a man who’s purpose of this test was to exclude minorities and immigrants. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is neither fair nor does it actually measure student’s intelligence or college readiness. The SAT originated for the purpose of excluding minorities and immigrants‚ and to this day the test proves to still have racial bias. In 1926‚ Dr. Carl Brigham‚ the psychologist invented the SAT. He developed it on the basis of an army IQ test‚ a standardized test that placed 1.5 million soldiers into
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College drug testing Do you think that colleges should drug test their students? Well I am going to tell you why colleges should do drug testing‚ or why they should not do drug test on their students. You will hear about the laws and rights of these students being tested. Is it unconstitutional to drug test a student randomly? Why should colleges use drug test? Colleges should do drug test to first of all make sure no students/athletes are doing drugs‚ second they want to make the game play fair
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Katie Nguyen Mr. Harris English 2B 28 February 2012 Opposed to Animal Testing Have you ever witnessed an animal being abused? Well I have and it is heartbreaking and immoral. Just imagine how animals are being treated in factories today‚ they are being shoved into barren containers or kennels while suffering from pain and stress waiting to be blown up‚ maimed‚ or shot (Animal Experiments 1). As death may only be a miracle for those animals because many are tortured in ongoing experiments that
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Minute Speech against animal testing We should stop the use of animals for research and testing purposes. Animal research/testing refers to the use of non-human animals for testing or experimenting on. The use of animals for testing is used in the fields of: Biomedical research‚ security‚ evaluation‚ and education of a product. Every year animals are subject to experiments so painful and damaging that no one would ever do them on humans. Deciding whether or not to do animal testing is a tough
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Laurel Sira Formal Sentence Outline COMS 1030 Title of Speech: Standardized testing General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: School and universities will no longer use standardized testing. Proposition: All schools and university should stop using standardized testing as a measure of intelligence and academic capability and success. Introduction I. Attention Getter Albert Einstein‚ Charles Dickens‚ John Rockefeller‚ and Bill Gates…what do all these people have in common? They were “bad
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Persuasive Speech Outline Introduction Attention: I. Attention: Imagine that you or a close loved one of yours is in the hospital about to give birth when suddenly‚ before you can even set eyes on the little one or hold them‚ the nurses rush them out of the room and your lives are turned upside down in a matter of seconds. II. Connect: Unfortunately this is something that happens to many unsuspecting families every day and could happen to you or someone that you know. Opposition: Some
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Standardized Testing‚ For or Against? In today’s world‚ the debate topic focused on standardized testing has become controversial to many. Standardized testing is a test designed for students to answer a certain amount of questions in the subject Math‚ English‚ and History. An example of a standardized test is Parcc or ACT/SAT. In most schools and institutes‚ they are tests designed to measure the knowledge a student has. In standardized testing‚ students are required to answer a set of the same
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The Effects of SAT and ACT Test Scores on Students Too often students find themselves cramming information they should know before taking a test. Initially‚ they’ll study the information‚ and mundanely forget it soon after the test. Students often say “getting grades is the most important thing about school” (LeCompte). The more emphasis teachers and parents’ place on performance‚ the more students become set back by a failure‚ which makes an even more vigorous point to this argument (Heyman and
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“the man” or the ones who rule are powers that one needs to rebel against. For years this has been going on and one thing that has been causing this to grow more and more are the advertisements that are bombarding our lives with billboards‚ commercials‚ and ads wherever we look. Advertisers have created a world where people can disobey and rebel against the man by purchasing products like Ciroc Vodka that tell consumers to “Go Against The Grain” . By purchasing their product they are carving into
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Animal cruelty is one of the most leading issues in America today. I am against animal cruelty because to me‚ an animal is similar to a human being and no one should be treated differently. I think that people should not even consider taking care of an animal if they do not want them to begin with. Once an animal is abused or mistreated‚ it is very hard for them to be their warm gentle selves again and they will not be friendly nor fond of humans or any other animal. Animal laws in the United States
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