Education Commons^™

How Does A High School Student’S Ability To Accomplish And Set Goals Ensure Future Success In Life?, Wilber Aguilar

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Goal setting is a very important part of being successful in life. Goals allow a student to be self-motivated and build many skills that will be useful later in their life after high school and college. It is important to develop these good goal setting skills so that a student will always be motivated and focused to work towards something. It has been seen that students who set goals are more likely to develop characteristics of leadership, team work, accountability, and overcoming tough challenges they may encounter.

How Does Nature Vs. Nurture Impact The Outcome Of Violence In Children, Torri Almond

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Some believe that nature is the determining factor in how children act. Others believe it is all in the nurturing of children. Although, what impacts children’s actions and how they behave, is an unhealthy balance of both genes that an unhealthy balance of both genes that may make one susceptible to violent or delinquent behaviors, and exposure to a delinquent behaviors, and exposure to a negative environment. Studies about these negative environment. Studies about these “bad” genes, or genes that may make a child predisposed to undesirable behaviors have shown that gene expression is likely to be amplified when exposed …

Insufficient Sleep And Adolescents, Angel Cavazos

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Sleep insufficiency is the decrease in either sleep quality, or quantity, to where performance is decreased. Sleep is important for adolescents as it plays an important role in mood and development of depressive symptoms. A myriad of troubling side effects stem from sleep loss including weight gain, depression, suicidal ideation, drowsy driving, and lower performance.

The Monopoly On Internet Privacy, Katherine Lopez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

As time has evolved, the evasion of the issue surrounding internet privacy has become condoning. It can be prominently seen that peoples’ online information can be sold, distributed, and abused by big corporations. Therefore, big media corporations can sell or use this information to profit. In George Orwell's book 1984, private citizens live lives that are controlled by the government, their largest corporation, through the use of knowledge gained by technology. In the novel 1984, most people besides the main character Winston are clueless and do not have any knowledge of what the government is doing.As these corporations continue to …

The Wage Gap In The Medical Field, Alanna Jones

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

In the medical industry there has always been the argument of why don’t women get paid more than their male counterparts. There currently is not any work being done to get the gap closed between female and male medical workers. The importance of this research is to see the reasons as to why there is a wage gap in the medical field and what has caused it. It goes further into depth of how society has played a factor and what can people do to help to close this gap.

Isolation And The Human Mind, Eli Flodman

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

The Lord of The Flies is a novel tailored to the fundamental innocence found in man as well as the effects of mob mentality and extreme isolation. This research focuses on the effects of isolation within a small group while comparing COVID families to the Lord of The Flies.

Raising Multilingual And Bilingual Children, Emily Hernandez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Raising children in a multilingual environment is a very challenging but important part of child development. Many families can agree that having the ability to know multiple languages is a huge advantage to have for future purposes. Separating the role of schools and parents is a very important process. At home, families encounter many activities and real life scenarios. This makes a huge impact on a children's language and literacy. It is a challenge that has positive impacts for the children as well as for the community.

Child Abuse, Mathew Ramirez Lopez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

In the United States, child abuse is defined as the physical maltreatment or sexual molestation of a child. Four majortypes of child abuse exist: neglect, physical, sexual, and psychological.The atrocityofchild abuse is that the abuse leaves the children with everlasting emotionalscars, and often,withphysical,cognitive, andsocial health issues. The irreversible affects such as head trauma, lower performance inschool, and poor social skills are equally as important. As the years continue, more and more children are being,and will be, abused. Overall, the importance is stopping this crime that does not need to happen.

The Foster Care System: Domestic Abuse, Guadalupe Hernandez Rodriguez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

In the United States, children not only experience domestic abuse at home but can also be an issue while placed in the foster care system. In the foster care system, the abuse suffered by these individuals is increased due to home instability. Abuse can take place in many forms (physical, emotional, economical, and sexual) and can occur in many places. It can become a life-threatening crime or a crime that affects an individual’s day-to-day life. The youth and young adults who pass through this system are left with physical injuries and adverse childhood experiences (abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction). The …

Media Manipulation And Perseverance, Ivan Palma Vargas

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Media manipulation is a technique the media use to paint a false image that persuades their audience to their views on topics. In 1984, by George Orwell, the falsification of history and constant propaganda spread by the Ministries are an eerie resemblance to today’s American media spreading false information and biased viewpoints to implement irrational thoughts and emotions to their audience. The significance of media manipulation is the impact it has on American citizens as media in the digital era is at constant show and citizens are constantly taking in false information. The research conducted was on a survey after …

Acculturation, Nyanhial Wiyual Pal

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

The phenomenon of acculturation occurs when groups of people from different cultures come into constant contact with shifts in the original culture, the host country's culture, or the cultures of both groups. It can affect immigrants’ health and well-being as a result of coping with stressful experiences such as prejudice, racism, and poverty, as well as changes in or loss of identity, a lack of social support, exposure to diverse views, cultural values and norms, and particular patterns of health behaviors (drinking, smoking, taking illicit drugs).

