Annotated Bibliography: Is College Really Worth It All?
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Is College Really worth it all? Does going to college really pay off once it is all over? Because why go to college in the first place anyways? Who cares about getting an education when you 'll be spending all this time and money on a piece of paper? I mean is it really worth it? Some people would argue that students spend days and nights studying and worrying about grades, life, debt, and everything after they’re done with college. So the question remains! So what, what’s the point, what do we really learn in the end? Students all believe in the life or the hope in life that you achieve after college. The point of going to school is for a better job, a better career, and …show more content…
the possibility of that all so promising better salary. The price you pay and the degree you earn doesn’t always get you what you want. By researching multiple arguments, I hope to give a better understanding of the differences between these two higher ED institutions.
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission Jul, 2010 higher education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids. http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Colleges-Worth-the-price/66234
Summary: “Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission” Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus found on July, 2010, is a story about the cost of higher education being a $420 billion industry immune from scrutiny and in need of reform. They go on to mention why the reason we need over paid school presidents and faculty is, and why can’t they do the job without the million dollar contract or multimillion dollar facilities for the sports teams. How is this money not being reinvested back into education for the students? Hacker and Dreifus bring up many great points exploiting colleges for their lack of educating our children today. This article will help with my proposal paper. They bring up many different points along the way, with the troubles or issues with College in America. For example they mention that Today’s higher education is a $420 billion dollar industry, who can afford it?
Where is all this money really going? Why does it cost so much money to pay for my degree, which I will never pay off anyway? We ask ourselves all of these types of questions. When it comes to deciding on if we are going to go College or not, students should be going to school to learn to become better citizens in the world today. This is not what college should be about. We should all want to achieve a higher education and continue to learn as much as possible for as long as possible. College is becoming an expense that some just don’t want to take on. The world is not getting any cheaper. It’s certainly not slowing down any time soon, that’s for sure.
Rhetorical Analysis: Andrew Hacker is a professor at Queens College and the author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Scribner, 2003). Claudia Dreifus is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a writer for The New York Times. This article is adapted from Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids-and what we can do about it, published next month by Henry Holt/Times Books. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus the authors of Higher Education How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids- and What We Can Do about It, they say tuition charges at both public and private colleges have more than doubled- (in real dollars) - compared with a generation ago. Assessment: “Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission”
This article is one example of the meaning of a higher ED institution and if these institutions really help the students get what they pay for. The two writers bring up many different options for students to research when deciding whether to go to college or not. They mention the purpose of College should be a cultural journey, an intellectual expedition, a voyage confronting new ideas and information. This is something students want: The desire to achieve education, not the hindering thought of the expense. In the end we have to make higher education available to all, and not just the wealthy. This is not what our country needs. We need educated bright adults leading us all into our future.
Liz Addison. New York Times Magazine college essay contest runner up. Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission. Sep 26, 2007 Tw." They Say/I Say: Two Years are Better Than Four : With Readings. Ed. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel K. Durst. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2012. 529-36. Print.
Summary: "Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission." Liz Addison wrote an article piece in the New York Times Magazine toward Perl Steins argument in a runner up contest stating her opinion toward the purpose of a two year community college and a four year university. Addison argues the fact in her essay that Community College is a place to begin, just begin. This is an argument against what Rick Perl stein’s opinion piece “What’ the matter with College?” in which he argues that universities no longer matter as much as they once did. Addison states in her essay that she began in a community and it has helped her branch out, becoming a far better student then she could have ever been. Liz believes community college to be the affordable place of accessible hope for the future.
Rhetorical Analysis: "Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission."
Liz Addison is a biology major whose goal was to become a large animal veterinarian.
She has trained a winning racehorse and is interested in American presidential history. She now studies veterinary medicine at the Royal Veterinary College in London and plans to practice in Virginia once she graduates. The essay responds to Rick Pearlstein’s opinion piece “what’s the matter with college?” in which he argues that universities no longer matter as much as they once did. Addison brings up a very good point across the need to attend a 4 year school right away. I see her point of view on college being important and students need to start in one of the thousands of community colleges across the …show more content…
country.
