...Matt Bruenig’s article “The Case Against Free College” was published in the Fall of 2015 online on the dissent magazine website. Bruenig argues that giving money to students that do not even begin to seem possible to attend college would be a waste. Bruenig argues that there is plenty of money given out to students in many forms. According to Bruenig, there are many different definitions of free to different individuals. There are already students who come from families who can afford their basic needs, so why would they be able to afford college. He explains that giving more money to college students would only give more money to the students that already have plenty of money. Bruenig argues that people would not know the real purpose of...
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...campus marketing to college students Credit card companies love college students. They are the prime prospects of credit card companies. There are a couple of reasons they like to get you. First, they have a strong hunch that your parents will bail you out if you run up your credit card bill. Second, you have a long credit life ahead of you. This means lots of years of interest payments for the credit card companies. In the past, credit card companies were so hungry for college students; they approved applications even when students didn't meet the criteria. For example, a college student could get a credit card with no job, no verifiable income, no credit history, and even without a co-signer. Recent changes to credit card law now require credit card companies to verify a student's income before giving a credit card them a credit card. Students without income must get a cosigner to qualify. If you see a credit card company on your campus, they've likely paid your college administrators a fee, sometimes millions of dollars, for the ability to market credit cards to you. Colleges also get a kickback from every credit card opened and sometimes a percentage of charges made. Credit card companies pay to sell credit cards to students because they're banking on students making up for it in interest charges and fees. Expect to see credit card company representatives on or near campus giving out free stuff for credit card applications. Law prohibits them from giving away tangible items...
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...* Problem Definition: Alex's problem concerns on the weight & scores of student’s selection criteria in college admission especially Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the results of the test may not truly reflect what a student knows. * Justification of the Problem: The problem occurs as the (SAT) has a great pressure on some students, whom they suffer the test anxiety and this might not reflect what they really know, more over the quality of high schools differs from each other’s as a student from ordinary high school may get an “A” in a material and the other in such a demanding one may get a “C”, also the (SAT) has a discriminating effect on some students that can’t afford coaching tutorials, which improve the scores of the exam with high percentage. * List of Alternatives: * Replace Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) With American College Testing (ACT ) * Replace the SAT with intelligence test, for only scientific sections of the college while making the SAT optional, for other sections replacing it with personal interview, giving it the same weight of the SAT. * Lower the weight of SAT against the high school grades, extra-curricular activities and achievements and written theme submitted to be: I. High school grades 40% II. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores 25% III. extra-curricular activities and achievements 20% IV. written theme submitted 15% * Evaluating Alternatives: * Alternative 1: Replace (SAT) with (ACT...
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...For the students that want to learn as much as possible before college, the current school schedule holds them back from gaining the amount of knowledge they want. Although early-bird classes and summer classes exist, both exclude students unable to either attend at such an early hour or unable to afford the costs. As one of the students unable to take early-bird classes and summer classes, I have so many classes I want to take that the schedule restricts me from taking. Involving my experience with the student schedule, the current school schedule doesn’t easily allow students to take all the classes that interest them. When planning my freshman schedule, I had to decide between taking choir or taking health or gym, required courses. Having...
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...reasons Stephen Curry inspired me is now i want to go to college. I want to go to college because i want to challenge myself and look up to important things. And to finish my goal, I have to finish high school and go up and challenge myself to the next level in the future. Another reason that Stephen Curry inspired me to go to college is because when he went to college. This made me think that i can go to college too. He got in college really easily, And made me think that it is going to be easy for...
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...1/5/12 What going back to college means to me and my family? Going back to college to me means represents possibilities; Possibilities of the unknown; Possibilities of a great future. The possibilities are endless for those who wish to pursue a degree. When I first started going back to school after graduating high school, I thought I had it all figured out in what I wanted to be when I grew up. I learned after taking a lot of classes that the path I was going down was not for me. It took me several programs to figure out that I wanted to get my degree in Business Administration/Management. I feel that earning this degree will fulfill my professional goals. It will give me many opportunities to do many different things. For instance, I can be a Human Resource Representative, Manager, President of a company or even a business owner. It is a degree that will help me to become more financially stable so I can take care of a family when that time comes. Right now, it is just me in my household. As I grow in my current career and grow in my educational goals, I know this will change. There will be a time in my life where I will have a family. When I have this, I want my family to know that I have worked hard to get where I am at. I want my family to know that what I do in life is for them and that it will benefit them in their futures. At this moment in my life, the main person in my family who I am doing this for is my mom. My mom went to college only for one year before...
