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p. 45 #1
The current number of parking spaces that are on campus is not enough to effectively allow students to get to class on time. As students who are late drive around hoping to run across a free spot or find one where a student is leaving, they can easily spend up to fifteen minutes in a time frame where they only have around five minutes to get to class. This can result in students getting repeated tardies and eventually, getting a failing grade for a class. If the number of parking spots is increased around the buildings on campus, it would allow many students to find a parking spot next to the building in which they have class more easily, allowing many students the ability to avoid repeated tardies and a potential failing grade.

p. 71 #1
Many of the "basic" courses that I have taken throughout high school and are currently taking in college, such as History, English, and Math, have promoted various critical thinking skills. History requires a cumulativeness of historical facts in order to be able to write about conditions that may have existed in a certain time period and how those conditions may have effected the people living in that time period. Math relies on a very similar form of cumultativeness, since certain knowledge in one section would be carried over to and expanded upon in another section. English, out of History and Math, promotes the most critical thinking skills, such cumulativeness, symbolism, metaphors, and viewpoints. Many of these skills were given to help us write papers that focused on our own opinion about a certain topic, or thesis papers. These are the classes where I have retained the most knowledge, since I have been taking them ever since I first started school and because they continue to go over and expand on the knowledge I have already gained.
Many of the elective and filler classes I've taken in high school and also in college, such as Computer Applications, and Music, are classes that seem to "jump through the hoops." These classes didn't and don't have any type of relation with the other classes I have taken and there wasn't really any type of class that continued what was learned in these classes. Since many of these classes was, and currently are, being taken so I can get enough credits to graduate, I just focus on the material so I can successfully pass the course, with the sense that I wouldn't really need to retain what I've learned.