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students, parents and teachers have discussed whether students have suffered too much pressure over and over again. Students’ pressure is so important, which influences both students’ performance and health a lot. As far as I am concerned, there should be more pressure to teenagers to go to college. Because pressure is what students give themselves, homework doesn’t give enough pressure to students and students…

Hoarding: It’s More Common Than We Think When I called a few friends about having a yard sale, I jokingly stated that I did not want to become a hoarder. Everyone knew exactly what I meant because, in recent years, pop culture has become fixated on hoarding. Reality shows have sprung up depicting the lives of people trapped with their belongings. This sparked my curiosity to find out more than just a passing interest in hoarding. What Is Hoarding? According to…

What is more important, funding the arts or sports? This is a tough choice that is very common in schools throughout the U.S. Most school boards would look at this question and quickly give the answer of, “Sports are more important because the majority of the school likes going to games and supporting the athletes. Art class is just a place for students to doodle, and most of them just take that class because they don’t have anything else to do.” Even though not every student enjoy playing…

Blacks and Latinos have a higher poverty rate than Whites. Women are more than likely to live in poverty than men. Women of every racial group are more than likely to be poor than men. 21% of children live in poverty. It is safe to say that women, children and ethnic groups are more than likely to live in poverty. People who live in poverty have both strengths and challenges. People in poverty tend to be hard workers with determination and persistence on the other side their hard work don’t pay…

As time goes by, humans rely more and more on technology. Like it or not, everyone is exposed to some type of technology in their lifetime. Now-a-days kids play in tablets instead of going outside and being involved in actual physical activity. One thing for sure, is that technology does come handy to in various ways. Technology does in a way make humans more powerful; It is something that is growing with society, there is no turning back, or is it? As stated above, technology is evolving…

Maren Malakowsky Composition 101 Mrs. Laura Alvstad 2 Dec. 2014 Low Reading Literacy: The Profound Effects Are You More Literate Than a Sixth Grader? Fit in later to transition to the problem “Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives.” - Richard Vaca Academically…

argument will only weaken it. Robert Harris’s EAR method, found in his book, Using Sources Effectively: Strengthening Your Writing and Avoiding Plagiarism, is a great way to evaluate a source’s expertise, accuracy, and reliability. “Are We Becoming More Socially Awkward? An Analysis of the Relationship Between Technological Communication Use and Social Skills in College Students” is an article by Cecilia Brown that describes her experiment performed on students and the results. She tested the…

In Miroslav Volf’s article, A Christina Contribution to a More Peaceful Social Environment, argues that society’s belief that resurgence of the Christian religion increases violence is not true. In fact he explains that it is quite the contrary stating, “…the more we nurture Christian faith as an ongoing tradition that by its intrinsic content shapes behavior and in its regulative reach touches the public sphere, the better off we will be” (p. 29). He furthers this argument by exploring the…

Technology plays an important part in student success. However, some believe technology promotes more incivility then civility. Ever since it became popular there has been a rise in incivility both in person and over the internet. However, others believe that technology plays an important part in student success. Over the past couple of years technology has become very popular within schools and colleges. During this time students in college or school have had access to technology, whether on a…

There are so many people in this world that it would be impossible to speak for everyone. One thing that most seem to agree on is that stereotyping does more harm than good. Yet there is still some debate as to whether there are exceptions. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a stereotype as, ''A preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person, situation, etc.; an attitude based on such a preconception. Also, a person who appears to conform closely to the idea…