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...and financial support, help and understanding; To Ms. April P. Mangotara, the researchers’ instructor, for her patience, understanding and support in guiding the researchers in completing this research; To Mr. Yrl Chua, the researchers’ statistician, for imparting his knowledge, giving his suggestions and spending his time for the success of this research; To our friends, for the encouragement in making this research successful; To the respondents, for spending their time in answering our questionnaires and for giving us the necessary information regarding this research paper; And above all, to the Almighty God for giving the researchers knowledge, wisdom and understanding as we carry out this research and for giving the strength and determination to complete this work. 1. Title : Increasing Student population of Hotel and Restaurant Management in Cagayan de Oro City Total Number of pages: Text Number of Pages: 2. Authors : 3. Type of Document : 4. Type of Publication : 5. Host Institution : Cagayan de Oro College PHINMA Education Network 6. Sponsor : None...
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...responsibility is the honorable thoughts and actions that govern wellbeing. It gives people direction in life. Without it, individuals would be wandering carelessly in the world giving no thought to finances, relationships, or a job. We would be feckless. This paper will touch on how personal responsibility should be taught to children, how it can be used toward college success, and how to apply it to the work environment. How personal responsibility should be taught to children First, personal responsibility is something that needs to be taught to children. Parents should give their children chores to have them pull their own weight. They should take out the trash every week, wash dishes, mow the lawn; do something of importance that helps out around the home. Children have wastes so they should empty the trash cans. They dirty the dishes with food, so they should wash them. They need to be taught to take of their home, so they need to mow or do some gardening. Of course, the little ones probably will not like it because it will take them out of their comfort zone, but it is all about teaching them values and character. Parents should do this so their children can learn personal responsibility and be prepared for when they get out on their own. Furthermore, personal responsibility can be taught to children by giving them allowances. It teaches them to save money and how to budget. As soon as a child is old enough to know that he or she needs money in exchange for things wanted, that...
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...movie of the Toy Story series, there are many conventions that go along with the film. Toy Story 3 is about a grown boy who is going away to college and doesn’t know what to do with his childhood toys. The toys have been the main idea of the storyline in this series. I think that there are many coincidental characteristics that made this movie a very huge hit. The generation that was the main audience of the first two movies of the series were either already started college, getting ready to go to college, or finishing up high school. The movie related to this generation very well because Andy, the owner of the toys, was going away to school as well. The director or author of this film made it a very special movie for the generation who grew up to Toy Story because it allowed them to feel like a kid again. When I saw this movie in theaters with my nieces, I noticed that the majority of the audience were people my age. The characteristics and the storyline of the film related to the audience of teenagers in a very sentimental way. The cultural ideas that are being represented is that kids grow up and it’s hard to think that you are getting ready for college and slowly giving up being a kid. The characteristics are sending messages to the audience by showing that everyone grows up and has to make sacrifices, Andy did this by giving up his childhood memories. The author did very well relaying their views to the audience because it related to the majority of the audience and...
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...Grizli777 John stuart mill John Stuart Mill was born in London in 1806. In 1873 Mill wrote an autobiography gave great examples about his life and the education he had received. Mill was given this education by his father with the assistance of Jeremy Bentham and Francis Place (Mautner, 2014). Mill had learned to speak Greek by the age of three and then Latin a little later on. Mill was a competent logician by the age of twelve. At age sixteen he had already became a well-trained economist. Mill then suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of twenty and used this nervous breakdown to come to the realization he needed more in life than just devotion to the public good and an analytically sharp intellect (Mautner, 2014). As he had grown up a utilitarian, Mill now listened to Wordsworth, Goethe, and Coleridge to help cultivate his aesthetic sensibilities (Mautner, 2014). Mill wanted the British public to understand that there was a need for a scientific approach to understand the political, economic, and social change that was happening. In Mill’s autobiography he claims he introduced the word “utilitarian” to the English language when he was only sixteen. Mill had come into contact with the idea of utilitarian thought early on in life. In Mills writing of Utilitarianism (1861) he tries to justify the utilitarian principle as the foundation for morals (Schefczyk, 2014). The utilitarian principle states that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote overall human...
