Beauty Pageant is usually controversial because of the outward dressing,mostly degrading woman-hood

In response, many national and international “Pageants” have come under heavy criticism and have suffered outright ban in some cities. Beauty pageants regularly attract disputes as up shoot of immodest dress culture which violet religious and cultural practice native to a place

For example, many Great Ones and Christians see beauty pageant as promoting immoral conducts, because the participants are typically not dressed in modest and decent ways.

It has been estimated globally that over sixty percent of the participants in beauty pageantry are students from higher institutions, however World Miss University Nigeria has taken a brave step in promoting decency by eliminating bikini from every beauty pageant that is associated with universities undergraduates in Nigeria and the world at large.

The contest (World Miss University), is rated no 1 amongst the four most prominent international beauty contest in scale by the United Nation & International Association of University alongside Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss International, among these World Miss University is based in Korea, and the sole contest dedicated in promoting global peace and the importance of international relationship. WMU is using this medium to also encourage youth to be properly educated

What do we do to promote morality in beauty pageantry in our country?
For more info visit World Miss University Nigeria

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Like most questions about financial aid, many variables must be considered before coming up with an answer. And, there is no “one size fits all” answer.

It is true, however, that it may be possible to wind up with an improved scholarship or financial aid package after an exchange with an admissions or financial aid staff member.

Virtually all colleges and universities require students seeking financial aid to answer questions on a federal form (called a FAFSA) designed to provide an indication of a student’s need for financial aid. Some private colleges also use a second form to obtain additional relevant financial information.

It is the information therein collected that enables colleges to get a picture of a student’s financial need. While not all aid requires financial need, federal grants and subsidized loans do. And, federal funds may not be used to award students dollars in excess of their demonstrated need.

Therefore, the only way to get an increase in the amount of federal aid offered to you in your initial financial aid award letter is to convince a financial aid officer that there has been a significant change in your financial standing since the submission of your FAFSA or that there are special circumstances not reflected in your FAFSA answers. If you can prove what you say, you will have a chance.

Institutional financial aid, however, can be a different story. Individual colleges and universities can offer you grants and scholarships even if you have no financial need. But, not all choose to do so. The very most selective colleges tend to offer money only to those with demonstrable financial need (and meet the full need of all students).

Other colleges and universities, especially second and third tier privates, often use institutional scholarships to compete with more selective and/or less expensive colleges. Such schools are generally very comfortable using their own dollars to sweeten the pot for high-achieving students.

As a result, students bound for colleges in this category may have some luck in upping their financial aid package if they can point to other institutions which have offered them better packages or make a convincing case that the initial financial aid package presents a difficult financial challenge. These kinds of appeals should be made to an admissions counselor or to the Dean of Admissions.

When requesting more aid…need based or otherwise…remember that you are not buying a car. Ultimatums, rudeness, and aggressive behavior will surely be counter productive. And, you must remember that admissions and financial aid offers do not enjoy unlimited discretion. While I would not encourage anyone to try to save the last dollar on educational costs, there is no harm in requesting necessary help.

Source: Daniel Kane

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Maybe your grades do not reflect your real academic potential.

And, perhaps you haven’t been very involved in clubs and activities.

So, you’re a pretty bad bet for a college scholarship, right?

Don’t be so sure. In reality, there may be lots of scholarships for which you may qualify. But, you’ll have to actively look for them.

Your first stop should be your school’s guidance office. Most guidance offices maintain a list of scholarships awarded by local churches, businesses, and organizations, and the requirements for each.

Your next step should be to list every business and organization in which you or a family member are involved; businesses, clubs, churches, etc. Then, see which offer scholarships. You may be pleasantly surprised to see how much scholarship money they give away and how easy it is to be a potential recipient.

And then, go to the internet. You will find nearly seventy free, online scholarship searches.

By doing some research you’ll find not only scholarships for high academic performance, but also for particular talents, family affiliations, students wishing to major in specific areas, and countless other categories.

You will also find essay competitions and other scholarship contests you can enter.

Millions of dollars in scholarships are out there. Just do some research to find them, follow all directions carefully when applying for them, and be sure to adhere to all deadlines.

Good luck!

