...Mario Talavera English 1A Often times we see articles on the internet about college education and how important it is to get one, what are the majors that are most likely to give you the higher paycheck, degrees with the higher and lower unemployment rate, we see degrees that will give you a better chance to pay back all of the loans at the end of graduation, but also the ones the are on the opposite side of the spectrum. Reading all these reports online can either help you or make it even more difficult to decide for the type of degree you want to go for, some students prefer to go for careers that will give them the most money over following their real passion, only because they feel they have better chances of having more success and financial stability, but there’s one thing that a lot of people can agree on, that getting a college education can increase your chances at success and you’re more likely to achieve excellence and grow at any type of job. But what is success or how do we define it ? Sucesss can have various different meanings according to people, to some it may mean going to the college of their dreams and eventually getting that “perfect” job that they’ve always wanted, driving a fancy car and being able to go on vacation every year, and not having to worry about paying bills because you make enough money to cover those expenses. While for other people, success just means maybe getting married and having your own house, waking up every morning...
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...Present and Future Paper I am the oldest Of 2 children I was born to Mrs Middleton and Mr Bowers. I was born in Indiana and was raised here in south Florida. At about the age of 11 is when I started to develop a love for animals my Mother was hoping that one day I would become a veterinarian seeing that I loved animals we at one point had 7 cats as well as hamsters so my mother use to tell me that seeing that I liked animals so much I should go into the field of working hands on with the animals. I graduated from Cooper City High school is 2000 and once I graduated I enrolled at Broward Community College just for a semester I had to leave Broward community college cause although I graduated I was unable to get my High School diploma so I had to go night school and try and get my GED. I finally got my GED in 2004 and then debated as whether or not I wanted to go back to college after the experience I had I was a little skeptical about it. My plans after I got my GED was to enroll at Santa Fe community college because they had the best zoology program however I didn’t make it in due to the requirements that where needed in Math. I was never good in math so I figured that maybe college was not for me at the time. In 2006 I started working for the University of Phoenix which was one of the first company’s I ever worked for that where known nationwide. In about 3 months of working for UOP they offered to pay for my tuition if I decided I wanted to go back to school it took me a couple...
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...education like colleges being worth it. With today’s job market and the cost to go to college, you might think it is not. A lot people in our society view higher education as an investment that will payoff in the long run but many others would tell you that you are just wasting time and money. The reason why colleges and university are worth the four plus years and the high cost of tuition is because of the amount of money you can make afterwards. An article written by Catherine Rampell can help you see the advantages of receiving a degree from an institution. She showed that of the American earning more then $150,000, 82 percent of them carried a bachelor’s degree. Only 6.5 percent of those Americans who earned at least $150,000 did not receive a high school diploma and around 7 percent did have a diploma. This illustrates the need for more people to go to college to receive a degree because it will get them a job that will increase their income by 20 to 30 thousand dollars. In the long run, this can affect your standard of living. With that extra cash you would be making, you can pay off your college debt which a lot of people are saying is out of control and one of the reasons college is not worth it. The bigger picture is that you can payoff the college debt in the first five years and then use that money to pay for a new car or a bigger house. This is the reason why the standards of living will increase. On the other hand, college may be not worth...
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...Why do we go to college? Going to college is one of the biggest choices someone could make in their life. There are many reasons why people go to college and some those reasons can also be why they choose not to go to college. These factors include geography, getting a higher education, parents and peers. These play a huge role in decision making. To find out the answers i interviewed recent college graduate at New Paltz,Djiby Ousmane. Location plays an important part in college decisions, because u have to decide where you want to go to college, either stay in your home state, upstate or out of state. All of these depends on how focus you really want to be while in college, also to experience a different environment. Djiby chose to go to New paltz “to escape from the city and try something different” many do the same for the same reasons, however some people won’t do that because of financial constraints. The National Association for college admissions posted by the New York Times states, “the education level,income and travel experience of parents are the easiest ways to determine how far away a student is willing to go to college”...
