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    In the novel, “David and Goliath Underdogs, Misfits, and The Art of Battling Giants,” the Author Malcolm Gladwell uses non-fictional stories to portray his ideals of advantages and disadvantages. Gladwell demonstrates that a first time coach with no experience along with young girls who have never played basketball can make it work toward their advantage in becoming a winning team. Another example Gladwell talks about is an intelligent student named Caroline Sacks. Sacks choose an elite…

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    Knowledge is a source of eternal prosperity. In this world, individuals are applauded for having a superior knowledge, allowing them to become prosperous in life. From Stephen Hawking to Albert Einstein, beings excelling with an exceptional brain can lead to an exuberant life. Schools are one of the most profound ways in which knowledge can be acquired or spreaded, allowing them to be notorious for a source of learning. As society evolves, schools are becoming more standardized as everyone is…

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    Gilded Age Reflection

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    It’s crazy how the weeks fly by when I start a new class. I can’t believe we are ending week three already! This week has been busy for me, but I enjoyed every assignment in this class. I am glad I chose this class when I was deciding on classes for the fall semester. One of my favorite activities in this class so far is the current events assignments. I love how we get to research a recent article that shows historical significance, summarize the article, give our opinions/thoughts on the…

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    Institutions, ideologies and individualism all are interconnected concepts which influence one another. Institutions group people together under the same umbrella of ideology. Any institution is merely a system in which each person in it is handed a script and that script is the same for everyone so that the institution could propagate its own ideology. Individualism is a characteristic of a person, a characteristic which is composed of original ideas to solve its’ own problems no matter what…

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    their major and skills they have. An abundant amount of individuals, who have attended a different university are highly qualified for the investment banking or consulting firm, yet, will still be compared to an unqualified Ivy Students Most likely losing the job to the Ivy student. The recruiters come to the conclusion that elite students think faster and solve obstacles quicker than an average student in a moderate university. Because of the standards the hierarchies set in the classrooms and…

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    Moreover, in Ho’s essay, she exploits the dynamic strategies utilized by top investment firms to recruit intelligent students from the most prestigious Ivy League institutions. With the use of vivid language and profound concepts, Ho reveals how standardization has become a generic process to select ideal students that society thinks may be beneficial in enhancing society. This categorization in the education…

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    Everyone wants to go to college and be more successful. Jobs and a decent amount on money all come with the price tag of college. In the following, I am going to discuss future plans and the careers I have chosen for myself. I would like to share with you the colleges I am willing to attend and the path I am going to take to get to those colleges. I would consider myself, as a whole, a well off student. I have many strengths, but I also have my weaknesses. Some strengths that I pursue are that…

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    fulfillment and happiness is all a person can really ask for in life. That’s why I decided to do some research on becoming a lawyer. While doing my research, I figured out that the school that was ranked as the best law school in the nation is the Ivy League university known as Yale. Some of the school’s requirements are to have at least a 4.19 GPA, an ACT score of at least a 33, and a SAT score of 1540. The profession takes about 7-8 years to…

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    A couple weeks ago I attended the 1vyG conference at Yale, which is an annual First-Generation/Low-income university conference which takes place at an Ivy League university each year. At that conference, I attended a workshop on different types of social work which Ivy League Alumni were heavily involved in. I never considered social work before that workshop and after learning about the way communities were immensely benefitting from the work being done reeled…

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    Causes Of Menstruation

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    The University of Pennsylvania Medical School was founded in 1765 and from the time of its inception, the university was clearly a model based off of the organization and course of instruction at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. The University of Edinburgh Medical School located in Edinburgh, Scotland was founded in 1726. These two schools both required that in order to graduate, a student must submit a dissertation, or final thesis paper, on a topic of their choosing. Most students…

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