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Higher Education the future of our economy Let us support it
LAN,FENG
Econ479-2
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Higher Education the future of our economy: Let us support it
A speech for governor by Feng Lan
I am here to announce that we are going to support increased funding for our three public universities. This is after confirming how good the education is doing to our economy. Although we are spending too much on education, the long run outcome seems to benefit our economy. Education is the backbone of every economy. We should be able to provide our economy with the right skills. If we do not fund our universities, we are likely going to have inefficient workforce in the future. I strongly believe that, if we cut the budget for our public universities, many young people with talents will not afford to pay the fees hence lesser graduates. Georgetown University Centre on Education and workforce pointed out that, by the year 2018, about 60% of the US jobs will require at least post-secondary qualification (Lumina Foundation, p. 8). To be more specific, jobs in our state will require 61% post-secondary graduates by 2018 (Lumina Foundation, p.17). Therefore, to ensure this we must support higher education.
Our state requires about 907,000 new workers to fill vacancies that have resulted from jobs creation and retirements among other factors by the year 2018. About 554,000 of these vacancies require post-secondary qualifications (Lumina Foundation, p. 17). Our state must ensure that it assists residents to attain degrees, for them to occupy these vacancies. This can only be achieved through you and me as taxpayers.
With the increased technology, the occupation for high skills qualifications is rapidly increasing. Occupations such as health care are growing at a very high rate. In this case, the demand for high-skilled workers is increasing rapidly. Therefore, we must ensure that, there is enough supply to meet the demand. To ensure success in our national economy, every state in the US must ensure that, by the year 2025 the number of graduates hits 60% (Lumina Foundation p. 8). To ensure that our State reaches the target, we must add 900,000-degree holders to the existing total of 1.7million (Lumina Foundation p. 17). Therefore, we need to increases college success for the fast growing groups in all countries. How do we ensure the college success? It is only through providing enough funds to our universities.
Those who are for the Budget cut for public universities argue that, we are spending much on these young people yet the job market is deteriorating. Some people in this society suggest that there are no job opportunities for graduates (Lumina Foundation p. 5). However, if we may look at that clearly it is evident that, the number of unemployed graduates is lesser than those who have not gone beyond secondary school. As has been noted, I would like to let you know that, of the unemployed people aged 25-64, 31.5% are secondary school dropouts. On the other hand, 29.9% are secondary school certificate holders and graduates hold only 8.9% (Lumina Foundation, p. 6). Therefore, I urge everyone to stop fighting education using unemployment rates.
Today education investment is one of the largest state’s expenditures, but it pays in the long run. Graduates get good paying jobs, meaning that they pay more income and sales taxes, and rely less on states assistant programs (Berger & Fisher para. 39). It is true that education investments contribute greatly to the state’s budget in the long run. If we continue supporting our students today believe me that, we will have a leading economy in the US some years to come.
If we do cut budget for our public university, this will mean that we are going to have fewer students graduating. With fewer graduates we are going to have a less productive economy, this is because the lesser the education, the lower the wages, the lower the productivity. Some of my opponents argue that we can obtain labor from other states (Berger & Fisher para.17-18). Yes, we can do it but the problem is with many untrained residents, we are going to experience a higher rate of unemployment and there for spend more on assistant programs. In my opinion, we should spend on education, which has a positive impact to our economy in the long run, instead of spending throughout on assistant programs.
Works Cited
Berger, Noah and Peter Fisher. A Well-Educated Workforce is Key to State Prosperity. 2013. Web. 7th Oct. 2014. HYPERLINK “http://www.epi.org/publication/states-education-productivity-growth-foundations/” http://www.epi.org/publication/states-education-productivity-growth-foundations/
Lumina foundation. A stronger Nation through Higher Education. 2012. Web. 7th October 2014. HYPERLINK “http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/A_Stronger_Nation-2012.pdf” http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/A_Stronger_Nation-2012.pdf
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2. Please review the section of the syllabus headed “Citation.” Work in this course does not use a formal bibliography, footnotes, or other apparatus. And how could you hear a bibliographic citation in a speech?
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Public Space
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Public Space
In consideration of the Brent Staples’ essay “Black Men in Public Spaces,” it is defined that even today racism and prejudice are part and parcel of peoples’ lives. Staples feel intimidated anytime in public places due to the peoples’ stereotype, and this made him make efforts to come with compelling deeds to make them understand he is not the kind of person they thought off. Staples gives an example of the day he was walking along the streets at night as a graduate and come a close a white woman. On seeing Staples, the white woman increased her steps strands for her safety as she perceived him as burglary or such. Public space is essential to civilians’ well-being where all are treated fairly, and People should avoid prejudice as well as in public space as it is a threat to the society a thing that people need to eliminate.
Peoples’ mentality has created an intense fear in the nation where the black men are viewed as a threat to the community. The mistreatment and fear have played a significant role in developing racism and prejudgment in the public spaces. Regarding Staples’ experience of stereotype in public places as a black American it is not an easy thing to cope up with the frustration and it only an active person will be able to survive in such an environment comfortably. The discrimination and unfair treatment reached to the extent that Staples have to come up with practical ways of consoling the society that he is a kind and friendly person. The strategies he adopted are wearing decently in such a way that people might respect him and treat him a person of an upper class as well as whistling melodies composed by classical men such as Vivaldi and Beethoven. Staples took it quickly and did not to any extent get frustrated by the prejudice which he was subjected to by the whites (Perkins, page 13). The people whom he interacted with realized that he was different from many other blacks who are associated with crime and other traumatizing actions in the society. The community should be educated about public space as every citizen has the right to be treated fairly and not to be victimised unless there is evidence that he has done misconduct.
