“Grades are primarily a measure of how good students are at getting good grades‚ not a measure of how much they learned‚” a blog post written by a professor entitled “What do our grades measure? Academic savvy or actual learning?” mentioned. This had me thinking‚ what is the purpose of our grades? Should we use it as a basis to determine if whether or not we are intelligent? Then I realized: No‚ academic grades should not be the basis for measuring intelligence since they are based upon standardized
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Preventive Measures (A Discussion of Lessons for Main Characters in‚ “The Necklace”) We each have our one weak points. Some people have bigger or smaller weaknesses that might be harder to cope with. In the story‚ “The Necklace” Loisel feels insecure about her financial status‚ appearance‚ and honesty. There are several solutions to fix these problems‚ but might not necessarily be easy to perform. Madame Loisel should learn to communicate honestly‚ not obsess over her appearance‚ as well as be
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS When there are some physical‚ chemical or biological changes occur in our physical environment it is known as pollution and the substances which brings these changes are known as pollutants. The sources for the pollution can be natural or manmade. Following are the types of Environmental pollution. 1. Air pollution 2. Water pollution 3. Soil pollution 4. Noise pollution 5. Marine pollution 6. Thermal pollution
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activities. Looking on how human beings have been tried to live a comfortable life‚ this has in turn led to a lot of innovation and creativity in coming up with machines that can make humans life easier. Most of this machines use fuel which when it is used‚ releases a number of unfriendly gases to the atmosphere. These gases raise the temperatures which are associated with part of climatic change.
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general public‚ and the scale has experienced multiple changes since the first day. The question is‚ do IQ-test really measures person’s intelligence? According to Howard Gardner’s article “Human Intelligence Isn’t What We Think It Is”‚ humans are multi-intelligence beings. So‚ IQ-test merely cannot provide an accurate representation of an individual’s intelligence level‚ rather IQ-tests generally measure only two forms of intelligence which are linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences. However
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Measures used to control enslaved Africans Colonial assemblies and individual planters used and instituted many methods that ensured that the slave population was subdued and subservient. Such methods included: Economic Control a) There was severe limitation on free time for the enslaved as free time was equated to loss of production time on the estate. As a result‚ a structure of economic dependence was created whereby enslaved Africans relied on the planter for their food‚ shelter and clothing
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To what extent do you consider Measure for Measure to be a problem play? Measure for Measure has been deemed as a ‘problem play’ due to ‘lacking humanity’ and the drastic and uneven ‘emotion and language’ throughout the play. Because of this‚ the play is constantly being addressed as ‘problematic’ by critics like Swinburne who describes the play as being ‘indefinable’ and ‘unclassifiable’. The term problem play was first made current by F.S. Boas who was the critique of Shakespeare and his Predecessors
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simple tailgating or the guy in front of you cutting you off. Road rage is uncontrollable anger experienced by a driver in difficult road conditions‚ often leading to violent behavior. Behaviors resulting from road rage are speeding‚ driving to slowly‚ headlight flashing and many more. There are many causes of road rage. Such small things such as bright lighting up to very large incidents such as obstructing another vehicle can cause road rage. Have you ever been behind that annoying slow driving
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SHAKESPEARE sillagescritiques.revues.org/2544 Act 3 sc 2 l83-164 1) Who / where / when & possibly why 2) Obvious elt : dramatic irony => 2 levels of reading 3) Lucio / Duke both serve as go-btwn in the play‚ go from one group to another. Both contribute to knitting all different trends in play. 4) Importance of use of words‚ which is all that’s going on in this particular extract 5) Lucio paired with other char‚ all sorts of unlikely combinations in play‚ for eg with Isab at convent. Here
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end in the bullied kid getting hurt. Humor is often a good approach to the situation. Doing something funny is often unexpected. Sally Ogden‚ an author on the subject of bullies‚ suggests that bullied kids should "outcrazy the crazies". She says to say something nuts like "Hey‚ do you want a banana?". When the other kids say that’s nuts‚ the bullied kid says "Ya‚ it is" and leaves the situation. Other strategies for kids who are bullied are not to show how upset they are by the bully‚ avoid
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