Rich's Claim

Alex K Rich was a biologist and biophysics. He was the Professor of Biophysics at MIT and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. and an M.D. from Harvard University. During this time, he was a member of a social and discussion group which attacked the question of how DNA encodes genetics. He had over 600 publications on his name. All this information give us a confidence that he knows what he is talking about. He provides some data to prove the usefulness of the wall. One of his strongest argument was that the amount of money that the government could spend on the tracking devices will be more beneficial if they will spend it on the construction However, he didn’t touch the biggest problem of the wall - environment damages.

Achieving a college degree is worth the time and effort as well as the financial struggle because there is more to be gained besides context knowledge. College is something that has dropped in importance as less and less people attend every year. These students are unsure as to whether it is worth it.Parents push their kids towards college and some even tell them not to go because of financial problems. This pressure students to make a life changing decision. This is all things that may keep a student from a secondary education that could kick-start a new and better life.

Rich is the author of an essay called “Claiming an Education” where she uses the words “claiming” and “receiving” very carefully. In the essay she talks about the difference between claiming an education and receiving an education. She states “You cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education; you will do much better to think of yourselves as able to claim one. One of the dictionary definitions of the verb “to claim” is to take as the rightful owner; to assert in the fade of

In Adrienne Rich's "Claiming an Education," she encourages women to "claim" their education, rather than "receive" it. She is referring to the fact that some women feel the need to be granted permission by others, rather than getting up and doing what is best for them. She also inspires the students to take personal responsibility and earn the education they are entitled to, rather than taking the easy route to obtain their degrees. In order to earn the education we deserve, we must become active participants in that education. Students must demand to be taken seriously, make our education a top priority, and take classes that challenge us as individuals.

If a student does not have the money to attend college, it is like having your vehicle being taken away from you. Education is the road, and without having the thousands of dollars one needs to attend the University of their choice, no one would be able to drive down the path to success. It all comes down to the fact that college is too expensive for a majority of adolescents, being more of a luxury than a commodity, which holds us away from our potential dream, and future.

A middle class citizen sits in a courtroom while a wealthy citizen sits in a different courtroom. Same charge, different outcome. The wealth gives the first class citizen a very unfair advantage within the judicial system. First, he can hire lawyers that know how to find any and every loophole in the system to get their client off with little to no charges. Even if the charge is as drastic as manslaughter. This happens everyday all over the country as wealth bails people out of consequences.

Raymund Mendez Phil 106 Mendoza 11/30/14 The Rich and the Rest of Us Chapter 3: Poverty of Affirmation In chapter three of the book The Rich and the Rest of Us deals with the affirmation of poverty. A woman who lives in Columbus Mississippi is not attentive with the fact that cornel west and tavis smiley are coming to her town with their bus tour. “She was working out on a treadmill at the local YMCA when… ” (pg 71) when she saw the tour bus coming she was already feeling the emotion of anger run through her body, ready to give them a “riot act”.

Education is the key to success and without it you will not have a future. That is embedded in my brain. As a teenager you listen to your parents nag on you all the time about school and just think it’s easier said than done. But for me I lived through paradigm, my mom went back to school while raising us and working two jobs. She graduated from ASU with a 4.0 GPA and was honored and on the news because of all she’s done and went through in her lifetime. I have a difficult enough time doing my homework and going to basketball training. My mother went to school full-time, had two jobs, cooked for us, cleaned, paid bills, went to our games and still managed to get a 4.0. She always tells us if I can do it you can. Nothing in life comes easy you have to work for it, then you will be a success, if it is just given to you then you will never recognize the value of it.

As Adrienne Rich spoke to a college full of women, she continuously pointed out that education is not something to take for granted, and should not be looked at passively. Education is a responsibility she remarked, “Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions.” On the other hand, the Youtube video shows a student who does not take responsibility for their education, and basically exemplifies the student Adrienne Rich advises against. During the time of Adrienne Rich’s speech in the 1970’s, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Regretfully, when I entered high school I did not realize how hard I had to work to get what I wanted. I went to my classes, did my work, but never really pushed myself to my full abilities. I thought that as long as I graduated with decent grades I

As a woman going into a field that for decades was predominately middle aged white men, I have to claim that "Claiming an Education" was not at all directed only towards women but to those who say they have achieved to never claim their active role in this constantly changing environment. I am a double major in Communication Studies and Multimedia Journalism, to learn the skills to become whatever I choose to be with my degree; but thats only if I can replace passive tense with an active grammatical structure in my life. Adrienne Rich wants to challenge the reader's and those around them to see through the barriers, and to claim a new era like the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Claiming is an education that means I need to be an active participant

Adrienne Rich states “That you cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education; you will do much better to think of yourselves as being here to claim one” (23). What is the difference between claim and receive? Rich writes “One of the dictionary definitions of the verb “to claim” is to take as the rightful owner; to assert in the face of possible contradiction. “To receive” is to come into possession of; to act as receptacle or container for; to accept as authoritative or true” (23).

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel, they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do, they suffer from a too rigid restraint. Too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged creatures to say that they ought to confine

In Adrienne Rich’s “Claiming an Education” Rich presents the argument of claiming an education. In the United States claiming an education often seems far-fetched. Education is not free and not for everyone, or is it? Claiming an education sounds a lot like taking what’s rightfully yours. Do you receive an education for society or does society present it for a student to take? Rich seems to think that education is presented for those willing to claim it. “The first thing I want to say to you who are students, is that you cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education; you will do much better to think of yourselves as being here to claim one.” (Rich) Perception

In Adrienne Rich’s speech, Claiming an Education, a statement was made that broadened my views of being a student in a university: “you cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education: you will do much better to think of being here to claim one” (paragraph 2). To furthermore explain this statement, students (especially women) should not attend school to just “receive” what is offered, but to rightfully take what is yours; which would be the degree.