Iowa State University Essays

  • Separating Letter To Iowa State University

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    desire for reading and easy to understand the information. The main purpose of this letter is providing information to all the incoming international students, and students can use this letter as a checklist to prepare before they leave for Iowa State University. In the letter, it includes information of important date, I-20, health test, admission acceptance and on campus housing. It might be hard for international students to read and memorize the details for such load of information. Therefore,

  • Iowa State University Application Essay

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    As a freshman, I wanted to find new ways i could get involved with Iowa State University but specifically with the College of Business. Of all the clubs and organizations, I feel like in Business Council I could make a real impact with students in their academic and personal lives but also help get their voices heard with administration and staff. Business Council seems like the perfect place to get ideas across and keep the College of Business moving forward and becoming more successful. I think

  • Persuasive Essay On Iowa State University

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    I have heard that you may be considering Iowa State University as you’re after high school education. I am so happy that I will be able to go the same school as some of you again joining, the amount I heard from my CA, 34,734 students! How could you not be excited about college? Of course there are many reasons why I decided to attend Iowa State. Even if it’s the learning communities that draw you in, the fact that maybe your parents came here, or maybe even ISU is your favorite sports team.

  • Iowa State University Library Architecture Analysis

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    Since the founding of Iowa State University in 1858. ISU has gone through a long history of libraries throughout time from Old Main building to now Parks Library located across the street from Gilman Hall and Morrill Rd. This library is the only one on campus. This a great place where students come to work and study together through the rigors of college life. The library was named and dedicated to W. Robert Parks, the 11th president of the University and his wife, Ellen Sorge Parks in 1984 after

  • Iowa State University: Managing Acquisition And Cataloging Cost

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    Iowa State University: Managing Acquisition and Cataloging Costs Across the United States academic institutions have watched their budgets dwindle over the past last couple decades. These declining resources led many academic libraries to look at two of the more expensive functions of libraries, the costs of cataloging and acquisitions. One of these academic libraries, Iowa State University (ISU), specifically ISU’s William Robert Parks and Ellen Sorge Parks Library’s Technical Services Division

  • Why I Want To Pursue My Major At Iowa State University

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    education. As a result of my efforts, I was accepted for admission to Iowa State University, which is ranked 108th in the nation ("Iowa State University"), for software engineering. While at Iowa State, I will be starting my college education, but there werecircumstances I discovered that could cause problems. These problems are why I created a plan to mitigate the cost and the issues created by going so far from home. My major at Iowa State is Software Engineering with a minor in Computer Science, an obvious

  • Personal Narrative: My Trip To Iowa State University

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    It doesn’t seem too long ago since the day you dropped me off at Iowa State University. For you two, it probably seemed like I was leaving forever, but I returned home many, many times to enjoy your presence. When I’m not at home however, I find myself walking around different parts of Ames to find comfort when I miss you. On the very first weekend I spent here at Iowa State, Austin and I went for a walk. We came upon this nice walking trail that runs along the river and ends up at a park with a

  • Personal Best Leadership Experience Essay

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    My personal best leadership experience is one of the most joyful parts of my life as a young man. I love football and it was in the game of football that I got my best leadership experience, being the captain of a football team I played in. The football team was a junior team of a popular football team in Abuja. It is (put football team name) in this team I started out as a substitute for the first team. Making cameo appearances from the bench was not a joy for a football player. At a point I taught

  • Old Man In The Raven

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    In the poem, The Raven, written by Edgar Allan Poe, there is an old man. The old man is very sad and depressed because the love of his life, Lenore, has died. It is midnight in December and there is a terrible rainstorm outside. There is a melancholic feeling because of the storm and also because of how depressed the man is. He is sitting all alone in a room reading and all of a sudden, he hears a knocking at his door. He thought that it was a visitor so he opens the door and no one is there so he

  • Personal Narrative-The Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament

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    venue is? The Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament Finals. I have been dreaming of this opportunity since I was a little kid. But as you may know, you do not just get handed these opportunities. You have to work for them. Once the season started I knew what I had to do to get my chance to win a state title. I started the season off, being ranked first at my weight class which was 106 lbs. That was a huge confidence booster and that 's when I knew it was my chance to win a state title. I went

