What Students Truly Learn in School “In the American capitalist system‚ students learn to compete; the goal is to win‚ ‘to beat the others‚’(Eve)‚ even if this means acting in ways that are personally frustrating and dissatisfying” (Pope‚ 169). Denise Clark Pope‚ in chapter 7 of her book Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out‚ Materialistic‚ and Miseducated Students‚ explains that students that are deemed successful often use tactical strategies such as cheating‚ kissing up
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HELEN: What do you say‚ Emma? EMMA: Thank you‚ Aunt Julie. Janice approaches to the table with the bowl of soup for Aunt Julie‚ and she spills it on her accidentally. JULIE: Stupid maid! You don’t know how to do anything right? Julie slaps Janice in the face. EMMA: Don’t do that to my nanny! HELEN: Silence‚ Emma. Janice runs into the kitchen‚ crying. Emma enters to the kitchen‚ just behind Janice. EMMA: Are you okay‚ Nanny? JANICE; Yes‚ Miss Emma. Go back to the dining
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What should you do and not do when giving a speech? When I was younger my dream was to become a dancer‚ as the years passed by I was falling more and more in love with the idea of being able to tell a story with just some music and my body. When I was 14 I remember dancing for all the presidents of South America‚ I felt so proud of myself because what president would have time for a little girl with that nonsense. It was so easy to move around‚ along with the music‚ to put on facial expressions
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6. What do you think is the biggest problem facing the world today? I would say greed and ignorance is the biggest problem facing the world today. It is an aspect of human nature and seemingly intractable. I don’t expect the mass of humanity to undergo spiritual transformation to amend these aspects. However I do think that in order for problems to be solved such as objective conditions e.g. war and poverty‚ there has to be a change in social ethos- that of which is generally considered desirable
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see you all. Hopefully you all had a nice summer and welcome to a new school year. Before you all head to class I want to speak about a topic I feel needs to be addressed. Throughout‚ the years that I’ve been working here my fellow staff and teachers have told me that the students here lose focus during class and hopefully we can work together to change that. Everyone in this room is lucky to be here we have been given opportunities and we should take advantage of that situation whether you are a
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economy or a planned system. Socialist economics refers to the economic theories‚ practices‚ and norms of hypothetical and existing socialist economic systems. A socialist economy is based on some form of social ownership‚ which includes varieties of public ownership and independent cooperatives‚ over the means of production‚ wherein production is carried out to directly produce use-value sometimes‚ but not always‚ coordinated through economic planning and a system of accounting based on calculation-in-kind
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ASSESMENT 2 (B) Micro Skills Presentation Choral Speaking Choral speaking is an activity which involves an oral presentation of a text‚ using expression to perform and enhance a text. This is done by emphasising particular words‚ sounds or phrases to help make the text become a performance than a reading. Choral speaking in encouraged to be presented in a small group using different voices to play different parts of a dialogue. Also by varying the pace‚ the volume of the voice and changing the
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exists to save trees and natural beauty. One day‚ they hire a guy who will go out and do field work and then report back to the team. This guy however‚ is a logger and hates trees. He uses tricks and secrets to give misinformation to the team. He wants to effectively "sabotage" the company. What do you do in this situation? Do you try to integrate him into the team and attempt to change his attitudes on trees? Or do you fire him because his morals and ethics are no-where near the same as the company’s
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’’Excuse me.‚how can I get to midvalley from this station? (University LRT station)’’ ’’Oh..you can take the LRT from here to KL Sentral..then..from there‚you can take the KTM to Midvalley’’ ’’Ooo..can I just get there straight away from here by taking bus so that I don’t have to go to the KL Sentral?’’ ’’I think it’s possible..but I don’t know where to wait for the bus to Midvalley here..err..I’m not sure..maybe you can ask somebody else.’’ ’’Okay..thank you!’’ ’’You’re welcome.’’ OH MY ENGLISH
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their work”. To what extent do you agree with this? The ‘true value’ of a relationship can be interpreted in various ways‚ the idea of a positive romantic love and trust are aspects associated directly with this notion. Yet in some ways the true value of a relationship can be more in line with realism and imperfections‚ which both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Carol Ann Duffy explore. In ‘The Great Gatsby’ F. Scott Fitzgerald presents an illustration of the American dream and with this theme the idea of
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