...An Analysis on “Are Too Many People Going to College” Charles Murray’s essay proposes that American colleges are being flooded with individuals who are either unprepared for higher education or who are simply forced into attending college and can’t succeed because of the lack of certain innate abilities. Murray’s essay goes on to take issue with the idea that the pursuit of a traditional college education is somehow strategically creating a separation of the American class system. While Murray makes many salient points with regards to America’s obsession with college education as a standard into a class of the intellectual elite, the essay fails to take into consideration the various motivators that can lead to student success, despite where that student might be on Murray’s ability ladder (Murray Paragraph 13). This essay seeks to analyze Murray’s claims about why the pursuit of a traditional, four-year college education can do more harm than good when it comes to defining success for the individual learner. Rhetorical Analysis The main thesis of Murray’s essay is that the unrealistic pursuit of a college degree, propagates to children at an early age and does more harm than good. Murray claims that many students do not have the ability needed to enjoy and complete a four-year college education (PARAGRAPH 13). Murray further supports his thesis with his reasoning that more people are going to college because they are indoctrinated, regardless of their skilled ability, to...
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...EGT1 Task 1 Essay In this Essay I am going to explain the relationship between marginal revenue and marginal cost, and the importance of these concepts for profit maximization. One approach for profit maximization is by looking at the total revenue (TR) to total cost (TC). This is where the quantity being generated is yielding the greatest difference between the TR and the total TC. Another approach is using marginal revenue (MR) to marginal cost (MC). MR is the increase in revenue that results from the sale of one additional unit of output, and is calculated by the change in total revenue by the change in output quantity. Similarly, The change in total cost that comes from making or producing one additional item. You can figure out the profit-maximizing quantity of output by setting these two changes equal to one another. The process to determine MR You must first calculate TR. TR = Q * P the quantity multiplied by the price. So as your quantity goes up you need to look at the difference in price then divide by the quantity. Example below, Q P TR MR 0 80 0 1 76 76 76 2 72 144 68 3 68 204 60 4 64 256 52 5 60 300 44 6 56 336 36 7 52 364 28 8 48 384 20 Since this example is increasing by a factor of 1 we only need to worry about the difference in TR but if it increase but a factor higher than 1 we would need to take the difference in TR and divide by the increase in quantity. In our given example, below the MR starts...
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...Instructor: Nicole Foreman Tong Daytime Phone: (703) 323-2142 Email: nforeman@nvcc.edu Office: CN 128 E Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays- 7:20-7:50 am, 4:30-5:00 pm*; Tuesdays, Thursdays- 1:00-2:30 *I will also be available by appointment with 24 hours notice. Required Texts: Literature: Reading Reacting, Writing Required Materials: • Loose leaf paper • Folder or 3-ring notebook for class and reading notes • A composition or spiral-bound notebook (one subject only, please) for a journal • Writing Utensils (pens, pencils, and highlighters) • Disk or USB port • A good pocket dictionary Method of Instruction: Your participation in this class is essential to your success. You will be asked to engage the text, your peers' ideas, and the writing of others in this class. Does the conclusion of the writer you are reading necessarily correlate with the evidence presented? Be aware that when you present your own evidence you must be logical, as well. Course Description: English 125 is an introduction to literature. Students will be responsible for reading the texts critically and offer contributions based on textual evidence of patterns using proper literary terms. This is a writing intensive course; therefore, you will be responsible for inventing, drafting, and revising multiple papers varying in length from short reader responses to longer essays. I expect that because you have already taken English 111 you will know how to devise a formal argument based on evidence, so you will not be allowed...