Public space is vital to the community’s development as well individual’s well-being at a personal level. Staples was a graduate who worked as a journalist, and he could be of great help to the society regarding collecting vital information from the citizens that required to be addressed in public (Koloze, page 17). Regardless of Staples’ intelligent level and good personality being an Africa-American with a black skin complexion disadvantaged him in the public space. It is not the same case that all the black or white people have the same characteristics and that person that one undermines and perceives inferior can be of help in the community. A good example regards the case which I witnessed regarding students prejudice against a black tutor. The professor was not familiar with the place, and one day he walking along the city’s street confused about the direction towards the institution. He came across a young lady to whom he attempted to consult, but all his efforts bear no fruits as the woman showed no interest in his conversation as she fast walked away without altering even a word. The man was left there traumatized, and the only option he had was calling for assistance from a colleague from the place where he had been posted to work (Reddick, page 22).
According to the discussion above, it is vital to treat people fairly in public, and people avoid judging other regarding skin complexity and race. Staples’ essay is educative, and he plays a significant role in eliminating public space stereotype by sharing his own experiences. Prejudice leads to society social-economic development as citizens from different races fear to be part of public progress projects as they feel disowned in the community.
References
Perkins, Pat. “Multiethnic Literature in the Progressive Classroom: A Descendant and Improvement on John Dewey’s Ideas.” History 9.2 (2017).
Koloze, Jeff. “MINORITY CONCERNS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX: EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES POSED BY MINORITY STUDENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO FURTHER IMPROVEMENT.” NAAAS Conference Proceedings. National Association of African American Studies, 2006.
Reddick, Bonnie. “AFRAS 120 Composition.” (2015).
NEWTONS MATH
NEWTON’S MATH
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Isaac Newton’s interest in mathematics lives after his death. Some of the Engineering concepts used in various fields of human life are derived from his mathematics prowess. He wrote several journals in various topics which included motion, commonly referred to as three laws of motion. He also discovered the law of gravity, and the concepts behind diffraction of light. His contribution in law of motion is of great significance various activities of man in the past, present and future society. The laws of motion written about by Isaac Newton are mainly three. They are ordered in numerical terms such as; Newton’s first law of motion, Second law of motion and third law of motion. The development and extensive understanding of each of Newton’s three Laws of Motion exhibits high standard of analytical skills and mastery of mathematics concepts (Zimba, 2009). In his journals and the currently published works, mathematical equations were widely used in the different laws of motion to form models. These equations were a mathematical expression of the simplified theories that are linked to each other from the first law to the third. In this respect, Newton’s laws of motion are an important manifestation of mathematics’ central role in linking up different disciplines of academia.
Newton’s 1st law of motion states that an object at rest will stay at rest until acted on by external larger force. The basic idea expressed by Newton in this law is that a body in motion will continue in that state unless stopped by a larger force. For example, when the ball is in motion, it will continue in this state until stopped by the force of another player’s foot. On the other hand, the ball will remain at rest on a spot kick until when a player sets it on motion by kicking. This has been tried and tested for virtually all objects on earth ranging from living organisms to non-living things. In practical application, cars, aircrafts, train among other objects remain in the state of rest or motion unless a large starting force or stopping force is applied (DE Rosa & Reeves, 2009). It is because of this phenomenon that a body resists external force that interrupts its state of motion or rest. This constitutes inertia and explains the use of seatbelts in cars to protect driver and commuters from crushing out when the car becomes to an immediate halt.
Newton’s 2nd law of motion states that Force is equal to the change in momentum per change in time. In other words, for a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration. In this law, Newton assets that the smaller the object is, the more the acceleration it will experience and vice versa. This law derives a formula that incorporate three variables in an equation i.e. force, mass and acceleration (Zimba, 2009). The general formulae that Newton derived was Force= mass X acceleration which in short is represented as F = ma. This law explains the difference in tractive and stopping force for different sizes of objects. For instance, it takes more force to start a large track than to start off a small car due to their relative difference in weight. This law of motion exploited the mathematics and physics mastery of Newton as the model stands out important beyond this field.
Newton’s 3rd law of motion states that all Forces act in pairs. In other words, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The essence in this law shows that, for one force to act on an object, the second object will have the force in the opposite direction. Simple, practical examples are the forward force required by a sprinter to start off from the ground. When the spike comes into contact with the ground, the sprinter put pressure on the ground with force and the ground offers opposite and equal force which helps the sprinter to gain forward motion (DeRosa & Reeves, 2009). Aircraft, cars and even ships use this Newton’s idea to move and stop as controlled by the assigned drivers and captains. This law shows a relative complex phenomena which was simplified through as a mathematical equation to help the scientists in their technological development agenda. It is worth to note the flowing connection of the three laws of motion in terms of increasing complexity and need for excellent analytical skills.
In his sunset years, newton had attained an honor when Queen Anne knighted him in 1705. His phenomenal accomplishments laid the foundations for modern science and revolutionized the world. He amassed a substantial amount of wealth through investment and participated in charity works. However, due to his poor interpersonal relations especially with women, he never married but had only a filial connection with the niece Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727 leaving around a remarkable legacy in science (Newton & Janiak, 2004). Isaac Newton’s fame only grew more with his death. Many philosophers later wrote great things about him as his laws were gaining much application in the world of increasing technological research and development. His genius nature can only be compared to other great personalities like Aristotle, Galileo, and Albert Einstein among others
References
DeRosa, T., & Reeves, C. (2009). Forces & motion: From high-speed jets to wind-up toys. Green Forest, AR: Master Books.
Newton, I., & Janiak, A. (2004). Philosophical writings. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Zimba, J. (2009). Force and motion: An illustrated guide to Newton’s laws. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.