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    The Creation of FEMA started out as a beautiful theory. Before FEMA we had an Acts constructed to make the situation better but FEMA was constructed to assistance the situations first hand so that the American people were catered to at a quicker response and in a manner that was assessed for safety situations. “On April 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the executive order that created the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). From day one, FEMA has remained committed to protecting and

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    I am currently a student at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. I originally applied to Kettering because I thought that I wanted to be an engineer in the automotive industry, and Kettering, being the former General Motors Institute, had one of the best programs in the US to be an automotive engineer. I worked hard to get accepted into Kettering, and I was excited to start college., I joined multiple clubs, and rushed the fraternities on campus, choosing to join Beta Theta Pi. I had a great

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    example of the better pay is Kettering University, a private engineering school. At Kettering you go to school for a quarter of the school year and then the university will find the student a job. After the student works for a quarter the student will go back to school for a quarter and then work for the last quarter and make an excellent amount of money while working. The cost to attend Kettering is about $40,000 a year with the work that is done while attending the university in that year it will be

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    Center for Civic Education, has dubbed the current status of the United States to be in a ‘civic recession’. This ‘recession’ is in response to a lack of not monetary capital but of engaged democratic participants. David Mathews, president of the Kettering Foundation, also coined the paradoxical phrase, ‘a citizenless democracy’ (National Task Force, 2012). In a time where the United States ranks 139th out of the 172 world democracies in voter participation, the U.S. needs to reinvent the engaged

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    I am writing this essay as an incoming college freshmen. Contrary to every essay written throughout my high school career, I will be making this an essay in which I address you, the reader. I am doing this for two reasons. First, this essay is helping me explain my dream in life: to become a mathematics professor. Also, this is how Dr. C. Moorer wrote From Failure to Promise: 360 Degrees. Certain life lessons and factors from Dr. C. Moorer’s life are apparent to have helped him along his path to

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    to invigorate its students to think at a higher caliber than those outside of the program. With discussions of diversity, different perceptions, ideas, and ways of thinking are promoted. Josh Packard, a Ph.D.-holding sociology professor at the University of Northern Colorado, finds that white students bring no substance to the classroom, as they only discuss about the white ethnic groups. However, black students tend to discuss their experiences and tie them into the academic content. In doing so

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    college professors don’t take attendance or have the time to make sure all of their students are making passing grades in all of their courses. If you miss a class, plan on getting notes from a fellow classmate. If you attend a large college or university, your professors probably won’t even try to remember your name, as they have hundreds of students each semester. If an assignment was due on a day you decided to miss class, there’s a good chance your professor will not let you turn it in late.

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    Rebekah Nathan’s “Community and Diversity” focuses on the changing definition of the word community on college campuses and how that change affects the way students spend their free time and interact with other students. While campus directors set up and promote campus life community with good intentions of providing every student with interesting activities and helping first-time students make the jump from home-life to college-life, big communities usually only take away from the little free time

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    Missing Figures New Teaching Methods for an Untraditional Audience It is becoming more and more common to see older students, or nontraditional students (ages 24 and above), entering college campuses. "Nontraditional" students now make up 36% of the college population (Justice and Dornan, 1). Although some question older students ability to perform in a college setting, research has proven that nontraditional students actually perform better than the traditional students (18-22 year olds).

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    The Demand for Technology in Higher Education Abstract Students of the Millennial Generation expect technology in their future. Their upbringing, which included using computers, PDA’s, cell phones, and other technologies, have reinforced Millennial students’ demand to see technology incorporated in many different respects, including higher education. Millennial students insist that colleges become technologically advanced institutions where teaching is interwoven with technology. In the

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