Essays about: "as a college student"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 44 essays containing the words as a college student.

  1. 16. Et in Arcadia Ego: A Class and Gender Analysis of 'Brideshead Revisited' and 'The Secret History'

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hanne Bovide Lindén; [2017]
    Keywords : The Secret History; Brideshead Revisited; Evelyn Waugh; Donna Tartt; Sexuality; Gender; Class; Homosexuality; Academic Novel; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Even though Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History were written almost fifty years apart, they share many similarities. They are both forms of academic novels and they both depict the University and College as places excluded from the surrounding world where the characters can act out their desires in their adolescent years before they enter adulthood. READ MORE

  3. 17. Intervention strategies used by University of Gavle when dealing with alcohol problems

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Socialt arbete

    Author : Qiaoran Chen; Yu Wang; [2017]
    Keywords : alcohol prevention strategies; college students; alcohol problems;

    Abstract : This study aims at exploring the intervention strategies directed to reduce alcohol drinking in Hogskolan in Gavle. Although many students consume alcohol in different settings such as parties and gathering, few of them can understand the whole picture of the school’s intervention strategies. READ MORE

  4. 18. Migrations Among Educationally Homogamous Couples in The US: 1997-2013

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Scott Glenn; [2016]
    Keywords : Migration; Female Labour Force Participation; Bargaining Models; Dual Career Couples; Internal Migration; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As female labor participation rates, educational attainment, and occupational prestige improve the colocational dilemma of migration increasingly a problem. This paper seeks to determinine the difference in determinents and outcomes of interstate migration across educationally homogamous couples in the United States. READ MORE

  5. 19. The Compromise Algorithm in the Swedish PhD Admissions Problem

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Dingquan Miao; [2016]
    Keywords : Matching; Swedish PhD Admissions Problem; Stability; Compromise Algorithm; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : What mechanism should be designed to allocate PhD applicants to universities in Sweden? We introduce the Swedish PhD admissions problem, and it is influenced by the college admissions problem (Gale and Shapley 1962) and the student placement problem (Balinski and Sönmez 1999). In order to “solve” this problem, we design a novel mechanism, namely the compromise algorithm. READ MORE

  6. 20. A fossilized democracy : the fossil free movement’s work in liberating democracy from the fossil fuel industry

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Cherry Tsoi; [2016]
    Keywords : Charles Tilly; sustainability science; fossil free; democratization; social movements; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The science of climate change stipulates that fossil fuels must be kept in the ground in order for earth's global temperature to stay below the 1.5 degrees' Celsius increase pre-ordained as safe for continued human civilization, and to avoid catastrophic natural, social, and economic disasters. READ MORE