“Is College Still Worth The Expense?” College is very important to us because it is the stepping stone to achieve our goal in life. It helps us to improve our skills and learn more‚ and it helps us to maintain higher levels of social competence and academic levels. Education remains and important investment for the future. Having an advanced degree‚ ensures that we are well trained and highly skilled in our chosen fields‚ which is very important. With advance knowledge and continued education
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Is the space race really worth it? In a world embroiled in endless problems‚ starting from rising food and oil prices‚ poverty‚ hunger‚ illiteracy‚ high infant mortality rate‚ terrorism to the threat of global warming and climate change‚ one may question the significance of the world beyond ours. In a state of global political and social instability‚ is the space race really worth it? Taking into account the 8 millennium development goals‚ projected to be achieved by 2030 instead of 2015‚ and the
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“Is it Worth it to Train New Employees?” What is one concept that stood out to you in this article? One concept that stood out to me in this article is that the demand for new hire training is essential to growing companies‚ but more and more companies are looking to export or even get rid of training in some instances all together. “Most major investment banks outsource a chunk of their new employee training to a company called Training The Street‚ which runs two- to two-and-a-half-week programs
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Are School Field Trips Worth It? April Nelson April‚ 2013 Are School Field Trips Worth It? 2 Schools often debate about whether or not field trips are beneficial and worth the cost. The discussion goes between physical cost and the academic benefits for the students. As school budgets get tighter the amount of field trips taken within the school year gets cut and teachers have to raise the money
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Xiaoqing Ding Dr. Haendiges Engl-1010 6/23/13 Is Higher Education Worth the Price? A recent study shows that less than sixty percent of students can be graduate form four-year colleges. Interestingly‚ tuition of most of American colleges improves fast year by year. Beth Pinsker said in his article “The message that everyone should go to college does a disservice to the 60 percent of students who do not finish their degrees within six years‚ according to new research from Brookings Center
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English 12 25 September 2012 What Is a Human’s Life Worth? Think of the moments that you wanted to give up‚ what kept you going? Generation after generation‚ societies change as time goes on. Maybe not so much the society itself‚ but the people in it do. Many of us Americans have different opinions. The value of life now differs depending on the different kinds of experiences people go through. As awful as it sounds‚ our society has placed a dollar amount on life. However‚ society should determine
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Dylan Hamann ENGL 1020‚ CRN 20527 Revised Critique of “Shame Is Worth a Try” 1 Feb. 2010 Revised Critique of “Shame Is Worth a Try” by Dan M. Kahan Dan M. Kahan argues in his article “Shame Is Worth a Try” that people who understand the potential of shaming know that it is “cheap‚ efficient‚ and an appropriate alternative to short jail sentences” (571). Any crime that is committed must have a punishment linked to it to avoid a repeat of the offense. Serious crimes‚ for example‚ those that
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Is Attending College Worth the Cost? “It’s just extremely disappointing and aggravating to have paid all that money and have nothing to show for it other than debt.” proclaimed Michelle Polyakov‚ an English graduate from Drake University. Polyakov obviously feels that college is not worth the cost and that all someone has to show for the education is debt. College has been deemed‚ by some‚ that it is not worth the cost because of the financial loss‚ the future job security‚ and the need for “blue
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question that lurks around the hallway in high school. You may keep ignoring it not taking it seriously until your senior year when you have to decide‚ Is College worth it? Many people don’t realize that college isn’t for everyone and pester their kids about how college is a life vest and would help tremendously to brighten up ones future but life vests can have a hole in it and in the end you drown no matter how much you try to save yourself. That one flaw sinks the person to the ocean floor with no way
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Amanda Stuart Fisher’s article “Bearing Witness” is a short reading explaining issues in our contemporary society. The reading discusses feminism frequently‚ which is the support for women’s rights to improve the equality of both sexes. A takeaway from the reading is how us as white men have a hard time fully understand someone else’s culture‚ and how we must take steps to mitigate this closed minded view. This relates with the reading that was titled “You Just Made The Blueprint To Suit Yourselves”
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