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ESSA: Empty Promises or Great Hopes The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to reform education policies to make all students have equal opportunities. ESSA expands the government's power in the education system and promises to focus more on the student rather than standardized tests. However, not all students are being treated the way the Act specifies and schools are still struggling with funding that could be dropped.…

As “the single most catastrophic natural disaster in U.S. history,” Hurricane Katrina wracked New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast region during and after 2005 and is virtually without parallel in recent U.S. history. The tremendous storm surge after the hurricane paralyzed the city of New Orleans because not only the city’s natural geographic features made it vulnerable to flooding, but also the built protective system failed and worsened the impact of flooding. The flooding ensued after…

It is Saturday, December 3, 2016 in Brookings, South Dakota where I attend college at South Dakota State University. It is the day of the first round, home, playoff football game between the South Dakota State Jackrabbits and the Villanova Wildcats. While most students are either at the game or watching it downtown at the bars, I am in my room studying. This is the life of a pre-medical student. Being a pre-medicine major and a student of the process of becoming a doctor, I have seen and lived…

It goes on to explain how school manipulate the size and number of their men’s non-commercial sports to keep the number of male participants down and how it is counterintuitive to the goals expressed by Title IX. The article continues that Title IX was never meant to be an affirmative action law, but rather “like Title VI and Title VII, Title IX is an anti-discrimination statute” and has just been twisted to become different than what it was originally intended to be. The article finally…

Similarities? Differences? Everybody has them. American economists, Barbara Bergmann and Steven Levitt, are no different. Bergmann deals with racial and gender equality, while Steven Levitt bases his economic ideas on crime rates, abortion, and prostitution. Both economists are well-educated and strong leaders in what they do, though I disagree vehemently with some of Levitt’s ideas. Barbara Bergmann and Steven Levitt have very few similarities. Both are graduates of Harvard University and…

American problem When we think of America, the images of Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, clean city, beautiful campus of Harvard or other fancy university comes into our mind. In some extreme cases we think of Macy’s or Victoria’s Secret’s showrooms, but we never think of wars, terrorism, military attacks, drug abuse, over throwing governments at first. We have some positive pictures of The United States in our mind, because we mostly see positive things about America in…

Chepreia Matthews Prof. Williamson Engwr 101 TTH 10:30 am -12:35pm 10 May 2016 Essay 3 Hair-Story Like most African American I was forced to come to terms with the reality and the importance of hair. I remember the first time my mother hot combed my hair. “Hold still girl”, she said as she ran the hot comb through my thick hair. After my mother pressed my hair, I noticed a dramatic difference in texture of my hair, it was…

Introduction The discussion of building a larger wall at the U.S.-Mexico border has become an increasingly popular topic among the media in recent months. The 2016 presidential race may be a correlating factor to the growing interest and debate over the public policy issue. A variety of news sources constantly publish articles that illustrate opposing opinions to either build a larger wall or to leave the border alone. Many of the arguments discuss the issue of Mexican immigrants coming to the…

The United States isn’t doing enough to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Jennifer Swims goes to school at 7:15 a.m. comes home at 2:35 p.m. but instead of starting homework like most seventeen years old, she comes home and cares for her child. Then at 4:00pm, she starts work at McDonald’s not leaving until 12:35 a.m. Upon returning home, she plays with her son until 1:30am. Swims is lucky enough that she receives support from her family which allows her to attend to school but not all teen mothers are so…

Economic interest groups are ubiquitous and the most prominent in all countries. There are literally thousands of them with offices in national capitals from London to Ottawa to New Delhi to Canberra. There are several different kinds of economic interests: business groups (e.g., the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Confederation of British Industry, and the Nestlé Corporation, headquartered in Switzerland and with operations throughout the world), labour groups (e.g., IG Metall…