Essays Tagged: "college students"

Piece of the Pie

Piece of the PieMoney is an important issue for almost all college students. Very few are lucky enough not to have the financial burdens of tuition, housing, a ... ademic initiatives. Some students have parents that are wealthy enough to cover all of the costs of college. Other students are given financial aid from the university that they attend. If necessary, ... hen they prevent.The prospect of the money waiting for many athletes, like Darnell, when they leave college, leads them to abandon their education and head straight for the professional leagues. Some ...

(7 pages) 130 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

High School vs. College

High School V. College Suddenly you realize you're clothes don't appear clean, and folded neatly in your dra ... dry is just one of the changes a student will notice when making the transition from high school to college. Students going from high school to college will find that many things stay the same. ... class doing homework. Students will also see that they will still have a busy schedule every day in college just as they did in high school. Although these parts of high school and college are the sam ...

(2 pages) 189 0 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

GOSSIP. Personal account of what gossip does.

t others has about you. In the movie that I just saw I could see how Jones, Derek and Travis, three college students; are brought together for a class project, in which they decide to start a rumor an ...

(1 pages) 68 0 4.7 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment

the power to do so. The results of the six day experiment are chilling. Theexperiment took ordinary college students and had some agree to be prisoners and the restwould be guards for the prisoners. B ...

(2 pages) 227 1 4.2 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Ways to Increase College Bookstore Sales

I think that in order to increase sales to students and faculty,the College Bookstore must address and improve the areas of merchandise selection, staffing, and merchan ... le ways to increase sales to students and faculty, I interviewed employees, administered surveys to college students and faculty, and conducted an independent observation to determine the college book ... was collectively described by the students and faculty.MERCHANDIZE SELECTIONMy study shows that the College Bookstore has a definite issue in merchandise selection. Of those sureveyed, the individuals ...

(4 pages) 85 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Minimum Wage, not all that it seems

Minimum Wage LegislationI am going to pose the question to you the students of Sir Sandford Fleming College, do you really want the minimum wage legislation left in affect? As college students you are ... n unskilled because they would like to receive some return on their investment, their education. As college students we should be able to relate to this concept as we have put more time, effort and mo ...

(4 pages) 280 0 3.5 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Marketing analysis of Excalibur, restaurant sport bar producer.

appeal. Our market segmentation scheme allows some room for estimates and nonspecific definitions.1.College Students--By creating an environment that is appealing to college students, we secure a natu ... tomers Growth 2002 2003 2004 2005 CAGRYoung Professionals 15% 151,800 174,570 200,756 230,869 15.00%College Students 5% 105,000 110,250 115,763 121,551 5.00%Tourists/Business Travelers 20% 120,000 144 ...

(5 pages) 235 0 2.7 May/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

It's an essay about social alienation with comparisons from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce, "The Blue Hotel," by Stephen Crane, and "A Worn Path," by Eudora Welty.

In today's schools, students of all ages in high school and college are face with social alienation. Social alienation brings out a negative effect on people, m ... enation. In their article, they discuss the way that women have a lower social alienation than men. College students who are involved in a organization have lower social alienation than students who a ... studies done that prove that social alienation causes negative academic outcomes in high school and college students (Lane, 1999).Every child goes through social alienation I believe. Most of it occur ...

(5 pages) 166 0 4.6 Jul/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

business ethics

llegal use of insider stock information, and members of Congress write hundreds of bad checks. Even college students seem to have become caught up in the wave where studies show significant increases ...

(9 pages) 1581 2 4.3 Aug/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Untraditional Traditions

is a thing of the past. We are inordinately busy, for one thing, whether household bread-winners or college students. Also, the definition of family has changed. We are dealing with new definitions an ...

(3 pages) 81 1 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Partner abuse

even death. The hypothesis of this paper is do students believe that partner abuse is a problem on college campus. To find out this I will include a literary review, which will include theories of wh ... ories of why it might occur and prof from other sources. Most important a survey given out to Curry college students and its results will be included. I choose this topic to educate students on the vi ...

(7 pages) 179 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays

College Drinking

College DrinkingLarge consumption of alcohol is a very serious problem especially among students att ... nsumption of alcohol is a very serious problem especially among students attending college. Several college students start drinking heavily when they go to big college parties. Most think that they ne ... use of peer pressure and feel that they must in order to fit it with the popular group. Drinking in college can have some major consequences that will extremely ruin a person's life.Since college bing ...

(3 pages) 81 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

The underage Drinking Problem and how to prevent youths from consuming alcohol underage. A perspective view of parents, law enforcement, bar owners, and college students

l problem for parents and community members, bar owners and servers, law enforcement officials, and college students to address. As a college student at Oswego State University, I have noticed underag ... is the solution to the underage drinking problem. The article also discusses the fact that underage college students are not penalized enough at this point, when caught consuming alcoholic beverages. ...

(3 pages) 182 1 4.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Effect of Active Student Response on College Age Students Learning Vocabulary Definitions: an experiment done in an experimental psychology class

head: THE EFFECT OF ASR ON LEARNING VOCABULARY DEFINITIONSThe Effect of Active Student Response on College Age Students Learning Vocabulary DefinitionsAbstractThe purpose of this experiment was to de ... e of this experiment was to demonstrate Active Student Response error correction procedure (ASR) in college students, and to generate a cost effective method other than Think Fast to teach vocabulary ...

(10 pages) 193 0 4.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

7 Careers in Logistics

Melissa GreenCareers In LogisticsAlthough most college students do not see logistics as a very probable employment field, it is actually an area of ...

(8 pages) 278 0 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Animal Rights Protests Gone Bad.

ciety doesn't work that way.In a recent article I found online, I learned that PETA was encouraging college students to drink beer instead of milk! That's right, they actually want college kids to dri ... ttle-shaped bottle openers that say, "Drink responsibly. Don't drink milk. Save a cow's life!" Many college officials are disgusted with the campaign, because more and more college students are dying ...

(2 pages) 53 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Animal Testing

Alcohol abuse in high schools

t drug before they finished high school. That's astonishing by itself, and to think what percent of college students have is mesmerizing. Alcohol on the other hand is even worse. Four out of five teen ...

(3 pages) 69 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Commercialization of Gametes. This paper describes the debate about women selling their eggs (gametes) for money. It includes many points about why one would be against such a practice.

"Commercialization of Gametes""Brainy Beauties Finance College by Selling Their Eggs" is the headline of one Internet source taken from a bulletin board at ... Eggs" is the headline of one Internet source taken from a bulletin board at a prestigious college. College students are being offered thousands of dollars to donate eggs to infertile couples due to t ... women are making this procedure, which can be extremely painful, a habit in order to finance their college education. Some people, especially athletes, brilliant scientists, models, singers, and acto ...

(2 pages) 50 0 2.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

"Alcoholism among college students." Authot Irina Volosciuk

Alcoholism Among College StudentsAlcoholism among college students is one of the most popular problems in modern soci ...

(3 pages) 157 4 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Importance of a college application

Applying For CollegeApplying for college can be a difficult process for some students there are many things to co ... g a major. Also the competition can be very tough for some students to even be acknowledged by some colleges. Many students try different ways to better their chances of being selected by the colleges ... an express who they really are other than just grades and projects to the admission officers at the college. Students today focus technology as a way to improve their college applications because it i ...

(1 pages) 90 1 3.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education