It was once said that “If the purpose of learning is to score well on a test‚ we’ve lost sight of the real reason for learning.” Students should not be required to take standardized tests. They stress out students and teachers‚ take up too much learning time‚ and they have no true purpose. It has been proven that 2.3% of time is used on testing every year for an average middle school. Usually main subjects like math‚ social studies‚ and science have more than one test. Taking only one test for each
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II the author makes points about how a child is raised. "Such education as the young receive concerns itself a great deal with moral and religious precepts;" (Africans speak II). This shows the connection how a kids actions depend on schooling and a life at home. This also shows that a kid is taught to follow directions but their culture expresses who they are. Mixing two worlds in one causes actions to be different. “For the educated African finds himself unhappy and insecure between two worlds; all
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shock of what just happened‚ I ran over to her and picked her up to carry inside. We cleaned the wound and applied ice quickly‚ ready to settle down for the day. In everyone’s life‚ there’s moments when care is needed. These acts of kindness are required in life and they also portray who we are. Both Marin of “Geraldo No Last Name” and Shauna from Tell No One show
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Polina Goldman ANTH 1000 MW 12.50 In his paper "To give up on words" K.H. Basso tells us about the study of Western Apache culture that was conducted in east-central Arizona in 1964-69. This work was devoted to exploring the reasons of refusal to speak and maintaining silence among American Indians. Athtor uses the testimony type of evidence to support his claims calling actual witnesses "informants". The research showed that depending on the different social roles and various circumstances
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Holy Names University is a private‚ coeducational university located in Oakland‚ California. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and is administered by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. Here at HNU the simple fact is that we the students are the beating heart and blood of the institution. We pay an extremely high cost to attend this small picturesque campus tucked away in the rolling hills of Oakland. As the heart of this body‚ we young students‚ often want things we cannot
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Article In Focus: How to give a killer Presentation Author: Chris Anderson Source: Harvard Business Review Chris Anderson shares some great tips for speakers‚ aspiring as well experienced on how to go about blowing the audience with what he calls a “killer presentation”. All of his advice is channeled and amassed from being the curator of TEDTalks‚ one of the internet’s greatest phenomena of the decade. The article kick starts in a narrative fashion. And throughout the article the reader is
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In his poem “The X in My Name‚” Alarcon brings life to an action that was once thought of as common. The poem discusses the action of signing an “x” in place of one’s name. This took place more commonly when education was not something that was mandatory in the United States. In order to understand the poem as a whole‚ one must look to the society and time period that it takes place. By looking at Alarcon’s “The X in My Name” in a sociological perspective let’s discuss the important pieces of the
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The struggle to find one’s identity is a universal theme that is especially prevalent in Chaim Potok’s novel‚ My Name Is Asher Lev. As an Orthodox Jew‚ Asher’s gift for art is looked upon very unfavorably. Despite the disapproval of his community and father and the pain his art causes those around him‚ he pursues his passion and must find a way to reconcile the conflict between his religious identity and his individual identity. Potok starts off with the main character delivering three short sentences
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Give A Boy A Gun BY: Todd Strasser Give A Boy A Gun is about two high school students‚ Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle. These two kids are the kids that are always in the back‚ don’t say much‚ and get picked on by the “popular kids”. They take this kind of bullying and punishment for about three years‚ and then they finally snap. Every day that they get picked on they get darker and darker. The story is told by the students of Middletown high‚ their high school‚ and is written as a bunch of interviews
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9 -9 1 2 -0 1 1 REV: JUNE 18‚ 2012 FRANCESCA GINO BRADLEY R. STAATS Samasource: Give Work‚ Not Aid Work is at the core of human dignity: it is how we define ourselves and our position in the world. The disparity in access to decent work that pays a fair wage between rich and poor represents‚ in my mind‚ the biggest threat to global stability. — Leila Janah‚ CEO and founder‚ Samasource As she landed at the San Francisco International Airport‚ Leila Janah reflected on her most recent visit
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