Community colleges gives people, young, and old, the ability to believe it is possible that achieving a degree can and will happen with the right start. It opens the door to reality of possibilities in what may happen or may come for a student. With so many employers requiring at least a two-year degree now days, why not start at the beginning? College in itself is very overwhelming, the cost, the studying, the classes, and even the unknown possibility of failure can all be so discouraging. Liz makes a great argument regarding Pearlstein’s argument towards her paper, pointing out that anyone can go to a community college and have a positive out come just the same as going to a university.
Assessment: "Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission." This article is a great example of explaining the differences between attending a community college or a university. Addison points out that young or old there is no hesitation when it comes to an education. Simply a community college is a starting place for the road a head toward earning a degree that you choose. So we have to ask ourselves, so what? Why is it important for a person to go to college and get a degree if it’s going to cost so much time and money? well I believe it is very important in todays society in order to get a suitable career one will actually like that’s why students go to college to explore the opportunities college courses have to offer. Because I know how expensive college can be speaking as a college student myself. At first I did think of what was the point of college when I was in junior high but as I grew I understood the effort and worth of having a degree you can call as your own and be proud of. Such as Addison mentions Rick Pearlstein’s what’s the Matter with College? Article how he didn’t understand the importance of starting of in a community college and how she mentions it’s a starting of place to find oneself and look at the Possibilities College has to offer.
Kevin Carey. Chronicle of Higher Education July 25, 2010. Why do you think they’re Called For-Profit Colleges? http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-You-Think-Theyre/123660/ Summary: "Chronicle of Higher Education"
Carey brings up in this article many great points surrounding the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix. This school alone gives students the ability to earn what are said to be meaningless degrees at a cost of huge student loans. I think Carey brings up many great points of how for-profit schools make the thought of the degree appealing at a price. A degree is a degree, but if your employer doesn’t look at it like that and believe that it is in fact a valid degree; because of the for-profit schools status as an actual University. Then what good is it other than a huge pile of loans
Rhetorical Analysis: "Chronicle of Higher Education"
Kevin Carey is a policy director of Education Sector, an independent think tank in Washington. Carey says; “but what’s the point?” If your employer doesn’t recognize this as a valid degree then is it really a degree? There are so many questions about these for-profit schools being left unanswered. Even with the schools like University of Phoenix, where is the money all going? I can’t be sure it’s really going back into the students having a credible and valuable degree. This is for sure the only University that a professional NFL sports stadium is named by. Meaning they are now the corporate sponsor, it is rumored this sponsorship cost over $150 million for 20 years. How is it, a school promising these students a fair degree, could be able spend that type of money, and not place those funds back into the education for the students. Carey makes a good point, sometimes a degree just doesn’t cut it. You may spend a good amount on an education and still be working at McDonalds, sometimes employees look pass your degree and not hire you for other reasons. But other times they hire you and you end up doing something that has nothing to do with your degree.
Assessment: "Chronicle of Higher Education"
This has to be one of the more frustrating things with school today. I believe all of us want a degree that we are all going to school for a reason, but to find out that your degree is not as good enough because you went to this school or that school. Well, it’s just wrong. It shouldn’t matter where I went to school. It should only matter that the students going put in the time, the effort, and the dedication to achieve higher learning. The degree a student receives should be valued the same no matter where you get it from. So if you’re a Phoenix you should be proud to say it, and not discredited due to the degree not being for the university we all think it supposed to be from. The University of Phoenix needs to focus on the students’ education, and not the name of the school. I just don’t see how spend millions to have your name on a stadium is helping the students or their education.
Mike Rose. Blue-Collar Brilliance 2009 American Scholar http://theamericascholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/ Summary: "Blue-Collar Brilliance"
Rose began a study 8 years before on the thought processes involved in the Blue Collar worker. He states this is mindless thought process learned over time. This is everyday cognition, that blue collar workers master their positions thru repetition not thru knowledge. Rose talks about the years his mother spent as a waitress, working and maneuvering thru daily life and the tables she waited on. The 33 years his uncle put in at General Motors, working the line to supervising the paint and body department. They didn’t use school to get where they were in life. They achieved their positions in life with diligent hard every day work. They learned the skills through daily repetition.
