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    important this test will be in determining their future. The question that haunts many students entering the final years of their high school career is, “Will this score keep me from or help me get into the college I want?” Many say that the SAT and ACT scores are still a major deciding factor for getting accepted into college, but others say that this isn’t the case.…

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    People enter the school system when they are roughly about around the age of 4 years old. Students make their way from preschool to elementary, intermediate, middle school and finally high school. Of course during all those years students have probably created a dream and a career that they wish to accomplish. Pursuing any professional career would probably lead such students to college and force them to abide by their prefered school. One of the most determining factors would be a standardized…

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    jobs, but the examinations in the Western world are used as a convenient way for the government to quickly test large numbers of students in order to determine who is prepared to further their education and how good of a job schools are doing. The ACT and the SAT tests have become one of the biggest elements that influence the college-admissions process, and students are taking these exams more than ever. However, standardized testing does not accurately evaluate students’ overall knowledge and…

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    Many individuals have been wondering if the overall statistic of students who live in more affluent neighborhoods will perform better on their SAT test than those who live in a lower income neighborhood. SAT stands for Scholastic Aptitude Test, which is designed in order to test a high schooler's knowledge. This exam is widely used as a college admission test that tests your knowledge of reading, writing and math, the core that students receive education in their high school career. While many…

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    The Cougar’s Den would be a bar and grill type of establishment located on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Its mission is to provide and fun and safe environment for students and faculty to enjoys drinks and/or appetizers on campus after a long day of class. With having this on campus students of the legal drinking age that live on campus won’t have to drink and drive. Things that still need to be investigated are laws and rules preventing the sale of alcoholic…

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    The final participant is 45-year-old Renee. Renee is a Pharmacist who is the mother of her only child, Patrick. Biologically, Renee is a Caucasian female of average weight. Cognitively, Renee is extremely intelligent. She graduated top of her class in high school and college. Social economically, she is wealthy. Along with Patrick who is 3, she lives with her husband who works in the oil-field. However, this wasn’t always the case. Growing up, Renee used to be in a situation very much like…

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    In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel, the main character, depicts an event on her eleventh birthday that strongly affected her. The story begins by explaining Rachel’s perspective and her feelings on birthdays. It’s her eleventh birthday, but she feels as if she’s still ten years old. She expected to wake up and feel eleven years old, but everything was just like the day before and nothing had really changed. Rachel says that when we all do or say something unintelligent, that’s the…

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    My Response on Eleven In the literary text “Eleven” by Sandra Cisseros, the author expresses all of the different feelings about being eleven years older that the character Rachel is experiencing as she describes her eleventh birthday. Through the text Cisseros appeals to the emotion of the audience, creates imagery, and applies details from home life to characterize Rachel. Today is Rachel’s eleventh birthday, yet she doesn’t quite feel eleven. At least least, “Not right away. It takes a few…

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    Introduction Matthew, also called Levi. Jesus Christ gave Matthew the apostle this name----Levi, it means “the gift of God”. This name also represent the transfer between his sinful past and his future (follow Lord Jesus Christ) and he is not just a gift of God,he is the gift others. He proved this later in Bible stories. Levi is the son of Alphaeus and the brother of James the Less. James the Less is also an apostle of Jesus Christ. The first time Matthew appear in the Holy Bible, he is in a…

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    "I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream." -Bruce Springsteen. F. Scott Fitzgerald even brilliantly combines the golden age and bible teachings to portray this message that, the American Dream of getting rich is far from the reality of how people actually get rich, in his novel The Great Gatsby. But Unfortunately as the story goes on, we begin to see that F. Scott Fitzgerald commits blasphemy and compares one of his deceitful characters to Jesus…

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