Norm

Alex Buzo and David Williamson are two Australian playwrights who have encapsulated what it is to be Australian through Norm and Ahmed and The Removalists respectively. Through their command of dramatic styles and conventions they have effectively presented images onstage which challenge the Australian identity and the ideals which are synonymous with the Australian persona. Black comedy and heightened realism along with the theatrical conventions of character, language, movement and lighting…

I could easily identify and find common ground with. From this quote, we learn that how we display and present ourselves in the public is influenced by conventional norm. This norm derives from our culture’s idealization of what femininity and masculinity is, that is, how society defines female and male. Then, it is through this norm that all of us come to know as the criteria for our behaviour, directing our actions and our interaction with others around us. Based on what society expects and…

In my honest opinion, I find all of Robert Cialdini’s non-rational norms, to be much simpler than I expected, but they are also much more significant than I was expecting as well. I also didn’t realize how often they would all come in to play into everyday life. This concept is very interesting to me, but I can also see how people could be very torn as to if these matters were rational or non-rational. When it comes to reciprocity, I feel the biggest reason this is non-rational is because it…

For example, gender and the inequalities faced by individuals who were breaking the gender “norm” was clearly something unjust. Although these injustices were known, it was not until I moved to Austin that I truly became aware of these inequalities because I met people who faced these situations in their daily lives. Seeing how this affected those…

Standardized testing are words that students do not want to hear. Standardized testing is deeply rooted in the history of the United States. Standardized tests are tools used to measure students’ knowledge and progress. Almost every person that has had an education in the United States has taken a standardized test. Today, standardized testing is a widespread issue in the United States’ public school curriculum. Education has always been an important part of America’s history. Laws about…

Assessment of our students’ academic progress is essential, but the mindset that high SAT or ACT scores will be a student’s only ticket into college is one that places unnecessary and unwanted stress on the average high school student. Colleges have relied on standardized test scores as a means of determining how college ready a student is and what opportunities and scholarships are available for them. While the SAT and ACT tests are intended to provide a fair assessment for students across the…

The Outlook on Standard Testing For many decades now, Standardized Test have been recognized and known as a “mutli-billion dollar industry”. The first test was in Imperial China not long after this was standard testing the next big thing in the United States. This idea of the test, rose up in the Industrial Revolution time era. Boston, Massachusetts was the first place in the United States to actually try out the standardized test. These test were used to test the students and teachers…

The SAT “is a sternly worded dinosaur of a test, graded in an arbitrary manner with outdated equipment…the only reason people take it is because they have to.” Children begin taking standardized tests in pre-kindergarten and by the time they are high school seniors, they’ve taken an average of 112 standardized tests (Strauss 1), all with one purpose: to measure and quantify intellectual ability. However, there is a growing mountain of evidence that suggests the SAT is a poor measurement of…

Taking a Stand Essay It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning and most people are still curled up in bed. Instead, you’re sitting in a classroom with about 20 other students, who are also panicked about the same test you are about to take. The 20 other students in the classroom, however, are all from different economic classes, races, religions, and genders. Despite that, each and every one of you are grouped together to take the same test. The test administrator instructs you to begin, and every…

Bullying and Its Correlation with Failing Schools Why are pupils at public schools achieving low test scores? Why are some students succeeding in their high school career but others failing? Why is bullying being permitted to burden the performance of students, thus lowering their test scores? The National Assessment of Educational Progress states that only twenty-six percent of students have more or the sufficient amount of math skills that is required by their grade level, and thirty-six…