Disadvantages Of Going To College

The State of Colorado provides more opportunities that offenders have access to than most other states. Upon entrance to the Colorado Department of Corrections, inmates are given a standardized test to determine their math and reading levels. If the offender does not have a high school diploma or GED they should be enrolled in Adult Basic Education classes so they can obtain their GED while incarcerated. While incarcerated, inmates have access to technical education such as HVAC training. This would usually just be a precursor to the offender being released and going and starting the program all over again at a technical or community college. The Community College System has an agreement with CDOC that allows the inmates to transfer their pre-approved credits to Pueblo Community College, which consequently can be transferred to any community college.

A college education is proven to increase an individual 's earnings, however, women’s earnings are still not as much as men’s, even when they have the same degree (Patten, 2015).

Denice Frohman also criticizes the superstructures that suppress the Latinx community, specifically the undocumented community. Denice Frohman recites, “Ana Maria is now 16. Her father works 18-hour days as a dishwasher. Her mother cleans houses she’ll never get to live in so that Ana Maria can sit in a college classroom and say, “I am here.” But her guidance counselor tells her she can’t get financial aid or the instate tuition rate because of her status. She says it like an apology. Ana wonders if her family ever crossed the border, or if they are just stuck inside another one, aggravating it like a soul. Her guidance counselor stands in front of her with a mouth full of fences” (). Denice Frohman narrates the structural hardships that undocumented families usually face. The arduous labor that is accepted from undocumented immigrants and their families but not their full acceptance into an exclusive society. The dehumanization of immigrants who are here to work towards a better life, but work so hard and never actualize their dreams. Moving across one border to be faced with another border. A border full of limits that forgets about the humanity of those it ousts.

Ronita had returned to school, 2 years after Katrina, when she went into labor. The local schools, overwhelmed by thousands of children displaced from New Orleans did not welcome more students, especially with babies, and her help with her youngest brother was needed at home. She liked high school and had hoped to graduate, baby and all, but worried her mother and grandmother could not manage without her.

Part of being an effective community advocate and a leader was listening to the needs of the population I was serving and providing them with the resources necessary to facilitate the transition into a new country and life. I dedicated time to interview each unaccompanied minor in order to learn about their reasons for migration, most included stories of violence, war, and abuse. The stories I recorded and the research I conducted into each child’s case was used to determine eligibility for services and legal representation. In addition, after becoming aware of the difficulty many of these children experienced in learning English at their new schools, I took the initiative to lead weekly English classes for recently arrived

She did not have a very good life style with lack of food and shelter. Living in peoples basements, in churches, and in attics was to unsanitary. Evelyn and her family came to the U.S in order to have an improved life, while here her mother continued to try and support their family. To this day Aguado is still grateful of being able to live her life in an astonishing place like the U.S. She knows that if she and her family have not taken that extremely long bus ride her life would be totally different. Aguado informed me that she would “probably still be living in poverty. I probably would not have finished my education because most kids don’t make it to high school in Mexico. To be honest, I would probably be trying to sell things on the street”. Luckily she was able to push through and finish her education in the U.S, though she went to college she still struggled. While in the process of choosing and going through college, “I did not know what I wanted to do. I didn’t know what classes to take. I did not know how I was going to pay for them due to financial problems”. Evelyn was married at the time she decided to go to college. The only support Evelyn felt that she had with her college decision was her spouse, Eleazar Jr Aguado. When she was younger there was no one there to try and help her go to school. “Only rich white people went to college. My idea of college students or people who went to school was rich white kids. I

There were many times when she felt discouraged and depressed. “I cried everyday, I didn’t want to go to school.” Life was very different in 1962, and moving to an entirely different country was nowhere near easy. Especially for a

Not only she is feeling abandoned by this, but going to live with a total stranger, she hasn’t seen since she was a child. “New Mexico is worlds away from California. And what am I going to do for two whole months with someone I haven’t seen since I was six? That was half my life ago. She’s a stranger!’ I felt a sudden urge to bolt for the front door and run”, the author states in paragraph 24. This dialogue emphasizes the tension building between the narrator and her mom. They clearly have conflicting views about what is best. Her mom feels she’ll gain new experiences and get a better perspective on life by living at her grandmother’s place in New Mexico, while the narrator feels abandoned, as if her mom is leaving her with some alien to chase her own dreams (her research). In fact when her mother says this would be a great opportunity, the narrator argues, “Opportunity? For me? Or for you?” quoted in paragraph 34, implying she thinks her mother is selfish and is thinking more about her own absorption and opportunities than her daughter’s well-being. The tension culminates has a meltdown over her mother’s decision, “I stormed off to my room and threw myself onto my bed. I ached inside. Like the feeling you get watching a lost balloon float far into the sky,