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...Psyc 110 Quiz and Final Exam Study Guide YOU MAY WANT TO PRINT THIS GUIDE. 1. The quizzes and final exam are "open book, open notes." The maximum time you can spend on a quiz is 45 minutes. On the final you will have 3 hours and 30 minutes. If you have not clicked the “Submit For Grade” button by the end of the allotted time, you will be automatically exited from the exam. In the final exam environment, the Windows clipboard is disabled, so you will not be able to copy exam questions or answers to or from other applications. 2. You should click the “Save Answers” button in the exam frequently. This helps prevent connection timeouts that might occur with certain Internet Service Providers, and also minimizes lost answers in the event of connection problems. If your Internet connection does break, when you reconnect, you will normally be able to get back into your final exam without any trouble. Remember, though, that the exam timer continues to run while students are disconnected, so students should try to re-login as quickly as possible. The Help Desk cannot grant any student additional time on the exam. 3. See Syllabus "Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information. 4. Reminders * You will only be able to enter your online quizzes and final exam one time. * Click the "Save Answers" button often. * If you lose your Internet connection during a quiz or the final exam, logon again and try to access it. If you are unable to enter it again...
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...we would advise you to avoid marking the text. This new edition incorporates the changes to the speaking module introduced in July 2001. Sam McCarter, Julie Easton and Judith Ash 2003 Contents Page Preface iii Acknowledgements iv Listening Module 1 Introduction 2 Listening Test 1 3 Listening Test 2 9 Listening Test 3 15 Listening Test 4 20 Reading Exercises 25 Introduction 26 1. How to read, or how to read efficiently? 28 2. Learning to read organisation 29 3. More about reading organisation 30 4. A summary of functions 31 5. Recognising paragraph types 32 6. Simultaneous functions 34 7. Reading control 35 8. Spot the difference! 36 9. Learning to concentrate 37 10. Predicting organisation 1 38 11. Predicting organisation 2 39 12. Focus on paragraph headings 40 13. Foreground and background information 14. Increasing your reading speed 42 - 43 15. More about speed 45 16. Words that slow you down 47 17. Problems with meaning 48 18. An introduction to...
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...Read the following articles from Unit 5, jotting down your first impressions of each article to use in the reflections. * Sleeping with Guns by Bruce Holbert * My Daughter Smokes by Alice Walker * A Drunken Ride, A Tragic Aftermath by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson * Young and Isolated by Jennifer M. Silva Sleeping With Guns By BRUCE HOLBERT THE summer before my sophomore year in high school, I moved into my father’s house. My father had remarried and the only unoccupied bedroom in his house was the gun room. Against one wall was a gun case he had built in high school, and beside it were two empty refrigerators stocked with rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. My bed’s headboard resided against the other wall and, above it, a resigned-looking, marble-eyed, five-point mule deer’s head with a fedora on its antler rack. The room had no windows, so the smell of gun oil filled my senses at least eight hours each day. It clung to my clothes like smoke, and like a smoker’s cigarettes, it became my smell. No one in my high school noticed. We all smelled like something: motorheads of motor oil, farm kids of wheat chaff and cow dung, athletes like footballs and grass, dopers like the other kind of grass. It did not appear to anyone — including me — that residing within my family’s weapons cache might affect my life. Together, my three brothers own at least a dozen weapons and have yet to harm anyone with them. Despite their guns (or, arguably, because...
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...Course Study Guide 2011–12 International Business Management BUSI 1493 [pic] Contents 1. Welcome 3 2. Introduction to the Course 4 2.1 Aims 4 2.2 Learning Outcomes 4 2.2.1 Knowledge and understanding of: 4 2.2.2 Intellectual Skills: 4 2.2.3 Subject practical skills: 5 2.2.4 Transferable skills: 5 2.3 Learning and teaching activities 5 3. Contact Details 5 4. Course Content 6 4.1 Session Reading 20 5. Assessment Details 21 5.1 Summary of assessment 21 5.2 Detailed description of assessment 21 6. Other Details 23 1. Welcome Welcome to the exciting world of International Business Management! In this era of globalization, there are very few companies that can say that they are not part of a global network. Every firm has to think of itself as a global company, if for no other reason than because it has to meet competition from global companies. This changes the entire strategy of the firm. In the future, we expect that all of you will be involved in managerial decision making that will take you beyond the realms of your geographical territory. This course on International Business Management will have the focus on helping you make better international decisions. Aside from the opportunities offered by globalisation, there are also many risks in entering into the global market. This course will attempt to address, in a structured format, the ways and possibilities of addressing...
