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Thinking is inseparably interwoven into human nature. Nearly everyone ponders about various things: school, work, what to eat for dinner. Yet, as every college student knows, the difference between the thinking involved in solving a differential equation and the thinking involved in searching for a potential romantic partner is like the difference between day and night. In his speech, “Memorial Address”, the renowned German philosopher Martin Heidegger explores two forms of thinking that he…

understanding of university education. Asklepios for example is a university for medical studies. They are offering exactly one program: human medicine. Asklepios teaches in a traditional way, because the subject taught did not go through a lot of change in recent years. Their difference to a public university is only found in them not being public and therefore being costly. Obviously Asklepios is no competitor to Macromedia but still relevant to show that private universities do not necessary…

The article, “Why Laptops in Class Are Distracting America’s Future Workforce” was written by Timothy D. Snyder in 2010. His purpose in writing this article was to persuade professors against having laptops in the classroom because he feels they are a distraction. The arguments Snyder uses against laptops in classrooms are, they distract students’ attention, students miss out of the best part of American life, and he generalizes that this lack of attention will spill over into the workplace.…

A Hydrate’s Empirical Formula Aaron Meehan Ethan 11/06/17 Kotiba 09J I have read and agree to the terms of the Academic Honesty Statement. _Aaron Meehan____________11/06/2017_____________________ Student Signature Date Purpose This experiment conducted during lab was designed so that the students would be able to formulate the hydrate’s empirical formula after heating and observing the effects of heating a hydrate salt. By taking careful measurements and the usage of stichometry, the…

Joshua P. Hochschild, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., points to the flaws of the current American student-loan system in the article “Welcome to Ginger and Pickles University” published March 11, 2015 in The Wall Street Journal. The article deals with the important issue of student-loans and the store like exchange America places on education. Hochschild’s article is written in response to President Obama’s signing of a “Student Aid Bill of…

education within the system of universities, as well as a juxtaposition of their positions. In “Universities and their Function,” Whitehead writes that “[t]he universities are schools of education, and schools of research.” (Whitehead, “Universities,” 2). For the universities to properly serve these functions, they need to cultivate imagination in the students and in the faculty. In fact, he states that “A university is imaginative or it is nothing”(Whitehead, “Universities,” 2). This…

First Generation College Goers The article by Liz Riggs “First Generation College-Goers” is primarily about the perceived struggles of people who are the first in their families to attend College. The issues of a first-generation student tend to involve financial burdens and being behind academically compared to others. While colleges may accept these students, they are far less likely to graduate on time or at all compared to their peers. Most of these students are unaware of the resources…

as a medium for expressing the solutions to our problems before implementation of the agreed plan. However, when you have a big organization with multiple departments like Creighton University does you often have the problem of bureaucracy within the organization. The president of Creighton acts as head of the University and works for the board to ensure day-to-day operations are going along in a cohesive and efficient manner. But when you have many different departments that mean the…

“Mr. D, how do you say this (holding a pen) in English?” It was my first day back to school in Dubai. As I looked at my seventh grade student whom I knew I was going to be teaching history and geography to, exclusively in English, I realized I was in for a long semester. But, I empathized. “It’s a pen,” I said patiently. She nodded with understanding. Eight months later, my socially acclimatized student was conversing fluently in English with her peers. And, she had become one of my top students…

are frequently combined with formally written warnings that clearly articulate the consequences of subsequent occurrences of plagiarism (Kokemuller). A mixture of instruction and discipline is an effective and widely acclaimed move toward fighting college plagiarism (Kokemuller). Another serious risk of plagiarism is the possibility of legal repercussions. The laws of Copyright stipulate that an individual cannot make use of other people’s content without appropriate citation; therefore, an…