Although this education he sates is mindless and cognitive this may be hard to relate it to my process report and correlating them together. I see his point of view that even without the correct education from college, a blue collar line employee with nothing more than an 8th grade education can work his way up to the department supervisor. Let’s then ask how often does this happen?
Rhetorical Analysis: "Blue-Collar Brilliance" Mike Ross is a faculty member of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and information Studies and the author of The Mind at Work and Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of us. A professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies is well known for his writing on issues of literacy. Rose wrote an article that appeared in 2009 in the American Scholar, a magazine published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The article was about a study that he had been doing for an 8 year period about the blue collar worker. In this article Rose states his position that the worker has not really learned anything, they have only developed a mindless process through cognition that is learned daily overtime and becomes repetitive. I do not, however, believe this. Any employee that starts at a company has to learn a skill, “learn the job” so to speak. The person must retain that knowledge and adapt to the newer changing times of innovation. I believe with any job you do, that things change over time. With new technologies that are being developed they must be learned or you will fail to adapt and lose your position within that job. If you are able to adapt and even think of new ideas and new ways to make things better you are valued as an employee.
Assessment: "Blue-Collar Brilliance"
So what? Why does a person have to learn so much for a job? Well in order to keep it and advance in the company having the ability and want to learn the knowledge thought by expert employees, these are the employees that are looked at for promotions. It used to be if you were great at your job and you performed well you would be the one with the promotion. This is not the case anymore, not lately anyway. The times have changed where you must have a degree to seek that advancement as it should be in most companies anyway. You still must be able to perform in your role as an employee, then with that and your degree there should be no problem achieving the results you are looking for.
Ross Taylor. Why College Matters 2007 New York Times Magazine http://essay.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/why-college-matters-7/?_r=0 Summary: “Why College Matters"
After High School many students plan their lives, one of them is to attend a college or a university.
The essential purpose of college is to obtain a degree for a good career one searches for. Which in order to obtain a specific chosen degree one has to put in the effort of going to school and spending time and money on a school and the materials such as books and other materials for those classes one chooses to take.
College was not only for the rich back then sure they could afford it and more of the upper class attended, but the middle class as well attended whether rich, poor, and more likely the middle class college was important for those individuals because it meant for a better life and access to a more acceptable, comfortable life especially for the middle class.
Today college is even more important for people because college today matters to an extent where in order to obtain a good paying job one has to have a degree. But college is not for everyone some individuals go to college for the experience and party life and those individuals either complete or drop out. But It ' up to the individuals if college and their future matters to them.
Rhetorical Analysis: “Why College
Matters" Ross Taylor a graduate from the University of Missouri-Columbia, class of 2008 from St. James, Missouri. As Ross Taylor mentions in his article, “I find myself jealous and scorn the age into which I was born”. He a goes on to mention how he wants a life where people are intellectual and speak to each other in an intellectual way, “ I think to myself, “ when intellectual and artist conferred over coffee and strong drink until 3 in the morning!’’. He makes a good point by leading the audience to think of the importance of school and what we were thought as little kids all the way till we graduated from high school and we had to decide on if we wanted to go to college or not. We are told what success is from the gecko do well in school by our parents and teachers get a degree in something useful. The pressure of going to school and once arriving one can feel lost in all the turmoil of paying for it and passing the class course. The goal is to become a college student and focusing on the future. We have to ask ourselves if not the goal of college then what? Do we just get a job where ever someone is hiring will we truly be happy? Taylor makes a good point, sometimes some graduates don’t learn the sufficient in there degree and don’t feel good at where they work. He mentions how school is important and that we should get a good education because in the real world mostly requires it.
Assessment: “Why College Matters" This article is a good example on the purpose of a getting an education. The importance of college has been shaped into our minds from the beginning. Ross Taylor has showed us that if we want a good future we need to get a better education as a response to Mr. Pearlstein’s piece as he mentions” college matters today only because it continues to maintain an extend the membership of the middle class.” The college lifestyle only is worth it if the person wants to truly be their and change his or her life in the end.
