The effort students put into their studies affect their performance and their access and success at the next level. Indicators of student effort include how often students are absent from school, how interested they are in their schoolwork, whether they try to do their best, whether they complete their assignments, and how much time they spend on homework and other activities such as work or watching television. For the student to be successful in the field of education, we must take into mind the students success in the society around them. ... Examining who prepares for college and who enr...

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Colleges pride themselves on their statistics. ... If a white student and a black student apply to the same college, despite their grades, the black student automatically has a greater chance of acceptance. ... Those fighting over this issue are forgetting the purpose of the admission process: to accept students whose grades and extracurricular achievements are outstanding to a college's requirements. ... Students apply to college every year and every year students are accepted unfairly. Colleges who pride themselves on fairness, justice, and equality are lying to their students and their...

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Theme for English B "Theme for English B- is a poem by Langston Hughes in which a black student in a predominantly white college takes a seemingly simple assignment as an opportunity to inspect the complicated issue of race relations in America. ... He tells us that he was the only "colored student in my class-, Then he takes us on his journey home where from that prestigious establishment of Columbia he returns to Harlem through a park, crosses St. ...

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Do minorities really need a handicap to earn college acceptance? ... In addition to GPA and achievement tests, students can score points for things like being a resident of the state in which the college is located, being related to an alumni of that school, having won a competition, or being a scholarship athlete. ... All this so we can benefit from a more diverse student body. Many colleges seek diversity among their students, but is race really where they will find it? ... Now universities can be made inaccessible to a qualified student because he is not a minority; which is also unfai...

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It is often said, "College isn't meant for everyone." ... There are many colleges in America, let alone in the world. ... Many high school students around this time are sending in applications to schools that they no nothing about. ... My sister was an A student with many leadership roles, basically an all around good student. ... As a strongly motivated and diligent student, I believe that I can make a difference in the world. ...

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This decision is deciding which colleges to apply to and eventually attend. At this time however there is chaos surrounding the admissions of minority students to colleges. ... The second scenario concerns two students who have just graduated from college and are in the process of applying to graduate school. ... The number of minority students attending American colleges and universities jumped 48% in the 1990's, with all minorities posting double digit gains in college enrollment, according to a study by the American Council on Education. The Study which analyzed statistics from the...

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Upon A Hill: Reflection of Langston Hughes" "Theme For English B" In "Theme for English B," the speaker is a student in an English class. ... The speaker does not regard himself like the other students because there is no mention of the other students in the class. ... The hierarchy of the class says that the instructor is more important and stands above the students. ... The college sits on a hill above Harlem, which gives the impression of superiority: "This college on the hill above Harlem" (9). ... Not every black or white person is able to attend college. ...

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He is now attending college "on the hill above Harlem". The speaker stating "I am the only colored student in my class" shows that very few people of color were able to attend college at that time. ... The college is set on "the hill above Harlem" (Meyers). ... It also implies that the college, as well as the white students that attend it, is "higher" or better than the colored people who live in Harlem, and they look down on these people. ... Just as students learn from teachers, teachers learn from students. ...

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For example, they say in broken hoop dreams for basketball players of Coney Island that junior colleges are a meat market for basketball players. How do you know that junior college wasn't the only college afford? Now me being a college student I can speak on this matter, it's very hard for a student and costs a lot of money to go to a 4 year college and a junior college is much cheaper. And there are some good junior colleges out there, for example Trinity valley their girls are the state champs 4 years running and their players come from Brazil. ... And with the cost of living th...

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Nonetheless, the advancement of women in the work force is not an issue in college admissions. ... For example, if a Caucasian and a Hispanic student were to apply to the same school, having the same academic standing, most likely the Hispanic student would gain acceptance. Subsequently, it's an unjust system because its logic assumes that the Hispanic student is poor, underprivileged and had to work three times as hard as the Caucasian student. ... On the flipside, the student may be brilliant, but the vigilance of affirmative action among fellow students creates assumption. ... As an a...

