English Literature -- Reading Response Essay

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The fact that 10 of the first 16 of the students who graduated from the first year of the course went on to continue their education at four-year colleges and that the rest were either attending community colleges or working fulltime strongly suggests that the program was beneficial. Even the fact that the one unemployed student was unemployed because she had tried to form a union at work suggests that she benefited from the course with respect to her confidence and her ability to think independently and to act politically.

Conclusion

There seems to be little reason to doubt that a program such as the Clemente Course implemented by Shorris is extremely beneficial in that it encourages poor individuals to appreciate education and to discover intellectual abilities they may not otherwise have the chance to discover.

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On one hand, the experience recounted by Shorris seems to prove the initial supposition that increased availability of educational opportunities of this type can be instrumental to helping poor students increase their self-esteem and their ability to achieve something of value in their society. On the other hand, the experience does not necessarily prove that studying Humanities in particular is any more important in that regard from studying other disciplines, such as science or law, for example. Ultimately, it is likely that any comparable educational opportunity would be equally beneficial under….....

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