Good College Essay Samples and Writing Practices Examples to Boost Your Creativity - Page 359

Today, education is important. There is an ever-increasing weight being placed on the population, especially youths, to seek higher education through college. Many individuals are unsure of what they want to do when entering college, however. For these individuals, and many like them, a degree in Liberal Arts may be preferable. According to D. Lee Fink’s, “Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses,” liberal art programs include academic subjects ranging from mathematics to social and physical sciences, to literature and other professional subjects. Essentially, a liberal arts education allows the individual to not only Continue reading...

Reference Services

With the dawn the digital age, individuals have a variety of mediums through which they can access information. The increased speed of data access, especially through the internet, has greatly diminished the importance of libraries in this information age. The irrelevance of physical libraries has been exacerbated by poor customer services rendered by librarians to patrons. In addition, there exist deeply-rooted stereotypes about librarians and libraries, in general, which undermine the role that they play in advancing literacy and knowledge. These stereotypes stem from misconceptions of lowly motivated staff, outdated materials, and lack of diversity. Several studies conducted over Continue reading...

The US Constitution provides some legal principles that will regulate the conduct of the police authorities with respect to the manner of obtaining evidence through search and seizure. Called the exclusionary rule, this doctrine prevents the police authorities from illegally searching and seizing evidence against an accused. An example of this is conducting a search without a valid warrant. The consequences of doing so will constitute to the inadmissibility of the evidence obtained against the accused before the court as a result of a “fruit of a poisonous tree.” The concept of this statement pertains to the illegally obtained Continue reading...

Introduction

Creativity is an essential aspect that can spur innovativeness in a business entity. By encouraging the staff of an organization to actively put their ideas forward, business leaders will be putting their firms on an innovation path. The inculcation of creativity in teams enables them to be effective, and it increases their potential thus enhancing performance (Gilson et al., p. 522). Building creative teams involves having the right people in terms of skills, cultural orientation and the right level of staffing. Moreover, a business leader is expected to formulate the right process focused on making the team members more Continue reading...

Race and gender gap in the employment market continue to be persistent. Even though the wage gap between blacks and whites seemed to converge quickly in the past, the gap has now stagnated for several years (Altonji and Blank 3143). The wage gap between Hispanic and white has increased among both females and males. On the contrary, the wage gap between genders does not show change during the 60’s and 70’s. The wage gap made visible the differences in employment market outcomes by gender and race. Considerable difference in employment market involvement, occupational location, unemployment rates, job Continue reading...

The Social Process and Social Development Theory is a theory that attempts to explain how qualitative changes occur in the structure and framework of a given society. In this way, it would help the society to realise its aims and objectives better (Riddle, 2008). The Social Process segment concern itself with how new activities emerge in the society whilst the Social Development segment studies how certain factors affect them to develop. Otherwise the theory attempts to explain how the society meets certain objective by organising resources to overcome challenges and exploit opportunities (Midgley, 2013). The social process and social Continue reading...

For quite a while, reporters and commentators have noticed a decrease in the level of municipal interest and engagement in American life. Diminished levels of voting and less time went through on exercises with neighbors have been referred to as cases of the decrease in municipal engagement in this new age. For instance, in a 1987 survey of people born after the war, 77% said that the country was more awful off on account of less inclusion in group exercises. Fifty percent of Americans in 1996 felt that we were getting to be less reliable. In a 1999 overview Continue reading...

Chapter 4

It is mankind’s folly that they should reach beyond their means to find the edges of limits that were not known to exist. Through innovation and the act of striving to know what is yet unknown and to break down barriers that are to that point believed unbreakable, humankind has always found that containing the supposedly divine spark that lies within each individual is a matter of perceptive reasoning that is better defined by the individual than by the species. We are what we are in accordance to what we believe, and we do what we do in Continue reading...

Unlikable characters have been a part of literature since almost the very beginning. In Homer’s Iliad, king Agamemnon is different from the other Achaean monarchs in his petty cruelty. When it turns out that Agamemnon hunted the sacred deer of Artemis, incurring her wrath and causing a plague to strike the Greek soldiers, the remedy that the Oracle suggests is the sacrifice of a virgin. Agamemnon quickly offers up the life of his own daughter, Iphigenia, without even discussing the matter with his wife. Ultimately this leads to Agamemnon’s own demise, as his wife plots his murder Continue reading...

Introduction

According to Trilling, the audience has to be sure of the hero tragic by mere witnessing the suffering. The suffering have to be the rationale argued in the novel “the Ethan Frome” by Helen Killoran, which contains the idea of morals inertia and not making moral decisions in life. Over one hundred years Edith Wharton wrote the book “under the Granite of Ethan Frome” that have been hundred of written easy on the grave aspects of the story. Particularly the essay writing by Helen Killoran, which she titled “Under the granite of the Ethan Frome.” In this, Helen Killoran Continue reading...