april 15: Financial Aid Priority Application Deadline
march 1st: deadline to sumbmit Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
july 8: visit HBU campus
august 22: first day of school
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Reflection on Finacial Aid
Financial Aids are funds that provide students & families to help pay for educational costs. You can receive financial aid as loans, grants, scholarships, employment opportunities.The COA will be a helpful financial aid if i where going to a college out of town since it also pays for direct costs and indirect costs.From what I've learned the most suitable financial aid suitable for me is scholarships mainly because i don't have to pay back the money that was given to me.The only problem is that its not the easiest one to get. My other choice is to apply the Free Application for Federal Student Aid(FAFSA) which is the type of financial aid that i will apply to starting January 1st.
reflection on colleges
From researching all these colleges it made me more aware of what college will be more suitable for me.Such as Houston Baptist University.It is really close to my house and I need a minimum of 3.0 GPA. I would probably be spending about 34,105 in my first year. I also found out that i am eligible for finacial aid which will help me tremendously. The school has 65 student organizations so it has many possible activities to chose from. The other possible college i chose was University of Houston. It has over 65 majors to choose from and 9 pre-possessional programs . It has a very pretty housing. My other choice is Houston Community College. Since im not the richest person ever i can really afford to go to college. This community college seems more convenient for me and my family.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
1st semester essay
No Arms, No Limbs, No Worries
I am sitting down watching TV. Just stressed and bored. When I stop at this channel. I see this man just standing in the middle of the stage smiling . He is good looking has light brown hair ,and beautiful green eyes ,and has no arms and no legs.
He begins to talk “My name is Nick Vujicic I was born with no arms and no legs. People usually freak out when they see me for the first time . I love kids reactions. I go in the store, and they are just starring at me, and all the kids come up to me saying “What happened!” and I say “cigarettes!” Its amazing of how this guy has such a good sense of humor. He begins to show all the cool tricks he can do, like how he answers the phone and kicks a ball. He tells all his funny stories to the audience (which are high school kids) , and then he begins to get personal.
“I tell you when I was eight years old I sort of summed up my life. I tell myself I’m never going to get married I’m not going to have a job, im not going to have a life with purpose. But I realize I may not have hands to hold my wife’s hand but when the time comes I’ll be able to hold her heart, and I don’t need hands to hold her heart.”
He finishes by demonstrating a story. He starts to slowly lean forward while whistling. He lightly falls. He continues talking “ So what do you do when you fall down? Everybody knows to get back up because if im not walking im not going to get anywhere. There are times in life when you fall down and you feel like you don’t have the strength to get back up. finish, and your going to finish strong. He slowly starts to push himself up with his head.
Im sitting there with tears in my eyes amazed at what im hearing and seeing. Il be going through life thinking man life sucks and here I am seeing a man with no arms and legs having a better perspective towards life than me. His motivational speech gave me a different belief . From now on instead of wishing for something that I don’t have im going to appreciate what I do have and live my life to the fullest.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Houston Baptist University
From researching all these colleges it made me more aware of what college will be more suitable for me.Such as Houston Baptist University.It is really close to my house and I need a minimum of 3.0 GPA. Iwould probably be spending about 34,105 in my first year. I also found out that i am eligiable for finacial aid which will help me tremendously. The school has 65 student organizations so it has many possible activities to chosse from.
2nd semester essay
Is killing someone for killing right
How would you feel knowing that you are going to die tomorrow at a specific time and you can’t do nothing about it? The death penalty is the most cruel punishment that ever existed and has been in use in America since 1608.It should not be used anywhere in the world. I am against death penalty because not all victims sent on death penalty are guilty, and it is a cruel punishment that should be abolished. Besides that it violates the 8th and 14th amendment. Why should it be used if it violates some of the amendments?
