A College Education

Working Thesis:

Without balance between the needs of our educational institutions and the needs of the students, and if the current trend continues regarding the costs associated with a college education, in the very near future that level of education will be unobtainable for the average American.

U.S. Census Bureau. (2011). Retrieved May 23, 2011, from Table 689. Money Income of Households-Percentage Distribution by Income Level, Race, and Hispanic Origin, in Constant (2008) Dollars: 1980 to 2008: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0689.pdf.  A 2011 report from the U.S. Census Bureau providing detailed information regarding household income.  It then breaks down that information even further by race and various other catagories.

Yale University. (2011). Retrieved May 23, 2011, from Factsheet: Some Facts and Statistics about Yale University: http://www.yale.edu/oir/factsheet.html. This is an interesting fact sheet that provides information specifically about Yale University.  Included within this factsheet is information about the number of students seeking admission each year, the percentage of students who are accepted, the cost of tuition, a breakdown of the number of students per degree, and much more.

 

The Science of Fire

 Many people feel the creation of fire requires three elements: heat, fuel, and oxygen.   While this basic theory is correct, it is also wrong.  Unless circumstances are perfect, and those circumstances are dependent upon the products used, you still will not have flame.  In order to get flame a fourth piece of the equation needs to be added.  This fourth piece of the pie creates what is called a fire tetrahedron, and adds to the equation necessary to create fire a piece which has come to represent a chemical chain reaction.  Without a chemical chain reaction the products of heat, fuel, and oxygen creates nothing at all.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/fire1.htm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fire+tetrahedron&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&wrapid=tlif130531086758010&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1362&bih=559

UPDATE:

After getting an early start on this topic I soon came to the realization that this is not the right topic for me.  I know too much on this subject from being a pyromaniac and a former fire science major, that further research was really boring the hell out of me.  This research project has been officially scrapped.