...After watching Waiting for Superman and reading What ‘Superman’ got wrong, point by point, both stances seemed to place themselves at the far ends of a spectrum that I found myself somewhere in the middle on for most of the issues brought up. Waiting for Superman is clearly the work of a non-teacher, as the reforms showcased in the film highlight radical change to teaching staff, the dissolving of teachers unions, and the placement of the child’s needs above the adults. What ‘Superman’ got wrong, point by point is (as stated) the rebuttal to the movie from the view of a teacher. The educator who wrote this essay, Rick Ayers, shows his support for teachers unions, the addressing of the curriculum and method that we teach kids and not the people...
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...A Second Chance at Life Sally Satel’s argument in “Death’s Waiting List”, states that there is an extreme lack of organ donors in this society. “70,000 Americans are waiting for kidneys, according to The United Network for Organ Sharing” and “only about 16,000 people received one last year. “ In large cities, where the ratio of acceptable organs to needy patients is worst, the wait is five to eight years and is expected to double by 2014 “. There is no reason why the wait should be this long because any one can be an organ donor and Satel does a great job of explaining the benefits throughout in her essay. As a previous member of the waiting list, Satel resorted to desperate measures when she considered going to the black market to obtain a kidney that she needed as well as trying a website called matchingdonors.com. She was lucky enough to find a match on the website, but unfortunately he fell through. As far as the black market goes, she thought it was too risky and unsafe even though she was in a life or death situation. This all could have been prevented if more people in our country were to consider themselves organ donors. If the black market isn’t safe for buying movies or getting music illegally, then it is definitely not safe for buying a kidney. This small statement in Satel’s essay provides a shocking emotional appeal to the readers. She brought up a great point that in most European countries, they practice “presumed consent” which is when “all citizens are...
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...concepts that are opposite in meaning.” “Waiting for Godot”, a classic of modern theatre, is a tragicomedy in two acts which tells the story of two men, Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting to meet a man named Godot. By using deconstructive literary criticism, the play can be analyzed threw the following binary oppositions: passive/active hopelessness/hope, forgetfulness/remembrance and staying/going. Vladimir and Estragon are in a constant state of waiting for Godot: “Nothing to be done. / I'm beginning to come round to that opinion."(Waiting for Godot). Although they are being passive they try to occupy themselves while waiting for Godot. Derrida states that in binary oppositions there is a unspoken hierarchy in which the first term functions as superior to the second term which is considered inferior: “ Derrida’s procedure is to invert the hierarchy in which the first term functions as privileged and superior and the second term as derivative and inferior. By showing that the primary term can be made out to be derivative from or a special case of the secondary term” By reversing the first term with the second a greater meaning can obtained. Although Vladimir and Estragon as in a passive state of waiting they attempt to keep active in order to pass the time. This shows that being active is valued over being passive: “ What about trying them. / I’ve tried everything/ No I mean the boots/ Would that be a good thing? / It’d pass the time. I assure you, it’d...
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...This essay examines Langston Hughes’ short story entitled “Salvation.” The aspect of the story on which this illustration essay focuses is the main character, “Langston” (Hughes 204), and the aspect of Langston’s character on which this illustration essay focuses is the way in which is character is portrayed as so significantly influenced by the circumstances in which he is enmeshed. “Salvation” is an autobiographical short story. Hughes portrays an event that occurred to him when he was close to the age of thirteen. Hughes’ “Salvation” is strikingly consistent with some of the experiments and findings of social psychology, which can leave as strong an impression on its readers as a work of fiction, such as Milgram’s teacher-learner experiment and Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment (Myers 138, 211-217). But a different social psychology experiment, less well-known, speaks almost exactly to Hughes’ “Salvation”: in Solomon Asch’s studies on group pressure, an experimenter working with six college student confederates (people who work for the experimenter for the purpose of deceiving the subject) are seated around a table, and the subject of the experiment sits at the sixth seat in the circle. When asked which single line on the blackboard was the same length as a group of three lines, the first five students lied and chose Line A instead of Line B. The subject of the experiment was bewildered, knowing full well that the line did not match, but after showing much anxiety, gave...
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...A Catharsis for All Henry Louis Mencken’s essay, entitled "The Penalty of Death," is a persuasive essay about the death penalty. The author does not attempt to alter the reader’s opinion as to the merits of the death penalty. He attempts to answer two questions most commonly heard in his day. First, executing a person is a terrible business and it “degrades” (Mencken) those whom-ever choose to administer this style of justice as a profession. He addresses this first question by simply agreeing with it. Most people would agree that the prospect of being the hangman is a vocation that would be most unpleasant. He points out that although it may be unpleasant, it is still necessary for society to support such a profession. The second question he addresses is to those that view capital punishment as a useless deterrent to crime. The author contends that those who wish to abolish the death sentence are in error if their assumption is founded solely upon the mistaken belief that the “whole purpose” of punishing a criminal is to deter some potential future crime. Mencken believes that they are “confusing [a] part with the whole” (Mencken). The future deterrent is only a part of the “whole purpose” of punishing a criminal. There are many more reasons to list: like revenge, justice, or relief just to name a few. Mencken's primary purpose is to identify the motive for this type of punishment. He identifies this motive as a catharsis, and he describes it as a "healthy letting out of...
