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issue for students, universities and society in general. The problem has existed for years and is still a topic for many to research and understand. It is in the best interest of all three parties to reduce the dropout rate. Factors to be dissected are lack of money, being academically unprepared, and the metamorphic life changes encountered by freshman which are stressful. For those unable to obtain academic or athletic scholarships, government funding such as the Tennessee Promise…

linguistics with a minor in elementary education at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Although I am an in state student, the tuition is a burden and I didn't qualify for any need-based aid so I am dependent on outside scholarships to help me in funding my education. I feel that I deserve this scholarship because although it might sound cliché, I worked hard to get into a top high school which prepared me to get into a well-known university. I took honors and AP classes all throughout…

you pay attention to his stories or what he has to say that day, you will pick up knowledge on many different aspects of life. You might as well drop his class if you are a Mississippi State fan, for Dr. Cross graduated from "THE University of Mississippi itself," and you will hear this a few times. The University of Mississippi is a rather prestigious school, so I can understand why he is proud. The stories of his childhood interest…

in Arkansas to go to college in order to become a sports reporter would be Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Not only do they have a great Media and Communication Program, but they are also in a great location being only one hour away from Memphis, Tennessee, two hours from Little Rock, and four hours from both St. Louis, Missouri, and Nashville, Tennessee. In order to be accepted into Arkansas State University unconditionally, one must have a high school GPA of at least 2.75. Also a…

disagree with the idea may be from their experience that shouldn’t stop us from making this happening. Now we have a program in Tennessee that is experimenting free college, it’s a scholarship program that will provide two years of tuition-free attendance at a community or technical college in Tennessee(“Tennessee Promise”). President Obama proposal is very similar to the Tennessee scholarship program, he want to make two years of community college free for responsible students across…

“What Are Your Pronouns: The Latest Craze on Campus” is an opinion piece by Jay Nordlinger written for National Review, which is a conservative political magazine. Nordlinger is a self-identified conservative faculty member at a private university, and his article rejects both feminist and queer theory language tenants. Overal, he criticizes the use of gender-neural pronouns calling the practice overly prescriptive and a craze. He begins the piece by telling a story in which he only used the…

Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams presents Blanche Dubois, the embodiment of a typical Southern Belle: dainty, vain, and very feminine. After moving in with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley, Blanche finds herself caught in a spiral of alcoholism and stupor. The fallen and faded belle is prone to her frequent haunting memories and fantasy-like state-of-mind. While Williams utilizes repetition to represent chronic flashbacks that injure Blanche’s state of mind, Oscar Wilde uses…

In “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, the Wingfield family is a very broken one. The Wingfield family represents the average family living in St. Louis at the time of 1937. They consisted of the mother, Amanda, the older daughter, Laura, the younger son, Tom, and the nameless father. In the beginning of the play the father is absent and represented by a picture on the wall. He would “stay out late” and drink and one day he never came back (940). The reader gets a feeling that the…

The Characters of The Glass Menagerie The classic play The Glass Menagerie was written by Tennessee Williams. The memory play takes place during the 1930’s Great Depression era in St. Louis, where you see the narrator Tom Wingfield walking in his old dingy apartment where he once lived with his mother Amanda Wingfield and Sister Laura Wingfield. That’s where he starts to narrate the past memories he spent with them as well as describing each of the protagonist’s characters in the play. All…

Daniel Sullivan Professor Tomaino THTR-105 December 14, 2016 Tennessee Williams The Greatest Southern Playwright Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams III, was born on March 26th, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. Williams suffered through a difficult and troubling childhood. His father, Cornelius Williams, was an alcoholic shoe salesman and frequently abused Thomas. Cornelius was critical of Thomas 's love of reading and writing poetry, and wished that his son was more robust and…