Brainyquote College Essays Samples For Students

Abstract

In the current health scenario, the old adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ is outdated ("A New Vision of Wellness", 2011). Health costs are increasing day by day, but diseases have become more prevalent than before. Incidences of impaired mental health are on the rise. Isn’t it high time that we stop and take a look at the current medical scenario? People are suffering from chronic diseases like asthma, depression, diabetes, heart disease, pain, and even attention and learning problems. Moreover, the pharmaceutical companies are always introducing newer and better medicines and expensive ones too, but still, there ...

Introduction

-Aristotle (384-382 B.C.)
The purpose of my college application is for me to learn everything that I must learn in order for me to get ready with life. With today’s fierce competition, getting a job without a college degree will certainly make the job hunting hard for me in the future. Aside from this, I desire to know more than what I can and I know that college can help me fulfill that deep consummating hunger in myself. When I first studied high school, I have already set my goals high and have myself focus to one thing that ...

Frank Lloyd Wright: Beauty in stone, glass and wood

What is beauty? Not everyone can immediately give the answer to this question. But if we ask any passersby to define what is beautiful, he will answer at once. But how to find the ideal of beauty? People are contradictory creatures, who try to express themselves and show how special they are, but simultaneously attempt to measure and evaluate everything, determine whether it is good or not, using rather generally accepted notions than own ideas. Many of us tend to aspire to something average, reliable and quiet as for example black clothing, a standard set of products or services. But ...

John Stuart Mill once famously quoted that ‘War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse’ (brainyquote, 2013). The statement quite clearly summarizes and captures the feelings of those against the US Military operations abroad or outside the country. Though war is hard to justify, but when it is raised to protect human rights or to safeguard one’s sovereignty, it becomes a mark of bravery. US military operations are not just an unnecessary waste of dollars, as ...

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Figure 1: Map of Jamaica (Source: en.wikipedia.org)
"Jamaica is in the position of a drowning man, treading water to keep afloat, but slowly drifting ashore."—Professor Kari Levitt, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Although the above statement has some validity to it as it relates to some criteria related to the core developmental issues concerning the economic and social progress of Jamaica, the recent report conducted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has revealed that Jamaica has made certain improvements in its Human Development Index (HDI) values and rank ...

English Class

The picture shows a group of children playing the game of ‘tag’ but all communication is being done by smartphone. Even the tagging is a non-physical activity. It shows how removed we are from interaction with each other on a personal and physical level when performing the simplest of things – such as playing a child’s game. People no longer need to speak to each other face to face. It can be done through a device and one of many different media styles available today. That’s the way of the world in today’s technology-mad society that seems ...

Today, in the era of high-tech, super smart computers are extremely fast internet education is vital. The ability to write, to count and to read is not a privilege available to a limited number of people, but a necessity, with which we are confronted on a daily basis. Nelson Mandela has once said: «education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world» and there is no doubt about truthfulness of this statement. Issues that are questionable are the qualitative and quantitative indicators of these education. Can we say that today people are overeducated? Can ...

According to the words of Aristotle, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet” (Aristotle), and as we know the first bitter roots of our education are usually tasted in high school.
A high school diploma is the evidence that a person has gone through a vital step of his or her life. Having a high school diploma means that a person was working on various topics during many years to become a broad-minded and educated individual and a worthy member of the society. Graduating from high school also means that along with acquiring the general knowledge of all the important ...

Classic English Literature

We are dealing with a poem “Sex Without Love”, written by an American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds in 1984.
This poem dramatizes the conflict between sex based on love and sex without love.
For the speaker, love and sex are viewed as something that necessarily has to be connected, and in the phrase “make love without love” the evident contradiction is suggested.
As Sophia Lauren said, “Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it”.
This ...

English

It has been more than forty-five years since Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated. But he is still considered one of the most respected African-American leaders in history. He played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement that finally ended the legal segregation of the Blacks and Whites in America and led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Dr Martin Luther King was born on January 5th, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia, the middle child of Alberta Williams King and Michael King Sr. He was a precocious child, skipping both his ninth and eleventh grade at ...

The 21st century is the time of huge technological progress. It is hard to imagine that something like ten years ago social media was significantly less developed than nowadays, because networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, fast internet connection, texting and many other things people enjoy doing now were only on the stage of creating, testing. It is a good thing that the World is moving forward, everything is changing for better, mostly. The new phenomena comes along with the technological and informational progress, improvement of Social media. Internet has been used more and more by the users with different ...

Impact of Technology on Education

IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY 2
Abstract
In 1971, C. P Snow has remarked, “Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other” (New York Times). Well, when one analyses the tremendous impact of technology on human life, it’s evident that the man has make a balance between optimisation and overindulgence. That is why the introduction of state-of-the art technologies in daily life is a matter to analyse. One such question is the introduction f videogames in middle schools to enhance learning. This essay aims at illuminating ...

A Personal Experience

Once Peter Drucker said the following:
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.( Drucker, quoted in BrainyQuote.com)”
One realizes the significance of this statement when exposed to real life scenarios which necessitate skills of management and leadership. All the knowledge which one gains through analysis of several prominent literary works in the duration of academic life is still incomplete unless one learns, through practice, the knack to employ the studied theories and theses in real life. A few months ago, I was caught in a similar situation where ...

A short definition essay

A short definition essay

Introduction

Why success is about peace, not money
The answer to this question shall always come from within. It’s a common experience that people were happier when they had less money. The joy of laughing heartily with friends in an old, second-hand car can be far more satiating that the fake pleasure of talking to rich colleagues
in a brand new Mercedes. As we start making money and assimilating with the so-called
pleasure of a higher class in society, we lose touch with the real bliss in life- family, friends and innocence. We run for ...