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place. While some people think common core standards are a great way to keep schools on the same track, I maintain that common core standards are just a way to stress children out with over testing. Common Core Standards are a set of standards set by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and Department of Education to keep schools across the country on track with other schools and to prepare students…

involved into the sport culture. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), between 1971 and 1972, 294,015 women participated in high school athletics compared to over 3.5 million male athletes at the time (AAUW, 1). But, as time progressed, in 2007 the number of high school women participating in sports was just over 3 million and men were around 4.3 million. According to the website, this trend was also shown in college athletics in reference to the respective time…

The decision to participate and make a large investment in Greek life at many universities across the globe is a major part of a student’s college identity. Regulations and rules created by committees across the country, create a “standard” for these Greek. The strictness of these standards have been up for debate decades, questioning what is and isn’t allowed to go on inside these fraternity and sorority houses. Although many organizations would love to pride themselves on following every given…

Thornberry was a theorist who came up with the interactional model. In the text, it states, “Do certain individuals select themselves to hang out with delinquents by their previous behavior, or do they learn criminality from delinquents with whom they start associating?” (Tibbetts, 2012). I believe that the second question would make more sense. The reason I say this is because certain individuals tend to learn criminality when they start to blend in and socialize with other people. I am the…

Based off of Witt’s forensic analysis, I vividly understand that there an excess of supporters, mainly teenagers and college students, that would argue that illegal downloading didn’t cause the music industry and the record companies to plunge in sales. Many would argue that simply being young, wild, and broke was reasoning to piracy with the intent of not causing harm…

Finding the dream career with a dream salary is a goal for most students when considering a field of study. Sometimes salary is the number one motivation for young college students in their first job search. However, there are others who choose a career based on their strong passion and drive for a particular discipline. Even if a career does not always come with an appealing salary, the rewards of helping another person can be invaluable and outweigh income. I grew up in a home where serving…

implemented unique level dependent challenges, tested gameplay and functionality, and spent well over 20 hours on my own video game about gravity on other planets. My work paid off when it took me to a first place finish at the state competition in TSA. I’ve also worked with a college professor at Virginia Tech as he showed me how computers in his labs communicate with and track satellites. That opened my eyes to things I would have never thought about, but shows me the capabilities of computing…

alternated between the United States and Mexico, never staying in more than a year in one home. It was rare if we stayed in any city longer than two years. Unfortunately, due to the constant packing and moving, I never made any true friends; I was isolated, lonely, awkward, and kept everything to myself. No one taught me that in life it would take more than just hard work and good grades to succeed in life. It would be the economic disparity present in my city, a school staff that knew about my…

Ethic is the rules of behavior based on ideas about what is good and bad. My basis of ground moral is shaped mostly by my family, education, media and religion. The interaction that I had with my parents, siblings and other member of my family have an impact on my ethical point of view. For example, growing up I have been thought to always be grateful for what I have in life and to always help the needed, thus I have learned compassion and develop ethical standard that include caring and giving…

“Essentially a closed society on racial issues…[that] fought tenaciously, often violently, to maintain a way of life based on white supremacy” (Jenkins). There, a coalition known as the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE),…