A good teacher is hard to find. Effective teaching is arguably the central issue in today’s K-12 school reform conversations. The Gates Foundation sums up the issue rather succinctly: "Evidence shows clearly what most people know intuitively: teachers matter more to student learning than anything else inside a school." Popular journalists like Malcolm Gladwell have weighed in‚ and research has suggested that simply removing the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers and replacing them with even just
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1. Lately‚ 5-year-old Liam has been acting strangely. He clings to his mother and expresses jealous feelings towards his father‚ almost as if his father is a rival for his mother’s love. Freud would suggest that Liam is experiencing: A. fixation. B. the Electra complex. C. the Oedipus complex. D. defense mechanisms. Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Correct Answer: C Your Response: C 2. Bonnie is afraid to express anger toward her overbearing and irritating supervisor. Instead‚ she
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Explore the ways that John Steinbeck presents strong feelings/attitudes in Of Mice And Men. A strong attitude portrayed in the novel is Racism. John Steinbeck uses the character Crooks in order to represent racism and what it was like for the black community during the Great Depression. The ranchmen and Curley’s wife all display racist attitudes towards Crooks‚ for example in chapter four Curley’s Wife says "Well you just keep your place then‚ Nigger. I could get you strung
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Langston Hughes is known as a significant poet of the Harlem Renaissance- “an African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture”. Hughes connects with the audience through his sophistication towards life’s matters in which issues revolving around the African American community are frequently addressed. In his poem “Life is fine”‚ Hughes particularly brings out the significance of life which is often reinforced by the obstacles that people encounter in their living
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focus on human beings trapped in an incomprehensible world subject to any occurrence‚ no matter how illogical. Also‚ it presents change as but an unattainable illusion‚ while Chekov believes that the world would change after a few centuries‚ an optimism that seperates him from postmodern absurdist dramatists. Techniques: broad comedy‚ mixed with horrific or tragic images; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions; dialogue full of clichés‚ wordplay
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respond to these changes. Determinants of AD have a multiplier effect on AD‚ so they will cause AD to change more than these determinants do. Without a major economic event‚ the business cycle will move because of consumers and producers’ optimism and pessimism. For example‚ when people say one stock is very good‚ everyone may start to buy it‚ but it is not because the company is good‚ just because they think it is good. Involuntary (cyclical) unemployment explains that when there is a decrease in
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none of the above ____ 3. The type of economic indicator that can best be used for business forecasting is the: (1point) a. leading indicator b. coincident indicator c. lagging indicator d. current business inventory indicator e. optimism/pessimism indicator ____ 4. Which of the following barometric indicators would be the most helpful for forecasting future sales for an industry? (1point) a. lagging economic indicators. b. leading economic indicators. c. coincident economic
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When something that began sometime ago completes‚ it feels good. I could’ve said “finished” here but the word “complete” has a completely different meaning. That’s what most of us don’t understand‚ comprehending and identifying the differences between things that are similar yet different. The summer semester is about to reach its end. I am sitting here‚ in the academic block in IBA‚ 9:05 am‚ waiting for my class to begin which is around one hour from now. 14 August is just two days away and
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many generations‚ with the cultural changes and the democratization of education‚ the idea of an absolute truth—a universal story of national progress which neglects to encompass the diversity of America—is challenged by post-modernity. In all its pessimisms towards absolute truths and objective knowledge‚ post-modernism illustrates the importance of and sets the foundation for questioning historical accuracy and the idea of objectivity. Can there be truth when the words and language of the “objective”
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World War One began on July 28‚ 1914 and ended with the signing of the armistice on November 11‚ 1918. The war cost a total of one hundred eighty-six billion dollars. The total casualties of the war were thirty-seven million‚ with another eleven million civilian casualties. The British Empire alone lost over three million people in the war. (English) World War One effected the whole world- the heartache and bloodshed changed politics‚ economics‚ and public opinion. This war changed people’s lives
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