23 Best Value Colleges for Budget-conscious Students

For the majority of families, cost is one of the biggest factors in the college decision-making process. In fact, high tuition prices often deter low-income students from even applying to some of the nation's top schools. But what they might not realize is that after available grants and scholarships are taken into consideration their actual out-of pocket cost to attend some of these colleges ends up being quite a bit less than what's published. To help students find the best bang for their buck, the U.S. Department of Education has compiled a list of the 23 colleges that offer the lowest net prices and highest potential incomes after graduation for students with a family income of $0-$48,000. Here are some of the best options for students who have the grades but not the cash: RELATED: How much financial aid will you get? Use this tool to get an idea. Slides: 1. Amherst College ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $56,800 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $3,739 RELATED: How 7 different assets can affect your financial aid eligibility Photo attribute: "Amherst College Main Quad" by David Emmerman - PicasaWeb. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 2. Bowdoin College ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $54,800 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,731 RELATED: 5 tips to crafting the perfect admissions essay Photo attribute: "Buck12" by Buck Center - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 3. Brown University ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $59,700 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,104 RELATED: Surprising facts about scholarships 4. Columbia University (NYC) ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $72,900 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $5,497 RELATED: The new SAT: Does your dream school require it? Photo attribute: "Earl Hall Columbia University NYC". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 5. Dartmouth College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $67,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,468 RELATED: Avoid these 529 plan withdrawal traps Photo attribute: By Kane5187 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 6. Duke University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $76,700 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,280 RELATED: Will a high school part-time job help with college admissions? Photo attribute: "Westduke" by Smithfl - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 7. Georgia Institute of Technology ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $74,000 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,875 RELATED: How to prepare now for that first tuition bill Photo attribute: "Tech Tower-6" by Mistercontributer - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 8. Hamilton College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $57,300 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,245 RELATED: Will the Student Aid Bill of Rights help your family? Photo attribute: "ElihuRootHouse1" by lvklock - Own work. Licensed under GFDL via Commons 9. Harvard University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $87,200 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $3,386 RELATED: 6 steps to landing in the Ivy Leagues Photo attribute: "Widener Library" by Caroline Culler (User:Wgreaves) - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Commons 10. Haverford College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $55,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $5,648 RELATED: 5 changes to the SAT and how parents are reacting Photo attribute: "Haverfordfounders" by Jackbauerinvc. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $91,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,733 RELATED: 4 things to watch out for when applying to a top school Photo attribute: "MIT Building 10 and the Great Dome, Cambridge MA" by John Phelan - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 12. Massachusetts Maritime Academy ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $79,500 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,519 RELATED: Being smart about recommendation letters before senior year of high school 13. Princeton University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $75,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $5,720 RELATED: How younger students can build a competitive profile for the Ivy League Photo attribute: By Photo: Andreas Praefcke (Own work (own photograph)) 14. Rice University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $59,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,960 RELATED: 100 weird scholarship ideas Photo attribute: "McNairHall 1". Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons 15. Stanford University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $80,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $3,895 RELATED: How you can help your child ace the SAT or ACT Photo attribute: "James H. Clark Center at night HDR-2" by Justin Lebar - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 16. Trinity College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $56,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,874 RELATED: I won't qualify for financial aid but I still need help paying for college Photo attribute: "Trincolllibrarysnow2003". Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikipedia 17. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $57,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,156 RELATED: Yes, your 529 plan will affect financial aid Photo attribute: "UniversityofMichiganLawLibrary" by AndrewHorne - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 18. University of Pennsylvania ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $78,200 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,614 RELATED: Want to land a great job? Here's where you should go to school Photo attribute: "Penn campus 2" by Bryan Y.W. Shin at the English language Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 19. University of Virginia ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $58,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,007 RELATED: 7 things you may not know about student loan repayment Photo attribute: Alderman Library" by Vtn5n - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons 20. Vanderbilt University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $60,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,147 RELATED: 8 tips on how to make student loans work for you Photo attribute: "CorneliusVanderbiltStatue" by Dansan4444 - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 21. Washington and Lee University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $77,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,663 RELATED: Is online college a cheaper option for your high school grad? Photo attribute: "2008-0831-WashingtonandLeeUniversity" by Bobak Ha'Eri - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 22. Williams College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $58,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $8,202 RELATED: 10 things you need to know about getting scholarships Photo attribute: "Hopkins Observatory Williams College" by Beyond My Ken - Own work. Licensed under GFDL via Commons 23. Yale University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $66,000 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,637 RELATED: 9 tips on getting into an Ivy League school Photo attribute: "Yale School of Management Evans Hall front" by Nick Allen - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons For the majority of families, cost is one of the biggest factors in the college decision-making process. In fact, high tuition prices often deter low-income students from even applying to some of the nation's top schools. But what they might not realize is that after available grants and scholarships are taken into consideration their actual out-of pocket cost to attend some of these colleges ends up being quite a bit less than what's published. To help students find the best bang for their buck, the U.S. Department of Education has compiled a list of the 23 colleges that offer the lowest net prices and highest potential incomes after graduation for students with a family income of $0-$48,000. Here are some of the best options for students who have the grades but not the cash: RELATED: How much financial aid will you get? Use this tool to get an idea. Slides: 1. Amherst College ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $56,800 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $3,739 RELATED: How 7 different assets can affect your financial aid eligibility Photo attribute: "Amherst College Main Quad" by David Emmerman - PicasaWeb. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 2. Bowdoin College ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $54,800 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,731 RELATED: 5 tips to crafting the perfect admissions essay Photo attribute: "Buck12" by Buck Center - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 3. Brown University ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $59,700 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,104 RELATED: Surprising facts about scholarships 4. Columbia University (NYC) ï ¿ ½ a. Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $72,900 ï ¿ ½ b. Average annual net price for low-income students: $5,497 RELATED: The new SAT: Does your dream school require it? Photo attribute: "Earl Hall Columbia University NYC". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 5. Dartmouth College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $67,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,468 RELATED: Avoid these 529 plan withdrawal traps Photo attribute: By Kane5187 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 6. Duke University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $76,700 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,280 RELATED: Will a high school part-time job help with college admissions? Photo attribute: "Westduke" by Smithfl - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 7. Georgia Institute of Technology ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $74,000 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,875 RELATED: How to prepare now for that first tuition bill Photo attribute: "Tech Tower-6" by Mistercontributer - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 8. Hamilton College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $57,300 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,245 RELATED: Will the Student Aid Bill of Rights help your family? Photo attribute: "ElihuRootHouse1" by lvklock - Own work. Licensed under GFDL via Commons 9. Harvard University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $87,200 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $3,386 RELATED: 6 steps to landing in the Ivy Leagues Photo attribute: "Widener Library" by Caroline Culler (User:Wgreaves) - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Commons 10. Haverford College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $55,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $5,648 RELATED: 5 changes to the SAT and how parents are reacting Photo attribute: "Haverfordfounders" by Jackbauerinvc. