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Sensitivity Why do college students take things so seriously these days? According to the article, “Today’s College Students Can’t Seem to Take a Joke!”, written by Caitlin Flanagan discusses how college students cannot take a joke. This article, is about comedians coming onto college campuses to perform comedy, however college students take things too seriously. It talks about how the college students only liked the positive comedians that did not make any offensive jokes towards anyone.…

not done there, he then brings in the government and why they are failing us. He demands for free education by saying, “failure to fund higher education means that America’s economy is unable to compete with other developed nations that have free universities” (Samuels 4). He brings in the fact of how other nations, such as Germany, that have free tuition to show people that we need to have that in the United States. But he…

Thinking is inseparably interwoven into human nature. Nearly everyone ponders about various things: school, work, what to eat for dinner. Yet, as every college student knows, the difference between the thinking involved in solving a differential equation and the thinking involved in searching for a potential romantic partner is like the difference between day and night. In his speech, “Memorial Address”, the renowned German philosopher Martin Heidegger explores two forms of thinking that he…

Academic Argument To be considered a top recruit you don’t even have to display your intelligence all you need to display is the athletic ability that you have obtained. The film “Hoop Dreams” shows the two main characters being pursued by college coaches because of what they could potentially bring to the team not what they can bring to the school. The only time education was important to Arthur and William was when their high school coach or counselor informed them that they had to reach a set…

In William Zinsser's article, "College Pressures," he examines the pressures that confronted college students in the late 1970's. Zinsser concentrates on four primary pressures, which are financial, peer, parental and self-induced pressures. Zinsser feels that these students are so much pressurized, but they ought to understand that there is no "right" approach to succeed, and a career does not need to be preplanned. He correctly gives an example where he calls personalities for guest lectures,…

After reading Some Lessons From the Assembly Line by Andrew Braaksma (2005), the essay details a transition of Braaksma's views. At the beginning of the article, Braaksma reveals his comfortable life and the way he views his world. As Braaksma starts working on the assembly line, his entire perspective on college and life changes. Braaksma learns that the real world is a much different place, and people have different types of hardships and problems they experience. The harsh reality of life…

In Peter Cappelli’s Paper “Why Focusing Too Narrowly in College Could Backfire” Cappelli writes about how students that specialize in college may be doing themselves a disservice. Cappelli writes that the way students are currently going about getting specialized degrees is flawed and can be a creating disadvantages for future efforts in life be it more schooling or finding a job in the fields. Cappelli states that “Schools, in turn, are responding with new, specialized courses that promise to…

understanding of university education. Asklepios for example is a university for medical studies. They are offering exactly one program: human medicine. Asklepios teaches in a traditional way, because the subject taught did not go through a lot of change in recent years. Their difference to a public university is only found in them not being public and therefore being costly. Obviously Asklepios is no competitor to Macromedia but still relevant to show that private universities do not necessary…

The students did very well on the timeline multiple-choice questions and the two short answer questions. I believe the timeline activities in class and the formative assessment questions at the end of each reading attributed to the success of the students on these portions of the test. Not including the student who did not take the test, all but one student made significant gains. The students who made significant gains increased their scores from 3 points to 17 points. The one student who did…

Workplace Accommodations Student’s Name: Institution’s Name: Question One In this case Dr. Drew is under obligation to study the ADA to understand why and when a leave of absence should be considered appropriate in workplace accommodation. He should do a research to know exactly how long such a leave should last and the implications of denying Charlie the leave. Dr. Drew ought to know if the request for a leave of absence is reasonable or effective before he decides to terminate Charlie…