t the contract and increased prices for the university seems completely bogus. There are always price differences depending on where you are. Take the McDonald's franchises for example. In Stillwater, Oklahoma a Big-Mac might cost someone three dollars. However, cross the border to San Antonio, Texas and it could cost someone five.
             In the first structured section of the Croissant essay, titled, "Student Life in the Marketplace," the relationship between students and corporate industries is discussed. Croissant talks about a story of a high school student who wore a Coca-Cola t-shirt on "Pepsi Day" and was sent home. Again, we're getting a bit extreme. How many times in history has something like that actually happened? Rarely are students even sent home for breaking the school systems dress code, let alone wearing a Coke shirt on "Pepsi Day." It seems that Croissant uses many extremes to get to the emotions of the reader. Good idea, I suppose since it does seem to rustle some feathers. Croissant hi-lights the idea that commercial relationships are so common to us that we often neglect actually looking at how much they affect us, the statement is true. However, we must also look at how little of an influence these corporations actually
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