Conclusion:
After reviewing many of the writers articles on the purpose of attending a higher Ed institution and if it is all really worth all the time spent and money in the end after graduation. Therefore, Does Going to College Really Pay off once it 's all over? overall on the matter of the importance of college and the opportunities it offers I have learned from reading these articles that college and universities are expensive but I believe it is worth all the struggle with time and money expense, we have to understand that college provides a better future and opportunity that helps a person grow into a better person. College doesn’t have to be so expensive that you have to get so many loans to pay school of, there are better more suited ways such as applying for scholarships that you don’t have to pay back, one just has to work hard and want to learn and be knowledgeable about paying for school. So is it really worth it? I believe so I don’t know what everyone else thinks but everything about going to school creates the opportunities we all want for our future.
I believe you will never find out how college feels unless you try. I have read a few different articles that will try to sway you one way or the other, but when it comes down to it I am certain more often that college opens the doorway to the future. I don’t know what everyone else thinks, but everything about going to school creates the opportunity we all want. Well, maybe not all of us want college, but for me as a college student, for sure college was the only path that would give me the opportunity that I need to achieve what I want in life especially a good paying career not only that a career one actually wants to go to everyday.
Works Cited
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission Jul, 2010 higher education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids. http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Colleges-Worth-the-price/66234
Liz Addison. New York Times Magazine college essay contest runner up Sep 26, 2007 Two Years are better Than Four Sep 26, 2007 Tw." They Say/I Say: Two Years are Better Than Four : With Readings. Ed. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel K. Durst. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2012. 529-36. Print.
Kevin Carey. Chronicle of Higher Education July 25, 2010. Why do you think they’re Called For-Profit Colleges? http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-You-Think-Theyre/123660/ Mike Rose. Blue-Collar Brilliance 2009 The American Scholar http://theamericascholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/ Ross Taylor. Why College Matters 2007 New York Times Magazine
http://essay.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/why-college-matters-7/?_r=0
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Annotated Bibliography
Is College Really worth it all? Does going to college really pay off once it is all over? Because why go to college in the first place anyways? Who cares about getting an education when you 'll be spending all this time and money on a piece of paper? I mean is it really worth it? Some people would argue that students spend days and nights studying and worrying about grades, life, debt, and everything after they’re done with college. So the question remains! So what, what’s the point, what do we really learn in the end? Students all believe in the life or the hope in life that you achieve after college. The point of going to school is for a better job, a better career, and …show more content…
the possibility of that all so promising better salary. The price you pay and the degree you earn doesn’t always get you what you want. By researching multiple arguments, I hope to give a better understanding of the differences between these two higher ED institutions.
Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission Jul, 2010 higher education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids. http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Colleges-Worth-the-price/66234
Summary: “Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission” Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus found on July, 2010, is a story about the cost of higher education being a $420 billion industry immune from scrutiny and in need of reform. They go on to mention why the reason we need over paid school presidents and faculty is, and why can’t they do the job without the million dollar contract or multimillion dollar facilities for the sports teams. How is this money not being reinvested back into education for the students? Hacker and Dreifus bring up many great points exploiting colleges for their lack of educating our children today. This article will help with my proposal paper. They bring up many different points along the way, with the troubles or issues with College in America. For example they mention that Today’s higher education is a $420 billion dollar industry, who can afford it?
Where is all this money really going? Why does it cost so much money to pay for my degree, which I will never pay off anyway? We ask ourselves all of these types of questions. When it comes to deciding on if we are going to go College or not, students should be going to school to learn to become better citizens in the world today. This is not what college should be about. We should all want to achieve a higher education and continue to learn as much as possible for as long as possible. College is becoming an expense that some just don’t want to take on. The world is not getting any cheaper. It’s certainly not slowing down any time soon, that’s for sure.
