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  • Life At A B-School

    Life At A B-School

    Preface and explanation: Well I had found this thread on Pagalguy.com when I first started scouring for information about IBA on the Net. It was started by one of my super-seniors, "Razabpn", socially also known as Biswa Prakash sir. I had read a lot of experiences from the top B-school. But Sir's was the first account about an average-rated college like IBA, which he loved very strongly. I really admire his great creativity, vocabulary and

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    Essay Length: 2,822 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2011
  • Childhood Obesity: Schools And The Effect They

    Childhood Obesity: Schools And The Effect They

    It is 11:59, and seven year old Johnny sits anxiously in his seat, entranced as he stares at the second hand slowly creeping around the clock and awaiting the moment when the minute will pass and lunchtime will begin. The bell rings, and Johnny dashes from the seat that has confined him from the freedom that can only be found in the school cafeteria. He reaches in his pocket, filtering through various candy wrappers, and

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    Essay Length: 2,023 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2011
  • My Journey To School

    My Journey To School

    My journey to school starts as soon as I open my eyes is still dark outside and I’m the first person at home to wake up. To take my time and not rush things I wake up at least an hour early but, sometimes I don’t even make it to wake up that early .Since I love sleeping is almost impossible to believe that myself. My goal every morning before I live to school is

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    Essay Length: 763 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2011
  • Public School Uniforms?

    Public School Uniforms?

    Before I started reading the articles, my opinion on having to wear uniforms in public schools has changed. I came from a school where I had to wear a uniform. But it was something basic where we had to wear khaki pants with a blue polo shirt. We didn’t have to wear khaki pants all the time, but when we went on field trips it was mandatory that we wore them. On a regular day

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    Essay Length: 459 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2011
  • Lets Really Reform Our Schools

    Lets Really Reform Our Schools

    I think in today’s society, what makes or breaks a young person’s future is there high school education. If one is not given a fair opportunity to learn, or if high school is not a safe and enjoyable place to go, often times what happens is either the kids stop going, or they just simply stop caring. In the words of Garland, “American high schools are disasters.” She believes that our high schools are in

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    Essay Length: 695 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2011
  • Free Schools

    Free Schools

    After reading “ Free schools” by Dewitt Clinton and “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto both have two completely opposite ideas about school and make very valid points. Dewitt Clinton believes that everyone should be educated and schooling should be free so people of all wealth could be educated where as John Gatto believes that not all people need school and in fact by making it mandatory it becomes boring. Gatto argues that school days

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    Essay Length: 857 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2011
  • 1st Day In School

    1st Day In School

    Well the more I think about that day, the more I remember. Actually it seems like yesterday when my mom for the first time woke me up to go to school. Well, honestly she dragged me out of the bed. It was around six in the morning when she woke me up. So after brushing my and getting dressed. I had a long breakfast with my mom, dad, two sisters and grandparents. The topic that

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    Essay Length: 826 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2011
  • Violent Shootings On School Campuses

    Violent Shootings On School Campuses

    Violent Shootings on Campus There seems to be an increase in violent crimes, mainly involving mass murders and violent shootings, on many campuses nationwide. From as far back as August 1, 1966, when a man named Charles Whitman stood atop the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin’s clock tower and began gunning people down with a rifle, violent school offences involving weapons can be traced up to the present day shooting such

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    Essay Length: 1,549 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2011
  • Hidden Words And The Life Of Middle School

    Hidden Words And The Life Of Middle School

    As school year draws to a close, students across the nation anticipate the biggest school sanctioned literacy event of the year: the sale and distribution of the school yearbook. Like students elsewhere, Fayette Middle students anxiously awaited its arrival. Produced by some sixty-five or so students working together with the help of two staff advisors, the yearbook, a fifty page hard back document, captured the year through photographs, student produced artwork, and captions. Sports held

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    Essay Length: 1,267 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2011
  • Single Sex Schools

    Single Sex Schools

    Single Sex Schooling for Girls The experience that I have had in both co-ed and same sex schooling has made me come to an understanding of how different these two schooling systems are. Going to a co-ed elementary and middle school at a young age did not really prove to me that there is any difference between co-ed and same sex schooling. After moving to Iran, I was forced to attend an all girl high

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    Essay Length: 1,956 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2011
  • High School Athletes Should Consider College Over The Nba

    High School Athletes Should Consider College Over The Nba

    High School Athletes Should Consider College over the NBA In the last ten years, many young and talented high school basketball players have chosen to enter the NBA draft. These seventeen and eighteen year olds decide to skip college and instead, they choose to take a big risk and enter the NBA, hoping to become stars and earn millions of dollars. In many cases, these youngsters’ careers are failures because sometimes they don’t turn out

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    Essay Length: 1,018 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2011
  • Why I Went Back To School

    Why I Went Back To School

    A couple years back a purchased a computer and I started to play around with it. I spent hours on end teaching myself how to build websites, I built sites for the business I had, online stores to sell products, and many others. I was proud of what I had done and started showing my little projects to family and friends. That’s when I kept hearing “you should go to college for computers, you are

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    Essay Length: 688 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2011
  • Religion In Schools

    Religion In Schools

    Religion in Public Schools Religion is a set of beliefs and practices often organized around supernatural and moral claims, and often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience. The term “religion” refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion). All different ethnicities have different