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...Title: “Using the case Study at the end of the module assess the clients issues and describe your treatment plan. What ethical issues might arise?” In this essay, I am going to assess the issues of the client to be known as Miss E, a 29 year old woman wanting to lose weight. I will then describe my treatment plan for her, and explain the role that hypnotherapy can have with the presenting condition. I will discuss the strengths and weakness of using hypnotherapy in these cases, and ethical issues will also be addressed regarding the assessment and following treatment of Miss E. The first step after being approached by Miss E would be to arrange an initial consultation. During this consultation I would discuss her desired goals, what it is that she is hoping to achieve from having hypnotherapy. I would then be able to assess whether or not these goals are realistic and therefore attainable. It is important to ascertain whether or not the client really needs to lose weight. This is done by assessing their BMI ( Body Mass Index), by squaring a person’s height in metres and dividing the result by their weight in kilograms. A BMI of 20 – 25 is considered ideal, from 25 – 30 overweight and 30 or greater is considered obese. For the purpose of this essay I will assume that Miss E does need to lose weight Miss E wants to lose 2 ½ stone in three months. This is an unrealistic goal and it that would need to be addressed. Although it is tempting to want to lose weight...
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...I going to profile a place called Red robins in novi Samer Charif 9/30/10 English 1510 “I’m Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing” p.79-82 #1-3 . Description Ragged white fat Good parts Bad parts Kool aid red slurry hot sauce, vinegar, salt and food coloring All fat 100% meat, no bristle no bone They look like candy Color of Cordovan Coral crescent of meat Soft flesh Tastes like flaccid cracklin’ Unmistakably porcine I don’t need any more explanation on how the pickled pig lips look like because the description in the passage was vivid enough. First of all I don’t eat pork and It smells bad, to top it off it makes me want to vomit Audrey, staring is straight at me, she fixes me with a look just this side of pity and asks, [“Are you going to eat that thing or make love to it?”] Paragraph 13 Her nephew, Jerry, slides up to a bar stool on my left, [“A lot of people like ‘em with chips”] Paragraph 15 Sensing my relief, Jerry leans over and peers into my bag. [“Kind of look like frosted flakes, don’t they?”]Paragraph 19 The passage was very interesting and suspenseful. Despite the fact of Edge knowing that going to the place where pickled pig lips are consumed may not be such a good idea he goes anyways. He was very hesitant to eat the pickled pig lips first hand but eventually ate them. Each absolute phrase tries to keep the reader reading and also tries to see how readers could see what Edge could see with his eyes. Their different because they describe...
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...The creation of the U. S. Constitution was not as easily done as some people would think. As with most things done in life, people learn by trial and error. There are many documents that are of great significance that attributed to the creation of the U.S Constitution. The five documents or events that helped with the creation of the United States Constitution was the Magna Carta (1215), the Mayflower Compact (1620), the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Articles of Confederation (1777), and the Federalist Papers (1787-1788). Going in order, I will begin with the Magna Carta (1215). According to the NEH, “the Magna Carta served to lay the foundation for the evolution of parliamentary government and subsequent declarations of rights in Great Britain and the United States.” The Magna Carta defends the “dew process” of the law; everyone has legal rights that the states to follow. “Near the completion of the 13th century, the Magna Carta contributed to the support of the idea of a “higher law,” one that could not be modified by executive mandate or legislative acts,” (NEH, 1996). The notion helped to enfold toward the Supremacy clause of the United States Constitution and enforced by the Supreme Court. This was only the beginning to the making of the Constitution. The second document was the Mayflower Compact (1620), and it was the “scaffold to the Plymouth colony. Being that this document was convenient where by the settlers would subordinate their rights to follow laws...
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...Class observation Introduction This essay is based on an observation done for a mathematics lesion taught in primary 2nd class in Thaajuhdheen School about Fraction. The aim of the lesion is to improve the children’s confidence level about mathematical factors and help them to know the way to use fractions. There are 30 students in the class where there are 17 boys and 13 girls. The gender ratio makes the class an ideal class to study with reducing the biasness between the children. Further in the following paragraphs of this essay, I will explain how the lesions was conducted and the methodologies used by the teacher for teaching the lesion. Small discussion about the lesion Before the lesion, the maths teacher and I had I small discussion about the lesion “Fractions” which is going to be taught in the class for maths period. The teacher briefly explained the contents and the objectives of teaching the lesion. The aim of teaching Fraction as a lesion for the 2nd grade children is to build their confidence level about mathematics and to help them to understand the importance of fraction in the daily life and how to use them correctively in situations they face where fraction can be used. The class lasted 45 minutes where the class started at 7:45 in the morning and ended 8:30 in the morning. The teacher greeted to the class after entering the class and instructed to the children to settle down and ready to begin. There are two more other observers other than me, and when...
