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She was part of the Towson Gymnastics team that went on to win the 2009 and 2010 ECAC championship. As a senior, she was named the NCAA Southeast Regional Gymnast of the Year and the ECAC Gymnast of the Year. Despite her accomplishments, she is still looked at as an…

Part 1: College is a great place to meet new people of all different cultures. In fact, one experience I had with an individual of another culture took place at college. During my freshman year at Towson University, I enrolled in a Biology lecture with over 150 students and I happened to sit next to, Bella, a girl who was from Italy. As the semester went on, I got to know her better and learned that she was studying abroad for a semester. Even though she spoke English fluently, she had a very…

A study was conducted at Towson University (TU) to investigate the effectiveness of college hearing screenings, notice hearing loss patterns among students, and propose ways to improve the program overall (Taylor & Emanuel, 2013). In 2013, the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology published a study titled, “Assessment of the Efficacy of a Hearing Screening Program for College Students.” The Speech-Language-Hearing Center (SLHC) at TU conducts hearing screenings for college students as a…

Evidently, underage drinking has become an epidemic throughout the world. Alcohol is the drug of choice among America's adolescents, used by more young people than cigarette or illicit drugs. The increase in the minimum legal drinking age has saved 23,733 lives in the United States this year. There are some reasons why the legal drinking age should not be lowered to 18. For example car accidents and binge alcohol are drastic ways to die. Many people want to lower the legal drinking age because…

Michael Fred Phelps is the most renown swimmer in the entire world. Being the most decorated Olympian with twenty-two Olympic medals. He was the youngest person, at fifteen years old, to compete in the 2000 summer Olympics. He was breaking records left and right. Many people started to notice Michael. He became a professional swimmer at age sixteen and his whole life changed from then on out. This legendary swimmer was born on June thirtieth, 1985. His dad was an all around athlete so…

in an interview that she had lived in seven different locations before she reached the seventh grade. When she was a senior in high school, Dewan participated in the varsity cheerleading program at Notre Dame Preparatory School, which is located in Towson, Maryland. Grapevine High School, located in Grapevine, Texas, became her new school of choice. She was also a member of the school's varsity cheerleading squad, and during her senior year, she was selected as the prom queen. During her time at…

an alcoholic because he was trying to stay relevant after the semi-success of The Great Gatsby. His wife, on the other hand, was suffering from mental issues up until her final mental breakdown and began treatment at the Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland (Editors). After which, she was moved to Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in…

you can choose from like Family nurse practitioner which is one of the best kind of jobs, ER or labor and delivery nurse (lnova.org). Different types of nurses can vary what you want or would like to do. The colleges you can go to for nursing are Towson University, Bowie state or UMBC, which are all in Maryland. Other colleges such as Loyola University that are not in Maryland have nursing programs as well (Inova.org). There are many nursing jobs to choose from just make sure that you choose…

leadership as well. If Dr. Wilson would have a panel of his own alone with the sociology majors and teachers, I believe we can make change not only with Morgan and the surrounding community but all over Baltimore. Then it would be a domino affect, Towson, Johns Hopkins, and Loyola would all contribute to help raise awareness about current social issues we are facing. I believe change is happening, arrest numbers declined beginning in the late 2000s in light of falling wrongdoing rates and…

Tamara and Tiara Creek grew up in Calvert County, Maryland until the age of nine. Later moving to Upper Marlboro, Maryland where they attended middle school and Fredrick Douglass Senior high school. Tamara vividly recalled her senior high school days as if it was yesterday. She was on the basketball team, in the honor society, vice president of student government and vice president of student class. “I loved high school, I was involved in a lot of school activities; I modeled and I was president…