Bennington College Essays

  • Theodore Roethke

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    University. Allan Seager concluded, “it was more than an unsuppressible awareness of life that led him to choose poetry as a career” (Contemporary Authors 475). He took up various teaching positions afterwards at colleges including Lafayette College, Pennsylvania State University, Bennington College, and final... ... middle of paper ... ...uminaries who had an effect on his writing were Leonie Adams, Emily Dickinson, Rolfe Humphries, Stanley Kunitz, and Emily Wylie (1). “At the University of Washington

  • Te Success of Famous Education Philosopher, William Heard Kilpatrick

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    William Heard Kilpatrick was a famous education philosopher in the early 20th century. Born on 20 November 1871, he was the first born child of a clergyman, Reverend Dr. James Hines Kilpatrick and his wife Edna. Kilpatrick grew up in a suburban town in Georgia called White Plains. His upbringing was in a strict Christian environment and this greatly influenced and shaped his character. Kilpatrick’s father taught him about committed record keeping, a trait that he held for the rest of his life. As

  • shirley jackson history

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    Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916, a year prior to the U.S. entering World War I. It was a very tumultuous time in the world and especially influential in Ms. Jackson’s life as she developed through childhood. Events of the time that may have influenced Ms. Jackson’s view of society when growing up included the introduction of prohibition, the Roaring 20’s, women’s suffrage, and the advent of the Great Depression. Women were beginning to exercise their independence

  • An Analysis Of Sweet Dream Candy Shop

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    Sweet Dream candy shop has many competitors, direct and indirect. Bennington is a small town so one detail could change where the majority of people choose to go. The Village Chocolate Shoppe, the Chocolate Barn, and the Dairy Bar are all direct competitors. The Village Chocolate Shoppe is located on Main Street in Bennington, the most popular tourist spot. The location of the store is at a very convenient for locals and tourists, which puts an advantage to them. The Village Chocolate Shoppe has

  • Honor System Council Essay

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    APPLICATION HONOR SYSTEM COUNCIL PURPOSE The Honor System Council is a panel of undergraduate students chosen to take special responsibility for implementing and upholding the Honor System procedures at Stetson University. Council members inform and educate the DeLand campus about academic integrity through the purpose and provisions of the Honor System. The Council also serves as a jury of peers, which hears student cases regarding alleged violations of the University Honor Code. Should

  • The Effect of an Illinois Wesleyan Education on Political Ideology

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    many of the Vietnam-era values in today’s students. Protests, mostly in opposition to the war in Iraq, have become frequent events on college campuses. Student organizations advocating equal rights for women, racial minorities and the gay community have made their voice heard in state and federal legislatures. Perhaps there is some truth to the view that college students are a very liberal group that tends to become more liberal as they approach graduation. Many scholars feel that the university

  • Senpai, Another Protector in Japan

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    Senpai, Another Protector in Japan In America, differences of age and status do not affect the relationship between people as they do in Japan. Students can talk to professors in very casual ways. A freshman and a senior in college can be good friends. In Japan, however, when Japanese people get together, their behaviors are influenced by an awareness of the order and rank of each person within the group according to age and social status. Respect to seniors is a social obligation that cannot

  • College

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    College College! Why is it such a big deal to go right in to collage! I understand, however I just don't know what I want to do yet. I know I want to do something that has to do with criminal justice. As in the FBI. I just think that would be so cool. It would make me happy and I'll get paid O.K. My plans were to graduate, then stay with my mom for a year and just work 2 jobs, maybe take a class at U.A.A. So, I can keep with the whole study thing. Oh, and I would go into the Air

  • Life as a Resident Assistant

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    Life as a Resident Assistant In her first year as a Resident Assistant, Andrea Robinson received a Christmas card from a resident named Charlotte, thanking her for helping Charlotte adjust to her new life at college. Robinson recalled that Charlotte was overcome with homesickness, as many first time students can be, and to help boost her spirits, she went with Charlotte to an opening week picnic. That made a huge difference for Charlotte and her gratitude she conveyed in the card. But the

  • Personal Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

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    In spring, everything new is growing. In fall (at least for students) it's the start of a new school year. I made my choice one fall when a guidance director told me I was not "college material" and recommended that I drop my French class. September should have been a beginning, but I saw it as an end to my dream for college. It's only now that I can begin to think it was-in a way - a beginning, too. Dropping French was desirable because I didn't do well in languages, but taking a language was also

