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Standardized tests are unnecessary because they are excruciating to the minds of many innocent students. Each year, the tests get tougher and stricter until the students cannot process their own thoughts. The tests become torturous to the minds of those only starting in the world of tests. The students already battling in the war are continuing to fall deeper and deeper into the world of uncreativity and narrowness. As the walls narrow in on them, they are lost and unable to become innovative thinkers

Exploring the African American Woman’s Identity through the Arts In the Africa American culture, there has been a longstanding discussion of the black woman’s physical appearance and how they identify themselves in society. Though there are many themes of the Black experience in the media that discuss the standard of beauty Black women should have. However, theatre has a creative and tactful way of exploring these topics that are considered taboo in the African American culture. During the Black

On April 13, 2013, nursing became one of the, if not the most, important professions around the world. On that date, Disease-666, which caused the zombie apocalypse, broke out. It infected nearly three-fourths of the population, and nearly all doctors and scientists fell ill of the disease as they worked tirelessly trying to find a cure, leaving only nurses left. Besides hearing the stories of how important nursing has been the last couple years here at the Michigan State Safe Haven and outside of

Outside of the tunnels, the sun was almost completely down and it was raining hard. Jordan's half mask of charcoal began to run immediately, dripping onto his white prison uniform. On the streets, citizens of the Lower Society were hanging around on doorsteps, watching the rain from underneath umbrellas. A few were wearing solid red armbands around their biceps; others wore black armbands with a red cross. The Lower Society was a full of graffiti. There were large, simplistic smiley faces with

Winter-Piece, by Charles Tomlinson, depicts the effects of the wintery season; blinds are drawn, windows are sprayed with hail and possibly rain and snow. The fierce wind closes the gates ‘like gunshot’. Birds, like crows, are coerced to fly away leaving behind them a home which they once loved, due to the cold that deprives them of the provision of food. The spider ends up frozen to death, ‘ death-masked in cold ‘ yet it does not let go f its grip. Through the thick snow, the house peeks out behind

benefits and consequences are. "The major benefits of romantic relationships were companionship, affection, happiness, exclusivity, feeling loved, loving another, intimacy, self growth, self understanding and self esteem" (Duck, 1991; McAdams,'l984,1988; Rook & Pietromonaco,1987; Weiss 1969,1974). People are usually of two minds either positive or negative. So, a person either thinks of all the positives and everything they could get from a romantic relationship that would make their life better, or they

synonym shows the reader of the essay that it sounds sad and painful. Also when Woolf used the word “marionette” you can kinda hear the voice of pain and how she feels like a puppet and not being able to do much at all. When woolf compared Mrs. Grey to a rook on a barn door with a nail through but still leaving I could kinda hear some determination from the essay because it shows how she's been through so much and lost so much but made it through it and still leaving. The reader can also hear voice from

Impulse buying is a common behavior today. Our society of consumption sucks us into temptation to purchase items without thinking of the consequences which can be a negative thing. Impulse buying can be related to feelings of happiness and satisfaction or depression and anxiety. Its negative effects could affect bad consequences to one’s lifestyle and controlling ones impulse buying behavior could improve psychological well-being. To understand impulse buying behavior, we should first ask ourselves

The rook may not capture a piece of the same color. It may move any distance within the same column or the same row, but not both. It may not jump a piece of either color. It may not expose the king to check. The rook may not move while the king is in check unless resolving the check. It may capture exactly one piece of the opposing color, but not in exception of any other rules. It may not leave the board in any direction. A rook may not move from a place where it does not presently exist

and defend Cinderella when she is being threatened. For example, when one of the stepsisters cuts off her toe, forces her foot into the shoe, “swallows the pain” and heads off to see the awaited prince, the pigeons on the hazel tree cry out “Rook di goo, rook di goo! There’s blood in the shoe. The shoe is too tight, This bride is not right” (Grimm 5). These pigeons therefore intervene in the favour of their beloved