In Francine Prose’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read: How American High School Students Learn to Loathe Literature”‚ the author is trying to explain why high school students are not asked to read more quality pieces of literature now a days. In my opinion I agree with Prose because I think the texts we read in high school are not challenging and not a lot of students enjoy the readings because they cannot relate. Prose uses the rhetorical strategy of degrading the books high school students
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Urbanization in India and issues involved It is more than half of a century that India became independent. The country has evolved and emerged a lot from pre independence to post independence era. At the time of independence‚ the country was poverty stricken‚ impoverished and a rural agrarian society. In 1947‚ only 15 per cent of the population in cities and towns were classified under urban areas. The rapid development and economic growth helped the country achieve the status of emerged nations
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being informed voters as well as those who are educated. A study done by Nathan Manning and Kathy Edwards (2014) showed that students who did well in classes such as civic education class were more likely to register to vote and actually vote. Manning and Edwards study also showed that four of the many studies conducted showed that civic education class increased political expression. The term political expression means activities like signing a petition and being actively engaged in what is happening
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An individual’s nationalistic views and beliefs can compete with another to form contending nationalist loyalties. Source I portrays the contending religious and civic loyalties in a nation. The author of the source claims that the principal of national unity should be raised above all other divisions and criticizes the idea of communalism‚ which regards religious nationalism as the main source of belonging. For an example‚ the conflicts between individuals with different religious beliefs should
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REASONS WHY STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY SHIFT TO ANOTHER COURSE CHAPTER 1 The Problem and It’s Background Introduction Pharmacy is a course concentrating on drugs and patient care. With rapid advances being made in medicine‚ it is necessary for pharmacy students to encounter more pressure in studying and to be life-long learners after graduating from pharmacy school. Motivation is a psychological concept that refers to a person’s willingness to put effort in order to achieve
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which the classical architect Vitruvius claimed was the highest virtue of architecture. By being as much an exterior architecture as an interior one‚ the dome is about the public space in Florence and serves as a visual gravitational center to the civic life of the city. The fifteenth century saw a dramatic rise in architectural projects not only in the wealthiest cities such as Florence‚ but all over Italy. The Vitruvian principles of symmetry and order were applied in almost every building project
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helping the community‚ the students are helping themselves. Many companies value volunteer work when they are looking for their future employees. Volunteer work should be required in high school because it can promote the teamwork spirit‚ encourage civic responsibility and provide professional experience for students. The first important characteristic of volunteer work is that it can promote the teamwork spirit. A volunteer job can help the students to learn how to work with other people. This type
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Modern citizens can look to the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero as the paradigm of civic duty and good conscious. Not only did Cicero garner his offices solely through hard work‚ as a novus homo‚ but he also upheld the reputation of the Roman legal system‚ easily seen by his prosecution of Verres‚ the corrupt‚ ex-governor of Sicily. Cicero justifiably prosecuted Verres mainly due to Verres’s guilt and Cicero’s desire for power‚ thus proving Livy’s claim that the law is blind‚ for even a very wealthy
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Some programs that caught my attention were the Civic House‚ La Casa Latina‚ Equity & Access Program‚ and the Penn Catholic Student Association. The Civic House would not only help me contribute to my community‚ but also help me learn the values and principles of a true leader or role model. While La Casa Latina would guide me as a student and also
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Humanism Humanism is an approach in study‚ philosophy‚ world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns‚ attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. According to Greg M. Epstein‚ "Humanism today can be categorized as a movement‚ a philosophy of life or worldview‚ or ... [a] lifestance."[1] In philosophy and social science‚ humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature‚ and is contrasted with anti-humanism Secular humanism
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