St. Cloud State University Essays

  • An Analysis of House and Home

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    sense for my current financial situation, as I am making little income while taking classes. During the school year (September-December & February-May) I live in on-campus housing at St. Catherine eUniversity. In particular, I live in Stanton Hall, which cost $2,500 a semester with amenities included (St Catherine University, n.d.a.). This living situation is the most realistic circumstance for, as on-campus housing is affordable and has a flat rate by year, without long-term, binding contracts that

  • Personal Narrative: The Wisconsin State Assembly Race

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    Back in May, the Wisconsin State Assembly Races were just starting to heat up. Candidates were throwing their names in the ring and people were experiencing potential candidates knocking on their doors and collecting signatures to reach the 200 minimum threshold to get their names on the ballot in August. I knew that I wanted to intern for a candidate in an assembly race because I had a few interesting races in the area I am from. I wanted to work for an assembly candidate in the 59th district

  • Biopsychosocial Assessment Examples

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    Assessment of Individual I. Demographic Information Shannon Aydt is a 22 year old white female, born June 11th, 1994. She is a 5th year at Saint Cloud State University studying Social Work. Shannon currently resides at her parent’s home in Andover, MN; however, she lived on/near campus for her first 4 years of college. Though she does not pay rent while living with her parents she would consider herself a “poor college student.” II. Family Immediate Family Shannon is not married but has a boyfriend

  • Social Worker Career

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    All states require social workers to be licensed. Becoming a licensed social worker requires a master’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of supervised experience. After completing that, social workers must be able to pass a clinical exam to be licensed. Colleges that offer this degree in Nebraska are Midland University in Fremont ($29,400), University of Lincoln Nebraska (23,148), Union college in Lincoln ($22,538), Doane college in Crete ($28,170), Wayne State in Wayne ($20,605), Chadron State college

  • Remedial College Classes Benefit Students and Society

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    “Back-to-School” speech. Always pushing for improving education, the President urged state leaders to look at a new tactic for making the students achieve; he argued against remedial classes in colleges. State leaders across the country, if they had not already done so, began seriously debating the issue of whether remedial classes belonged in the states’ universities and colleges. Indeed, there is a lot to question about the state of higher-education remediation. Some of the first issues that come up are

  • My Philosophy of Education and Those with Disabilities

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    There are 50 million people in the United States who have some kind of disability. People with disabilities are discriminated against in the United States. It is not a discrimination that is talked about like race, or gender. This discrimination usually takes the form of avoidance. People to do understand, or know how to act around a person with a disability, so they ignore the person. This is not right because people should not be defined by a disability; instead they need to be recognized as a

  • Snapchat Essay

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    Snapchat was created in 2011 by two Stanford University fraternity brothers, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, the Snapchat app that lets people send messages that disappear. The app quickly caught on the with college and high school students, some of whom used the app to send racy messages and other juvenilia. Now Snapchat, which is used by more than 150 million people every day, is finding new ways to interact with photos, videos, and other users as well as new formats for advertisers to reach customers

  • Life's Simple Pleasures in William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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    Life's Simple Pleasures in William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, "And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me." This aphorism clearly accents the meaning of William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." In his work, the speaker reminisces about a past experience in which he saw a beautiful multitude of daffodils swaying in the breeze. As he recollects this scene, the speaker gradually realizes the true beauty

  • Mt.Vesuvius and its 79 AD Eruption

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    future. Geologists are predicting that a volcanic eruption will occur that will dwarf eruptions such as Vesuvius and Mt. St. Helen’s. (http://www.ph_heidelburg.de/stud/EGGERTT/vesuvio.html) The only thing we can do is sit and wait…nature will take its course. List of Refrences Morris,C. 1902: The Volcano’s Deadly Work: From the Fall of Pompeii to the Destruction of St. Pierre. The Dan Waugh Collection of Nature Books. Washington, D.C. 236-254. Plummer, C.C., McGeary, D. & Carlson,

  • Hiding Behind the Words

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    elaborated on a few thoughts and ideas. It all could have been summed up in two paragraphs. My opening paragraph talked about my whole paper. "A university education is important to me. By getting a degree in geography I hope to improve my knowledge and increase my chances for a good job. Not only will I gain knowledge but also gain the experience of university life as a student. By receiving my education I will prepare myself for a job and improve my communication with other people." After the first