  • The Guidance Counselor

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    working in a field other than teaching or counseling · Completion of a course in Education and/or Psychology of the exceptional child worth two or more semester hours · Completion of a master’s degree with a major in guidance and counseling from a college or university meeting approval of the Missouri Department of Elementa... ... middle of paper ... ...ctices. Bibliography: Works Cited “Certification Requirements for Secondary Counselor (Grades 9-12)”. Missouri Department of Elementary and

  • Core Curriculum Is there a Need

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    students want to go to college. All of those years of math, science, history, English, foreign language, and physical education are all required to get into college. So most students think that when they get to college, they will pick a major, and they will extensively learn about that major. The student thinks that they were done with learning general knowledge about all subjects. They believe that they will get into college and hop right into their major. But the way that most colleges are set up, you

  • School Days are the Happiest Days of your Life?

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    School Days are the Happiest Days of your Life? When I was given this assignment, my initial reaction was this is easy! Half an hours writing- homework complete. Fifteen minutes later I find that it is incredibly difficult to sort out the jumble of thoughts, memories and feelings, that are fighting each other in the race to be the first to blot this pristine white page.(melodramatic, but true) I suppose I could take the easy way out, and write that looking back; my school days were happy

  • Idea of a University by John Henry Newman: Is This Still True Today?

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    Henry Newman wrote his essay, “The Idea of a University,” he wanted to convey that a University’s purpose was to be able to educate first-rate members of the social order. Newman’s theory, although over a hundred years old, still applies to today’s college students; many are seeking higher educations to not only lead to successful careers, but to also become an improved person in society. In a time when human endeavor was being redesigned, as industries, philosophies, and sciences were growing and

  • Adult Education

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    available, the manner in which one learns-all are to a large extent determined by the society in which one lives. Whenever adults are asked about their learning, they most often mention education and training programs sponsored by the workplace, colleges and universities, public schools, and other formal organizations. They first picture classrooms with “students” learning and “teachers” teaching in a highly structured format. Yet when we ask these same adults about what they have learned informally

  • Passionate About Teaching

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    Ending Statement Feminist and Critical Pedagogies I came back to graduate school last semester at the ripe-old age of 31, unsure of what I wanted to get out of it. I had spent a year in graduate studies in English at the University of Maine about six years earlier, but left because I wasn't ready to commit to an academic life. In the six years since I left Maine, my life had been anything but academic. For the first year or so, I "temped" at conventions and tradeshows, went on auditions and performed

  • Does Higher Education Need Affirmative Action?

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    their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” yet quotas, check marks, and plus factors give minority students advantages in the admission processes of the country’s universities and colleges (NARA). The obvious differences in what America says and what America does, leads one to believe that affirmative action has no place in higher education in a color-blind America. This essay will discuss the benefits of affirmative action in

  • Cooperative Education Opens Doors for Students

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    Cooperative Education Opens Doors for Students As the college application deadline draws nearer, high school seniors across the country will make their final decisions as to what handful of colleges and universities will receive the applications they rigorously spent their autumn weekends working on. Each year students consult different college prep tools to aid them with their continual search for the “right” school. Whether it city versus suburban, large versus small or public versus private;

  • Title IX: A long-term debate

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    Title IX: A long-term debate Every year incoming college freshman go to their new college or university expecting to find their favorite sport, but sometimes due to lack of participation the sport is not there. In some case, the federal law Title IX is to blame as in the case of Zalikah Lewis, a sophomore at Pine Manor College, an all women's College in Chestnut Hill. Although she wouldn't join the swim team, she does enjoy the sport and was surprised that the sport wasn't offered while the

  • The Causes of Teen Pregnancy, Violence, and Drug Abuse

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    The Causes of Teen Pregnancy, Violence, and Drug Abuse The headlines proclaimed the controversial news: race, poverty, and single-parents were NOT the irrevocable harbingers of drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence. Instead, researchers were claiming that behaviors that parents and teens could influence -- such as problems at school and the amount of time spent "hanging out with friends" and the type of friends they chose -- could predict trouble. Some cynics speculated that this was a