Justine Fernandez
October 5, 2014
Professor Young
Eng 1100
Community as issue Final draft
An
Arm and A leg For An Education
Would
you want to define your education based on the amount of money that you make?
Do you think tuition being so expensive is fair to students, in result struggle
to get an education because the price of college is unbearable? The problem
that many students struggle with in today’s society is money, and more
importantly money for school. The price of tuition for colleges and
universities across the state is too expensive to afford; therefore the price
of an education shouldn’t be as high as it is, some tuition being as high as
sixty four thousand a year. Furthermore the government should put an end to
education being so expensive.
To start off with, the price of an education
is a problem worldwide. With the price of education through the roof, it puts
students in a situation where they don’t have many options, the choice of going
to college but finding a college that meets their needs in everyway both
financially and a college that meets their needs and wants. The government puts
young adults trying to get an education
in a situation where they basically pick the school you attend solely on what
you’re willing to pay and what you can afford. The cost of tuition has been
rising six percent every year for the past ten years. This goes to show that
tuition has only gone up and it is only going to continue to rise. It has come
to the point where finding an affordable college is like finding a needle in a
haystack. This ultimately affects student to not attend their dream college
based on tuition. Even if the students have good SAT scores some schools that
are competitive like Ivy Leagues and big
name schools they might get regularly good SAT scores from students applying in
result they might not give as many scholarships due to how competitive it is.
In
addition, with tuition being so pricy it places young adults in a predicament
where they have to choose between an education or to start working in the work
field immediately after high school. An argument that one may make to decide
whether or not to go to college would be that they are currently making a good
amount of money and if they leave not only will they not be able to afford to
go to college but they will be left with other expenses, without a job.
Most of the students that attend college
cannot afford to pay the full amount, therefore they find that working is more
important than pursuing an education. Not only can they not afford an education
but most do not want to deal with the burden of loans afterwards.About sixty
six percent of students enrolled in college receive help from the government to
help pay for their education, looking at this statistic it speaks for itself
that more than fifty percent of students cannot afford to pay for college on
their own. In the text “Harlem Is Art” by Valerie Kinloch she talks about the
every day living in Harlem and how the art of Harlem is taken for granted, in
relation it goes for education we take education for granted sometimes, and
then we realize everything else that comes into play..
My last and final
reason why tuition should be lowered focuses on what happens after you get out
of college. Most graduates look forward to getting a job in the field that they
studied but instead graduates are focused on the amount of debt they have. Debt
that just never goes away and not to mention it forces graduates to revolve
their future plans around the debt that they owe. Not to mention the
unemployment rate that affects many graduates looking for a job. By the end of
the four years graduates have endless amount of debt and not to forget it is
now difficult to find a job to help pay off the student loans that come
monthly. On average a college senior has about twenty nine thousand four
hundred dollars in debt. This is also another concern freshmen have when
thinking about college. As they have to
think about their finances in four years rather than focusing on the right
decisions.
In conclusion, the
price of tuition is too expensive. With the price of education being so high it
forces students to chose a college based on what they can afford. Going along
with choosing a college come the thought that many students have which would be
the debt after they graduate. Not to mention it doesn’t give everyone an equal
opportunity to further his or her education. If the cost of tuition would to be
lowered it would be beneficial for both the new generation and the older
generation, if the price of tuition stays the same or rises the future of
America would be problematic because of the fact that education will be a
second choice for Americans rather than a first choice. Realizing how many
problems there are to the tuition being so high there are many solutions that
can come into play. To help solve this universal problem of rising tuition, the
government should make a college education free so that everyone has an equal
opportunity to an education based on their grades rather than the amount of
money they can put out for college. Young adults that are choosing between
college and work would should have the government base your tuition off how
much you make annually, so that you wont be way in and over your head, and so
that you can further your education without worrying about the money. The
government should offer payment plans after the graduates gets a steady job, or
reduce and eliminate the amount of interest the loans have. They can lower the
interest on loans by making little monthly payments while students are in
college or just eliminate interest rates all together. For the sake of
everyone, the government should lower the cost of tuition.
Realizing how many problems there are to the
tuition being so high there are many solutions that can come into play. To help
solve this universal problem of rising tuition, the government should make a
college education free so that everyone has an equal opportunity to an
education based on their grades rather than the amount of money they can put
out for college. Young adults that are choosing between college and work would
should have the government base your tuition off how much you make annually, so
that you wont be way in and over your head, and so that you can further your
education without worrying about the money. The government should offer payment
plans after the graduates gets a steady job, or reduce and eliminate the amount
of interest the loans have. They can lower the interest on loans by making
little monthly payments while students are in college or just eliminate
interest rates all together.
We
perceive people that have glamorous lives and have a lot of money as the model
of what it is to be perfect. As a society that is what everyone wants to
be. A perfect example of what society
thinks it beautiful is a model. Every little girl at one point or another in
their lives have wanted to be a model a skinny, beautiful women who travels the
world and makes good money doing nothing. In the video clip Ted Talk Cameron Russell appeared on the show and
described her life as a model and how it isn’t as glamorous and it seems. She
first came out in normal attire for her that is a beautiful dress and eight
inch heels. The first impression that most people would get is that she is just
like a normal model. She was a normal model until she put on different clothes
and talked about how a model really lives their lives. That is beauty; the
beauty is the truth of every situation and what things really are and not what
they seem to be. The truth so that
everyone can appreciate what real beauty is.
