...College Don’t Make Sense By: Marion Walker Alcaro Questions: 1. Research on the background information of the author, and state your answers in bullet form. * Marion Walker Alcaro, 97, passed away on Dec. 13, 2009 in Holland, Mich * She graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1935 * During the ensuing forty years she raised three sons, managed her husband’s medical office and authored numerous articles for Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day and The New Yorker magazines. * Later, at the age of 64, Marion decided to return to the academic world. At age 68 she received a master’s degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. At age 72 she received her second master’s degree from Drew University, and three years later, at the age of 75, received her Ph.D., also from Drew University. * At age 79, she authored and published a scholarly biography entitled “Walt Whitman’s Mrs. G” which, to this day, is widely recognizes and cited as a respected authority within the Walt Whitman segment of the academic community. * Over the ensuing fourteen years, Dr. Marion Alcaro, as a Walt Whitman Fellow, presented numerous courses and lectures at various colleges, universities and literary gatherings. 2. Has the life of the author influenced her in writing the literary piece? Give examples. Yes, the life of the author influenced her. The writer being a housewife and a married affects her insights about college. She realized all of those things when she became mature...
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...Caden Jenkins English 2010 February 21, 2016 Annotated Bibliography Berns, Walter. “Should The Current Electoral College Be Preserved?” Congressional Digest, 80. (2001): pg.16. EBSCOhost. Web. 21 February 2016. From being one of my databases I thought that it would be a good idea to have both sides of the argument, so that is why I selected to put another pro of the electoral college. The reason for this is to simply receive more credibility from my audience that I have looked at all sides of this and from all of this information was able to draw my own conclusion. Furthermore the audience is always pleased with the fact that you do not simply hammer on the topic but show the good things about it as well. It answers key questions as to why it should be kept what good things it does for the smaller states in giving them power. It argues that if we were to take it away it would mean that the smaller states would then become more over powered by the larger ones. Durbin, Richard J. “College System Be Preserved?” Congressional Digest, 80. (2001): pg.17. EBSCOhost. Web. 21 February 2016. This article is a little bit older being published in 2001 but it still holds very good information on whether or not the college should be preserved or not. This is a very credible source to me simply because it comes from a man who has been working in politics for quite sometime. The audience would be pleased reading about this as well because they will be able to receive the opinion of a man...
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...Money vs. True Value of Education Raeshelle Allen September 8,, 2012 As a child growing up doing well in school was never an option. The only this I had to do was go to school and make good grades. Now that I think about it school was my job and my paycheck was the knowledge I was gaining. This generation now-a-days have the idea that they should be rewarded finically for doing well. Students should not offered finical incentives to do well on standardize test in school. Schools should not give into to paying students for their performance. It is understood that in order to keep a school in good academic standings you have to make sure students do well on the standardized test. The test scores not only reflect the school but also represent each student as an individual. So you can see why it is important for students to do well but should that really mean at all cost. For many years teachers have been teaching the material for the long term knowledge now it seems as if they are just beginning to teach just for testing. There are some major disadvantages when trying to offer students financial incentives to do well on standardized test. Education should be viewed as a privilege. Many students take educations for granted. Not knowing that in some countries education is still not free let along for all males and females. You even have some certain types of schools here in the USA that you have to pay for high school education. I would think since students know that one day...
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...his way back. The book, while on the surface seems like a little bibliography about Crawford’s life is actually more about human excellence and why it is undervalued today. According to the author Americans have lost the appreciation and value for hands on work because of the belief that the only valuable work is work that is performed intellectually. Crawford argues that high schools made a mistake by dismantling shop-class programs and instead preparing students to become “knowledge workers.” He says that our society believes...
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...I don't think that we should be forced to do 100 hours of community service. Maybe fewer hours or not having to do it at all just a choice if we want to, I don't think they should tell us we won't be able to graduate if we don't get those 100 done. Here are some reasons on why we should have to do community service, Some high schoolers have jobs that take up their afternoon and sometimes the weekends,Some of the students can't drive yet so there parents would have to take them and some parents work and don't have time to take them for 3 hours or more than that come back and pick them up repeatedly, and finally other students have younger siblings they have to take care of or go pick up from schools. There are my three reasons on why we should...
