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Damon Climer Ms. Milliner EES21QH03 9/25/2016 Why Not Go to College? Going to college in this day and age is viewed as a must by a lot of people. Not only teachers, but parents and businesses as well. Even with all this pressure to get a higher education, there still remains a minority who still insist that college education isn’t or shouldn’t be a requirement to make a decent living, myself included. There are probably as many reasons as there are people, but let’s try to narrow it down a…

many students attend in college for a better advantage in finding a job and getting a higher income. Community colleges are the most affordable way to help the students who want to start and explore their career before they move on to four year university. Following to this aspiration, the president of the United States, Barrack Obama, has proposed the program to offer free two years of community college which known as “America’s College Promise”, the program will help over nine million American…

Is Common Core Necessary? Who needs Common Core? All students who are interested in furthering their education. Common Core teaches students how to be prepared for advances in educational atmosphere. By using technology, it enhances the students’ knowledge on how to become more independent and less dependent on help from teachers. It is the students’ decision whether they would want to be successful in the classrooms. Student has to be dedicated to furthering their education. Common Core does…

What is higher education anyway? According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, higher education is “education beyond the secondary level; especially education provided by a college or university.” Today, the argument is whether this higher education should be focused on a more liberal education or a more utilitarian education. A liberal education is often defined as one that is broad and provides knowledge of a variety of subjects. Martin Luther King Jr. was in favor of a liberal education, saying…

“Wow. That semester of college came as a shock.” This is what I thought at the end of my first semester of college. “I was not prepared at all and it ended up being one of my worst semesters of school.” There was no turning back; it was over with. Gone. I had no chance at going back and redoing what had happened. The only thing to do was to learn from the mistakes and move on; improve for the next semesters to come. The first semester, is a big wake-up call, it changes students in many ways; by…

Robert M. Emerson categorized responses to conflict between college roommates in his article Responding to Roommate Troubles: Reconsidering Informal Dyadic Control. Emerson organized each response by placing it into one of three separate groups: managerial responses, dyadic complaints, and distancing and punitive responses. In addition to defining each response type, he also provided real life examples of each. The conditions in which each response would normally be utilized and the…

Being a college student is not an easy task. Balancing finals with work, friends, and other activities may seem to be impossible. People are paying thousands and thousands of dollars to attend a school where they plan on getting a high quality education and a good paying job once they graduate. Now, imagine doing all of those plus a sport. Imagine competing at a higher level than they have ever competed at, while under the pressure to succeed. Imagine the amount of stress they will compile over…

Over the past couple decades, college athletics have increased their popularity tremendously. The increase in popularity has led to a surplus of revenue brought to each of the Universities and the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). Last year Oregon had a revenue of $196,030,398 and not a single player was compensated for the work they did on those sports teams (Berkowitz para. 1). The fact that these sports have been the cause of the increase in revenue has raised the question…

Technology is an important part of education in today 's world. However, many public school students do not have the ability to access these technologies to complete assignments that require internet access. Public school students are not equipped to accessing digital technologies. It would be a good idea if the government built a computer lab that will assist students with their assignments and projects, so that they do not have to worry about not finishing on time. Public school students (has)…

about the genuine purpose of education in university. What’s the definition of uni? Our schoolmaster Mr. 戚万学 had talked about his own understanding of university in this year’s welcoming ceremony speech. He said, the word university is formed by 2 characters in Chinese, the first Chinese character大 reveals spreading thoughts, powerful rationality and wide concern for others, and the second character学 interprets acquiring healthy…