Intro to Research Writing, 12:00 22 February 2013 Single Source Essay In his essay The College Dropout Boom, Dave Leonhardt describes “one of the largest and fastest-growing groups of young adults in America” (266); college dropouts. His implied thesis for this essay is that even though student body populations are becoming more diverse in terms of both ethnic background and social class, there is a large difference in the number of college graduates from higher-income families (upper middle-class and above) and lower-income families. Leonhardt believes that today more than ever before in our nation, high school graduates from lower-income families have the opportunity to attend college, but these students for various reasons are not seeing college through to graduation. He believes that this is a major issue for modern society, and it is being overlooked. Although it seems that we are making great strides in education with increased admissions for college students in diverse social, income and ethnic groups, that because these students are not getting degrees the gap between rich and poor continues to increase, and these achievements in education are not as valid as they seem.
In “Plugged In, Tuned Out…” the author uses logos extensively in order to support the idea that young adults have decreased their amount of attention toward the news in comparison to past generations. The article use of logos is manly clear in the use of percentages and evidence provided by Nielsen/NetRating reports. The easiest way to draw audiences to a topic is providing shocking information to generate views. In this particular case the numbers presented are not shocking but reveal important trends that are taking place in current time. For example according to the paper in the 1950s 53 percent of Americans in their 20s read newspaper coverage of national politics, while today only about 30 percent watch any kind of news coverage and 24 percent don’t even care to watch at all.
CQ Researcher, 2 1001-1024. This article is about paying for college. A college degree is considered especially vital to success. But for more than a decade the cost of higher education has been growing at almost twice the rate of inflation. And with the economic conditions threatening jobs security across the country, parents and prospective students alike are questioned whether they can afford colleges or not.
As a result, newspaper circulation fell by 17 percent due to revenues from display advertisement that have plummeted as many marketers engage customers via social media, Internet ads, special events, daily deal sites, and other promotional methods that sidestep newspapers. Consequently, The Wall Street Journal suggestions for price elasticity of demand for its products in digital editions is to try to find pricing approaches that made sense for its situations. In this way, being a national new paper that covers general news politics, economics, investments, the arts, and lifestyle trends that most people need to follow the latest happening in their field and stay updated on world events to pay a yearly amount to access their website. For his manner, the Journal believed it offered a long-term value that they wouldn’t appreciate if they could pay for content by the content or by the week sense they are not providing news instead they are providing a completive advantage tool. Likewise, the Journal site’s loyal and lucrative subscribers base, a growing number of major advertisers are willing to pay to reach audience online, which contributes millions more to the newspaper’s bottom line.
Especially if “the average American spends about 33 percent of his or her leisure time watching television” (Renzetti and Curran, 151) it gives us a picture that Americans are far by entertain by the media instead of doing something productive. Sadly, the media affects
Is College Debt Worth It? We all grow up being exposed to the thought of college being full of parties, drinking, and a whole lot of sex. As a college student, I can attest that the exposure we’ve experienced is true, but there is one thing that the media has failed to mention: College debt is real and obtaining a degree doesn’t mean you’ll have employers throwing copious amounts of money at you. In the article “Debt Education: Bad for the Young, Bad for America”, written by Jeffrey J. Williams, data shows that tuition has increased at roughly three times the rate of inflation. Inflation aside, this means college is getting more expensive.
It would be hard to explain why young members of our society have become more addicted to the use of this particular device (cell phone); perhaps we can attribute this to the differences in which they spend their leisure time compared to older members of our society. Older people may prefer to spend several hours watching T.V., while younger people will devote an equal amount of time talking on the cell phone, which might lead us to the answer of why divorce rates are higher on young couples. In recent years, 62 percent of marriages ended in divorce, most of those divorced being under 25. Is it possible that technology has something to do with
As unemployment numbers continue to drop, the job outlook for college grads is increasing. This comes as good news for millions of new graduates getting ready to enter to workforce t be able to get the full-time job. According to a new Gallup poll, 73% of college graduates are employed as a full-time work that making them to be the group with the highest percentage of full-time employment. Compare to American with some college education, there is only 61% and 58% of those with just a high school degree are working full time. Gallup defines workers who are “fully employed” as those employed full time for an employer or themselves and those who are working part time and not seeking a full-time position.
Me Against the Media One in three high school seniors and 83 percent of college undergraduates have credit cards (Graaf, Wann, Naylor 19). It's not a mystery that most young people are overspending on these credit cards. The reason for this overspending may be due to societal pressures to buy in order to gain acceptance. In her article “Me Against the Media”, Naomi Rockler-Gladen claims that consumer advertising has negatively influenced young people. To Rockler-Gladen, young people today are part of the Generation Y.
Plans to Eliminate College Binge Drinking Nearly half of today’s college student population is stumbling through the college years due to binge drinking. Binge drinking on college campuses isn’t just an issue of public health, but it’s one of self-interest. Failure to act in the face of foreseeable harm places schools at risk for damaging their academic reputations and liability lawsuits in millions of dollars. Also, students experience a wide variety of alcohol related problems including hangovers, blackouts, and engaging in unplanned sexual activity. According to Lini Kadaba’s article, Colleges Hitting the Bottle Binge Drinking Remains High, but Initiatives at Area Schools Raising Awareness, “College binge drinking is remaining in colleges due to the intractable problems that contribute to 1,700 student deaths, 599,000 injuries, and 97,000 cases of sexual assault, or date rapes.” (24).