equal opportunities
... go through that process to learn that it really hurts the art industry when students do that, because it’s putting the professional graphic designers and other artists out of business. Jordan goes on to talk about the art students he now teaches. They don’t have to take any kind of business classes. So, they are completely unprepared to be an artist. He thinks it should be required for them to take business education as a freshman, but since it isn’t, Jordan puts it upon himself to give the information necessary for success out to the students. Diane Payne wrote “I Shouldn’t Have Had to Beg for a Prognosis”. She shared an experience that she had with a few doctors while dealing with her husband’s hospitalization. Payne explains how she was forced to go back and forth asking a variety of different doctors, nurses, and other hospital faculty, for any information available about her husband. It was a horrible ordeal for her to try and handle, while, at the same time, struggling with her husband death. I think that she was definitely right in assuming that her confusion could have been handled better. Not only did she have a good reason to write in, but she also had great writing skills. It’s surprising how many regular people can write so well. Another male, college student, Andrew Braaksma, writes, “Some Lessons From The Assembly Line”. In his essay, he discusses his opinion on how hard it would be to work in an assembly line at a factory forever. Braaksma explains that he returns home every summer to spend 12-hour days working in an assembly line. He reveals how demeaning the job seems to be and how it makes him really appreciate being able to go back to school in the fall. Braaksma shares that he is grateful to have the opportunity go to school, get an education, and able to, one day, get out of the assembly line business. The next article I read, “My Cat Takes More Drugs Than I Do”, was written by 87 years old, Thomas Withers. Withers has...