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    Studying at a community college can be very convenient for most people. Some people find it easy to take courses at a community college because it’s cheaper, class sizes are smaller, and teachers are very friendly. However, from my experience at a community college there is one particular thing I would take in consideration in changing, and that is adding more servers to the wifi. Reasoning being, it would eliminate data over charges on electrionics, and also the capability for students to not have

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    Yesenia Barrera English 1A (012) Professor Fenton 1 December 2015 Free College Tuition vs. No Free College Tuition An ongoing key debate today in the United States, the home of the free and country full of opportunities, is whether or not college tuition should be free to all students. In the early 1900s, higher education was encouraged and seen as a “public good”, so it was paid for with increased tax revenues. By the late 1900s though, an argument arose that higher education benefited the individual;

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    I am writing to let you know that I oppose that the government or state should not fund free college. I appreciate the time and effort you and your staff have devoted to this issue, and I know you have given funding free college a lot of thought. I hope you can take the time from your busy schedule to read this letter about my point of view of why you should consider funding free college. Also want to congratulate you for the many times you been re-elected to serve as the politician of the united

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    Target Market for Hillsborough Community College For Hillsborough Community College to attract the most students and achieve higher retention rates, Differentiated Marketing would be the best practice. Because Hillsborough Community College is predominantly diverse, target marketing groups should include dual-enrolled students, recent high-school graduates, young adults, and career-oriented adults seeking higher education. A smaller marketing group to consider is the mature adult over the age of

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    Should College Education Be Free? College education should be free to benefit the lives of everyone. In the past, several political figures have supported free college education. These political figures include Rutherford B. Hayes, John Adams, and the candidate for the democratic nomination of the presidential election of 2016, Bernie Sanders. These political figures acknowledged the issue of having to rely on loans to pay for college education. College education should be free to give young adults

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    one complies with community colleges being inferior to other institutions it becomes a fallacy, and is proven in “The Myth of Inferiority,” by Allen T. Culpepper. He believes that “students are students wherever they are” (Culpepper 330). As a freshman at a community college, I do not have experience with the inferiorities that many college students face, but I have been in different educational settings, and agree with Culpepper’s assessments. People are bashing community colleges, with an assumption

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    Windows exploded as the storm sustained its wrath. Shards pierced soft bodies. My father wrapped in blood. Next to him, sat on a pile of wet paper, my mother -- grasping a rosario as she clutched my 10-year old brother. I looked down the stairs – all I saw was a surge of thick brown water determined to cover the entire first floor. In shock, we had no choice but to wait. Outside, I saw tangled electric posts as they collapsed like dominoes. Cars, bikes and buses rushed through waters stacked a mountain

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    ABSTRACT The design strategy for a skywalk at the Royal Oak Campus entails the use of ramps and steps rising to 5 meters and ramps having a gradient of 1:10.The skywalk will link the faculty parking and the college with a 3metres wide ramp,5 meters wide steps and a slab width of 6500 meters 500metres above the ground level with a building line on each side of 6 meters. Pedestrians and cyclists will use the proposed Skywalk it will be situated to allow pedestrians to cross Washington Avenue because

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    The Male Student Of Color

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    color is one of many college and universities around the country most at risk population. Institutions around the country are looking for innovating ways to keep this population engaged and enrolled. In order to improve retention and success rates of the male of color, administrators at Cuyahoga Community College created the Minority Male Initiative to provide high quality student support services to this population. The Minority Male Initiative at Cuyahoga Community College was created in the summer

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    Research/Policy Topic Analysis: Student Success and Support Services Program (SSSP) Background The Student Success and Support Program (SSSP) for California community colleges arose as a result of the Senate Bill 1456 with a mission “to increase California community college student access and success by providing effective core matriculation services, including orientation, assessment and placement, counseling, and other educational planning services, and academic interventions,” or follow-up services

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