Spelman College Essays

  • Tony Cade Bambara: Writer and Social Activist

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    Therefore is this an accurate thesis statement? Toni Cade Bambara, otherwise known as Miltonia Mirkin Cade, was born on March 25, 1939. When she was five years old, she told her mother that she wanted to be called “Toni,” and by the time she finished college, all of her professors called her Toni Cade. She changed her name legally to Toni Cade Bambara in 1970 (Stone, Jennifer). She was born shortly after the Harlem Renaissance, a huge cultural movement that took place in the New York neighborhood of

  • Personal Essay: Returning To School

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    that I have always to do. I attended Central Piedmont Community College back in 2011 for about a year, and that did not work out too well because of transportation reasons. My mom and I were sharing her car and she works third shift so that didn’t work being that my classes were in the morning and some at night. So, I stopped going to school for a few years and worked and got a car and finally in January of 2015, I returned to college to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Finance to increase my chances for

  • Alice Walker

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    a “rehabilitation scholarship” to attend Spelman. Spelman College was a college for black women in Atlanta, Georgia, not far from Walker’s home. While at Spelman, Walker became involved in civil rights demonstrations where she spoke out against the silence of the institution’s curriculum when it came to African-American culture and history. Her involvement in such activities led to her dismissal from the college. So she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York and had the opportunity to travel

  • Alice walker

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    was ugly and unpleasant to look at so she retreated into solitude, reading poems and stories then writing. Walker graduated from high school as valedictorian and prom queen, attended Spelman College after receiving a disability scholarship from the state of Georgia, then in 1963 transferred to Sarah Lawrence College where she graduated in 1965 with a B.A. She was involved with civil rights movement in Mississippi where she lived for seven years. During that time she also got married to a lawyer

  • Short Term Goals

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    and it challenges them to think globally. The education that is being described is one that I wish to acquire. Spelman College is an elite institution that provides students with all of the attributes described. Since attending Spelman, I have thoroughly grasped the importance of a liberal arts education. Thus, I am unable to imagine myself not attending a liberal arts college. At Spelman, I desire to pursue various short-term and long-term goals. Some of my short-term goals include finishing my freshman

  • High School Experience Essay

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    It is no secret how different college is compared to high school, but my personal high school experience taught me valuable lessons and ultimately prepared me for the challenges I might face in college. I attended a charter school. It was a very small, uniform dress code, same routine every day type of high school. You go to the same classes, rotating the same teachers throughout the year, and learn with the same people. My high school experience was pretty basic. My only priority was getting good

  • I Want To Become A Neonatologist

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    schools due to my research and experience. The Atlanta University Center has been a part of my life since the age of two. My mother graduated from Morris Brown College and my father graduated from Morehouse College. Additionally, my mother works at Morehouse College in the Psychology Department. So as you can see me wanting to attend Spelman College has been destined from the start. When I finally discovered I wanted to pursue a career in medicine; I searched the top schools for my specific interest in

  • Sorority Application Letter

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    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. mentorship group for high school girls, I learned that the purpose of the sorority is to develop high moral and academic standards within underserved communities, to bring together college-educated women while continuing to maintain an interest in college, and to help reduce issues to improve the social status of women and, while still being of service to all human beings. I believe I would be a great asset to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. because of my innovative

  • Embracing Tuskegee: My Transition from City to Country

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    I am so ready for college. I could not wait for this moment to get here and it was finally here! In the year of 2016, I graduated from Community School of Davidson. I had applied to every school you could think of (Norfolk State, Spelman,Howard, and Tuskegee) just to name a few and decided to go with my first choice Tuskegee University. This was weird because I am a city girl and Tuskegee University is in the country. Tuskegee University is in Tuskegee, Alabama a small town with nothing there

  • Format For Tribute Speech: The Life Of Martin Luther King Jr.

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    Martin Luther King’s early life and family. Background on Christine King Farris 1. According to an article titled, “The South and Black and White, by the website www.quizlet.com/the-south-and-black-and-white In 1949, she graduated from Spelman College with a Master’s degree. A year later, she got her first job as a schoolteacher. 2. Over the next few summers, she accomplished a second Master’s Degree from Columbia University in special education. 3. In 1958, she then got a job as director

  • 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