...toddler, I always struggled with reading and writing. I had an older brother, Hezy Washington. He always helped me out when I needed help in situations. He is two years older than me. He was always a good role model for me to look up to. When I was entering kindergarten, I wasn’t able to read well. I could write, but not legible enough. My first assignment was to write a story about my family. I completed the assignment, but it was hard for me because I couldn’t read the directions. My brother helped me by reading me the directions. He also helped me practice reading by giving me books with small words to sound out. We did this every day after school. Once I got reading together he drew letters on paper and let me trace them to get my handwriting together. My mom thought it was a good thing for him to do. So, we went along for a few weeks practicing that. My teacher noticed and she asked me if I had been practicing because my handwriting had improved. By that time I was happy that my teacher noticed. It was a big accomplishment for me. Little did I know that it was only the beginning of writing, as I knew it. Entering my high school year, writing had changed so much from my younger days. There were paragraphs, essays, and other narrative devices. All these things were new to me. As a freshmen my writing skills were not that great as I thought they had been. My teacher told me that I was not putting my paragraphs in order and I was using punctuations in the wrong...
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...Write an appropriate introduction with a clear thesis statement for the following Essay: Effects of studying in the university The first and also the most common effect of entering a University is that once you enter the new school, you start missing your old friends. There are many reasons you and your friends start splitting apart and leaving to study in different cities or schools, but feeling sad because you miss them is inevitable. This doesn’t mean you are never going to see your friends again, but it isn’t the same to be at school without your best friends. The second effect of entering a university is the fact that you have to get acquainted with the entire university environment. Being at junior high or at high school is completely different than being in a university, so you have to learn how to survive in it. During university studies you have to search for your own way to success because at a university, teachers are not going to solve your problems. The third and most important effect of entering a university is the responsible behavior you must develop during your way through the university. Entering a university forces you to be a responsible person because you are the only one who will care about you. During university studies you are in charge of your life and of the decisions that you make such as doing or not doing homework, going or not going to class, etc. Being a responsible person is essential for anyone in this world; without responsibility a person’s...
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...Scholarship Matches (January 22, 2013) Visine Students with Vision Scholarship Program Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products Purpose: To assist students who have a vision and communicate their vision through an essay or video. Eligibility: Applicants must be a high school senior or a college freshman, sophomore or junior and demonstrate involvement in school activities and/or community service. Students must also demonstrate financial need and have a clear vision and be able to communicate their vision through a well-written essay or video presentation. A minimum GPA of 2.8 is required. Deadline: March 1 Amount: $5,000. Awards: Up to 10. Renewable: No. How to Apply: Applications are available online. Contact Information: c/o International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc. 1321 Murfreesboro Road, Suite 800 Nashville, TN 37217 Phone: 855-670-ISTS Email: contactus@applyists.com SanDisk Foundation Scholarship Program SanDisk Foundation Schoalrship Program Purpose: To assist students who have demonstrated leadership or entrepreneurial interests. Eligibility: Applicants must be a high school senior or college freshman, sophomore or junior and must attend or plan to attend a full-time undergraduate program. Students must also demonstrate financial need. Up to 27 $2,500 renewable awards will given to students from the general public, up to three $2,500 renewable awards will be given to dependents of SanDisk employees and two students will be chosen as SanDisk Scholars and awarded...
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...As I entered college as a first-year undergraduate student it was overwhelming, yet an amazing experience. It was difficult for me to adjust to a new environment at the beginning, but as my first year comes to an end I was able to meet various of people, connect with my professors, and find who I am as a person. With these memorable events that have happened in my first year, I also admired all the classes I have taken so far. More specifically, Stretch English which is my first-year English course at San Jose State University. This year-long English course allowed me to witness my strengths and weaknesses as a reader and writer. Thus, I have compiled an ePortfolio that includes my first attempt to write a critical essay and my most recent...
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...Sample Scholarship Essays Updated on Thursday 18 February 2010 (see below for url) This section contains three sample scholarship essays: 1. Scholarship Essay Sample One - Crabiel 2. Scholarship Essay Sample Two - National Merit Scholar 3. Scholarship Essay Sample Three - Fulbright Scholarship Essay One - Crabiel Scholarship Winner, won $3,000 scholarship Like Mr. Crabiel, I literally work tirelessly in many academic and leadership roles. I sleep no more than six hours a night because of my desire to expertly meet my many commitments. Throughout my life, I have worked as long and as hard as I possibly can to effect beneficial changes in both school and society. During the summer of tenth grade, I took a number theory course at Johns Hopkins University with students from Alaska, California, and Bogota, Colombia. Similarly, during the summer following eleventh grade, I was one of ninety students from New Jersey selected to attend the Governor's School in the Sciences at Drew University. At Drew, I took courses in molecular orbital theory, special relativity, cognitive psychology, and I participated in an astrophysics research project. For my independent research project, I used a telescope to find the angular velocity of Pluto. With the angular velocity determined, I used Einstein's field equations and Kepler's laws to place an upper bound on the magnitude of the cosmological constant, which describes the curvature of space and the rate of the universe's expansion. In addition to...
