": 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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Xxxxx xxxx FYS 30 November 2012 The Value of Liberal Arts Education The great physicist Albert Einstein once said‚ “The value of education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts‚ but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” Einstein further conveys that liberal studying helps develop critical thinking and analytical skills with a touch of creativity. Liberal arts education helps set a common base for worldly knowledge; it strengthens
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LESSON XXII EXPLAIN THE PROCESS OF LIBERAL REVOLUTION FROM THE CHARACTERIZATION AND IMPLICATION OF THE SOCIAL ACTORS AND THEIR MAIN ACCOMPLISHED TRANSFORMATIONS. The Liberal Revolution Background It was the culmination of a historic and reformist process that started on July 17th 1851 when Gen. Urbina overthrew the government of Diego Noboa to practice his eminently liberal ideas. Mainly the manumission (to free the slaves) declared on July 25th of the same year. Later‚ several conservative
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Jeffersonian Democracy vs. Jacksonian Democracy Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were both strong advocates of a democratic government in America‚ and both claimed to be for the “common man”. They did‚ however‚ have their differences on how they believed a democracy should be run in their respective eras. Even though they were both wealthy farmers‚ Jefferson appealed more to the upper class‚ while Jackson appealed more to the lower class. Thomas Jefferson had a strict interpretation of the
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regionalist and micro-nationalist movements threaten democracy in Europe or‚ conversely‚ present it with new opportunities? ____________________________________________________________ ______________ Twenty years ago‚ the wall that was separating West and East Germany was opened and the Cold War came to an end. The breakdown of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism that accompanied it brought about the victory of market economy and democracy in Europe. It also engendered the emergence
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justice‚ and freedom. Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were all members of The Enlightenment movement‚ and each had their own idea on how human society should be structured and run. Locke and Hobbes lived around the same time‚ and some of their political theories were the same‚ however‚ by the time Rousseau came along‚ much had changed. Born in Geneva to a middle class watch maker‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau was to become one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth
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A person cannot talk about John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau first defining what each contract theorist means when he talks about the state of nature. For Locke‚ his state of nature involves “ungoverned humans pursuing their individual interests with respect for one another’s rights and even cooperate with one another with their interests overlap” (Portis‚ p. 103). These ungoverned humans are rational‚ resources are unconditional‚ and there is no threat from any external source. In Rousseau’s
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MARIVIC F. MUTIA MAY 24‚ 2013 MEM-1 /EM-220 SIR JONATHAN P. WONG A Critique on the DepEd Order No.105‚ s.2010‚ dated October 14‚ 2010‚ “Reiterating the Constitutional Right of DepEd Personnel and Students to Free Exercise of Religion” This DepEd Order has taken a bold step in synchronizing the scholastic activities and mandates with the very provision of the Philippine Constitution; making its programs not only valid but most of all constitutionally acceptable. By citing “in toto”
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Elections certainly are a necessary element in a functioning democracy. Elections charachetristcally exist to provide the governed with voice and choice so as to whom they are governed by. Elections although essential are not the only prerequisite to democracy. A successful democracy should have a strong constitution that advocates protection of civil liberties and prescribes a separation of powers. In a democracy elections are vital but a constitution is first and foremost the greater necessity
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Introduction The birth of democracy in Sparta and Athens was a long‚ painful journey‚ created by wars‚ cruel leaders‚ and heroic figures. Although many of democracy’s ideas came from Athenian government‚ it was very different from the democracy in the United States‚ for example. In general‚ wealthy aristocrats had the most power. But without the ideas that this time period created‚ who knows where we would be now. In this paper‚ I’m going to outline how democracy came to be in early Athenian and
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