college‚ students tend to just do the work‚ get better grades‚ and then graduate. As a teacher‚ Ahmed Afzaal‚ was interested in the level of academic excellence his students have personally achieved. He wrote an article called‚ “Grading and Its Discontents‚” about these concerns. He wants the reader to understand that grading is a tool‚ not a weapon. Grades aren’t meant to say what you do or define who you are as a person. He points out the most common misunderstanding that students have in the process
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Republic Act 9700 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER) Bill‚ that aims to redistribute all agricultural lands to landless farmers. Is an act amending several provisions of Republic Act 6657‚ or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) of 1988. It was first filed as House Bill 1527 by Akbayan Party list Rep. Risa Hontiveros in 2007‚ it was later substituted by House Bill 4077‚ also sponsored by Hontiveros and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman‚ the version made into
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INTRODUCTION agrarian reform‚ redistribution of the agricultural resources of a country. Traditionally‚ agrarian‚ or land‚ reform is confined to the redistribution of land; in a broader sense it includes related changes in agricultural institutions‚ including credit‚ taxation‚ rents‚ and cooperatives. Although agrarian reform can result in lower agricultural productivity‚ especially if it includes collectivization‚ it may increase productivity when land is redistributed to the tiller. Pressure for
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Vol. 18‚ No. 1:76-86 (2012) THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM IN THE PHILIPPINES Prudenciano U. Gordoncillo College of Economics and Management‚ University of the Philippines Los Banos‚ College‚ Laguna‚ Philippines (Received: October 19‚ 2011; Accepted April 5‚ 2012) ABSTRACT One of the major interventions to effect rural development in the Philippines is the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program‚ which was instituted in 1988 and its implementation is extended
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In John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Winter of Our Discontent‚ one can find many general truths and principles‚ also known as aphorisms. Ethan Allen Hawley‚ the main character‚ seems to gift the reader with another aphorism at the turn of every page‚ but some of these sayings may be considered more remarkable than others. One of the more noteworthy aphorisms is a statement made by Ethan at the end of chapter 6: "To be alive at all is to have scars". While this may not be the theme that Steinbeck
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The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme (CARP) Brief Background The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme‚ or CARP‚ was launched in 1988 under the Aquino administration. It was supposed to be completed in 1998‚ but the Republic Act 8532 extended implementation of the program for another ten (10) years‚ up to 2008. The activities and funding of CARP are divided‚ fairly evenly‚ between the two main areas of land acquisition and distribution (LAD) and program beneficiaries development (PBD)
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Agrarian Magic: 20 Theories on the Origin of Religion Religion is a species-specific human universal phenomenon‚ complex‚ full of paradoxes‚ and found in all cultures. Social scientists and anthropologists since the late 17th century have attempted to rationally answer questions about religion‚ and while we can’t evaluate the veracity of religion’s claims‚ we can attempt to understand its functions. The methods of comparative religion‚ comparative mythology‚ with interdisciplinary analysis
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theories and techniques of psychoanalysis. In Civilization and Its Discontent‚ Freud uses the theories of psychoanalysis to discuss
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A Life Full of Material Content Does buying material object make people feel content? Juliet Schor’s essay‚ “The Creation of Discontent‚” connects how people take advantage of materialism and how people’s exploitation in materials results in the decline of happiness. Schor mentions about how people work harder and struggle more to maintain a lifestyle that makes people so unhappy. Comfort in our own lives is harder to come by when the money that each person makes is all going back to the economy
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opening of the play. Richard opens with the lines “now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York‚ and all the clouds that loured upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried” (1.1.1-4). These lines use the metaphor of changing seasons‚ winter signifying trouble and summer content‚ to show how his brother has laid to rest his family’s problems. The second two lines explain that the “clouds’ of trouble have been cleared and buried for good‚ signified by being
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