You can start identifying the different strategies for the school to use for closing the achievement gap. As you think about new strategies‚ keep in mind‚ which strategies there are already‚ what resources are needed for the strategies‚ and what actions are needed to take. Teachers can help close the gap by identifying students who need additional support in class. The No
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Gender Barriers in Sports It is clear there are strides being taken towards equality in women’s sports‚ from Billy Jean King beating Bobby Rigs in the “Battle of the Sexes” to the policy known as Title IX. Every day we as a society make attempts to close the gap between genders. We know gender certainly does play a role in human nature‚ society‚ and even sports. But both genders‚ male and female‚ still face overwhelming barriers when trying to break into a sport that is not “known “ or “proper”
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Should professional gaming be considered a sport? Professional gaming has gained a lot of viewers in the last few years. League of legends viewing has gone from a small gathering to the Seoul football stadium packed with space for 66‚000 people and getting around 270‚000 people watching online through a stream‚ the year before‚ 32 million people watched (http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5123724/league-of-legends-world-championship-32-million-viewers). Dota 2 has a similar following‚ with the last
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them and vote to raise taxes on the third estate. The Tennis Court Oath The Tennis Court Oath was when the Third Estate‚ a group lower than nobles were wrongly taxed when they were already starving. They called for a meeting to talk about it but King Louis XVI felt threatened and closed the doors to the Third Estate. The Third Estate instead‚ held their own meeting in a Tennis court and started their own government and called it the National Assembly.. The Reign of Terror
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The Pros And Cons Of Fitting In In the real world today‚ people from every background have faced the reality of social life and where they believe they would thrive the most. Although we think we are always right in any given situation‚ it never really turns out that way and encounters with fitting in and the decisions made to be included in a certain social group acknowledge the fact that sometimes we are wrong. A quote by Rick Warren states‚ “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it
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Project: Five-Paragraph Essay Project: Thesis‚ Supporting Points‚ Outline To do well on a project you should be prepared to spend time over several days to do your best work. You should plan to apply yourself to your project‚ take a break from it‚ and come back several times to polish and refine your work. Your goal for this project is to complete some exercises about a prompt for a five-paragraph essay. The essay
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Each person’s life is a journey on a contorted road dotted with bumps and craters. At certain points‚ the bumps could seem as high as mountains and the pits as deep as lots‚ making this journey called life appear quite despondent. Although occasionally‚ your predicaments are entirely fate’s blunders‚ but perchance‚ they are your own. Your personal characteristics roughly resemble a steering wheel for your journey. They could be positive traits‚ which could steer you on a more decent path; or negative
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These are some of the characteristic phases of development of pre-historical humanity. Before civilization more than 9‚000 years ago‚ the people of a town that developed in Catalhoyuk grew crops‚ made weapons and tools‚ raised and domesticated sheep and goats‚ painted on walls of their homes‚ and hunted and gathered. They were an egalitarian society with life-span only lasting up to age 30-34. Then there was the Stone age which was divided into two separate eras‚ the Paleolithic and the Neolithic
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Sexism in Sports Throughout the history of sports‚ female athletes have struggled to gain equality with the male athletes. The men have predominantly had better athletic facilities‚ more recognition‚ more airtime on television‚ etc. Women today are still fighting for as much recognition as the males‚ and the right to play/help with male sports. The United States tried to help women gain more sports equality with the passage of the Title IX amendment in 1972. This amendment states that “no person
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In today’s society men and women are supposed to be equal. We all try to believe that they are but unfortunately this isn’t true. Men have always been given a higher social place in society. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman shows how these issues were even worse then they are now. In this book Arthur Miller tends to show woman as inferior. We do not know if Arthur did this to show that people need to make a change or to show his view on women’s place in society. Regardless the message of the inferior
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