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Perception of Online College Degree Programs

Parents’ Perception of Online College Degree Programs for their Children

 

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the rapid increase in enrollments in online learning programs as an effective alternative to traditional school settings because of various advantages offered by such programs, including convenience, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. As a result, online college degree programs have received increased research attention in the field of education. This study examines parents’ attitudes toward online college degree programs and investigates whether there are any differences in their perceptions depending on the gender or age of their children. The study also considers the most important factors influencing parents’ perception of online college degree programs and analyzes any gender or age differences in the factors they emphasize. The results indicate that although parents generally had favorable attitudes toward online college degree programs regardless of the gender of their children, those with female students were more likely to support online programs than those with male children. In terms of the age of the child (measured based on the child’s level of education–elementary, middle, or high school), parents with middle school students were most likely to favor online college degree programs. Parents with female children were most likely to emphasize program quality as the most important factor, whereas those with male students, program credibility. Parents were most likely to emphasize program quality as the most important factor regardless of the age of the child. These results have important implications for school administrators, teachers, and policymakers, and some limitations of the study are discussed.

Keywords: Online Degree Program, Parents, Attitudes, Children

Kelly Sunho Park

Focusing Sound Waves Using a Two-Dimensional Non-Linear System

Summary
Sound can be focused through a non-linear acoustic lens to produce high-energy waves capable of a variety of applications, such as eradicating cancer cells. Our previous research focused sound using a primitive system incapable of precise and predictable targeting. We engineered and assembled an improved device for focusing longitudinal waves that consisted of a non-linear acoustic lens, a release system, and a microphone recording array for data collection. During experimental trials the non-linear acoustic lens had a force applied to each of the 11 chains depending on the chain number from the desired focal point. Central trials focused sound waves to a calculated focal point to the center of the lens, while right side trials focused sound waves to the right side of the lens. The relative sound amplitude was recorded using a microphone array, analyzed, and averaged using sound analysis software. The average relative amplitudes of the control data compared to the experimental data at the predicted focal points were examined using a two-tailed t-test and were significantly different. This research was considered a success because the non-linear acoustic lens produced an evident increase in relative amplitude at a specific focal point in both sets of experimental trials.

Thorsen M. Wehr and Jeffery R. Wehr

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Gender Inequality in Chinese Society

Gender Inequality in Chinese Society
“How do you balance your role as a wife and your role as an employee?” This is a typical question women face during a job interview in China. Interestingly, there is never the same question for men asking the balance between being a husband and being an employee. Under the harmony claiming women and men are standing in an equal position, society implicitly presses women to do a multiple-choice question related to their desired role. Ironically, although it is called multiple choice, there is never an “s” following behind the word “choice”, simply meaning that women only are allowed to choose one and give up the rest.
Being a wife or a mother becomes a disadvantage or even a defect, making women less competitive in current society. Just because women possess the ability to be pregnant and have children, it does not indicate that they lose the ability to fulfill their works successfully. However, many people tend to wear monocular glasses for seeing only one side of the matter, and then use that one side to generalize. Therefore, as time goes on, this ideology has planted a seed in everyone’s heart. People acquiesce in its existence and admit its correctness. The transformation from responsibility to liability boosts fear among women, especially for those younger ones. They are willing to shelve their special ability for exchanging a better opportunity in their career path. This phenomenon does not merely reveal current gender inequality problems, but also carries imbalances in more social aspects such as population ageing and corresponding measures forcing gender inequality to fall into a worse status.
Undeniably, there are still a great amount of excellent wives and mothers working diligently in their workplaces. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of women suffering from unequal treatment when applying for jobs will not be erased by these cases. Disapproving voices may come out saying that women make their own choices. Yes, women are ostensibly free to make their own choices under the hint of society. Let’s take a step back, should this unsettling multiple choice really need to exist? Instead of focusing on “how to balance women’s roles”, what is the so-called balance and is there a true balance? Or is it just employers finding an excuse for refusing women or seeking a promise claiming their “loyalty” towards job positions? Innumerable problems that are pulled out by one single problem are worth pondering.

Yaxin Chen

To what extent was the Canadian government successful in its attempts to deal with the Great Depression?

J. Xia

The Great Depression in 1920s had a disastrous influence on Canada. Suffering from the Great Depression, Canadians faced the problem such as unemployment, starvation and increasing suicide rate. In order to save Canada from the Great Depression, Canadian government did lots of change and published lots of policies. The government’s policies such as creating work campus or deportation were not very effective, but Canadian government was successful in its attempts to deal with the Great Depression to the extent of distributing pogey, rising tariffs and signed treaty with the U.S.

First, at that time, the job insurance was not existed yet, so the government decided to distribute pogey to their citizens. The pogey is the money that was distributed by the government to those people who did not have a job and income to support their life. During the Great Depression, the rate of unemployment rose a lot and numerous workers lost their jobs so they had no income to make their families survive. The data showed that 1 in 5 Canadians had to depend on the pogey to survive. Whereas, the pogey was lower than the lowest wage in the country and if people wanted to get the pogey, they had to wait for a long time and admit that they had no ability to gain money by themselves in public. This request was ashamed for most men so they stop to get pogey from the government and tried to gain money by themselves. Although someone doubt that the way was too cruel, it is a right method to stimulate people to find jobs instead of depend on the government. Therefore, distributing pogey was a right decision made by the Canadian government.

Second, the government rose the tariffs in order to improve the economy in their own country. The Great Depression in Canada was influenced by the increasing tariffs in the America so their goods such as wheat and newsprints could not be exported. Therefore, after Bennett became the Prime Minister in 1930, he made a decision which was increase Canadian tariffs as well. After increasing the tariffs, Canadians would buy the goods that were produced by their own country instead of buying foreign goods. As a result, it is another way to improve and protect Canadian’s own economy during the Great Depression.

Last but not least, after King became the Prime Minister again in 1935, he promised that he would equalize the distribution to different provinces and set better services in those poor provinces. His most influential decision was to signed treaty with the United States. Promising a much-desired trade treaty with the U.S., the Mackenzie King government passed the 1935 Reciprocal Trade Agreement. Some experts said it marked the turning point in Canadian-American economic relations and reversed the disastrous trade war of 1930-1931, lowing tariffs, and yielding a dramatic increase in trade, and it revealed to the prime minister and the president that they could work together well.

In brief, the Canadian government did a lot since the Great Depression happened in 1920s. The Prime Minister changed twice and both of them did certain contribution for the recovery of Canada. The government was highly attended and got lots of pressures. To the extent of distributing pogey, rising tariffs and signing treaty with the U.S. was the effective way that Canadian government succeed to deal with the great depression.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  2. https://historymanilya.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/bennetts-during-the-great-depression/