In this article, The Seven Deadly Sins of Students, that was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education by William Pannapacker, better known as Thomas H. Benton analyzes undergraduate students. These college students create “sin-like” behaviors that soon become habits over time. Sometimes these actions are what cause students to take the simpler road, even if it causes them pain in the future. The author’s main argument in his essay is that students effectuate with the Seven Deadly Sins unconsciously and he divides these behaviors in each sin category. Beginning with the category of Sloth, Benton believe those are the ones who defer their assignments, which makes it worse for them in the future classes. He also states that Sloths arrive …show more content…
Their desire to do better than their parents cause them to become greedy for high marks on their grades, even as to cheating their way and sometimes possibly harassing their professors for their grades. Benton thinks that Greeds want to get rich by any means possible, like becoming doctors or lawyers even though they don’t care much about what they are learning about. Anger, better defined as Wrath, are shown to be the ones who let their anger on others, mainly professors, who believe that they are in Benton’s words “out to get them”. The students defined by Wrath complain that forasmuch as they paid for the tuition, that they deserve high grades, which to Benton sounds like they are complaining at a restaurant. He also states that the students would prefer to remain anonymous and would post their unexpurgated rage online. Lust is referring to the students who come to class in street clothes, or better defined as party clothes, and who rate their professors in such lewd ways. Benton wonders when students’ uniforms changed to being wanted to be noticed in class with their inappropriate clothes. Another example would be that the college and high school Lusts, when bored in class, tend to fantasize sexually about their hotter teachers mainly …show more content…
Those who consume alcohol tend to struggle, which results future embarrassment and incidents that could potentially harm them. Benton wonders when it became alright for students to devour full meals in class, not normal snacks, Students were able to manage to consume inconsequential snacks in class despite their busy schedules years ago, unlike the students who currently complain that they have no time to eat, which is why they placed vending machines in colleges. Envious students tend to feel as though this “college game” is rigged, which could possibly be pointing to the professors that they believe are selecting ‘favorites’ or anyone with money and privilege. They criticize others as being teacher’s pets, assuming that the student is trying to impress. Those of envy tend to believe their successes and failures come from their personal and political views. Benton noted that even though the ones with little money are envious of the ones with more, the richer students would poke fun of those with little, which is why they commit this sin a bit
Money can cause people to act selfish and arrogant, especially when they have so much money they do noteven know what to spend it on. In the novel,
Determination Generates Success Many people believe that students that encounter hard lives will commit academic sins. However, many professionals that successfully graduated college while having struggles in their lives, proved otherwise. In fact, Culpepper mentioned in his composition, “The Myth of Inferiority”, students might succeed in any academic institution, even if they experience hard lives (330). Also, he states that students with light loaded routines have the same chances to fail in college (330).
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Janet M. Ellerby analyzes “Lust” in her essay titled, “Lust”. In this essay, Ellerby goes through and gives a brief but accurate summary of the short story. Then she gives her interpretations of what this story was supposed to mean. She finally talks about the techniques Susan Minot used in order to get the atmosphere and emotions she wanted the reader to experience. I agree with how Ellerby interprets this story and it will be evident throughout this paper. Because I agree with what this essay had to say, I will be able to use it as evidence to support my ideas.
...onnecting it to reality. In The Great Gatsby, lust was confused with love and caused negative outcomes as a result. Similarly, in “The Cask of Amontillado,” lust was present but it was in a different way because it was showing how lust could be blinding and that will also result in a not so favorable outcome. Lust is something that will always be present in literature as well as in society because it always finds a way to control us as people when we find something that we really want. Although lust is not necessarily known to be a good thing, it is something that all of us can grow and learn from.
...them when they take just one drink of alcohol, even if it is just one shot or one beer, it affect you. Most college student drink to socialize and that is not a good thing to do. When a students, or anyone, drink to be social there are more likely to have more then what they intended. Alcohol will affect the way that students think, feel, act, and socialize with others. Drink is a dangers action to participate in but that is a choice that one needs to make on their own. It is always fun at the time, but at that same time one does not think that they are permanently arming to their bodies. Whether children and teens drink 15,25 or even 30 percent of the alcohol consumed, the reality is that America has an underage drinking epidemic and alcohol is by far the drug most used by children and teens and poses the greatest threat to their well-being” (Underage, CNN.com pg2).
