...In America, if a student wants to go to college they have to pay a sustainable amount to be able to do so. The cost of college has greatly increased in the past few decades. The high cost discourages minorities and poor students from attending college. Many students take out student loans to be able to afford college, but then struggle later in life with paying off those loans. Higher level jobs are beginning to require college education to even be considered and this can come troubling to those who are not able to afford college. In this essay I intend to explain the problems with the high costs of college, introduce a policy to fix the cost of college, and introduce the opposing side to my research. Congress should address the issue of the high cost of college because it is impacting our job market. A better educated society leads to a more educated nation, so it is in the best interest...
Words: 1707 - Pages: 7
...success on students in their schooling. “Workers with more education are more productive, which makes companies more profitable and the overall economy grow faster.” (Adam Davidson, “Is College Tuition Really Too High?”) This is basically saying that without a higher education, the general success of an individual is hindered. Although, this hindered success is largely a result of such previously named cost increases. Tuition has risen faster and higher than inflation has over the years, “the higher the prices that schools charge, the more options they have in recruiting exactly the students they want.” (Adam Davidson, “Is College Tuition Really Too High?”) With seemingly less accessible education though, such as in elite private institutions which are much more costly with lower acceptance rates, higher graduation rates become a result. This is because the students that are granted entrance into these elite schools are more dedicated to their education than the provided statistics of those in public schools concerning the percentage that gradate in four years or graduate at all. “The enormous financial value (and cultural currency) of the product they are selling, an elite credential, is well understood. Nearly everybody admitted to these schools graduates within four years.” (Adam Davidson, “Is College Tuition Really Too High?”) With the higher pricing of tuition at elite institutions comes with higher spending on their students and their education which contributes notably to...
Words: 825 - Pages: 4
...following essay encompasses a discussion concerning college and its perceived merits or demerits. To this end, the thesis will seek to explore the issue of whether its benefits outweigh its inherent costs. A narrative relating to college degrees postulates the necessity of the latter to have a good career. The narrative has been formulated and affirmed by the media, the business community, and the government. In a recent speech, President Obama blatantly stated that now more than ever, the college degree was a ticked into the middle class, a good job, and a good income. He goes on to say that the degree gifts the graduate an element of security that keeps them employable. The latter is a result of the perception that the degree creates. Potential employers view individuals with degrees as malleable and capable of acquiring new skill sets. On the business front, there is an upsurge of demand for skilled workers in recent years because of dramatic technological advance. Ergo there is an augmented demand for graduates who can carry out the tasks that a high-tech economy needs. The media has been used to highlight this upsurge and often unwittingly, create pressure on parents to send their children to college. While parents deal with all the information heralding college education as a crucial investment to make, they also appraise the information against the backdrop of college costs. In recent decades, the cost of higher learning has exploded. Numerous colleges charge an...
Words: 1713 - Pages: 7
...University of the East, Manila College of arts and sciences A Study on the Factors Affecting the Failing Grades of 2nd year and 3rd year Tourism Students in the University of the East-Manila For S.Y 2011-2012 In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Tourism Research Method Tour 112 By: Honey Grace R. Gatasi July 2012 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Being in school is one of the best opportunity that everyone could ever have, Studying in school serve as our training ground that develop and would mold students to become the person that students need to be but, the question is, How does the students today differs from the students of prior generations? Through the evolution of the technologies today, the students also evolve. And students are very lucky to have the technologies, at the age of information today there’s a lot of sources to use when there is homework and projects. And the technologies before is not yet empowered the students are really focus on the study. The students always spent time in studying. But today, because everything is in the power of students finger tips, The students can do everything in just one click, students can search everything in just one click and of course students can share everything in just one click. That’s why the students are very lucky because everything is just there, The students don’t need to go through in some difficulties to do school works, but the problem in...
Words: 2350 - Pages: 10
...College is a Waste of Time and Money The essay “College is a Waste of Time and Money” by Bird is an excerpt from the book The Case against College which was published in 1975. The author tells people that college is not an obligation in our life. Bird agues that college is a waste of time because the majority of college students go to college for social and economic reasons. Very few actually go to learn and have the desire to be there. And he think students were not happy at all. They felt like it was time in a jail cell. It is just a stage which is taken by a lot of teenagers who don’t even know what to do with their lives. This excerpt is clearly directed towards raising awareness among the high school graduates concerning college education, as well as the general public. I find it quite puzzling that the author of the excerpt has purposed to demonize higher education and yet she has a master’s and a bachelor’s degree from two separate universities, which points out to the importance of higher education. However, this is not true. College is a fundamental stage during someone’s life, in which we are taught the basic skills related to the field which we are interested in. Furthermore, we learn to be independent and to make new friends, who will be able to help us in the future. Bird argues that higher education is a complete waste of time since the majority of the students attend college because of economic and social reasons. She further states that only a handful...
