Obtaining a college degree has always been a dream of my family and mines. My mom and dad are first generation immigrants coming from Myanmar to the united states of America. Since they did not have the opportunity to go to college, they did everything...
Prom is like the Met Gala of highschool, it is your exit from highschool and it is customary to look damn good on your way out. I remember when I was a sophomore, a girl in my grade was going to prom with her cousin...
The gap year consists of age requirements that young athletes have to reach to be eligible to participate. The gap year rule has been implemented in order to physically and psychologically prepare the young athletes for major league sports. Various major sporting leagues have age...
As a senior in secondary school did you ever worry about your future? Making arrangements for school? An approach to alleviate pressure could be to take a gap year. The life of the normal senior comprise of making arrangements for school, by taking a year...
Introduction More and more students are taking their time out of formal education to go work or travel around the world. There aren’t any exact numbers but according to different researches, the number of gap year participants keeps rising and rising every year. They get...
For a long time, many have argued that children should not be taught two languages because it could affect their cognitive abilities and confuse them. Another argument is that bilingual children will have academic difficulties when they start school and may fall behind. Children in...
Frank Smith, a psycholinguist who was acknowledged for his contributions in linguistics and cognitive psychology, once said, “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” Today, the world is full of different languages and cultures who...
A dual language (DL) program is more than simply teaching content in two languages. It’s about seeing cultural, social and linguistic differences and similarities as means to develop connections and appreciation for other cultures as well as our own. The three core pillars of DL...
By now, it should come as no surprise that entertainment outlets such as television, movies, social media and video games have surpassed their literary predecessors. For the majority of Americans, especially the younger generation, gone are the days of simply reading for leisure or purposes...
College is a very expensive experience especially without any help or coming from a single parent home. Good news is that Black Americans, especially Black women, are earning more college degrees than ever. For a black student, the financial burden of higher education hits hardest....
One of the main reasons for students not being able to meet their full potential is due to the fear of not being able to pay for their tuition. In the UK, students that graduate from English Universities are paying the average of £9,188 per...
Abstract This research paper consists of five published articles that describe higher education due to student loans. The articles explain and point out several different problems for student loans. However, other articles will talk about solutions that America can do to increase, higher education. Each...
Kids are often asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Their answer may be an astronaut or a doctor. Obviously with these career choices obtaining a college degree is a requirement, but do they realize what burdens that degree comes with?...
Abstract Gratitude defines an attitude of positivity in a person’s character whether personal or professional. It can be easily understood as the realization of gratefulness towards a person’s deed from the beneficiary of the said deed. It is a spontaneous feeling emerging from within. However,...
The topic of this argumentative essay is that post-secondary education should be free for everyone in Canada. Each of us at least once thought about this issue. Many people think that schooling ought to be at no cost; others that gratis schooling should not be...
Education is the lighting guide in our successful route. Education can be described as the process of gaining understanding, beliefs, values, abilities, and practices that teach us to be a real human being. Whatever we learned whether imposed or willingly comes under the domain of...
Introduction Rob Wilson, President at Employco said, “We have this idea in our society that a college degree is the gateway to financial freedom and success, but the statistics don’t necessarily bear that out.’ A report conducted from Project on Student Debt said that two-thirds...
Should college athletes be paid for playing? The National Collegiate Athletic Association makes billion dollars of their athlete. College athletes should get paid to play because the money they get can help them support their family and limited corruption from NCAA and player will wait...
Should college athletes be paid? The intensity of the argument to pay college athletes has escalated in the past few years. Picture a world where every college athlete was paid by their schools to play. The controversy it would have on an organization like the...