The Final Test

the story of Michael Myers, it is the female lead, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, who captures the attention of the audience. In this analysis, I will provide evidence that Curtis’ character, Laurie Strode, is an example of Carol Clover’s trope of the Final Girl. I will also discuss how this film relates to Laura Mulvey’s concept of the Male Gaze and furthermore, Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual stages of development theory. With her theory of the Male Gaze, it is impossible not to mention Laura…

to provide vast knowledge to students. Along with starting schools, a certain standard was set centuries ago by scholars who thought that they need a way to evaluate the learning procedure of students based solely on letters or numbers given on the tests taken by students. Education system was based on judging the students instead of their creativity and uniqueness by various colleges, universities, graduate schools and employers. Similar grading standard has been followed for years to evaluate…

Procedure The subjects were asked to individually fill out the digital surveys online during their PSYC121 labs. The classroom is set up with computers lining the walls on three sides of the room. The Classrooms hold a maximum of 16 people per lab. There were dividers between each of the computers so that subjects could not see each other’s screens and because subjects where facing the walls minimised distraction by other subjects. The study was approved by the Victoria University ethics…

there are eight schools in the Oak Ridge City School system. The four schools of Pine Valley, Linden, Elm Grove, and Cedar Hill can be identified as successful because each has a high student attendance (≥89%), above average teacher morale (≥6.0), and test scores that are higher than the remaining four schools (≥45). The remaining four schools of Robertsville, Jefferson, Glenn Wood, and Woodland would be identified…

Divergent takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago. The story follows Beatrice Prior as she finds her identity in a society that defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with five factions by taking the aptitude test, which exposes divergents who are a threat to the society. The focused main plot is a romantic attraction between Tris and one of her instructors in the Dauntless faction, nicknamed Four. Beatrice (Tris) is a strong willed 16 year old…

attendance in college is important because students who attend class have better grades, have better relationships with their peers as well as professors and develop responsible habits and behaviors. Students who attend class often receive better grades on tests for they are present the day the material was taught. A student is also more likely to be on their professor’s good side if they are able to show respect for attending their class. It is a proven fact that those who attend school have…

Participants were selected through P.S. 97 third grade students who are currently attending to the summer camp program. Initially, 41 participants participated in this study, including 20 boys, 20 girls, and 1 female teacher. The consent forms of this experiment were signed by the 40 third grade students’ parents or guardians. Two classroom setting existed: The first group of students received direct-instruction teaching on Day 1’s English Language Art lesson and the second group students…

When ideas are created, they are just thoughts; yet no one ever knows just how extreme those thoughts can become. In the book Divergent, written by Veronica Roth, there are many ideas that cross the line of good and bad. A good idea has become extreme when the outcome has a negative influence on people or a civilization. Paragraph 1: The main idea that went to the extreme and created a rubber band effect is the idea of having factions. There are five factions; Abnegation, Amity, Candor,…

fails to pass a standardized test or regents exam. Further, it is not fair, for teachers to be criticized based on how well their students perform in their state exams. In addition, it is also not fair for principals to use test scores to judge teachers how effective and ineffective they are? Ever since, the nation has industrialized, we have forgotten how strenuous teaching is and often times, they are not always observed fairly and their accomplishments are also not always acknowledged.…

caused by his ADD, not his purposeful negative conduct, yet, the two items could not be separated. Furthermore, it was found that the IEP was not appropriate in servicing him with a proper learning environment and did not satisfy part of the Rowley Test to determine FAPE. As a result, Capistrano Unified was ordered to pay Jeremy’s parents for tuition and transportation expenses to the Mardan Center. Lastly, the court ruled that the school district pay for the Wartenberg’s legal fees because the…