I. a. b. Intro Academic summary: In “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood‚” Leon Botstein argues that the “American high school is obsolete and should be abolished.” He explains that this obsolescence is because high school does not represent the way real life works‚ that real life is not a popularity contest dominated by the best athletes like the hierarchies that he claims exist among students and teachers in high schools. Botstein suggests that our society sequesters teenagers in high schools because adults “don’t like adolescents
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Name: Cici Li Assignment: Critical response Topic: Globish Summary Cuthbert and Jackson both discuss Globish which is a simplified form of English. They have different opinion on Globish. Cuthbert indicates that Globish is an easy way of communication‚ while Jackson states that Globish is lack of accuracy. They both talk about vocabulary‚ grammar and culture. Jackson claims that culture are very important to language‚ whereas Cuthert maintains that language can separate from culture
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Zalman Babekov English September 7‚ 2014 Response to The ’Black Table’ Is Still There 14 Years Later Re- Written Version In my own words I would say Lawrence Otis Graham lived in a different time period then we do now. What he interpreted as racism in fact in my opinion is what we today would call peer pressure. In high school it is hard to find friends. There are o many people to chose from‚ so many backgrounds and nationalities. If you think about it a high school is just a melting pot of
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Refugee Review Tribunal AUSTRALIA RRT RESEARCH RESPONSE Research Response Number: Country: Date: MNG32859 Mongolia 4 February 2008 Keywords: Mongolia – Homosexuals – Universities This response was prepared by the Research & Information Services Section of the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the RRT within time constraints. This response is not‚ and does not purport to be‚ conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim
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A Summary and Response to "the Aesthetics of Power: Politics in The Tale of Genji" by Haruo Shirane In his article‚ Shirane suggests that many people and themes in the Genji book are based on or inspired by historical or literary figures and notions. However‚ it is also noted that Murasaki Shikibu incorporated her own aspirations into her masterpiece. Shirane compares the characters in the book with historical figures‚ illustrating how the people in history get embodied into their fictional counterparts
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L iterature Review and Findings P repared by: J essica Wode J onathan Keiser A cademic Affairs C olumbia College Chicago S pring 2011 T ABLE OF C ONTENTS Summary of Scholarly Research on Student Course Evaluations...............................................2 Recommendations for Improving Response Rates......................................................................6 Additional Reading on Online Evaluations: Annotated Bibliography..................................
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September 27‚ 2011 AP Psychology‚ period 2 Consciousness Free Response 1. a) The topic of dreams is certainly a complex and interesting subject to further investigate‚ having many different aspects and meanings to it. There are many theories and ideologies regarding why dreams occur in the first place‚ such as wish fulfillment theory‚ activation synthesis theory‚ as well as cognitive development‚ information processing‚ and physiological function. Freud suggested wish fulfillment theory‚
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w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er Example Candidate Responses (Standards Booklet) Cambridge International AS Level English Language 8693 Cambridge Advanced Copyright Acknowledgements: Question 1 © Michele Hanson‚ The Guardian ; G2‚ pg 9; 05/08/2008. Question 3 © Extract taken from: Cable News; http://edition.cnn.com/2005/politics; 2007. Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared
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film is a useful method for avoiding this situation. The Great Gatsby‚ one of the interesting romantic-drama films of 2013‚ is based on the epic American classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film typically received a positive response from the mainstream audience‚ however‚ it obtained the mixed interpretations‚ chiefly‚ unfavorable comments‚ from the film critics. Based on the movie reviews‚ “Gatsby Pizzazz from a Stylish Luhrmann‚” written by Nadine Hancock for The Southland
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Summary and Response of “How Technology Makes Us better Social Beings” In “How Technology Makes Us better Social Beings” Megan Gambino (2011) believes that although there are some research shows technology is harmful to people’s public relationship‚ there are more studies prove that technology can build more relationship for people. The author lists many different researches about both negative and positive effects of technology. Gambino is trying to let the reader believe the technologies have
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