College is a Waste of Time and Money Argumentative Essay In the essay “College is a Waste of Time and Money”, Caroline Bird argues that most students don’t feel like they belong in college. College students, according to Bird, go to college because it is the only thing to do after high school. Students feel pressured by parents to go to college because they think that “it is the right thing to do.” Using statistics, expert opinions, and other types of non-technical evidence, Bird presents many great examples that support her claim. However, one has to keep in mind that this essay is rather dated. Many of the things she claims might not seem relevant now and would most likely need to be updated.
In Elizabeth Koberts article, "Searching for the undecided voter" the author descirbes the undecided voter as being a small, but important group that has a reputation of being less knowledgeable about politics. In Joshua Green's article, "Inside the Minds of Undecided Voters" author describes two different groups of undecided voters: the group that follows current events but hasn't chosen a candidate for support and another group of people who don't follow the news. Both these groups feel negative about the campaign, and can't get enough information about campaign. Kobert's article has a purposeful and negative bias, and Green's article focus more on context and is positive. The description in both article reflected authors' different bias.
Sixteen year olds have yet to live life, so they shouldn't be awarded adult privileges at such a young age. A simple civics course would have to know for that exact election whom and what they are voting for thus making it harder to teach because it changes every year which also makes it expensive. Just because a student passes a simple civics course doesn't mean that they're going to do what they feel is right when it comes down to voting. Therefore, due to age, cost and moral factors sixteen year olds should not be allowed to obtain a voters permit and vote. Why sixteen year olds should not be allowed to obtain a voters permit and vote because Sixteen year olds have yet to live life, so they shouldn't be awarded adult privileges at such a young age.
Consumers were part of the reason for the fall of the electric car. Although the people that did own the EV 1 loved the vehicle, and almost refused to later return them, there were only 800 owners. When Dan Neil asked the public about the EV 1, most people had never seen vehicle and was completely unaware of the mandate to take them back. Another reason that the consumers killed the electric car was because people did not want to deal with the change from just going to a gas station to charging it daily and worrying about losing energy throughout the day. The EV 1 was also fairly pricey so many people were not interested.
Are younger voters as careless, as they are often accused of being? Every year older voters discuss the apparent lack of concern of younger voters regarding politics, government and world events. Rather than pointing the blame towards one specific group of people, such as the younger individuals that have reached the voting age, I would rather look at all individuals as a whole. Such as their environment, why individuals may be more careless then others, their parents overall perception and involvement in the community when it comes to voting on community policies and world events. I strongly disagree with the overall statement, individuals no matter their race, gender, class or age, are equally affected by their environment.
Illegal aliens shouldn’t be rewarded with legal status and other benefits. Most Americans don’t want immigrants in their country because they take the jobs away form them. American citizens have different Pros and Cons about immigration topic like Amnesty, Deportation, Mexican Border Fence, Driver Licenses for illegal aliens. Most all of the states don’t allow immigrants to get a drivers license with the right paper work. This does not keep illegal aliens from driving, even though they work low salaries, can’t afford an insurance and they often have trouble the road signs in english.
The welfare system in America is broken. It was originally designed to help people that cannot find jobs or cannot work but that is not exactly what it is doing. Not all people who are on welfare really need it and it is causing some people to be denied. Many families do not want to rely on the federal government because they do not want to be looked at as poor or that they cannot provide for their own family without extra help from others. A lot of people lie about what they do and do not do and conservatives and liberals ignore it when they know what is happening.
Kasey Cleveland Mrs.Kimber ENG4U 15 January, 2013 Life Without a Human Journey is not a Life Worth Living Every being has basic rights and free will, however there are governments that in our world that take advantage of our basic human rights sometimes to the extreme extents. Some countries take it to the extent where ones grocery intake is tracked per week, and when free will and simple things like grocery intake is monitored so intently people often lack a real human journey. In George Orwell’s novel “1984”, the Party’s ability to corrupt the citizens leaves them unable to embark on their human journey. This is demonstrated through examination of thought crime, doublethink and newspeak. The inhabitants of Oceania are persistently being under observation leaves them unable to embark on their human journey.
In theory this should have been possibly as most members were committed to peace and did not want another war as the likes of the Great War. However, as we move on to the weaknesses in the structure, we come to realise that it just wasn’t good enough. Even though it was generally a good thing for an assembly to be unanimous, decisions were extremely difficult to make because of this. Another downfall of decision making was that the assembly only met once a year. A big problem was the slightly biased approach of having a permanent ‘veto’ for council members.
American citizens are starting to rely on the government for pretty much everything. Now the government is being expected to pay for citizen’s college education. Higher education in America should not be free to all citizens because no one for service jobs, lack of motivation, and there are already programs for those who desire to go to school. America was built by the hard working man. The man who goes to work, works with his hand, and goes home dog tired.