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Ask at the school

If you have a specific nursing program in mind, you may want to ask at the financial aid office of the school. Often scholarships are noted there and applications will be readily available. You can call the office when you begin to apply and retrieve an application. Even if there are no scholarships listed in the financial aid office, they can give you some direction as to where other students have been successful in finding money to pay for their education.

Local organizations

When you’re a member of a local organization, you might want to check to see if they offer scholarships to their members or past members. Private corporations that support the healthcare industry, such as nursing uniform manufacturers often provide scholarships as a community service. You may also be able to apply for scholarships with your spouse’s affiliations, as well. For example, those that are a member of a local union can often gain access to union member-only scholarships. If you belong to any organization, it never hurts to ask to see if you are eligible.

Web searches

Since more people than ever are getting on the internet to find information on everything, it’s no wonder that you can find scholarship information for nursing schools there, too. Try typing in a general search for nursing school scholarships and begin your search there. You will often be directed to scholarship search sites that will give you access to hundreds of possibilities, so be ready to spend some time on the internet.

But while you may have access to a number of scholarships, you need to make sure that you’re getting to valid websites that are providing you with good information. Some websites may try to charge you for the searches they do for you, but this really isn’t necessary in most cases. You should be able to find listing for scholarships without having to pay a cent.

FAFSA

You can also head to the FAFSA website to apply for student loans and grants to help you with your nursing school costs. Often, you can also find legitimate scholarship resources there as well.

How to win the scholarship

But once you find all of these scholarship options, what do you do then? Here are some basic tips for making sure your application stands out among the rest:

• Fill in all the information required
• Watch the deadline for applications
• Take your time writing any essays
• Make sure you fit all of the qualifications
• Fill in the proper contact information
• Make sure your application is free of errors and misspellings
• Be honest

When you’re looking for nursing scholarships, you may find the search much easier than you thought it would be. With the current nursing shortage, many schools are offering scholarships to get more students into their programs. And even if you don’t find a scholarship, many nursing jobs are reimbursing school costs when you sign a contract to stay with them for a number of years.

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Free money is basically what it sounds like. It is money given to you to be used for your education that you never need to pay back. These usually come in two types of forms and those are either scholarships or grants. Scholarships are given usually by organizations that support some theme which you have to qualify under to be even eligible to receive the scholarship. But don’t worry, there are hundreds of thousands of different kinds of scholarships so there is bound to be several that you are qualified for. The second type of “free money” is known as a grant. There are usually given by the government, federal and state, by the school itself and sometimes by private organizations. The most popular grant to college students is the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant or the FSEOG. To be eligible for this grant, you must fill out an application for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid more commonly known as the FAFSA application. These grants usually come by a first come first serve basis so it’s best to fill out and turn in your applications as early as possible.

The second way to pay for your college education is by student loans. And as the name gives it away, this type of money is a loan so you need to pay it back with an interest rate which is usually fixed once you are finished with your education. Unlike scholarships and grants which grant you from a range of a few hundred to a couple thousand dollars, loans allow you to borrow a lot more from the government or the private organization. Two of the most common types of loans are the Federal Stafford Loans and the Federal Parent PLUS Loans. The Federal Stafford Loan is a simple-interest loan where a student borrows the money in their own name and the Federal Parent PLUS Loan is a low-interest loan that allows the parents of the student to borrow up to 100% of the total expenses to their child’s education. To be eligible to receive these loans, a FAFSA application must be filled out and turned in.

The third and last way to pay for your education is the work-study program. How a work-study program works is that you will work off your expenses on or nearby campus while attending your college or university at a rate starting at minimum wage or higher. There are an extremely limited amount of positions available so there are given out at a first come first serve basis.

Now that you know there are other options out there for you to receive that education you so earnestly deserve, get out there and grab it with your own hands.

Courtesy: James Freman

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Our Executive MBA program offers a comprehensive curriculum targeted at helping you develop highly specialized management skills. By offering our programs in a setting that involves small groups and a lot of one-on-one instruction we can ensure that each of our students is treated as an important individual. The Executive MBA program aims to teach a number of skills including how to manage and motivate staff in all working environments regardless of complexity. Moreover, students of the Full time MBA program at Pepperdine will also be equipped with the skills necessary to analyze and apply various kinds of economic, management, and institutional information including the skills necessary to read economic trends both locally and globally. Strategic management skills are also taught under this program to enable our students to make and implement strategic decisions based on strategic leadership.

