Sophomore Year Essays and Term Papers

What Is Zen

Zen is simply a way for us to awaken from our slumber. It is just a way for us to focus on our present experience, living in the moment. It is simply paying attention to our actual experiences as they are: a breeze brushing through your hair, pristine water wetting your lips, a stomach ache, the ...

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How to save a life

I never knew how important I was to some people until I thought about this essay. Especially during a time where it felt like I was a window that people would stare through, as if I wasn’t there. Even though I had it all; two loving parents and two talented and supportive younger brothers, it felt ...

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Advancement Via Individual Determination

Advancement Via Individual Determination, something that didn’t mean anything to me my freshman year, now means my future. At first, I thought this AVID class was just wasting my time by teaching me how to take notes for my other classes and giving me binder checks. I felt that this wasn’t ...

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The Fab Five

Historical Profile Speech Today when we watch basketball we see it played a certain way. In 1990 however, many people would be offended from how basketball in college and NBA looks today. From the way players dress, play, and act on the court. Chris Webber, along with the rest of Michigan’s ...

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Robert Andrew Millikan

In 1909 set up an apparatus to measure the charge of an electron within an accuracy range of 3%. In 1913 he came out with a value of the electrical charge that would serve the world of science for a generation. Young Millikan had a childhood like most others: he had no idea what his profession ...

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Tiger Woods: The Making Of A Champion

TIGER WOODS THE MAKING OF A CHAMPION BY: JOHN GARRITY Eldrick Tiger Woods was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 30, 1975. His parents names are Earl and Kutildra. Earl is a ¼ American Indian, a ¼ Chinese and half Black. Kutildra is a ¼ White, a ¼ Chinese and half Thai. Both of ...

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Psychological Stress

is a result of many factors and should be dealt with very carefully. Stress can be defined as a set of interactions between the person and the environment that result in an unpleasant emotional state, such as anxiety, tension, guilt, or shame (swin pg 1). Another way of putting it, is that ...

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Getting Into College

Life is like an enormous theatrical performance, each person having the leading role, ready to determine his/her destiny. For each event in your life, you can reflect upon a stimulus, a cause. Yet there are so many events, so many years, days, hours, seconds in one's life. Which is the one, ...

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Discuss Your Goals For The Next Four Years And Comment On Your Post-College Plans

“Next stop, 66th Street and Lincoln Center, ” bellowed the cracked voice of the conductor over the loudspeaker. Those words rang in my ear like the notes of a familiar melody. Stepping off the number three train, I was immediately immersed in the scents, sounds and faces of my past. All ...

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Psychological Stress

is a result of many factors and should be dealt with very carefully. Stress can be defined as a set of interactions between the person and the environment that result in an unpleasant emotional state, such as anxiety, tension, guilt, or shame (swin pg 1). Another way of putting it, is that ...

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The Sixties - Years Of Hope, Days Of Rage

Todd Gitlin grew up in Brooklyn in the 1950’s. He attended Bronx High School of Science and during his tenure, he won numerous scholarships and math awards. Todd Gitlin considered himself “studious and clean-cut”. After he graduated from high school, he attended Harvard University. During his ...

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Alice Walker 2

In her autobiographical story Alice Walker tells about how after the “accident” of losing sight in one eye she was never the same. At the young age of eight she was above all others in wit, looks, and talents. I think that the loss of her sight is not what blinded her most, but her ...

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Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements And Effect On Rock And Roll

The blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll. Rock today has mutated so much that the basic blues patterns have been all but lost. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of, and evolution of rock and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of ...

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College Costs

Core Assessment Emily Smizaski Block 4 High school seniors are waging the yearly battle to gain entry to the college of their choice know all too well that the odds increasingly high against success. The universe of top choices is fixed, while the ranks of competitors seem to do nothing but ...

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Lucy's Graduation Speech

Lucy's Graduation Speech take 4 Michael Jordan said, "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up, figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work ...

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A Challenge I Had Overcome

When I was in the 10th grade I had a really bad time with my geometry class. It was not that I was a bad student or that I did not learn the material but because every time that we did a test my mind always went blank and forgot everything. My geometry teacher was really patient with me and I’m ...

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Being Mexican-American

It was in the end of my sophomore year. My woodshop teacher said one of the most controversial things I had ever heard. You could clearly see in his face that he was of Hispanic descent. He said to me, "mijo, I am not a Mexican I am full American." Being from a school predominantly Hispanic and ...

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Admission To Law School

Integrity, discipline, selfless service, loyalty, courage, and competence are a few of the values and traits the military has instilled in me. Many of my successes in life can be attributed to those values and traits. I believe for the most part it is because these values and traits where built ...

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Pros and Cons of College Athletes Leaving College Early

Pros and Cons of College Athletes Leaving College Early Najee Harris Wagner College BU400 Dr.Moran Abstract College athletes at the Division I level for the past decade have been leaving college earlier than ...

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Book Recommendations For Young Readers

Annotated Bibliography: Books About Love: 1. Bernardo, Anilu. Loves Me, Loves Me Not. Houston, Texas: Pinata Books/Arts Publico Press, 1999. Loves Me, Loves Me Not features Maggie Castillo as the main character who is in love with Zach Sherwood. The books details her struggles to ...

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