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Student Survival Guide
How to successfully conduct Library and Internet searches When you are searching for something online there are two possible places you can look for information. One is in the school library, and the other is through a search engine such as Google. When you want to look for something on Google, you simply type in the address www.google.com. Once it pulls up the page type in what it is that you are looking for and
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Gen 105 Final - Axia College
As a new student to Axia College and a distance learning program, I have learned much in the last nine weeks that will be invaluable during my college experience. I have compiled the following information as a student survival guide; it will serve as a resource during my educational program. In it the following topics are covered: using Axia’s educational resources, upholding academic honesty, setting and achieving goals, managing time wisely, fostering reading comprehension and
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Are College Campuses Safe?
Shootings, theft, and rapes have been happening on college campuses for years. Parents and students have become increasingly worried about the safety on campuses. The dangers on college campuses have been growing over the past few years with the increasing number of crimes ranging from theft to murder. The Virginia Tech shootings back in April 2007 got many people looking at the safety procedures that colleges are taking to protect the students from something like
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Student Survival Guide
Whether returning to school or signing up for the first time a survival guide is essential. This survival guide should be used alongside each class syllabus and referred to as often as necessary. Using Axia’s Educational Resources An excellent source of information is the Axia Online Library. After logging in, place the pointer over My Learning Resources at the top of the page and select Tools & Tutorials. Click Library and the Welcome to the
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College Loan and Scholarship Policies
College Loan and Scholarship Policies Abstract Recently, the federal government has taken away from student loan budgeting, loans and scholarships have become more discriminatory, and private loan companies are charging overwhelming interest rates. This has caused fewer students to get less money to help them pay for college, and the ones that do are likely to have accumulated much debt by the time they graduate. In essence, loan policies are turning students away from pursuing
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Does an Earlier Starting Time in Schools Really Benefit Teenage Students?
Most students today struggle under the heavy load of countless extracurricular activities and lengthy homework assignments, all for a tiny opportunity to get accepted into the most exclusive colleges and eventually the competitive workforce. Starting school at the break of dawn does nothing but deter students from functioning at the best of their ability. In spite of multiple attempts by parents, educators, and students to adapt to schools’ early starting times, the best remedy to
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Many Factor Can Interfere with an Effective Transition to Undergraduate Student Life
The transition to becoming an undergraduate student will vary from student to student. Factors that may affect and possibly trouble one student may have much less significance to another. Despite this, there are still common factors, which can be seen to affect the majority of students and test their ability to cope effectively with the transition to undergraduate student life. These factors could be external. For example, a student who has moved away from home
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Should College Athletes Get Paid
Television networks already profit lots of money into college football games from late August to January, which begs the question, should the players get something in return? Should college football players get paid? Some may think that graduating from a four-year university with a degree should be considered way before playing football once a week and treating the college game like some sort of a developmental league for the NFL. Others may take into consideration
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High School Vs. College
High School vs. College There are many similarities, and differences betweeen high school and college. High School was the best four years of my life. I got in a lot of trouble in thoses years, but also had a blast. Now at J.C.C. it is even better than high school, and my eyes are being opened to a whole new world. In Toronto High Schol you can get away with just about anything. Jefferson Community
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Success in College Life - Fighting for Success
Students who enter the college usually collide with many problems, choices, changes, achievements, obstacles, impressions and people. The entire students have a desire to be successful and reach a lot during the college studying. But unfortunately the majority of the students do not realize how to achieve the success and make the student life more comfortable, easy and impressive. They say that college students worry about falling exams or classes, getting nervous about their sliding
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The Electroal College
When Americans vote, each and every vote is not counted, they are voting for the 538 individuals who make up the Electoral College. Most states award their electoral vote to the candidate who has won the popular vote. Let me emphasize, "Most." The campaign for 2004 that was directed towards my generation was "Vote or Die" (MTV 2004), with words as strong as those, a person like myself, would assume my vote actually counted. But,
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Making College Tuition Cheaper
The rapidly rising cost of higher education faced by all high school students, is making us think twice before deciding our education goals beyond high school. I feel that education is a choice to be made, and should therefore be affordable for everyone who is willing to put forth their time and energy to accomplish his goal. The decision to pursue a college degree hits low income families the most, its hard enough to
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College Essay
