When I walked into my classroom at Louisiana State University, I noticed something so different than before. In high school we were taught to work for our grades, and teachers would not change a grade no matter how much you begged them. Even though I went to a private, all girls, Catholic high school, I never felt I was a customer of any sort. In college, especially at a university as big as LSU, you do not learn to take notes better, or study harder, but you do learn to make up stories or excuses of why you do not deserve the grade you received. I felt like I was in a meat market, where people were bargaining the best price for the largest slab of meat.
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What makes schools this way today? It is the society in which we live in, a consumer-happy world, where the "customer is always right!" Students are simply customers to an institution that grants them whatever degree they wish to earn. Sometimes I also get the feeling I'm at an all-inclusive resort, where the amenities are endless. It starts with the images of Recreation center, pools, and the most famous food chain servers in America: McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Subway, and Chick Fil-A, that fill the brochures that are sent throughout America to high school students. I mean who would not want to live on campus now? We have everything, why settle for anything else? This is the beginning of the new cycle of college life, that allows students to feel as consumers in the university market. .
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Once the students pay for the huge amounts of money for tuition, books, and room and board, they get the sense that it is their money being put into the school system, and basically, it is. I mean can you blame us for having the feeling that we are the ones who should get the best they can get for their money? No, you can only blame society. It is society that has molded us into a lazy generation, and that teaches us not get "screwed-over" when purchasing something.
"Beware of the in Crowd" Time. Aug 21, 2000: 69 In "Beware of the in Crowd," Michelle Orecklin, a writer for Time magazine states that schoolyard bullies my not always be so easy to identify. ... This was used to say how girls like to exclude people from society, to keep them out of the in crowd. ...
Far from the Madding Crowd Far from the Madding Crowd has its genesis in a letter Hardy wrote to Leslie Stephen, the new editor of the Cornhill Magazine, in November 1872. Stephen had inquired about the possibility of a serialized story for the magazine, and Hardy replied that he had in mind "a pastoral tale which I thought of calling "Far from the Madding Crowd," in which the chief characters would be a woman-farmer, a shepherd, and a sergeant in the Dragoon Guards." ... Far from the Madding Crowd was warmly received by the reading public and generously reviewed by the press. ... With the su...
Compromising Female Characters in Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure The novels of Thomas Hardy are intricate and complicated works whose plots seem to be completely planned before the first word is ever actually formed on paper. Though I have no proof of Hardy's method of writing, it is clear that he focuses more on plot development than characterization in the novels Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. ... Far from the Madding Crowd - Three Men in Bathsheba's Life Far from the Madding Crowd was writt...
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Abstract In economics and psychology, the crowding out effect is considered both as based on strong empirical evidence and as an artifact. ... Keywords: intrinsic motivation; incentives; crowding out effect; self-determination theory; complementarities JEL Classification Code: J30; L20 1. ... Frey and Oberholzer-Gee (1997), Kreps (1997), Frey and Jegen (2001), and more recently Bénabou and Tirole (2003) have shown that some crowding out effect might occur. ... This approach indeed permits not only to strengthen the crowding out effect assumption but also to make clear under which cond...
The topic that I choose for this assignment is the structure of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is located in Paris and was built in 1887 and finished in 1889. The tower provided a dramatic symbol for the exposition and elevators to make it possible for fairgoers to have fabulous view of Paris....
Both Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens use place and character to great effect in these two pre 20th century texts, "Far From The Madding Crowd" and "Great Expectations". ... Hardy's novels, most set in fictionalised Dorset that Hardy first christened " Wessex" in "Far From the Madding Crowd" are known for their magnificent scenic descriptions, which evoke the emotional aspects of the characters" situation. ... In "Far From the Madding Crowd" I am analysing the storm sequence. ... My preference is "Far From the Madding Crowd". ...
The action-packed, 'feel-good' crowd-pleasing story, tells of the rise of a small-time, has-been, underdog Philadelphia boxer fighting against insurmountable odds in a big-time bout. Where, in similar circumstances "8 Mile" is a "feel-good" crowd-pleasing story about Rabbit (Eminem) who after humiliation rises up from the underdog persona to become the champion. ...
The leader that uses the best method wins the crowd. ... He had the crowd on his side. ... First, he caught the crowd's attention by being unemotional. ... This made the crowd feel comfortable. ... That was why the crowd all believed them in the first place. ...
