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    never viewed college as a place you needed to go to after high school. They viewed it as an option either school or work. They never really made college seem like a big deal because my dad always said “either way you can still make it in the real world, either its school or just working”. They did explain that college would benefit me real good in the future and that it would be a great choice if I was to pick it, but they also told me about trade school which is a vocational college which provides

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    College Education Worth the Cost What you guys think does College Education Worth the Cost? In the article “The Wall Street Journal” edited by Riley, she said that a college education does not worth the cost. Again, she claims that most of the colleges are doing their business, they did not care about the student (Riley). Those types of colleges have lack serious core curriculum, they did not know their responsibility towards the student. Moreover, I will not support the Riley argument because I

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    Although the present role of higher education is contested, its origins aren’t. Higher education in the US was created as a way to maintain class distinctions. The old Puritan model of the American university was a religious haven for students of wealthy families who attended in order to become clergymen. Graduates would then move on to becoming leaders in other branches of the church, thereby leading their own communities and essentially generating essentially an upper class of ministers. Though

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    of a college degree brings controversy to a new generation between those who want to develop their education and those who get into the society without obtaining a higher education. Throughout getting a college degree, people can develop themselves in educational ways and physical ways with intensive education. In contrast, some people believe a college education is not necessary in order to achieve what they want, because real life experience and knowledge are better than a formal education. However

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    College Education should be free. To begin, my first reason will be about how it manages to help poor students get an education. Additionally, my second reason will be about how more people would be able to go to college. Lastly, my last reason will be that students will have more freedom to choose a major they enjoy. Here is my information to prove this. For my first reason, free college education would help poor students get educated. Indeed, some people are very poor. There are so many parents

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    convictions that lead me to believe that a college education is worth it. A number of jobs require some college inculcation or a degree. The number of the jobs that require college education have highly incremented over the years; furthermore, a college education will proffer a plethora of money, diverse from what just a high school education would give you. In the article “Is a College Education Worth it?”, Henry Punoinoin encapsulates the essence that college is unanimously worth going to by divulging

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    Sylvia Ikharo Comp 1101 March 15, 2016 Affordability of our Education Every working American family knows how hard it is today to find affordable higher education. As of the past few decades the tuition fee for most public and private colleges increased by 250 percent while income increased by 16 percent (Politico, 2013). The statistics have since then become a trend that has now evolved each year, hence; making it difficult for parents to send their children to school that can cause them

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    College Education In the article written by Rodney K.Smith he puts forward a clear argument about “Yes, a College Education is Worth the Cost.” There are more opportunities and doors open for those with higher education compared to those without. Higher education allows people to live in better neighborhoods; it brings financial security and stability. Financially secured people not only are able to afford extracurricular activities for their kids, such as sports, music lessons, art, dancing etc

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    Louisville, Indiana University Southeast, and Ivy Tech. Three colleges, multiple factors, but only one decision to make. Have you thought about where you want to go to college at or what you want to be after high school? All three of college choices offer some type of nursing program in which is in the desired career choice. To go in and go straight through college and get the exact degree someone wants and to not have to continue to go back to college time after time to finish with the degree they want

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    years of college, or work hard for the rest of your life.” What he meant, was that if I pour all my effort and hard work into achieving a degree during the four years I am in college, I will most likely live comfortably the rest of my life, as opposed to not having a college degree; breaking my back every time I go to work. However, the college life has many elements that prevent it from being a piece of cake, elements consisting of society 's views of college. Attaining a higher education becomes

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