It’s senior year September‚ the trees shed their leaves‚ the air clings to it’s indian summer humidity and students scrabble to take the ACTs and SATs. Some for the 4th or 5th or 6th time. While colleges use these exams to predict a student’s future level of success‚ the tests fail to assess the highschooler fairly. Standardized tests‚ by definition‚ are not‚ in fact‚ Standardized. To standardized a procedure is “to change (things) so that they are similar and consistent and agree with rules about
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Atwood combines the use of literary techniques and form in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale to effectively display two main thematic concerns - rebellion and the place of an individual. Offred’s first evening with the Commander is one in which these two thematic concerns are exceptionally prevalent. Control‚ and the need to subjugate individuals is at the heart of dystopian literature and one of the primary effects of constant oppression is the inevitability of rebellion. Gileadean society runs on a
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In her novel The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Margret Atwood uses symbolism to illustrate the handmaid’s role in the society of Gilead. The handmaids are the women who had broken law of Gilead‚ and were forced into the role of a surrogate mother for a higher ranking couple. The handmaids had no rights or free will. They were under constant surveillance and this caused them to be very cautious. The author characterizes most handmaids as a tentative and distrustful‚ which is perhaps why Offred never puts in words
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Title | Specific Objectives | Thesis Statement | Significance of the study | Data Gathering Tools | Scope & Delimitations | Variables | Life-long Learning Skills Gained in Two Learning Team (or 2 schools – Public and Private Schools in Las Pinas) | - To identify the level of lifelong learning skills gained by two categories of learning team.identify- To know the relationship of lifelong learning skills gained by solely academic students to students who participates in ECA.compare- To identify
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1. Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. In school terms‚ it can be described as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary. Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. In general vocabulary can be described as oral or reading vocabulary or reading vocabulary. Oral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening. Reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print.- National reading panel reports and
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Throughout Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded state is created through the use of multiple themes and narrative techniques. In a dystopia‚ we can usually find a society that has become all kinds of wrong‚ in direct contrast to a utopia‚ or a perfect society. Like many totalitarian states‚ the Republic of Gilead starts out as an envisioned utopia by a select few: a remade world
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In the case in the text where someone purchased a used safe at an auction for $50‚ but was later found by the buyers to contain more than $30‚000 in cash‚ how did the court rule? a. There was no contract because the buyer was unjustly enriched. b. There was no contract because the act of opening the safe was not completed before the buyers took the safe. c. This was an implied-in-fact contract and the buyers were required to pay the fair value for the safe and its contents. d. There was objective
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Baseball‚ football‚ dancing‚ boxing matches‚ and even rodeos consumed hours of the day and were fairly reliable ways to make money. Easily accessible games including cards‚ dominoes‚ and puzzles became popular‚ and Scrabble and Monopoly made their first appearances (“Having Fun”). The first superhero was published by what would eventually become DC Comics. Shirley Temple was adored by families all over the nation (“The 1930s”). In addition‚ hundreds of singers‚ comedians
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Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison. ‘Could he have meant- hell‚ he must have meant‚ the principle‚ that we were to affirm the principle on which the country was built and not the men‚ or at least not the men who did the violence. Did he mean say “yes” because he knew the principle was bigger than the men‚ greater than the numbers and the vicious power and all the methods used to corrupt its name?’ So asked the invisible man‚ the protagonist never named in the novel‚ in relation to the confunding
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Life without a Television When my family’s only television set went to the repair shop the other day‚ my parents‚ my sister‚ and I thought we would have a terrible week. How could we get through the long evenings in such a quiet house? What would it be like without all the shows to keep us company? We soon realized‚ though‚ that living without a television for a while was a stroke of good fortune. It became easy for each of us to enjoy some activities alone‚ to complete some postponed chores
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