One of the great benefits of the Executive MBA program is that you will have an opportunity to experience our cohort format. This means that your small group of classmates will continue to work together for the entirety of the 20 month program. The benefits of such a format are many. First of all, you have a chance to build solid working relationships with other would be executives. Secondly, because the class sizes are so small, you have the chance to work with your classmates so that you can benefit from their strengths and they can benefit from yours. Finally, you will have the chance to form close, personal relationships with your classmates so that you will have an overall more enjoyable experience as a Pepperdine Executive MBA student.

The curriculum of our Executive MBA program takes a multifaceted approach so that you can learn a variety of leadership skills and competencies that can easily be applied to a variety of working environments. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to develop various analytical tools as well as the knowledge you will need to implement these tools. Ultimately, the goal of our Executive MBA program is to provide our students with a broad array of management tools as well as the skills to put these tools into practice.

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Some scholarship awarding bodies include the government, charities, clubs, businesses, cooperative organizations and even schools. While some scholarships are specifically for certain types of people, others are generally for all kinds of people.

You can find specific scholarships like athletic scholarships, scholarships for those students in a specific field of study, scholarships for students living in a specific state or city, etc.

Some tips to help you secure the right scholarship include:

- Ensure your position matches the criteria: If you see an athletic scholarship and apply for it because it’s very juicy but you know you aren’t athletic, you are wasting your time. There’s very little chance that you will get it. Nothing irks a scholarship provider more than to go through an application from an applicant that doesn’t match the criteria requested. Don’t do it.

- Fill your application exactly as it should be filled: Don’t make unnecessary and avoidable mistakes when filling your application. Provide all the information required in the most honest and professional manner possible. Don’t lie in filling the application because that lie can come to hunt you in the future.

- Apply as early as possible: To increase your chances of getting a scholarship, always apply as early as possible. Don’t wait until the last minute before applying. Remember… “procrastination is the thief of time”.

- Apply to as many scholarships as possible: The more scholarships you apply for, the more chances you will have. It makes no sense to apply for one or just a few scholarships then to go home and pray. The odds will favor you more if you take the time to search for and apply to as many of the scholarships you will find as possible.

- You don’t have to pay to apply: If you are asked to pay some money to be eligible for any college or university scholarship, then it might as well be a scam. Scholarships are to give you money, not take money from you. There are many such scholarship websites today that are set up to defraud unsuspecting scholarship-seekers like you. So, beware.

- Use the Internet to find more scholarships: Thanks to the Internet you can easily search for as many scholarships that meet your position as possible. And the good thing is that you can apply for many of these scholarships online. Even if the scholarship is not within your immediate environment, you can still apply for it online, especially if it matches your position.

Courtesy: John Stokes

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Getting a college education online is often a less costly and a relaxed option to a degree earned by way of a other popular means. There are multiple explanations why attaining an online degree is so enticing for some men and women, with state of economics not being the smallest of these. Not only are modern unemployment statistics elevated for drop-outs, but the economic possibilities between college grads and those without college is frightening. Attaing an online degree is much less of a financial burden than attaining a conventional college degree, and can help you earn more money in the long run.

No matter if you are looking for a raise within your current employer or a new, financially better career, an online degree could be the best path for you to realize your goals. It’s a fantastic plan to slide up the corporate ladder. Typically, an individual with an online degree is an individual who is also working in an organization, so they have experience. Lots of companies are in the market for a person who will work independently, and attaining an education online is a great example of just that.

Attaing a degree online is not something to be taken lightly. It is just like getting a fresh start, since you didn’t go forward with the first opportunity. Irregardles of whether you are considering learning a alternative subject or desire to consider returning to the job market, it is plain to conceive why an online degree is a perfect chance for retired individuals.

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By: C.J. Cherryh
Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ‘em, root ‘em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush.