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...Hong Kong is divided into public and private healthcare services. It keeps improving in order to provide high efficiency and good quality healthcare to population; therefore, this essay aims at comparing the differences on patient experiences in Hong Kong between public and private hospital care. In this essay, "patient experiences" is defined as the range of interactions that patient have with the professionals or specialists in hospital,also the several aspects of health care the patient received. Thus, provision of care by hospital staff, provision of different components of patient care and treatment and provision of information on leaving hospital will be compare in the essay. Firstly, comparing the experiences during the admission to hospital. The main component...
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...improving the performance of the employees by developing the capabilities of team and individual contributors. A performance management system sets out to establish organisational goals and objectives to ensure that a business is successful and employees perform to the highest possible standard. The system also identifies any problems with a pubic service and monitors progression in the form of improved performance. It is important to establish whether performance management systems will improve public services because they affect every individual in the UK. A good example of where a performance management system is needed for better quality of safety, reliability, punctuality, and comfort is on UK railways and on the London Underground. This essay aims to establish whether the successful implementation and use of performance management systems will lead to a higher quality of education, health, police force and public transport system. The Prime Minister’s Speech in 2001 stated that UK public services were still in need of modernisation and change in order to meet the changing needs of a 21st century public. He suggested that investment alone was not enough to increase the quality of public services and he believed that society was driving the focus away from the 1980s financial focused businesses to focus on successful public orientated businesses. Tony Blair also explained that teachers, doctors, nurses and police officers amongst other professional public servants were satisfied...
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...2013 On Becoming a Writer 3 The main idea of the essay is the fact that the author always had the desire to be a writer but he was faced with the difficult of writing during his time at school, his English classes were very hard and confused. The others points I found on this essay is: * The author faced and thought that only the rich people could write and that being a writer as professional did not have a good future, but even that he had begun to think about being a writer. So in his third year at college things changed for him. * When his class assigned to Mr. Fleagle, he was waiting another sad and dull year because the Mr. Fleagle was recognized as a person with no inspiration, no glare, his way of dressing or even his physical characteristics made the students in the city do not have a good conception of Mr. Fleagle. * Another important point that the author cites in his essay is he was not disappointed for a long time, because he expected an antipathetic professor. Also he cites the teacher wanted his students to like Macbeth, but the teacher didn’t know how to influence the students’ whit that passion he had for Macbeth. The author makes a citation which one the teacher always used in the classroom and is very interesting “do not you see”, the author claims it as his teacher was placed in front of students in a tone of mild surprise ignorance of them. What I realized at the end of the essay is the author decides to break the rules and finally begins...
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...Thoreau is well known for his book Walden and his essay “Civil Disobedience”. Throughout his essay, he covered most of the idea “That government is the best which government least”; an argument that he used to persuade people disobey to an unjust state. With the purpose of persuading his audiences, Thoreau used different kinds of rhetorical strategies, but his arguments about morality prove successful due to his use of Pathos strategy. Thoreau used the Pathos strategy seem throughout his essay, especially when he writing about his time in the jail. He was thrown in the jail for a night because of refusal to pay poll tax for six years. This poll tax was raising fund for the American – Mexican war, which was Thoreau did not agree with. By telling...
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...Even though, I almost never had a quiet time because I have two very active boys who keep me on my toes and who are my main reason why I am in school. My boys are my energy and who keep me up at night to study because as an English learner, I knew that I had to work harder to be at the same level as my peers. With that being said, I started reading the writing portion of the study guide first because I felt that the writing section was going to be the hardest for me. In addition, I believed that writing was hard and something that I couldn’t do right. As the time passed, the day of the test was approaching and I almost cancelled the test because I still did not feel ready for the writing section. I knew that I had to get help to feel confident about the writing...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay 5/12/2014 Ashford University English 121-AXC1415E Instructor: Jamie Cooper Student: Katherin Wheat When it comes to writing the compare and contrast essay style, it is one of the more difficult ones to achieve. The differences between these two essays “How to say nothing in 500 words” by: Paul McHenry Roberts and “caged bird” by: Maya Angelou is easy to pick out. As far as the similarities goes that proved to a little harder to give a lot of examples. In the following paragraphs there will be plenty of examples of compare and contrast, give summaries, a couple of quotes and a paraphrase will be included in this essay. While how to say nothing in 500 words and Caged Bird are both well-written essays, caged Bird was more visual than How to say nothing in 500 words because the author painted a more detailed picture which kept the reader’s attention, the attended audience was more overly open to more people than that of how to say nothing in 500 words essay, and the author of caged bird had a bigger and deeper impact on the readers then the author of how to say nothing in 500 words did. Caged Bird was more visual than How to say nothing in 500 words because the author painted a more detailed picture which kept the reader’s attention. Maya Angelou’s descriptive essay “Caged bird” tells a story of a caged bird and a free bird. The caged bird signifies a person with the skin color darker than that of a peach colored crayon, held down by the paralyzing...