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $91,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,733 RELATED: 4 things to watch out for when applying to a top school Photo attribute: "MIT Building 10 and the Great Dome, Cambridge MA" by John Phelan - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 12. Massachusetts Maritime Academy ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $79,500 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,519 RELATED: Being smart about recommendation letters before senior year of high school 13. Princeton University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $75,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $5,720 RELATED: How younger students can build a competitive profile for the Ivy League Photo attribute: By Photo: Andreas Praefcke (Own work (own photograph)) 14. Rice University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $59,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,960 RELATED: 100 weird scholarship ideas Photo attribute: "McNairHall 1". Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons 15. Stanford University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $80,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $3,895 RELATED: How you can help your child ace the SAT or ACT Photo attribute: "James H. Clark Center at night HDR-2" by Justin Lebar - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 16. Trinity College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $56,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,874 RELATED: I won't qualify for financial aid but I still need help paying for college Photo attribute: "Trincolllibrarysnow2003". Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikipedia 17. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $57,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,156 RELATED: Yes, your 529 plan will affect financial aid Photo attribute: "UniversityofMichiganLawLibrary" by AndrewHorne - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 18. University of Pennsylvania ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $78,200 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $6,614 RELATED: Want to land a great job? Here's where you should go to school Photo attribute: "Penn campus 2" by Bryan Y.W. Shin at the English language Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 19. University of Virginia ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $58,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,007 RELATED: 7 things you may not know about student loan repayment Photo attribute: Alderman Library" by Vtn5n - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons 20. Vanderbilt University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $60,900 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,147 RELATED: 8 tips on how to make student loans work for you Photo attribute: "CorneliusVanderbiltStatue" by Dansan4444 - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons 21. Washington and Lee University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $77,600 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,663 RELATED: Is online college a cheaper option for your high school grad? Photo attribute: "2008-0831-WashingtonandLeeUniversity" by Bobak Ha'Eri - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Commons 22. Williams College ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $58,100 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $8,202 RELATED: 10 things you need to know about getting scholarships Photo attribute: "Hopkins Observatory Williams College" by Beyond My Ken - Own work. Licensed under GFDL via Commons 23. Yale University ï ¿ ½ a.Median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school: $66,000 ï ¿ ½ b.Average annual net price for low-income students: $7,637 RELATED: 9 tips on getting into an Ivy League school Photo attribute: "Yale School of Management Evans Hall front" by Nick Allen - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons

Conventional and Unconventional Heroines in Much Ado about Nothing - Literature Essay Samples

