1. Instructions: In your response, make an argument for whether it is better to attend a four-year university, a two-year college (community college), or to go straight into the workforce after graduating from high school. Use evidence from at least two of the sources below to support your claim. Be sure to introduce your precise claim, develop the claim with evidence from the sources, and demonstrate relationships between ideas. (15 points)

Excerpt from Source #1: brochure from West University
One of the greatest benefits of attending a four-year university like West is preparation for a profitable career. Graduates of West University go on to successful careers. In fact, a survey of the class of 2009 showed that 92% of our graduates were hired in their fields of study immediately after graduation. These graduates indicated they made an average of $60,000 per year during their first year of work. Few other universities have this kind of success rate. When a West University graduate applies for a job and is placed up against a candidate with only a high school diploma or a two-year college degree, that person is twice as likely to get the job as the person with a lesser degree.

Source #2: Page of Easton Community College by Chris East
Demand for community college graduates is growing in a number of fields. Video game technology, nursing, and environmental sustainability are areas that are experiencing a great deal of change and growth. Easton Community College's programs in these fields can help you acquire the skills you need for the job you want. Frequently, area businesses in these areas partner with the college to place students into jobs as soon as they graduate. This means not only are you getting a great degree from Easton, you're also getting your dream job!

Source #3: "College Education Versus High School: A Study" in College Journal by Margo Ellis, researcher on college success, p. 72
Based on our examination of 300 graduates of four-year universities, 400 graduates of community colleges (2-year colleges), and 400 high school graduates (with no college degrees), the research group came to the following conclusions. First, graduates of four-year and two-year colleges were equally likely to get jobs after graduation. One group was not more likely to get jobs than the other. However, those with only high school diplomas were significantly less likely to get jobs immediately after graduation. Most high school students needed to apply for at least twenty jobs before they were hired. College graduates only needed to apply for eight jobs before they were hired.

The following question refers to the vocabulary from “starfish” and “in just” a theme is the central idea of a work true false

What is the meaning of the word "internalize" as it is used in the following sentence? (4 points) try to internalize the vocabulary words you have read. forget describe learn rewrite

Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.