forget why you do what you do and who you do it for‚ and make sure everything you do honors that. What I’ve seen happen often times (especially in… yup‚ you guessed it: the education reform movement)‚ is that intentions start out good but the sword starts to swing the other way when money‚ power‚ and statistics are valued over the lives and humanity of students. “Kids first” and “For the kids” becomes merely rhetoric‚ as people jump to enact radically dangerous and untested policies that do anything
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1. What do you think Will Hunting’s life would be like if the therapy had not been successful? I believe that Will would have still been a construction worker and a janitor. He would still be afraid to take chances and allow people to actually love him. Furthermore‚ Will would have continued to be an intelligent‚ yet angry person for the rest of his life. He was going to look at his life fifty years from now and have so many regrets. He was going to be labeled as a genius that was an idiot for wasting
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"What do you call an intelligent blonde? A Golden Retriever." What a typical example of a blonde joke known by almost everyone. Yet‚ are these jokes‚ based on unfounded premises‚ such entertaining? Why is it so rare to hear jokes of this sort about brunettes? Does this fact have anything to do with the so-called "dumb blondes stereotype"? Furthermore‚ how many of natural blondes‚ or to say "fair-hair" women or men exist? According to scientists‚ the population of blondes is declared to be 1.8 to
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WHAT IS THERE TO KNOW ABOUT CHEMISTRY ? 1) Matter – anything that has mass and occupies space 2) Laws/Theories- mathematical statements of behaviour of matter 3) Properties- characteristics that describe matter; use to determine its usefeulness (a) Physical- properties which can be observed/measured without a change in the composition of the substance (b) Chemical – properties which can be observed/measured only after a change in the composition
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Dreams and What They Mean Psychologists seem to fall into two groups regarding dreams. The first group believes that dreams have no real purpose; while the second group believes they do have a purpose‚ although this group cannot reach a consensus on what the purpose might be. Sigmund Freud is probably the most famous of the dream theorists. He believed that dreams helped to preserve sleep by keeping individuals from waking as a result of physical urges such as needing to go to the bathroom
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difficult task as how to deal with our tumultuous past. I hope that the world in the new century would be a world that can be at peace with its past---it would not be mired in the historical grievances‚ but would instead look into possibilities of the future. William Faulkner once said: “The past is never dead‚ it is not even past." This still holds truth today. Decades and even centuries on‚ our uncomfortable historical legacies have lingered on‚ troubling most of us‚ and shadowing the peace and stability
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Material Appendix B Audience-Focused Communication Matrix Use the matrix to complete the information. Write 3-4 sentences for each item. What are some audience characteristics you need to consider? What communication channels would be appropriate and why? What would you do to ensure your message is effective? What are some considerations you must keep in mind given the diversity of the audience? Audience-Focused Communication Audience Audience Characteristics Channels of Communication
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WHAT CANCER CANNOT DO Cancer is so limited that: It cannot cripple love It cannot shatter hope It cannot corrode faith It cannot destroy peace It cannot kill friendship It cannot suppress memories It cannot silence courage It cannot invade the soul It cannot steal eternal life It cannot conquer the spirit HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY Have you ever wondered why it was her and not me The girl who was nice‚ was good‚ was sweet The one who would honour‚ forgive and forget Why
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The education system is not what it should be and often mistakes schooling as getting an education. The education system attempts to make students learn through drilling and training to grasp information. They force students to do repetitive work and memorize information. What the system should be doing is allowing students to question ideologies and make discoveries. “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here? A Word to the Incoming Class‚” an essay by Mark Edmundson‚ addresses how hard it is to get
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“Charles” 1. In what ways is Laurie changed after starting kindergarten? Laurie is becoming more independent. For example he doesn’t wave goodbye to his mother anymore like he used to. He is also wearing different clothes now. His corduroy overall with bibs is replaced by blue jeans and a belt. That is because he doesn’t want to look like a little child. He also swaggers when he walks because he wants to show‚ that he is cool. It is not only Laurie’s clothes‚ which has changed after starting
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