The First-Year Composition Colloquium is the culminating event for A-State’s Freshman Composition experience. Students engage in research methods and present their work at a mock-conference.
These projects represent the top ten percent of all the digitally compatible work submitted for consideration across the English Composition II classes each semester.
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The Importance of Mental Health of Collegiate Athletes
Abbey Cobberly
Collegiate athletes aren’t offered enough help when they are faced with the mental health challenges that come from high expectations, performance pressure, injuries, time management issues, coaching styles, and the stigma around asking for help.
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Brain Drain in Nepal: Causes and Effects
Smriti Thapa, Aayushi Kafle, Prasant Khatri, and Nishan Gurung
Brain Drain In Nepal refers to the emigration of highly educated and skilled professionals to other countries for better job opportunities and living conditions. This migration often results in a shortage of talented individuals in Nepal, affecting the country's development and growth.
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Museums Matter
Miya Wolverton
Through this research, I wanted to focus on ways museums can change or reevaluate their current practices to align better with the ideals presented. It is clear there is a myriad of ways, both simple and complicated, museums can and should change. It is crucial for museums to be ethical and equitable and each of this research showcases this. With these practices implemented, museums can become better facilitators of learning, creativity, and awareness.
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Homelessness: A Problem in Your Backyard
Travia Alcorn
Homelessness is a major problem that affects thousands of people every day. As the current generation, we are finally understanding different ways to help this population. More plans are starting to work and we are able to help people who suffer from this terrible problem.
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A-State Athletic Funding
Jourdan Badley, Mario Fatina, and Grace Barnett
Arkansas State University implies that every wolf is a part of the pack until its not. Funding between men and women's sports are unequal. There are multiple ways to improve the funding here at A-state for athletics. And there are so many benefits of having it equal.
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Stopping Climate Change in Cost Effective Ways
McKenna Beaver
Whether you realize it or not, our temperatures are getting warmer and warmer. This is called climate change, which has been causing more natural disasters than ever. This is happening because the hotter the temperature is, the more water that is evaporated. This excess amount of water is leading to flooding and all kinds of other bad storms. So, clearly, we need to do something about this to protect the only Earth we have. There is no reason to break the bank and waste money on solutions that do not work. At the end of the day, natural disasters happen everywhere, even Jonesboro. Thus, why we need to realize the dangers we are facing and do something about it in the most cost-effective ways.
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Sex Education: More Needed Than It Seems
Claudia Blackman
The South is notorious for sweetening its words in order to avoid the more sensitive subjects but sex education might just be one area where we can’t allow this to fly. Our students are being done a true disservice by being kept from helpful information that could protect them from disease, unwanted pregnancy, abuse and more.
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Finding Classes on Campus
Brooke Boone
Have you ever been nervous about finding your classes in the new upcoming semester? This is a great way to find a path and prepare for your class.
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Learning Loss Due to COVID-19
Jocelynn Bowen
At its peak, UNESCO (2020) reported that nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries, or 94% of the world’s student population, were impacted by educational institution closures.
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Opioid Epidemic in Jonesboro, AR
Michelle Brock and Peyton Dugger
Jonesboro Arkansas has had nearly half of the 444 reported drug overdose deaths involved opioids which does not count the number of deaths caused by overdose.
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How Does Health and Fitness Affect Our Lives?
John David Carter
A majority of adults in the world have an "overwhelming" majority obesity rate. This is happening because of lack of exercise and not great nutrition. Another possible reason for this happening is that in some countries there is high marketing for junk foods.
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Driving Safety in Jonesboro
Kamden Duty, Kory McIntosh, and Van Tran
Why should we be concerned with driving safety in Jonesboro? Reports show that the number of fatal car accidents in Arkansas have increased 25% from 2020 to 2022.
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Importance of Walking to Class
Faith Hammontree
Any physical activity, like walking to class, has important health and well-being impacts. Walking to and from class can constitute up to 2/3 of a person's recommended daily activity.
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Make Nursing Feel Great Again
Kristen Hawkins
Stress among nursing students are at an all time high. Mental health of our future nurses is on the decline and they need our help. Nursing peer support groups are a good way to give our students an outlet that will improve their mental health and overall abilities.
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The Spread of Misinformation
Jake Krupicki, Kathy Ochoa, Nadia Davey, and Terion Sugick
Misinformation is spread across the web for many different reasons and in many different ways. Throughout our research, we examined the reasons as to why misinformation is conducted.
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The Opioid Epidemic
Jamyra Nelson
Many people in Arkansas are developing opioids disorders and are getting addicted. About 21-29% of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain develop some form of opioid abuse disorder
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The End of Privacy
Trishna Niraula
The EARN IT Act: "Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies”, originally proposed in 2020, this act was intended to combat the spread of child sexual abuse material online by holding companies responsible for the sharing of this type of material on their platforms. This means that any sharing of explicit material containing children can and would be punished by extensive legal recourse, whether or not the company actually had any knowledge of said material.
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Time Management and Stress
Krisselle Nwokeji
Stress is a very common element that affects many high school students today. The purpose of this project is to teach high school students of the importance of time management and how it can be used to reduce stress because stress is something that tends to run very prominently in the lives of adolescents, and if they could understand the importance of time management and why it’s needed, the more they can use it to reduce their stress and have more time for themselves.
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Speak Up For Yourself
Mai Thy Quach
Mental health issues are a common problem among college students today. Students must maintain good health on both a physical and mental level in order to study and perform effectively. Through this project, I want to illustrate why mental health is essential for A-state students to be aware of, suggest the solution for this problem, refer for help, and recognize the symptoms as soon as possible.
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Inequality in College Opportunity
Joshua Sheets
You may think that anyone has the opportunity to go to college; however, is it really that fair? Students who's parents or grandparents have college degrees are drastically more likely to obtain a college degree than first generation college students.
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Home Away From Home
Jasmine Turnage
An individual’s first year of college is often the first time that they experience living on their own and being responsible for housing and other necessities, and this makes college campuses uniquely conducive to housing insecurity. Research from the Hope Center finds that “sixty percent of survey respondents at two-year institutions and 48% at four- year institutions experience housing insecurity” (Goldrick-Rab 8). This project analyzes the presence of housing insecurity at A-State and proposes solutions to the different aspects that are causing negative effects to be seen on campus, such as cost burdens, subpar living conditions, and a lack of access to adequate resources. These solutions aim to alleviate the issue and create a healthier living environment on campus that improves student health and success.
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Fundraising to Improve on Poor Campus Living at ASU
Jared Whitman
Arkansas State University has a beautiful campus, with nice classrooms, a great union, and even a gym and indoor track. However, the on campus living options are poorly maintained and unhygienic. This causes stress on the students living in them, that could be easily avoided. A fundraiser would be a great way to raise money to improve the living situations on campus.