College has been a place where people can get knowledge. Attending college is a better way to be successful persons and get many opportunities in the future. Unless great knowledge harder to find a good job. Every student has a different reason to study in college, where they can learn their interested subject. It will help them to achieve a degree in their own field. Another benefit going college is understanding of different cultures and religions around the world. However, there are many drawbacks. Many people who spend many years attending college instead doing jobs they cannot earn enough money. Some student learns bad habits of their friends. Two reasons going to college are a better career and greater knowledge; two effects of going college are making friends and debt.

T and her family’s formidable journey to California was caused by unemployment parents and poverty during her childhood in Vietnam. For example, after the Vietnam War like many Southern Vietnamese, Ms. T’s parent decided to leave the country because there were no job available for them. Ms. T’s parent were only 18 years old when they had Ms.T. The problem of them being unemployed and poor led them to leave Ms.T in her grandparents care. During 1989, when Ms.T was six months old, her parent migrated to the Philippines where they stayed in a refugee camp for eight years. Back then, there was a program opened by the president that led people from the refugee camp came to America so Ms.T and her family left to the U.S in April 12, 1999. It was not a difficult decision to leave her home in Vietnam because she was really excited to be in the U.S. Ms.T and her family left behind all of her relatives in Vietnam including her grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousin. Ms.T and her family came to the U.S by airplane and she doesn't have any good memory. Her worst memory was can not getting used to American foods and she felt sad when thinking about her relatives in Vietnam. Ms.T and her family could only brought some clothes including some new outfits they bought due to the airline’s restrictions. Ms.T’s parent were given couple hundred of dollars when they leave the refugee camp in the Philippine, they also brought it here. As a result, Ms.T and her family safely flew to

After high school, there are so many possible roads to take. Whether it be going into the military, college, work, and or travel the world there are many endless possibilities. All of the seniors that graduate will most likely continue there scholar career at some sort of college, which is a good choice to make because once the graduates know what they want to be they can go and pursue it at the college level. Even though college can be expensive it will be worth it in the end when you graduate with a degree and use it with your everyday lifestyle. People who choose to go to college right after high school and not have a gap year is the right choice because they can get their careers started and not behind a year, they don't spend extra money on travel expenses, and once people stop going to school they will lose the motivation to go back to college.

Why go to college is a question many people debate with. The majority of people are not aware of the substantial benefits of attending college. With the rapid shift in today’s economy having a college degree is a major key. According to article written by Fatou Faal, “The United States has been transformed from manufacturing-based economy to an economy based on knowledge, and the importance of a college education can be compared to that of a high school diploma education forty years ago.” The benefits of college prepare and shape you for today’s world.

Going to college is very smart and important step that can be taken in life. It helps you with certain goals and can improve upon certain traits that can be useful in the future. Now that said what are the actual effect of going to community college? Well there are a lot of effects both good and bad.

Have you ever lived in the shadows, influenced by the fear that you or your family could be deported? Most likely you haven’t, but for illegal immigrants and their children, this is an undeniable concept. This lifestyle of hiding in the shadows has cultivated the introduction of a needed bill that would allow for illegal immigrants, especially their children, to gain permanent residency in the United States and become successful contributors to society. In Coming Out Illegal, Maggie Jones explores the lives of undocumented immigrants and their attempts to bring attention to this bill.

High school students are often stressed how important college is and how vital it will be for their future, but students often wonder if the thousands of dollars spent to further their education is worth it. According to the New York Times, “Student debt, meanwhile, has topped $1 trillion” (Leonhardt, 2014). Having that much in student debts, often questions individuals attend college or to join the work force right out of college. There are a lot of advantages of attending college as well as disadvantages of attending college. As an individual, you have to be the one to decide if it will be worth it or not. Some may view it is not worth all the debt in the long run, whereas some think it is worth every penny in the end. I have always had strong values when it came to education, therefore I think college is worth every penny.