A central theme in Much Ado about Nothing is that of the literary tradition of a heroine within the social conventions surrounding women. The literary tradition of the time (and indeed, in many cases, up to the present day) bestows the conventional heroine with beauty, modesty and etiquette, submissive and obedient to mens will. Literary convention also presents the heroine with a variety of obstacles which, through no fault of her own, she is forced to overcome. Ultimately, she prevails and the Shakespearean tale typically ends with a joyful marriage ceremony, often an alliance between two families. However, modern literary tradition breeds the unconventional heroine, an independent, assertive and articulate young woman, overcoming prejudice and injustice. In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare presents us with both the Elizabethan conventional and (the more modern) unconventional heroine in Hero and Beatrice, using a variety of effective literary methods, to demonstrate the extreme differences in character. Social expectations of women in Elizabethan society were that they should submit to their fathers will, marry men of their fathers choosing, often as a way of forming propitious family alliances, and remain submissive to their husbands. They had no role or autonomy in their own right, only within the contexts of their menfolk. Expected to be beautiful, modest and chaste, fair Hero, at the beginning of the play, fits the role perfectly. Claudio has effectively been chosen as her husband by her father, with Hero submitting uncomplainingly to her duty to be ruled by your father, thus matching the social norm of the time. Indeed, she had originally believed herself to be wooed by Don Pedro, and yet, when Claudio was presented as the actual wooer, had no apparent misgivings in switching to accept his suit she is simply at the disposal of her father. The discussions between Don Pedro and Claudio about the proxy wooing reveal no suggestion whatsoever that Claudios suit could be rejected by Hero; the thought that she might have any free will does not even loom as a possibility: Ill unclasp my heartAnd the conclusion is, she shall be thine. Shakespeare gives Hero virtually no speeches in the first act, although she is central to much that is happening, and she is early presented merely as a chattel to be discussed and allocated. The traditional female modesty is clearly portrayed; on her wedding eve, her virginal anxiety shows through all of her fussing over her clothes, and in answer to a ribald statement of Margarets, her modesty, even in private, is such that she exclaims Fie upon thee! Art not ashamed?. Even Heros fainting away at the altar on her wedding day, when her honour is besmirched, seems not only a dramatic device, but also a literary tool to demonstrate her female modesty and sensitivity. (One can scarcely imagine Beatrice reacting in such a way.) Moreover, the later continued feigning of death is not the idea of Hero, which would have shown her to be taking control of her own fate, but instead is the idea of yet another man, the Friar: Publish it that she is dead indeed. Thus, even at the moment when her reputation, indeed her entire future is under threat, Hero remains passive, at the disposal of men. The deathlike faint, essential to Shakespeares plot, is possibly the ultimate in female submissiveness. Throughout the play, Hero is presented as the archetypal traditional heroine, the romantic ideal. The language used in descriptions of her are flowery and tender: jewel, the object of soft and delicate desires, the sweetest lady that ever I looked on. Moreover, for such a pivotal character, her actual speeches of any substances are few, usually only speaking when spoken to, and almost always in blank verse traditional feminine reticence is clearly shown throughout. However, the Elizabethan tradition of submissive and meek women was being breached by Queen Elizabeth I herself. A strong, confrontational, independent and clever woman, the queen was challenging the contemporary perceptions of women and their place in society. Such a woman was Beatrice. At the opposite pole from Hero, and completely in contrast to the traditional heroine, Shakespeare presents us, in Beatrice, with a heroine we are more familiar in seeing in modern drama. Shakespeare gives us a heroine capable of two different interpretations. Either we can see a jaded, aging, cynical and embittered spinster, who uses her wit and repartee defensively to gain attention, or we see Beatrice as an independent and feisty woman, courageous and loyal, determined not to fall into the expected role of submissive wife. He that is more than a youth is not for me and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. The Beatrice that I find in Much Ado is the strong, independent atypical woman. It is interesting that this play is one of the few comedies in which none of the leading female characters dress up as a man in order to speak forthrightly or bluntly. The character of Beatrice has been written in such a way that this is her usual manner of speech. In her first interchange with Benedick, we see a woman who could not be more different from the reticent and passive Hero. We are given a woman who wants to dominate the conversation, who is witty, aggressive: he wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. Indeed, throughout the play, she is so direct as to be sometimes bawdy, with many references to stuffing and horns, allusions usually restricted to men. This provides a stark contrast to Heros prudishness discussed earlier. Similarly, in what is usually a masculine conversational style, Beatrice makes many hunting allusions I will requite you, taming m y wild heart to thy loving hand. (a falconry allusion). Unlike Hero, Beatrice is not portrayed as the gift of a father to a husband. Instead, we are very aware of a woman determined to be in charge of her own destiny, disdainful of the tradition of romantic love: I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. Indeed, the early Beatrice rejects even the idea of marriage, Not till G-d make men of some other metal than earth, and is again presented as the antithesis of the traditional heroine. (There is evidence that her cynicism