Posts made in March, 2013

Persuasive Essay Draft

Posted by on Mar 29, 2013 in Work In Progress | 0 comments

A Universal Health Care System Imagine what your life would be like if you were one of the millions of Americans without medial coverage. Over 40 million Americans are currently without health care coverage for themselves and their families. Not to mention there has been a steady rise in in people under 65 without health coverage. Although our nation has cutting-edge medical services and some of the best hospitals in the world, many Americans do not have access to the services they need. Health is not an issue to take lightly. Whether health care is given can mean life or death for many...

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Memory

Posted by on Mar 29, 2013 in Passion | 1 comment

When it comes to taking exams, most of us rely on our memory to get the grade. A lot people assume that our memories can’t change but luckily for us they can. Memory can be improvement occurs just as easily as skill building. Like building a skill, you just need to work with it. What we memorize depends on one of two types of memories, short-term and long-term. Short-term memory can only hold around seven pieces of information at a time while long-term memory can store much more and functions very differently than short-term memory. When we study for tests, we’re relying on...

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Our Childhood Friends Play a Role in Our Future Success

Posted by on Mar 21, 2013 in Passion | 1 comment

As freshman year is coming to an end, I keep finding myself looking back and thinking about how far I’ve come since the beginning of my school year. But I didn’t stop to think about how my childhood friends would play such a crucial role in the success I’m experiencing now and the success I’m going to experience in the future. What I found from an article is that those friendships that we all had back in elementary and middle school directly influence our academic success and the challenges we face and are going to face in the future. The different friend groups we...

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Persuasive Essay So Far

Posted by on Mar 21, 2013 in Work In Progress | 1 comment

A Universal Health Care System Imagine what your life would be like if you were one of the millions of Americans without medial coverage. Over 40 million Americans are currently without health care coverage for themselves and their families. Although our nation has cutting-edge medical services and some of the best hospitals in the world, many Americans do not have access to the services they need. Health is not an issue to take lightly, whether health care is given can mean life or death for many people. So how can a country so advanced in the medical field not supply medial coverage to...

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Less Funding for Public Universities

Posted by on Mar 14, 2013 in Civic Issues | 8 comments

It’s hard to believe that state and local financing for higher education declined a surprising 7% this past year. State and local funding has dropped from $88 billion it was before the beginning of the 2008 recession to the $82 billion it is now in year 2013. The per student support from local and state governments is current about just $5,900. Due to the continuing decline of state funding that public universities are receiving, students are taking the fall as tuition in turn rises dramatically. A large issue with the rise of tuition is that it’s becoming increasingly more...

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