students have two things on their minds- summer and‚ sadly‚ standardized tests. Annually‚ around one million students take the ACT and SAT- even if they do not plan on attending college. Although the SAT and ACT are required‚ recently some colleges are saying they are not looking at the tests scores as much as they are looking at everything else. The tests should not be able to determine the student’s academic abilities. Standardized testing should be abolished because a lot of money is wasted
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person or something that creates comments that produces entertainment to an audience. Alain de Botton‚ the author believes that the role a humorist plays in society is to subdue thoughts that everyone can relate to. Humor is expressed openly to relate to thoughts without the rampage of society. Humor gives people the reality of wrongs in the society making them easier to understand. De Botton believes the role of humorists to not show entertainment but “to convey messages that may be dangerous or impossible
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United States started its first genuine manufacturing industry. During that time the United States transformed from a farming society into a developed‚ industrialized society. Industrialization changed all parts of the nation. The Industrial Revolution generation moved from straightforward hand devices to complex machinery. Which brought about negative effects on society‚ politics and international arrangements.
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Greek temples to Persian capitals‚ pillars have been an essential foundation for important establishments worldwide. The pillars of our National Honor Society are no exception. Without the four bases of leadership‚ scholarship‚ service and character‚ NHS would not be the respected nationwide organization that it would be today. Every member of this society is required to fully represent these four attributes to maintain the prestigious essence of the organization. As stated above‚ my grade point average
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Heroin: What has it done to our society? Figure 1 (Some smoking heroin‚ Drug and Alcohol Rehab Headquarters‚ 2010) Talia Krebs-Oppenheimer Animal Behavior Professor Goldberg Abstract: Heroin is one of the worlds most dangerous drugs when addicted. It is widely used in American culture and many other places. This drug can be found throughout the world‚ one of the largest producers of opium in Afghanistan with Mexico coming in after it. Heroin comes from the opium poppy‚ which
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Standardized Testing Should Be Stopped Are you one of the many students who cram in hours upon hours of studying the night before an exam that has been stressing you out all week? You wake up the next morning nervous and full of anxiety‚ just to take the same test as everyone else‚ under the same conditions as everyone else. Sounds fair right? Well I don’t believe it is‚ and here’s why. Standardized tests were made to test the knowledge of a student over a particular course or subject. The ACT and
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equality in the education system‚ and more specifically‚ within standardized testing. Standardized testing is a set metric used to measure the academic ability of all students who take the test. However‚ as is illuminated in the case of Lara and Roy‚ this kind of metric only reveals a small piece of information about some students’ academic achievement. Lara’s creativity and Roy’s social skills were invisible to eyes of the standardized tests‚ and as a result‚ they were penalized for‚ not their own
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First‚ standardized tests cannot measure the true capacity and measure student performance. To get a good score on standardized tests‚ students just try to memorize all contents of what teachers told and taught them. By this process‚ students do not only try to understand deeply about the contents‚ but they also just memorize things whose notions that they do not know and comprehend well. This may cause students to forget the substances so easily. Moreover‚ in multiple-choice tests‚ students can
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Standarized Testing Should Be Banned There are many questions concerning the education system. Everyone always seems to have an opinion on this certain topic‚ but no one is producing solutions to the problem. For example are standardized tests really helping the system? The “No Child Left Behind” act was established in the U.S in 2001. The law states that all children in public school have to be tested in reading and writing. This testing starts in grades third through eight‚ and also they have
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This hateful judgement against him ruined his life‚ his family‚ and his community. Even though the segregation between blacks and whites isn’t what it used to be‚ the thought that blacks are inferior is still prominent in some people’s minds today. Another example of a racial intolerance that shattered lives was the Trail of Tears for Native Americans in 1838 and 1839. Americans saw natives as
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