...Required College Education is seen as a pathway to knowledge and understanding of the world. The school system provides every single American this pathway to knowledge to help citizens in life. After traditional schooling comes higher education where people can specialize in different majors they are interested in. This level of specialized understanding can open up doors to careers that students want to pursue. Many Americans make the choice to continue their education but should the government make every citizen go to college? Graduates make the case that their degree earned them success in the professional world. There are many college success stories of people who earned their degrees and went onto pursuing careers they are interested in. One of these stories would be Jane Knecht. In the anthology “College’s Value Goes Deeper Than the Degree,” Hoover describes how several students went on to be successful after attending higher education. Hoover states that “At 52, she’s now director of business development at the Water Environment Research Foundation, in Alexandria, Virginia. Without the bachelor's degree, Ms. Knecht figures, she wouldn't have been considered for the job” (Practical Argument third edition, page 682). In result of going to college Ms. Knecht went on to being a fruitful member of her company and a highly successful citizen. The...
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...College can make or break you as a person. College is not for everyone. It’s a good choice for someone leaving high school to go to however, if you don’t have an exact steady head it can have many different turns of your life. Depending on one’s job court it many have some effects there too. College is a learning facility where one’s goes to further his or her’s education after high school. It’s split into 2 different types of environments; Universities and regular Colleges. However in the state of New York it’s broken up even deeper. With one being a SUNY “State University of New York” and the other is CUNY “City University of New York”. Most people tend to go CUNY school based on their high school performance. College is just a high bar of education in which you have to pay for....
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...2014 The Reason Why I Am Attending College The reason for attending college are probably just like everyone else’s. I went to college because I wanted a better life for myself. I’d like to find a job and have a wonderful life. I am an international student majoring in dance from Taiwan. My country’s dance doesn’t have a chance to be appreciated, so I tried and moved to another country, which its dance is famous, and appreciate on international. My plan is to graduate from college and receive diploma so that I can enter a famous dance company or get a job about dancing, and that’s why I am attending college, even more than is the main reason why I am attending college. The second reason was that I wanted to get a better education more that high school. If I am the boss of the company, I won’t hire the people who just have high school diploma. My final reason is that I wanted to have college experience. I was glad that I can enter the college, so why I don’t take it and enjoy the real college’s life. The high school experience can’t satisfy me, and this is my chance, and I want to take it. My main reason to attend college is for getting a better life. Everyone knows that the dancer is not easy to make more money unless he or she has higher academic degree. I heard foreign career of dancer would have more chance to show myself and be appreciated. Thus, after I graduated from my high school, I move to America and started studying my college in dance division. Fortunately, my...
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...are attending school they aren't really looking into the aspects of the way the school functions outside of teachers and just going to class. My school was a little different then most public schools. I always remember it being called the public school that wanted to be a private school. It was small and had a very good success rate. My school helped students a lot in preparing for college. We had a ton of Advanced Placement(AP) classes and opportunities to take outside classes at the local community colleges. We also had multiple meetings with our counselors and also had SAT prep courses available. We also had a program called Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). This was a program where some kids went to gain credentialism. Credentialism is the requirement of certain specific degrees for a particular job (Manza et al., 2013). BOCES was an alternative school where some kids went to learn a trade. They offered things like heavy equipment, early childhood, cosmetology, and mechanics. The majority of the kids that went there were ones that were probably never going to go to college. This was a way for them to get hands on experience in a field that they might want to pursue outside of high school. My high school offered quite a few AP classes. Most of people I knew took at least one their senior year. There are always some kids that want to...
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...Breaking Society’s Standards in The Help and The House on Mango Street Gender roles and racist expectations have always been a problem for humankind. Since the beginning of time, these problems have occurred constantly and it has always created tension between people and their thoughts on the issue. Fortunately, there are writers such as Sandra Cisneros and Kathryn Stockett, who tell people the sides that not everyone agrees with or notices to remind them that there are human beings underneath what society wants people to believe. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros discusses how many of her female characters overcame what others thought of them, and they followed their dreams. In The Help, Kathryn Stockett discusses how many of her female characters fell under the pressure of society, and the ones that fought back and did what they wanted to do....
