In 2000 Cuban introduced himself to the NBA community when he purchased the Dallas Mavericks for $285 million (“Mark Cuban”). Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has led his social network to new heights, even as some younger users have grown tired of it. Revenue grew 58% in 2014 to $12.5 billion, supported by a jump in mobile ads (Williams 12). Some 1.4 billion people around the globe are on Facebook, and those users are watching 3 billion videos a day on the site. Its Instagram unit has more than 300 million users, while mobile messaging app WhatsApp, which it purchased for $19 billion in cash and stock in 2014, has 700 million users and is growing.
According to a study done by Estzer Hargittai and Watkins, 83 percent of white students preferred Facebook and 57 percent still used Myspace. 80 percent of African Americans were found to use Facebook and 58
College Binge Drinking College is a time of discovery and learning. It is a time when students develop new ideas and form new habits. One of these habits is drinking binge drinking. College students in fact drink more than their peers who are not in college (Wechsler 987). Problems arising from college drinking have risen proportionally by 7% since 1998 (Hingson 15).
Intro to Research Writing, 12:00 22 February 2013 Single Source Essay In his essay The College Dropout Boom, Dave Leonhardt describes “one of the largest and fastest-growing groups of young adults in America” (266); college dropouts. His implied thesis for this essay is that even though student body populations are becoming more diverse in terms of both ethnic background and social class, there is a large difference in the number of college graduates from higher-income families (upper middle-class and above) and lower-income families. Leonhardt believes that today more than ever before in our nation, high school graduates from lower-income families have the opportunity to attend college, but these students for various reasons are not seeing college through to graduation. He believes that this is a major issue for modern society, and it is being overlooked. Although it seems that we are making great strides in education with increased admissions for college students in diverse social, income and ethnic groups, that because these students are not getting degrees the gap between rich and poor continues to increase, and these achievements in education are not as valid as they seem.
Suicide had become China's fifth most common cause of death. The number of Chinese students graduating from college has tripled in the last 5 years form 1.5 million to 4.1 million. That means with so many people graduating that means there are 2 million graduates with costly diplomas and no job. At a to Beijing kindergarten, th students must know pi to 100 digits by the age of 3. Many of the young kids in China use the Internet as an escape from reality.
Seaman at one time was Time magazine’s correspondent and editor. He was also a graduate and trustee of Hamilton College in New York. While writing this particular article, Seaman went to Harvard a top notch college, and also Hamilton his hometown college. There he observed the students and what they did. Binge drinking is the sort of drinking that a student does before he or she goes out for the night.
Andrew Sell 5/7/12 Daniel Long WRTG 1150 College Binge Drinking The United States has some of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in the world but there is a rampant epidemic plaguing these schools. Approximately eighty percent of college students drink alcohol and forty to fifty percent engage in binge drinking, which is defined as four or more drinks at a time for women and five or more drinks at a time for men; almost one-quarter of students report engaging in frequent binge drinking, three or more binge drinking events during a two week period (Prenovost 379). Binge drinking is associated with many negative consequences including; poor performance in school, arguing with friends, engaging
But for many employees around the world, they are becoming a sad paralleled reality because of social networking. More than half of our adult population is employed. And with currently 1.2 billion registered users on Facebook, I’m willing to bet that this affects at least one person in this room. Thirty-seven percent of companies report using social networks to research potential job candidates, according to a new CareerBuilder Survey. So what are hiring managers looking for on social media?
In fact, over two thirds of college seniors have some loan debt upon graduating (FinAid). This is where I believe digital textbook and education content can make a huge impact. Commonly called eBooks or e-textbooks, their acceptance has only recently begun to be commonplace and are becoming increasingly popular among students, with 11% purchasing an e-textbook in the past year (Yu). Although the projected costs of e-textbooks to consumers has not been extensively studied, pilot programs at schools such as Virginia State University have partnered the school with start-up e-textbook publishers and successfully charged as low as $20 dollars for a class ebook and supplemental material
He thinks the students should be taught interpersonal intelligence and learn when, where, and what kind of internet usage is appropriate. Also in his essay it’s pointed out that many students are addicted to Facebook which tally’s 250 million hits everyday and ranks 9th in overall traffic over the internet. That kind of social networking affects all forms of academe. Additionally, online communities have a lot of factious information. It’s easy for a person to create a factitious profile and use these anonymous profiles.