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    Serrano Case Study

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    Describe the key issues related to the Serrano v. Priest decision. What did the court decide? What action did the State take following the court’s decision? In 1968 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of Mr. Serrano in the Superior Courts of Los Angeles. Serrano claimed the funding system for California schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, as well as the Equal Protection clause in the California Constitution. At the time of the Serrano case, per pupil spending varied greatly from school district to school district. Baldwin Park School District, the district where Serrano’s children were in attendance, had an average per pupil expenditure of around $500 while Beverly Hills School District’s average…

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    Essay On Small Class Size

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    and less stress for teachers (Illig, “Literature Review”). The California Teachers Association has reported that due to its positive effect the popularity of class size reduction is “widely popular with parents and school staff” with many reporting improvement in classroom learning environments and working condition for teachers (CTA, “Research: Class Size Does Matter”). In a time where the interest in the teaching profession is declining, small class sizes are an indirect impact on teacher…

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    Proposition 13 Proposition 13 was placed on the California ballot in the 1970’s in reaction to the rise in California’s property values and property taxes. The values of homes in California by the mid 1970’s rose from 50 to 100 percent within one year. This rise caused a financial strain on California. Because of the strain California was ready for a change. The change was proposed by two individuals who were antitax activists: Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann. Both individuals had a history of…

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    his 18 propositions, his argument stays strong through his novel. In each proposition, Howard discusses the struggle within our government that can be easily fixed if government was not an automatic system, but rather a system that was governed by the people. Human responsibility could better improve government programs, such as with the example of the nursing home, or the tree in a lake, or the drowning man. It isn’t complicated; the government cannot act as its own body, because it is not…

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    When I compare with others, a lot of people said to me that I am the very organizing person throughout my life. I personally love to cleaning up or arranging any mass that needs to organize. Even though, from my class notes, I have to make it neatly and putting things as order as understandable. And also, I tried to write with my handwriting as neatly as possible. If someone wants my notes, I wanted to show that I am organized person from small things to a big thing. It is not just showing my…

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    Cage Free Essay

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    will benefit from more food supplies. This is a better consequence. As a result, consequentialists may argue that the money should be spent in addressing world hunger rather than pursuing a cage-free system. For those concerned about the high cost of the cage-free system, I argue that the cage-free system is an improvement in how humans treat animals. The mission of the Humane Society of the United States is “to reduce the suffering of animals raised for meat, eggs, and milk”.9 The…

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    James David Clifford

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    However, he argues that beliefs based upon insufficient evidence are wrong regardless of how trivial they seem. Beliefs shape our actions, and we ought not act based on unjustified beliefs. But belief in unquestioned claims trivializes the faculty of belief. If we trivialize the importance of justifying beliefs, we are more likely to end up acting based on unfounded beliefs at some point. Thus, we ought never believe things. For similar reasons, the duty to question and justify beliefs extends…

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    Cassam gives an example, where a person believes in P by following the transparency method only if by doing this, there’s a certain justification for believing in P. When you rely on the transparency, which would give justification for believing in P that comes from a part of my justification to believe at least another proposition, which will be the linking assumption. Considering this, P is epistemically inferential and not immediate, when it’s based on the transparency…

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    Throughout his fourth walk, Rousseau continually compares truth and justice, and he even goes so far as to link the two. Rousseau discusses the differences between truths that are owed, which is calls general truths, and truths that are not owed, which he calls particular truths. In addition to this, he also discusses the differences between fictions and lies. Rousseau mentions that justice is to give what to each what is owed, and he states that justice and truth are synonymous. For the most…

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    The truth can be a hard thing to come by when you are dealing with any type of person. In “Theme for English B,” by Langston Hughes, the topic of truth is what lays the foundation down for his poem. Hughes is most likely the speaker in this poem giving the view of an entire group, which would be the colored student population. The poem starts off by sharing an assignment the instructor gave the speaker for their class. The instructor informs the class that if they let their literary work…

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