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...Jahangirnagar University Institute of Business Administration Essay On The Standard Supply & Demand Model and The Aggregate Supply & Demand Model Course: BUS 209-Macroeconomics Submitted to: Dr. Shuddhasattwa Rafiq Director and Associate Professor Institute of Business Administration Jahangirnagar University Submitted by: Md. Nahid Alam Class ID: 2368 (21st batch) Institute of Business Administration Jahangirnagar University Date of Submission: 11-06-2013 Essay On The Standard Supply & Demand Model and The Aggregate Supply & Demand Model June 11, 2013 Dr. Shuddhasattwa Rafiq Director and Associate Professor Institute of Business Administration Jahangirnagar University Savar, Dhaka-1342. Subject: Essay Submission. Sir It’s my immense pleasure to submit the essay on “The Standard Supply & Demand Model and The Aggregate Supply & Demand Model” that you have assigned me at the beginning of this semester. Submitting this essay is the partial fulfillment of this particular course. I believe that this essay will help to understand supply and demand, how supply and demand curves derive in microeconomics & macroeconomics and what determines the slopes of supply and demand curves. Thank you for giving the opportunity to prepare this report. It was really a wonderful experience. I hope you find this essay satisfactory. Sincerely, ------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Context Name | Page...
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...Essay Writing 2: Planning & Structuring Your Essays Effective Learning Service Essay Writing 2: Planning & Structuring Your Essays University of Bradford, School of Management Essay Writing (2): Planning & Structuring Your Essays ESSAY WRITING (2): PLANNING & STRUCTURING YOUR ESSAYS WHY WRITE ESSAYS? Look for the word ‘essay’ in the dictionary and you will find one meaning listed is ‘to attempt’. An essay is an attempt by you to communicate your arguments or knowledge of a subject to the reader, usually your tutor. The mark awarded is a reflection, not on your intellect generally, but on your ability to communicate your ideas on the subject in question. Many tutors – and students – believe essays help in four ways: Ø They can be a good way to learn. The process of writing will help you clarify your thoughts on a subject or topic Ø They show your tutors that you understand key ideas on any particular subject Ø They are useful as a means of gaining feedback on your academic progress Ø Essays are usually an important part of overall assessment. Essay writing can therefore be viewed in a positive way. However, essays can cause be a source of anxiety to many students, particularly at the start of their academic careers. Many students feel vulnerable when they write and submit essays and feel their intellect generally is subject to official scrutiny. They have plenty of thoughts and ideas inside their heads – but how to get these out in a readable form? This is the challenge...
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...ESSAY FORMAT Introduction with three ideas First paragraph with topic sentences followed by reasons and personal examples to support view Second paragraph with topic sentence followed by reasons and personal examples to support view Third paragraph with topic sentence followed by reasons and personal examples to support view Conclusion of three ideas Write a 250 word essay explaining why you feel this way. Provide reasons and examples to support your opinion in each paragraph. • Decide whether you agree or disagree with one of the following statements. • Proof read your work when you are finished writing. • Did you state your opinion in the first paragraph and briefly give your reasons? • Did you support your position in each of the next paragraphs? • Does your last paragraph tie the essay together by briefly reviewing what you have said? • Have you checked your punctuation, capitalization, and spelling? • Have you looked for run on or incomplete sentences? Native American Essay Topics to Choose from 1. Some people feel that tribally controlled schools are more responsive to Indian students’ needs, while others feel that the “melting-pot” theory of public schools is more beneficial in the long run. Select a side in this discussion and support it with 250 words. 2. Some people favor legalizing gambling on the reservation to increase tribal revenue and create employment opportunities. Others oppose it. Their...
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