Standardized Testing Should Not Be The Standard Standardized testing can be deemed as unfair and should not be solely used to judge a student’s academic performance. Once quoted‚ “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test‚ I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that” (Obama). Standardized testing has been the go-to way to test a student’s intellectual ability since before World War II. Most tests consist of several hours filled with tedious multiple choice questions
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Should tobacco companies be held responsible for smoking-related illnesses and deaths? I. Introduction A. Should tobacco companies be held responsible for smoking related illnesses? In most cases I believe they should be held liable. Most Americans ask this question and want to know about cigarette companies and why they are allowed to keep selling these products that cause health problems. B. Most people that were smokers way back in the days before they actually had to label their
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Argumentative People should not be held accountable for their actions in life or death situations. Things that could occur unexpectedly is something that may happen. In life or death situations you act on the most reasonable thing that you could think of. It is normal for people to panic and make bad mistakes that they should not be held accountable for. In order to survive you have to do things that could be overwhelming to you. In Life of Pi an “Indian boy” is trying to survive a shipwreck
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Should a business be held socially responsible? The demand for how businesses do their operations needs to change. As of right now‚ the business model suggests that we pursue profit by any entrepreneurial means and cut costs at any expense. For the most part businesses over the latter half of the twentieth century have based their idea of how to run a company off of Milton Friedman’s theories and classical neo-liberal economic thinking. I am suggesting however‚ that we take a different route for
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Introduction To succeed in this complex and diverse world and to be respected from the pupils the teacher needs to develop the fifth core strength — tolerance. Tolerance is the capacity to accept differences in others. Tolerance emerges when a pupil has the security arising from the healthy development of the four previous strengths (attachment‚ self-regulation‚ affiliation‚ and awareness). When the teacher is tolerant the pupil feels safe‚ special‚ and secure ( Klepcova 19) The aim of this paper is
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I think that people should be held accountable for their actions‚ but only if they can help‚ because when something major like a life-or-death situation arises‚ fear tends to come upon us‚ and we freak out and don’t know what to do‚ and sometimes we do things that we tend to regret. But if it’s something that you know is wrong and you still do it‚ you should be held accountable for it. For example‚ if 2 people are in a situation where only one person will be able to survive and one of them decides
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Depends. I believe anyone who began smoking before the risks of smoking were known and before the addictive properties were known should be able to sue the tobacco companies. People were mislead into believing a product was safe to use which the companies knew was not safe and purposely made more addictive. It has been shown that tobacco companies have purposely added flavorless substances such as sugar and ammonia for the express purpose to make the tobacco more addictive when burned. I
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rational thoughts. In these types of situations‚ the idea of accountability gets tangled with survival instincts‚ causing the situation to not be so black and white‚ which gives us the gray area of whether people should be held accountable or not. People in life or death situations should not be held accountable for their actions or any mishaps that may happen‚ because when people are in critical situations their own life is their first priority
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the day of the walkouts‚ school closures were not the only disruption we experienced. Refuse collections were interrupted; cities came to a standstill as thousands marched through streets in protest; some NHS workers refused to work just as some teachers did‚ causing interruption to medical appointments‚ non-urgent operations and house visits; some travel links were closed‚ including mainland/island ferry links; some cancellations to in-bound transatlantic flights to Heathrow; some demonstrators
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Huber‚ James Mr. Shipp English 2‚ Block 4 9-19-2024. Accountability Should people be held accountable for their actions? This is a question that people have debated and disagreed on. But the fact is‚ people should be held accountable for their actions. People putting themselves in harm’s way and needing people to get them out is their own fault and should have to pay some type of reparations for search and rescue operations if needed. One example is the story of the boy who swam through the cave
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