Essay: Financial Needs in Education System in America

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One must not forget that the provision for funding plays a pivotal role in this structure, and has a direct bearing on the powers that it confers on its individual constituents.  For example, under the present dispensation, the educational budgetary outlay for fiscal year 2008-09 was approximately $1 trillion with the federal contribution towards elementary and secondary education only amounting to a little less than 8%.

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Essay: Issues Observed in US Educational System

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In a lot of cases, this also severely limits a student’s social mobility since relocating to a different school often means juggling with an entirely new set of textbooks, each addressing the earlier read concepts in increasingly different terms or touching upon ideas that the earlier textbooks had made no mention of.  Inadvertently, the new set of textbooks that a student will hence find himself or herself burdened with will either be superior to or inferior to the textbooks that they had earlier studied – an equally unwelcome prospect for any student trying to adjust in a new school environment and get used to the teaching methods of his or her new teachers.

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Essay: Internet and web based Media

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The development of the internet in the 1990 was in its infancy and growing. It got the initial boost when its potential was realized. People started their businesses online and larger businesses capitalized in this new found market to approach consumer’s world wide using this relatively cheap forum. There was this massive boom in this industry. Capital flowed in quickly and in a short decade, this forum for accessing information was maturing into a proper media form. World wide news giants which had used television the television before, quickly saw the opportunity and opened parallel websites to their news channels thereby tapping into the new younger consumers and also enabling the consumers alternative resources of information. (Changing Media Orientations: Where to reach today’s Consumers, 2007)

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Essay: Is Modern Information Technology a Frankenstein

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I think it is the wrong question to ask.  It is not whether it can or cannot be done, but at what cost?  Of course, to this, one may argue about the cost of installing, maintaining, upgrading and insuring a business’s IT infrastructure, as well as the cost of any possible failure(s).

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Essay: In The Novel “Slaughterhouse-Five”

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Essentially echoing the idea of Louis MacNeice in his poem ‘Prayer Before Birth’, where he states that by stripping or ‘freeze(ing)’ one of ones own humanity it ‘would dragoon me into a lethal automaton, would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing’. That’s essentially what the entire nation of Oceania is bound on becoming under the control of the Big Brother. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. “Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” (Orwell)

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