Persuasive Essay For High School

College, a place where students seems to have freedom and learn what they have a passion in, is actually more like a maze. Students are enthusiastic, yet still have to be focus because college is not all fun and games. True, making out of the maze is super rewarding, but the pressure and getting annoying may get to them. They would have to go through paths that may not have an open trail which in deep struggles cause them to forfeit the maze of college. Again, with education, comes knowledge, experience, and confidence where no people can steal. Data has shown that people who has a college degree earns much more that people who only has a high school diploma (Berman). This is data, it shows how much people need a college degree to be able to live comfortably. With more

Over 7,500 animals are killed in zoos because they are deemed surplus, as stated by Liz Tyson an animals rights activist. This giraffe in particular sparked a huge controversy. HIs name was Marius, he was homed at the Copenhagen Zoo and was 2 years old when the staff killed him with a bolt gun. Marius was then dissected and fed to lions in front of ongoing zoo goers. What got people fuming is that he was a healthy, young giraffe. Therefore I believe the killing of Marius should not be justified.

My family, like many other middle-class families, do not have $20,000 of expendable resources to pay for college for my sister and I. The only way I will be able to afford college is if I receive enough scholarships to cover nearly all the tuition. Our education system and the amount of money necessary to pay for a bachelor’s degree has put financial stress on my parents and have caused me to overextend myself in school and community involvement in hopes of attracting scholarship committees to decide I am deserving of the money they are giving. Education is important because it allows college graduates to obtain stable jobs.

Jacqueline Hicks Grazette CEO, MyCollegeAdvisor.net says some people can get grants and scholarships to make it easier (“Make College”). Many students need an immaculate GPA to be presented with a scholarship (“Make College”). Not everybody has an untarnished GPA to get a scholarship so many students won't receive any scholarships. Athletic awards only award you with $8,000 and won't assist with the cost of college (“Make College”). The cost of college is so high that even if you get an $8,000 dollar scholarship it won't help. It doesn't matter if you start saving early you will not be able to afford college (Mooney 11). The price of college is so high that it won't matter if you start saving early. Even with saving early and scholarships, college would still cost an arm and a

“One reason for the inequity is the increase in merit-based rather than need-based scholarships…studies have shown many of those affluent students who receive merit aid are not actually high achievers” (Low-Income Students Struggle To Pay For College, Even In Rare States That Offer Help The Hechinger Report). This fact shows that students need to work hard even after they receive the scholarship. Some people argue that providing scholarships based on merit entirely can be compared to providing financial assistance to the rich. For instance, society believes one thing that contributes to low enrollments at universities is lack of monetary aid and unfortunately most scholarships weigh more on academic merit not vulnerability, such as, standardized test scores and grades. In the final analysis, however, scholarship assistance is meant to help reward students who try hard, if we need to equip our society with knowledge and the benefits that comes with it, we need to provide scholarships to students that have excelled and will make use of the scholarship given. As Lionel Messi once said “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it” ( Work Hard Quotes At

There are many reasons why college is not valuable. One reason is that many students that attend college are from rich families that send them on trips and donate money to the colleges and mainly, they can afford to send their child to a four-year college. According to Richard Vedder, “They make generous contributions to the elite colleges they once attended, to which their kids are applying…” as well as, “The biggest absurdity is that a four-year college degree has become the only gateway into the American middle class.” So basically if a student’s parent isn't rich or did not go to a prestigious college it is very unlikely for their child to attend one.

In an article about the inequality of college admissions formulated by two college professors the importance of adequate faculty members is acknowledged, “ [faculty] construct an organizational worldview that serves to reduce the full range of colleges and universities that students could consider to a manageable subset,” (Espenshade & Radford, 2009). Urban schools do not provide adequate faculty or resources to aid the students on the correct path for college admissions. The students will then feel overwhelmed with the process and not complete their college admissions. With the high difficulty level of simply choosing a college low income students will believe that they can not handle college, and not apply or enrol to college. However, students in better equipped schools have more knowledge on colleges, and can make a more informed decision on which college would be the best for them. Unfortunately, low income students do not attend adequate schools, and believe that college will be an disadvantage. Without equal knowledge about colleges, the low income students will not view it as a priority because they will not have sufficient

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Imagine spending seven hours in a silent, colorless building for the next four years of your life. That’s how some high schools are who don’t offer the arts programs we take for granted everyday. Performing arts, fine arts, and visual arts deserve to be a required piece of highschool because It motivates both special education and regular students, It reduces stress and anxiety, and it creates quality students and schools.

