Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Blog Post 1


In the media nowadays there are many ways to take something and misinterpret it and skew it. So being able to critically analyze these texts can help to understand the author and the message he is conveying to the audience. Information shared between people is naturally condensed and analyzed in our minds. This helps people this information into their own words and helps them understand information conveyed to them.  The way information is conveyed has changed drastically in these past twenty years and can be overwhelming at times. Such as the article about athletes and whether or not they should be compensated for the work they do. The article is from the early 1900’s and is being analyzed by the author and talking about how there are problems in the college sport system that can be traced back to a century ago.(Davis, Pg.297) Text is portrayed in so many different ways it has become normal for a person to summarize text and analyze it. These texts have shaped and my morals. When shown terrible things on the news I relate to them and believe those things to be wrong as well. When shown pictures of people helping each other I believe these things to be good after first establishing that the act was good by analyzing image. Text analysis has become an everyday task because it helps us distinguish our rights and wrongs.

Part Two-Vets and college
Veterans returning from overseas are an easy target by a for profit colleges standard. Most of the time when a Veteran returns from a tour overseas they are met with open arms but now its advertisement for a higher education and student loans. For profit colleges have started popping up all over America and are preying on those who serve the country. In recent years a law was set in place that for profit colleges were to receive “ten percent of their revenue from the private sector” (Kirkham, Pg. 182). Since the government provides them with ninety percent of their funding, the for profit college then pursues another government funded group called veterans. Because the Vets are funded by the government the interaction between the two is considered indirect the vets are considered the private sector.  This provides the for profit college with an easy saying that the needs more career paths than just that of the military. Multiple institution in the military have called this pursuit of veterans perverse and “seeing them only as dollar sign” (Kirkham, Pg. 183). For profit colleges are usually more flexible with schedules yet cost about twice as much as a traditional college. With such high prices it you would believe that the college degree would be worth more than the traditional degree. This assumption is false. The price doesn’t particularly correlate to more success in the workplace. According to a Harvard research those that attended a for profit college after graduation more likely ended up unemployed after graduation. The for profit college is also funded by the public and still preys on the public. Senator Harkin has called for increased awareness in military installation about for profit colleges (Kirkham, 184). A speaker of the House of Representatives has called for the elimination of the 90/10 law that funds the colleges (Kirkham, Pg. 185). The senate has spoken against these colleges in support of the troops that are preyed on. We should respect our veterans not see them as financial opportunity.      

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