...English Composition I February 10, 2014 When I was inspired to come back to college Returning to school for me at this point of time in my life is very important. I have quite a few things I want to accomplish in life, and one definite thing is receiving my degree in the Criminal Justice. The point in my life when I came to this conclusion, I was at work doing yet doing another double. I had just gotten paid and my check wasn’t enough to pay all my bills I had that were due. I couldn’t understand why I still fell short. I had picked up all the overtime I was allowed per pay period and it still wasn’t enough to cover all my bills. I knew it was time for a change in my life. I then enrolled in Schenectady Community College. I signed up to get my degree in Criminal Justice. My first semester went great I was so proud of myself. Second semester I changed degrees and switched to get my degree in Chemical Abuse Counseling. After taking my second semester I realized Chemical Abuse was not for me so I switched back to Criminal Justice. I’m now in my third semester and look forward to completing Criminal Justice and obtaining my degree when I’m done taking all the required classes needed. I’m aware with me switching degrees it set me back a little but I’m in no rush and know I have a long road ahead. Hopefully the courses in chemical abuse I took can count towards my criminal justice degree. I currently work for adults with disabilities. I have been at this job for twelve years...
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...Dr. Zomorrodian | Assignment I | Principles of Economics | | Charles Fitch | 5/6/2011 | | I want to discuss and gives some examples and graphs on price discrimination strategies, price ceiling and what happens when the government regulates prices to give them a price ceiling to protect the consumer. I also want to discuss a perfect competitive market and the short and long term effects if demand rises or falls, also, why some long-run average curves are so steep. Lastly, I will explain the rationale and implications of the new guidelines used by DOJ and FTC for evaluating mergers. Problem 1. Sub shop In my sub shop, called Subtown, after some research I have found that with the pricing structure that is currently in place it has not attracted as many college students as I believe we could serve. The average student at the nearby college eats out three to four times a week for lunch and close to five times a week for dinner with the average meal being nine to twelve dollars. The total population of the nearby college is about twelve hundred students. Since the demand for fast food for lunch and dinner for college students is relatively elastic because there is already seven other fast food establishments in the area that are in close proximity to the college as well. One of those is another sub shop, one is a sandwich shop, and there are three burger places a Chinese food place and a taco place. None of these establishments offer a price discrimination strategy...
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...Don’t Give Up I must say, I live a pretty sheltered life, with no wants or needs. I have a roof over my head, all the food I can eat, a loving family, and a good school. Yes, it sounds like I’m a spoiled child. Although I’d like to think I’m not, I’m slowly coming to the terms that maybe I AM spoiled. I don’t have any major life changes nor anything really special, and this prompt made me think about who was my role model, and/or the best advice I’ve gotten. I don’t have a sports or celebrity that I look up to, and the people that I actually know about are all scientists, so that didn’t really help. But when I thought about who had an impact on my life, I came to a realization. I didn’t need to try at math (at my old school, not CHS) and it was all due to one person, my mom. She’s a major role model to me, always making me push to my full potential. She made me practice math one grade ahead, which I hate. Originally, I thought that my mom was just doing it for no reason, but later when I grew older I realized that she was doing what was best for me. All this prep actually had a purpose later, which was the SAT for college....
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...The transition to college is an exciting time in one’s life. The greatest appeal is the independence college brings, but it is also the greatest challenge. Academically and socially college is much more demanding than high school and to succeed students need to have the self-motivation and will power to find the balance between work and play. To manage my transition to college I had to use my cognitive, emotional, and social competencies attained during youth to thrive in this new environment. My mother has had a huge influence on my success in college. She helped me develop study habits and a strong work ethic in my younger years; I can attribute many of my cognitive strengths to her involvement in my academic life. During my youth she taught me the value of effort and accuracy, rewarding me when I correctly and efficiently completed assigned work. I see now that she was employing a form of operant conditioning, where, if I completed my homework early enough and to her satisfaction, I was able to play board games, socialize with my friends and sisters, or watch TV if I so choose. If not, then I had to forgo these activities. Major theorists such as Edward Thorndike, John Watson, and B. F. Skinner were of the belief that learning was the result of consequences (Huitt & Hummel, 1997). This is why operant conditioning was so successful for me in elementary and high school and why I continue to use it in college. Only when I finish my course work do I allow myself to socialize...