Everybody has a different opinion about every topic. A very opinionated top is if Students students should receive legal penalty for download intellectual property like movies and music. I think students should receive legal penalty ,because their are laws about it, it hurts these artists and industries, and it is stealing

“Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay and present it to the class in a week. You will be graded based on how convincing it is. Today we will be choosing topics,” announced Mr. Bowerbank, my 7th grade English teacher and ruler of classroom 110. My class simultaneously groaned at the prospect of work. I simply lifted my head with intrigue as it was already May and about time we had our first essay. He then proceeded to give examples of topics we could choose and gave us some time to think before we had to tell him our topic. My classmates were already rushing to tell the teacher their idea lest someone else steal it. That meant the usual abortion, death penalty, or drug use topics were out. I really couldn't think of anything and the teacher was slowly making his way through the remaining students like an executioner beheading criminals in a line. I have always thought that he would make a marvelous supervillain if he had a curly mustache, a tophat, and a cape. Eventually my name was called. I slowly dragged myself over to his desk. Even sitting down, he still seemed to tower over me. “What is your topic Cindy?” As usual in such desperate times, my mind turned to food. “Waffles are better than pancakes.” I figured that a waffle was just a differently shaped pancake with a nicer texture. “Hmm. Excellent topic. I look forward to your essay!” I survived to live yet another day.

Why spend money that is really needed for other things? Why live uncomfortably? Why be trapped in this hole called a home that belongs to another person? Why not live free and peacefully? When a person rents he or she usually throws away money that could be used to purchase something that belongs to them. Money is not easy to come by so why pay out hundreds toward something that is not benefit to the person paying it out. There is no good explanation for making a decision like this. The best option in a situation like this is to buy a house. Buying a house is a better option than renting an apartment.

As I sat there and thought to myself what did everyone thing of me after hearing what I have done. “Taylor Bloom responsible for the deaths of 53 high school students. My head started to wander back to my high school days. In my sophomore year, I was bullied nearly every sing day by the stupid jocks. I started to hate myself so I decided to change my look. The next day I straightened my hair, put a black skirt on, and a white button up shirt with some heels, I left a few of the buttons on my shirt unbuttoned. I was making my way up to the school, I saw all eyes on me even the jocks could not take their eyes off of me. WAS I BECOMING POPULAR? Two weeks later I was the most popular girl in South Lake High. I had a tall, handsome boyfriend and my two new best friends Karli and Rebecca. Everyone wanted to be like me, everyone loved me or as I should say “worshipped me”. Until one night at a party I got super intoxicated and ended up doing things I probably shouldn’t have. That next day everyone was talking about it and all eyes were on me not that I am complaining, but it was not a good look they were giving me… they all knew what I had done that previous night. I did not show up for school the rest of the semester in fear I would lose my reputation so I started getting homeschooled.

Having escaped rule from a tyrannical British government, the United States was founded on ideals of freedom and equality for all people. These fantasies of universal egalitarianism turned out to be merely that: fantasies. American history is full of stories of the oppressed struggling to get the rights they deserve and of the controversy over these issues that consequently ensues. “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery” by Frederick Douglass and “We Shall Overcome” by Lyndon B. Johnson are two speeches made confronting two of these issues. Douglass’s speech, delivered in 1852, condemns the institution of slavery and maintains that slaves are men and are therefore entitled to freedom. Johnson’s speech, on the other hand, was written in 1965 and discussed the civil rights movement. In it, he implored local governments to allow all American citizens, regardless of race, to vote. Despite the significant gap in time between these two addresses, both speakers use similar persuasive techniques, including ethos, pathos, and parallelism, to convince their audience that change needs to be implemented in America.

You have worked hard these last several months and your college applications (with the multitude of essays) are finally submitted! Congratulations! Now the waiting game. However, there are some things you can do to keep your mind occupied in the coming weeks as you await the admission decisions.