1. am, is, are, was, were, being, be, been … combined with “by” or with “by … someone” implied but not stated. Such structures are passives. In general, limit passive verb use to one or two per book. The word “by” followed by a person is an easy flag for passives.
2. am, is, are, was, were, being, be, been … combined with an adjective. “He was sad as he walked about the apartment.” “He moped about the apartment.” A single colorful verb is stronger than any was + adjective; but don’t slide to the polar opposite and overuse colorful verbs. There are writers that vastly overuse the “be” verb; if you are one, fix it. If you aren’t one—don’t, because overfixing it will commit the next error.
3. florid verbs. “The car grumbled its way to the curb” is on the verge of being so colorful it’s distracting. {Florid fr. Lat. floreo, to flower.}If a manuscript looks as if it’s sprouted leaves and branches, if every verb is “unusual,” if the vocabulary is more interesting than the story … fix it by going to more ordinary verbs. There are vocabulary-addicts who will praise your prose for this but not many who can simultaneously admire your verbs as verbs and follow your story, especially if it has content. The car is not a main actor and not one you necessarily need to make into a character. If its action should be more ordinary and transparent, don’t use an odd expression. This is prose.This statement also goes for unusual descriptions and odd adjectives, nouns, and adverbs.
4. odd connectives. Some writers overuse “as” and “then” in an attempt to avoid “and” or “but,” which themselves can become a tic. But “as” is only for truly simultaneous action. The common deck of conjunctions available is:
   • when (temporal)
   • if (conditional)
   • since (ambiguous between temporal and causal)
   • although (concessive)
   • because (causal)
   • and (connective)
   • but (contrasting)
   • as (contemporaneous action or sub for “because”) while (roughly equal to “as”)

   These are the ones I can think of. If you use some too much and others practically never, be more even-handed. Then, BTW, is originally more of an adverb than a proper conjunction, although it seems to be drifting toward use as a conjunction. However is really a peculiar conjunction, demanding in most finicky usage to be placed *after* the subject of the clause.

   Don’t forget the correlatives, either … or, neither … nor, and “not only … but also.”

   And “so that,” “in order that,” and the far shorter and occasionally merciful infinitive: “to … {verb}something.”

5. Descriptive writerisms.Things that have become “conventions of prose” that personally stop me cold in text.
   • “framed by” followed by hair, tresses, curls, or most anything cute.
   • “swelling bosom”
   • “heart-shaped face”
   • “set off by”: see “framed by”
   • “revealed” or “revealed by”: see “framed by.” Too precious for words when followed by a fashion statement.
   • Mirrors … avoid mirrors, as a basic rule of your life. You get to use them once during your writing career. Save them for more experience. But it doesn’t count if they don’t reflect … by which I mean see the list above. If you haven’t read enough unpublished fiction to have met the infamous mirror scenes in which Our Hero admires his steely blue eyes and manly chin, you can scarcely imagine how bad they can get.
   • limpid pools and farm ponds: I don’t care what it is, if it reflects your hero and occasions a description of his manly dimple, it’s a mirror.As a general rule … your viewpoint characters should have less, rather than more, description than anyone else: a reader of different skin or hair color ought to be able to sink into this persona without being continually jolted by contrary information.Stick to what your observer can observe. One’s own blushes can be felt, but not seen, unless one is facing … .a mirror. See above.
   • “as he turned, then stepped aside from the descending blow … ” First of all, it takes longer to read than to happen: pacing fault. Second, the “then” places action #2 sequentially after #1, which makes the whole evasion sequence a 1-2 which won’t work. This guy is dead or the opponent was telegraphing his moves in a panel-by-panel comic book style which won’t do for regular prose. Clunky. Slow. Fatally slow.
   • “Again” or worse “once again.” Established writers don’t tend to overuse this one: it seems like a neo fault, possibly a mental writerly stammer—lacking a next thing to do, our hero does it “again” or “once again” or “even yet.” Toss “still” and “yet” onto the pile and use them sparingly.
6. Dead verbs. Colorless verbs.
   • walked
   • turned
   • crossed
   • run, ran
   • go, went, gone
   • leave, left
   • have, had
   • get, got

   You can add your own often used colorless verbs: these are verbs that convey an action but don’t add any other information. A verb you’ve had to modify (change) with an adverb is likely inadequate to the job you assigned it to do.

