Should we have exams? Exams are taken all around the world. They are taken in high schools‚ universities and colleges. Exams are also mandatory. Some students think that taking an exam is not fair or useful. I think that exams should be taken because‚ exams help students with their studies further‚ and they review what the student has learned one last time‚ in case they forgot anything. Also exams and tests show how much students have paid attention in their classes. Firstly Exams help students
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To Pay or Not to Pay Computer Literacy INF 103 Amy Gee 10/14/2013 When your professor asks you to write a research paper‚ your reaction usually is not “I wonder what goes into the software and databases I will use to do my research paper?” Well‚ at least that’s not where my mind goes. Although it is a good question. Are they reliable‚ scholarly databases? Or are they people like you and I just writing things on the World Wide Web? Let us look a little further into these questions
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Lessons We Don’t Learn: A Study of the Lessons of Disasters‚ Why We Repeat Them‚ and How We Can Learn Them On February 23‚ 2006‚ in a press conference to release the White House report on lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina‚ Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Frances Townsend said “[The president] demanded that we find out the lessons‚ that we learn them and that we fix the problems‚ that we take every action to make sure America is safer‚ stronger and better
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Have you ever experienced times when you want a listening ear‚ but you cannot find one? When all your friends were busy exactly in the moment you need them? Well ... I have been through this myself till I met someone who helped me understand why this happens to me‚ and now she is my best friend. First of all she helped me to realize that I have been so selfish in how I was approaching my friendships. I was taking my friends for granted – expecting them to be there all the time‚ assuming they
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Why Do We Pretend? Alison Gopnik reveals the core of human nature- our unique ability to use our brain for imagination‚ something she refers to as counterfactuals. In her essay‚ “Possible Worlds: Why Do Children Pretend?” Gopnik discusses “the woulda-coulda-shouldas of life”(163) in great detail expanding on her point “ human beings don’t live in the real world”(163). Her argument is that our lives are consumed by the alternate realities that run simultaneously with the real world events. Gregory
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To begin‚ a great novelist‚ poet‚ and author once said “At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify‚ to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering‚ discouraging‚ even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.” which gives us an image of being a good
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I am debating about if we should or should not keep the Olympics. I think that we should keep the Olympics. I believe we should keep the Olympics because it is a fantastic way for the best athletes in the world to show what they can do. Also‚ it is a good way to keep athletes healthy. People are saying we should not keep the Olympics because the Olympics do not have all the sports. Yes they do not have all sports‚ but the Olympics keep growing so they could add the sports they don’t have. Another
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of Filipino‚ like how we are just settling for less when in fact if we want we can have more than that. It also mention about our political issue and how we are just accepting the fact that the “isip-agila” which is the politicians are just treating/looking at us like their prey but we are doing nothing about it. The author is saying that the poverty that our country was experiencing was definitely our fault because of the thought that instead of expanding our resources we settled for limited resources
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When too much information is given‚ usually one doesn’t know what to do with it. One cannot take everything and not get confused in the process. In Linda Holmes’ article “The Sad‚ Beautiful Fact that We’re All Going to Miss Almost Everything‚” she states that being “well-read” can either mean knowing everything or making the effort to explore many different things. One is unable to know everything yet a lot of different things can still be learned making an individual well educated‚ and that is what
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argument‚ and then share my opinion about which I think. This papers purpose is not to tell you which is right‚ which is wrong‚ but to get you to think about man and his nature. I must first define the terms "good" and "evil" before I am able to discuss which medium man is. I went to dictionary.com to find what the definitions of both terms. "Evil" produced five definitions‚ while "good" produced 41 definitions. I will discuss why this is weird later‚ but for now‚ just the definitions. "Evil"
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