That also begins to set the author's humorous tone of the essay and show his sympathy to the college students who are under great pressures. Some of us believe that the author writes the essay from college students' point of view. It can found that in many sentences the author uses "we" as the subjects referring to the students. ... We can tell that the author is showing his sympathy and hopes. ... That produces great pressure onto the parents and students who are from working class and rural families. ...

• Word Count: 850
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the article "Motivation Matters", the author introduces four conditions that improve students' motivation (Crotty). ... A great accomplishment and a great perseverance are the result of great interest. ... Geniuses who completed great accomplishments in their lives also have to spend years of working hard pursuing their dreams. ... Therefore, students who are interested in their subject will also be able to overcome setbacks and accomplish great things with great perseverance. ... In the article "Brainology", the author explains a program that motivates students by ...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All authors, through different points and ideas, offer differing opinions on liberal arts educations. ... These authors share the thought that education should not be about aptitude tests or "measurements of learning." ... The belief that education should be reformed is not limited to these select few authors; many others share these same views. I personally agree with these author's viewpoints and ideas regarding a change within the educational system. ... Though it is of great importance in a major, a student really understanding a subject is still important in general education cou...

• Word Count: 1088
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Throughout the passage the authors made a lot of valid points that supported their main claim. ... In the first body paragraph the assertion is to engage all students and in the paragraph the authors do a great job on saying exactly what needs to happen for this to be achieved. ... All of the following paragraphs exemplify the same type of organized structure making it easy to figure out the author's point of view of the topic. ... This proves the point that there claims are not impossible because they are some schools out here already involved in some of the progressions that the author...

• Word Count: 1172
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Clean Up or Pay Up Clean Up or Pay Up is a great story for college administrators, staff members and students to read. ... The author, Louis Barbash, explains to the reader how college athletes are made to have no social life when they are in school. ... After everything is all said and done the author states that it is time for schools to make a decision between real amateurism and real professionalism. ...

• Word Count: 316
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

There is a great deal of detailed reference to the text. ... For example in the first section the author is explaining the difficulty of reading by stating "one of the difficult things about reading is that the pages before you will begin to speak only when the authors are silent and you begin to speak in their place, sometimes for them-doing their work, continuing their projects, and sometimes for yourself, following your agenda" (pg. 1). ... As you read further into the introduction the more the author makes note of essays from the book. ... The essays are used to help further the ...

• Word Count: 713
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The author David Gelernter in this article Unplugged: The Myth of computers in the classroom believes so and has several supporting facts to back his beliefs. ... The author supports this in his statement, "They have the potential to accomplish great things, but in practice, however, computers make our worst educational enemies" (274). ... Multimedia and hypermedia's use of sound pictures and video may have enhanced the learning process by making it more entertaining, but according to the author "by changing a book or document into hypertext is to invite readers to ignore e...

• Word Count: 692
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mark Mathabane the author of an article called "Appearance are Destructive" has very strong views about clothing in today's society. ... Which he had great expectations. ... The author states some truths about the American education system as well as some falsies. ... That's what I feel the author does by comparing a South African Education to that of an American education. ... I do not totally agree with the views of Mark Mathabane on education, but I do agree with the overall idea that today's youth focus a great deal on appearance. ...

• Word Count: 654
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Through knowledge and skill, all individuals can achieve greatness. ... A prime example of how things used to be was stated by the author,W.E.B. ... Like the authors stated,People who acquire more diplomas get better jobs? ... Like the authors stated,The school trains children for responsible citizenship and socializes them for their future adult roles. ... Students spend a great amount of time in school, therefore it is essential that they learn to work and get along as well as respect one another. ...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

After such a beginning, the author continues for the greater part of the work with logical proof about the present arrangement of education is not right, but rather his thoughts are. ... It is emphasized when the author expresses that in the new educational system and obviously, Freire uses the baits of "authority...on the side of freedom" (Freire 7), and the such to pull in the benefactor impulsive forces of the reader. In the entire section, and also all through the paper, Freire makes his point substantial by stressing on its others conscious attributes, and just on its great sides, while b...

• Word Count: 741
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The educational system in the United States, and a great deal of other countries for that matter, are stripping away important elements of education. ... The author points to the education system sticking to linear, or one-dimensional, values that focus on standardize testing. ... The author also suggests that the increase in prescription drug use is a cause for the problems in the education system. ... The author's suggestion is to start an educational revolution. ... The author makes a great reference that every living thing can flourish or wither depending on the conditions. ...

