Should Marriage Be Defined as Between a Man a Woman
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Christina Betton and Lisette Rodriguez
ENG 101 Oct. 18, 2012
There has been many opinions and controversial findings on how effective performing
arts is to students’ success. Should students take performing arts as serious as they need to academic arts such as Reading, Writing, and Math? Many believe that it is not of
significant importance. When educational budget cuts take place, these are the initial
programs to get cut. What are performing arts good for? Many researchers suggest that
performing arts can boost students’ test scores, others aren’t convinced.
Benefits/Advantages
In an article named “Arts and Smarts” pact and national endowment for the arts chairman
Dana Gioia said in 2007 “ There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as
stories, songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, and consoles. It educates our
emotions.”. He is one of many advocates that have been making similar statements and
pleas stressing advantages of performing arts in hope that people will view its values
Differently. Art is meant to give students a break from all other difficult requirements. It
allows them to express their emotions through something/anything they naturally enjoy
doing without the pressure of being graded/tested on. For the first time ever scientists
have used sophisticated brain imaging techniques to examine how music, dance, drama,
and visual arts might positively affect cognition and intelligence. This was done to take a Christina and Lisette 2
First step toward understanding whether art can actually make people smarter in ways
that can be measured. According to the 2006 Gallop poll, “85 percent of Americans
believed participation in school music was linked to better grades and higher test
scores”. James S. Caterall, a professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies reported in a 1999 paper that “ middle and
Christina Betton and Lisette Rodriguez
ENG 101 Oct. 18, 2012
There has been many opinions and controversial findings on how effective performing
arts is to students’ success. Should students take performing arts as serious as they need to academic arts such as Reading, Writing, and Math? Many believe that it is not of
significant importance. When educational budget cuts take place, these are the initial
programs to get cut. What are performing arts good for? Many researchers suggest that
performing arts can boost students’ test scores, others aren’t convinced.
Benefits/Advantages
In an article named “Arts and Smarts” pact and national endowment for the arts chairman
Dana Gioia said in 2007 “ There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as
stories, songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, and consoles. It educates our
emotions.”. He is one of many advocates that have been making similar statements and
pleas stressing advantages of performing arts in hope that people will view its values
Differently. Art is meant to give students a break from all other difficult requirements. It
allows them to express their emotions through something/anything they naturally enjoy
doing without the pressure of being graded/tested on. For the first time ever scientists
have used sophisticated brain imaging techniques to examine how music, dance, drama,
and visual arts might positively affect cognition and intelligence. This was done to take a Christina and Lisette 2
First step toward understanding whether art can actually make people smarter in ways
that can be measured. According to the 2006 Gallop poll, “85 percent of Americans
believed participation in school music was linked to better grades and higher test
scores”. James S. Caterall, a professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and
Information Studies reported in a 1999 paper that “ middle and