springs from a failed earlier entanglement with Benedick, which may go towards explaining her rejection of all romantic conventions: once before, he won it (her heart) of me with false dice.) If this aggressive banter and rejection of feminine wiles and aspirations were all that we saw of Beatrice, Shakespeare would have given us a very one-dimensional character, with little appeal. Instead, Beatrice appears as much more rounded. She is described as a very happy person: There is little of the melancholy element in her and clearly is devastated by the wrongs done to Hero. Not only is she given weaknesses such as a love of eavesdropping that Hero, Margaret and Ursula exploit in convincing her of Benedicks love for her, but also we see a fierce loyalty to Hero when she is falsely accused of infidelity. Indeed, such is the depth of Beatrices loyalty to her cousin, that it never occurs to her to doubt Heros innocence, and she makes the demand of Benedick that could be seen as very unfeminine: Kill Claudio. She bemoans the fact that, as a woman, she cannot use force to avenge the wrong done to her cousin, and has no hesitation in using Benedicks avowals of love as a tool in her own desire for revenge: scarcely the archetypal submissive and dependent woman. (It is also likely that in this time of her own grief, she sees the opportunity to test the nature of Benedicks love by demanding that he puts her needs above his friendship with Claudio.) Nonetheless, one can only admire Beatrices total loyalty to Hero and her determination to avenge her name. Beatrice, like all heroines, is given her own obstacles to overcome, and unlike passive Hero, who achieves her goal through the efforts of others, Beatrice struggles with herself. Having so vehemently dismissed the notion of love and marriage, refusing to sigh hey-ho for a husband, possibly because of an earlier hurtful rejection, she must learn to show the flexibility of a mature character in accepting the (supposed and then real) love of Benedick. At the end of scene in which Beatrice hears of Benedicks supposed love for her, and then accepts it in her own mind, Shakespeare has her speak in blank verse (III,i) (as Hero virtually always does) rather than in the blunter prose which she usually uses. It therefore feels as though we are being shown that despite so many masculine traits shown by this unconventional heroine, she still remains at heart womanly. Benedick, love on; I will requite thee It cannot have been easy for Beatrice, of all characters, to discover that she has been tricked into falling in love with the man she has constantly and publicly ridiculed, but she is strong enough to put that to one side in her attempts to use the situation to avenge the wrongs done to Hero. Such a reaction takes the courage to put friendship before oneself. Even in her acceptance of Benedick, however, at the point of marriage, the continued verbal sparring between the two leaves us with the conviction that this is a marriage of equals and of mutual respect, not a passive submission to the expectations of society. Beatrice, one feels, retains her integrity. Can that be said of Hero? Thus in Much Ado about Nothing, William Shakespeare gives us two very different versions of heroines: the conventional, submissive, passive, Elizabethan literary ideal and the independent, witty self-determining Woman. Even in his contrasting use of language, largely blank verse for Hero and prose for Beatrice, Shakespeare draws sharp contrasts. One is buffeted by forces around her, at the disposal of the whims of men, the other strives to control her own destiny, and proves able to adapt and change in a mature and self-knowing way. Hero in many ways appears little more than a two-dimensional stereotype of her time. Beatrice jumps off the page as a person both believable and worth knowing today. I prefer Beatrice.

Pygmalion and Society at the Time Essay - 1756 Words

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There was a lot of ignorance between the two classes, not only the rich taking no notice of the poor and their desperation, but also of the uneducated poor who were not familiar with the rich luxuries for example, Eliza did not realise that Higgins bath tub was a place to wash people, not clothes, Gawd! whats this? Is this where you wash clothes? Funny sort of copper I call it. Shaw wished to eliminate both types of ignorance in society; not only make the rich notice the poor and their deprived living conditions but also educate the poor to help them to help themselves. The rich minded their own businesses, disassociating themselves from the poor and their wants and needs. Shaw wanted the middle class to notice the deprived working class; much like Charles Dickens did, and wanted to eradicate the class divide and ignorance between the two. 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Receiving Bonuses When Banks Have Been Bailed Out Finance Essay - Free Essay Example