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...College Should Be Free Do you think that college should be free? What would life be like with free college. Having free college means people don’t have to worry about losing money. To go to college the cost is way too high. It’s safe to say that people basically can go broke from paying to go to a the college they want. College should be free because society provides childhood early education for k-12 so why do we have to pay for just college, no one can afford college, and people have a better chance at a better life and career. First of all elementary, middle school, and high school is free and necessary for them but why isn’t college free too. People would have a more stable life if they went to college but...
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...Free speech should be allowed on campus. Free speech is meant to be free and should not be limited to certain areas. Our first amendment rights tell us that we have free speech, along with some other freedoms, and that should mean free not limited to certain areas. The people on campus should have the right to say what they want and not fear getting in trouble for it. These people should have the same rights as if they were not on campus, but that does not seem like how it is. The schools are there to help the students and to teach them better and newer things in life. Colleges are not there to restrict your rights, they are there to help you learn and to help you get a career after you graduate. They do have free speech on most campuses, but they have designated it to certain zones. These zones are a good idea, but it is our first amendment right to have the freedom of speech and they are slowly taking that away from us on campus. The administrative forces have been trying to punish these people that are not following by their rules. These colleges are trying to limit the free speech of students in their schools. These people try to take a stand with peaceful protests, but they just end up getting...
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...except one thing and that’s buying/drinking alcohol. That’s one thing that always got my attention: why 21? If you are considered by the law an adult at 18 then you should be treated like one in all aspects of it. Everyone has their own opinion on this matter, and there have been numerous arguments for each side. As I was surfing the web, I came across an article by Matt Nagin. Nagin’s article was “Top 3 Reasons Why the Drinking Age Should Not Be Lowered to 18”. It grabbed my attention so I decided to give it a look, Nagin’s 3 top reasons were, drunk driving, binge drinking and alcohol poisoning, and violent behavior all in that order. According to the article Nagin states that there is an average of 17,000 deaths related to drunk driving. This survey was conducted in 2010. The numbers have slightly gone down (Nagin). From all the drunken driving statistics rates were the highest among 21-25 year old at 23.4% and 15.1% for 18-20 year olds, but after the age of 25 the rates decrease (Nagin). The way I see it keeping the drinking age at 21 is not really making a difference because as the statistics show most drunk drivers are over the age of 21 anyways, so what good does it do to keep it at 21? I don’t believe the statistics will increase any higher than they already are, because the people that want to drink are already doing so. As long as alcohol is legal there will always be drunken related accidents and deaths there is no changing that. The second main reason why Nagin believes...
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...COLLEGE ESSAY PROMPTS -- TOPIC OF CHOICE 1.What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has influenced your thinking, and in what way? (University of Virginia applicants to the College of Arts and Sciences) 2.Discuss how a particular work of music, literature, or art has inspired your life. (William and Mary) 3.Tell us how a particular book, play, film, piece of music, dance performance, scientific theory or experiment or work of art has influenced you. If you choose a novel, film or play, assume we know the plot. (University of Notre Dame) 4.Consider the books you have read in the last year or two either for school or for leisure. Please discuss the way in which one of them changed your understanding of the world, other people, or yourself. (Duke University) 5.Tell us about a situation where you have not been successful and what you have learned from the experience. (William and Mary) 6.First experiences can be defining. Cite a first experience that you have had and explain its impact. UPA 7.Recall an occasion when you took a risk that you now know was the right thing to do. (University of Penn) 8.Tell us what you think about a current scientific or social controversy. (William and Mary) 9.Most people belong to many different communities groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that...
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...As a country, we seem to lack the biggest thing this “new world” was created for. Since the beginning of the United States of America, we fought for freedom and equality, yet in a time like today we seem to have forgotten what that meant. From the biggest thing like racial injustice to even what we might push off to the side like education, we have lacked that equality in. If you ask a student from an urban area a question like how to calculate moles they might look at you like you are crazy. If you ask a student from a more suburban area, it seems to be like they know more than you expected. The biggest difference between Urban and Suburban education is the equity. How much is given to each school as a resource and how much can be taken....
