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    Exploring the Reasons for the Underachievement of Ethnic Minority Children Rational ======== Every child goes through the same education system, every child works through the same ‘curriculum 2000’ set by New Labour and every child sits the same exams up to the age of 16. So why are there marked differences in educational attainment for ethnic minority students? My main aim is to find out if racism is the main cause of the gap between different ethnic groups

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    Social media is now a nationwide concept, ask any child, teen, and even an adult to name off three social media websites and they wouldn’t even have to think about it. Most common answers would be: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook. These are all sites where a person can communicate with others and make cyber threats. What is cyberbullying/threats? “Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones

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    In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author explains how absolute power corrupts absolutely. Orwell uses the animals on the Manor Farm to represent this. The animals are upset because they feel they aren’t receiving good treatment on the farm by Mr Jones. They decide one night to rebel against the farmer and successfully overthrows him, which leads them to pick a new leader. This starts the feud between the two prize pigs Napoleon and Snowball. After a long debate the animals pick Napoleon

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    Every four years, the people in America vote for the new President of the United States. The President’s job is to serve the country as the chief executive of the government and as the Commander in Chief of the Armed forces. One of the front runners of this election season is Republican candidate Donald Trump. He promises to make the changes necessary to make “America great again”. Trump cannot become the next President of the United States because he is grossly unqualified. His lack of experience

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    The sinking of the Titanic is one most well-known shipwreck in modern day history and it's still being written and told about even a century later. The causation of the sinking has been debated heavily since the crash in 1912 and many so-called experts of the titanic disagree with another on this issue. There has been new development when the ship was discovered in 1985 and examined by experts. Leading people that the sinking was caused by three major turning points. The first being the failures

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    In the allegory, “Animal Farm”, George Orwell portrays the injustice, exploitation, and inequality in human nature when it is corrupted from greed and power, through the view of animals, who experience this on the Manor Farm. Here, they are oppressed by their farmer, Mr. Jones, who has exploited them from their work. The pigs, especially Old Major, encourage the animals to rebel, overthrow the farmers, and establish their own utopian society. However, society needs a ruler, a person to tell everyone

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    Comfort: A Concept Analysis Cheryl Pineo Rivier University Comfort: A Concept Analysis Comfort is defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary (2014) as “a state or situation in which you are relaxed and do not have any physically unpleasant feelings caused by pain, heat, cold, etc.” or as “a state or feeling of being less worried, upset, frightened, etc., during a time of trouble or emotional pain.” Dictionary.com (2014) defines comfort as “a feeling of relief or consolationm” or “a person

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    Cyber bullying has been around since the creation of advanced communication technology. In the last few years, however, this issue has become more common, more related to sex and most of all more dangerous. It has gotten so dangerous that children have killed each other and/or committed suicide after having been involved in a cyber bullying incident. Little attention and support from school authorities, more access to computers, and the latest cool thing (social networks) are all factors that have

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    ANIMAL FARM & THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION “All Animals Are Equal But Some Are More Equal Than Others."1 At the beginning of the 19th century much of Europe viewed Russia as an undeveloped, backward society. The Russian Empire executed serfdom which is when landless peasants had to serve those who owned land. This went on quite far into the 19th century. Serfdom disappeared in most of the Europe by 1500. The Russian Revolution which took place in the year 1917 was an explosive political event that took

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    Good morning teachers and fellow students, my name is George Orwell, the author of the book “Animal Farm”. Today I will be addressing you about my novel to give you a better understanding of the text, and how I have created meaning in my novel. One of the main characters in my novel is Napoleon. In the novel there is the theme “the corruption of animalism”. One of my goals in writing Animal Farm is to portray the Russian Revolution. Many of the characters and events of my novel parallel those of

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