“The new SAT is A) a big change B) still important C) controversial D) all of the above” 58% of students who took the SAT are deemed not college ready. Why might that be? Explain. College: “an institution of higher learning” (Dictionary.com). College is a key‚ formative period in one’s life. It allows for a higher‚ prolonged education‚ exposure to different cultures‚ and more opportunities in life. Most colleges require applicant profiles in order to compare potential students from others. These
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Grammaticus. The term “grammar” goes back to a Greek word that may be translated as the “art of writing”. But later this word acquired a much wider sense and came to embrace the whole study of language. Now it is often used as the synonym of linguistics. A question comes immediately to mind: what does this study involve? Grammar may be practical and theoretical. The aim of practical grammar is the description of grammar rules that are necessary to understand and formulate sentences. The aim of
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The report states that studies have shown occupants living in high-rise blocks suffer from stress‚ mental health difficulties and neurosis. In addition‚ tower blocks encourage crime and social alienation. Residents of high-rise blocks are more liable to stress‚ mental health difficulties‚ and marriage breakdowns. Children living in tower blocks suffer from
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Throughout the past and present‚ human beings have had a natural tendency to believe they are better than average. The people of Athens were certainly no exception. They wanted to believe that they were the best humanity had to offer. The Athenians valued freedom and for every man to fulfill his own life and desires in peace. They claimed their sense of independence was balanced out through the fact that everyone upheld fair and just laws. They prided themselves on not sacrificing their individual
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The Potential Cons of Online/Video Gaming on Kids Some of the potential cons could be‚ * That it promotes increased tolerance to violence‚ that kids become insensitive and cold towards other kids and adults alike‚ not being able to differentiate between what’s reality and what’s not. This can be considered a valid concern since many video games contain graphic/inappropriate content and provide incentives for users to‚ for example‚ kill as many characters as possible by rewarding them with points
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of the pollers go up. The votes for all kids and only winners even out the younger the poller is. For example‚ when a group of 65 year olds and older were polled‚ 70% voted for only winners getting while only 30% voted for everyone. In the same study‚ when a group of 18-24 year olds were polled‚ 52% voted for everyone and 48% voted for only winners getting trophies. Although‚ there is nothing more detrimental to a child than being given a trophy for everything they do. If a child gets a trophy
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aggression or emotional troubles. From a psychological stand point there are a few ways to look at it. In modern psychology there are three concepts of learning. None have been proven any more plausible than the others‚ so taking a look at each one seems to be the best idea. Classical conditioning was the first and most basic concept of learning. A man named Ivan Pavlov founded this theory. The core of this concept says that once the conditioned stimulus is paired with another secondary stimulus
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regularly along racial and economic deficiency lines. Neighborhood change is frequently seen as an issue of social equity‚ in which well off‚ typically white‚ newcomers are saluted for enhancing an area who’s poor‚ minority occupants are displaced by soaring rents and monetary change. With the impact of gentrification in urban community manifest social effects of homelessness and social stressors of low income people. According to the Institute for Children & Poverty (2009)‚ researchers ask “is
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was probably more of a reflection of Herbert Spencer’s chronically cited early‚ unfounded speculation and the indomitable position of classic liberalism itself in Victorian political economy. Liberals simply had a better window of opportunity for social allegory through living in highly competitive societies rather than any better claim to validity or natural affinity. Political biases and frameworks that do not focus on biology alone have tended to clash rather badly with Darwinism. Post-1859 European
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Bipartisan politics have been an integrated part of the American democrats from almost the start. A two party system gives the constituent a competitive way to elect representatives that align with people’s own party affiliation. GerryMandering is a manipulation of the process to gain an unfair advantage for one party over an opposition party. Since the legislative branch is charged with creating equal districts‚ meaning of the same geological size and population The legal argument to be made in
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