": Reading for the Conversation 22 13 "ANALYZE THIS": Writing in the Social Sciences 23 PART 5 – READINGS 24 14 IS HIGHER EDUCATION WORTH THE PRICE? 24 ANDREW HACKER AND CLAUDIA DREIFUS‚ Are Colleges Worth the Price? 24 SANFORD J. UNGAR‚ The New Liberal Arts 27 DAVID FOSTER WALLACE‚ Kenyon Commencement Speech 30 LIZ ADDISON‚ Two Years Are Better Than Four 33 KEVIN CAREY‚ Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges? 35 CHARLES MURRAY‚ Are Too Many People Going to College? 38 MIKE ROSE‚ Blue-Collar
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The problem with liberal democracy The myth of government in liberal democracy is that it is value neutral and functions only to create a space of freedom in which citizens may pursue their own goals whatever they may be‚ as long as they do not encroach on other people pursuit of theirs. In reality‚ liberal democracy is not neutral but imposes a view of the world dominated by the market and by the idea of accumulation. The state has much to gain by asserting the market is natural and that the
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What are liberals and conservative philosophies? These two philosophies are how our political parties are based on. The Democratic party takes a more liberal ideology. While‚ the Republican party takes a more conservative stand. So which philosophy is the best? Liberal and conservative have a essential ideology which they base their beliefs. Liberal believe that government should act in our daily lives to achieve equal opportunities and equality for all. In the other hand‚ conservative belies in
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Gwen Stutler Soc 120 July 27‚ 2013 It goes by weed‚ pot‚ Mary Jane but is better known as Marijuana. Marijuana is considering a schedule I drug. “The federal Controlled Substance ACT of 1970 classifies marijuana as a Scheduled I drug‚ meaning that is has a high potential for abuse and no acceptable medical use‚ and thus it prohibits the possession‚ use‚ purchase‚ sale and/or cultivation of marijuana.”(Weiss‚ 2013) For years it has been an ongoing debate as to whether it should be legal in United
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The early 1940s within the context of American development saw a United States that avoided foreign military commitments in favor of consistent policies which the historian and articulate writer Emily Rosenberg had termed “policies centered on liberal developmentalism.” Rosenberg’s ideology from the perspective of American leaders and the nation’s citizenry emphasized on the assumption that other states could and would have to be compelled to replicate the developmental experience of the American
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Strayer University | The legalization of marijuana | English 215 | Bateney Avril Cassandra Dettman7/25/2011 | Fifty years from now‚ the United States (U.S.) population started to know some new drugs like marijuana‚ amphetamines‚ and psychedelics. So the drug started to explode and the U.S. Government needs to find an effective way to solve the problems. In 1973‚ the U.S. created the Drug Enforcement
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21 March 2012 Word Count: 1252 Legalizing Marijuana According to the United Nations 162 million people‚ about 4.0% of the world population uses marijuana annually. 0.6% of the world population‚ or roughly 22.5 million people‚ use the drug daily. In the United States‚ this translates to 1% of our population‚ a relatively small number of people at 1.4 million‚ using marijuana every day. Even though it’s a small percentage of Americans that use marijuana‚ it’s caused a very heated debate about the
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Both Mark Edmundson (“On the Uses of a Liberal Education”) and Gary Saul Morson (“Empathy with us”) see that college students have become lazy and seems to receive “an education worthy of the name.” Although both authors have some similarities in their ideas‚ they also have their own outlooks on what college students’ attitudes and practices show towards the liberal education. Edmonson’s views on college students is that they are lazy and really only want to take the classes that are easy with
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Most students question why we have to go to school and take liberal arts courses that do not necessarily prepare us for our field. When we ask our professors or teachers‚ they tell us it is because we should learn to be “well rounded” students. This is not enough to convince many. Students do not have a real understanding of why liberal arts education is helpful so they do not see the need to learn it. Many students only memorize the facts to pass the tests they have to take and then forget it because
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English 101 “The New Liberal Arts” is an article written by Sanford J. Ungar‚ who is a president of Goucher College in Baltimore‚ Maryland. In the beginning of his article‚ Ungar wrote‚ “Hard economic times inevitably bring scrutiny of all accepted ideals and institutions‚ and this time around the liberal arts education has been especially hard hit.” In other words‚ Ungar means that recent economic recessions have made a huge impact on what people think of going for a liberal arts degree. In his
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