standardized testing to be administered across the state of Texas‚ the use of this particular testing has gained extreme momentum in the academic arena‚ weighing heavily on students‚ parents and teachers. There are increasing efforts to now alleviate the use of tests in elementary and middle schools. Currently for high school students‚ standardized testing is the end-all for some students upon matriculation and they are being over-tested‚ taking multiple tests on the same material to complete high school
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Good evening… Before I begin‚ I just want to say how grateful and humbled I am to be speaking to you tonight and thank you for the work that you do to make my education at Xavier High School possible. In The Divine Comedy‚ Dante Alighieri once said‚ “Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes‚ but to follow virtue and knowledge”. And for the past seventeen years‚ I have lived by these words. These few words have made me think of where I am from‚ and whether or not I will let it
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Nursing Organizations Lindsay Tafs Daytona State University Nursing Organizations Nurses are among the largest group of healthcare personnel in the United States. There are approximately 3.6 million registered nurses (About ANA). Organizations exist at the national and state levels as well as numerous specialties‚ from emergency medicine to hospice. Each organization can have multiple functions but all serve to represent nurses and maintain high standards of clinical practice
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in looking at two different viewpoints and in determining which view is best. Pycroft‚ Laurie‚ and Helen Marston. "Is Animal Testing Necessary To Advance Medical Research?." New Internationalist 444 (2011): 34-36. Academic Search Premier. Web. 14 Nov. 2011. This article goes over how much humans and animals differ and why these animals are still used for research and testing. It also goes over what these animals are tested to find‚ and what models are best for this type of research. This article is
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why I believe high school athletes should be required to take drug tests randomly throughout the season. About 17% of high school students use drugs every single day. That only counts the students that use it every day. Just imagine how many students use drugs every once and awhile. Whether the students are using them every day or whenever they feel like it. It is wrong. High schoolers that choose to participate in a sport know they need to be healthy. Using
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1. Can you explain the PDCA cycle and where testing fits in? Software testing is an important part of the software development process. In normal software development there are four important steps‚ also referred to‚ in short‚ as the PDCA (Plan‚ Do‚ Check‚ Act) cycle. Let’s review the four steps in detail. Plan: Define the goal and the plan for achieving that goal. Do/Execute: Depending on the plan strategy decided during the plan stage we do execution accordingly in this phase. Check: Check/Test
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Introduction Tele-nursing is the use of telecommunications technology such as videos‚ computers and tele-monitoring technologies to provide nursing care and advice at a distance. This growing technology offers many advantages in the delivery of healthcare information‚ disease monitoring‚ health promotion and disease prevention services‚ as well as nursing diagnosis‚ treatment and education to patient at home from a centralized location. Tele-nursing can be instrumental in helping patients
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persuade my audience that animal testing should be abandoned. Organizational Pattern: problem solution Introduction I. Attention Getter: 115 million animals are used in laboratory experiments around the world each year‚19.5 million of them are killed and 68 percent of them are dogs are cats‚ that means 13.4 million of dogs and cats put to death each year! II. Credibility Statement: I’m against animal testing since I know it‚ I’ve participate in many anti animal testing activities‚ I’ve read biologists’
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Penetration Testing ABSTRACT Penetration testing has been well popularized by the media. Many companies are now offering penetration services to identify vulnerabilities in systems and the surrounding processes. This report will Discuss "Penetration Testing" as a means of strengthening a corporate network’s security. This report is divided into three parts. Introduction will give you a brief and basic overview of Penetration Testing and why we need Penetration Testing‚ The second part is the
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Should animal testing be banned? Introduction In this case study‚ I will try to answer the question – Should animals testing be banned? I have chosen this topic because animal testing had always been interesting for me. This encouraged me to go forward with this. I will be presenting different views concerning animal testing. Animal testing refers to the experimentation carried out on animals. It is normally carried out in order to test a new medicine‚ whether it is functioning properly and
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