Ap English Synthesis Essay

Throughout today’s society, media contributes to almost everyone’s daily life. From informative news channels to comical television shows, media proves to be effective in advertisement, releasing messages and informing the audience. Although media proves to be wildly effective in advertising, releasing messages and informing the audience, periodically destructive and misleading messages are provided to the audience and directly influencing women. Cultural critics widely agree that media tends to negatively influence women and all the critics point to research which supports the belief that women are portrayed as subordinate to men, having no

VOCABULARY: Without using the internet, write the definition for the words you know. Then if you have blanks look them up in your textbook. (middle of the book A)

It has recently been brought to my attention that our school is looking to adopt a sustainable menu into our meal program and I would like to give my viewpoint on the matter. As one many students here at Oxford Academy this change will affect me directly. Although people may at first oppose this conversion I think if we are able to overcome the first obstacles, this change would bring a great positive impact to the environment and the health of our students.

At the beginning of the 20th century, American Progressive methods began changing to fit a new era of economic and social policy. The early 1900s were a time of increasing social awareness and focus on responsible legislation. Some of the economic changes that caused this new Progressive awareness and focus were desire for growth, new moral ideologies, and an orientation around workers' rights.

In Amy Chua’s essay, “The Right Road to America” she argues the point that immigration is a great value of this country and that America was built from immigrants. One thing differs from Chua’s essay than from others because she not only gives highly credible facts on how immigrants have helped our country, but she also provides ways to improve the issues of immigration into America. Amy Chua is a highly credible professor at Yale and states throughout her essay that immigrants who possess American values deserve to be here in America and those who don’t should leave. America had always been a country that accepted immigration and allowed all

There is a constant stream of technology in every direction. Everyday life revolves around technology, which has generously influenced today’s generation in many positive and negative ways. Students have the world at their fingertips. Anything can be found with a swipe of a finger or a click of a button. They want the newest phones, tablets, laptops, and other gadgets, while parents struggle to keep their children’s attention. Students cannot go a minute without their phones, let alone a week. Therefore, many schools plan to participate in “Shut Down Your Screen Week,” which is a week where students would unplug from technology. Bayless High School should not enforce the national “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because technology allow students to interact with others easily, to gather information quicker, and to help increase brain activity for users.

How to best prepare for a Calculus/Physics test? Many college professors would recommend students to practice a variety of challenging problems. However, those problems often require students to use logical thinking and be able to apply multiple concepts to solve, and each can take from a couple minutes to an hour. Not many students can dedicate all of their time to one course, especially if they have other courses’ assignments as well. One good thing, at Everett Community College, students can get help with homework and prepare for their test in the Annex tutoring center, a center that is specifically for advanced Mathematics and Physics. If there’s one thing that prevents students from getting the maximum benefits from the center is that

My kitchen table served as my laboratory in the tenth grade. When chemistry is taught through an online course, it’s basically required to use informal laboratories. The kitchen stove served as a burner, measuring cups as cylinders, and plastic bowls as beakers. My experience learning chemistry online leaned more on the visual side. While solving organic compound problems began with me staring at a screen, the “aha” moment was cherished through endless videos, calls to my teacher, and corrections for incorrect problems.

Many of our students have smartphones, laptops, and tablets they use throughout the school day for school work. While some students depend on their devices to look up the current fashion trends and football stats, we feel that technology has also enabled students to think in a different way. Many students are quick on their feet to Google information to prove their friend wrong, send texts and emails in less than 10 seconds, and get excited when they are allowed to use their

Our topic is whether or not TPS students have the resources and support they need to succeed, and what we can do to help. We selected this topic because we were hoping to learn more about what students have access to in TPS schools. We want to know if they have access to textbooks, tutors, electronics, etc. and determine if access to these resources affects their learning ability or the outcome of a student’s education. We selected this topic because, coming from an independent/private school, we do not know what it's like for TPS students to not necessarily have access to the same materials and help we do. If we find out that TPS students don’t have access to the resources, we want to find a way to make sure they have equal opportunities to learn

In Samuel G. Freedman’s New York Times article, New Class(room) War: Teacher versus Technology, Freedman argues that technology is effecting the younger generations in a negative way inside of the classroom. He explains that while the baby boomer generation sees technology as a useful means for information and communication, the newer generations use technology for counterproductive means such as entertainment and socialization. While it is true that some people utilize technology for unproductive means, the majority of people in the classroom have the self-discipline to pay attention to the professor rather than their phone. Yes, some students may produce worse grades due to technology, but if they didn’t have the technology they would more than likely find a different way to waste time. Freedman exaggerates the issue by acting as if the majority of students are absent-mindedly on their phones during class. There will always be

Every year, college tuitions are increasing drastically. The thought of college goes through the minds of students if it’s genuinely worth paying for. College is worth the cost because it benefits the society with well-educated people socially and it gives financial stability economically.

Smartphones have become a part of everyone’s body. Almost everything can be done through smart phones. Paying bills, doing grocery, buying food, and more time consuming tasks can all be done almost instantly by smartphones. Many jobs and institutions today do not allow the use of smartphones during a certain time, especially schools. Prohibition of cell phones in school is a good idea to prevent students from getting distracted. However, high school students should be allowed to access their cell phones at school, because high school students are mature enough to use their cell phones productively and beneficially. Having access to internet is very important to high school students. Many students could not afford to have all kinds of devices, such as laptop, tablets, and cell phones. Entirely banning the usage of cell phones can make students hate the school causing them to be more arrogant.

I currently work for a university that built an entire Adult Program based on the premise that their market would be the mid-level manager that already had a job. Most of the employers paid for the students to attend college in order to earn a degree. They were not going to earn a promotion, they already had the promotion and needed the degree to solidify their current position. As the job market has changed, the university had to change also and so has the enrollment of the university. Most of the students that are enrolling in the university at this time are unemployed, under-employed or trying to reinvent themselves. One of the previous admissions requirements for entrance into the university was that students had to have two years of work experience. While this was a requirement for entrance the university realized that there were many people who could not meet this requirement and therefore removed this requirement from the list of admissions requirements.

Furthermore, as communication and writing skills diminish our school performance begins to be affected. The entertainment of mobile devices distracts nearly every student in the classroom whether it is texting, or playing games, or surfing the net. Mobile devices also play a big role in communication by making it possible for students to easily communicate with each other when they should not be. The power to communicate with virtually anyone is a major distraction. Some teens are so attached to their technological devices they sleep with phones on and wake up to answer text messages they get at night. When kids have cell phones in their classrooms they are extremely distracted from what is actually being taught. They are looking down and playing their games or going on social networking sites instead of listening to their teachers. With the constant distraction of technology and teens short attention spans reading and writing skills have suffered significantly and vocabularies are shrinking. This relates to their education and their ability to do well in school. Another problem is that technology provides students with the ability to explore numerous search engines for any problem they come across and copy them word for word. It seems that students don’t spend time thinking; they are simply repeating information instead of learning concepts and ideas. When students do this, they do not actually learn the