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John A Macdonald was a great man and a great Canadian. Mr. Macdonald helped to build Canada as he was Canadas first prime minister. Macdonald was for every language, he did not discriminate against Lower Canada like some government officials did he was very open to work with them. He is also a great Canadian because he gave others the opportunity to be really amazing he gave them the opportunity to be a Canadian. John was the first prime minister of Canada and he helped to create Canada as we…

Because of the higher ups in the MLB organization the sport is being ruined. Have you ever looked at the official rules? If not, let me tell you they are getting extremely confusing. I Have to say if they keep this up they will ruin the game of baseball. I like the game of baseball because it oldschool, now there’s all these rules that are changing sides of the game as a whole. The MLB rules are getting too confusing. In 2016 alone the MLB has amended 21 of the existing rules and added 3…

As displayed in the historical movie 42, the great Jackie Robinson had to go through much hatred and trash talk; the patience the man had in order to step onto the field himself and play the game was incredible. The fans were extremely harsh as it was a deviant action for an African American to share the field with white males, Jackie did not only have to deal with the fans but even some of his so called “teammates”. The rude things fans would yell at him such as ‘Why don’t you look in the…

Last year, the New York Mets ran away with the National League East. The Mets captured the division by seven games over the second place Washington Nationals. However, it wasn't always smooth sailing for the Mets in 2015 as the Nationals held the division lead heading into the last year’s All-Star break. 

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After winning the division in 2015, the Mets made a deep run in the playoffs. New York made it all the way to the World Series before the eventual World Series Champion Kansas…

Colleges will have to devote additional expenditures for students if the college has an “open door” policy. “Open door” policies make it more affordable for people who want to attend college. Even if the student is intimidated by all of the difficult criteria the college offers, enrolling in an open door policy college would still be cheaper. According to NCSALL, “By keeping the doors to higher education wide open, community colleges have accepted the responsibility for educating all their…

What is the goal of your College Education? Some people may think that college is about leaving home, picking a career, getting a job to make money and working for the rest of their lives. However, some of this is true, a lot of it is wrong. College is so much more than this. The purpose of a college education is to prepare you to take your place in the economy, prepare you for a full life and for lifelong learning, and to prepare you to be a Christian leader throughout the rest of…

Brunswick County, from Leland to Ash. This is my second year attending Brunswick Community College. My long term educational goal is to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition or Psychology. I haven’t decided which one I enjoy best at the moment. I plan on getting my Bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. But first, I am finishing up getting my Associate in Arts degree at Brunswick Community College. Then I will transfer to UNCW for my continuing studies. My life time…

More often than in the past I education needs to meet the growing demands of the college system that government. Many institutions of higher education have been placed under some form of performance-based metrics. Of these performance-based reviews, completion and retention have become the focus of many institutions. This push for retention has made many institutions assess how they retain students and has prompted new initiatives to aid them. When looking at retention it raises two main…

pivotal role in the development of distance education in these two countries by providing financial and legislative support (Motlik, 2008). KNOU was established in 1972 as Korea Air and Correspondence College (KACC) and was an extension of the Seoul National University offering two-year junior college programs. Demand for higher education led to KACC becoming independent from Seoul National University and offering five-year university programs (Jung, 2000). Today, KNOU has a central location,…

category of two-year community college contributes to the gender wage-gap. They collected data from National Longitudinal Study of Youth and compared the change in the wage-gap between 1985 and 1990 with that of the period between 1989 and 1994. Using a decomposition strategy, Gill and Leigh (2000) manage to divide their data into observable effects and unobservable effects on the wage-gap. In the beginning of their paper, they note how most literature tends to use the broad “some college”…