Commercialism in School: Corporate America is running our schools For years now, we have been subject to commercials at home and on the Internet. For the most part, we just ignore them. All of the commercials and advertisements are nothing more than a minor annoyance. We see them so often we do...

School plays a vital role in my life. I have spent more than fourteen years of my life at school so that I can have all the qualifications, credits, knowledge, and the degree to do anything and to be anywhere I want to be in life. Two out of the four levels of school, high school and college, are th...

Violence in society is more prevalent today than ever before. Media and entertainment have opened up violent images for children to see. Availability of weapons to school age children seems incredulous. News stories of elementary school children bringing guns to school and killing classmates are s...

BEING A STUDENT ATHLETE The dedication required to balancing school work and practice is the most difficult part of being a student athlete. I find that student athlete proves to be harder than most people think it is. Everyone thinks that it is just an easy ride when you are an athlete at t...

My Senior Prom I was talking to my best friend Gavin on the phone and he told me he was going to the homecoming dance with his girlfriend, Caty, at his High School in Lakewood. Gavin is tall with brown hair and glass. Caty is short and has light brown hair. I met Caty at my old job and I thought ...

A neighborhood is anything one makes it to be. It can be as large as a metropolitan area, or as small as the block you live on. A college dorm is also a neighborhood, and a very diverse and complex one at that. Hundreds of people crammed into one square block, living there for an entire school year,...

Schools of higher education have strict admission standards on the academic performance of perspective students. To even be considered as an applicant, students must first complete the SAT or ACT, both of which are standardized tests. The scores from these examinations along with their high sc...

Imagine working for a huge cooperation and bringing in millions of dollars for them but not receiving a penny for your work. This in many ways is what college athletes go through. This unfair rule the NCAA puts on the athletes that "work" for them and their school have led me to believe they shoul...

Introduction: There are many requirements in life that we must meet in order to survive. These requirements we must pass may be for a job, a loan, to participate in a sport or even to attend a college or a desired university. Ever since I was a little kid I was always talking about what college I w...

When I visited Berry College, one of the first things that I learned was Martha Berry's mission for her students - to educate the head, the heart, and the hands. The lady in the admissions office who welcomed us to Berry beamed as she told me how almost a hundred years later this missi...

My heart beat at a rabbit's pace as I walked up the cement steps to a small building set on a hill. I took a deep breath in an effort to allow even a sliver of calm to permeate the sense of dread that engulfed my mind and body. I stole a quick glance at my younger brother, briefly grateful tha...