ipl-logo

America Coming To An End By Liz Addison Summary

495 Words2 Pages

In Liz Addison’s rebuttal to Rick Perlstein’s comment that “college as America used to understand it is coming to an end” she argues that the quality of college is not determined by the amount of years and it still matters just as much as it did before. She uses personal anecdotes and a sense of ethos to gain her readers’ trust and reach their emotions. These strategies assist in proving that her claim is credible. Addison talks about her college experience and how community college compares to a four-year college. Her goal is to persuade her readers that community colleges have great value in preparing students for attending a four-year university. “The philosophy of the community college.is one that unconditionally allows its students to …show more content…

Overall, Addison's persuasive essay effectively conveys the value of community college in preparing students for success at a four-year university. The author also proves her claim that community colleges still hold such value through the use of pathos. She emphasizes that she hopes for everyone to find good education and describes community college as “America’s public service gem.” Liz Addison informs her audience about her empathy for others and says that she would campaign for every campus “simply to make sure that anyone who is looking to go to college in this country knows where to find one.” She takes the time to make students heard and seen, because typically, community college is not looked upon as a high education. The author also points out that “When Mr. Perlstein and friends say college no longer holds importance, they mourn for both the individual and society.” What Addison means by this is that by saying community college is not valuable is equivalent to saying that university does not hold value, since college is the building blocks for students in preparation to transfer to a four-year

Show More
Related
1252 Words | 6 Pages

Society has a very skewed opinion of what college is, how it should look, and what each individual type of person should experience while in college. In Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, she investigates what for-profit colleges are to modern society and how they affect various types of lives. She does this by placing herself into different social roles to put into perspective to her audience the different types of lives that affected by for-profit colleges, the role of for-profit colleges in personal and professional settings, and why she personally understands what for-profit schools are by being in these roles. Cottom takes her societal roles in two directions. The first is

Read More
1108 Words | 5 Pages

Liz Addison in her essay “Two Years Are Better Than Four” in They Say I Say lists numerous advantages two-year colleges have over the other degree. Community college is something to which people should pay close attention while reading because it appears more than once throughout the text. The paper will be based on college and its importance, and the words community college mean a two-year college where people can go to get a feel for college or to get their start.

Read More
386 Words | 2 Pages

Liz Addison, who graduated from Piedmont Virginia Community College and Southern Maine Community College agreed that community college was better than a university. Addison believed that a four-year college was for the “privileged class”. Addison viewed universities as the “privileged class” due to students applying at their curriculum vitae. In addition, Liz Addison tells the importance of community college. Addison then goes on to tell how high school graduates have a hard time getting into universities; the odds of entering would be low.

Read More
181 Words | 1 Pages

In the article, "Two Years Are Better Than Four", Liz Addison writes about her view on universities and colleges vs. community colleges. Her stance is that "the community college system to be one of America's uniquely great institution. " is in response to an article by Rick Perlstein that said that colleges and universities are losing their importance in American culture. I believe that he is wrong, college is becoming even more important in our culture today. Multiple jobs today require a degree in the area of employment, and many people can not afford for an 'actual college.'

Read More
858 Words | 4 Pages

In the paper, "Two Years Are Better than Four,” the writer, Liz Addison, communicates her sentiment on the essentialness of junior colleges. She writes in light of the absence for consideration and significance to junior colleges. As she would see it, junior colleges do not get the affirmation and thankfulness that they merit. Inside of the article, Addison references Rick Perlstein commonly and gives him mention for his thought that school as it used to be, a period of relaxation, had arrived at an end. Addison fuses the principal thought of her paper into the initial few sections and expresses, "My conjecture, finding for some hidden meaning, is that Mr. Perlstein has never set foot in an American Junior college" (Source A).

Read More
614 Words | 3 Pages

Yasin Kuri Marcia Cree ENG 101 October 7, 2017 Success at an Affordable Price The article “Two Years is better than four” is written by Liz Addison. She claims that community college matters, unlike Mr. Perlstein who thinks that college must come to an end. Addison expressed her view that the community college also has significant importance in comparison with the university. Besides, she also mentioned that community colleges do not receive the attention and admission from the education system “College as America used to understand it is coming to an end” (Addison 211).

