Supplemental Reading: Stereotype Threat In the article “A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance‚” Claude Steele discusses the empirical methods used to test a psychological theory called stereotype threat. Stereotype threat offers a new method for interpreting “group differences in standardized test scores‚” particularly for African-Americans taking standardized verbal tests and for women taking standardized math tests (p. 613). It states that if someone is
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Portfolio Entry #3 Alayna Baudry “Salvation” Hughes‚ Langston. "Salvation." [The Big Sea‚ 1940.] The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues across the Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. 11th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill‚ 2011. 642-643. Print. Question #18: What is the author’s purpose? Does s/he achieve this purpose? What three or four elements most significantly contribute to the success or failure of the passage? Hughes’ purpose in writing salvation was to display that the pressure of adults
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Langston Hughes “Salvation”. “Salvation” is taking from the first of these ‚ The Big Sea ( 1940 )‚ and written by Langston Hughes who was a brilliant author‚ poet who wrote fiction‚ history‚ autobiography‚ and he worked at various times as a journalist. You can clearly see in “Salvation” was taking time at South – country side. From the Title “Salvation” you can have a guess and you will be right if you were thinking about church‚ God and so on. - But not really saved? - To bring the young
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The Army Values Loyalty "Bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S. constitution‚ the Army‚ and other soldiers. Be loyal to the nation and its heritage." I define loyalty as the willingness of a person to sacrifice at their own personal expense in order to protect‚ uphold‚ defend and edify those persons‚ ideals and/or things which they cherish most. The amount of loyalty a person feels towards someone or something determines how much they are willing to sacrifice for them. As a soldier‚ we
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is going to turn out. When things do not turn out the way‚ we want them to turn out; the feeling of disappointment takes over. That is a coincidence when I read "Salvation" written by Langston Hughes because I run into my feeling five years ago‚ not in the same situation with him‚ but not so many differences to be his partner. "Salvation" is a short story‚ but inside it is a long anxiety and unforgettable experience for the boy. Only he knows what he is doing‚ and he is the one. The feeling that
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Salvation by Langston Hughes In Langston Hughes’ story "Salvation‚" the author describes his first encounter within the church in regards to him being saved from sin. At the young age of thirteen‚ Hughes is waiting to see Jesus appear before him -as a sign of a religious epiphany- but nothing seems to happen. In which case‚ he truly experiences religion for the first time in his life. Hughes adopts a sarcastic‚ mocking‚ and cynical tone because he suggests the church to be an ironic
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SALVATION by Langston Hughes "I hadn’t seen Jesus and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus any more‚ since he didn’t come to help me". That final paragraph in Salvation does show the truth that- nobody in the church knows the boy’s secret because he did not see God. What people had told him before and what he saw are opposites. Disappointment is certainly. It is the feeling we all get when something or someone fails to live up to our expectations. Everybody‚ at least one time in their lives
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In Salvation Hughes tells of his confusing yet life changing event that occurred in his church. Hughes sat in church expecting Jesus to come into his life‚ but Jesus never came. When Langston alone sat on the bench and everyone crying and praying for him‚ he decides to get up and pretend to be saved. That night he cries for hours regretting what he did. Now that Hughes grew up he now can tell his story of that day in the church. Langston tells of his childhood experience and conveys into an adult
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their way of fighting was so organized that every able bodied man could fight in the army and know the Roman system perfectly. Important things about Polybius are that he was born in Greece but was deported to Rome in 168 BCE after the defeat of the King of Macedon‚ Persius. While in Rome he became friends with people like Scipio who was a leading aristocrat in Rome at the time following his success in the army at Carthage and Corinth. Polybius followed around Scipio on his journeys and wrote
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Communism (from Latin communis - common‚ universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless‚ moneyless‚ and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production‚ as well as a social‚ political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.[1] This movement‚ in its Marxist–Leninist interpretations‚ significantly influenced the history of the 20th century‚ which saw intense rivalry between the "socialist world" (socialist
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