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...Showing Your Skills A lot of people don’t realize that there are intelligent people out there waiting to be found, waiting for their time to shine. Because everyone is intellectual in their own way whether or not they attend college. You would think that with the title of a degree would come with massive amounts of knowledge in a certain subject. But in reality college isn’t always the best way to show your strengths. Some of the most intellectual people you will meet will neither be a college graduate with a fancy job and lots of money, or a person who works at the local grocery store who has the memory of your home computer someone who can remember anything you tell them. People like that are just waiting for their time to show their skills. Someone who knows firsthand on the subject of blue class workers is Mike Rose who wrote the essay “Blue Collar Brilliance” where Rose challenges the view that intelligence can be measured by the amount of schooling a person has completed. He suggests that blue-collar and service jobs require more intelligence than meets the eye. He describes his experiences growing up; observing his mother as a waitress in coffee shops and family restaurants, Rose also talks about the language that the employees had. Rose states “Lingo conferred authority and singled know-how.”(244) He depicts his mother as a dynamic women who lived her job and put her heart and soul into being a waitress. He described the way she became a pro at deciphering...
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...Module 10 essay 1 & 2: Yes, photography can be considered a viable form of art. Photography can take what the world sees and instead of having to reproduce it through painting, it can be captured as it is seen and portrayed in nature. A photograph can be considered art by the way the content is portrayed. The photo may show forms of texture, use of lines, use of color and even create a collage. Photography was not accepted as art because it was a copy of what was seen with the eyes. Most people considered art to be created from your mind and with your hands and various mediums. Photography became accepted after many years of being used only for portraits. It was able to be used in many ways and create many different feelings. Essay 2: The Calotype process formed the basis for modern photography. D. W. Griffith was the first to master editing of film and created the standard vocabulary for filmmaking. The magazine Camera Works became an important part of American Photography. “At the Time of the Louisville Flood” is an image of the Great Depression. A large billboard takes over the background. The sign depicts a perfect white family in their new car and perfect home.” Below the sign, is a line of African Americans waiting for any help they can receive. He people in the car are blind to what is really taking place and are about to run into the crowd. The picture portrays the cruel reality of the time during the depression. It is sad that the colored are waiting under a...
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...Summer break had just ended. Where did the time go? Well it back to the books I said to myself I wonder what’s in store for me this year. I could hardly believe it’s my final year in school. Like my teachers would say “getting ready for the real world.” When I returned to school, I was so excited to see all of my friends, we hugged, we talked about summer vacations and then the bell rang from homeroom. I was in Mr. Henry’s homeroom, I was glad; he is cool one of the coolest teachers. Announcements came on and then it was off to Convocation. Mrs. Knowles addressed the entire school and then turned her attention to the seniors, she reminded us about the seriousness of this year and how at some point during the year we may have to make decisions that can affect our life forever! I am sitting thinking to myself “what kind of decision will have to make that will affect my life? I have a mother who makes those decisions for me.” The following day classes were in full swing, and the work load was heavy, but it was nothing I couldn’t handle. I had settled down a whole lot and my last report card was a reflection of it, it was the best report that I had gotten in years. And oh boy wasn’t my mother proud! The school year was going by so quickly before I could blink my eye we were taking year book pictures, getting measured for cap and grown and the deadlines or course work was almost here. I remember this particular morning, I arrived at school and just as I came out of the car. Kwame...
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...Comparing Online Shopping with Traditional Shopping Online shopping has grown to new heights over the last decade and shows no signs of slowing down. The internet has brought practically every store in the world to the fingertips of anyone with internet access. Shopping online gives the user the opportunity to search for the product they want through endless avenues. Online shopping has grown so large that many companies are not investing in buildings and mall space, rather in online websites and web advertising. Through this paper I will discuss the reasons why shopping online is a better alternative to traditional shopping. The first benefit of online shopping is the convenience. While others are out fighting traffic and waiting in lines, online shoppers are home relaxing. Online shoppers can go from store to store with a flick of a mouse, while traditional shoppers have to walk, drive or can’t get to the stores they want. Online shoppers also benefit when it comes to comparison shopping. Traditional shoppers have to put a lot of work into comparison shopping. They have to drive from place to place find items and price and go onto the next place. This can be exhausting and stressful. The online shopper can do this from his or her couch. Online shoppers can search the planet for the product they are looking for, while traditional shoppers are limited to a small area. When it comes to seeing, touching, and trying out a new product, there is no substitute...
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