of the Nigerian society. It cuts across all levels of our education system. Many reasons have been adduced as being responsible for this ugly phenomenon. Perhaps‚ the most remarkable factor is what I can call academic laziness or better still‚ mediocrity on the part of some students. Those who see examination malpractice as the only way to victory in such “bloody war” as education are mostly the lazy or mediocre students who are not sure of their academic capabilities. Hence‚ they resort to cheating
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A Struggle to Learn From the time when I was a little boy‚ growing up in Graves County‚ Kentucky‚ I have had problems with my reading and writing. Things never seemed to click for me‚ a trait that the teachers attributed to a mild case of dyslexia mixed with a healthy dose of attention deficit disorder. I knew‚ however‚ that no disorder was the cause of my distaste of reading and writing. Rather‚ there was nothing really interesting surrounding me that would grab my interest in the classroom
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"Emersonian Influences on Ben Franklin ’s Autobiography" Being one of the first "self-made men" in America‚ Benjamin Franklin and his autobiography best portrayed many of Ralph Waldo Emerson ’s views regarding transcendentalism. Coinciding with Emerson ’s views of self-reliance‚ Franklin placed a great deal of value on individuality and self worth. He was independent and determined‚ rising above the poverty in which he and his fourteen other brothers and sisters were raised. Due to the lack of
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an extremely negative light‚ and deliberately not want to become a prodigy since she does not want her mother to get her way. Similarly‚ the protagonist in The Average also thinks he deserves a mediocre life. However‚ he believes that a life of mediocrity is the life he deserves because all he wishes for
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Sequence Analysis: The Graduate The Graduate is a subversive‚ wistful coming-of-age tale epitomizing the ambiguity of reaching adulthood‚ and the struggle of this experience. Robert Surtees‚ the cinematographer‚ successfully uses mise-en-scene to illustrate these particular themes. A variety of props are scattered throughout the opening sequence that allude to Ben’s melancholy and detachment. Additionally‚ the same sequence uses social and graphic blocking to depict the impedance Ben
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there is a natural competition in the ‘practical world’ due to such incentives. Competition helps the students to push themselves harder! I strongly believe that high expectations should be set in education. People tend to work down to the level of mediocrity‚ unless they are challenged. Using competition carefully can help to encourage students to do more than they knew they were capable of. One of the goals of our educational system is to prepare students for life outside- classroom; therefore‚
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titles. When he’s not earning Nobel prizes‚ fighting as a rough rider in the Spanish-American war‚ or just being a cowboy‚ Theodore Roosevelt is just still a human being. Being human means he is susceptible to the daily routines that bound us to mediocrity‚ only the pleasures that are available to him extend
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a limited amount of characters‚ the author Sarah Orne Jewett was able to capture and bring about each characters distinguishing personalities. Their different‚ but moral strengths and weaknesses the gives the reader a clear understanding of the mediocrity‚ fear‚ and loyalty that the story is trying to portray in one little girl. Sylvia was nine when she came to live with Mrs. Tilley in the abyss of the New England wilderness. She was a young and immature‚ filled with anxiety‚ and the loneliness
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exercises his genius bringing misery and death to many his name will echo through the millennia for a lifetime. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy. Yes this is my experience. The lesson is this. Allow one’s self to become shackled by mediocrity. Yes the mediocrity wins. So what!. Let your grasp be more than your reach. In my simple life I have nothing to take but have far more to offer. Sometimes I am filled with woe to think that no one in this blighted millennium has the wit to see the scope
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Friedrich Nietzsche had a definite stand on the existence of God. He strongly believed and propagated that God was dead. The “death of God” often came up in several of Nietzsche’s philosophical contributions. It was often the backdrop which he used for describing human tendencies and carving pathways for human nature. “The best passage on God’s death is offered by Nietzsche in The Gay Science in section 125‚ entitled “The Madman”. There Nietzsche describes a man who enters the town market or bazaar
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