It costs $1.7 billion per year for Standardized testing. Do you think it’s really worth it? We came up with three solutions to solve the problem with standardized testing. The first solution was to have a choice. The second solution was one big project for the whole year. The last solution was have a standardized test but not be timed and have it just be one big test‚ instead of having a whole bunch of small tests. Standardized testing causes
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Eva died two hours before the inspector came. She died because she drank a lot of “strong disinfectant” which burnt her “inside out”. Inspector Goole goes to the Birling’s house to confront each one of them and place responsibility on them. Though the inspector does not tell us it‚ it is quite obvious that he is there not to find the “main culprit” but instead he is there to make the Birling’s see through somebodies eyes of the Lower “class” and feel some “responsibility”. Each and every one of them
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Lyzeth Peralta “The Cathedral” “Where ignorance is our master‚ there is no possibility of real peace”‚ (Dalai Lama XIV). This quote relates to the narrator in Raymond Carver’s short story‚ “The Cathedral”. In this story Bub’s ignorance is shown in various parts throughout the story. Towards the end of the story‚ Bub has an epiphany. This makes him realize how ignorant he’s been towards his wife as well as Robert‚ her childhood sweetheart and present day best friend. He enters from a world of insecurities
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ESSAY 2 The question “do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help us discover who we are” suggests that tough challenges reveal our strengths and weaknesses. In other words‚ hardships can often lead us to examine who we are and to question what is important in life. In my opinion‚ frequent adverse conditions‚ help us disclose our inner feelings and stamina to outer world. Throughout the society and in life‚ the evidence to support my viewpoint is
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Although both narratives‚ Generals Die in Bed and It Made You Think of Home‚ attempt to dispel the glamorous depiction of war‚ Generals Die in Bed better helps individuals understand WWI in that it focuses solely on the war rather than the narrator‚ gives a realistic‚ yet controversial‚ description of Canadian soldiers role in the war‚ whilst also continually highlighting the vanity of war. Barnes diary entries tend to err towards a more conservative outlook on the war‚ while the unnamed narrator
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small high school with a college-like set up would provide an improved learning environment for many students. A small school would provide more one on one time for students and less of the clique behavior mentioned in Leon Botstein’s "Let Teenagers Try Adulthood." A more college like set up with longer classes meeting fewer times a week‚ rather than 7 hour days spent in a single building five times a week‚ would also address the main issue mentioned in Botstein’s essay. Older students would find
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Ignorance was such a bliss. As days passed by‚ I smiled with joy and not a care in the world. Chasing after hares that peeked through the tall green grass while colorful kites flew so high that they seem to touch the white clouds. Everything was calm and quiet like the crystal blue lake‚ Not once did I see the dark clouds brewing with thunder. The sun hid behind the layers of clouds like the hidden emotions behind a masked smile. The thunder could not silence the echoes of the two fighting voices
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Public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities (1)An authority to which this section applies must‚ when making decisions of a strategic nature about how to exercise its functions‚ have due regard to the desirability of exercising them in a way that is designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage. (2)In deciding how to fulfil a duty to which it is subject under subsection (1)‚ an authority must take into account any guidance issued by a
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“ Who do you think would come to our funerals?” I turn to my cousin‚ Rehmah‚ and ask her while cracking all of the knuckles in my right hand‚ and then my left. I can’t hear them crack because of the loud screaming and the mechanics in the background. I looked around and the walls were purple with Sonic characters on it. The ceiling was so high up gladly because then we would’ve disintegrated. “My family‚ your family‚ all of your grandparents‚ all of my grandparents‚ all of your second‚ first and
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Do you think all of the characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’ are prejudged? (25 Marks) In ‘Of Mice and Men’ most of the characters are subjected to discrimination and prejudice. The prejudice can be seen most in the characters Lennie Small‚ Crooks and Curley’s Wife. Curley’s Wife was a subject of Prejudice because she was a woman. During the 1930’s a woman’s place was to be at home raising a family‚ also women were seen as second class citizens and property of their husbands. Before we meet Curley’s
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