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...Strategies to Solving Procrastination Procrastination is an epidemic among college students, and is an issue that most would like to resolve in their day to day lives. Procrastination is loosely defined as intentionally putting things off that you would rather not do in the present. William J. Knaus, states in his article, “Procrastination, Blame, and Change” that procrastination has been around since the beginning of time, and also cites that even Benjamin Franklin included in his 13 virtues: “Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve” (Knaus, 2000). In order to solve the problem of procrastination, as well as any other problem, college students should follow a few steps: Identify and select the problem; Analyze the problem; Generate possible solutions; Evaluate solutions; Put the Solution to work; Evaluate the solution; and finally, Apply what you learn (Carter, Bishop, & Kravitz, 2007). We have already identified the problem; procrastination. The next step for a college student would be to analyze why they procrastinate. An online handout, published on The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (n.d.) website, lists several reasons why we procrastinate, such as fear, perfectionism, and simply stated, because it works. Let us first address fear. Fear of failure is where we feel we are inadequate, and our work will reflect that, therefore we don’t even try. With fear of success, one fears that if they start working at their full capacity...
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...Smarthinking's OWL; best wishes with revising your paper! *Strengths of the essay: Thanh , thank you for submitting your assignment for review. I am Ann B., your writing tutor. First, I want to point out a strength I noted when I read your paper. This sentence in the introduction presents a question and then answers it: College athletes are supposed to be the best of the best on that level, so why do college athletes not get paid? The question sets up the argument nicely for the reader! Now let’s move on to some areas that need revision. Content Development: A direct quotation like this one is not a good topic or first sentence: McCourt states “The athletes are ones who put in hours of practice and training” ( Evan Rosenfeld and Scarlett McCourt). Your audience may not understand why this quoted passage is important. The topic sentence should present a main point about athletes being paid in your own words. The first point is the hectic schedule. Can you write a topic sentence that introduces this point? I note that the second body paragraph does have a topic sentence introducing a point from the thesis in your own words: Another reason to why college athletes should get paid is they need money for expenses. Can you write a similar topic sentence for the first body paragraph as well, Thanh? Then the reader can see the first main point as easily as the second! For more tips, see Developing Powerful Paragraphs. *Thanh 5901461 has requested that you respond to the Organization:...
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...We all need to critical thinking whenever we are reading, watching and listening to things, it is a vital skill for students, employees, citizens and everyone really. In college you develop critical thinking skills because, many theories and ideas are presented, and you are made think about these theories and ideas, it allows are to agree or disagree with them, which shows that you are becoming a critical thinking. How being a strong critical thinker helps us, is we can link different bits of information together to get a better understanding of the topic, you are researching about. It helps you see if there is faults or inconsistencies with the information that you are reading, you can create arguments and have evidence to back it up, you...
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...Standardized Testing Standardized testing should not be required for admission to college because it doesn't really tell you anything. Why make someone take the ACT, SAT, or any IQ test just to see if their smart enough for college, or to even get in that specific college. Some people don't do well with test taking so they get a bad score. All that really shows if your good at test taking or not. This is why standardized test should be abolished from college admissions. A standardized test is called such because everyone takes the same test with the same questions, so ones performance can be compared to everyones else, in order for a relative score to be obtained (Lurie, Karen. "Standardized Testing.”). The first SAT was published in 1926 and administered 8,040 people. Standardized tests serve to offer measure of aptitude. There are standardized test that can measure school progress, intelligence, memory, and behavior capabilities. Some standardized tests are given to a whole group of people at once, others are given individually. There are also...
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...a successful college student College, this is the stage where we students need to take studying seriously. This is where our future will depend, and everybody wants a better future that’s why we go to college. But college, as I have said needs to be taken seriously and taking it seriously means we need to improve a lot of things as a student. One of the things we need to improve is our characteristics as a college student. If we want to be a successful college student we must possess these following characteristics of a successful student. Base on what I have searched, a successful college student is good on time management skills. Learning to balance school, social life and extracurricular activities is one of the most important things to learn. A successful college student is hardworking and persistent. If we want to achieve our goals, we should really work hard and do our best but being persistent as the same time because there are cases that we worked hard and did our best but it is still not enough. It is easy to think that we are stupid and just give up but we must not. A successful student is an optimistic and motivated person. We are not failure and it happens to more people than we think, we just need to learn from our mistakes and try again. A successful college student set goals and is devoted to achieve them. Education is his/her absolute first priority and is focus on not only passing classes with the best grades but, to finish college in the fastest...
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