7. Colorless verb with inadequate adverb: “He walked slowly across the room.”More informative verb with no adverb: “He trudged across the room,” “He paced across the room,” “He stalked across the room,” each one a different meaning, different situation. But please see problem 3, above, and don’t go overboard.
8. Themely EnglishWith apologies to hard-working English teachers, school English is not fiction English.Understand that the meticulous English style you labored over in school, including the use of complete sentences and the structure of classic theme-sentence paragraphs, was directed toward the production of non-fiction reports, resumes, and other non-fiction applications.The first thing you have to do to write fiction? Suspect all the English style you learned in school and violate rules at need. Many of those rules will turn out to apply; many won’t.{Be ready to defend your choices. If you are lucky, you will be copyedited. Occasionally the copyeditor will be technically right but fictionally wrong and you will have to tell your editor why you want that particular expression left alone.}
9. Scaffolding and spaghetti. Words the sole function of which is to hold up other words. For application only if you are floundering in too many “which” clauses. Do not carry this or any other advice to extremes.”What it was upon close examination was a mass the center of which was suffused with a glow which appeared rubescent to the observers who were amazed and confounded by this untoward manifestation.” Flowery and overstructured. “What they found was a mass, the center of which glowed faintly red. They’d never seen anything like it.” The second isn’t great lit, but it gets the job done: the first drowns in “which” and “who” clauses.In other words—be suspicious any time you have to support one needed word (rubescent) with a creaking framework of “which” and “what” and “who.” Dump the “which-what-who” and take the single descriptive word. Plant it as an adjective in the main sentence.
10. A short cut to “who” and “whom.”
    • Nominative: who
    • Possessive: whose
    • Objective: whom

    The rule:

    1. treat the “who-clause” as a mini-sentence.If you could substitute “he” for the who-whom, it’s a “who.” If you could substitute “him” for the who-whom it’s a “whom.”The trick is where ellipsis has occurred … or where parentheticals have been inserted … and the number of people in important and memorable places who get it wrong. “Who … do I see?” Wrong: I see he? No. I see “him.” Whom do I see?
    2. “Who” never changes case to match an antecedent. (word to which it refers)
       • I blame them who made the unjust law. CORRECT.
       • It is she whom they blame. CORRECT: The who-clause is WHOM THEY BLAME.
       • They blame HER=him, =whom.
       • I am the one WHO is at fault. CORRECT.
       • I am the one WHOM they blame. CORRECT.
       • They took him WHOM they blamed. CORRECT—but not because WHOM matches HIM: that doesn’t matter: correct because “they” is the subject of “blamed” and “whom” is the object.
       • I am he WHOM THEY BLAME. CORRECT. Whom is the “object” of “they blame.”

       Back to rule one: “who” clauses are completely independent in case from the rest of the sentence. The case of “who” in its clause changes by the internal logic of the clause and by NO influence outside the clause. Repeat to yourself: there is no connection, there is no connection 3 x and you will never mistake for whom the bell tolls.

    The examples above probably grate over your nerves. That’s why “that” is gaining in popularity in the vernacular and why a lot of copyeditors will correct you incorrectly on this point. I’m beginning to believe that nine tenths of the English-speaking universe can’t handle these little clauses.

11. -ing.
    

    “Shouldering his pack and setting forth, he crossed the river … “

    No, he didn’t. Not unless his pack was in the river. Implies simultaneity. The participles are just like any other verbal form. They aren’t a substitute legal everywhere, or a quick fix for a complex sequence of motions. Write them on the fly if you like, but once imbedded in text they’re hard to search out when you want to get rid of their repetitive cadence, because -ing is part of so many fully constructed verbs {am going, etc.}

12. -nessA substitute for thinking of the right word. “Darkness,” “unhappiness,” and such come of tacking -ness (or occasionally - ion) onto words. There’s often a better answer. Use it as needed.As a general rule, use a major or stand-out vocabulary word only once a paragraph, maybe twice a page, and if truly outre, only once per book. Parallels are clear and proper exceptions to this, and don’t vary your word choice to the point of silliness: see error 3.

CHERRYH’S LAW: NO RULE SHOULD BE FOLLOWED OFF A CLIFF.

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Janet Bacastow, one of those involved in promoting the new programme, says it’s designed to cater for university leavers who know relatively little about finance: “This is geared for people with little or no work experience who may not necessarily have a finance-focused undergraduate degree.”

Ideal candidates will come from top tier universities and have achieved at least a 2.1, or will have come top in their class at less well recognized institutions. Sitting a GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) isn’t mandatory, but Bacastow says it will help your cause if your university isn’t top tier or your academic background doesn’t suggest quantitative ability.

Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis, but it’s a good idea to apply soon – the response has already been “overwhelming”.

Source: eFinancial Career

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