Rhetorical Analysis: Andrew Hacker is a professor at Queens College and the author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Scribner, 2003). Claudia Dreifus is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a writer for The New York Times. This article is adapted from Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids-and what we can do about it, published next month by Henry Holt/Times Books. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus the authors of Higher Education How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids- and What We Can Do about It, they say tuition charges at both public and private colleges have more than doubled- (in real dollars) - compared with a generation ago. Assessment: “Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission”
This article is one example of the meaning of a higher ED institution and if these institutions really help the students get what they pay for. The two writers bring up many different options for students to research when deciding whether to go to college or not. They mention the purpose of College should be a cultural journey, an intellectual expedition, a voyage confronting new ideas and information. This is something students want: The desire to achieve education, not the hindering thought of the expense. In the end we have to make higher education available to all, and not just the wealthy. This is not what our country needs. We need educated bright adults leading us all into our future.
Liz Addison. New York Times Magazine college essay contest runner up. Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission. Sep 26, 2007 Tw." They Say/I Say: Two Years are Better Than Four : With Readings. Ed. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel K. Durst. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2012. 529-36. Print.
Summary: "Are Colleges worth the Price of Admission." Liz Addison wrote an article piece in the New York Times Magazine toward Perl Steins argument in a runner up contest stating her opinion toward the purpose of a two year community college and a four year university. Addison argues the fact in her essay that Community College is a place to begin, just begin. This is an argument against what Rick Perl stein’s opinion piece “What’ the matter with College?” in which he argues that universities no longer matter as much as they once did. Addison states in her essay that she began in a community and it has helped her branch out, becoming a far better student then she could have ever been. Liz believes community college to be the affordable place of accessible hope for the future.
Rhetorical Analysis: "Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission."
Liz Addison is a biology major whose goal was to become a large animal veterinarian.
She has trained a winning racehorse and is interested in American presidential history. She now studies veterinary medicine at the Royal Veterinary College in London and plans to practice in Virginia once she graduates. The essay responds to Rick Pearlstein’s opinion piece “what’s the matter with college?” in which he argues that universities no longer matter as much as they once did. Addison brings up a very good point across the need to attend a 4 year school right away. I see her point of view on college being important and students need to start in one of the thousands of community colleges across the …show more content…
country.
Community colleges gives people, young, and old, the ability to believe it is possible that achieving a degree can and will happen with the right start. It opens the door to reality of possibilities in what may happen or may come for a student. With so many employers requiring at least a two-year degree now days, why not start at the beginning? College in itself is very overwhelming, the cost, the studying, the classes, and even the unknown possibility of failure can all be so discouraging. Liz makes a great argument regarding Pearlstein’s argument towards her paper, pointing out that anyone can go to a community college and have a positive out come just the same as going to a university.
Assessment: "Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission." This article is a great example of explaining the differences between attending a community college or a university. Addison points out that young or old there is no hesitation when it comes to an education. Simply a community college is a starting place for the road a head toward earning a degree that you choose. So we have to ask ourselves, so what? Why is it important for a person to go to college and get a degree if it’s going to cost so much time and money? well I believe it is very important in todays society in order to get a suitable career one will actually like that’s why students go to college to explore the opportunities college courses have to offer. Because I know how expensive college can be speaking as a college student myself. At first I did think of what was the point of college when I was in junior high but as I grew I understood the effort and worth of having a degree you can call as your own and be proud of. Such as Addison mentions Rick Pearlstein’s what’s the Matter with College? Article how he didn’t understand the importance of starting of in a community college and how she mentions it’s a starting of place to find oneself and look at the Possibilities College has to offer.