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...I grew up being a very indecisive child. At the age of 4, I decided I wanted to be a princess like most 4-year-olds. At the age of 8, I wanted to be an astronaut and go to the moon and never come back. Then, at age 10, I fell in love with the idea of being a doctor and that stuck for a while until the fourth grade when I took a field trip to Project O. I remember that trip like it was yesterday. Before going on the trip I thought about how useless it seemed, and that it would be to go see a bunch of fish and crabs. Nevertheless, I couldn’t pass on a good field trip so I went with a bad attitude hanging over me and within an hour of being there I fell in love. The whole day on the water forced me to rethink what I wanted to do when I grow up and that's when the passion for becoming a Marine Biologist was born. Since that day, my love for working out in nature began and it helped me really understand things. I would like to think of myself as a visual learner I work best when someone is showing me things and when I’m interacting with something. Since...
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...You get what you give “ College isn’t everything. In my opinion your work ethic is what your success will be based off. In the essay “The Case Against College” I believe proves the point of showing college isn’t everything. If you give 20% you can expect to only get about 20% back out, but if you put in everything you have you will end up having a lot better results. Determination and the amount of effort will decide how far you go in life. I believe Linda Lee has a very good understanding of how college affects your future, based on the amount of effort you put into it. In the author’s essay she stated that she asked herself if her son was receiving $1,000 worth of education, where she decided that “heck no” he wasn’t. I believe that...
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...When Johnny Manziel appeared recently on the cover of Time magazine -- striking his Heisman pose with six simple words, "It's Time To Pay College Athletes" sharing his space -- the most universally agreed, yet universally debated, issue in all of non-professional sports returned to the front of the national discussion. Yet the beauty of the debate is once again lost because the foundation of the argument sits on a fault line. There is no system of payment that can be put in place that is fair across the board to all students, all sports and all schools that participate in college athletics. At this point, the debate over whether college athletes should be paid really doesn't change anything. It's not about finding the right answer because there is no right answer. Seemingly everyone, regardless of the stance they take, makes valid points. Yes, for the most part, colleges and universities are making money off of the backs, performances and success of major football and men's basketball programs and the scholarship athletes who play them. But ask yourself: Isn't that what most businesses do? Yes, business. Not college athletics. Business, man. The problem seems to be that we don't look at college athletics as a business. Instead, we subconsciously and constantly (and emotionally) look at college sports as something different. We allow the "school" part to blind us into thinking that the educational piece changes the dynamics of what is really going on and exempts athletics...
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...should college athletes be paid. The bigger question should be why are student athletes not being paid. I stand firm on the issue that student athlete's should be compensated for the work they put in for the University. I am a former student athlete and I feel strong about the situation because I have seen thing behind the curtain that the normal American public does not see. If people really knew what it was like to be in the shoes of a student athlete they would probably choose to go to school without sport. The lifestyle of a student athlete is demanding. Do to NCAA rules student athletes are unable to work during the school year due to compromising tactics like receive an increased amount of money because you play for a respected program. Many athletes have lost money from being taken advantage of by agents, coaches, and lenders all looking to cash out when the athlete play professionally. There are many rules to keep student athletes in a system where they basically have no control over there future. For example if a student athlete wanted to transfer to a different college they would have to sit out one academic semester no matter the circumstance. If a student athlete wants to transfer the coach can keep them from going to certain programs. Some coaches have the right to even protect players while there still in high school to keep them from attending schools. Coaches on the other had are making the big bucks of of a door of revolving talent. When a coach decides they want...
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...that people learn from their own personal experiences or what they see markets more in the social world. People argue that if you don’t go to college and get a degree you won’t have success or wealth, and some people argue that not going to college gives you more freedom and is less time consuming. Having street smarts helps people understand each other better on a more personal level then being judged on how smart or dumb the person is based on a degree. College isn’t accessible to everyone; some people have to be really smart or born into a wealthy family to attend. Having a college education gives people a professional look and the confidence to get a good paying job that will help support their lifestyle. College also lets people express themselves, letting them become comfortable in being social and speaking in front of large groups of people. When going to college some people don’t realize that they are taking out a loans and debts that they’ll have to set an exact plan to follow during and after they graduate to be able to pay it back. This tends to set people back from actually going to college because they don’t want to dig themselves in any wholes that’ll cause problems or add problems to their lives. Not only are there successful college stories in college there are also failing college stories. People who think that college will be a fascinating and...
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...What is your opinion on why college athletes being paid, because I have my own. I feel if we did pay them they would kill the joy and the excitement of playing college sports. I think it would absolutly destroy college sports. Paying the college athlete’s would take the fun out of bowl games (football) and March Madness (basketball). They should not get paid because they get a free education, they are not professionals, and they would not take their education as serious. My first opinion is that they should not get paid because they get a free education. I think this is the main reason on why they should not be paid. The College athletes are provided with the opportunity to earn a degree, engage in college life, and play their favorite sport...
