American Dream

Unless the country is willing to more fully fund higher education for all, ensuring that everyone goes to college is a dream. Although I grant that college prepared people for life, I still maintain that it important in life. College will teach young adult about time management and show them how to take note very well to help them prepared for a test. According to Freeman Hrabowski, “college prepare people for jobs,

Americans laud the success of the inventor and salesman alike; while the greatest self-promoters are more fully remembered, the greatest minds are never truly forgotten. It is in the American society that the ideals of invention and innovation exist interdependently with the ideals of self-reliance and salesmanship in a unique balance. Thomas Edison is widely regarded as one of the most influential inventors and innovators of the Twentieth Century. Edison’s efforts ushered in a new era of technology; a world in which electricity would be harnessed and made to bow before man’s will. Walter Lippman wrote, “It is impossible to measure the importance of Edison by adding up the specific inventions with which his name is associated” (qtd.

Alexander won the Elliott Cresson Medal, because he discovered and invented an object that helped out millions around the country, and billions around the globe. Alexander won the IEEE Edison Medal, because he contributed the Electrical Science community, by inventing something that, in order to work, used electricity. Alexander won the John Fritz Medal for contributing to the Association of Engineering Society by using, as well as inventing, the telephone. In conclusion, I think Alexander deserves to be held high in the science community, because he invented something that millions upon millions use every day. The invention helps out people by making their lives more manageable and more convenient.

My extra activities are important so that I can get accepted in to colleges instead of other people. I have been training to get certified in computer repair; I hope to finally get certified this year. Work experience and the laptop club are activities that I joined in hope of filling up space on college applications, giving an extra edge (something to make me better then others). Any computer or business related extra activities would help me. College is the main goal of my life.

The results were worth the means because in the end throughout all the negative situations the captains of industry faced they were able to make America better and create what America is today. As the captains of industry started competing against each other, one man came out as the head of America and that was Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie's steel industry, Homestead, allowed for cities to grow with the advancement of steel, "Steel-cable suspension bridges, like the Brooklyn Bridge were built"(24). Andrew Carnegie grew up a poor man, but as he got older he made his fortune off steel. Carnegie was an entrepreneur that thrived efficiency and at the time he was one man that few could be compared to.

There is much to be gained, there are many ways that one can pay for college that helps to eliminate some of the end cost. Think of the future, and the things in life, that a good education can provide. I am in my 40s and attending college on my own. My husband and I have managed to do this while also putting two daughters through college, while searching for scholarships and ways to ease the financial cost. Learning who you are, or who you want to be, comes from exploring,

Thomas Edison was a significant figure in American history because his invention of the lightbulb greatly helped Americans see and work at night and also inspired others to create better technology. “Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the greatest inventors of all time.” (Thomas Alva Edison Scientists, p.1, par. 3) He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of seven children. Edison wasn’t a great student.

Another movie comparable to that of “Rudy” is “The Blind Side” in which Michael Oher proves that people can change their life with an education. To find out the impact of finance and education “Rudy” and “The Blind Side” will be judged to determine if spending money for college will provide money later in a job. Exposed to a lower middle class family and a hereditary job of working in the local factory for a living nobody, not even Rudy’s family believed Rudy could go to college. From Joliet, Illinois Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger grew up poor. Many of people made their living by working in the factory, and people didn’t dare try to go to college because of how expensive it would be.

College in the United States is rapidly changing: more students are attending college, many are doing so online and at community colleges, which is making people question the cost of a traditional college education. It is my belief, along with three-fourths of entering freshman, that those students who are attending a traditional college are viewing college as an economic investment and that the reason to attend college is to get a good job (Bok 281). Part of that economic investment is meant for students to develop themselves. In my case I attended a tradition four year college to grow as a person and to give myself the best chance of getting a good job right out of college. A college education should provide a balance of personal exploration and job preparation because generally people are going to college to grow as a person and become prepared for the professional world.

Often when students proceed on this course of life that society told them to take they may be stuck with large student loans to pay off without the promise of finishing their degree or getting a job. There is no need for everyone to get a college degree when they can be trained in technologies and trades that can offer a job and a paycheck. America still needs manufacturing technicians, mechanics, and carpenters. Without these key workers America would not be able to function properly. The USA needs to start encouraging its citizens to go to trade schools because that is where the jobs that make good money are.