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    Should Students Be Paid For Good Grades In School? Should students be paid for having good grades? This topic has some really strong arguments on either side. In this research paper I will list facts and argue both sides of this debate. Some people believe paying students for good grades is a bad idea, I personally believe students will strive to do better when they are paid for their work. Lots of schools are paying their students for getting good grades, and others are giving it a try. Why would a student want to take a harder, more stressful class if they don’t get paid more? More people would try to be in AP classes if they were offered money or more money than just a regular non AP or Honors class. Paying students will help underprivileged kids. If a student lives in his car, and he gets paid for getting good grades, then that student could afford new clothes, shoes, and food. Without that payment the student cannot become successful or have a chance at life. Students should get paid because it motivates them to do better. The students will not get held back, or have their teachers call home due to failing grades. Parents will not have to worry about their kids failing classes because their students want the money. The students will be on top of things and wanting money and they will not fail. Compared to a job paying in schools is perfect. When people go to work they get paid an hourly wage or salary. What do students get? A high five or a letter saying “good job?”…

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    Longing And Belonging

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    Introduction The general topic of my ethnographic research focuses on the elements of respect for individuals of perceived authority. Fieldnotes were recorded beforehand as raw data. I chose to never explicitly mention what researcher positionality is. Therefore, the manner in which they interpret my actions can remain largely unaffected by the conventional opinions they have about adults. I did my best not to interfere too much with childhood interactions. However, there are unique exceptions…

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    Blair Mountain Case Study

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    resembled feudalism. A fundamental reason this association is apt is in the payment of scrip to miners. This was a monetary system in which the miners were paid in company-printed currency, and this currency was only good at the company-owned stores. There was also another form of scrip issued to the wives of miners who were injured - and where there were no other men available to do the work – called Esau scrip: Esau was issued only to women, and it was a form of scrip that would enable a woman…

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    unions.” Newer methods of extracting coal, along with newer equipment today help keep the cost down for the coal companies. However, there are far fewer coal miners in the once rich coal field areas of West Virginia. There are still a few coal miners that work underground extracting coal, but they are generally on much small operations. Many West Virginia miners and their families lived a different life than most people. The locations of many of the mines were often in desolated areas, not…

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    Educ 632 Reflection Paper

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    EDUC 632 is related to Liberty’s Mission and Conceptual Framework because it teaches its teachers (or soon to be teachers) the SCRIP. First, to be successful teachers, one needs to have social responsibility. This is demonstrated by us coming to class every weekend that is required. The same can be said for the commitment along with being committed to the program. If we were not serious about this, we would not be here. However, since we are here, then we are committed to this. We all have…

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    The type of social scripts that are followed when dating is based on expectations. The article talked about the type of expectations that the women have when using an on line dating app, for example; the author states that women are really picky on the online dating world, the have descriptions “phrases as "don't bother messaging" or "don't expect a reply if you're under 6ft". "No short-arses", "the taller the better" and "I only date tall men“(Wells 2015) Expectations are a type of social…

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    price for each share dropped dramatically (“Great Depression”). Over 30 billion dollars were lost from the stock market in one day (Nishi 13). This drop in the market made thousands of businesses fail causing millions of people to lose their job (“Great Depression”). The stock market crash caused over 90,000 businesses to fail; this lead to having about 15 million people to be out of work, or one forth the labor force in the United States. “In 1932 the U.S. industrial output has been…

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    Métis Culture Case Study

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    them through Section 35 of the Constitution. These pieces of legislation make it possible for the Métis culture and rights to be preserved and recognized by the government, and to ensure that the collective rights of the Métis people are affirmed. In the past, the government has tried repeatedly to protect the Métis lands through legislation. First, the Manitoba Act stated that Métis land would be protected, but all other land belongs to the Dominion of Canada. This was the government’s…

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    Prairie Terms Essay

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    Prairie Terms The Metis: The Metis are indigenous people of North America. They are mixed-race descendants of First Nation women and French or British men. The Metis people believed they were being treated unfairly and they fled west and began to settle across the prairies. They settled in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Manitoba Act of 1870: The Manitoba act is an act that created the province of Manitoba. The act stated that Metis lands would be protected but all other lands were the property of…

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    The Auteurist Of Film

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    There are many auteurists in our modern time now that have created marvelous film, like Gasper Noe, and Michael Haneke. These filmmakers have demonstrated how critically beautiful a film can be based on capturing a filmmaker style. It creates this enjoyment of searching for a theme an auteuist is so happy to leave. When it first began and till this day some critics are not to fond of it, due to the lack of widening a sense of theme in a film. When put into international context film directors…

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