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From junior high to high school, high school to college, and from college to "the real world" including a job, we work and work and work to have the privilege of being our own boss, to own property, maybe even have a nice summer condo in Jamaica. That may work for the hard-working white citizen, but, for black students, there's a crack in the "system". ... My mom was an above average student. ... My dad was the stereotypical black male who never went to class, always got in trouble, and made it to an okay college. He now has gone back to college and wishes he had paid attention so he woul...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... By the 1960's, violent acts were committed in response to the admittance of blacks to colleges and universities. Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. It resulted in the brutal attacks on the students and soldiers. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... By the 1960's, violent acts were committed in response to the admittance of blacks to colleges and universities. Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. It resulted in the brutal attacks on the students and soldiers. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ...

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Joseph McNeil, a black college student, sat at a lunch counter with three of his friends until they were served. They were not served, so the students came to the counter every day. A New York Times article was printed on the story and inspired black and white students across the country to participate in such protests. ... In 1957 nine students tried to integrate Little Rock High School. ...

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Bledsoe, the narrator's college President, has to be one of the most influential characters. ... He constantly makes a mockery of the college founder's dream of lifting the veil of ignorance of black people. The narrator, who suspects that Bledsoe is keeping the veil in place to ensure that the students remain in the dark, is unfortunately greatly influenced by him. ... Washington, who is supposedly the founder of the narrator's college, Bledsoe portrays that there is a necessary behavior of black people in order to maintain support and approval from white America. ...

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According to a critic on affirmative action, "A college board survey, described in Andrew Hacker's Two Nations, in 1992 the average combined SAT score for black students whose parents earn more than $70,000 a year was 854, which was twenty-five points lower than the average SAT for white students whose parents earn less than $20,000 a year." ... Family incomes have less to do with SAT scores than the efforts students put into their studies. ... Instead, all students should raise their own standards in order to improve our society. ... Instead the school would rather accept a Mex...

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The narrator is also judged improperly forcing him to question who he is even as a college student. ... Therefore, even while in college, the narrator's mask himself in order to be valued enough to advance in his career by acting the way whites would respect. In addition, the narrator was esteemed when he wore the mask of a high class college student but when it was acclaimed that he was Mr. ...

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Prospective students must reside within a particular school's district, meaning that blacks from underprivileged neighborhoods are forced to attend poorly-funded schools. ... Consequently, less blacks complete a high school diploma, or have less college preparatory courses if they do go to college. ... When Barack Obama addressed the NAACP in 2007, he raised the concern that, "more young black men languish in prison than attend universities and colleges across America." ...

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Sometimes the white students from Wingate College would visit the restaurant and give visual harassment to the boys. ... The student always wound up being asked to leave but alas most times not before they would do some sort of fool trickery not becoming of a college student (put catsup in the salt shaker or mustard in the sugar jar) in the restaurant. ...

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King was so gifted that he was accepted into Morehouse College at the age of 15, without even finishing high school. There he underwent a special program for gifted students, and graduated with a B.A. in sociology (1948). ... He was the valedictorian of his class and student body president. ... King, putting Gandhis techniques of nonviolent protest to the test, supported and participated in a sit-in demonstration organized by Atlanta college students. ...

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Not only does it use race to decide who will get the better job, but it is based on an assumption that minorities cannot be as successful as white students and employees without government intervention. Imagine that two people have finished college, and each wants to go to the same medical school. ...

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Race Separation "Theme for English B" is a poem by Langston Hughes in which a black student in a predominantly white college takes a writing assignment as an opportunity to ponder over the complicated issue of race relations in America. ... The speaker asserts that he is the only colored student in his class. ... The fact that he is going to college shows that he has ambition, but doesn't expect to get anything for free. ...

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While at Princeton, John received the same education and shared some of the same experiences as every other student that attended the college. ... Du Boise himself went to college and then on to graduate school at Harvard. ...

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In "Black Men and Public Space," Brent Staples explains his how receiving an inheritance of race, has made him submissive to society. No matter where he is, what he's doing or what his attire is, he is considered a threat to those who don't look like him. Staples testifies about being constantly avo...

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Attending his first college at Columbia University to study engineering, he dropped out with a B+ average. ... The boy becomes a cook and waiter in Paris, a famished beachcomber in Genoa, and a student at Columbia and Lincoln Universities. ...

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