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fill my role. Over the last two years I have had the opportunity to help lead a football team into two state title games and win one. This is one of my greatest milestones and I look back and think about my dumb decision to not play football my freshman year. I will always regret this decision but I will also always remember the hard work that I put in every day of practice to achieve all state honors as a three year player. I hope that the way I lead with my actions and words will help to bring…

Scripts Good Morning/Afternoon, my fellow classmates. Today, I am going to introduce a fascinating book that I believe that all of you should read - The Tiger Rising. This book was wrote by Newbery Medalist - Kate DiCamillo and The Tiger Rising make its way to the Finalists of the National Book Award in 2001. Let’s begin with the story of The Tiger Rising. One morning in the misty Flordia morning, walking in the woods, Rob Horton, discovered a confined tiger behind the Kentucky Star Motel. The…

prove a correlation between collegiate recreation programs and retention of first year college students. This study aimed to answer the question of whether or not a college campuses program had an impact on their campuses retention. Colleges and universities continue to be watched over for the expenses that they acquire. With budget cuts and program justifications, collegiate recreation has started to be seen as nonimportant to the overall collegiate…

ready to attend college. Students all have different ways to learn, study, teach and fight. However, if a student is completely opposite compared to others, it does not mean they should not attend school or that college is not for them. As Price states “ the pressure is so powerful that we basically tell graduates of high school that they will be losers in life if they don 't go to college”, is where we as a society go wrong (Matt Price). The more pressure we put on students to make them…

Curtin University is an educational provider, which has attracted students from around the world to come to Australia and study at Curtin University, implementing the right security procedure is a key aspect for Curtin University to encourage students to choose Curtin University and the deployment of the right procedures will help Curtin achieve it’s financial objectives “an effective security strategy helps to ensure good security management throughout the organisation and indeed is an…

Whether we like to admit it or not, college pressures face a large majority of the youth population. William Zinsser makes a few well-rounded points concerning these post-secondary struggles in his essay, “College Pressures.” The pressures that are mentioned in the essay are grouped into four classifications: economic, parental, peer, and self-induced. For starters, William Zinsser quotes, “They want a map - right now - that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security,…

Pushing Beyond Memorization Have you ever walk away from a class and said to yourself "I never understand anything that the professor was talking about;" or "this class is boring, and it doesn 't hold my attention, how I am going to pass the exams?" So how can you take the most uninteresting class and learn the material for life? This isn 't an easy task by far, but as the saying goes if it 's easy it 's most likely not worth it. You have to work hard for the better things in life, the same…

Final Arch is a class designed for all incoming freshman to take. The class teaches you all about Notre Dame, Catholicism, how to make it through four years alive and we had a little fun along the way. I will admit that I really did not want to take this class; I thought that it would be a waste of time and money. Contrary to what I thought I really enjoyed and was glad that I took this class. We talked about many different concepts over the semester. Three stood out to me the work of the…

Dresden Lonergan Mrs. Whitehair English 10 Period 2 Research Paper March 2015 Pay for Play Whether or not college student athletes should get paid has been a hot topic recently, and it doesn 't look like it 's ending any time soon. This topic has been debated on ESPN, The Harlem Times, in educational institutions, and many college newspapers. Due to the numerous reasons for it and just as many against, it seems to be an ongoing cycle. These college athletes are basically working full-time…

Introduction There are many initiatives that play a core role in helping colleges and universities maintain its academic stability, and social reputation. Some initiatives take on a bigger role than others; however, at any school displaying a high level of customer service to students is imperative. The individuals that college students interact with throughout their college career are faculty members. According to Tagg (2003) article “To the extent that their work is relevant to the…