tests for years. Testing in the schools has swelled and mutated and threatens to swallow our school systems whole. Standardized tests in the public school system have become biased and they are costly to school systems. In this presentation I will go over some of the cons of standardized testing. One is that the tests given to our students today are biased to our children that certain questions can only be answered by particular groups of students. The second con of standardized testing is that these
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Summary On the eve of his death‚ an unnamed narrator opens the story by proclaiming that he is sane‚ despite the wild narrative he is about to convey. This narrative begins years before‚ when the narrator’s honorable character is well known and celebrated. He confesses a great love for cats and dogs‚ both of which‚ he says‚ respect the fidelity of friendship‚ unlike fellow men. The narrator marries at a young age and introduces his wife to the domestic joys of owning pets. Among birds‚ goldfish
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: In Steinbeck’s novel‚ he combines fiction and real facts about his own family history. By combining these aspects‚ Steinbeck is able to be more honest with the attributes and actions of the characters since they represent his own family. Doing this also allows the readers to connect to his life. An autobiography is a written description of someone’s life written by that person. Although Steinbeck writes about his family’s history and their attributes‚ he does not write the story about himself and
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My interviewee was 56 year old Don Carter who was born and raised in Bentonia Mississippi. Bentonia is a rural are in Yazoo County off highway 49. This small town was once the place where drug dealers lived‚ gangs fought‚ and prostitutes made a living. But Don Carter brought about a total change and brought this community peace and safety. During the interview the question was asked “What was Bentonia like when you were coming up or what one of your best memories is?” Don started to go into a daze
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Actual Market Share The size of the Janitorial Chemical Market is = $1200 Million WICS addresses 75% of the market needs through its high quality products. Therefore the relevant market size for WICS is = 0.75*1200 = $900 Million Sanitary Supply Distributors deliver 65% of the end user dollars. Therefore the market access to SSD is = 0.65*900 = $585 Million It should be noted that according to Trade Association data‚ on an average 5500 SSDs are responsible for the above sales. WICS has 400 SSDs
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because somethings may point to a person doing a crime doesn’t mean that the person actually did and there needs to be more research and evidence to back all this up especially if people are being sentenced to life sentences in prison. Rubin Carter who was accused of committing a triple murder was in fact innocent‚ after almost 20 years of being behind bars. Rubin who was also a middleweight boxer other known as “The Hurricane” was arrested for the murders of three people downtown in the Lafayette
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in Clifton‚ New Jersey. In 1966‚ at the height of his boxing career‚ Carter was wrongly convicted—twice—of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. During the mid-1970s‚ his case became a cause celébrè for a number of civil rights leaders‚ politicians‚ and entertainers. He was ultimately exonerated‚ in 1985‚ after a United States district court judge declared the convictions to be based on racial prejudice. Carter‚ who grew up in Paterson‚ New Jersey‚ was arrested and sent to the Jamesburg
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Coach Carter: The True Story Of Ken Carter… Or Is It? Coach Carter is a story of a dedicated basketball coach who puts his undefeated team on a lock out due to their bad academics and disrespectful behavior. He went to extreme measures to see his students excel and be successful in their lives. The film was released January 15‚ 2005. It was directed by Thomas Carter and co-produced by MTV Films and Tollin/Robbins Production. Coach Carter although an inspiring story of a dedicated basketball coach
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Source one displays a quote told by Jimmy carter who was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He also received a nobel peace prize for his work with the Carter Center which is a non- governmental‚ non profit organization which deals with fighting disease and for human rights in developing countries in 2002. Jimmy Carter believed that globalization was a movement that has affected our world in more ways than one. It has grown to become a system that allows the richer to get richer
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