President of the United States. Heart filled with excitement, you put on your “I voted” sticker and head home to watch the election unravel. Your states votes were finally counted, and the presidential candidate you voted for lost by 1%. Your heart sinks as you realize all electoral votes for your state will go to the opposing candidate, and 48% of your population’s votes will be silenced. The Electoral College should no longer be used to elect the President of the United States, because it is an out
TravelChinaGuide.com (n.d.) states that Chinese years are represented by twelve zodiacal animal signs. The demographic religious breakdown is as follows: Folk religion, 21.9%, Buddhist, 18.2%, Christian, 5.1%, Muslim, 1.8%, Jewish and Hindu are both less than 0.1% (CIA World Factbook, 2015). Demographically, there are more males than females. Recently, the Chinese government lifted their ban of one child maximum per family (Burkitt, 2015). China’s government In 2013, XI Jinping was elected as President
Background: The rates of casual sexual encounters, ‘hook-ups’, and casual relationships are on the rise in young adults in North America. The majority of US college students have engaged in at least one hook-up while over half report that they have also engaged in some type of casual sex. However, the situations in which students experience unwanted sexual encounters are also shifting. It is implied that since the rates of date rape have decreased, yet rates of sexual assault have remained the same
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. he is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things.” This is a quote by one of our past presidents, Ronald Reagan. As the United States’ 2016 election year shortly approaches candidates everywhere are trying to be seen as great leaders to the people. One of the main ways candidates do this is by campaigning, which involved going to speeches, going to philanthropic events, and coming up with creative ways to advertise
I created a poster to show how the sculpture, “Sequence” represents the College of Design. To show this, I decided to make the poster about the College of Design at Iowa State University. The audience of this poster is the students because they are the people that would be applying to be a design student. To catch the attention of students, I thought a poster would work better so when they walk by throughout a busy day they will notice it. I also wanted the poster to be landscape or more horizontal
Are you a college student who “breaks the bank” just satisfy a syllabus by purchasing a textbook that cost a small fortune? These are the time to take actions and explore possibilities by subsidizing or putting a stop to costly textbooks. College books are becoming so expensive that students are risking their grade by not purchasing one for the semester. This financial burden is common throughout the United States and there should be more programs to allow students to become successful without having
Aliesha State College, the meeting by the board was held to find solutions to managing the college on a slashed budget. After deliberations, the board would be forced to arrive at decision problems where they can vote. Based on the votes the board can decide on the appropriate action to be taken. Deliberations and a final vote is the best way of identifying the decision problems and taking a stand in support of or against the problem. There was a unanimous agreement by the board that the college should
mental state of college students There has been a major decline in resilience among students in college. College personnel are struggling to keep up with the needs of the college students and the increasing number of calls to counseling. Students have started to become more emotional and lash out at people that do, or give them something they don’t like. Because of this, teachers are afraid to give low grades, knowing what the outcome could be. Rates of anxiety and depression among college students
Background: I am currently a college student at Valdosta State University with a major in marketing, hoping to graduate next spring. As a student I buy and sell textbooks to make extra money, and I have come up with the idea of a textbook marketplace. A textbook marketplace, which we call a Textbook Market, is a location where students can drop off their books to be sold for the price they want to other students. Once the textbooks are sold, the Textbook Market receives 20% of the total selling
Florida state college is a higher-education institution that is driven by clearly stipulated values. It is not allied with any other private or public university or college in Florida or elsewhere. However, for an appropriate design as an employer organization, there are a number of aspects that have to be given priority over others. I would rank them in this order; mission success, strategy or structure, accountability or adaptability, and lastly, ladders or rings. The first and most important one