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...ENGLISH 121 Paper #2 Higher Education Submitted by Kenneth Jones Paper submitted to Professor: David Bushelle KENNETH JONES PROFESSOR: DAVID BUSHELLE ENGLISH 121 HIGHER EDUCATION Should a High School Graduate seek a higher education? If so what kind or type, for some years now it has been a lot of controversy on why should every high school graduate go to a college or university. What about trade school or apprenticeships at a company. Students who enter the workforce immediately upon high school graduation now need at least the same level of skills and knowledge as students entering college, as both universities and employers seek the same core abilities. We could trace higher education back to the sixth century B.C. Even then they taught skills to live by not thing that a person would not use in his or her life time. Here is a brief history on Higher Education that I found very interesting I hope you do too. “The oldest institutions of higher (college or university) education were started on the island of Cos, Greece, in about the sixth century B.C. These schools primarily taught medicine but also covered topics concerning the nature of humanity and the universe. A group called the Pythagoreans, who were followers of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (c. 580–500 B.C.), started the first schools of higher education in Italy. They taught philosophy and math in Greek. The great Greek philosophers Socrates (470–399 B.C.), Plato...
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...LIFE: BY: JESSICA TILLERY DATE: October 6, 2015 Adell Williams was born on November 31, 1999. Her life came and went in a flash. Since she was in second grade, she was bullied every day, came home crying. Her mother couldn’t do anything about it so she tried to give her some advice, but it didn’t work. Adell knew she wasn’t the prettiest girl at the school she thought about what she could do to make people like her. As she got in her teen years she began to think about what she was going to do about the people in the school, she thought should start being like everyone else. But then thought again about it, if she be like everyone else they still would talk about her saying she is copying them. So instead she chose to be original with her...
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...Name Date Teacher Class TITLE When I think of my college search, I think of a lot of stress and a lot of time. It was a very stressful time in my life and put a lot of pressure on me to get into a good school. Education is the most important part of one’s life. Not everyone goes to college right after high school, and college is not intended for everyone. For example, some people decide to work right after high school rather than go straight into college. College is quite expensive, and some may even say it is hard. However, college is not a bad thing. It has many good qualities. For instance, college is a time where students can venture out and meet new people. I knew without a college degree I would probably be going nowhere in my life. So, I decided to go to college. There were many reasons backing my decision to go to college: I wanted to make a better life for myself. I waneted to find a job where I would not be living paycheck to paycheck, like my parents have had to. I wanted to encounter things that I never realized could even exist, and to take classes taught by passionate instructors. But most of all, I wanted to prove that I could be successful. I did not do the whole "high school experience" thing at all. During my four years in high school, I was antisocial, and spent most of my time at home. But now that I am in college, I can experience so many things that I skipped out in in high school. It was a huge dream of mine to have friends, to be social, and...
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...they even have a special name in terms of what type of capital that they are. They are known as human capital. Human capital is the set of skills that someone acquires throughout their lifetime through things like education and training. Education is probably the most important and vital sector of human capital, and that is no surprise, as studies have shown that college graduates earn much more in a lifetime than basic high school graduates. In the 1980’s, college graduates were earning up to 60% more. This simple fact alone serves to demonstrate why many people elect to further their education by attending college. People want to have a happy and successful life, and just like cash in a bank account can lead to this desirable world, so can education. Gary Becker once compared attending college to United Airlines purchasing a new passenger jet. If a jet has an extremely long useful life, it is more likely that United Airlines will purchase it. If a potential worker has a long career ahead of him, it is more likely that his return on investment on education will be higher, thus it will be more likely he will attend college. United Airlines might not purchase the new jet if it only cares about current earnings and ignores future profits. Equivalently, if a worker only cares about his current earnings and ignores future profits, he too will...
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...effected by technology is college students. There are many good things about technology in this period of time. One of the main things that really have a good effect on college students is a computer. There are many things that college students use computers for. One of the real reasons that almost every college student has a computer in their dorm or in their house is to type up all of those papers that are assigned to them by their professors. Another one of the biggest things in technology is the Internet. You would swear that now someone would die if they didn’t have the Internet. People use the Internet almost everyday to either check e-mail, search something from the Internet, or they can even use it for AOL instant messenger. E-mail is one of the new things in technology that almost everyone is using now instead of the mail service. This is a really good thing for college students because this is a cheap way of keeping in touch with everyone you know without having to spend a fortune on phone calls. College students can also e-mail their professors about something that is going wrong, why they won’t be in class, or they can also e-mail their professors their essays or papers. Researching on the Internet is a very famous thing too. College students can use this to look up information on a topic that they have to write a paper on or just look up anything in general. AOL instant messenger is a very big thing with teens and college students. College students use this to talk...