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    Essay Length: 1,143 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2011
  • Dc Schools

    Dc Schools

    Believe it or not there are children in this country going to public schools that are using books from the seventies. Would one believe that school system was from our nations capital and the Washington DC public school system is one of the worse in the country. This school system is in serious need of financial aid but that aid is being taken away by the new implementation of a school voucher system. This voucher

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    Essay Length: 787 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2011
  • Grad School Essay

    Grad School Essay

    Criminal Justice has always been a fascinating subject to me. Growing up I have always been intrigued by everything that deals with the profession from the start of a crime to the closing of the case. A master’s degree in criminal justice is important to me in both my professional and my personal life. I believe that a master’s degree is important for everyone to obtain. A bachelors degree will only take a person so

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    Essay Length: 267 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2011
  • Should A High School Curriculum Be Career Based Or College Prep Based?

    Should A High School Curriculum Be Career Based Or College Prep Based?

    There is much debate about whether a high school curriculum should be career based or whether the courses should be geared more towards college preparation. If students receive a majority of their curriculum in their core courses to help for college preparation, plus have the opportunity to take a few career based courses, I believe that it will set a strong foundation for college training in the career of their choice. If schools allow students

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    Essay Length: 547 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2011
  • Literature Review On Sport Participation And After School Drop Out

    Literature Review On Sport Participation And After School Drop Out

    1 The affects on sport participation with regards to the absence of education Coalter et al. (1994) illustrated that those who stayed in education after the minimal school leaving age had higher rates of sports participation than the school leavers. This statement inspired the author of this review to research, and essentially ascertain what implications and constraints occur in an adolescent and adult environment when considering participating in sport. 1.1 Benefits attained by society via

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    Essay Length: 1,436 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2011
  • School Uniforms

    School Uniforms

    SCHOOL UNIFORMS In his hopes to create "an atmosphere in our school that promotes discipline and order and learning," President William Jefferson Clinton stated, "I believe we should give strong support to school districts that decide to require young students to wear school uniforms." He cited several incidents where student's desire for another's fashionable attire has led to extreme forms of violence (Clinton 1996). This exemplifies one of the many implications of a necessity for

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    Essay Length: 1,633 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2011
  • High School Compared To College

    High School Compared To College

    Upon attending college for about one month, I have found that I enjoy being a college student more than being a high school student. In this short amount of time, I have seen that more freedom is allowed to students in college than in high school as far as most of the important decision-making is concerned. Choices like schedules, attendance, and class selection are a few examples of how college is less restrictive than high

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    Essay Length: 711 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2011
  • Violence In Schools

    Violence In Schools

    Violence in schools is a problem today that needs more attention than it is being given. This doesn't just mean school shootings. This means other violence like assaults, rapes, robberies, hate crimes, gang violence, as well as violence with weapons. I think that there is not enough being done to prevent violence like these in schools. Violence in schools is a problem that has been going on for a very long time, and this is

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    Essay Length: 583 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2011
  • First Amendment Separation Of Church & School

    First Amendment Separation Of Church & School

    The first amendment to the constitution is what separates the United States from any other country in the world. It is a codified guarantee that one will be able to practice his or her own religion without fear of reprisal from both state and national governments. By neither endorsing nor condoning any one single religion the United States has allowed for the diverse culture that exists today. The first amendment to the us constitution which

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    Essay Length: 1,373 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2011
  • Vernonia School District V. Acton

    Vernonia School District V. Acton

    On June 26, 1995, the Supreme Court decided on the case Vernonia School District v. Acton as to whether or not random drug testing of high school athletes violated the reasonable search and seizure clause of the Fourth Amendment. During the 1980's and 1990's there was a large increase in drug use. The courts decision was a strong interpretation of the Fourth Amendment and the right decision upon drug testing high school athletes. Between

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    Essay Length: 1,088 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2011
  • School Violence And Video Games

    School Violence And Video Games

    Grand Theft Auto, Doom, Mortal Kombat, and Resident Evil. One thing all these games have in common is they are all rated M for Mature. The definition of a Mature rating according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is "Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content, and/or strong language." The ESRB states

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    Submitted: March 7, 2011
  • Medical School Average Mcat Scores And Gpa

    Medical School Average Mcat Scores And Gpa

    Medical School Average MCAT Scores and GPA These figures were taken from the 2008-2009 edition of the Medical School Admission Requirements book, published by the AAMC. You can order a copy at www.aamc.org. Students should not choose to apply to schools solely based on average GPA and MCAT scores! It is important that you also look at curriculum, opportunities outside of the classroom, geographical considerations, match to the school's mission, etc. Be certain that you

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    Essay Length: 697 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2011
  • Weed And Soil Assessment For The Parking Lot “Islands” At Central High School

    Weed And Soil Assessment For The Parking Lot “Islands” At Central High School

    Weed and Soil Assessment for the Parking Lot “Islands” at Central High School Jackie Doughty, Bridgette Minor, Akya Rice, Kendra Robinson, Jessica Scott, Lakita Scott and Kristy Tippey ABSTRACT: Part A of this lab was performed to determine the extent to which an assortment of weeds have encroached in the parking lot “islands” at CHS since the school was built two years ago, when there were virtually no weeds present. Six quadrats of samples were

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    Essay Length: 1,832 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2011

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