The Equalizer

Education is something often seen as an equalizer in the face of social injustice. The concept of using school and information to put different people on a level playing field is a noble but misguided attempt at social equality. Education undoubtedly affects the position of people in society positively, while creating an outlet to educate the ignorant, it becomes problematic when education is not an equal opportunity for everyone. In Adrienne Rich’s essay, “Taking Women Students Seriously”, she

any class in his literature; rather, he wishes anyone and everyone to be educated, and contribute to the society they reside in. Only through education, he asserts, one can become useful to the society, which shows that the education is the great equalizer of the society. Since he values the educated quality of the people, and wishes to see them sacrificing for the utility, the best governmental or political system he would argue for is a representative democracy. Even if the educated individuals may

A mind is terrible thing to waste, as we grow older the only thing truly assured is that the generation after will have to take over and lead. The nation we live in is fueled by a collective desire to want to do better than the year before. Those with children wanting to see their kids flourish and succeed. The path to a successful life is through education. As the world continues to push ahead class mobility is contingent on a good career. Where you can do your part or truly make a difference in

Intertextuality - the idea that there is only one story and ideas are just borrowed to make more stories. The importances of this device is to show how culture and everyday life influences authors. Music and philosophy also have a strong influence through intertextuality. Thomas C. Foster believes that there is only one big story and every other story is related to that one. In the movie Titanic Jack, dies from hypothermia, in Romeo and Juliet they both commit suicide. Both stories someone died

People are under immense societal pressures when making decisions; friends, coworkers, and family members input their opinions on what they believe is best. This external force exerts pressure on them to conform to their ideas. In addition to others imposing their opinions, people can impact others through tragic events such as a death in the family. These can test their core values and cause them to re-evaluate their ideologies. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet’s father dies and his mother,

Is going to college really worth the cost ? Attending college should be about getting a higher education and figuring out what career students would pursue that they would enjoy after graduating. College should help students grow in a positive direction. Yet instead students go to college because that is expected of them after high school. Not knowing the difficulties they would have to face. Most students do not know what they truly want to do with their life. Which can be a very bad venture, especially

The Id Within Ponder a life without society. In order to obtain food, we must hunt animals down and kill them with our bare hands. Everyday becomes a matter of life or death. As time goes on mankind as a whole would begin to degrade. Everything humans have learned in the past will slip away as their minds revert back to the primitive ways before evolution. Humans remain special because of their ability to cover up the animalistic instincts within. We as humans each have an id. Our actions without

Attending college is not for everyone but for personal experience, college was right for me. I didn 't have a great high school years. But college... everything was great so far. I was super excited but wasn 't too terribly nervous because I will be the first graduating college if I stay and pass all my classes. I also did duel credit while I was in high school taking college credit so I was far ahead than most people. I was familiar with the classes and the professor when I took college classes

In 1690, John Locke, an Englishman, wrote his Second Treatise on Government which argued for a government featuring a societal sovereign that protected property. A half century later, Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on Inequality, a piece that explored the proprietary origin and distribution of equality while subtly critiquing John Locke’s theories. By the time Karl Marx began to explore bourgeois society and its shortcomings, Rousseau was an established Locke critique who Marx’s On the

School uniforms make things more complicated Firstly, school is the place where all of us step in at a very tender age. In one word, life begins at school. It’s not just education but school gives us the platform to nurture our faith, emotions in such an early stage of life. The importance of making friends, working as a team- we learn all these in school. And wearing the same dress definitely brings a sense of unity among students. In every school there are students from different backgrounds but