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...it. I will provide in this paper decision-making process when I had to make a personal decision, such as enrolling in college. People face a wide range of opportunities every day, as well as certain challenges supporting this process, and the most difficult thing in the life of a person finishing school is to become enrolled in college of his or her dream. The decision-making process may become challenging for people due to the lack of structure and entail risk, uncertainly and conflict ( Managerial Decision Making, Chapter 3 pg 87). That is why people trying to make some important personal or professional decisions should have some appropriate model to follow in order to avoid such challenges. In the text, there are six steps or stages of decision-making process which may be attached to any problem or decision. First, it is important to identify and analyze the problem. My problem was the enrolling in college, as I wanted to enter a good college to build my future professional career. It was a tough decision to make because I was not sure if I am taking the right decision. In order to take this decision, I analyze my past, present, and future implications and experiences helping to make the right choice. I looked at the choices I made in the past and how I would do them differently with this enrollment. I took into consideration not only my preferences and ideas, but also opinions of my parents and relatives. I had to evaluate my alternatives for my choice and decide if it...
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...If I had a ticket to go anywhere in the world, I would go to Houston Texas. I would go to Houston Texas because I plan to start my career over there, and because I want to explore over there. I would visit any Art museums over there, I want to be inspired to make more of my own Art. I would go visit all of my boyfriends family that I don’t know yet. His family at Houston know about me, but only a small amount of those people have seen me in person. I would start looking at colleges over there and decide what college I want to enrolled into. I think I have more chances of getting into a good college over there, then I have of getting into a good college here. Houston is the place that comes to my mind when someone asks me where I want to go....
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... does taking that test really decide how smart you actually are. Eleven years of schooling and one of those tests will decide what college you go to and what you will do for the rest of your life. People have all different types of talents and these test favor the people who are good at school but, what about the kids who are good musicians or good athletes? Why should a test decide how smart they are when the activities that those kids are exceeding in, aren’t on...
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...father of Homer Hickman and a coal miner at the Coalwood mines in West Virginia, socially outcasts his son. Why? Because John doesn’t agree with his son building a rocket. This is explored through Homers father getting in multiple fights with his son. John called Homer many hurtful words for example a minis and a thief. John never wanted to go watch Homers rocket launch, he never agreed with anything that Homer wanted to do. Homer’s father wanted him to work in a coal mine not build rockets. Homer’s father is thrilled when Homer decides to go work in the coal mine after John gets hurt at work. Homer decides to quit school, quits making rockets and go into the coal mine. After John is out of the hospital and is able to go back to work, Homers mother want him to go back to school. Homer tells him mom that he’s not going back to school and John agrees with Homer. Although John is thrilled that Homer quit building rockets, the family is finally happy and everything is good, Homer decides to go back to school to build rockets and win what his goal was the entire movie, The Science Fair. Homer and his friends win the Science Fair and get to go onto the National Science Fair but the only problem is, only one person can go. Homer’s friends choose him. John is not to proud of his son and he tells his son, “if you don’t want to be here, go, just go” Homer replies with “fine I’ll go...
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...passing time. It takes three minutes to get from the history building to the English building, two if I run. But my history teacher tends to keep us after class for around a minute. That will leave me with four minutes, give or take, to sit down and complete this English outline. Even easier, I can just ask Alex if I can just borrow his paper. The teacher wouldn’t even notice and Alex can care less, another minute shaved off for me. Ready, set, and go. That is now becoming the usual life for a high school student in the 21st century, rushing to class in order to get work done, just before the bell rings. The mentality of high school students going into college is slowly becoming less and less focused on education. Knowing that in high school they can get an easy “A”, student’s focus more on trying to fit in with the crowd. Trying to act cool by following others, because who studies anymore? Most students will tell themselves that studying is not important and they will pass the class regardless. Students get used to obtaining good grades in their classes when they do not deserve it, which leads to a struggling college life. They get too accustomed to getting something they don’t deserve and don’t realize that their quality of work is not good enough material to earn them, not get them, an “A” on a paper. High school is not preparing students well enough to succeed in college, therefore things need to change and teachers need to put down their foot and give students the education...
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