  • Value Of Multicultural Education

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    According to Tylor (1871), culture is a complex of a whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, moral, law, custom, and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member in a certain society. There is an extended definition of culture defined by other individuals. According to Scarborough (1998), culture is a set of values and attitudes shared by a group that sets standards for the acceptance and successful participation in a certain group. Actually there is no exact definition of culture

  • Personal Narrative: Five Little Monkeys Jumping On A Bed

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    My pretty scar How many of you remember reading Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed? That reminds me what happened to me when I was preschool age. My experience was a little bit different, and most of the components as the story. This whole accident led to my hospital visit while I was passed out. That hospital visit gave me a scar near my eye and under my eyebrow. It feels like I just came out of the hospital. My grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, 2 brothers, and I decided to go down to my uncle

  • Community Identity

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    Grand Mound and Davenport are two places with a strong sense of community identity. Community identity refers to how people define themselves by social interactions, values, religion, and other norms among their neighbors. In today’s age, fitting in appears to be an escalating desire, and keeping up with the Joneses is a modern developed habit in which residents keep the same appearances as their neighbors. This is typically noticeable in higher income neighborhoods, as wealthier people have the

  • My Piano Autobiography

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    I was born in Japan and lived there for nineteen years before moving to the United States two years ago for study abroad. I have played the piano since I was three years old because my thought it would help with school grades as well as social activity. I did not like practicing piano, but my mother was strict, and made me practice almost three hours every day. When I could not play properly, my father and brother complained about the noise. I do not know if practicing the piano affected my school

  • Meet The Winchesters: Case Study

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    in Kansas City, Kansas. Ella chose this job because she enjoys helping people and discovering how people think. Ella earns $77,985 annually. Her gross monthly income is $6,498.75. Each month, she pays $1,061.74 for federal income tax, $280.35 for state income tax, $420.94 for Social Security, and $94.24 for Medicare. In addition, she pays $324.95 for retirement. Her deductions per month total $2,164.22, and her net monthly income is $4,334.53. Ella and Sam’s home is a small, but big enough for the

  • Dubuque Speech

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    City on the Mighty Mississippi “WELCOME TO DUBUQUE” might be the first thing someone reads when he or she enters the city of Dubuque. Which in my option is one of the best big, small towns in Iowa. Dubuque has a lot to offer whether that is the countless amount of views of untouched nature, the upcoming business that are being introduced into Dubuque, or the mighty Mississippi that has so much to offer. I have lived in Dubuque for all nineteen years of my life so I can say I have been around a

  • The Pros And Cons Of Living In Iowa

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    Fact, the word "Iowa" comes from the American Indian tribe, they had the same name. There are many positives and negatives about living in Iowa. The main purpose of the paper is to describe the positive and the negative things of living in Iowa by using population data. There are two reasons this topic is important to learn and that are, kids and people are not aware of the population changing throughout the last couple of years. Also another reason this topic is important to learn is maybe they

  • Personal Narrative: My Perception Of The Emergency Room

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    you doing this to yourself? Just quit already.” These thoughts perverted my mind as my feet landed one after the other on the treadmill. One mile down, four more to go. I would never have imagined myself running on that treadmill my freshman year at Iowa. I had a BMI of 37 going into my freshman year of college and my physician warned me numerous times to change my lifestyle. I dismissed their warnings with youthful ignorance. However, there I was laboring away on that treadmill, with only one response

  • Leon Festinger's Social Comparison Theory Essay

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    aggressive yet a critic child (Gazzaniga, 2006). While in New York City, he attended Boys ' High School and then City College. He received his master’s and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa State University. Originally, Festinger had no interest in social psychology and his focus was on child behavior (Schachter, 1994). While Festinger was at Iowa

  • Cutting Veishea Argumentative Essay

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    2017 students across the Iowa State campus awoke to an email from their President Steven Leath to find he has announced his resignation and accepted a new position at the University of Auburn. Now it’s out with the old and in with the new. Some of the traditions at ISU will be gone forever. In the meantime, ISU students will be vigilant as the search for a new president begins. Cyclone students look back on the legacy he left behind and reflect on his tenure here at Iowa State. VEISHEA, a long-standing