most people don’t take school seriously. When in high school students tend to wing it with homework‚ quizzes‚ tests‚ and even projects. It isn’t until junior year that students realize they need to start trying or else they’re going to be stuck at a community college for two years‚ or a bad university. If a student wants to get into a good four year school‚ he/she should aim for a high GPA‚ and a high SAT score. First‚ it is important to maintain a high GPA in high school. Most students don’t care
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High school letter grades can either be a hit or miss for some people. A person can try their very hardest in a class‚ studying every night for hours on end‚ and still earn a C. On the other end‚ a person could walk into a class and not even study for an assesment till the last second and earn an A. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the main protagonist‚ Hester Prynne‚ must wear a scarlet A on her dress‚ symbolising shame for committing adultery. Typically‚ a high schooler’s transcript
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standards‚ assessment‚ and high-stakes accountability programs are effective in improving public schools. In many states‚ such as California‚ attempts to implement standards-based reform are inconsistently or carelessly aligned with quality research. The following are some of the shortcomings of standards-based reform. 1. Recent reports on the standards-based reform movement in New York suggest that in many schools the careless implementation of standards and assessment may have negative consequences for
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Both the marking system and the grading system have their pros and cons. Whereas marks help students identify their exact scores‚ grades place students in predefined categories such as A and B. Under the marking system‚ even if two students are of similar calibre‚ one can ace out the other by a fraction of a point. This level of assessment encourages competitiveness. To score that one extra mark‚ students devote more time to study and pay attention to detail. The positive side-effect of this is
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the president is not elected by the people‚ but instead by 538 members of the electoral college. The electoral college should be replaced by a popular vote system because it will allow all votes to be equal‚ cause candidates to focus on more than just swing states‚ and result in a rightful winner that creates a more united country. The electoral college is a complicated system with a multitude of loopholes and rules that few citizens understand. The Founding Fathers originally chose the electoral
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more reasons‚ capital punishment should be outlawed and not be a legal system that deals with the criminals in society. Capital punishment is costly‚ unjust for minorities and is not the moral right thing to do. Over the years capital punishment has been banishing from countries‚ innocence people have been convicted and executed too many times for the system to uphold any longer. Nearly 40 years of evidence proves the death penalty does not work. The system should not be an option any longer. There
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Have you ever played a sport ‚ and you didn’t earn a trophy? How did that make you feel? Therefore‚ as long as kids are on a team‚ they should earn trophies. The following reasons support my claim: kids love the sport‚ keeps the children fit‚ and finally‚ the joy kids bring. To start of with‚ children should earn a trophy because they love the sport‚ not the trophy. What I mean is some kids or even adults LOVE the sport their in. Not the trophy that makes them feel GREAT. Also ‚ so what if they
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Engineering VP Admin Reservation Booking System SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Table of Contents Chapter 1. Documentation of the Current System Documentation of the Current System Hardware set up Software Application being used Personnel Objectives of the System Chapter 2. System Design Specification 2.1 High Level Design 2.2 Full Implementation of the Project 2.3 Database Design 2.4 Table Description of the Database Chapter 3. System Requirements Specifications Hardware
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there is no clear winner of a presidential race‚ a runoff occurs to determine the person who the president becomes. The concepts of fairness‚ justice and democracy are important in the modern world are should neb manifested in terms of representation‚ choice‚ and political systems. The right to vote should upheld in a manner that gives every American citizen the responsibility and chance to vote knowing that his or her vote
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The Flawed Electoral College System The Electoral College undermines the notion that every vote counts in the United States. One candidate loses; the other becomes the leader of the free world. How do we know which candidate is the victor? The Electoral College determines this. Whoever receives the most votes in a particular state wins the electoral votes for that state. The only exceptions are Maine and Nebraska. The size of the population determines the number of electoral votes for that
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