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...Pharmacy students, upon entering their institutions, have to abide by a code of conduct usually higher than other students following a different career path. Students specialising in law, marketing or accounting do not have to maintain the high standard of professionalism that pharmacy students have to demonstrate whilst in school. Students have deemed this set of rules unfair and professionals insist that it has to be maintained in order to fully understand the grasp of pharmacy as a profession. Personally, I understand the need to abide by these rules but also agree with other students that is not necessarily fair. The profession,pharmacy, deals with lives. The three most important aspect of pharmacy are quality, safety and efficacy of medicines and these in turn help to save patients’ lives, to improve their health and to manage chronic diseases while at the same time maximising the comfort of the patient. It is important to demonstrate a degree of professionalism for patients to ensure their lives in our care. This level of competence can only be exhibited upon entering the profession if students are taught right from day one. It improves the chances of perfecting skills that have been taught and instilled from college and therefore of providing better services to the patients. As future pharmacists, pharmacy students have to assume the role and learn to behave in an appropriate manner that is respectful to both the profession and colleagues. A pharmacist or even a pharmacy...
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...write an essay about yourself, then this article is just for you. Here, we will present several tips on how to write an essay about myself properly and succeed. Usually, the task to write essays about myself is given to those entering a high school/college/university or even to those applying for a job. An essay about yourself should present necessary information on what kind of person you are, introduce your achievements. Do you want to impress the reader? Think about the best ideas to present in the descriptive essay on yourself! Maybe, some of the ideas presented below will interest you: * How to write an essay about myself: idea #1 Boring: start writing with a mere introduction – your name, education, purposes, etc… Cool: present a catchy proverb or a famous expression that can describe what kind of person you are, what you believe in, what rules you follow, etc. * How to write an essay about myself: idea #2 Boring: say about your strong and weak points, about your goals, etc… Cool: describe an event/person that made you stronger. Prove that everything happens for some reasons, and you are here because you want and can do a lot for the institution/organization. * How to write an essay about myself: idea #3 Boring: be modest and demonstrate your awareness of tact. Cool: prove that you are better than the others. Do you remember such proverb – the ends justify the means. Be a real fighter, but do not break the rules set. You may use some free essays on myself...
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...similarities of my life and the essay. I started right out of high school with the assumption that I would go to college and never have to work at the local factory. My parents made certain that I was more than aware of the limitations of a factory worker and I wouldn't be one. At the time, college just wasn't working for me. My head wasn't in it and I eventually stopped going. A few years later I found myself entering the large brick building with the sliding glass security doors of our local factory. There I was confronted with loud, 400 degree machines that slammed open and shut every three and a half minutes while working an undesirable second shift, 3:00pm until 11:00pm every day. There I learned what real work was...
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...When I began this course, I had no idea what college writing would be like. All throughout my high school experience I was taught to write in a specific format, but all of that prior knowledge was extracted upon entering this class. I had never struggled with writing previously, but when this class began, I knew I was going to be challenged. I did not know what to expect from this course. I think I was just hoping that there would not be a drastic change. Even though there was a tremendous amount of change, this class had benefitted me the most out of all of my classes my senior year. Throughout this entire course I had learned many useful skills when it comes to writing a college level essay. I think one of the most helpful tools that I was introduced to during this semester was the website PaperRater. In previous years I just had to rely on peer editing which was not always the best method of editing. After using PaperRater I believe that my papers have advanced in vocabulary and sentence structure. Another useful tool that we were instructed to use was Noodletools. I had used this program during my freshman year, but I did not really understand how to properly use it. It has helped me keep my citations and information for my essays organized. The skill that I used most frequently was metacognition. The term metacognition refers to “the processes...