Addiction-Family Impacts, Emily Orona

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Drug and alcohol addiction is a disease that negatively affects a person's brain and behavior which leads to an inability to control the use of legal or illegal drugs. Addiction is sometimes used interchangeably with abuse, although they differ tremendously. Those who abuse drugs and alcohol still have control over their lives, while those with an addiction have a disease that affects many aspects of their life. Drug and alcohol addiction does not only impact the individual, but also their family. It is especially more challenging when a parent has addiction. Addiction affects not only the parent, but the child …

1984: A Reality For Soviet Citizens, German Murcia-Martinez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Many countries have fallen victim to tyrannical leaders in the past. For example, Joseph Stalin had the Soviet Union under his grip for the longest time. His rule did not end until his death. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the country of Oceania was being controlled by Big Brother with the help of the Party. While being somewhat different, both the Soviet Union under Stalin and Oceania share incredible similarities.

Why We Create Enemies, Jerry Mejia

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Our enemies are not always distinguishable by features such as a black trench coat or twirly mustache. However, humans still attempt to characterize their enemies into a stereotype. This is to create a sense of calm-you know who your enemy is. This research topic explored why society requires a scapegoat to feel better about its own shortcomings. Even if the worst happens, at least we will know who to blame. This has been human nature for thousands of years and will continue to do so.

Homelessness: Doomed From The Cycle, Belle Tran

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

The homeless are most often those caught up in the cycle of the judicial system, which needs to be challenged in order to be fixed. These persons are often plagued with costly health issues.

Learned Helplessness And Domestic Violence, Nayla G. Torres Ruiz

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Domestic violence can affect anyone, regardless of gender, age, race, social status, or sexual orientation. A phenomenon known as learned helplessness may play a role in why victims of domestic violence remain in those unsafe environments. Learned helplessness (LH) is a psychological trait, which results from repeated exposure to uncontrollable and aversive events. LH contributes to submissiveness and reluctance to leave an abusive relationship. LH can develop from childhood experiences and circumstances, such as controlling, authoritarian, and demanding parents. LH can also develop during adulthood and whilst in abusive relationships, as the victims are often led to believe by the …

Police Brutality, Kelly Solis

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Police brutality is the excessive or unnecessary force used by law enforcement officials towards civilians. It’s a public health issue that impacts both physical and mental health. Although the misconduct of law enforcement officials is highly known to be the cause of racial discrimination, there are actually other elements contributing to such a broad issue. The importance of this issue led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Alzheimer's Effects On A Family, Brianna Sanchez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Alzheimer’s is a word many families despise; a disease that weakens hearts and takes away the ones families love most. The disease is said to be deadly--but not sudden--with no cure. As awful as it sounds, the death is devastating but is not the worst part of this disease: the worst part is the stages leading up to the full-blown disease that families have to watch that hurts most and could make or break a family.

What makes Alzheimer’s hard to live with is how family members have to slowly watch their loved ones fade away, mentally and physically. In …

Death Of A Family Member, Cindy Salas

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Death is a tragic occurrence that affects the lives of family and friends in many ways.When a child in the family dies the parents and remaining children of the family now have to adapt to the new life that they have to live.This presentation is focused on the family of the deceased child, how they react to the situation and what are their outcomes of their reactions.

Effects Of Separation On The Immigrant Family, Mainor Ramirez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

In the United States of America, deportation has always been an issue, becoming a greater issue in today’s society. Deportation can be defined as a lawful expulsion of a person from a country. Many families have come to the U.S. in the hope of a brighter and better future, but that is not always the case. Constantly running in fear of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), they struggle to survive in a land of unknown. What many people do not know are the reasons why families come to the U.S and the effects deportation has on children when they …

Mcnair Scholars Research Journal 2021, Calyha Brown, Caroline Carter, Kalvry Cooper, Perla Rodriguez, Huu Trung Tran, Jose A. Cortes, Orion Wynne, Johnathan Alexander Andres, Joshua Perez, Allison Fenske, Chasidah Fried, Giles Fitzwilliams

McNair Scholars Research Journal-Archive

No abstract provided.

Life In Metropolitan Nebraskan Communities: 2021 Nebraska Metro Poll Results, Rebecca J. Vogt, Heather Akin, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel, Bradley Lubben, L. J. Mcelravy, Timothy Meyer, Steven A. Schulz

Rural Futures Institute: Publications

By many different measures, metropolitan Nebraskans are positive about their community. Most metropolitan Nebraskans rate their community favorably on its social dimensions. Overall, respondents rate their communities as friendly, trusting and supportive. Most metropolitan Nebraskans say it would be difficult to leave their community.