Kevin Carey. Chronicle of Higher Education July 25, 2010. Why do you think they’re Called For-Profit Colleges? http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-You-Think-Theyre/123660/ Summary: "Chronicle of Higher Education"
Carey brings up in this article many great points surrounding the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix. This school alone gives students the ability to earn what are said to be meaningless degrees at a cost of huge student loans. I think Carey brings up many great points of how for-profit schools make the thought of the degree appealing at a price. A degree is a degree, but if your employer doesn’t look at it like that and believe that it is in fact a valid degree; because of the for-profit schools status as an actual University. Then what good is it other than a huge pile of loans
Rhetorical Analysis: "Chronicle of Higher Education"
Kevin Carey is a policy director of Education Sector, an independent think tank in Washington. Carey says; “but what’s the point?” If your employer doesn’t recognize this as a valid degree then is it really a degree? There are so many questions about these for-profit schools being left unanswered. Even with the schools like University of Phoenix, where is the money all going? I can’t be sure it’s really going back into the students having a credible and valuable degree. This is for sure the only University that a professional NFL sports stadium is named by. Meaning they are now the corporate sponsor, it is rumored this sponsorship cost over $150 million for 20 years. How is it, a school promising these students a fair degree, could be able spend that type of money, and not place those funds back into the education for the students. Carey makes a good point, sometimes a degree just doesn’t cut it. You may spend a good amount on an education and still be working at McDonalds, sometimes employees look pass your degree and not hire you for other reasons. But other times they hire you and you end up doing something that has nothing to do with your degree.
Assessment: "Chronicle of Higher Education"
This has to be one of the more frustrating things with school today. I believe all of us want a degree that we are all going to school for a reason, but to find out that your degree is not as good enough because you went to this school or that school. Well, it’s just wrong. It shouldn’t matter where I went to school. It should only matter that the students going put in the time, the effort, and the dedication to achieve higher learning. The degree a student receives should be valued the same no matter where you get it from. So if you’re a Phoenix you should be proud to say it, and not discredited due to the degree not being for the university we all think it supposed to be from. The University of Phoenix needs to focus on the students’ education, and not the name of the school. I just don’t see how spend millions to have your name on a stadium is helping the students or their education.
Mike Rose. Blue-Collar Brilliance 2009 American Scholar http://theamericascholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/ Summary: "Blue-Collar Brilliance"
Rose began a study 8 years before on the thought processes involved in the Blue Collar worker. He states this is mindless thought process learned over time. This is everyday cognition, that blue collar workers master their positions thru repetition not thru knowledge. Rose talks about the years his mother spent as a waitress, working and maneuvering thru daily life and the tables she waited on. The 33 years his uncle put in at General Motors, working the line to supervising the paint and body department. They didn’t use school to get where they were in life. They achieved their positions in life with diligent hard every day work. They learned the skills through daily repetition.
Although this education he sates is mindless and cognitive this may be hard to relate it to my process report and correlating them together. I see his point of view that even without the correct education from college, a blue collar line employee with nothing more than an 8th grade education can work his way up to the department supervisor. Let’s then ask how often does this happen?
Rhetorical Analysis: "Blue-Collar Brilliance" Mike Ross is a faculty member of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and information Studies and the author of The Mind at Work and Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of us. A professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies is well known for his writing on issues of literacy. Rose wrote an article that appeared in 2009 in the American Scholar, a magazine published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The article was about a study that he had been doing for an 8 year period about the blue collar worker. In this article Rose states his position that the worker has not really learned anything, they have only developed a mindless process through cognition that is learned daily overtime and becomes repetitive. I do not, however, believe this. Any employee that starts at a company has to learn a skill, “learn the job” so to speak. The person must retain that knowledge and adapt to the newer changing times of innovation. I believe with any job you do, that things change over time. With new technologies that are being developed they must be learned or you will fail to adapt and lose your position within that job. If you are able to adapt and even think of new ideas and new ways to make things better you are valued as an employee.
Assessment: "Blue-Collar Brilliance"
So what? Why does a person have to learn so much for a job? Well in order to keep it and advance in the company having the ability and want to learn the knowledge thought by expert employees, these are the employees that are looked at for promotions. It used to be if you were great at your job and you performed well you would be the one with the promotion. This is not the case anymore, not lately anyway. The times have changed where you must have a degree to seek that advancement as it should be in most companies anyway. You still must be able to perform in your role as an employee, then with that and your degree there should be no problem achieving the results you are looking for.
Ross Taylor. Why College Matters 2007 New York Times Magazine http://essay.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/why-college-matters-7/?_r=0 Summary: “Why College Matters"
After High School many students plan their lives, one of them is to attend a college or a university.
