Many of the things she claims might not seem relevant now and would most likely need to be updated. Her essay is constructed in such a way that it seems persuasive, but I do not entirely agree with her claim. In her essay, Bird says that most students in college are discontent with their situation because they feel that they are unwanted. Bird claims that colleges know that students don’t like to study and that they are unmotivated by the thought of doing any sort of work. Bird illustrates college as if it were some sort of prison for young adults.
The online open source encyclopedia Wikipedia has become a serious controversial issue in the academic world. Educators all over the world are perplexed at the idea that students should be able to use Wikipedia as a credible source. Two college professors wrote two essays with completely different view points on the issue. On the side against using Wikipedia as a scholarly source is Professor Neil L. Waters with his article “Why You Can’t Cite Wikipedia in My Class.” Then on the opposing side of the argument is Professor Mark A. Wilson with his article “Professors Should Embrace Wikipedia”. Both Waters and Wilson made some convincing points but Waters came out on top with better more convincing factual information to persuade the readers the downfalls
For example, one corporate employee claims that Facebook can give employers a picture of a candidate’s character. Because of the possibility of being monitored, school officials advise students to be careful, but this is still no evidence. The third fallacy is ad pabulum fallacy. Although Cole states “Employers Can learn race, gender, religion.” In the essay Cole does not support anything with race, gender, religion. In that essay talks about is the fact that employees do not want their employers to see them in an unprofessional state.
The statement “it doesn’t seem fair” when referring to the students that can’t afford a smartphone is irrelevant to this subject. Students that have the privilege of having a smartphone still should not be allowed to use them in school. What purpose does Facebook or using a mobile device serve in class while the students are supposed to be learning? In the article published by The Boston Globe “Pondering Facebook’s School Role” by Calvin Hennick it states “the students argue that there are a lot of educational uses for Facebook” however, there are no supporting details behind it. It is a true statement that Facebook can be used for educational purposes but are the students really going to stay focused on the assignment if they cannot control what’s going to pop up next on their walls.
Marklein reveals students feelings of being influenced to join programs where they are not able to speak their mind and provide input. Being a college student myself, I find it hard to feel that it is acceptable to say how I feel in certain situations but do not know how to go about it without a teacher having a grudge on you that may or may not hurt my grade. Just like Marklein clarifies, students cannot speak freely in fear of getting reprimanded for speaking against other students and teachers mainstream point of views. She believes that, “college is supposed to be a place where students should feel at ease to say what they feel without being afraid to do so.” (Marklein 276) Giving many examples in her article of this argument, the author shows the unfairness of how freedom of speech works in colleges. She provides many instances of where a student or student groups are suppressed for practicing their actions on college campuses.
In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” author Gerald Graff stresses that schools and colleges are missing opportunities by not channeling students’ street smarts into good academic work. Graff first proposes that schools miss these opportunities by overlooking the intellectual potential of street smarts. He goes on to say that intellectual writing is only necessary for students who wish to become intellectuals themselves. Graff uses himself as an example of a student uninterested in the intellectual world of academia; as an adolescent, he preferred sports. His neighborhood at the time had a boundary between social classes.
This is one topic Bird touches upon in her article, in many instances she has wrote about different reasons why someone may or may not go to college. Bird finds: Students are not in school because they want to be or because they want to learn. They are there because it has become the thing to do or because college is a pleasant place to be; because it’s the only way they can get parents or taxpayers to support them without getting a job they don’t like; because Mother wanted them to go, or some other reason entirely irrelevant to the course of studies for which college is supposedly organized. (p. 251) Bird has not presented a positive reason a person may want to go to college. Bird always states negative reasons of why a person may want to go to college.
The University claimed that the photo is inappropriate for a teacher teaching under-age students which would be considered as promoting drinking. In old days if a person wants to start a new life, because he wants to forget his past terrible life mistake, he just had to move to another city or country where he can start from zero. There, no one knows him and his mistake would be forgotten. But today, due to social network sites like Google, Face book and Twitter, your past mistakes and life cannot be forgotten wherever you go. The Right to be forgotten is one of the controversial issues in our digital age.
Suspension and expulsion is not an effective tool and solution in our schools because it can lead to dropout rates and other violent crimes in the future. If a student commits a crime and the crime is not considered to be threatening, it is most likely that the principal or teacher may suspend that student. To the student suspension is a good thing for them since they have to just stay at home and do nothing. When students get expelled or suspended so many times, it seems normal to them, so they would not feel the consequences of the discipline and the purpose of it. Dropout rates and other violent crimes may contribute from continuous suspension and expulsion.
Thomas Humphry 2-29-12 English 1020 Sec 047 Should the U of M campus go smoke-free? The University of Memphis campus should go smoke-free. As well all know there are quite a few smokers that attend college and might smoke frequently. I don’t think that a school campus is the place to smoke because you could possibly have a lot of un-needed issues and conflicts for non-smokers. Even though there are designated places now on campus to smoke it really defeats the purpose because people don’t abide by the specific rules that should be followed so that everyone can be satisfied in some way.