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...What gives colleges the right to use their athletes for their own profit? This has been a question that has been brought up for nearly a century. Taylor Branch in “The Shame of College Sports” and Derek Van Rheenen in “Exploitation in College Sports […]” both do a great job on describing the hardships that every college athlete goes though on a daily basis with the dictatorship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The NCAA dehumanizes and only seeks to make profit off of the men and women competing in intercollegiate sports. Walter Camp invented the great game of football in 1869 causing a revolution in collegiate sports. No one has ever seen a sport so brutal and memorizing since rugby. Therefore, making the game of football very...
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...The Role of Community College The role of any institution is to set up their students for the challenges that they confront for the duration of their life. Community college should have both certificate programs- to make the students more skillful and four-year education- to explore the student’s mind in every area of education at economical prices. “College students bypassing degrees on purpose” by Eddie Small emphasis on skill building students, who chose to achieve marketable certificate rather than a four year college, due to fact of advantages such as quick education, economical, and increments. Currently, the direction of some community college is to provide short-term certificate. The reason to add more fleeting certification is developed...
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...fear to sleep because you doubt you’ll wake up the next morning. Day in and day out college athletes do all the things the average college student does and more. Waking up, going to school. Then having to go out and perform for hours for whatever the sport that college athlete is playing. Over the course of their college career the athlete has worked up numerous days and hours worth of practices and games, leaving their bodies famished and dehydrated from all the hard work put in on top of homework and class schedules. It’s asking a lot. Playing a college sport is indeed a privilege and a choice, but to ask someone to do extra and live the same as everyone else is extremely difficult, especially as a college athlete. College athletes should receive some type of money or endowment, because they need more things to live comfortably than the average college student who just goes to school. The conditioning for a college athlete is one thing that shouldn’t be taken lightly. The amount of running that it takes to be apart of a college team is something that causes the body to become dehydrated and/or broken down if not being taken care of the right way twenty-four seven. Many college students only have a certain amount of money to hold them over until they receive more. Without money to buy waters and drinks everyday, it’s almost impossible for an athlete to stay fully hydrated on a consistent basis. It isn’t uncommon for a college athlete to pass out, or even become severely...
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...The Value of a Higher Education Parents often look at the positive outcomes of sending their children off to college but never view the negativities. America is obsessed with college. In class, we read Kathleen Porter’s article, “The Value of a Higher Education” where she states no matter how much college is worth, in the end its worth going the extra mile, even for the people that can’t afford it. Never say never because dreams are always worth chasing for. In the other hand Linda Lee in “The Case Against College” she objects a strong belief towards a college degree. She argues that a college degree or higher education isn’t right for everyone and that there are other possibilities to be successful in life. Students should strongly agree with Porter’s position. In which a college degree is worth having, because its benefits are having a higher paying salary, having a better future for oneself/being successful, and meeting up to the requirements. A higher paying salary will benefit you in the long run. Katherine explains that college graduates who take the time and dedication to study and achieve what they want to be in life will be successful. Having a college degree will grant you a high paying job. For example if you want to pursue a career in the medical field such like myself, I would need a degree, and not only will that degree grant me happiness but also the income that I will be earning. Having a degree will always put you on top of a well paying job. Containing...
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...important for someone? Would you give your life for someone? Darry gave up his college and athletics for Ponyboy to go to school, get to college and get a scholarship.In the book The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, it shows that true friends sacrifice for each other and would risk their lives for each other. When The Outsiders first starts, it shows how Ponyboy, Darry, and Soda are brothers. They don’t get along that well, but when something bad happens to one of them, they sacrifice for each other. They are poor and the society calls them “greasers” because they use grease in their hair. Their education and money is really bad. The other group that is wealthy is called the “Socs”. The society thinks that...
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