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...Maham Choudhry 15110160 My Nana, the Lawyer He asks me my name. I tell him. It’s not as if he forgets, it is just that he never bothered to remember. Committing the names of his nine children’s offspring is understandably a tedious task. “Tell me about Sirhind, nana,” I ask. He smiles, a maze of crow’s feet forming at the edge of his cataract-inflicted eyes. “I went there last night.” My nana’s ‘dreams’ take him to Sirhind Shareef, a place he calls home. Sirhind (the popular name of Fatehgarh Sahib), where there is a shrine of Shaikh Ahmad Mujaddid Alf-i-Sani, was situated in Patiala state, a region between Ludhiana and Ambala Districts. It was the head-quarter of the province under Mughal rule. My nana has never demanded anything from his children. But he asks them to take him to Sirhind, a word he speaks with such longing and love that every syllable seems covered in honey. Perhaps that is why he has started hallucinating. His desire to re-visit Sirhind is so strong, the place where his father had slapped a Sikh who tried to stop a Shia procession and where he had shared loaves covered in ghee with his father’s Hindu business partners. Every night, nana claims that ‘his friends’ in his dreams take him across the border to his home, where he was born in the year 1935. My nana is Chaudhry Muhammad Bashir, one of the most capable and eminent lawyers in Faisalabad. His grandfather...
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...Unfortunately that is not the case as I have dealt with many professionals who have acted unprofessional and uneducated. I have been employed for the past seven years to one of the top colleges in the country. The college has eight campuses in different parts of South Florida allowing it to be diverse in cultures both with students as well as with our faculty and staff and creating for ethical issues to arise at all times. The Experience Working for the Quick Copy Center at one of our campuses I must follow policies and procedures set out not only by the college, but by the state and the federal government. Many professors think that because they have Master’s or Doctorate degrees they have rights in not following procedures that I must enforce. I enforce policies and procedures not only to protect myself, but also to protect my employees, department and the college. On this particular day professor Fried came into the office requesting copies from a book for her class. I asked her to please provide me with a copy of the book and she refused. I immediately told her that I would need to see the book in order to abide by copyright laws that are not only in place at the college, but it was a federal law. She got very angry said I was stupid and was too much trouble for her and the students. She proceeded with breaking up our Quick Copy Form and throwing them at my face. I was furious, but thought quickly and remained calm. I told her I was following department regulations...
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...group and I decided to use a questionnaire as our research method. Reason being, we found that it would be much more simple and sufficient. As our project was relating to teenagers we thought it would be a better way to attract teens into participating because it is a quick and easy way of getting detailed replies. We also decided to use observation as our second research method in order to see how many student within our college actually made time for breakfast. All the results we collected were counted up and tallied and placed in graphs that showed us that the majority of students skip breakfast because they spend their time travelling to college. In our literacy research we used the Internet to search for information that relates to our research project ‘Teenagers and breakfast before college’, which is a form of secondary research. I found that using the Internet helped me find information on the importance of breakfast, as the information was detailed and straightforward. I felt that reading books didn’t give me the information I was looking for as it has already been researched and written about, besides it only spoke about specific facts as I was searching for ‘Teenagers and breakfast before college’. Questionnaires are a set of written questions, which allows an individual to make their own choice of answers. The main purposes of questionnaires are for statistical studies or surveys. This relates to our chosen topic because we have our own statistical study of why we feel...
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...which is November 2nd 2015. I was able to work with the other placement students from Sheridan College. It was an amazing experience working with other knowledgeable students from different school. We were given a target, or should I say a theme to focus, we were asked to work on the agency website. To re-modify, remove or add to the website. During my practicum at the agency named Acorn 2Oak Community Services, I realized individuals have different ways of doing things. Reason why I said that is because, two of the students from Sheridan College got into arguments because of the task we were given. After drafting how the agency website should look like, the other female disagreed with her teammate on what she drafted. A lot of emotions occupied since either of these two want to agree or talk in one accord. For example, one of the students said something and I quote “this is why I hate working with other people.” This is surprising because I believe they both came from the...
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...go onto college. My parents always wanted my brother and I to go to college, since they never had the chance to. My dad would always say, “I want better for you guys than I had for myself”. One way to accomplish that, was to get good grades in high school and move onto college. So it was not a big shock to my family when I said I wanted to graduate my Junior year of high school, a whole year earlier than my graduating class. I was set on going to college, I needed a reason to get out of my hometown of Council Bluffs and a way to do that, was by going to college. Now my brother was already an expert at the whole college thing....
