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Writing Strategies

1.) What points does Bass make through personal anecdote? How else might she have made these same points?

One personal anecdote was telling how she had to write down all of the things that she wanted in her life. She filled the paper with things like mansions, servants, and money! Then her teacher wrote on the paper " GO TO COLLEGE " as the response. So by using this anecdote students will think that college is the answer to how to get everything you want in life.
Bass could have made the same point by using something that is not a personal anecdote. Or by using statistics to show if students think of college as the way to get the riches in life.



Exploring Ideas

1.) How did Bass's sociology class help her to think differently about the concept of education?

Bass's sociology class helped her to change the way she looked at college, and changed what she was going to college for. In the class she was shown of Third World poverty, and that how we live and what we have, would be almost impossible for people in the Third World country to ever achieve. Now knowing that she has more than most people will ever have, she began to change what she wanted out of college. Bass felt selfish when she thought of just wanting to be rich when she got out of college. She did not just want to be insanely rich when graduating from college, but she wanted to gain a higher education.