The Equalizer

World War I which ended in 1919. The war allows Gatsby to meet Daisy and to make her the ultimate dream of his life. Even though Gatsby might be from lower class and could not have possibly made Daisy fall in love with him, the uniform is a class equalizer that hides Gatsby’s true life, giving him a chance to rewrite and build his life. Not only does the war allow the couple to…

Others, such as Sonia Nieto (2005) believe that “educational attainment” and “increased economic opportunities” facilitated by HSIs are the “democratic equalizer” of U.S. society (Atasay, 2015; Nieto, 2005), which reflects the conception of social justice most academic libraries adopt. In Nieto’s view, marginalized groups are empowered through access to education, which leads to economic “prosperity” and…

Standardized tests are the universal method for colleges and universities to decide the worth of current and future students. Standardized testing is simply every student taking one test, consisting of the same questions, which will be graded in a regulated way. Colleges and universities rely too heavily on standardized testing. Standardized test scores are the opposite of what colleges actually ask for from students. Colleges always request driven hard working students, rather than students…

Several students are exposed to technology on a regular basis, so integrating its use within the classroom naturally adapts students for advancement in our technology driven society. Technology can be used as an equalizer to reducing individual differences in student ability and performance through various means. Technology allows for variation in instructional methods. Varied instruction takes into account that students learn and process information differently…

Although much has changed in the way that people have read, viewed, and understood literature in the past 400 years, it often seems as if many ideologies have stayed stagnant or sluggish. The world of literary criticism has gone through plenty of changes, switching constantly as the philosophies and cultural mannerisms of the peoples and times change. However, through all of these changes, one thing has seemingly remained the same. The character of Queen Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet is…

The movie Stand and Deliver is about a high school math teacher named Jaime Escalante who encourages his students to become something in life and make others see them as something other than the color of their skin and last name. With his lessons that were not only educational but also had life lessons in them, most of his students end up passing the AP Calculus Exam. In this paper, I will analyze and discuss Stand and Deliver and prove that it is a good movie. To begin with, beneath all…

John Stuart Mill, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all addressed the issue of freedom and law within a society. Mill's “On Liberty”, and Rousseau’s discourse “On the Social Contract” are all absorbing fictional works which underline the concept of the ideal state of each in the eyes of both these men and present different visions of the very nature of man’s freedom and the law. The three have distinct views regarding how much freedom man ought to have in political society because they have different…

The study design is a combination of prior studies styles similar to Brecht, et.al. (2008) and Chiu and Lee (2009), this along of other methods to reinforce our data. The study shall be a quasi-experiment to be done with a mix-method approach using a combination of surveys, in-depth interviews with the professor, semi-formal interviews with the students, observatory participation in each class, content analysis and archival records. Sampling Each semester GMU offers two courses in…

To understand the effectiveness of any marketing campaign, an analysis of the company’s internal and external strengths and weaknesses. From the perspective of strengths, Target shows a propensity for cornering niche markets. With the exclusive brands of clothes, shoes and interior décor, they set themselves apart in terms of style and quality. When you go shop at the stores they have many selections on the floor. Or, if you can’t find it there then you can always look online. Ordering products…

In the studio, the artist can have more options for sounds with the improvement of equalizers, delays, reverbs, and doubling, sometimes all done in the computer. While the artist is playing a really hard solo, but misses one note, the performance can be changed as easy as using the computer mouse to drag the note to the correct pitch. This…