“Should Gamers be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing?” By Alex Weiss Textual Analysis Alex Weiss, a graduate from Arizona State University, wrote this essay on virtual theft for his Work and Play in Contemporary Fiction/Digital Media class. It was later published in the online magazine Slate (Bullock and Goggin 731). Weiss is clearly an educated writer, but refrains from fairly acknowledging the other side of his argument: that gamers should not be prosecuted for virtual theft. The title of his…
from all of its users to make the website, ads, search results, and other features optimal for each person using their services. Similarly, Universities are now collecting information on its students but that raises questions. Does the university use that information? How does the university use that data that is in ethical manner for the student and the university? The article “Big Data on Campus” by Marc Parry explores this idea by bringing up the data collecting, and resulting actions to…
ideas and facts that he used to help him formulate his theory that there is an affirmative action crisis in higher education. He talks about the negative appeal that society has about affirmative action and why the crisis is still in full force. He states that “this negative view of affirmative action can be explained that affirmative action has gone beyond the “plus” factor in college admissions.” Affirmative action was originally intended for families who were victimized from slavery and Jim…
As the US population is becoming increasingly diverse due to globalization, our schools and classrooms are becoming filled with multiethnic students from different cultures and countries. Now having that in mind, the school systems, educators, and policies must tolerate the fact that these students are not like the native ones. They think, act, and talk differently. Intercultural education for the educators to have certain skills to communicate with the a globalizing classroom is very essential…
As the rate of college students using Rate My Professor website is growing quite rapidly in the United States, the question of whether it will benefit students’ schoolwork quality or not has sparked a lot debate. Rate My Professor is the largest online destination for entirely student-generated professor comments and ratings. Indeed, there is no doubt that the celebrated website, Rate My Professor, tends to be the quite popular reference for our college students to arrange every semester…
use logos to convince the reader that tuition free schools can be an excellent option and that Berea College is one of those excellent options. They reference U.S. News and World Report when they state that Berea College is ranked, “as one of ‘the best comprehensive’ colleges in the South.” At University of Notre Dame, the president, the Rev. John Jenkins, has proven that he can not only supervise, but teach and nurture as well. He has, “…taught undergraduates─ and personally consoles them if…
The Road to Success Many would say that one does not need to go to an elite college to be successful. Although their argument is reasonable, the statistics clearly show that going to an elite college bolsters your chances in succeeding in the working world. In fact, the average college graduate makes around $47,000 a year; however, graduates from more prestigious schools like Princeton were easily making at least six figures (Ellis). This is an extremely large discrepancy in the payoff of…
How can I become a better student in American college? Since I came to America and studied at Arizona State University, it’s already have been posted for 6 months. But I still have lots of things that confused me during the class. I don’t know how to be a nice study because I don’t know how to follow my professor sometimes on the class, and I feel really hard to ask some questions or answer some question to my professors. As we know, if a student always keep thinking during the class time, this…
is the fifth largest city in the United States and the core of the State of Arizona, both in terms of the State’s government and the population. The overall City of Phoenix fiscal year operating budget for 2017-2018 is 4.5 billion dollars, approximately about half of the State of Arizona’s 9.6 billion dollar budget (COP,AZ)The Phoenix Police Department is the largest department in the City of Phoenix and one of the larger government entities throughout Arizona. The Phoenix Police Department has…
and science from a very early age. She attended Florida State University, where she graduated with a bachelor in Meteorology, minor in mathematics and concentration in Hispanic Marketing Communications. While in FSU, she was the first bilingual deputy State Meteorologist on board at the Division of Florida Emergency Management – Emergency Operations Center where she would brief state officials about the weather conditions threatening the state. In 2008 she covered closely the wildfires that…