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- 331: Personal Writing: Applying to Indiana University
- ... bond between the Indiana admissions office and me. Who is Joshua A. Perla? And why is he interested in Indiana University? Applying to colleges is a difficult choice and even harder is to decide what college you want to attend. As a college bound senior in high school I am faced with the challenge of choosing a university for my wants and needs. Going to college is a two way street. They are labeled Indiana Ave. and Great Neck Ave. Going down Indiana Ave. is an intelligent, hard worker from Great Neck who will dedicate his next four years to ...
- 332: Affirmative Action And Its Eff
- ... sure that women and minorities are pampered to make up for lost time. Well, lets take a look at what all the pampering in the past has done for the white male. Look at the college graduation numbers of today. Eighty percent of blacks attending college graduate, while only 55% of white college students graduate. These numbers alone show what discrimination did to help the white male to achieve a lazy attitude of "I don't need good grades, I am white I'll get a god ...
- 333: The Narrator and Sam Cavanaugh: Dolls to Control?
- ... narrator in Invisible Man and Sam Cavanaugh in The Puppet Masters have no or little control of their lives. The first example of this in Invisible Man is when the narrator is kicked out of college for making a decision on his own. The narrator's hard work earns him in being given the privilege of taking Mr. Norton, a White benefactor to the school, on a car ride around the college area. After much persuasion and against his better judgement, the narrator takes Mr. Norton to a run down Black neighborhood. Then he takes Mr. Norton to a bar and risks his health and life. When ... ideal Black man. The next example in Invisible Man that implies the narrator and all black men have no control or say so in their lives is when the narrator is sent away from the college. He is sent to a paint factor to work. The narrator arrives and immediately notices the huge electric sign that reads "KEEP AMERICA PURE WITH LIBERTY PAINTS" (Ellison 196). Later on, the reader will ...
- 334: Affirmative Action
- ... a central focus of civil rights efforts. But for nearly two decades following the original court decisions, educational institutions, especially colleges and graduate schools, remained predominantly white and male. In 1955, only 4.9% of college students ages 18-24 was black. This figure rose to 6.5% during the next five years, but by 1965 it had dropped back to 4.9%. Only in the mist of affirmative action measures in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s did the percentage of black college students begin to climb steadily up to 11.3% in 1990. Some Universities here in the United States have based enrollment on College Board and SAT’s, neither of which show intelligence levels. These tests show the standards of education that the individual has encountered. So, a child who had grown up on poorer side of town, ...
- 335: Gender Inbalances In School
- ... True that could be a reason, but is turning your back going to help? No. I believe that they are correct to say that the practices that went on in primary schools when today’s college students were there did not promote women in these fields. It may have changed since then, but today’s females have either no interest in these fields or are not capable of entering them. I ... may be glass walls preventing them from entering. I don’t believe that it is a “fruitless” effort to engage in a way that would promote women in these fields. Since I have been in college I have change my major 3 times. Most of my friends have also. So it is not the case that women have made up their mind by the time that they enter college and it can’t be changed. It may not be the individual teacher’s responsibility to encourage female scientists but the weight does fall in the college’s administrative office. The dean of these ...
- 336: How Affirmative Action Effects
- ... sure that women and minorities are pampered to make up for lost time. Well, lets take a look at what all the pampering in the past has done for the white male. Look at the college graduation numbers of today. Eighty percent of blacks attending college graduate, while only 55% of white college students graduate. These numbers alone show what discrimination did to help the white male to achieve a lazy attitude of "I don't need good grades, I am white I'll get a god ...
- 337: James Joyce
- ... express them. His father was a violent, quick tempered man who was a medical student and politician. He was educated in Dublin at Jesuit school's his whole life. In 1888, he went to Clongeswood College, but his father lost his job and James had to withdraw. He graduated in October of 1902, from Royal University. He was fascinated by the sounds of words and by the rhythms of speech since ... he first started school. He was trained by the Jesuits who at one time hoped he would join their order; but Joyce became estranged from the Jesuits and defected from the Catholic Church after graduating college. Joyce made a huge effort to free himself from all aspects of the past such as, family, religion, and country. He left Ireland in 1902 after graduating college. He spent the rest of his life in either Trieste, Zurich, or Paris. During this time he was very poor. He spent much of his working career as a language instructor. He was said ...
- 338: Bell Hooks
- ... they do not want to be known for their background. They see themselves as less privileged, and therefore want to keep this hidden from their new society. These students face many obstacles in their lives; college presents a whole new and much larger challenge. The transition is also hard on them. They want to fit in and hide their past, but at the same time, they do not want to lose sight of their upbringings. Hooks felt that she was an outsider in college, because she herself came from an underprivileged background, while most of her peers came from privileged backgrounds. Hooks states, I did not intend to forget my class background or alter my class allegiance (88), but ... way society portrays them, the students keep to themselves. Even after they prove to be serious and capable students, they are still looked down upon. Hooks, at first, thought that in order to succeed in college, she must change who she was, to blend in with her peers. She said many believe that assimilation is the only possible way to survive, to succeed. (89). After going through the transition and ...
- 339: Richard M. Nixon
- ... was a scholarship to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition, he seemed likely to win a scholarship to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Nixon had dreamed for years of going to a famous college in the East, but his dreams were shattered when he had to turn down both opportunities. Because his older brother Harold’s long battle with tuberculous had drained the family’s funds there was no money to pay for the cost of traveling to the East Coast and living there. Nixon swallowed his disappointment and enrolled at nearby Whittier College. Nixon majored in history, and one of his history professors had a profound influence on his career. This was Dr. Paul Smith, whom Nixon called "the greatest intellectual inspiration of my early years." Smith was ... students to think about the importance of leadership in government. He encouraged them to consider entering public office, and he certainly helped turn Nixon’s thoughts in that direction. In 1934 Nixon graduated from Whittier College after four years on the honor roll. He applied for a scholarship to a new law school, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and asked several of his professors to write to Duke, ...
- 340: Feminism and Gender Equality In the 1990s
- ... Friedan essay and let me know if she felt as moved as I was and to share with me her experiences of sexism. Her immediate reaction was to point out that “Betty Friedan was a college-educated woman, and she had certain goals that never interested me.” My grandmother, though growing up during a time when women had few social rights, said she didn’t experience oppressive sexism in her life ... age. Alice Brooks experienced in equality on the basis of her race and her sex. In her autobiography, A Dream Deferred, she recalls the reaction of her father when she brought up the idea of college to him: “I found a scholarship for Veterans’ children and asked my farther to sign and furnish proof that he was a veteran. He refused and told me that I was only going to get married and have babies. I needed to stay home and help my mother with her kids. My brother needed college to support a family. Not only was I not going to get any help, I was also tagged as selfish because I wanted to go to college.” (See Endnote #1) This is another example ...
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