Words: 1454 - Pages: 6
...Huyen Tran Prof. Boyd English 100 4/21/2014 Inequality in America Time has brought about many changes in America since the 1960’s to the present. Many of them have been positive, like advances in technology in regards to the health care system, but some have created a growing concern in the eyes of many citizens. People like Robert Reich have noticed a growing sense of inequality in America and are worried it will only increase over time. Reich in his essay Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer he talks about the problems we are facing in the 21st century and what must be done to prevent them from spiraling out of control. The economy pre-1960 in America use to be a solid unit, what happened to one happened to all but this is simply not true anymore. “We are now in different boats, one sinking rapidly, one sinking more slowly, and the third steadily rising” (Jacobus 516). The worst hit has befallen the routine producers who now have to compete in a world economy where massive amount of people are competing for cheap labor. Reich claims the increase in outsourcing being done by American companies since the late 1970’s is a major factor. A company that shows this exact change in the seventies in AT&T, which prior to 1970’s relied on “routine producers in Shreveport, Louisiana, to assemble standard telephones. It then discovered that routine producers in Singapore would perform the same tasks at a far lower cost” (Jacobus 517). Then in 1989, AT&T...
Words: 1045 - Pages: 5
...The Sole Body Of The Nation Primary Source Essay, Document #3 “What is the Third Estate?” Ana Fajardo Acosta York College History 100 The Sole Body of The Nation “He is a peasant, he is a doctor and him over there, he is a merchant, they are all part of The Third Estate, and I know, it doesn't make any sense to me either," he said after he looked at my confused face. Before the revolution, French society was divided into three estates or orders. The Third Estate was by far the largest of these, “containing around 27 million people or 98 percent of the nation” (Llewellyn & Thompson 2016). The Third Estate included every French citizen who did not possess a noble title and this one was marked by its diversity because of the many different classes and levels such as, wealth, professions, and even ideas. It ranged from beggars and struggling peasants to the nation's wealthiest merchants and capitalists. Well, you start asking yourself what was the difference between stages? Easy, the privileges. Privileges like not paying taxes and let's be serious, nowadays people would do anything to not pay taxes, can you imagine back there, where the economy was not as abundant and advanced as it is today?. Historians continue to debate the nature of the bitter political division of the French Revolution, they believe that one of the reasons the French Revolution started was because of the dissatisfaction of members of the Third Estate, who wanted an equal distribution of wealth...
Words: 1129 - Pages: 5
...from the national government is negligible. The main reasons why K+12 program is inappropriate to be implemented in the Philippines are the education budget shortage, poverty, and incompetent teachers. It can be concluded that the national government influences the capability of the Philippines to adapt to the implementation of K+12 program. The government must allocate more educational budget to be able to achieve quality education. Enhanced K+12 basic education system as the trending issue in the Philippine education Despite the necessity of improvement in quality education through implementing K+12 program to ensure future high school graduates ready to be productive employed even without completing college, the K+12 basic education program is still seen as an inappropriate implementation in a developing country like the Philippines due to education budget shortage, poverty, and incompetency of teachers. I. Education is a formal process which improves individual’s...
Words: 3696 - Pages: 15
...------------------------------------------------- MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS CHAPTER 6 1. The person who takes the risk of starting and managing a business to make a profit is called a(n): A. entrepreneur B. venture capitalist C. capitalistic adventurer D. franchiser ------------------------------------------------- E. ultra capitalist 2. Andy Yocom saw prime advertising space on the flags on the golf course. He reasoned that any marketing messages would get prominent attention if they were placed on the flags since golfers focus on them when they take their shots. As a result Yocom used his own initiative and money to start Invision Golf Group Inc. Yocom is an example of a(n): A. entrepreneur B. venture capitalist C. capitalistic adventurer D. franchiser ------------------------------------------------- E. ultra capitalist 3. Jon P. Farmer is the founder of Kolopua Hawaii LLC, a company that markets Pure Hawaiian Air. Bottles of Pure Hawaiian Air contain air that smells like the floral bouquet that greets tourists as they get off the plane in Hawaii. Retailing for about $5 apiece, the bottles are sold at gift shops in Hawaii, as well as to travel agents nationwide who give them to clients. As a(n) _____, Farmer's annual income exceeds $100,000 annually. A. venture capitalist B. franchisee C. franchisor D. entrepreneur ------------------------------------------------- E. financier 4. An entrepreneur is a person who _____ a business. ...
Words: 4272 - Pages: 18
...Introduction: This paper addresses the question how does the law impact the society and business and does this law really work. To attend to these questions, the essay is organized in two sections. In the first section, I analyze the relationship between the 1933 Act and the society by using the concept of libertarianism and the “vail of ignorance” of Immanuel Kant. In the second section, I examine the Securities Act of 1933 by using the accounting skill to argue that 1933 Act did not prevent the inside trading and financial statement manipulation. History of Act: public policy prescription: In the absence of the securities laws, a business firm could basically decide the stock price of their privately-owned company without any governmental supervision and, thus, be free to act with impunity in defrauding both the company and the public. This is the reason the stock price crashed down on “black Friday”. Securities Act of 1933 is in ascertaining that a firm’s disclosure is as accurate as possible, which makes the securities market more fair and transparent in its effort to control fraud perpetrated by unscrupulous business owners on a gullible public marketplace. Market failure: Business’ goal is always for the greatest profits, by taking the advantage of whatever ways they can use, such as fraud. In 1929, business people took the advantage of the absence of the securities laws to defrauding both the company and the public. Trace its implementation: Securities Act of 1933...
