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    Rolyn Salva Charlotte Samuels Political Science 10/24/12 Proposition 30 Every year‚ the tuition for colleges rises significantly. Our education budget keeps getting cut by the millions. And we as students are struggling to make ends meet just trying to finish up our college education. We need to find a solution to this calamity. With Proposition 30‚ we might be able to make our first steps down the yellow brick road. Currently‚ our student tuition fee is $46 a unit. On July 28‚ 2009

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    Going to School Schools seem to be the only place where you can see people yearning for knowledge and desiring to learn everything they wish to. Since we were youngsters ‚ we were told to wake up every morning and prepare ourselves for the school. At that time‚ we did it without interesting or enthusiasm‚ on the contrary‚ we did it involuntarily. Every children are likely to say that going to school is an extremely boring duty since they do not really understand the reason why should they study

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    Year Round School Essay

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    When Americans think of year-round schooling‚ they immediately relate it to no summer vacation‚ which is the reason why most students and parents are negative towards the idea. Americans do not realize the advantages that year-round schooling offers. The definition of year-round schooling are schools that operate year-round‚ but have not increase the number of days students attend school (5). The decision to make a nine month calendar to a year-round school calendar is beneficial to parents and their

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    Oanh Nguyen English 1301.302 V.Hodges Due date: 02/16/2015 Rhetorical Analysis of “Why I Dumbed My iPhone and Why I’m Not Going Back” by Sam Graham-Felsen. Sam Graham-Felsen‚ the author of “Why I Dumped My iPhone And Why I Am Not Going Back”‚ is trying to convince the reader that besides the advantages of the iPhone‚ there are many disadvantages that affect the iPhone user’s lives. He uses the rhetorical strategies of logos‚ ethos and pathos to show the reader his point of view. He states‚ “The

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    the alarm clock‚ Oh yeah! I have to go to school. Think about it‚ three months of not using anything that we learned during the school year and we are expected to effectively jump back from that. With year-round schooling‚ we can better transition to the next grade without having to recap what we learned in the previous year.This point can be proven in three basic concepts; First‚ less schooldays wasted‚ more days progressing and advancing. Secondly‚ year-round schooling will create less stress for

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    Why I Went Back to School

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    I think returning back to school to complete my degree was a very rational decision for me to make. We are sometimes told that experience is the key to getting the perfect job‚ but in my years in the work force I have learned that it is not always the case. Employers will sometimes use the fact that you do not have a degree against you and I refuse to let that happen. The biggest reason for me returning to school is my daughters. I want them to tell people that I am there mom and be proud of it

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    What is going wrong with schools? There is a lot wrong with schools‚ and easier question these days is‚ What’s right with schools? Sadly the list would be shorter. The public school system in America today is sadly lacking‚ not just in the field of academic achievement. Children are‚ in effect‚ risking their lives by attending school. Critical attacks from disturbed students are spreading like a plague. Every year‚ there is increase in the number of students who give up education after high school

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    Alex Brown ENGL 112-O Persuasion Essay October 13‚ 2010 Professor Belding Persuasion Essay As young Americans living in the 21st century‚ we have many options when it comes to what we want to do after we graduate high school. Many choose to go to college and earn a degree while others choose to go straight to work or join the military. While all are very good choices for the young men and women who choose each path‚ some might be more rewarding than others

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    one hundred twenty-eight million school aged kids able to learn but only one hundred eleven million of them can go to school leaving seventeen million of them without education. What makes it worse is that thirty seven million of those kids in school will learn so little that it wouldn’t make a difference whether they were going or not. That’s only seventy four million kids going to school with good education while in America there are ONLY 2‚000 kids out of school which is a huge difference which

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    Essay: Barack Obama´s speech ”Back to School” A good education is important for the society. If you have a good education‚ you can get out of poverty and break the social heritage and thereby help yourself and the society. This is some of the things Barack Obama enters in his speech. The speech was given at Wakefield High School in Arlington‚ Virginia on September the 8th in 2009. The sender is Barrack Obama - the president of the United States of America. He gives the speech to students in connection

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