Sample details Pages: 3 Words: 893 Downloads: 5 Date added: 2017/06/26 Category Finance Essay Type Narrative essay Did you like this example? As expected, the answer to this question cannot be framed in a simple Yes or No, because it is a complicated situation where the financial sector employees are gifted with huge bonuses to retain them and keep them motivated but it is highly debatable as to how feasible it is to continue doling out bonuses even when they are being bailed by the national governments during the recession. The Secretary of Financial Services UK, Lord Myners clearly indicated that there has been improper management of financial institutions during crisis which led to such widespread wreckage of financial system (Tanners, 2009). President Barack Obama called the bonus payments by the Wall Street firms as reprehensible while the US banks, financial firms and companies suffered from deep recession in US and other countries. Don’t waste time! Our writers will create an original "Receiving Bonuses When Banks Have Been Bailed Out Finance Essay" essay for you Create order He called it as the height of irresponsibility. A shocking example of related activity was the decision to purchase a corporate jet plane worth 50 million dollars by a big name- Citigroup Inc. while it was being rescued with help from Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) in US. This shows that the financial firms kept on paying bonuses despite of being aware that they themselves were in deep trouble. White House Secretary went on to say that this sort of shocking acts by firms will destabilize the financial system instead of bringing it up from shocks (Goldman and Runningen, 2009). There has been huge uproar in the US and UK financial systems with banks paying out bonuses while the public is losing its money. A recent example of such unappreciated activity is the Royal Bank of Scotland, RBSs proposal to pay  £1 billion worth bonuses after being able to prop up  £20 billion worth of public money. It appears to be a clear flouting of regulations that seem to be put in effect by th e governments. It seems to be almost ironic how the banks and financial executives kept paying themselves big packets of bonuses and when they ran into recession; they were completely unaware of how it all happened. But even more appalling is that the practice continues. No different is Lloyds Group which has been severed during recession; however that doesnt repel it from planning to pay several hundred million pounds of bonuses to its top executives (Brady and Randall, 2009). Somewhere it appears that this is advertently a matter of personal benefits. I will present some examples of large scale of salaries and bonus payments to top executives of UK banks who have been questioned regarding the bonus fiasco. Some of them are: Sir Fred Goodwin (Executive chief) of Royal Bank of Scotland earned around  £30 million over 9 years and has received a pension worth staggering  £8.37 million. Lawrence Fish (Non-executive chairman) at the Royal Bank of Scotland received  £6.6 m illion in salaries and  £1 million in pension. Peter Cummings (Former head of Corporate Lending- Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS)) earned  £2.6 million in 2007 including a bonus of  £1.8 million. John Varley (Chief Executive of Barclays Inc.) earned  £2.42 million in 2007 and a bonus of  £1.425 million. Bob Diamond (Former Chief Executive of Barclays Capital Investment Bank) earned a total of  £21.3 million in bonuses since 2005. Source: The Independent, UK The obvious result of such high bonus payments is the increase in risk taking by firms. The more the risk the higher are the probabilities of supernormal profits which ultimately means more bonuses for bankers and financial executives. This was obvious in case of aggressive expansion policies of Barclays and RBS and aggressive lending policies of Northern Rock in UK. The motive naturally, was to enhance profitability but with a view to raise bonuses for top shots (Pettinger, 2009). Had the motives of banks been less personal and more economic, we probably wouldnt witness a series of collapses, both of economies and faith of taxpayers. Such reckless behaviour of top officials from financial services sector has been widely reprimanded but they dont seem to take a lesson from it and continue on their bonus payment spree. If we try to look closer and in more detail, we will find that bonus, indeed has been a major factor in crisis. However there is more than meets the eye. Accord ing to Wright (2010), though the people in financial services chose the sector because of the intellectual stimulation it provides, they ended up being trapped in the bonus bubble as it sure doesnt hurt to earn more money after all. In the article- The inconvenient truth about bonuses Wright explains how bonuses show little correlation with the levels of performance. The fundamental problem here is to decide how much bonus is acceptable and when does it become too high. His analysis reveals that the remuneration levels are too high relative to the earnings of shareholders. To show it through an example, investment bank Credit Suisse earned an aggregate return of merely 4.4% while it paid its staff more than 8 times the left over profits (Wright, 2010). We need to understand that bonuses are no more a means to motivate or a form of incentive for rewarding performance of employees, high bonuses have become an integral aspect of remuneration in the financial services sector and the pra ctice must be controlled in order to facilitate the recovery processes and avoid another crisis in crisis. Are trade unions still relevant in the current organisational context? 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Best Practices in Estimating the Cost of Capital An Update

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Compare and Contrast the Destructors and the Rocking Horse...

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