The essential purpose of college is to obtain a degree for a good career one searches for. Which in order to obtain a specific chosen degree one has to put in the effort of going to school and spending time and money on a school and the materials such as books and other materials for those classes one chooses to take.
College was not only for the rich back then sure they could afford it and more of the upper class attended, but the middle class as well attended whether rich, poor, and more likely the middle class college was important for those individuals because it meant for a better life and access to a more acceptable, comfortable life especially for the middle class.
Today college is even more important for people because college today matters to an extent where in order to obtain a good paying job one has to have a degree. But college is not for everyone some individuals go to college for the experience and party life and those individuals either complete or drop out. But It ' up to the individuals if college and their future matters to them.
Rhetorical Analysis: “Why College
Matters" Ross Taylor a graduate from the University of Missouri-Columbia, class of 2008 from St. James, Missouri. As Ross Taylor mentions in his article, “I find myself jealous and scorn the age into which I was born”. He a goes on to mention how he wants a life where people are intellectual and speak to each other in an intellectual way, “ I think to myself, “ when intellectual and artist conferred over coffee and strong drink until 3 in the morning!’’. He makes a good point by leading the audience to think of the importance of school and what we were thought as little kids all the way till we graduated from high school and we had to decide on if we wanted to go to college or not. We are told what success is from the gecko do well in school by our parents and teachers get a degree in something useful. The pressure of going to school and once arriving one can feel lost in all the turmoil of paying for it and passing the class course. The goal is to become a college student and focusing on the future. We have to ask ourselves if not the goal of college then what? Do we just get a job where ever someone is hiring will we truly be happy? Taylor makes a good point, sometimes some graduates don’t learn the sufficient in there degree and don’t feel good at where they work. He mentions how school is important and that we should get a good education because in the real world mostly requires it.
Assessment: “Why College Matters" This article is a good example on the purpose of a getting an education. The importance of college has been shaped into our minds from the beginning. Ross Taylor has showed us that if we want a good future we need to get a better education as a response to Mr. Pearlstein’s piece as he mentions” college matters today only because it continues to maintain an extend the membership of the middle class.” The college lifestyle only is worth it if the person wants to truly be their and change his or her life in the end.
Conclusion:
After reviewing many of the writers articles on the purpose of attending a higher Ed institution and if it is all really worth all the time spent and money in the end after graduation. Therefore, Does Going to College Really Pay off once it 's all over? overall on the matter of the importance of college and the opportunities it offers I have learned from reading these articles that college and universities are expensive but I believe it is worth all the struggle with time and money expense, we have to understand that college provides a better future and opportunity that helps a person grow into a better person. College doesn’t have to be so expensive that you have to get so many loans to pay school of, there are better more suited ways such as applying for scholarships that you don’t have to pay back, one just has to work hard and want to learn and be knowledgeable about paying for school. So is it really worth it? I believe so I don’t know what everyone else thinks but everything about going to school creates the opportunities we all want for our future.
I believe you will never find out how college feels unless you try. I have read a few different articles that will try to sway you one way or the other, but when it comes down to it I am certain more often that college opens the doorway to the future. I don’t know what everyone else thinks, but everything about going to school creates the opportunity we all want. Well, maybe not all of us want college, but for me as a college student, for sure college was the only path that would give me the opportunity that I need to achieve what I want in life especially a good paying career not only that a career one actually wants to go to everyday.
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Liz Addison. New York Times Magazine college essay contest runner up Sep 26, 2007 Two Years are better Than Four Sep 26, 2007 Tw." They Say/I Say: Two Years are Better Than Four : With Readings. Ed. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel K. Durst. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2012. 529-36. Print.
Kevin Carey. Chronicle of Higher Education July 25, 2010. Why do you think they’re Called For-Profit Colleges? http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-You-Think-Theyre/123660/ Mike Rose. Blue-Collar Brilliance 2009 The American Scholar http://theamericascholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/ Ross Taylor. Why College Matters 2007 New York Times Magazine
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