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    Critical Response Paper #1 I remember sitting in disgust as I was reading A Separate Piece‚ by John Knowles in my 10th grade English class. I never understood why I had to read such uninteresting books. My mind would wonder onto a different subject and then I couldn’t remember what I had just read. It was always like that when I started a book that the rules said a student "had"� to read. I thought school was supposed to be interesting. The essay "How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading"� by John

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    best conditions of employment as possible. Thus‚ the company provides several benefits that cover many stages of people’s lives: maternity/adoption leave Pension Taking time out to study Help to start a career “Some of the ways in which Marks & Spencer can support you in making the best decisions are as follows. Flexible working: Including a range of options: part time working‚ job sharing‚ term time working. Career leave: Once you have completed two years’ continuous service

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    In general‚ high-income people tend to be _____ on social issues and _____ on economic issues. Selected Answer:   liberal; conservative    liberal; conservative The Marxist political-economy model suggests that: Selected Answer:   an anti-democratic bias exists in the capitalist system.    an anti-democratic bias exists in the capitalist system. A pluralist approach to the U.S. political system suggests that:   power is widely dispersed throughout society.   power is widely dispersed throughout

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    Book One: The Lost Hero The Heroes of Olympus‚ Book Two: The Son of Neptune ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to Seán Hemingway‚ curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New York‚ for helping me follow the Mark of Athena to its source. Copyright © 2012 by Rick Riordan All rights reserved. Published by Disney • Hyperion Books‚ an imprint of Disney Book Group. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic

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    Reading Response I Schooling‚ Sexual Orientation‚ Law‚ and Policy: Making Schools Safe for All Students By: Charlotte J. Patterson This article was full of information about sexual minorities and the hardships they face. However‚ it was very redundant and I felt I was reading the same facts and statistics that were previously said in the paragraph before. Also‚ the facts that were being used are common knowledge to many people in my generation’s age bracket. Perhaps the author thought she had

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    Why Teach?‚ Mark Edmundson has written an essay in which he approaches an argument about the paradoxical consumer culture surrounding education. The university professor takes a stance on the problems that he has both experienced in his own classroom and observed on campuses‚ and he assigns these problems—his claims—appropriate blames. Enough logic is used to make these “blames” more factual‚ and he often claims how things are and offers several reasons as to why. His essay‚ “Liberal Arts & Lite

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    In this essay I will argue that liberal neutrality is necessary to maintain optimal utility in a multicultural society. Benjamin L. Berger argues that liberal neutrality and legal tolerance cater to the dominant culture‚ I agree with this‚ however I will argue that the dominant culture should be prioritized in order to achieve the maximal amount of happiness for the aggregate of society. Berger states in his piece The Cultural Limits of Legal Tolerance that multicultural societies exhibit tolerance

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    To what extent did the Liberal social reforms mark a significant break with 19th century attitudes to poverty? In 19th century Britain‚ the upper class and even the Government held a unanimous view of the poor. Their view was that poverty was the result of moral failings and that these people were responsible for their own social circumstance. The social elite stereotyped the poor as drunken and lazy‚ and therefore undeserving of help or attention. This was reflected in the ‘laissez faire’ approach

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    and her murder still free. One year after Susie’s death her sister and father begin to suspect of the neighbor and look for evidences to incriminate him. Susie fights to get justice and to see her family moving on after their lost. Personal response This is one of the most remarkable books I’ve read. Apart from the shocking beginning of the book‚ Susie telling her brutal murder‚ the rest is really emotional. The book makes an unacceptable tragedy‚ a family grief and the impossibility of justice

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    Many people see liberal feminism as inadequate due to the fact the processes and eventual changes through rules and regulations are too slow and does not seem to be enough. World-changing breakthroughs don’t happen overnight. Since the 1960s feminism has centralised on law reform in areas of domestic violence‚ for instance‚ domestic violence used to something which was regarded “household business” and “not the business of the police” feminism has helped change this view. Respectively‚ feminists

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