Stereotypes In High School: Case Study

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1. Revise the following sentences, making them economical and clear.
Before getting an apartment, make sure to have the leasing agreement written up in a contract.
In high school, many teenagers deny liking poetry for the fear of getting mocked by peers. I have instant status being the only college student in my neighborhood.
2. The campus parking lot is not safe at night The campus parking lot is not safe at night. Your car can get vandalized. Campus parking lots can have looking creeps. The creeps can isolate you. Don’t park at night in a campus lot.
The campus parking lot is not safe at night as it can have some sticky situations. Since most vandalizations happen at night, campus parking lot can be the victim. Although creeps

The following sentences could be more emphatic. Examine each one to determine its focus; then revise the sentence, using one of the following strategies: placing the most important item or last, parallelism, inverted word order, a fragment. Try to use a different strategy in each sentence. Difficult to deal with are most rude salespeople.
Because the politician promises, “I’ll solve all of your problems.”
In movies, the “girl next door,” the dangerous vixen’s, and the gold digger’s are female stereotypes.
It’s a wise teacher who encourages descriptions, questions, and discussions of controversial issues in the classroom.
4. Since the student Senate was founded, the campus has maintained essentially one goal: to upgrade the quality of its student-related services. Supported for two years by the opinions of three consultants provided by the National Council of Student Governing Boards, the Senate was confident it was operating from a base of quality. However, it felt if, given additional monetary support from the administration, a significant improvement in student services would be easier. This was a reasonable prediction as in the past fifteen months one additional monetary resource was provided by the administration to the Senate.

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