Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on the following issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading‚ studies‚ experience or observations. Official Study Guide‚ Second Edition 1. Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority? 2. Should people take more responsibility for solving problems that affect their communities or the nation in general? 3. Can knowledge be a burden rather
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1) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: [pic] The classic love story – betrayals‚ broken friendships‚ family rivalries‚ and resistance to authority build up to shocking tragedy. Themes: • Revenge: Think of all the revenge killings‚ e.g. Mercutio. • Disobeying vs. following authority: Both Romeo and Juliet defy parental authority. • Love‚ friendship‚ loyalty: This one’s pretty self-explanatory… these forces can consume us‚ redeem us‚ cause us to do things we wouldn’t
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David Wilson Mrs. Jensen English 101-014 14 November 2012 The SAT Put to the Test Thesis: The ETS is negligent towards the statistics that show that the SAT is not a fair way of measuring a students academic worth and thus should be replaced or remodeled‚ because there are better and easier ways of measuring learning ability‚ biased to the lower class children that take them‚ and not the first choice of information that colleges are interested in when enrolling students. I. School faculty should
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Should SAT/ACT not be a requirement for the College Application Process? The ACT and SAT are standardized test that are supposed to test how well a student did in high school. The ACT is a national college admissions examination that consists of subject area tests in English‚ mathematics‚ reading‚ and science. The writing part is optional‚ if the student decides to take the writing part‚ it costs more. The SAT is a similar test that test a student’s academic skills used for admission to United States’
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Parents have different views about how children should grow up. Some parents like their children to grow up with only studies‚ school activities‚ no playing during the evening and no school nights. There are some parents who always make their children go out and do school nights. The students who study more and do not go for school nights mostly have an upper hand on those who go for school nights. It is good to have a 9:00 P.M. curfew on school nights for the people under the age of eighteen after
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Why do employees with high job satisfaction commit fraud? Erica Miller Southern Technical College Table of Content Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Definition of Terms 5 Methodology 5 Results 6 References 8 Abstract When people who hear about executives that commit fraud the thing that first comes to mind may be: “They must have really hated their job or company to do such a thing”. That may not always be the case. In some cases it is the CEO or even the founder of
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1. The simple and direct images in Dorothea Lange’s photographs provide ------- reflection of a bygone social milieu. (a) an intricate (b) a candid (c) an ostentatious (d) a fictional (e) a convoluted 2. Kate’s impulsive nature and sudden whims led her friends to label her -------. (a) capricious (b) bombastic (c) loquacious (d) dispassionate (e) decorous 3. Neurosurgeon Alexa Canady maintained that choosing a career
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high GPA‚ and a high SAT score. First‚ it is important to maintain a high GPA in high school. Most students don’t care about their grades‚ which is damaging to the people that want to get into top tier schools. Often the students who didn’t do well in high school look back and regret not trying. Most colleges look at the GPA of students and determine
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terrified thing a young person would ever have‚ the SAT. Know for its extremely dull black and white pages and its rigorously rough questions‚ I was about to prove myself against its makers‚ The College Board. Opening my eyes‚ I was greeted by the bright‚ shiny sun peeking through the curtains. Getting up I noticed my calendar overfilled with Post-it notes‚ but there was a bright tomato‚ red color one‚ it was something important written as‚ “SAT Today”. My brain shifted into gears‚ I quickly sprang
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1. Although Rolf is usually quite timorous‚ he was so angered by the salesman’s rude remarks that he insisted on complaining to the manager A. tractable...reassured X B. timorous...angered? C. X plucky...offended? D. X valiant...incensed? E. diffident...satisfied X 2. The new administrator was (old fashioned); he considered new ideas worthy of consideration but ultimately (chose) the old ways. A. an iconoclast...undermined by X B. an opportunist...reminiscent of X C. X a sentimentalist
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