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...Assignment 1 “Why college education is important to me” Achieving Academic Excellence February 6th, 2014 The purpose of this essay is to show the importance of a college education and to provide many reasons why a college education would be important to me. I will incorporate a few quoted references along with some statistical data and my personal opinion. About twenty years ago I couldn’t give an answer to “why college is important to me”. I did enroll in a college and lasted about three semesters. I didn’t do well in many of my classes because I had poor study habits, lacked maturity, was never really focused, and just didn’t have any real motivation and goals set for myself. I never really gave it much thought. The point is I just didn’t take advantage of what college would mean to me and to my future. I wanted to enter the work force right away because I thought that I could land a good job without a college education. After fifteen years of doing different jobs and not making enough money to support a family on my own, I was finally at a crossroads. What am I going to do with my life? Do I continue to struggle? Those were really good questions. I realized that it wasn’t possible to land good jobs without better knowledge and the only way possible is to go back to school. I did some soul searching and came to the conclusion that if I am going to achieve something in this life and qualify for many positions then I must go back to college and work very hard for a degree. I did a...
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...is why we are able to know so much because people created a mental structure of the systems after people have dissected humans when they died or saw the structure of different organisms. It all depends on the person who is trying to get a mental representation of what they have learned. I believe it comes down to creativity to because if you really tried there is a possibility of making mental images of how you are going to something. It being a dissection or just applying psychological applications with people I believe would develop a good mental image. In psych I have had to make several mental images of the knowledge they have given to me would work with different situations. For example who you would talk to adolescent children who have yet to fully develop. You would talk to them...
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...Why engineering students shift to other program? Objectives 1. To identify the factors why students shift to other program 2. To evaluate the main reason why engineering students shift 3. To propose a plan of action to the university to lessen the number of shifters INTRODUCTION One of the major factors that have been affecting college students to graduate earlier is the shifting of courses of the college student, especially after the first to second year of experience of the student’s studies. Shifting of course is a way of college students to change their chosen program to another that may have been caused by many incompatibility of the student to compete in that specific chosen program. Shifting refers to a transfer from one program to another of the same level. A level may refer to baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, or diploma/certificate”. In some college student’s perspective about shifting courses, is that shifting courses was caused by rejection of the problems of the student in that specific program. In shifting courses there are four possible reasons why a college student demands to shift their course. The first possible reason in shifting course is the problem with the student’s course itself, if the course does not meet the demands of a student, it may cause failure or boredom to the student that makes them change course. Second reason is the problem with the place or university, if the place causes uncomfortable aura to the students, then it may cause unhappiness...
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...The decision to enroll in college can be a difficult choice. Many people follow a standard time frame going from High School directly to college and utilize more idealistic means in choosing where they will go to college. Idealistic means such as where their parents went, what the campus is like or whether its academics cater to a specific lifestyle or career choice. Others, like me, must base their decision on where they attend based on more realistic means. So what makes Western Governors a more realistic choice for people like me? In order to give you a better idea of why I decided on WGU as my choice for higher education let me begin with what brought me to decide that college was important for me at all. I had barely finished High School, had moved out from my parents and lived from place to place at an early age. I had no idea what my ambitions were or what I wanted to do with my life. Instead of deciding what I wanted to do with my life I just went from day to day until life seemed to decide for me. I worked my way up through food service jobs gaining experience and credentials over the years. I even got to a point of comfort or perhaps it was better defined as a point of complacence. I had started a family and had a job that afforded the bills and the occasional luxury. What my education and current career did not afford was security and self fulfillment. Not only was I not happy working food service anymore but I was suddenly laid off and unemployed...
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...Why do we go to college? Going to college is one of the biggest choices someone could make in their life. There are many reasons why people go to college and some those reasons can also be why they choose not to go to college. These factors include geography, getting a higher education, parents and peers. These play a huge role in decision making. To find out the answers i interviewed recent college graduate at New Paltz,Djiby Ousmane. Location plays an important part in college decisions, because u have to decide where you want to go to college, either stay in your home state, upstate or out of state. All of these depends on how focus you really want to be while in college, also to experience a different environment. Djiby chose to go to New paltz “to escape from the city and try something different” many do the same for the same reasons, however some people won’t do that because of financial constraints. The National Association for college admissions posted by the New York Times states, “the education level,income and travel experience of parents are the easiest ways to determine how far away a student is willing to go to college”...
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...Why do people go to college? Education is something that no body can take it from us have a career is one way to be prepared to life to no have economic struggles. Can be many of reasons why people go to college like studious person, family pressure, nothing better to do, but in my case I do it because I enjoy it, I want to have an better future and I need to set up an example to my daughter. Study is something that I enjoy I love to put effort on learning new things, and trying to do it as good I can even though, I am diagnosed with attention deficit since, I was little. So that, never I let that to take me down because my sacrifice and effort is worth more than a stop diagnosis. Have a better future is something that I have headed all...
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