on both reaction time and heart rate in sports men and women? Hypothesis: Caffeine will increase the heart rate Aim: To test how caffeinated energy drinks affect the reaction time and heart rate of sports men and women. Apparatus: • Caffeinated energy drink ( Monster – sugar free ) • Ruler ( 30cm long ) • Timer ( to measure heart rate ) Method: • The test subject will have their heart rate recorded (BPM) when under no influence of…

This week I attended the Saturday morning service (which was at 8:30 a.m.) at the Temple Beth Israel Jewish Synagogue in Fresno, California. The first thing I noticed was this service was the most popular. I had asked by Jewish friends what the best service to go to was, and they all recommended that the Saturday morning service versus the other two services (which were in…

My father went to high school between 1968 and 1972 in a town called Fowler, CA right outside of Fresno. I went to high school between 2010 and 2014 in Clovis. FAMILY COMPOSITION My father was the baby of three older siblings. First was my Aunt Mary who was 14 years older than him and passed away when he was 17 at the age of 30. Second is my Aunt Anne who is exactly nine years older than my father (they have the same birthday) who married her husband Fred when my dad was 15. She had her…

Education: Navigating Through Social Classes In America, social class can be associated in many ways. Hard work has to be given to obtain the prize. For instance, my father mobilized his way through the social classes of beginning in the lower working class working in the fields. Realizing that he wanted to make a better life for himself, he has increased his social class to being in the upper middle class now by attending college. For my father, the alterations he decided to make at the…

Related Theory The first issue that rose from the newspaper is that Wal-Mart’s retail company has been sued by Fresno law firm because of wage problem happened in the company. Many Wal-Mart truck drivers were unsatisfied about their salary because Wal-Mart did not pay to them for all the tasks they did. Those unpaid tasks include waiting in line to load or unload their cargo, time spent to fill out the federally mandated trip slips, washing and fueling their trucks. Theories that can apply to…

Public schools in the United States do not generally require uniforms. Traditionally, the use of school uniforms in the United States has been restricted to private schools. I attended a school that required uniform during my junior and senior years, I liked it. I woke up with eager every morning to wear it, I was so used to wearing it I sometimes forgot that I had uniform on, and I forget that it was mandatory. What I experienced from that is that student was always on tasks and everybody were…

The Unseen Shame of Public vs. Private Conversations If you were to ask most people what the word “language” represented, you would likely be given a general and vague explanation such as, a system of letters and symbols with corresponding rules that when arranged to form words, and properly and uniformly pronounced allow individuals to communicate within their circles. The ability to communicate clearly is part of what holds a society together, it allows us to live and work together, and…

drug use, gang activities, and bullying have gone down. Resource officers hold substance abuse prevention classes and provide someone to confide in at the school. Schools have developed awareness programs and bystander intervention workshops. Fresno State even had an online violence awareness training for all students last semester. Universities should continue to work on projects related to issues of…