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confederacy of dunces
Title: confederacy of dunces
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1426 | Pages: 6.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
confederacy of dunces
Engl. 104w
4/4/1999
A Confederacy of Dunces as a Criticism of Higher Education
Whether in an effort to become more educated and to obtain more lucrative jobs or due to the need for better education in an increasingly technological job market, the United States has seen a rising trend in the percentage of individuals who choose to attend college and graduate school. Not only has the number of individuals seeking higher education increased, but criticism of …showed first 75 words of 1426 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1426 total…Ignatius, the intelligence gained as a result of college or graduate school may cause the educated to look down upon and even to dislike the members of society with average or below average intelligence. The author further mocks education by leaving each character in a particular position at the end of the novel. While the uneducated characters tend to end up better off, the educated characters generally prove unhappy by the end of the story.
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