Scholarship Essay Examples

Marriage at a young age has increased in the last years, especially in minority communities. This may be due to many reasons, among which are poverty, dysfunctional families, and even lack of love. Unfortunately, many young people get married at an early age, mostly girls. The most surprising part is that parents are consenting to…

Abstract This paper will discuss the issues with financing education that many college students face, along with the distribution of financial assistance based on family income along with race and gender. This paper will also show how communities come together to give to those in need of assistance when it comes to financing their education….

Introduction Proctor et al. (2009) define implementation research as, “the study of processes and strategies that integrate evidence-based effective treatment into routine use” (p.5). Driven by their concern with complexity and the process by which outcomes are reached, policy implementation scholarship is, most often, qualitative, with many implementation scholars utilizing case study methodology (Sandfort &…

Patrick Paul Mrs. Dickson English III period 7 04 October 2018 Overcoming struggles Khalil Gibran once said, “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity”. This book shows us how friendship can be torn apart by the choices we make. Marcus is black and Eddie white, they both live in a small city called…

Student debt and rising tuition prices have been a hot button issue for years and will only continue to be. According to NerdWallet, in 2016 the average American student graduating with a four-year degree did so with $28,446 in debt. A small hardware store cannot stop this landslide alone, but by providing a scholarship or…

The ‘noble lie’ has tangible impacts on policy design, which seem informed by an underlying belief that the actors need to be controlled (Dupre & Durak, 2008; Harris, 2004) and constrained via policy levers (Schneider and Ingram, 1990) or accountability measures (Achinstein & Ogawa, 2006) or prescriptive policy (Achinstein & Ogawa, 2006). This most often…

Illinois is a great state to live and an even better place to go to school. With some of the top schools in the country and some of the best assistance programs out there going to school in Illinois is a great choice. When thinking about how you will pay for college, we at Funding…

While the preponderance of the afore-mentioned rhetorical studies have revolved around immigrants from the Latina/o community, there has been some, albeit more limited, interest in discourses specifically surrounding Arab-Muslim-Middle Eastern subjects as racialized Others. Indeed, for many years, scholars “ignored or were ignorant” of Arabs in North America (Suleiman, 1999), with Gualtieri (2009) mentioning the…

I am a humbled, hardworking, self-motivated individual, master in photography and creator of my fortune. I come from Vredendal, an insignificant rural town in the West Coast, Western Cape. An insignificant town that is developing, but it develops frequently from problems. By watching and investigating these issues I am mindful that everyone’s prosperity relies upon…

Joshua Jarboe was a great athlete and student he graduated in 2008 from Cedar cove. Entering college, Jarboe had been given a scholarship from Oklahoma to play football. The University released him from his contract, he was no longer able to play for them. With his rap and his background all over the internet there…