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    Dave Eggers is an author‚ editor‚ and publisher who suggests that college students should be required to attend public service. In Eggers’ excerpt “Serve or Fail” he backs up his proposal with his own experiences such as how he had benefited from the public services he had attended. Within the excerpt Eggers also explains how having college students attend public services is a great idea especially since the students have maturity‚ have time‚ and gain exposure. Although I agree with Eggers that

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    In the article Serve or Fail by David Eggers points out that colleges should make volunteering as a graduation requirement for their students. In his article he mentions that many high schools and very few colleges had volunteering as a requirement. He starts his article by pointing out all the wasted college days he had in his college days where he could have used to volunteer for an organization‚ but he mentions as well about the times he volunteered. Eggers also points out that "College students

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    In "Serve or Fail‚" Dave Eggers argues that college should consider instituting a service requirement for graduation. Eggers gives us some purpose of college education to link with volunteering that help students getting beneficial effects. He gave some good points in terms of helping others out. He explains that college is too short to sit back and become the best foosball player and waste your time with no commitments to any after school obligations‚ etc. I think that everyone should be able to

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    2014Paper 3- Analyzing an Argument Serve or Fail Argument Analysis (Word Count: 811) In Serve or Fail‚ by Dave EggersEggers implies that college students have too much time on their hands that could instead be used for helping the community. He argues that college itself is time consuming and even with classes‚ studying‚ a job‚ and social activities there are still plenty of hours in the day that need killing. He also states that giving students the opportunity to serve the community in exchange for

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    The article Server or Fail‚ by Dave Eggers of The New York Times presents a very interesting take on college students and their free time. Eggers believes that colleges should institute a service requirement for students to graduate. Due to his college experience he considers college students to have too much spare time‚ which is wasted on silly electives or just wasted. With this surplus of time students should contribute to the community around themselves to develop intellectual tools that will

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    In “Serve Or Fail‚” Dave Eggers argues that "colleges should consider instituting a service requirement for graduation.” He claims that 4 years college are too long‚ student usually waste many time‚ and to be volunteer is a good idea to kill time better than killing time on the meaningless activity like football. Furthermore‚ he states giving a opportunity to college student to service is a chance to let the kid meet society earlier. He introduced a bill like more than 90000 students at 14 state

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    In The Circle by Dave Eggers‚ it is shown in the beginning that working at The Circle is a dream come true. It is an innovative company that produces new and improving technology. The company improves the daily lives of people with the new technology they create. They believe in “transparency”‚ meaning everything should be known and nothing should be kept hidden. Everyone at work is required to participate in the company’s social media and social events‚ so that employees within the company are able

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    “The Circle‚” by Dave Eggers is a novel that centers around a girl named Mae Holland‚ who works at an internet technology company called The Circle that pursues to control flow of information in turn they can takeover the whole world. Mae unknowingly take part of the operation to complete the Circle and eventually be the face of it despite hurting her some of her friends and family members along the way. Many people closed to Mae such as her ex-boyfriend Mercer and her mysterious partner Kalden(who

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    The book the Circle written by Dave Eggers‚ is all about the Mae Holland who was a college graduate and landing in the world leading Internet Company for the job with the help of his friend Annie. The Circle is a web company run by three so-called wise men‚ and they hire Mae in the customer relations department. At the start‚ Mae is satisfied with the culture and facilities of the company‚ but after few times the condition is drastically changed. Mae starts with a junior position but quickly gets

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    each generation. In The Circle‚ Dave Eggers depicts the horrors of advancement in technology. With the parallels between the novel and the present‚ Eggers uses the fictitious society to warn us about the possible future outcomes such as the loss of privacy‚ constant need for affirmation‚ prominence of becoming anti-social and loss of identity. The main theme of the novel is how dangerous technology is because of the invasiveness of our privacy. I found Eggers shows how modernization comes at such

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