sleeping‚ eleven students on their phones‚ six students paying attention‚ and ten students daydreaming; this is a typical classroom in the public education system. In 1924 H.L. Mencken‚ a German-American journalist and a cultural critic‚ wrote about what he felt the objective of the public school system was. He stated that public education was a means to push many down to the same level and to put originality at rest. In agreement with H.L. Mencken’s statement it is evident that in classrooms all across
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Throughout the description and analysis of the horrific reality of violence in a Southern L.A. School‚ the author effectively used ethos and pathos to stress the importance of the story to readers. Beatty’s combined experience and closeness to the situation makes her testimonial trustworthy and authoritative. In addition to having a firm understanding of the shootings in South L.A.‚ the Author utilizes pathos through her emotion to guide readers to arrive at a deeper level of understanding about
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What is Rurality and Urbanity-Lutgarda L. Tolentino‚ PhD The rural-urban differences can be demonstrated using three parameters such as occupationally‚ ecologically and socio-culturally. But it seems not easy to explain these differences of the two. Before dichotomy and continuity of rural and urban were used to differentiate these differences but today it is not that relevant for the results seem to be ambigous. But the new rural sociology rediscovers the relationship of agriculture and rurality
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What makes this western novel so captivating that it sets it apart from the rest? When the author takes the old cowboy stories and tells them the way they were meant to be‚ this author‚ Louis L’Amour‚ knows what the people want to read when he tells these stories. By reading his stories he educates his readers about what life is like out west of the Mississippi River. He takes you into the stories with his writing style so that you feel like you’re apart of the novel. The book itself is a place
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L.L. COOL J was born as James Todd Smith‚ on January 14‚ 1968‚ in Long island‚ New York City‚ to his parents James and Ondrea smith. As a child he was called Todd‚ and didn’t have a very happy childhood. When he was only four‚ he saw his mother and grandfather get shot by his own father. After recovering from their injuries‚ his mother began dating a young physical therapist she met when she was in the hospital. He treated ondrea kindly‚ but for years he abused Todd‚ which resulted in Todd becoming
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In The Turning Road‚ L’Estaque‚ named for the road that curves through the painting‚ Andre Detain uses intensely saturated colors‚ shape‚ and line to capture the energy and exuberance of the scene and provide an evocative and sensational interpretation of the location he chose to paint. The piece’s present location is the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston‚ Texas‚ and was originally from L’Estaque‚ France. The piece is oil on canvas‚ painted in 1906. The work is a colorful representation of a landscape
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1. Analysis Industry: Airline Industry In the case study two groups of competitors were acknowledged: legacy carriers and the low cost carriers (LCC). The legacy carriers included most of the best-known U.S. Airlines‚ like United‚ Delta or American Airlines. These airlines used the “Hub and Spoke” model as their operations system. The LCC‚ including used a different type of operations model called the “Point to Point Model”‚ pioneered by Southwest Airlines. In 2001 many airlines cut the traditional
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A movie based on true events of the 1968 East L.A walkouts where students were treated unequally. Just by watching the beginning and seeing the struggles of these students who were not even allowed to speak in their native language to each other in front of teachers or staff. Punishments that were displayed in the movie were the locking of bathrooms during lunch‚ speaking Spanish‚ janitorial work‚ and even prevent those students that are average from being able to go to college. Paula was displayed
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weapon and a means to survive in the hostile world that she has no say in. As exemplified in Double Indemnity‚ Phyllis cajoled both Neff and Nino into acting against their self-interest for her own. She did not kill her husband directly‚ merely using what she had at her disposal to achieve her goal with the least amount of damage to herself. The same concept applies to her mental reconditioning of Nino‚ whom she had hoped to use to take care of a loose end that could be used to incriminate her. The
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substance. L ’excessive alcohol abuse as well as causing addiction can cause anxiety‚ depression‚ social‚ economic and family
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