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    on a population of 1 million test takers in 2007 showed that the English and Math sections of the ACT correlated with whether or not students finished their undergraduate degree - however the 35 question Reading exam and 45 question Science section had little next to no correlation with whether or not students finished their undergraduate degree. The Reading and Science sections also were poor indicators of past high school GPA’s. The strength of these assertions include a 9% likelihood of dropping

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    This assignment will respectably attempt to critique the research article ‘High-jinks’ and ‘minor mischief’: a study of undergraduate students as perpetrators of crime’ by Dr Neil Selwyn. In doing so I shall reflect on the findings and research derived from the article and the effectiveness of the strategies, design and methods used in conducting Selwyn’s inquisition. Likewise the assignment will underline flaws in regards to the published research. For instance the researcher admits that respondents

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    for the study but also to build relationships emotionally with others. I had my first girlfriend when I was on my undergraduate at the same university. This first romantic relationship was made me that when we want to be loved by someone, we also need to love them. In addition, we also have to accept our personal differences in order to maintain a relationship. While I was in undergraduate university, I had my very close friends. Since we came from different cities and

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    The story of Beth Elliott’s life in the movie, Stronger, is a heart wrenching tale of an incredibly talented musician with deep-seated issues of depression. The movie’s title was taken from her first hit song she wrote and recorded. Elliott’s life from the very start was surrounded in music. In the beginning of the film she is shown at the age of two, giggling and happily performing songs she had made up to entertain her family during a long car ride. As both her parents were musically inclined,

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    In my undergraduate study, I have studied subjects such as Engineering Mechanics, Machine Drawing, Thermodynamics, Thermal Engineering, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Heat Treatment, Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Metallurgy, Production Theory, CAD/CAM, Robotics

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    If there was one word to describe me in middle school it was “tomboy.” Although I was in dance class and cheered, I loved playing sports. I enjoyed getting rough and rowdy in the backyard with my brother and being the only girl in the neighborhood that the boys let on their team during pick-up games. However, my girlfriends would often comment, “Emily, you’ll never be cool by playing sports,” and “Beating the boys will never make you popular or get you a boyfriend.” At the time their comments

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    4.1 QUANTITATIVE DATA Total participants: n = 14 Undergraduate students in the Clayton Campus n = 14 14 students in total from the Clayton Campus responded to the online survey, ranging from Undergraduate degrees such as Arts/Business/Science/Bio-Medicine and Commerce. Level of distraction and information retention Figure 1: Undergraduate’s response to distraction Figure 2: Undergraduate’s response to the level of retention It was surprising and unexpected to see that although the students may

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    I was born and brought up in Nairobi, Kenya. Demographically, my family was typically part of Kenya’s urban poor. As a young boy, I was constantly confronted by the realities and debilitating impact of poverty. At the age of twelve, I was transferred from a Nairobi-based primary school to a boarding primary school in rural Kenya where I eventually excelled and emerged the best in the district during national examinations, earning me admission to one of the best high schools in the country. While

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    Statement of Purpose I take this opportunity to introduce myself as a final year undergraduate student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from SASTRA University, an elite university which is always among the top 50 engineering universities of India. As a child I enjoyed playing with hot wheels cars and grew up using remote controlled cars. I was always fascinated in understanding their mechanisms as I wanted them to go faster and faster. My interest for electronics had its first footing from

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    “The liberal arts today have fallen in prestige. In the early decades of the 20th century, about 70% of U.S. undergraduates majored in the liberal arts…”(Roche 4). Liberal arts demands have been reducing due to the scrimmage of economical issues. Students are more likely to make academic decisions that favor fields perceived to be paths to jobs, and jobs that pay well

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