Most metropolitan Nebraskans have a positive attachment to their community. Most metropolitan Nebraskans agree that they can get what they need in their community, the community helps them fulfill their needs, they feel like a member of their community, they belong in their community, they have a good bond with others in their community and feel …

Development Of Teaching Activities Based On Online Easa Instructional Model To Enhance Speaking Ability Of Thai Efl Students, Yosakorn Sayasonti

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study aimed to 1) explore the effects of the online EASA instructional model on the speaking ability of Thai EFL students and 2) investigate the students’ perceptions toward learning through the online EASA instructional model. Thirty eleventh grade students in the first semester of the academic year 2021 at a public school in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand, were selected as participants for this study by using the convenience sampling method. This study employed a single group pretest and posttest design. The research instruments included 1) English speaking pretest and posttest 2) close-ended questionnaire and 3) interview questions about participants’ …

Antología De La Literatura Española Del Romanticismo: Desde Sus Precedentes En La Poesía Trovadoresca Provenzal Hasta El Posromanticismo, Enrique Torner

World Languages & Cultures Department Publications

This is a digital interactive anthology of texts devoted to Spanish Romanticism especially designed for university non-Spanish speakers that are enrolled in Spanish majors or minors and are at least in their third year of study. This anthology may be used as textbook for any course by any instructor who might desire to use it without any written permission from the author. It may be used as a whole for a course on Spanish Romanticism or any parts of it may be used in conjunction with other texts to offer a course on a wider period of Spanish literature. The …

Highlights Of Annual Report Of The Cohort 2 Tpsid Model Demonstration Projects (Year 5, 2019–2020), Meg Grigal, Think College National Coordinating Center Staff

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

This Highlights document was created with data from the Annual Report of the Cohort 2 TPSID Model Demonstration Projects (Year 5, 2019–2020) for those who are interested in the most critical statistics from the report, or are sharing with a broad audience. It features bold graphics and brief summaries of program and student data, including exit and post-exit outcomes. The full Annual Report provides program- and student-level data reported by TPSIDs (Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities) during the 2019-20 academic year. Program data reflect program characteristics, academic access, supports for students, and integration of the program …

Executive Summary Of The Annual Report Of The Tpsid Model Demonstration Projects, Meg Grigal, Debra Hart, Clare Papay, Xiaoying Wu, Rebecca Lazo, Frank Smith, Daria Domin

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

This Fast Fact provides a summary of the findings shared in the Annual Report of the Cohort 2 TPSID Model Demonstration Projects (Year 5, 2019–2020). Findings are shared across multiple categories including employment, vocational rehabilitation, academics, academic and employment supports, residential services, program completion and credential attainment, and one-year outcomes. Additionally, there is information about impact of COVID-19 on the data. Conclusions drawn suggest the TPSID model demonstration program has shown that students with intellectual disability can enroll in college, attend courses, and work for competitive wages. The quality of the services provided to students while enrolled in IHEs implementing …

Highlights Of Annual Report Of The Cohort 2 Tpsid Model Demonstration Projects (Year 5, 2019–2020), Meg Grigal, Think College National Coordinating Center Staff

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

This Highlights document was created with data from the Annual Report of the Cohort 2 TPSID Model Demonstration Projects (Year 5, 2019–2020) for those who are interested in the most critical statistics from the report, or are sharing with a broad audience. It features bold graphics and brief summaries of program and student data, including exit and post-exit outcomes. The full Annual Report provides program- and student-level data reported by TPSIDs (Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities) during the 2019-20 academic year. Program data reflect program characteristics, academic access, supports for students, and integration of the program …

We Make The Path By Walking Together: A Case Study Of How Community Engagement At The University Of Mississippi Impacts Students And Community Partner Organizations, Laura Martin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The community engagement field has grappled with critical questions around its failure to effectuate institutional change that will permit colleges and universities to create a more just society. At the same time, the University of Mississippi has struggled to reconcile its own institutional legacy of forced integration alongside an ambitious public mission in a state recognized for persistent poverty and inequality.

Reducing Disparites In Act Results According To Racial Identity: An Applied Research Study Into The Weact Program In Tinlake High School, Marcus Stewart

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT The ACT provides opportunities for students of various socioeconomic backgrounds, racial identities, and family structures. Throughout the nation, there is a disparity that involves Black students scoring less than White students on the test by a margin of five points. The applied mixed methods research aimed to identify elements to help decrease the gap in student scores. The combined efforts of all the elements, tutorials, boot camps, ACT prep classes, and providing ACT resources in daily instruction formed the WeACT program. The students of Tinlake High School were exposed to this pilot program to assist in their ACT growth. …

Annual Report Of The Cohort 2 Tpsid Model Demonstration Projects (Year 5, 2019–2020), Meg Grigal, Debra Hart, Clare Papay, Xiaoying Wu, Rebecca Lazo, Frank Smith, Daria Domin

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

Think College Reports present descriptive data in narrative or tabular form to provide timely information to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for review and use. This report provides program- and student-level data reported by TPSIDs (Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities) during the 2019-20 academic year. Program data reflect program characteristics, academic access, supports for students, and integration of the program within the institute of higher education during the fifth year of FY 2016–2020 funding. This report also provides information on the strategic partnerships and financial sustainability of TPSID programs. Student data reflect study demographics, course enrollments, employment …