• Word Count: 946
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In reading "Short Talks" by Anne Carson, I found it very challenging to interpret what the author was trying to say. ... Both authors elicit great emotion throughout their works. ... Both authors write on topics that are important to them and demonstrate strong critical thinking skills. ... These texts should be read more than once by readers to get a better understanding of what the author is trying to convey. ... However with reflection you may just enjoy the intriguing critical thinking concepts demonstrated by these authors....

• Word Count: 1015
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To name a few, there is the authors like Poe, Twain, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Frost. ... The students who have knowledge of there ancestors can prevent another Great Depression from occurring in America or they could learn a way to come to a solution instead of going to war. Not only does classical education have history added into the literature it also has a wider range of language used, a more developed writing style, and the authors of the material are more educated and able to promote their feelings through words. ... Because of America's great diversity of people from the start o...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Source A is an excerpt from the author of "The Homework Myth". ... Source A has made many great points in the excerpt. ... The author of source C believes that homework is important. ... I do not agree with this author. ...

• Word Count: 637
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It is interesting to compare how the two authors Rodriguez and Freire looked at the educational system differently. ... He is the great mimic; a collector of thoughts, not a thinker" the very last person in class who ever feels obliged to have an opinion of his own." ...

• Word Count: 294
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Tana Sanderson, author of "The Great Debate- Education vs. Experience" and Jan Eberly and Carmel Martin, authors of "The Economic Case for Higher Education" share the same sentiment regarding education. ...

• Word Count: 733
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Hearing individuals describe concrete strategies helps dispel fears" sounds great but falls way short of offering practical advice to teachers of how to implement multiculturalism in the classroom. ... While I agree that an author's background, and by extension race, is an integral component of truly understanding theme and intent, I am left with a question: by overtly discussing race as a part of non-white authors" writing, are we not calling attention to the difference we seek to annihilate? ...

• Word Count: 676
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An anonymous author wrote this book because this book is a real young girl's diary. ... This is a great book to learn from especially if you're in high school and you want to fit in but you don't know which crowd is the bad one and which is the good. ...

• Word Count: 383
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Both authors offer a convincing argument as to where a person's creativity stems from, although I tend to agree more with Walker's theory. ... Phillis Wheatley had no formal schooling or education and yet would turn out to be a great poet. ... Had she not been black, Wheatley perhaps would've been considered a great poet of her time. ... So again, an example of a great writer who showed great creativity without any formal education. ...

• Word Count: 782
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the essay "Achievement of Desire," author Richard Rodriguez, describes the difficulties balancing life in the academic world and the life of a working class family. ... Richard Hoggart, author of the book Working with the Past, states that a scholarship boy "is at the friction point of two cultures" (840). ... Parents have great amounts of wisdom and values that they can pass on to their children besides the facts and figures that children are taught in school. ... A scholarship boy does not comprehend his studies but is rather, "the great mimic; a collector of thoughts,...

• Word Count: 1139
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Christopher Columbus was a great man; he discovered America the other story to this according to James lowen in lies my teacher told me is he killed many people in the process to claim this new world for England. ... James lowen author of lies my teacher told me shares some interesting facts that probably did not make it into your history classroom, for instance, by show of hands how many of you know the name martin Luther king? ... In this article author Shirley Engle explains that many college history professors know that history is full of controversy, yet they let it go only becoming trans...

• Word Count: 1184
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Aravind Adiga, the author of the white tiger, depicts India as a vast and dark jungle where hierarchy and corruption are the rulers of the nation. ... "See this country, in its days of greatness, when it was the richest nation was like a zoo. ... ...

• Word Count: 501
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Instead of looking at the ideas of a single author, students can browse many different resources on the web and put together a well-rounded topic. ... For those that already understand these differences, the Internet becomes a great resource and also a place to put into practice the use of learning and knowing different languages. ...

• Word Count: 622
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Even the plans that are being put forth to improve education are not being received with great colors by the critics. One important thing one should give some thought to, is that any great reform of our education system is highly unlikely, because it is an institution which keeps our society the way it is. ... According to Howard Gardner, the author of the article "Make Teaching a True Profession," it is expensive to start out charter schools, vouchers would not nearly cover all the costs of those schools, and only the best maintained school would remain. ...

• Word Count: 738
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In most cases, literacy is achieved through many years of schooling, but in some of the stories we read in class, the authors had to give themselves and education instead of being taught by parents and teachers. ... He gave himself an education, made himself literate, and that is what gave him the ambition to become a great English writer; and he did. Without the ambition, Benjamin Franklin likely would not have continued on with his writing and become so great, and without being literate and educated, he likely would not have had the ambition. ... I may not end up as known or as great as B...

• Word Count: 1248
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School