Archive for June, 2009
All about Admissions Essays
Competition is an intrinsic part of securing admissions and battling through different levels of competition. Admission essays assume importance as it enables the best students to get through to the colleges and educational institutions of their choice.
Typically, admission tests are conducted by colleges and other educational institutions. They generally comprise essays that help to gauge the applicants for the following:
Personality
Profile
Potential
Interests
Ambition
Development Objectives
The evaluation of admission essays becomes critical as a determining factor when demonstrating preference between applicants who share similar profiles. However, it is important to note that different colleges/educational institutions place varied levels of emphasis put on evaluating admission essays.
In most schools and colleges, the topics vary from course to course but a policy of ‘open topic’ is encouraged. This means that applicants can choose to write on any topic of their choice. Popular topics include writing about:
long term objectives
career aspirations
growth
reasons for applying to a particular school/college
Importance of Admission Essays
For educational institutions, colleges and schools, admission essays are important to evaluate whether an applicant is eligible for admission. Other reasons for its importance are briefly mentioned below:
It enables thousands of students to articulate their objectives and aids them to secure admission in an institution of their choice.
It provides students with an opportunity to communicate with the admission committee about any queries or problems they face.
It enables institutions to assess and evaluate the potential of the applicants based on the quality, clarity and flow of informative content in the admission essay. ‘
Ways to ensure commendable performance in admission essays
Listed below are few ways to ensure sound performance in essay writing:
Select an excellent topic. Generally, topics relating to community services are sensitive issues and impact the reader more.
Focus on the topic from the very beginning.
Consulting too many sites for information may prove damaging because it will eliminate the writer’s personal touch completely.
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History of the Wittnauer Watches
There isn’t anything as endearing to the public as a rags to riches story and the history behind the Wittnauer Watch Company is one such story. Imagine if you will a young 16 year old Swiss immigrant arriving in New York City in 1872 with an already well developed ability to produce high quality watches. The story only gets better from here.
Young Mr. Wittnauer begins working for his brother in law J. Eugene Robert. Mr. Robert is an importer of fine Swiss watches. With the help of his younger brother, Albert Wittnauer decides there is a need for a watch designed with all of the durability and function the American public demands. Much to everyone’s except Albert’s surprise, the watches are an instant hit with his brother in law’s clients.
By 1890, the company is formally establishes when Mr. Robert gives the title to Albert Wittnauer and the A. Wittnauer Company is born. All of the Wittnauer siblings are involved in the budding business. They make the bright decision to employ the best and most talented of watch making engineers. The company also stays ahead of the game and begins to cater to the ever growing world of exploration. It is their timepieces that are found on trips made by navigators, explorers, and astronomers.
In terms of the great global exploration taking place, the A. Wittnauer Co. becomes even further involved with the Navy for early aviation tests. From there the world’s most exciting people in regards to the budding fields of aviation, astrology, and navigation go to this company for the most accurate, well made field devices and watches. Of the Wittnauer Company and products, noted horologist Marvin E. Whitney writes, “No one company has been more involved in the design and production of so many different types of navigational timepieces and been involved in so many history making expeditions…”
With the death of her last brother Emile, Martha Wittnauer is left holding the reins of this amazing company in 1916. At the time, she is one of the few CEOs of a major American company. Martha does continue the amazing work she and her brothers began years before and continues to bring success to the family company. She was particularly fond of encouraging the aviation navigating instruments that had helped make the company so successful in the first place.
That is a brief synopsis of the Wittnauer Company’s early history. The events and people who originally formed the company were to have a tremendous influence on the rest of its history. The advantages made by the company were continued in 1949 with the release of a self winding watch. It was designed to be slimmer and more durable than the other self winding watches of the time.
The Wittnauer Company has retained its reputation for extraordinary timepieces and is still a major player on the watch making scene and is now part of the Bulova family. Fans of their products cite the beauty, accurate function, and innovative designs to be the reasons they keep coming back for more.