  • True Science: The Earth Is The Center Of The World

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    A journal from Science in Context explains the cosmological principle as a theory that states the universe looks the same in every direction because the universe is infinite and without a center. The earth appears to be at the center because the universe expands, but any part of the universe would also appear that way. Other cosmological

  • Tornadoes

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    don't know much about tornadoes, it's also hard to forecast them. And because little is known about tornadoes, there are many myths about them which aren't true. Tornadoes can form anywhere in the world. About 75% of the them happen in the United States. Most of these form in the central U. S. in a place called tornado alley. People who are interested in tornadoes sometimes become spotters for their community. Sometimes people actually chase tornadoes! After a tornado passes by, scientists try and

  • Martin Luther

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    father, Hans, was an independent farmer and miner. Although Hans never got an education himself, he valued it so much so that he forced it upon his at son (he wanted him to go for law school). Hans did not like the church, he believed that religion clouds the mind. Whenever Martin did something deemed wrong he would be beat to a pulp by his father. Martins mother Margaret was an orthodox catholic so her views of religion differed from Hans’. She would verbally harass her son telling him he is an awful

  • Psychologist Career Essay

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    Psychology is the study of human thought, emotion and behavior. Someone who is trained in this discipline is a Psychologist and he or she has a variety of options when deciding on an area of specialization. There are three general types of psychology: Research, counseling, and applied. Research Psychologists study and observe human behavior in an attempt to understand and interpret why people do what they do. They also study the effect of different behavior tendencies. Counseling and Clinical Psychologists

  • The Treatment of love in "Love is not all" by Edna Millay

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    While love may be an extremely touchy subject as well as one that can be incredibly hard to interpret in a unique way, it is not impossible to broach the subject from a fresh perspective; In “Love is not all” Edna St. Vincent Millay is able to approach love in a way that initially seems extremely pessimistic and almost cold, but continues on to show the reader that she is not actually all that closed and even reveals some vulnerability by the very end. While the more negative approaches she uses

  • Women in the Enlightenment

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    Feminist Analyses: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” In Elizabeth D. Harvey and Kathleen Okruhlik, ed., Women and Reason. USA.: University of Michigan Press, 1992. Tomaselli, Sylvana. "Mary Wollstonecraft." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . no. Winter (2013). Trevor-Roper, Hugh. History and the Enlightenment. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Waters, Kristen. Women and Men Political Theorists: Enlightened Conversations. Malden, Mas: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Wollstonecraft

  • The National Rifle Association (NRA)

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    The NRA has been around for more than 145 years and has never wavered in its beliefs and goals for society. The United States relies solely on the United States Constitution. The NRA has been defending these basic human rights since the late 1800s, but specifically the NRA has been a big part of US history with defending the important 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms. Three interesting things about the NRA is what is does for the community, their history, and NRAs stance on politics. The National

  • Colonizing Florida

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    Plantations and Economy in Florida ed. Jane Landers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000). 136-149. William Bartram, Travels through North (University of North Carolina: Apex Data Services, Inc., 2001), 119-30, http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bartram/bartram.html. Daniel Murphree, “Perpetuating a Mythical Paradise: Transnational Visions of the Colonial Floridas,” Terrae Incognitae 37 (Jan. 2005): 41. Andrew Frank, “Taking the State Out: Seminoles and Creeks in Late Eighteenth-Century Florida

  • Labor Unions Are Useless

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    occasion occurred, when I was a high school teenager and began working as a box-boy at a grocery store. A condition of employment was that I was required to join the stores labor union, which was a state law in California. According to Bernard D. Meltzer, a leading scholar of Labor Law at University of Chicago Law School, “Union security provisions in labor contracts have required membership in, or financial support of, the signatory union by employees, as a condition of employment by the signatory

  • Biography of Caryl Churchill

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    family moved to Canada. There she attended Trafalgar School in Montreal until 1955. At this time she moved back to England to attend Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. This is the key place that her career began. While studying English at Oxford she took an interest in theatre. She wrote her first three plays while at the university. Where has she been? Radio plays When her career in theatre and performance started at Oxford she began the first phase in her career. She was very focused