Standardized Testing Should Not Be The Standard Standardized testing can be deemed as unfair and should not be solely be used to judge a student’s academic performance. Once quoted‚ “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test‚ I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that” (Obama). Standardized testing has been the go-to way to test a student’s intellectual ability since before World War II. Most tests consist of several hours filled with tedious multiple choice questions
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In William Faulkner’s short story "Barn Burning‚" class is a major part of the setting that gives us a better understanding of the background of Sarty’s struggle with issues of morality. The Snopes family lives in a post-Civil War South. They are sharecroppers‚ which puts them at the bottom of socio-economic totem pole‚ since they do not own land‚ and can only rent it. The only group of people positioned lower than them are the blacks‚ and after they were freed from slavery‚ by necessity they had
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Jill Lepore’s New York Burning is a novel about the 1741 slave conspiracy in New York City. When ten fires blazed through Manhattan‚ more and more evidence surfaced that it was slaves that set those fires and that they planned to set many more. Trials began and thirty slaves were either burned at the stake or hanged and over one hundred black men and women were thrown in jail. The question is‚ was there really a plot? Or were dozens of innocent people persecuted due to mass hysteria? After reading
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be a complex interrogatory. Should I be moral? If I should be‚ then why? Why is morality important to society? An assumption can be made that morals derive from a purely religious perspective or the Golden Rule approach. We are told that it is right to be moral. This is an ineffective answer‚ since it does not apply to someone outside the moral circle This in mind‚ there is really no way to prove this too a person who wants to know why he/she should be moral. According to Olen
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“This flag‚ which we honor and under which we serve‚ is the emblem of our unity‚ our power‚ our thought‚ and purpose as a nation… And yet‚ though silent‚ it speaks to us – speaks to us of the past‚ or the men and women who went before us.” Woodrow Wilson had a lot of pride in our American Flag‚ as so today‚ we do as well. The American Flag‚ also known as the “Stars and Stripes‚” was made by Betsy Ross‚ a known sewer around her time‚ on June 1777. The flag has been modified 26 times and the flag we have
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The Mississippi Burning Trial" was not for the cold-blooded murders of three young civil rights workers‚ but rather for the violation of their civil rights. The federal government wanted to break Mississippi’s "white supremacy" stronghold on the South. "The Mississippi Burning Trial" proved to be the opportunity to do so. The three branches of the federal government and their various departments were actively involved in bringing about this civil rights trial in Mississippi and these activities
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There have been many events throughout my life that have shaped and defined the person I am today. The most impactful moment of my life transpired when I was pursing my B.S. in Physics & Mathematics at Morehouse College in Atlanta‚ Georgia. Like any college year each year presents its onset of obstacles and challenges to overcome. My third year of undergrad was without question the most odious of my four year matriculation. Between four hour labs and courses such as Quantum I‚ Thermodynamics and
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Why should you be Moral? Why should we be moral? We should be moral‚ because it is a way of how to behave towards each other‚ with focusing on being mostly concerned with situations of humans living with other humans. Questions like how should we behave towards each other? What are the rules and how do we learn them‚ also why do we have to have them? Let’s say there were no laws. How would we treat strangers or people that we know? Would the society be safe to live in? Without laws‚ there would
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fail to realize is how accurate these topics written about are to the everyday events in our lives. The banning of your book‚ Thirteen Reasons Why‚ is unreasonable and unfair because it focuses on suicide which is a growing issue today‚ emphasizes the importance of one’s actions‚ and addresses relevant topics of our time. One of the reasons your book should not be banned is because of how well it speaks about suicide. Experts say‚ the third leading cause of death for college-age youth (12-18)
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Also known as the Confederate Flag. The Flag is very controversial to whether or not the Flag should be allowed to be flown or not. There are many cases in which the Flag is correlated to bad situations‚ but also related to good meanings. The Flag is used in many ways such as‚ a memoriam and in bad ways such as‚ KKK marches. While the flag will always be flown somewhere‚ one will never stop the Flag from being flown‚ racism can be stopped. The flying of the flag can be restricted to only certain
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