education to make the United States more competitive worldwide. The White House cites evidence that investment in learning for very young children pays multiple benefits later‚ and his program seeks to make progress in closing the "achievement gap" - the chasm in test scores between children who grow up in poverty and the better off. "Education has to start at the earliest possible age‚" Obama said in a speech in Georgia‚ a state he said has shown leadership on the issue. "We are not doing enough to give
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Azaria Chand Ms. Kelly English 10R-4 12 November 2013 Independent Reading Book Report Veronica Roth was raised in the Chicago suburb of Barrington Illinois. Roth studied creative writing at Northwestern University where she wrote the first book in her trilogy‚ Divergent‚ which became a New York Times Best Selling novel. Roth has won numerous awards for each book in the trilogy including; Good Reads Favorite Book of 2011 and Good Reads Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction (2012). Divergent
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embrace; nothing in Hester’s bosom to make it ever again the pillow of Affection.”(158)‚ and the quote “Thus‚ Hester Prynne‚ whose heart had lost its regular and healthy throb… now turned aside by an insurmountable precipice; now starting back from deep chasm.”(160). The first quote gives the feeling that Hester has grown so much because of the scarlet letter and is a better and more caring person then she was before. It says that she is a loving person and it has provided a pillow of affection. But
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Senator Ted Cruz‚ a Republican from Texas‚ has been somewhat of a bright light in the dark chasm that is Capitol Hill as far as term limitation is concerned. He is firmly behind the idea of Congressional term limitation and is genuinely convinced that the entirety of Capitol Hill is corrupt. In 2015‚ Cruz was quoted as saying”…career politicians
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One of the story’s central concerns might be described by a term that was once fashionable: “the generation gap.” In “Soldier’s Home‚” the gap is more like a chasm that separates the ex-Marine from the townspeople. Krebs returns from the war‚ changed by his experiences‚ but the local citizenry are exactly what they were before the war—sure of themselves and their values. To stay in the town‚ to survive this time
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In Alistair Duckworth’s account Pride and Prejudice: The Reconstitution of Society‚ he characterizes Darcy as a conservative individual‚ whereas he shows Elizabeth to possess a more mobile and active personality. However‚ upon analysis of the novel‚ it is clearly visible that Elizabeth has a more preservative attitude while Darcy tends to have more mobility to improve. Duckworth depicts Elizabeth Bennet as an active character who is willing to alter. In his article‚ he shows Elizabeth as able “to
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used to be. Unequal distribution of resources may very well be the cause of the conflict as Rousseau described. It is obvious that the poor are locked away‚ like the rioters in Haiti‚ trying to survive‚ while the Fortune 500 may do their part‚ the chasm is too deep to make a difference. The name so apropos‚ Locke’s theory would lock them up and/or use force to "guarantee compliance" (id.). That in itself causes
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In the poems “Search for my Tongue” by Sujata Bhatt and “Half Caste” by John Agard‚ there are a variety of language features used such as personification‚ metaphors and repetition‚ which personally made descriptions in the poem more vivid. These techniques aided in making these poems more powerful and helped to effectively convey the messages that our identities are engraved in us and that we need to reconsider using the derogatory term ‘half-caste’ as it identifies people as ‘half’ people. Sujata
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“One war was ended… and another silently began.” The novel‚ “The Seventh Tower” by Garth Nix‚ is a fantasy tale of two children from very different worlds‚ socially and geographically‚ who are forced by fate to work together towards a common goals. The world has been shrouded by a magical veil that blocks out the sun‚ and thus the only source of the natural light comes from objects that are grown above the Veil known as sunstones. These stones range in size and power and are grown at the top of the
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Race: The Difference Between Us The notion of race has been thrown around a lot recently in academic settings‚ social circles‚ and the media. From the tokenistic fallacy that President Obama’s presidency crushed the argument of so-called “racial disparities” to the incorrect clumping of whole religions into a perverse race‚ race discussions remain abundantly found in society‚ both explicitly and implicitly. But what is race? Many seem to believe that it’s a natural‚ biological occurrence. That one’s
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