Indeed‚ service learning does serve for a well-rounded education. Especially while in college‚ service learning can familiarize students with companies and professionals in their chosen fields of study in their communities. I am in school to earn a Bachelors Degree in Information Technology. I would love to be immersed into a service learning program to not only gain experience in my field‚ but to complete a project within my community with companies that I may look to for a job upon graduation
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Do you agree or disagree that America has its own "unique" food and celebrations. Use specific examples to support your opinion. Throughout history‚ America has been a land of immigrants. American has been influenced by many cultures from all over the world. This is why America has no set language or culture. I disagree‚ because America has its own unique food and celebrations‚ but rather it obtained it from other countries. Some examples of food is shown in Soul Food by Amiri Baraka “Deep fat
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The world we live in has changed a lot in the last thirty years. Our children used to take lunch boxes to school‚ play hide and seek and eat homemade cooked meals on a regular basis. Nowadays they eat lunch at the school cafeteria or they pick up a soda and a bag of chips from one of the many vending machines located on school properties. They also enjoy playing video games in front of the TV and since their parents are busy‚ they replace dinners with pizzas and frozen dinners heated in the microwave
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Schools can have many problems students and social issues. Many parents and school faculty have wondered if school uniforms could help some of these problems. Some of their problems may be how some students don’t have enough money to buy certain clothes which could be in style‚ other problems could be that clothes could represent gang related things. The bullying in schools has always been a problem‚ and parents think school uniforms could help that. As a student‚ I know that bullying happens in
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If we were to all go back to the 1960s when segregation was a serious issue then the statement regarding the AP program is valid. Lucky for us‚ racism against certain ethnic groups was taken away with the help of Martin Luther King. That world slowly faded away from our lives and in its place came the cruel world of stereotypes that we live in today. People today still believe that individuals are separated based on ethnic‚ racial‚ or socioeconomic groups when actually‚ the problem lies with stereotypes
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Professor Cooper English101FYE5 22 November 2013 Legalization Lincoln once said "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation‚ and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.” The prohibition of marijuana has proven to be a failure and a waste of resources. In addition‚ prohibition has hurt society more than it has helped. Also‚ marijuana can be used as a medicine to treat many life threatening illnesses. The legalization of
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Brendan Ortiz Ms. Woelke ERWC 414 13 December 2012 Into The Wild “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us‚” (Henry Thoreau). Throughout history there has been an allure for high-risk activities for young men of a certain mind. As you will find out many of these young men had there similarities and difference’s two McCandless but one thing each one of them had in common with one another is that these high risk activities pulled them
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Into the Wild begins not with the birth of its main character‚ or even with the beginning of the journey that the book will trace‚ but with an important turning point late in Christopher McCandless’s trip through the American West: his final encounter with another human before he enters the Alaskan wilderness. The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey both start similarly‚ employing a technique the ancients called beginning in medias res — "in the middle of things." Though Into the Wild is a nonfiction
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A mixture of both certainty and doubt is a positive thing in people’s lives. Having a bitof doubt kepps people humble and grounded‚ yet interferes with the idea of achieving things out of ones comfort zone. a sence of certainty not only brings self confidence and courage into someone; without certainty in yourself you would get nowhere in life. Although being humble and staying grounded is a postive thing‚ and it is a sure thing that no one likes an extremely coky person. Yet having doubt about
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The Drive of Chris McCandless “Am I better off dead‚ Am I better off a quitter” (The Script). The meanings behind these lyrics are very powerful and explain Chris’s journey almost perfectly. In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris’s takes on a challenge that is potentially fatal and he has the courage to continue on with it. Chris’s journey is a series of risks he is willing to take to achieve his goal. He has to make life threatening decisions that he could have backed out on at any given time
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