Old Dominion University is one of Virginia's premier doctoral-granting institutions of higher education. They offer cutting-edge research and exciting opportunities for learning in an international, diverse, people-centered, metropolitan atmosphere. They have a beautiful campus, which features the latest technological advances. Out of all the colleges that I considered applying for, ODU is my number one choice. My name is John Smith and I am a senior at Westfield Senior High School. I have a GPA
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Student Survival Guide
Student Survival Guide Using Axia’s Educational Resources: Center for Writing Excellence is a tool for figuring out if your work is written, formatted, and/or plagiarized. It helps give advice on writing skills, grammar, punctuation, and also things like not using contractions. It can be useful with papers I wish to submit, where I could have unknowingly copied someone’s work from memory or some other way. Downloading files for use on your machine or portable device;
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Student
In 1692, the time of the Salem Witch Trials, many people were hanged because they were accused of being witches. I do not agree with the way these trials were handled, not do I think they were justified or necessary. The judges, Danforth and Hawthorne, did not grip the situation correctly. If anybody came up to the court and accused someone else of being a witch, the accused were automatically considered a witch and
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Classification of Dog Owners
The varieties of dog-owners are as diverse as the different classifications of dog breeds themselves. From obsessed dog owners to the cruel, each group works under different views. Although you have thousands of people who will treat their pet as a true member of the family, there are thousands more who treat their pets like dirt. Lets show the variety of different types of dog owners. The obsessed group of dog owner's doesn't seem to
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Historical Analysis of Adding Agriculture into Colleges
The number of ways that a person can communicate an idea today is endless. With the advanced technology and numerous sources of transportation, it isn’t difficult to be anywhere talking to anyone in days at most. What these two articles, The Burlington Railroad and Agricultural Policy in the 1920’s by C. Clyde Jones and President Draper Gets a College of Agriculture in Spite of Himself by Jackson E. Towne, showed me was that communicating anything
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College Sports and Academics
College Sports and Academics Division I college Football has never had a negative connotation. It is a stepping stone and training ground for athletes wanting to challenge their limits, improve themselves, and ultimately become professionals. This is true for almost all college sports. Becoming a pro athlete may not always be the goal, “As in life, [sport] is really about competition, teamwork, and succeeding-or failing-after a worthy struggle,” as sportswriter John Feinstein says. After reading
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Life at College
Term Paper The person with whom I sat and collected my data for my term paper was a woman who works in the Ethnic Studies program in the library here at school. I interviewed her not because she work in Ethnic Studies, but because she, like myself was a member of a Greek-Letter organization. For the rest of the population that does not know, she is in a sorority and I am in a fraternity.
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Susan B. Anthony Vs. Alchohol in College Town
Part I: Susan B. Anthony played a very dominant role in the woman suffrage movement, was an important figure in the temperance movement, and was also active in a few other movements during the 19th and 20th centuries. However, during the 1850’s Anthony’s main focus was temperance reform which worked to make alcohol illegal. Interestingly enough, the majority of the workers for the temperance campaign were women. This makes sense because the movement addressed the
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Student
“Spanish is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world, and people are starting to realize that knowing Spanish is extremely valuable,” says University of Miami Spanish Lecturer, German Pavia. “People are more conscious about communication today.” With more than 400 million people speak Spanish worldwide; the United States is fifth on the list of countries with the most Spanish-speaking citizens. Pavia leads the University of Miami’s intensive seven-day immersions style Spanish-speaking
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College Life
College it will be something new because you will be in a new place and have new people around you. With college living is different you get to stay there be away from home and family. College will also be hard work because you have to have good grades or you will get put out. College is going to be something new, different, and hard work. College will be new because it is something you
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Student Survival Guide to Distance Learning
Student Survival Guide to Distance Learning The first step to becoming a successful student of distance learning is to prepare the area you will be using as your classroom. Set your classroom up in an area that will be non-distracting and comfortable. Keeping the area clutter free and organized will be a key factor in succeeding. Another key factor is to be prepared, make sure you have an ample supply of printer paper and ink,
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Working Class Students Feel the Pinch
A Semantic Calculator for Bias in Rhetoric When this piece was written, Stephen Burd was a senior writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education and had been working in that capacity for nearly a decade. In this context it makes sense that he would write on such things as the "working-class student". White male, middle-aged, middle-class, bachelors degree in history- all of these are attributed to Mr. Burd (though none of these things are explicitly
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College Lectures
College Lectures Most college students would agree that lectures are often the dreariest classes they will have to take to get their degrees. While the unpleasantness of the class is often, accredit to the subject matter, the way the professor presents the subject also plays a large role. Why, then do such classes exist if they are so unpleasant to students? The answer is pure economics; colleges can accommodate more students into one class
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