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...Mathew College Map Scholarship Essay Send to clayton.stroleny@ey.com by Feb.2 Imagine a world where college or post secondary education was only available to a select few and withheld from others due to their family history, socioeconomic status, or even geopgraphy. Before being accepted into the College Map program by Ernst & Young (EY) for mentoring, I felt like I might have fallen under those statistics. Fortunately, through EY's scholarship information sessions, admission statistics, tips and Essays for College and Scholarships program, I now know what is actually available to students. If I had the power to change Miami Central in anyway, it would be to make the College Map program less exclusive, that is, to make College Map available to a larger segment of the student body; as it was made available to myself because nothing amounts to the value of a college education. Specifically, I would make College Map available or even mandatory for all 9-12th graders to have them prepped and ready for the transition to postsecondary education. Entering high school, the last thing on my mind was college. That is ironic because since College Map, I understand that I should have been preparing for higher education while in much sooner. Unfortunately, underclassmen commonly are not aware of the hectic college application process they’re about to embark on. However, it's not until junior and senior years that GPAs, Standardized tests and essay competitions become the focus...
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...The purpose of my paper is to convey my thoughts regarding High School graduating students taking a year off before entering college. Many parents and students have mixed feelings concerning this topic of discussion; therefore, my main audience will be focused towards the parents and these graduating seniors. I hope to present a clear, understandable, and convincing overview of the college “Gap” year alternative. As students, we have all looked forward to graduating from high school and beginning our college life. Parents have worked hard and hopefully saved towards this next step in their child’s life. However, if you have graduated and have your high school diploma in your hands; you may begin to wonder if college is right for you, just now. Not every high school graduate goes to college and maybe you don't feel ready for college, and maybe a year off would be the right thing for you. According to collegeboard.com, “many students do go straight to college after graduation, but some students do take a year off to pursue an interest or just to take a break from school, they do this by taking a gap year, a year off, a deferred year, or just plain time off;” they should, however, use this time wisely and not waste the year. Parents also wonder if it's worth taking a year off and pushing back the time their child will graduate from college and start a career. While making this decision, parents and students alike are concerned that taking a year off...
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...the idea that I was entering my third year of high school and that one year later I would be graduating, but I was wrong. Personally, I would not know how I felt the first day of school; probably because of the fact that I did not show up the first week of school. I know, I know I started my junior not so well. The first day I stepped in Godinez High School as a junior, the second week of school had begun. For me, it was not difficult fitting in the first month of school, socially;I had friends...
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...service. The award for first place is $10,000, second place is $5,000 and third place receives $3,000. Applicants must submit an entry form, complete a scoring sheet, and provide documents verifying facts related to the entry form. The deadline for this scholarship is December 31st of every year. The Armed Services YMCA Essay Contest is open to the children of members of the uniformed services (active-duty, Reserve, Guard and retired) and civilian (DOD and Coast Guard) families. Applicants must submit a 500-word essay on their favorite book, author, library, why they like to read, their favorite person to read with, etc. Students will be awarded $1,000 bonds for first place, and $200 bonds for second place. In addition, there are two $100 bonds for essays of honorable mention. The Educational Assistance Program of MOAA provides a variety of interest free loans, interest free grants and scholarships to children of the uniformed services. Applications are due in March. The AMVETS National Scholarship for Entering College Freshman is open to the children and grandchildren of AMVETS members. The scholarship requires applicants to write a 50 to 100-word essay on "What a Higher...
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...When entering this new semester I was stronger in some aspects of my academic abilities than others, writing, not being one of those strengths. Due to past high school experiences confidence in my writing abilities dwindled as a result of four years of poor mentoring. Developing a strong passion for the sciences and acquiring an acute fear of any English reading or writing course. My fight with comma confusion and run on sentences stunted my excitement to be enrolled in a purely writing and comprehension focused course. Within the first few weeks we were introduced to an assignment that focused on defining a word or phrase, I chose to define the word “perfection”. Unfortunately, sending myself into a self-loathing downward spiral due to the unknown degree of difficulty of this word. I struggled with the direction I wanted to go with this paper, then ran into the time engulfing task of trying to capture the ideas that I had accumulated in my head into four pages. The job of capturing these ideas and organizing them into a comprehendible paper was no easy feat, battling between my free writing thoughts and my high school English essay rules, this took me 5 days, 4 long nights, and many calls for help to...
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...well as my fellow classmates. I will be writing this essay for an Ivy Tech course. I believe there will be many levels of knowledge regarding this reading. Each individual will have varying opinions and thoughts. I am sure my fellow classmates will have already read something in relation to this specific reading. I believe everyone in the audience will have a sense of understanding on what’s going on. I am hoping and predicting that my response and summary will help my audience better understand life within another ethnicity. I am hoping the audience will see the issues presented within this reading. This topic is still very relevant...
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