Why am I attending college? I enrolled in school for a few reasons. First off I was told that to get a Five Rating (the highest rating) on my next Enlisted Performance Report would have to have completed or be enrolled in college. So in order to keep myself on a strong footing for promotion I needed to head back to school. Second‚ I am looking to better myself not for a performance report but for myself. Completing college is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now. At my previous assignment
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Why I Am in College College is the place to gain knowledge and having more knowledge gives you more power. I have a strong drive to go to college because I want to be rich‚ I want to make a difference‚ and I want to discover who I am. I believe that college is the first step to my success and I will take advantage of that. College is my building stone to get a degree so I can earn more money to become a billionaire. I want to use the money I earn to help my family out to thank them for raising
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instilled in me that college was a requirement. The vision has always been to graduate high school‚ then proceed to college‚ it was just a matter of where I wanted to go‚ what I wanted to study‚ and how to acquire the funds for it. However‚ as I got older college became a choice I had to make based on how I wanted my future to go. When I figured out I wanted to pursue a career in Environmental Engineering I knew college was the path to take. With that being said‚ going to college and pursuing my particular
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and juvenile delinquency. The film There Are No Children Here tells the story of two boys growing up in a housing project in Chicago infested with crime and a shortage of money‚ guidance‚ and tranquility. Knowledge of the struggles of the residents of Chicago‚ in particular African Americans‚ is essential to the history of the city. Were these struggles possibly dreams deferred? Both Pacyga’s novel and the film There Are No Children Here convey the trials and tribulations of the African Americans
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As a future student of IUPUI I am wanting to learn independence and teamwork. I want to be able to have hands on experience that I was unable to obtain during high school. Going to an actual college will allow me to be able to be with others‚ who take their work seriously and want to be at the college. Challenges I have had over my high school year has made it difficult to be attentive and made it where I had to go from school to school. Raised in a bad situation‚ caused me to have to move to two
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Jia Jones 11/12/2013 RENG 91 Universities vs. Community Colleges My essay I will be talking about the difference between universities and community colleges. I choose this topic because most students coming out of high school and get stuck on choosing a college to attend. Community colleges have open admissions policies‚ meaning that anyone who can benefit is welcome to attend. You will need a high school diploma or a GED to take courses
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The more I think about why I am starting college I do not know myself maybe I took it because it was the next step right after high school or I want to have a successful career and have a sturdy income. Also‚ it could be that I saw my peers starting college and wanted to know what college is. Another big element is my ethnicity because my uncles‚ aunts‚ and family members all went to college and they are either in the medical or in the engineering field they expect the same from me. They also keep
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Alex Kotlowitz’s book‚ There are No Children Here‚ is a story about two boys‚ Pharaoh and Lafeyette Rivers growing in the late 1980’s in Henry Horner‚ a housing project in Chicago. The boys try to retain their youth while they see constant gang violence‚ death of close friends‚ their brother in jail and their dad struggling with a drug addiction. In Horner‚ there are two gangs that claim it as their turf‚ and the Rivers family is constantly ducking from shots of gunfire there. They live in
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In 1955‚ Frank Sinatra sang‚ “love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. You can’t have one without the other.” Frankie is right. When two people‚ any two people‚ are in love‚ they should be able to openly express their love for each other by getting married. However‚ not everyone sees it this way. Some think that if gays are allowed to get married‚ the already weakened institution would become even weaker. Others think that it would be a step towards giving people the ability to have
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Webster’s Dictionary defines a group as "a number of persons near‚ placed‚ or classified together." Others define a group as a "social unit that consists of a number of individuals (1) who‚ at a given time‚ have role and status relationships with one another‚ stabilized in some degree and (2) who possess a set of values or norms regulating the attitude and behavior of individual members‚ at least in matters of consequence to them." Intergroup relations between two or more groups and their respective
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