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    In her op-ed piece‚ It Doesn’t Test For Success‚ (Creighton)‚ Joanne V Creighton‚ PHD asserts that standardized test scores such as the SAT’s are no longer useful in predicting the potential successes of today’s students. Dr. Creighton‚ who at the time was President of Mount Holyoke College‚ cited the errors in scoring on the SAT for approximately 4‚000 students. She further stated that while the test may have made sense when first developed‚ it no longer presents an accurate portrait of the potential

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    There can be many reasons to explain why Laura has been misbehaving in school. The first reason can be of he id. The id is the part of our personality that contains the unconscious energy‚ like aggressiveness and sex drives. The main part of her id that is affecting her in this situation can be that her drive for aggression can be much larger than others. The id also operates on the pleasure principle‚ where in this situation‚ she is aggressive because she wants instant gratification without thinking

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    get nails stabbed through his hands and feet and hung on a piece of wood. Love is sacrifice and the cross is the greatest example of that.  Love is more than an emotion. Emotions change‚ they come and go‚ but true love is strong‚ it always exists no matter the circumstance. Hebrew 13:8 says "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday‚ today‚ and forever." It is often believed that if someone does enough good deeds‚ then they can earn Gods love and go to heaven‚ but love is not earned it is unconditional. God

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    G. T. Shedd in A. W. Gomes‚ "Unyielding Theology" portrays the union of the awesome and human instincts by taking a gander at the words nature and substance in the Greek dialect. He utilizes word φύσις or phýsis for the idea of nature4 which as per blueletterbible.com identifies with physical starting point or the entirety of inalienable properties and forces which one individual varies from another. While investigating the idea of substance W. G. T. Shedd utilizes the word

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    According to Nickolas Carr‚ a blogger and Pulitzer Prize winner‚ our minds are changing. In‚ Is Google making us stupid?‚ Carr discusses how we‚ as humans‚ have adapted to different thinking skills to were nowadays it is affecting individuals. He first leads by claiming‚ “my mind isn’t going -- so far as I can tell -- but it’s changing”. This leads into him discussing how he no longer feels he can progress into a suitable book without facing numerous difficulties with concentrating. That he seems

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    Why your horses doesn’t need a blanket “The longer winter coat helps to trap the body heat against the skin. Also‚ tiny muscles in the skin raise the hairs‚ creating tiny air pockets that heighten the insulating effect. Flatten this ‘fluffed-up’ coat by adding layers of light blankets‚ or even one heavy one‚ can actually make the horse colder. If a horse is not accustomed to being blanketed‚ it can put the horse at increased risk. If it becomes overheated‚ it will begin to sweat. The dampness causes

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    Summary about RAND and its case “Why the U.S. Swaps Prisoners but Doesn’t Pay Ransom” RAND is a most famous think tank in this world. Full name of RAND is Research and Development. It was found at 1948 as a non-profit organizations‚ and it was beginning to provide research and intelligence analysis services to the United States military. After several years‚ RAND’s research extended to many areas‚ like public policy‚education‚science and technology‚etc. This case is from RAND about the solution

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    however‚ afterwards‚ that belief was cemented. Sadly‚ nowadays I tend to put my belief in God concerning my finances only when I have encountered a financial difficulty. Notwithstanding‚ I tell people all the time that God continues to bless me in all matters even when I feel that I am unworthy of them. For example‚ I got hurt at work about eight months ago‚ I was unable to work and only received a small amount of my salary while on disability. Hence‚ I went through my emergency fund and was facing foreclosure

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    Many are still quoting from Nicholas Carr’s 2008 Atlantic article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Here in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains‚ he elaborates to illustrate precisely how the Internet changes our lives. Along the way‚ Carr’s highly entertaining book reminds us of how the great thinkers of past centuries did just fine without a hyperlinked database of all the world’s knowledge at hand. In the 21st century‚ we are facing the consequences of our distracted and scattered

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    It wasn’t really based on what clothes I was wearing or what phone I had in high school. It was really about life now. That in high school I worried about materialistic things‚ now I cannot do that because I have to worry about the expenses that matter to me the most. Like they say‚ the first eighteen years of my life is just a free trial to the game of life. How your survival instincts kick in after you hit adult age. How sometimes it’s hard for people at adult age to do anything and fall. When

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