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“I know, I know, just bear with me for a minute. Whether we like it or not, the Common Core State Standards are here to stay. So, by a show of hands, how many of you know what the Common Core is?” Every hand in the room went up. “Okay, who would like to give me a thumbnail sketch?” Several hands rose excitedly. “Yes, you,” James said, pointing to a boy in the back row. “The Common Core is another blatant attempt by the federal government to take over control of public education, and centralize…

Bill Gates When you see me, what do you think about first? You probably just think i’m a successful businessman who owns Microsoft. However, in my years I have donated a total of about $28 billion dollars to charity which has helped save around 6 million people, supplying them with many vaccines and healthcare. Hi, Im Bill Gates and I have fought to make others lives better by donating large sums of money to various charities to help the poor, help the people who need food, and help the…

Just Do It Success is the correct or desired result of an attempt. Malcolm Gladwell the author of the book Outliers concludes how we can achieve success and he adds that success can be defined in different kinds of ways, but whichever definition we choose it will require an enormous amount of hard work. There are a lot of ways to become successful then we think and each of them consists overlapping identical factors that we need to keep in mind. The factors are such as having opportunities,…

For this comparative book review, I decided to check out the book At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era by Erika Lee. Written in 2003, this book describes the United States policies on Chinese Immigration from 1882-1943, spanning from the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 to its repeal in 1943 with the passage of the Magnuson Act. This book explains the causes of these Chinese exclusion policies and their effects on Chinese and Chinese-American citizens,…

The Fiftieth Gate and Europa Europa There cannot be an absolute truth in the understanding of the event of the Holocaust as both history and memory are merely partial representations of the event. In the bricolage, Fiftieth Gate by Mark Baker and the film Europa Europa (1990) directed by Agnieszka Holland based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, the representation of history and memory seeks not to find an absolute truth but to provide a deeper understanding of the past through the…

Have you ever felt like you are being watched? Maybe it’s not even another person. Quite possibly it might just be yourself. In Godwin’s, “The Watcher at the Gates”, she discusses her “inner critique”, and opens up the possibility that everybody has one. The real page turner to this scenario is how to overcome this inner beast from taking control, or in Virginia Wolf’s case, taking too much control. I’m here to inform the world of my inner beast that was almost, unconquerable. I first became a…

The Oracle of Omaha Considering that he is the third wealthiest person in the world, his modest upbringing makes him one the most humble and generous billionaires revealing that not all the consequences of one's actions are negative. With a net worth of 78.7 billion dollars, Warren Buffett lives a very, very modest lifestyle compared to other billionaires and even some millionaires. He worked his way through the ranks from a middle class family to being the third richest person in the world.…

In my opinion my best article would be the music review about Kevin Gates. I personally think this is my best article because I have a lot of good information, and used proper punctuation and grammar. My second best article would be my recipe for chocolate pound cake because it is described in detail and was fun to create. My worst struggle was keeping up with deadlines because I kept forgetting when it was due and would turn my project or work in late. Current events were probably the thing…

Meghan McCain, daughter of former presidential candidate and Senator John McCain stated, “This is the worst election ever” (Hensch 1). Alan Abramowitz a PhD and a political scientist at Emory University says, “A lot of voters are angry. Very angry” (1). Polls of Americans show that an upward of sixty-two percent of citizens think that the country is on the wrong track. People are mad at the political system. They want to see major change. The voters are tired of hearing a new candidate preach…

as founded on, and the only means by which they could explore the medium’s possibilities were to introduce the situational elements of placement and temporal duration” . Such a readjustment of perspective enables minimalist sculpture such as Cloud Gate to derive meaning from different sources. Instead of “emanating from the work itself, meaning now had an opportunity to arise from….the space in general” . Such an experience of…