Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the claim that ethnic differences in educational achievement are primarily the result of school factors. It is not completely internal school factors that can affect different ethnicities level of achievement in education‚ external factors can have a large part to play in the achievement levels of ethnic minorities in education as well. In education studies have shown that Chinese students as well as Indian students are the highest achieving ethnic
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Literary works often contain imagery as well as character motivation to highlight a certain message. In both The Road and 1984‚ characters are forced to live in a dystopian society that is pessimistic and disorderly.The writers of the two novels‚ Orwell and McCarthy‚ incorporate imagery of destruction when describing the setting‚ and create characters that are motivated for negative reasons to survive day- by- day. Both authors use imagery and character motivation to emphasize a pessimistic world
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Dynasties of China population consist majorly of the working class. The patriarchal Chow Dynasty had over thrown the matriarchal Shang’s and male rule became hereditary. The patriarch’s decision was absolute although class and families owned property in common. “Serfs were taxed as property‚ so many emancipated because of major tax assessments between 600 and 400 B.C.E” (68). Those who emancipated were left to fend for themselves causing many to turn to the state for help. In 500 B.C.E priest encouraged
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Aly Hirz Morals‚ Period 6 Keller-Scholz April 9‚ 2013 Amazing Grace Amazing Grace is based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce. His friends William Pitt‚ Thomas Clarkson‚ Hannah More and others persuaded William to take on the dangerous issue of the British slave trade. Wilberforce became Member of Parliament in 1780 and navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. John Newton‚ a former slave ship captain‚ inspired him
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Equiano Olaudah‚ who was a young slave been part of the middle passage said “and on my refusing to eat‚ one of them held me fast by the hands and laid me across I think the windlass‚ and tied my feet‚ while the other flogged me
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would be one of the greatest journeys ever made by any European at the time. In The Travels‚ Marco Polo shares his expedition with his father and his uncle as merchants trading goods as they moved along the Silk Road. They encountered many various providences that where large‚ small‚ and populated. In these towns Marco Polo studied and observed the different types of environments and people with their different customs‚ ideas‚ and religious backgrounds. One famous civilization he found interesting was
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monuments to show their power. This model provided an example to later empires‚ for example‚ Islamic ones. There were 23 providences under their rule‚ and each one was governed by its own satrap. Lower-level officials also existed in smaller regions within each providence. Most intriguing was their system of imperial spies‚ called the “eyes and ears of the King” that filled the providences. Overall‚ the Persian Empire
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international readers‚ especially after translation. Bartolomé de Las Casas illustrates an extremely graphic and grim reality to his readers using literary methods such as characterization‚ imagery‚ amplification‚ authorial intrusion and the invocation of providence while trying to appeal to the sympathies of his audience about such atrocities. Las Casas emphasizes on three main issues throughout his account. First‚ in almost each chapter‚ Las Casas writes about the luscious qualities of the land and the
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Bradford gives numerous examples of how God directs the history of the pilgrims. At the beginning when describing the fate of the “proud and very profane” young man‚ Bradford begins with “And I may not omit here a special work of God’s providence”‚ that providence being Bradford’s death to illness‚ which according to Bradford was by the hand of God‚ “But it pleased God before they came half seas over‚ to smite this young man with a grievous disease”. This is an example of the control God had over
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Common sense is a book that was originally published anonymously in 1776 by Thomas Paine. It was Thomas saying that we really need to break away from Britain and start an independent republican government. He goes on in the book to really just attacks the kingship and the aristocratic institutions then goes back to urge his adopted country to (def leopard) get the rock outta there so to speak. Proven so in this quote “Society is produced by our wants and government by wickedness; the former promotes
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