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Exhibiting slight variations in their professional treatment of [noncommissioned] officers and enlisted personnel, each branch of service uniquely identifies respective roles and responsibilities. In general, enlisted service members sign contracts obligating them to a particular branch of service for some duration of time and once expired, each member typically has an option to renew or exit altogether. Traveling a different path to officer ranking compared to their commissioned counterparts…

Does grit really determine how well one will be in college and in life? Marcus Crede for one doesn’t believe in Angela Duckworth’s research to show and prove how those with a higher grit affects how successful they will be in the future. In her article “MacArthur 'Genius' Angela Duckworth Responds To A New Critique Of Grit,” Anya Kamenetz discusses assistant professor of psychology Marcus Crede’s assessment of grit, which he states “is far less important than has commonly been assumed...And it…

The authors start the article with comparing car ranking and it was a perfect example for this subject. Malcolm Gladwell talking siad cars that are being compared should be somewhat similar. You can’t compare a super expensive car to a very cheap car. That how colleges are rank these days. The author presents the problem very clearly. The problem is that Colleges are rank broadley which make it hard to measure the quality of the education. The system is competitive because it doesn’t compare…

Affirmative action in colleges today needs to continue, because a diverse population of students can enrich the learning of all the students in the school. Students of any race should be able to attend colleges that they want to go to. “Race and ethnicity are just two more considerations in an effort to create a well-rounded class,” Terry Swenson. This quote states that diversity in college and high school classes can make them more rounded. Diversity is important in society for many reasons. A…

Many college students believe that they will end up making more money than their uneducated peers. There are many citizens who are unaware that they have the potential to live a world of debt after graduating. Robin Wilson, author of the article “A Lifetime of Student Debt Not Likely”, clearly concludes that student debt is unlikely in the title of the article itself. The real truth is student debt can be highly likely. Although it is easy to agree with Wilson’s conclusion it is easy to see debt…

College is a big step in life and people should pay to experience it. College offers unique opportunities that can take you to higher places. Students should pay for college because if they don’t pay they will think college is a joke, there might not be enough class and dorm space because of extra student's, and lastly the teachers will be frustrated because there would be too many kids in a small area. Students should pay for college so they take college seriously and not as a joke. If the…

When did college begin to become a way of life, a necessity in most households? Most parents encourage their children to go to college from a very young age. For a lot, it’s simply a way of life. You grow up, leave high school, and then go straight into college. In Frank Bruni’s, “The Imperiled Promise of College,” he speaks about how numerous people are going to college, yet a lot of them don’t have jobs after they receive their diploma, or that their job has nothing to do with what they have…

College has been seen again and again as a stepping stool in a person’s life to get where one like to be. We spend 1/3 of our life going to school to learn, interact, socialize and earn a degree. How much of that is worth it? Why should we spend so long just for a piece of paper? Are too many people and the competition worth all the pain, financial stress, and imbalances in a person’s life? College is only getting more expensive by the year, and everyone deserves to go to college to learn, but…

Some educators have seen the light. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) has started an initiative to add Art education to STEM, thereby making STEAM. Some schools say the A is for Agriculture, but the trend is towards Art in STEM education. On the other hand, STEM, with or without liberal arts integrated, is not all that it’s cracked up to be. There are so many things that make a liberal arts education more important and beneficial than a STEM education. For example, liberal arts aren’t…

In the past, when it came for preparing for a career, the thought used to be the more education received the better. Now time is proving not to be that simple. With most jobs being offshored to other countries for cheaper labor, it is just as important what type of education was received as how much education was received. Some jobs are practically impossible to offshore making those specific jobs a better choice for obtaining a stable future. Certain skills offer the best chances to land the…