Read More
1259 Words | 6 Pages

The purpose of her essay is to prove to her audience, mainly soon-to-be college students or parents of future students, that college is still a vital part of planning your future. She effectively advertises community college as a cheaper alternative to four-year universities and their skyrocketing tuition prices; and tries to persuade her readers that attending Community College can be just as important as going to a traditional four-year university because they allow you to begin your college education at

Read More
598 Words | 3 Pages

In the article “Two Years are Better than Four,” Liz Addison argues that community college is better than four year universities, such as the one Rick Perlstein attended. Where Perlstein reminisces about his days in college and claims that the greatness of American colleges is gone. Addison makes it apparent to the reader that she not only disagrees with Perlstein, but makes remarks suggesting that she believes that Perlstein’s college days were less for studying and more for partying and enjoying the fact that he went to a fancy private college. Addison continues by detailing some of the opportunities for people that attend community college such as being affordable, a place for the student to begin, and possibly a better match for students’ lives. She claims that this is the way college is intended to be and by no means is college as we knew it coming to an end.

Read More
900 Words | 4 Pages

Recently, many have begun to attack and degrade higher education in the United States. In the book How College Works, authors Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs claim, “As state support has eroded, and as more students attend college in an increasingly desperate attempt to find viable jobs, the price to students of attending an institution of higher education has gone up, especially at more selective institutions” (172). So is college even worth it? Caroline Bird’s excerpt from her book Case Against College “Where College Fails Us” is an adequately written article that agrees with those who question whether college is a good investment. Bird argues that although some students would benefit from college and succeed, many fall short, wasting

Read More
745 Words | 3 Pages

The article, “I Owe It All to Community College,” by Tom Hanks, highlights the impact of an accessible community college on his life, emphasizing its role in providing opportunities and aiding personal and professional growth. As a struggling academic student with low expectations for college, he unexpectedly found success and inspiration through the diverse and supportive environment at Chabot. This college provided a foundation for his career in theater and film production, resulting in his immense gratitude for the invaluable opportunities offered by a community college. Likewise, in “The Chance And The Choice That Changed My Life: The Power of a College Promise,” Chike Aguh shares his parents’ humble beginnings and their journey to achieving

Read More
690 Words | 3 Pages

Everyone with different background determines a different field of study and mostly from the area of science or engineering. The essay “Two Years Are Better Than Four” by Liz Addison shows her response to the different perspective of Mr.Perlstein about the matter of colleges and her disagreement with Mr. Perlstein’s statement that “The college experience—a rite passage as it was meant it to be—must have come to an end”(212). In another similar essay called “Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges?” by Kevin Carey, the same opinion has made about the importance decision of colleges and explains the concept of for-profit system. Carey’s opinion about Clifford “He’s an interesting man—sincere, optimistic, a true believer in higher education and his role as a force for good” (217).

Read More
1356 Words | 6 Pages

As a college student who is currently spending thousands of dollars to further my education and achieve a career goal, it was, at first, disheartening to read Caroline Bird ’s essay “College is a Waste of Time and Money”. However, after thoroughly examining her points, I now see that her essay is illogical. In her piece “College is a Waste of Time and Money”, Caroline Bird argues against the idea that “college is the best place for all high-school graduates” (1); in other words, college isn’t for everyone. Throughout her writing, Bird supplies her readers with evidence that explains how, for some individuals, college is a waste of not only time and money, but of intellectual effort, as well.

Read More
869 Words | 4 Pages

“3 Reasons College Still Matters” by Andrew Delbanco 3) “Surely, every American college ought to defend this waning possibility, whatever we call it. And an American college is only true to itself when it opens its doors to all - the rich, the middle, and the poor - who have the capacity to embrace the precious chance to think and reflect before life engulfs them. If we are all serious about democracy, that means everyone.” 4) In this part of the writing Andrew Delbanco tries to persuade his audience by using the pattern of logic that agrees with the overall argument but also considers another striking point of view to strengthen the argument (While these arguments are convincing, they must also consider…).

Read More
1531 Words | 7 Pages

Is college still important and relevant? The question is answered and confirmed when Liz Addison, author of “Two Years Are Better than Four”, wrote a counter argument in order to disprove the opposing views of Rick Perlstein, the author of, “What’s the Matter with College”. The topic that is being brought to light is the subject of whether or not college still matters. Perlstein that college is no longer what it used to be. It was after reading Perlstein’s article that Addison masterfully wrote her counter argument which successfully contradicted the opinionated, inaccurate views of Rick Perlstein.

Read More
909 Words | 4 Pages

Can Two Be Greater Than Four? Does college really matter? Has college lost its rite to passage appeal? Can one still go to college and be successful in the pursuit of self-discovery? These are the types of questions that Liz Addison challenges in her short essay “Two Years Are Better Than Four”. By taking into account my own experience as a current community college student and advocate, in this response to Addison’s essay I choose to elaborate on her views of community college being better than a four year university in the sense of offering a better college experience.

Read More

More about America Coming To An End By Liz Addison Summary

Open Document