Many innocent people are cent to jail. Over 487 people have been free from death row because they were later proven innocent. On 2004 in Texas a man was executed for setting a fire that killed his three small children. Scientific analysis has shown that there was no evidence that the fire in a one story, wood frame house was the result of fire. In other words, it was an accident. No crime had occurred. This man was already dead when found innocent. They should have at least have been fair and proved if it was evident or not.
It is also a big waste of money and time. Criminologists were asked if executions lower homicide rates. Over 5% said yes and 88% said no. In Texas a death penalty case costs an average of 2.3 million, about 3 times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. Police chiefs consider the death penalty the least efficient use of tax payer’s money.
However, according to roughly a dozen studies, executions save lives. The studies say that for each person put to death 3 to 18 murders are prevented. Those executions permanently remove the worst criminals from society and is safer for prison guards since most dangerous criminals have been executed. Surprisingly the bible prescribes death for murder and many other crimes including kidnapping and witchcraft. This is true but it is not enough to keep the whole world safe.
Do you know how cruel the punishments are? Execution could not ever be fast and pain free. Lethal injection may appear to be the most pain free but is a very slow process. If the needle is inserted correctly into the vein it allows it to function properly, causing unconsciousness in less than 10 seconds and death in less than 10 minutes. The biggest single objection to lethal injection is the length of time required to prepare the prisoner and carry out their sentence which can be from 20 to 45 minutes depending on the ease of finding a vein to inject into. Throughout this period the person knows that they are being put to death. Shooting Retribution is seen by many as the principal reason for favoring the death penalty. It is also felt by many families of murder victims to be a strong reason for witnessing the execution of their loved one's murderer, in states that allow this, as it provides closure for them. But it just traumatizes them.
For these reasons the death penalty should be abolished. Because killing a person for killing is not the right thing to do. Living in a potty hole of a jail is cruel enough.
How would you feel knowing that you are going to die tomorrow at a specific time and you can’t do nothing about it? The death penalty is the most cruel punishment that ever existed and has been in use in America since 1608.It should not be used anywhere in the world. I am against death penalty because not all victims sent on death penalty are guilty, and it is a cruel punishment that should be abolished. Besides that it violates the 8th and 14th amendment. Why should it be used if it violates some of the amendments?
Many innocent people are cent to jail. Over 487 people have been free from death row because they were later proven innocent. On 2004 in Texas a man was executed for setting a fire that killed his three small children. Scientific analysis has shown that there was no evidence that the fire in a one story, wood frame house was the result of fire. In other words, it was an accident. No crime had occurred. This man was already dead when found innocent. They should have at least have been fair and proved if it was evident or not.
It is also a big waste of money and time. Criminologists were asked if executions lower homicide rates. Over 5% said yes and 88% said no. In Texas a death penalty case costs an average of 2.3 million, about 3 times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. Police chiefs consider the death penalty the least efficient use of tax payer’s money.
However, according to roughly a dozen studies, executions save lives. The studies say that for each person put to death 3 to 18 murders are prevented. Those executions permanently remove the worst criminals from society and is safer for prison guards since most dangerous criminals have been executed. Surprisingly the bible prescribes death for murder and many other crimes including kidnapping and witchcraft. This is true but it is not enough to keep the whole world safe.
Do you know how cruel the punishments are? Execution could not ever be fast and pain free. Lethal injection may appear to be the most pain free but is a very slow process. If the needle is inserted correctly into the vein it allows it to function properly, causing unconsciousness in less than 10 seconds and death in less than 10 minutes. The biggest single objection to lethal injection is the length of time required to prepare the prisoner and carry out their sentence which can be from 20 to 45 minutes depending on the ease of finding a vein to inject into. Throughout this period the person knows that they are being put to death. Shooting Retribution is seen by many as the principal reason for favoring the death penalty. It is also felt by many families of murder victims to be a strong reason for witnessing the execution of their loved one's murderer, in states that allow this, as it provides closure for them. But it just traumatizes them.
For these reasons the death penalty should be abolished. Because killing a person for killing is not the right thing to do. Living in a potty hole of a jail is cruel enough.
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