3.27.12

Kaitlyn Bernath

This article was talking about college education. It was talking about the rising and falling of money received in loans etc. In this article it was saying that tuition has gone up and people are wondering why. Like for estimates, they don’t take deductions from employment or income taxes. The estimated life time earning is $800,000. College is worth it, you need to spend money carefully. While in college you give out so much money, but you don’t take in as much money as you’re putting out. Scholarships help to reduce the initial price to get in to a university.  College will offer you classes and degrees that will get you farther in life, and make you earn more money. If I go to college hopefully I won’t pay for it. I’d like to get a scholarship that pays for the majority of my fees, and then I would be more than happy. If I don’t get a large scholarship, I hope my parents will help with tuition; otherwise I’m going to be stuck with multiple jobs, depending on what kind of college or university that I go to. So basically I hope I’ll get help with tuition or I’ll be left on my own.

                I picked the University of Florida, and the University of Michigan. To attend school at The University of Michigan, for four years, it costs anywhere above and below 10,000 a term, unless you’re not a resident of Michigan, then it’s around 20,000 a full term. To attend The University of Florida, it costs fewer than 2,000 for a full term. These colleges use bright futures etc.  The books cost around $50 used. College is very pricy and costs a lot of money. I’m still hoping to get a scholarship to guide me through. 3 more years!

3/12/12

Kaitlyn Bernath

Sports Marketing 1

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3/12/12

Compare and Contrast: “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Scottsboro Case”

In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and “The Scottsboro Case” there was a lot of prejudice and racist people. The Judge was white, and so was the Jury. This meant that there was basically no tolerance for black people. In the courtroom, the blacks even had their own section to sit in. The judge and the jury had the verdict before they even started in the court. They ignored all the evidence that proved the offender not guilty. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the offender was Tom Robinson, and in “The Scottsboro Case” the offenders were the nine Scottsboro boys. The Scottsboro boys and Tom Robinson were charged with raping white woman. The three of these women wanted attention. Ruby Bates, and Victoria Price, who were in “The Scottsboro Case”, were prostitutes so they obviously wanted attention. Mayella from “To Kill a Mockingbird” was emotionally and physically abused. She did not even  understand what love was, and what it felt like to be loved. Mayella was supposedly beaten by Tom on the right side of her face, but evidence proved it wrong. If Tom had punched Mayella, he would have used his left hand, but he could not use it. When Tom was younger his left hand got caught in a cotton gin and that accident made his hand unusable. Bob Ewell, Mayella's father was left handed which proved him guilty of beating her. Also in the Scottsboro case, the two girls were completely unharmed and not injured in anyway , which obviously meant they could not have been raped. Also both trials occurred in Alabama in the 1930’s.

                There were also a couple of differences in the two trials, here are a few. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, there was Tom Robinson and Mayella only (one on one), but in “The Scottsboro Case”, there were nine boys and the two girls(nine on two). Also, the nine boys in the Scottsboro trials were all teenagers, and Tom Robinson was a happily married man with kids. Also, the trials and convictions of the Scottsboro Case took years and years longer than the trials and convictions in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Another thing is, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was a book and The Scottsboro trials happened in real life. But no crime in American history had more convictions, trials, reversals, and retrials as did “The Scottsboro Case”.