I believe I am a very good applicant for Notre Dame High School because of the many personal achievements, skills, and characteristics that have made me the person I am today. I believe my cultural and spiritual family upbringing, mixed with my own life experiences,...
In turning of a hand, this summer semester comes to an end. I realize that I should through serious thinking and reflection, include thinking what I learned in this semester, and more knowledge or skill could be learned in the future. I compiled a list...
Over the last few years, I have faced several challenges in meeting my own goals for success as a student. I have lost my father and was battling depressing for over 5 years. I had issues keeping up with my life and facing any situation...
My academic and personal achievements have been a great part of my life. Getting to be in Link, Restorative Justice and Student Leadership, I have learned a lot. My personal achievements have ranged from being president of Venturing Crew to getting job interviews to beating...
Oprah Winfrey once said, “where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” And while I never define my obstacles as ‘failures,’ instead it is a way to become more strength, I mark my success by my repeated perseverance through adversity. I have faced several...
The importance of inspecting human behaviors in architectural design is particularly outspoken by the profound architect Fumihiko Maki. I also agree that the built environment should be shaped with greater concern in the human-focused investigation. The relationship between spatial layout and a range of social,...
I first found my passion for drawing when I was 13 years old. My school had a technical drawing class. I always had to finish the assignment given first and with utmost neatness as a curious and competitive individual. This was the first stepping stone...
Illness, diseases, and syndromes, all these words symbolize suffering. But for me, the connotation was so different. My illness gave me a chance to get inspired by the field of medicine. My childhood memories of unexplained minor bleedings, skin bruises, and fatigue caused frequent hospital...
Living in Glasgow I have been exposed to the city’s amazing architecture all my life. This is where my initial interest in the built environment came from and it considerably developed when I started secondary school since it is in the heart of the city...
In my family dynamic, I think my mom and dad had different parenting styles as I was growing up. I think my mom had more of an authoritative parenting style while my dad had more of a permissive parenting style. My mom was authoritative because...
The most misconception amongst many is that having great marks in school and college implies great success in their future. Many studies have been done in this respect but none of the studies could find any strong link between the two aspects of grades and...
During the last decade, we have witnessed revolutionary changes in the field of information system & communication. The capabilities of both generation and collection of data have been rapidly increasing at a great rate. The today world is surrounded by the data and information field&...
I am writing this essay about why I deserve the scholarship. To start, Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” And while I pride myself in my numerous academic and...
Nearly seven million students in K-12 miss an estimated amount of eighteen days each school term. Research shows that student achievement suffers after only five absences. Students who miss more than ten days of school are more than twenty percent less likely to graduate from...
Success in college, every student wants it. Is it easy? No. If you have made it this far, and you do not have any habits to be successful in college, well, you are in big trouble. What can good habits in college get you? Well,...
I am proud to say one of my greatest achievement in high school was when I got inducted in at the National Honor Society ceremony last spring as a new member. Such a rewarding feeling knowing my high school teachers found the compelling qualities of...
The Achievement Gap is the minority versus the white students. The gap does not begins when a child starts school, but it begins before a child starts school. The Department of Education and the government has tried to close the gap, but the gap is...
Coming into highschool, I have high hopes for many goals both academically and personally. The goals academically are improving in all academic fields, specifically Math, English, Computer Science, and Engineer. Besides those, the goals I hope to accomplish personally are to be a healthier person,...
Question 1 A positive and a good learning environment is important for student’s success as it promotes academic achievements. Positive learning, however, cannot just happen on its own they must be created in schools. There are many components that must be considered in schools to...
What is EAP EAP, a sub-discipline of ESP, is differentiated from ESP by its focus on the development of academic skills that prepare the students to succeed in their studies and professional life (Hyland & Shaw, 2016). Whether in a specific discipline or interdisciplinary studies...
In his great article ‘What Is Academic Writing?’ L. Lennie Irvin explains readers how to write an essay. He starts out with an introduction to explain for us the academic writing task, and here in the 2nd body paragraph, he gives us the secret. And...
There are 4 great literary genres under the modern vision: narrative, lyrical, dramatic and didactic. The essay is part of the didactic subgenres. This gives the writer freedom to analyse, interpret or evaluate the selected topic. While thinking about how to write an essay, you...
Carol Dweck describes how developing a positive mindset can specifically affect students in the classroom. Most people around the world do not truly know the meaning behind the decisions they make. People make impulse decisions with intentions of receiving a positive result, but if there...
Review of related literature is an objective, critical summary of published research literature relevant to a topic under consideration for research. The review of literature creates familiarity with current thinking and research on the gender differences towards self – efficacy and academic performance on Pre...
The idea of interlocking treadmills of creation and consumption which became engendered by Allan Schnaiberg can facilely be implemented to schoolwork. This principle offers an explication of the reasons at the back of environmental quandaries today. Rudimentally there is a quandary with the way our...
This source questions the impact of school uniforms on students’ academic achievement. The thesis includes a variety of perspectives on the issue. From an administrative standpoint, administers believe that mandatory school uniforms are beneficial to student success as they believe that if a student is...
English is my life, always has been and always will be because there is something about the English language that speaks to my soul. My love affair with English dates back over 15 years, with my first experiences of reading. I feel like I am...
There are different types of essays. Essays can be descriptive, narrative or persuasive. A persuasive essay is primarily to convince a reader or an audience. A persuasive essay aims to persuade the reader about a specific topic or issue. It does this by explaining the...
For the purposes of this essay we will assume the class is composed of Grade 9 History students working on a research essay focussed on sourcing and forming a historical narrative. There are two initial considerations to be made when addressing the scenario. First, the...
Abstract The main purpose of my self introduction essay is to present a summary about my educational background, work experience, the companies for which I worked, positions which I held in the company and how it helped in shaping my career in the Information Technology...
Academic achievement represents performance outcomes that indicate the extent to which a person has accomplished specific goals that were the focus of activities in instructional environments, specifically in school, college, and university.
Importance
Academic success is important because it is strongly linked to the positive outcomes. Adults who are academically successful and with high levels of education are more likely to be employed, have stable employment, have more employment opportunities than those with less education and earn higher salaries, are more likely to have health insurance, are less dependent on social assistance, are less likely to engage in criminal activity, are more active as citizens and charitable volunteers and are healthier and happier.