Michelle Obama once declared‚ “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test‚ I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.” If our first lady of the United States of America can be stating that she would have not been successful if she took standardized testing‚ then why do we base all of our students success on their test scores? Diane Ravitch‚ one of the major contributors to the No Child Left Behind Act‚ was once a supporter of standardized testing and believed it could
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Wolf and Kimmel support Diaz’s idea that body size would matter in women and men and how body shape can affect their personal life. Diaz mentions body size as one of his main advices to a Dominican young man. Diaz is warning the young guy to give all the freedom to “Howie” who is a big guy. Diaz comments: “Let him talk. Howie weighs about two hundred pounds and could eat if he wanted… Never lose a fight on a first date or that will be the end of it” (Diaz 2). When Diaz warns the young guy‚ he confirms
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High schoolers tend to not make good choices as they get older. In the article “Drug Testing of High School Students May Help Prevent Substance Abuse” written by Joined Together Staff says‚ “Once students graduate and move off to college‚ all bets are off‚ and the rates of drug and alcohol use go through the roof.” Once students think they are older‚ they think they can do whatever they want and never get into trouble. Students at a younger age are easier to deal with when getting help‚ because they
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The issue of gun control has begun to become a big part of debates in the United States. A good bit of people believe there should indeed be stricter gun laws. These opinions are based off the amount of popular shootings in the United States over the past couple of years. In the year of 2016 there was a total of 58‚283 shooting incidents and only 385 of these were mass shootings. During the shootings about 15‚063 people died; 3‚321 of those who were killed were children (doc 1). A recent‚ well-known
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Technology has given humans numerous advantages. One advantage‚ in particular‚ is the improvement in the way we think that results in a change in the way we learn. Although this advantage is very helpful in today’s world‚ there is a downside in its effect on the environment and our future. When militaries started occupying land‚ they began to enforce their own culture upon that land. This included using the military’s technology to advance civilization. Even though technology has made significant
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The University of Iowa should be a place where everyone can feel safe and happy. It should be a home. It is part of the Resident Assistant’s job to make this safe environment a reality. The University of Iowa is diverse‚ and this should be celebrated‚ especially in the dorms where many new students live. It is of the utmost importance that a Resident Assistant helps foster an environment of cooperation and acceptance for their floor. The dorm floor is a community‚ and communities thrive best when
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If you go to a restaurant and it was for favorite but they change a recipe and you get food poisoning you are probably not going eat there again. You don’t like how there doing things now so your going to a different restaurant maybe even start your own? Well that’s kind of what happened to the Englishmen noting really to do with the food but the rules and the restrictions on religion and that is why they settled in north America .King James did not believe in a real religion but he believed in
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step a person can walk farther in life. Both figuratively and literally with a helping hand. It is hard to make it throughout life without any assistance. With this in mind‚ dating back to the 1700’s society has focused on making the world easier to maneuver but‚ not without the use of a stool. It is just like a friend that helps give direction when life is a little hard. A stool is a friend in that it supports a person in his hardest time‚ guiding him in the right direction while still letting him
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A melancholy young man (or woman) is a contradiction in terms because youth is the period of spring and spring is the time of joy and high spirits. The young aspiring to go ahead‚ trying to climb the fallen ladder of life‚ need a sense of humour more than anything else for the purpose. John Dryden says‚ "It is a good thing to laugh‚ at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man‚ it is an instrument of happiness." Laughter‚ which bursts from a smile or a sense of humour‚ is related to personality
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The cosmological arguments are inductive arguments based on an ‘a posteriori’ premise‚ which‚ despite having been introduced many years ago‚ continue to be prevalent today. An early example of the argument is within ‘Timaeus’‚ in which Plato proposed the idea that anything that has been created must be created by a cause. These arguments are intended to prove the existence of the God of Classical Theism by explaining that God must be the first cause of the universe; the being setting the world into
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