NCHSAA Argumentative Essay

1. For my television commercial I used the popular Sham wow infomercial. According to the site the Sham Wow is “a washcloth, which will dry, and polish any surface. They are like a towel, chamois, and sponge all in one--except they're extremely absorbent and can be used over and over.” However, a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America gives Sham Wow a “C” and says it’s a normal towel so why have so many Americans fallen for the gimmick?

In most high schools they've gotten back good reports using career and technical education. Business industry see it as a focus on preparing students for work. Educators say CTE is an alternative path for high school graduates who don't plan to go to college. Every year it’s a struggle to keep these kids interested in school work because it’s so much bad influence going on around them. So that’s why CTE decided to embarrass these students into a different type of learning skills.

Joseph is a redshirt senior who has appeared in 41 games for UConn, while registering 260 total tackles and 11.5 tackles for loss. Joseph is the leader of the defense and is responsible for lining of the linemen and linebackers. Joseph is active in run defense and has the ability to cover some tight ends and slower running backs. Joseph does not posses elite athleticism, which has turned into an essential trait for inside linebackers to succeed in the NFL today. Joseph plays sideline-to-sideline but does not have the speed to track down offensive players who breakthrough on the outside. Joseph will get a chance at the next level, but I believe there are stronger candidates for the 2018 Senior Bowl due to Joseph’s lack of athleticism.

Attending community college before completing your bachelor’s degree at a four-year institution can save you a sizable chunk of change. Tuition and fees at public community colleges average less than half of those at public four-year colleges and about one-tenth of those at private four-year colleges, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. “I think my student loan was at least half of what I would have paid otherwise,” O’Brien says.

Because of this funding, more women are being recognized as victims and have equal access to help regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and immigration status. Hence, in addition to saving lives, VAWA 2013, saves money by reducing or even preventing future violence as well as related social costs.

Caroline Kerr English 100 Mira Costa Community College April 2, 2015 Argumentative Essay In 2014, graduating college students debt on average increased by 25% — in 2008 going from $23,450 to $29,400; in 2004 only 900,000 students graduated in debt, in 2008 1.1 million students graduated from debt and in 2012 1.3 million students had gradated from a four year in college loans and debt (71% of all students). An even scarier statistic is that just from public schools in the United States over 65% of gradients had student loans as of 2012. The worst thing about this is that students who received Pell Grants (families that on average earn less that $40,00 per household) were more likely to have student loans, in fact 88% of Pell Grant students

I do not believe anyone was expecting the SCOTUS to take up the decision to hear the DAPA and DACA Expansion Executive Order to occur so fast. This is going to have political consequences in my opinion.

Great question Amanda about the what results would we see nationwide if all states chose to incorporate the Common Core Standards? To look at the big picture of the Common Core State Standards Initiavtive, the purpose is to create a standard set for all students in the United States. When talking about the Common Core State Standards and how they affect students and educators we must remember where this argument started from. In the 21st century of learning Barth (2004) reminds us that "we are not just preparting workers, we are preparing citizens. It is our interest ,then, as much our responisbility to make sure that all our young people are prepared for the furture."

The FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) which is a statewide standardized test for the state of Florida schools, is a test that you must pass in order to graduate and so that you would not have an intensive class. You start taking the FCAT in the 3rd grade. In the tenth grade, once you pass the reading FCAT, you don’t have to take it in your junior and senior year. I sat in this bland testing room impatiently waiting for our proctor to tell us to start, thinking to myself, I have to pass this test so I won’t have to take it anymore. Not knowing that I would be setting myself up for failure by pressuring myself, I took the test. Once I completed the test, I felt that I did not do my best, but I continued with hopes that I did. The scary thing was I would not know my results until the summer before school start back for my junior year.

According to the Communication Decency Act of 1996 the CDA prohibits the users from using the internet that provides obscene, offensive material. It restricted the minors, individuals under 18 years of age. The CDA consider use of such salacious material to be taken as crime if made available to the minors. But the CDA was found to be unconstitutional and too broad because it violated the first amendment, according to the Supreme Court the communication decency act was not limited to a commercial speech or entity rather it was a prohibition on whole group. An alternative internet censorship law was made known as Child online protection act of 1998, it was found to be much more limited than the CDA but it too was found to be unconstitutional.

Sexual thoughts pop in and out of most people’s mind, but especially teenagers, and there’s nothing they can do about it. It is normal for teenage boys and girls to experience this, more than ever when they are hitting puberty. The hormones in the body begin to act up and teenagers want to experience other things on their own. Males begin to grow pubic and facial hairs, and their voice starts to deepen, while girls’ breasts begin to develop and their body begins to take shape. After hitting puberty, teenagers are now at the point where they want to experience things. ‚Don’t go out there and get pregnant‛ a mother

Since 1923, the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, or SERS for short, has existed to provide employees with a retirement plan for when they are no longer able to work. The SERS website explains that, “SERS is a multiple-employer, cost-sharing defined benefit plan.”

While some users feel a sense of euphoria and relaxation; Some feel may feel paranoid, altered time and senses, and impaired body movement (NIDA). Some people have a variant of a gene called AKT1; Which codes for an enzyme that affects dopamine signaling in the striatum. According to NIDA, people who have this variant have an increased risk of developing psychosis. One study showed everyday smokers are seven times more likely to develop psychosis than infrequent smokers. Marijuana can worsen hallucinations and paranoia in schizophrenia patients(NIDA). Newsweek states that marijuana can bring forward an early psychosis diagnosis because of the effect of the brain of almost 3 years. Even if a person does not have the variant of the AKT1 gene,

Many schools have amazing offers, and amazing opportunities but one school will always top another. No matter the scholarships or the campus.

Her father Robert was born in 1974 with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. He was in the workforce until 2010 when a spinal cyst resulted in a 3-month stay in the hospital and him being placed on permanent disability. With his many medical expenses, the scholarship will help Jessica experience this once in a lifetime trip.