Foreword It was not a particularly memorable day as days go‚ but the impact of our decision that afternoon had far-reaching and hugely positive consequences. It was the day in 1997 that my colleagues and I in the Assessment Reform Group (ARG) made the decision to commission Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam to review existing research on formative assessment. We had been trying for almost 10 years to stem the growing tendency across the UK to use external tests for creating school league tables‚
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Everything Wrong With the Puritans Nearly everyone can agree that the Puritans had some issues. They killed countless innocent people for ridiculous reasons‚ accused anybody different from them of being a witch‚ and were extremely strict about religion. Some Puritans even accused people they didn’t like of witchcraft just to get them executed. The Puritans that saw problems with this system were accused of being witches and hanged as well. These actions are shown very clearly in Arthur Miller’s
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Do you think segregation is okay or is it wrong? People are separating black and whites from each other just because of the color of their skin. Segregation is wrong because it separates everyone away from each depending on the color of people’s skin. ~-.-~ Segregation is wrong because it separates people by their race and doesn’t follow the laws of the constitution’s fourteenth amendment. "Life‚ liberty or property‚ without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction
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Taylor White Sylvester ENC 1102 7th period 22 August 2014 An Argument Gone Wrong At the beginning of Raymond Carver’s story “Popular Mechanics‚” the tone is anger and aggression. It begins when the man is packing his suitcase and his wife simply stares. The reader notices the physical distance between the couple and it seems very clear that the wife is pleased that her husband is leaving. The physical distance with the wife at the entrance of the room and the husband at the side of the bed
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In the past there has been segregation and segregation is wrong people have physically and verbally abused blacks and they see blacks as something other than human beings this is why segregation is wrong and should be stopped before things get worse. For example‚ in Source A it states‚ “Rosa Parks stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row the first row of the Colored Section.” This shows that segregation was horrible they made a “Colored Section” for blacks. This also shows
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In “Knowledge is Power” by Anna-Maria Petricic a schoolgirl from Croatia is determined to figure out what the words on her bookmark meant. The bookmark had a picture of superman with the words Knowledge is Real Power written on it. She knew that to have the power that knowledge
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even both. No matter what everyone knows that bullying is wrong and the people who stand up to the bully have the most courage and are the strongest. As said earlier bullying is wrong and it’s not right. In the story‚ Derek didn’t actually hurt Lila but he kept on sending her gifts when she always tried avoiding him. When people bully others it can push their limits. People will learn to hate themselves because they think something is wrong with them. Going back to pushing their limits they could
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through the pain that dictates an individual’s thoughts and actions. In both text‚ loss has plagued the characters which significantly changes them both mentally and physically but it is how they deal with it that separates them. In the novel‚ “Wake” by Anna Hope‚ the characters are enervated by war and its aftermath whereas in Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”‚ the characters accept loss and conquer it. Both authors shared a similar conclusion showcasing the positivity of getting over loss. The characters
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GDR‚ the Stasi had profound effects on the lives of many East German citizens. The constant surveillance and intrusions on people lives were heavily seen in Anna Funder’s Stasiland. Anna Funder interviewed a series of people in Eastern Germany who encountered various difficult situations under the strict watch of the Stasi. For example‚ Anna interviewed a woman named Miriam Weber. Miriam became a prime target for the Stasi at the age of sixteen when she and her friend Ursula made flyers that spoke
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Even if Slaves had been kindly treated it would still have been completely wrong and unjustifiable. This is because Slavery denies people their most basic rights; freedom‚ equality‚and our value as a living person not ¾ ‘a person. It is still completely wrong to keep a person as a possession like a tool. And treat them like that. Slavery is the now illegal capture of Africans‚ and selling of Africans as Servants or
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