Emory’s Merit Scholarship Essay “The future belongs to the discontented.” I agree with this quote because the future definitely does belong to the discontented. In my opinion‚ the discontented represents everyone. No one can truly ever stay content for long without wanting to better their current situation. Even the richest man in America‚ Bill Gates‚ still feels the need to change the future – his and the world’s. I think it is great that the future belongs to those who are dissatisfied‚ and I
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July 21‚ 2011 Merit or Mistake In today’s society one of the most important factors in selecting a career field is rate of pay. No matter whether the profession maybe‚ the dollar figure must be within a range that allows the employee to maintain a substantial lifestyle. The debate of teacher pay scales has raged on for years. Many argue that the current pay scale for teachers is a scale which rewards teachers merely for seniority. They argue that the current pay scale overlooks those educators
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several different types of rewards or incentive systems to compensate employees. Merit pay is the most frequently used system which rewards teachers with base increases or bonuses for acquiring and demonstrating specific knowledge and skills needed to meet educational goals such as improving student achievement. The million dollar question is‚ does merit pay increase teachers’ performance? Those in favor of merit pay argue that teacher performance should be based on a broad range of factors that
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circumstances can highly influence whether or not college will be a possibility. Luckily‚ scholarships appear to be just about everywhere and can be fairly simple to receive. Many of these scholarships can be earned by simply writing an essay‚ or earned based on other merits. Many would define the word scholarship as an award of financial aid toward a student to further his or her education earned through acts of outstanding academic and/or extracurricular activities. A scholarship provides the means
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There are many advantages and disadvantages on the Internet.The main advantage of the Internet is that communication is made very easy. Two people on opposite sides of the world may communicate with each other via such things as videoconferences. This would save money on flights to other countries just to have a meeting when they can each communicate from their own office.The Internet is a very good place to advertise companies. Businesses can build their own websites and buy their own memorable
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Intellectual Merits of Television Steven Johnson wrote an article “Watching TV makes you smarter. In his article he explains how watching television can help you make a smarter person. He uses examples from several TV shows and series that may be affecting our brain activity even when we don’t realize it. He try to reach to audience from teenagers to older adults. He makes some good points in his argument as well. He argue that TV isn’t necessarily a bad thing‚ but too much of anything is never
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Your head-teacher has decided to stop all access to the Internet at school. Write a letter in which you try to persuade him or her to change this decision. Dear Mr Sir‚ It has come to my attention that you have banned internet access for all pupils. It is my belief‚ however that this decision is unjust‚ and counter-productive. As I am sure you know‚ the Internet has developed dramatically over the course of the past decade. It has evolved from a basic-communicative tool‚ to the most powerful
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Elimination of Merit Systems For many reasons‚ merit based civil service systems have come under assault and yet at the same time have been hailed. Merit systems do however attempt and achieve many important objectives including ensuring that an effective workforce is attracted and maintained by providing protections against arbitrary termination and by attempting to avert politically influenced hiring and promotions. Notwithstanding‚ the way merit systems go about attracting a workforce
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In the article the authors explain the different hypotheses behind merit pay‚ along with the Principle Agent Model to show why merit pay in public schools is so rare. The “nature of teaching” hypothesis states how difficult it is to evaluate a teacher. This hypothesis shows that the likelihood of merit pay working in public school very inconceivable‚ do to all the other factors that affect public school curriculum‚ like focusing on a topic for longer then the curriculum states should spent on a topic
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Ashley Milligan English 102 Prof. Belangia Writing Assignment 5 22 January 2011 Merit-based Scholarships Figuring out how to pay for one’s college tuition is probably one of the most stressful processes a person will face in his or her life. Many parents save money over the course of a child’s life to help pay for college‚ but this money is very rarely enough to cover the outrageous cost of a higher education. This is where scholarships come into play. But how should schools choose which
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