Student Essays

1. What do we call electrical messages that are sent down the axon of a neuron? Action potentials 2. In one sentence, describe how the electricity in an action potential is generated. Generated by the opening of gated sodium channels 3. Draw a diagram of the cell membrane of the …

Is writing for practice and formal study helpful for students? I believe that formal study of writing not important as one would think. I do believe that writing for practice however does provide a useful tool for anybody’s career. We’re all here to progress our careers by obtaining a degree …

Students will interview an older adult on a topic related to health and aging. Students will develop questions based on their own interest, conduct an interview of an older adult using the questions, and write a summary of the experience. Requirements  Develop interview questions. It is recommended that you …

The society of the twentieth-first century has put an extremely high demand on attending and graduating college. Some basic employment opportunities today require a college degree, where close to ten to fifteen years ago, the only requirement was a high school diploma and acceptable ability to perform the specific task. …

There were times that you were having trouble in communicating, don’t worry we have all been there. You can’t get a job having poor communication skills or maybe you have a job and it might affect the productivity of the company if you have poor communication skills. It is important …

The text under analysis is an extract from the book “Doctor in the House”. It’s written by Richard Gordon who has been an anesthetist, a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. Then he left medical practice and started writing his “Doctor” series. “Doctor in the …

Tommy Raskin in Cheating Students (2013) asserts that our schools fail the humanistic vision of education. Tommy supports this assertion by reviewing the 2010 study conducted by Josephson Institute of Ethics that found 59 percent of high school students had cheated on a test in the past year, and over …

It is universally acknowledged that language is the media through which people can express their ideas, feelings, desires, beliefs, point of view, attitudes and interests. Learning a foreign language is considered as a source of enrichment for knowledge and a contribution to international understanding (Shannaq, 1989).Moreover, learning a foreign language …

The weather of summers in Guangdong Province is always hot full of rain, which always make a person feel annoyed and unfriendly. This summer holiday, I went to a remote village at the top of a mountain, of innumerable mountains in Guizhou Province and spent seventeen days there as a …

Nowadays the number of university students who have a part-time job is increasing obviously. As a result, it has become one of the most important issues of students. I agree that university students should be allowed to have part-time jobs. Because students having a part-time job might be more responsible, …