categories such as A and B. Under the marking system‚ even if two students are of similar calibre‚ one can ace out the other by a fraction of a point. This level of assessment encourages competitiveness. To score that one extra mark‚ students devote more time to study and pay attention to detail. The positive side-effect of this is that the students acquire knowledge. However‚ the marking system can also lead to the perception that high marks‚ rather than real knowledge‚ are important. If students learn
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Is urban living better than rural living? Related Topics: Home Add a New Topic Add to My Favorites Debate This Topic Report This Topic 22% Say Yes 78% Say No Culture and opportunities abound I understand the other side‚ but as a younger person‚ I find living near an urban center to be invaluable. Crime is rarely anything to worry about. The main reason is that in the search to find oneself‚ there are a plethora of opportunities in cities. You can walk down one block and experience
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Organic foods are they really better for us? Prepared by: Katarzyna Kalinowska Prepared for: Chef Ruane Mr. Langford Date due: 25/10/2011 Word count: 2083 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 02 Main restrictions in organic food production 03 NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF ORGANIC FOODS VIA CONVENTIONAL FOODS Fruits‚ vegetables and grains 04 Milk and dairy produce 06 Meats 06 INFLUENCE OF FOODS COMPONENTS ON CONSUMER’S HEALTH Fats and sugars
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Why cats are better than dogs Many people today own a pet or some sort‚ but the most popular are dogs and cats. Everyone has their own particular reason for their choice of pet‚ but I prefer cats over dogs because cats are more independent than dogs. Firstly you never have to worry about trying to fit in 2 or 3 walks every day because with cats you don’t need that. For example‚ if you were tired or sick and you had a dog‚ you would still need to walk him/her. Or‚ it would cost money to hire someone
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for people’s ‘way of life’‚ meaning the way they do things. Different groups of people may have different cultures. Culture is seen in people’s writing‚ religion‚ music‚ clothes‚ cooking‚ and in what ever they do which makes their country different and unique from others. Culture simply means to control the over nature. It includes the outlook‚ attitude‚ values‚ goals and practices shared by society. As different people have different cultures‚ they have different ways of thinking about and understanding
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there was thing that was always going on‚ suspense. The feeling of something going to always was going to jump out was very heavy in the movie adaptation of the the story. There is one question between these two forms of story telling‚ who had the better suspense? In this essay I will be going over the story and the movie of 1408 find out who had the best suspense? Mike’s problem starting before he even getting in to room 1408. This feeling of suspense is kept well in both the story and the movie
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Environment is what sustains the life of all the living things that exist in the world. This is the reason why the environment has to ne conserved by all the people irrespective of their social‚ economic‚ color of skin or religion. All the people in any given society have an obligation to make sure that the environment is well taken care of. Failure to take care of the environment means that the entire populations will not have a place to live in the future. The entire populations of all the species
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Aesha Shah ENGLISH 090 Has Technology made communication between people better? Technology the word itself tells us everything. Technology is growing at a faster rate nowadays. Many new devices are being developed each and every day and every devices are different with each other. Technology has created a major breakthrough in human lives. It has made communication people better and I agree with this statement. Nowadays imagining life without technology is like imagining the fish without
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Why Dogs Make Great Pets As a dog lover I will explain why dogs are the better pet to have. We go back a long way with dogs. They have been helping us out every since humans stopped being foragers‚ and started being farmers. Scientists believe this happened over ten thousand years ago. So as you can see‚ we share a long rich history with dogs. In modern times‚ dogs are just as helpful. They sit at your feet when you are reading the paper. They get up and investigate if someone rings the doorbell
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Three Heads are Better Than One: Response Robert J. Trotter‚ in this article on intelligence tests‚ focuses on the recent work of Sternberg (an IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University). Sternberg recalls at the beginning how his test scores on standardized tests were terrible as a child in the fifth grade because he was always nervous and ended up freaking out mid test. This continued until one year he had to retake a test with the grade below him where he noticed he was
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