How to Escape the Community College Trap In the article “How to Escape the Community College Trap” written by Ann Hulbert. She explains her thoughts and opinions on community college. Her primary topic of discussion is about a program through a community college in New York called asap. Asap is a program that gives opportunities to lower income students. She explores how it compares to regular community colleges and ivy schools such as Harvard.
In the essay "Friends, Good Friends - And Such Good Friends," Judith Viorst argues that different levels of friendship exist, ranging from casual acquaintances to best friends, and that it is essential to recognize these various types of friendships. Viorst employs rhetorical devices, such as contrast using anecdotes and parenthesis to include humor and evoke pathos to explore the nuances of friendships. Her purpose is to examine different friendships by reflecting on what makes a good friend and offering insight into how readers can identify and appreciate true friendships in their lives. She writes in a light-hearted and conversational tone to encourage Redbook readers, typically young adult women, to invest energy into meaningful friendships.
Their friendship sets out the entire plot of the story through their life journey of overcoming hardships as they strove for the betterment of their own lives. Friendship is achievable in human
To further convince the reader, Ludden uses a study referenced in a journal by the credible Duke University psychologist, Jenna Clark. The study addresses college students and how the more Facebook friends that freshman had, the less socially adjusted they felt, whereas with seniors, the more Facebook friends they had, the more socially adjusted they felt (Ludden). This was due to a majority of the freshmans' friends being friends from high school or back home, whereas most of the seniors' friends were friends that they had made in college, therefore they were more connected with them because they interacted with them both online and in person. This study makes it easier to understand how the effect that social media has on you fully depends on your use of it. It makes sense that one would feel isolated and less connected to their environment when they are spending their free time connecting with those who aren’t around them.
College, the most discussed and controversial topic for hundreds of years. The necessity of college has been discussed in many different countries for hundreds of years in the past and will still be just as controversial in the future. Many have asked why college is important and what it has to offer. William Deresiewicz in the chapter “What is College For?” from the book Excellent Sheep attempts to answer this question by using multiple literary elements to show his audience, which is primarily high schoolers, why college is the only option and is essential to all.
When people think of college they tend to focus on whether it may or may not set them up for a successful financial future. However, in his article “Colleges Prepare People for Life”, Freeman Hrabowski reminds us this is not the sole purpose of a college education. Mr. Hrabowski builds his argument by adjusting a template that introduces us to the ongoing debate over the merits of a college education. After, Mr. Hrabowski has introduced the popular opinions on the topic he empathizes that both sides are missing the bigger picture.
In the essay “Colleges Prepare People for life,” Freeman Hrabowski argues that college is a powerful tool and helps individuals attain careers, but more importantly, helps individuals become leaders. However, Hrabowski believes the college system should be modified. Students need help preparing for college and need to consider many factors before choosing a school. In a very competitive nation, college is the right choice. Colleges and students need to come together in order to help their communities.
Aristotle once famously said, “A friend is one soul abiding in bodies”. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, there are two migrant farm workers who travel together and depend on each other to survive the harsh conditions of the Great Depression. The two characters create some important friendships and bonds throughout the whole novella. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck shows that friendships are an important part in some people's lives; he shows this through the friendship between George and Lennie, Candy and his dog, and George and Slim. These friendships serve as lifelines in a world filled with hardship, illustrating the great impact of human connection in the face of adversity.
Or how can prosperity be guarded and preserved without friends? The greater it is, the more exposed is it to risk. And in poverty and in other misfortunes men think friends are the only refuge. It helps the young, too, to keep from error; it aids older people by ministering to the needs and supplementing the activities that are failing from weakness; those in the prime of life it stimulates to noble actions ‘two going together’- for with friends men are more able both to think and to act” (Aristotle, Ross, 1999, p. 127). In this quote, he is stating that friendships are deeper than any other form of relationship and that it is a bond of trust that cannot be easily be broken and that it meets all the requirements of a good
Being that most people spend the majority of their life surrounded by other people, it is crucial we understand our place among them. A good part of Aristotle’s, Nicomachean Ethics, is focused on the individual and how your actions affect your ultimate happiness. Books VIII and IX focus on friendship and how the union between you and another can affect your happiness. In this paper I will be discussing how friendship relates to happiness, how we must live with others, and briefly how Aristotle thinks friendship is helpful in situations not related to virtue. Earlier on in Chapter XIII Aristotle explains to the audience why we need friendship.
This essay’s aims are to evaluate the contribution of a qualitative approach to friendship. I will discuss how different approaches studying friendship have been developed and how the findings influenced our understanding of friendships. Also, my focus will be on the benefits of quantitative and qualitative approaches and the limits of using qualitative methods for understanding friendship. In this paper, I will focus on two major
Although researchers have tried to defined friendship simply focused on the differences between friends and non-friends, Willard Hartup (1996) cited in Brownlow (2012, p. 239) argues that a whole range of relationship is possible from best friend to good friend to occasional friend to non-friend. Therefore, it is far more complex than just a definition between friends and non-friends. Now that friendship is defined it is essential to define and understand qualitative approach. Unlike a quantitative data, qualitative method or approach involves the analysis of talk, interview material and written text such as transcripts, newspaper diaries or articles and it does not use any measurements nor is in numerical form.
Students move away from their friends, family and everything they know, and thrown into a totally new environment. With the stress of college classes and heavy course loads, students are also supposed to flourish socially and make an entirely new group of friends. In the beginning of my freshman year I struggled trying to make friends, and didn’t know exactly how to go about meeting new people. One morning while sitting in my Child Psychology, a girl in my class asked if I wanted to grab breakfast in the cafeteria with her. In desperation of just not wanting to sit alone, I said
Aristotle suggests that we should limit friendships formed for utility and pleasure. He argues that friends of those natures are often burdensome as favours must be done in return for those types of relationships. However, Aristotle believes that the number of friends who belong in the third category mentioned previously depend on the number of people one can be intimate with as dividing one’s attention among many would be exhausting and it would be difficult attain mutual friendships as the number of parties involved increases. His perspective on the number of friends one should have resonates with me as I, along with many others, understand the amount of work and effort required to maintain a good friendship. Devoting one’s time and energy
Empirical examples of friendship are extremely defective. It has its seat in the understanding. In ethics, however, it is a very necessary idea” (Kant 211). Friendship is a voluntary act based on mutual self disclosure, with the ability to feeling safe and trust another person enough to disclose everything about yourself to another person. Through self development the natural want to share and gain feedback from a friend is important, therefore these judgments given aids in accepting and developing