Words: 3935 - Pages: 16
...rt of an ongoing effort to help the world learn more about DecisionDesk, what we do, and what we’re interested in, I sat down with our Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer, Marc Plotkin, to pick his brain on the issues the we as a company face on a daily basis. Here’s what he had to say: What got you interested in starting your own company? I never had a specific interest in starting my own company; however, I’ve always been making things: music, films, and all sorts of creative projects. However, up until we started DecisionDesk, my creations were mostly out of a need to express, whereas this company was the first time I wanted to make something that was solving a real-world problem that no one else was solving. I actually believe that’s what companies are for. I think starting a company without trying to solve an existing problem is pretty silly, but when you combine the nature of a for-profit company with a focus on solving a true problem in people’s lives…then you have something powerful that’s worthwhile to make. How has your background in music contributed to your role in Business Development at DecisionDesk? From what I’ve seen, great companies have to build niches to build momentum. For us, the performing arts world has been a fantastic beachhead for us, which has allowed us to spread to other parts of higher education. Our founding team spoke the language of Fine Arts professionals and educators very well and that has been an essential asset. Aside from...
Words: 2817 - Pages: 12
...India of my dreams is a place where there’s an IIT for every Harvard and a Narayan Murthy for every Bill Gates. Where youngsters don’t hop aboard a plane to US for their dream job, rather stay back in their homeland and work for its welfare. An India, where those not related by blood are united by beliefs. By their love & not separated by faith or color; where it’s not a crime to wed out of ones community, where millions aren’t stashed in Swiss accounts rather with every individual. India of my dreams is such a place where each Indian truly believes that ,”Saare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Humara.” “Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an INDIAN”, these are the words of Swami Vivekananda. India-my motherland, with its mighty Himalayas looks like a golden bird flying high all above the sky with its cultures, traditions and with many advanced developments in science and technology. I am very proud to be an Indian. I love my country and I want to be the best in the world. I wish that my country should become a great nation with its talent and capability. I have a sweet little dream for my motherland. People in India should be self-sufficient in food for which we have to make the barren lands productive. New varieties of seeds and modern tools should be used for agriculture which is the backbone of Indian economy. The India of my dreams is a corruption-free nation. Beggary should be abolished; government should be people-friendly and citizens should...
Words: 12556 - Pages: 51
...9: Grace-Filled 9 Principle 10: Knows the Power of Words 10 Conclusion 11 Bibliography 12 Introduction Many books and resources are available around the buzzing, modern topic of “Leadership.” To gather my personal definition of leadership, I have chosen to use different principles gathered from the Biblical writings to construct the foundation and structure to eternal, God-blessed leadership. The below principles are explained through essay conversations that includes concepts as well as personal stories from my journey toward biblical leadership. Principle 1: Acknowledge My Maker For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.[1] God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.[2] As a college student, I wrestled with the concept that God’s love for me, pointed back to himself. Love in my world terminated with me. “Anna, I love you because you are funny; I love you because you are talented.” During this wrestling season, God gave me a vision of the...
Words: 3547 - Pages: 15
..... .. | | . |A Modest Proposal | |By Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | |A Study Guide | |Cummings Guides Home..|..Contact This Site | |.. | |Type of Work | |Purpose | |Historical Background | |Summary | | ...
Words: 7460 - Pages: 30
...College Students Expenses By Anne Jones Going to a top college can be hard because it is really costly. A student and his family must be prepared by all means to keep this commitment to further a student's education. So awareness of how much your college education would be is critical because it is not limited to tuition fees. There can be more expenses to be expected when a student goes to college. Let us look at the general list of what a student pays in college. First would be tuition fee. Tuition fees can be at the range of $6000 - $25,000 for a four year course. Take note that public colleges have smaller tuition fees than private colleges. So look to this as an option. Second would be living in colleges. A student in college usually would try to find work in between to cover the cost of living. It is something that should be considered before going to college because you have to think of things like rent, food, bills and other travel costs. A common student would need an average of $1,000 extra for these extra expenses. Third are the materials you need to study. These are the givens like books, bags, IT equipment and could cost to at least $2,000 a year. So it is important to be able to budget before you go to college. Make sure you leave yourself some extra money monthly for self use. Try to find a monthly average of your expenses so you could allocate your funds accordingly. Going to college is a big investment but in the long run the education you get would allow...
Words: 10647 - Pages: 43
