Opting Out of Standardized Tests Isn’t the Answer In the present era, people talk a lot about education structure and its standards in a region and its effects on various classes of people in that region. It is so because education is the primary thing that decides many facets of life and society. With respect to that, the annual standardized tests taken by school students is known for its importance as it is supposed to measure the progress in meeting national academic standards. One of the articles
of Humboldt and Hartford voted on an Opt-out that affects the budgeting of the school. That night it was announced that the Opt- out had passed. What this vote does is change the amount of money that the school can receive from taxes. In the state of South Dakota, the schools have a specific amount of money they can use for taxes. To receive more money the school would need to opt out of this amount for a new amount that the school board decides. The Opt-out vote will give the West Central school
”(Chloe Della)Instances like these make it very clear that consumers should be offered a choice to opt-out of marketing analytics.Verizon is a wireless phone company that makes money off data about our physical location and the websites we visit. Of course, companies tend to include a provision: consumers are allowed to "opt out." But that’s not always easy. On many websites, this option of opt out which limits the sharing of consumer data is not immediately noticeable. With the reformed EU Data
Opt Out is a movement that is addressing the option of not having a child participate in standardized testing. This is part of the No Child Left Behind program and addresses the way standardized testing distorts and corrupts K-12 classrooms perception. A growing numbers of parents, teachers and students are questioning the value of federal, state and district testing. Opt Out is stating that standardized testing results have shown that it is not having a positive effect on preparing students for
In the article “Opt-out organ donation without presumptions”, published by Dr. Ben Saunders, he is trying to promotes / defend “opt-out organ donation system”, where people who did not give their consents are automatically, considered as giving their consent to donate their organs when they passes away. This is rather completely opposite to the current organ donation system, Opt-in system, which we are more familiar with, where only people who have given their consents are the group of people who
4 Concealed Reasons Some Men Opt Out of Sex Some men don’t want sex, in contrast to the idea of them being game for it whenever opportunity presents itself, the opportunity here being a woman who wants it. But it’s not always the case. Some men turn it down with resolution. Sometimes sex is not enough take their attention away from something they think is more important. The common assumption is that a man doesn’t want sex because he no longer finds his partner sexually appealing or because she’s
occasions. She would never let me do it. “Emma, people pay good money to have your hair and it is gorgeous,” she would explain to me. Me, being young and clueless, I wanted to change it to be like my friends, I wanted to be a blonde. I felt like a fish out of water, yet, most people I came into contact with mentioned my hair was beautiful and special. I didn’t see it. Entering junior high and the beginnings of high school, the term “ginger” began. Through the season of Summer, I would wear shorts
Background In the 1970s, several large US food processing companies like General Mills and Pillsbury decided to expand into restaurant business. The reason was that an alarming number of consumers were eating out rather than at home more often due to rising family incomes and increase of women in the workforce. National Mills, another food processing company, set up a subsidiary International Concepts Incorporated (ICI) in the year 1983. ICI was doing reasonably well and National Mills also encouraged
A Drop in the Ocean In this economically stable era, spending the weekends for a taste bud luxury in a sumptuous restaurant has become a phenomenon. People nowadays can easily spend over hundred just for a meal. However, there are some less fortunate in the other part of the city who are fighting for hunger. To the homeless, eating is for survival. Some of them even thought that two meals a day is a sort of extravagance. It could be days until their next meal. Luckily, there are a number of kind
buckets and the smell of feed fills the air with its sweet fragrance, I dump feed into each horses’ buckets and give each their nightly hay. I do a final walk through to check on each of the horses and I walk by his stall my favorite pony pokes his head out for attention, I give him a quick rub and continue down the row of stalls making sure to check on everyone. I turn off the lights, slide the old heavy door closed and run in the now pelting rain back to the house, once I reach the screened porch I take
the front door, peering out the rear window, we see Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly take on great roles in Rear Window. The scene of choice that I will be explaining the montage over, is the scene where the dog has had its neck snapped. Up until this point, Lars Thorwald has seemed suspicious to L.B. Jefferies and Lisa, and is believed to have snapped this lady’s dogs neck for digging in his flower garden. In this scene we see multiple people turn on their lights and run out on their balconies to see
Ideal and Reality Everyone has an idea of an ideal world, particularly children. When children grow up, they start to realize that the reality is different from their ideal world. While children go through the adolescent stage, they will act differently than normal and have to handle huge changes both mentally and physically. This is demonstrated by the main character Holden Caulfield, in the Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger. Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year old boy, grows up and he realizes that
we shall compare and contrast two short stories: “A Glow in the Dark” by Gary Paulsen, and “Thank You M’am” by Langston Hughes. “A Glow in the Dark” is about a man dogsledding through a forest and encountering a strange, eerie light. He then finds out that it is nothing scary. “Thank You M’am” is about a boy named Roger who tried to steal a woman’s pocketbook. The woman ends up feeding him, washing him, and giving him 10 dollars to buy blue suede shoes. These two short stories both include elements
The Harlem Renaissance is a beautiful and exciting period of American Literature. Throughout class this semester we have talked about America’s literary identity crisis during and after the civil war. We have seen authors struggle with the questions of who are we and what should American literature look and sound like? As we step forward in to the Harlem Renaissance a new group of authors and artist emerge who know exactly who they are and what they have to say about life in America. “America” by
Essay “Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it,” These wise words by Emilie Autumn expresses what a hero is really made out of and that anyone can be a hero. The movie Moana tells a story of a young girl who is destined to save the world by restoring the stolen heart of the monster Te Ka. Along the way, she meets a demigod named Maui, and she works together with him to stop
When I think of my future I think of getting married and having a family. This means that I will have to find someone that I’m interested in. The five traits that I will look for in someone will be kind hearted. This is a big thing because I need someone that will be nice to me and treat my kids politely. In some cases I get very overwhelmed. A great trait to keep things balanced would be for them to be patient. I love people with a good sense of humour because I like to laugh so that is one trait
adjectives and adverbs used in the text make us sympathize with the young girl. When describing the Taliban’s actions the author use adjectives as “Cowardly”, “Brutal” and “Tyranny”, all of which are strong, harsh words that seems to be carefully thought out. When describing Malala on the other hand, words like “miraculous”, “intelligent” and “courageous” are used. The careful choice of words shows us that Malala is the complete opposite of the Taliban. By using words that are practically antonyms; the
What defines a good friend? The average person will have developed numerous friendships throughout their lives, but what determines which friendships will be lifelong or temporary? Family can be constituted as individuals you love, trust and care about, I personally consider my friends as family since those are the traits that produce quality character in an individual. There are many ways to define a good friend but the keys traits a friend should have are being trustworthy, loyal and caring.
and wrong, and they still do horrible acts because of the evil within them. Although Simon may seem like an outlier because he represents goodness and is a Christ-like figure, he is not born good, he just becomes good out of the knowledge that it is right. When Simon is killed, it is out of pure evil and love of death by Jack and his followers. Besides this, there is no other reason for the boys to kill him. Even seemingly good figures like Ralph and Piggy “Found themselves eager to take a place in
Who is the narrator? On first look, the answer may be obvious—Diedrich Knickerbocker is the narrator, for the legend was found “among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker”. But when the readers finish reading the postscript, they will find out the tale was told by a “pleasant, shabby, gentlemanly old fellow” who “does not believe one-half of the story himself.” However, if we take a scrutiny over