Mei-Ling Chang

Block 1
March 23, 2015
Note Book Essay

Advantages that American Students Have vs Students in Third World Countries

Many students around the world are trying to pursue a higher education, although
American students are more fortunate then students in other countries. (Hook) American students
live a more privileged life than those in third world countries. Compared to students in third
world countries, we are more privileged then other students because of the many things that we
receive to which we tend to take advantage of. Students in other countries are not as fortunate as
the average American student even to the less average American students. Students in foreign
countries face many difficulties to poverty, resources, terrorist attacks, living conditions, medical
resources. (Rhetorical Device: enumeratio) As to American students we are living the dream
than oppose to those students in foreign countries. Although every child should receive the same
and equal opportunity to a happy life, American students have the upper hand in many cases in
education. (Thesis)
Students today in foreign countries are lacking the proper education they need to be
successful in the future. In 2013, the birth rate in the United Stated that year alone was 3.95
million. If you think about it, thats 3.95 million children that are going to receive a free
education from kindergarten to twelfth grade. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)As
guaranteed by the Constitution of United States of America, It is are Constitutional right to
receive a quality free public education according to the, No Child Left behind Act that was an
education reform bill signed by George W. Bush in 2006. (PBS) Opposing to students in foreign
countries that grants every child a six grade education according to the World Education Form,
which was started in 2000 and adopted by 164 countries. This education reform had two main
goals that was to be met by 2015 which are EFA (Education for All) goals and MDG
(Millennium Development Goals). (United Nations.org) These goals are basically goals that are
set to provide free education till the sixth grade and helps provide a happier and suitable life.
Although the UN say they are helping children to receive this free education, foreign students
face difficult problems than regular students face.
Education is the key to a bright future in America, but in a third world country, Education
is the key to helping their future, family, happiness, and country. American Students go to school
so that they can benefit for themselves. So that they can pursued there dream in becoming a
doctor or lawyer, a teacher or marine biologist. Education isnt seen as the burden on a childs
shoulder of having to get a good college and job so that he may bring prosperity, wealth, and
future for him/her, his parents and grandparents like education in china. In the United Stated, an
educated student helps there country by providing economic security and stability, opposed to

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and educated student in a foreign country where it decreases poverty, crime, health problems,
child mortality, arranged marriages at a young age, child birth at a young age, and literacy.
Which increases hygiene economic stability, growth, and global development. Although
education can go a long way in foreign countries, we do not see this involvement to a better
society due to living conditions, traditional practices, early age responsibilities, and means to get
an education. American students are provided with infrastructures to learn in, transportation to
get to and from school to get an education, funding to get free lunches and supplies, resources
like books, smart boards, projectors, boards, and computers, and the very thing we need to power
these smart boards, TVs, and computers with, which is electricity. These means of resources that
we receive are more than those that other kids receive. Students in foreign countries receive bear
minimum. These children attend classes in huts, under trees, and rundown buildings. They have
one pencil and one notebook to last them throughout the whole year. Also the only light they
receive is the light radiating from a burning candle and even then that is still not enough.
Education is seen as a right of birth to boys, boys represent the family and bring wealth,
and thats why girls dont receive these rights. (Type of sentence: Balanced and CompoundComplex Sentence) Due to traditional practices in some countries, it is very difficult to receive
an education for boys let alone very difficult for girls. Some traditions require that boys receive
education to secondary school as oppose to girls receiving education to maybe the fourth or fifth,
maybe less. In some countries men prefer that the boys work in the fields to help support their
mothers at home and wait till they are able to be sold or arranged marriage to a man that could be
old enough to be her father. American students boys and girls alike are very lucky that we do not
practice these cultural practices. Although some American students do say that they are grateful
for the education they receive and the resources provided to us, which they do have some merit
because some students appreciate their education because they would like to make something of
them self. I feel that American students do take advantage of the free education that we receive
because we do not understand the true importance and impact that education has on a child,
family, country and economy.
Education can mean many things to a child. To an American student it can either mean
two things, having to wake up early every morning and going to school because they are being
forced to because their parents make then or buy law you have to go to school until you turn 18,
or it means fulfilling a dream or goal that they set for themselves. As to a child in a third world
country, education itself is the dream, the beacon of hope, the key to unlocking a door to
happiness and getting their families out of poverty. Education is what the child makes of it, and if
a American child was to live in a in a third world country, we would understand how privileged
we are in having these advantages that we have today.

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