Two Critical Summary Papers

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“College Girl to Call Girl” & “Canadians: What do they want?” “College Girl to Call Girl” Sarah Schmidt’s personal essay “College Girl to Call Girl” discusses a growing number of middle class women who are turning to one of the “oldest” professions of time, and that is prostitution. In combining her research with multiple interviews, statistical analysis, and consulting numerous sources, Sarah sets out to answer whether the practice is unavoidable. She brings forth different women during the essay, who outline their own personal experiences while working in the off-street prostitution trade. Sarah focuses on students only because during her research she comes across the horrible discovery that majority of the young women who take part in off-street prostitution, are middle-class students who are just trying to pay for their rising tuition. Sarah also provides reason for the high increase over the past decade in off-street prostitution, stating that the underlying problem is a result of the significant increase in tuition over the past decade. Sarah goes further to analyze that over the last nine years, “tuition fees in Canada have raised on average by 126 percent, far more rapidly than inflation and the minimum wage.” Statistical analysis compiled by Sarah also indicates that currently about half of the student population graduates with an average debt load of twenty-five thousand dollars, up from only eight thousand back in 1990. As a result, many of the women she interviewed we’re having trouble paying tuition due to minimum wage jobs not meeting their financial needs. Throughout the essay, Sarah Schmidt also outlines the need for police to crack down on this type prostitution, criticizing that the legal enforcement primarily focuses on street prostitution only; thus keeping a blind eye on the form of prostitution that’s ever increasing amongst

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