I am a 26-year-old male community college student. I live in San Francisco, California, but was born in Korea and lived there until I was 22. I am an international student majoring in the Health Sciences. I decided that moving to the United States and pursuing my educational and career goals would offer me a chance to expand both personal knowledge and gain greater insight into a different cultural experience.

Literacy is more than knowing how to read and write in a given language. At the level of college education, literacy pertains to mastering the means of communication for different subjects. Literacy therefore may entail understanding specific jargon of a chosen field, but it may also mean being literate in the modes of inquiry, paradigms, assumptions, and methodologies of specific subjects. Each college major will have different literacy needs

Annotated Bibliography Byars-Winston, A., Estrada, Y., Howard, C., Davis, D., & Zalapa, J. (2010). Influence of social cognitive and ethnic variables on academic goals of underrepresented students in science and engineering: a multiple-groups analysis. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 57(2), doi:10.1037/a0018608 • This article explores how both social cognitive and ethnic variables can play a part in determining the academic goals of people and groups that are "under-represented" within the academic sphere. The

Prison overcrowding or typically, mass incarceration, is the most threatening issue in virtually every state and in many municipalities all over U.S.. It has been reported that the imprisonment rate in U.S. is seven times as much as in Europe and it is equivalently increasing with the increase in population. Inmate populations are escalating due to a great number of sentencing to jails and prisons and the number of repeat

Confidence is a somewhat abstract concept that can be studied from an array of different academics disciplines or perspectives and is relevant to nearly any course of study or profession or any stage of life. Depending on your individual goals and what you wish to achieve in life, it is not only important to work to build confidence in yourself, but it is equally important to understand how you and

Confidence Memo of Transmittal Confidence is a somewhat abstract concept that can be studied from an array of different perspectives and is relevant to nearly any course of study or profession. It is not only important to work to build confidence in yourself, but it is equally important to understand how you and others build confidence in other people or systems. For example, you may intuitively feel confident in someone else's