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...Issue that Affects Student Success College can be the best time of people’s life or the worst time depending on if you are successful and doing good or barley getting by. Many factors affect student to succeed or fall behind. The biggest thing that affects all students is the people you surround yourself with and the groups you are part of. You cannot and will not pass college by yourself. You need to have a good group of friends that will help you. There friends need to be some you can rely on to be loyal and helpful. You need to have some people in every class that you talk to this way if you ever miss a class you can get a copy of the notes and go over what went on and what was assigned that day. Organize study groups in your classes and...
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...Corporate America Racism I walk into the office in the IT industry; everyone looks at me as I walk to my desk. My boss comes over and tells me I made a mistake in my code, the application is not working. He says we need this fixed before out next meeting. As I’m checking the codes, I realize that the glitch that needs to be fixed has nothing to do with me John did not enter in his codes correctly. My boss come back over, “hey Lisa we are going to have to move you to this table in table in the corner, we need more space in the office area for renovations”. “Sure” I said “I’ll move my desk by the end of the day with everyone else”, “Oh no Lisa it would be just you sitting in the corner”. I face racism every day at work, and on job interviews. It seems it hard for corporate America to believe that I have a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University and I have 15 years of experience developing web sites. In the IT industry there are not a lot of black women in this field and the view that are in this industry has to prove their intelligence, and skills. College students Driving and still suspect My friends and I are driving on our way to the movies. We wanted to hang out before we all left to go back to college. It’s 5:00pm, we are driving in my friends Destini’s SUV we just pulled out the my driveway and only went a block before the police pulls us over. Officer is there a problem? Yeah the two men in the back were not wearing seat belts, and you did not put your blinkers...
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...It’s the last week of summer before I head to college for the first. I am excited to get out of the house and have no rules to really obey by. As I packing and unpacking my items for college and feeling like something is missing. I am the type of person that needs some type of structure in my life so, of course I have a long list of items to bring to college with me. The day of move in day, my mom and I are shoving all the boxes into the car and not being able to see out of the back window just to get to school to take all the boxes out and up to the fourth floor of Evans Hall. The hallways were filled with boxes and people. Families start saying their goodbyes and I beginning unpacking my boxes to make the room look less like a prison and more like a comfy place to stay at. I am trying to figure out to do and what was not allowed like wearing your lanyard around your neck is how people can point out who the freshman are. With coming from a small town and everyone knowing everyone to coming to a town that the size of my graduation class for college is about the size of my whole school district. Only about six kids from my graduation class came to Oshkosh with me so, coming to college felt like a lonely world in the beginning. I started to figure out who I really was and what I want to do with my life....
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...English 101 01 September 2015 RSA for Rose Article 1. The text originally appeared on CNN. 2. The genre of the text is inspirational. The purposes of the text is to try to persuade people to go to college and make them think about their future. 3. 4. The exigency for this piece is getting people to go to college and get an education. 5. The writer is trying to say that everyone should go to college to further their education, so they can fulfil a better lifestyle and career. 6. The intended audience is high school students and/or high school graduates. The author told his story of how college changed his life for the better. He is trying to persuade these types of people to do the same. 7. The writer’s rhetorical purpose is to answer whether or not everyone should go to college. The writer wants the audience to read this article and have their own opinion about the question. 8. The ethos appeal is that he went to college, which is his credibility. 9. For the use of logos, he uses data from the National Center for Educational Statistics which states that people with a college degree, on average, will earn significantly more over a lifetime than people without a degree. 10. The writer does a good job at using motivational skills. For example, he says that “certain majors in technical fields, financial services, health sciences - have a strong pathway to employment.” 11. The writer accomplished his persuasive purpose because...
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...Answer in essay format and be sure to answer all of the following questions within your essay. 1. a. Describe Lou Ann’s experiences going to college at Ball State and Harvard? (Chapters10 & 11) Lou Ann always had connections and personal experience with things she studied and read. When she went to Harvard and was working on her thesis, one of the main things she studied was “the confessional novel.” She wrote her these on “protagonists baring their should to the world.” Some of the feelings she always had strong connections with were those of guilt and shamefulness. This was because she was always trying to help make her family normal. The topics she studied and the experiences she went through help to really mold her as a person. b. From your experience as a college student, how can you relate to Lou Ann? I have taken many classes and read a lot of material in college that I can connect to. Writing a paper on that material definitely helps you feel more comfortable and confident as a person. I think a lot of people take this approach in college because it helps them understand the world. 2. What happened when Lou Ann’s Grandpa told her mother that he loved her and she didn’t understand? How did Lou Ann feel? (Chapter 12) Lou Ann was devastated from this experience. This event made it clear that her Grandpa did not make her mother away of what it was liked to be loved by someone in your life. This casued a major disconnect...
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