College student drunkenness is far from new and neither are college and university efforts to control it. What is new, however, is the potential to make real progress on this age-old problem based on scientific research results. New research-based information about the consequences of high-risk college drinking and how to reduce it can empower colleges and universities, communities, and other interested organizations to take effective action. Hazardous drinking among college students is a widespread problem that occurs on campuses of all sizes and geographic locations. A recent survey of college students conducted by the Harvard University School of Public Health reported that 44 percent of respondents had drunk more than five drinks (four for women) consecutively in the previous two weeks. About 23 percent had had three or more such episodes during that time. The causes of this problem are the fact that students are living by themselves no longer with parents or guardians; they earn their own money; students need to be a part of a group, be accepted; and they have the wrong idea that to feel drunk is “cool.”
We've all heard it before: "Too much of anything is bad for us." The amount of binge drinking occurring on American college campuses today proves that college students do not heed this warning. Binge drinking, or drinking for the purpose of getting drunk, harms both drinkers and non-drinkers alike. As today's college students come dangerously close to being swept away in the sea of papers, exams, jobs, and interviews, they use bingeing as the lifeboat that allows them to escape the stress. It allows them to forget their worries, fit in with the crowd, and live on the edge in a fast-paced world that normally does not leave time for such activities. Teetering on the brink of adulthood, yet still trapped in childhood makes drinking decisions difficult for many college students. A desire to get away from our usual lives because of societal regulations and conformity, psychological and emotional problems, and the stress of everyday life causes college binge drinking.
In recent studies by U.S News and World Report, college campuses are turning off the tap. In other words banning alcohol entirely. One of the reasons for the banning of alcohol on campus is due to the outstanding reports of alcohol related incidents that have taken the lives of students. September of 97’, Scott Krueger, and eighteen-year-old freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died from alcohol poisoning while at a Phi Gamma Delta initiation event.(Reisberg, 1) The lack of action taken by MIT caused the students’ parents to sue them for their irresponsibility.(Reisberg, 2) Another accident that occurred due to alcohol was to a twenty-year-old Louisiana State University student named Benjamin Wynne. Wynne had apparen...
According to a national survey conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, “almost 60 percent of college students ages 18–22 drank alcohol in the past month, 1 and almost 2 out of 3 of them engaged in binge drinking during that same timeframe” (NIH). Binge drinking culture refers to the recent rise and normalization of college age students drinking excessively. The CDC describes binge drinking as “a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol level to 0.08grams within two hours” (CDC). For many young adults, college is one of the first times they will experience complete freedom. This freedom often leads to partying, which goes hand in hand with the consumption of alcohol. However, since the age at which
Binge Drinking is an intriguing phenomenon that many college students take part in all across the country. The issue of binge drinking has been a problem on college campuses for decades. Binge drinking has many horrible effects, but the problem starts with the causes for it. If the causes could be controlled then the issue would not get out of hand. Many college students give different causes for their drinking problems, and experts on the subject have their explanations as well. The problem is, while growing through adolescence anything can become an excuse for drinking, such as ¡§its Thursday the day before Friday, we need to drink¡¨ or, ¡§it¡¦s the last Wednesday of the semester, lets get some beer.¡¨
William Zinsser’s essay “College Pressures” emphasizes the struggles students have in trying to conquer the college milestone in life. Zinsser believes that college has lost the authenticity of the overall goal of gaining knowledge for one’s own interest, rather than the overall need of going. He sympathizes with struggles college kids go through and hopes to provide insight on the overall situation. One of his major points are that succeeding the first time is not always the best way in learning, and that sometimes students need to fail in order to properly learn. The author mentions the “Four pressures, economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure” and how there are “No villains; only victims” that fall
Binge or excessive drinking is the most serious problem affecting social life, health, and education on college campuses today. Binge or excessive drinking by college students has become a social phenomena in which college students do not acknowledge the health risks that are involved with their excessive drinking habits. Furthermore college students do not know enough about alcohol in general and what exactly it does to the body or they do not pay attention to the information given to them. There needs to be a complete saturation on the campus and surrounding areas, including businesses and the media, expressing how excessive drinking is not attractive and not socially accepted.
But my schooling also taught me that my opinion is just as important as anyone else’s, which leads to Rouner’s opinions of people who believe that their opinions can not be wrong (2015, 1). Many rewarding aspects came from being enrolled in a private school that I know many of my friends in public schools did not receive the opportunity to do. For example, having an optional class specifically dedicated to applying to different colleges, a class that teaches you how to build a résumé, and many others. These opportunities lead others in public school to assume that myself and the other students at my high school were rich, snotty kids because we were at a private school. They assumed that we were all rich and thought we were better than them, which is far from the truth.
Greed, being a key human condition, has shaped society from the very start. In fact, some scholars believe that greed was the first major milestone of human success, when the first human wondered why he/she had to scrounge around for necessities; it is a part of being human to be greedy. Wanting a new car, to be loved by another, or to desire the feeling of well doing when feeding the needy, these are all factions of greed...