Michigan Merit Exam Essays

  • STRATEGIC DIRECTION

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    STRATEGIC DIRECTION Creating an agenda of the strategic issues that face the organization is the core value of performing a strategic plan. The organization’s culture has a direct affect on what to consider as a critical issue or not. Therefore, any change in the organization will cause a change the organizational culture. So that, it is important to carefully do the external and internal environmental analysis to figure out the critical organizational issues. (Bryson 2011, 185-186) The purpose of

  • Money Is The Only Thing That Really Motivates People

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    I. Introduction Henry Fielding once said, "Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil". Money presents in so many aspects of life. It seems that almost everything can be bought, with the high value attached to money. People are very addicted to money because of the idea that if you have money, you have the success, popularity, power and acceptance. But, there is always danger in losing values such as love for sports or being a hardworking person. A good example is the current trend

  • The Center on International Education Benchmarking

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    sixth and ninth grade. These assessments are optional to teachers, but most decide to take the test out of curiosity. These results are not publicized, but are used to drive instruction in the classroom. The actual exam that all students strive to do good on is the Matriculation Exam which is taken at the end of u... ... middle of paper ... ...ine, Sept. 2011. Web. 18 Mar. 2014. Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy. “Trends in Japan: Japan Continues Search for Academic Triumph.” Education Week. Editorial

  • Affirmative Action: Equality for All?

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    Affirmative Action: Equality for All? Affirmative action in the United States has become a misused and misguided practice in modern times. In the current form of affirmative action, it is impossible to create a truly equal society. It was originally used as an equal opportunity measure to allow qualified minorities into positions they were denied because of race. However, affirmative action has become a system of racial quotas that lowers standards for minority applicants in order to give them

  • Why Affirmative Action Should Be Eliminated

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    Imagine waking up tomorrow and reading in the local paper that the government was giving tax breaks to minorities in order to prevent discrimination. Congress insists that the deductions will “help level the playing field” in American society, claiming that diversity is necessary in creating an ideal nation, but is this attempt to prevent disparities and racism not an act of inequality in itself? By putting this policy into place, the government is giving advantages to minorities without showing

  • Spring Time Is A Time For Rebirth

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    it entails. For teachers it is a stressful time of making sure that their students are ready for the high stakes state exams. From teaching topics to meet standards, to administering assessments prior to these test, teachers and students alike do not see spring as a time of April showers that bring May flowers, but as a time of pass or fail. So what exactly are these state exam? Known as No Child Left Behind and Common Core Standards are educational reforms that were introduced under the administration

  • The Importance Of The Sherman Antitrust Act

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    When these large companies have too much power, they are able to completely run the market based on their own agendas. Should smaller companies still exist, the larger firms are able to lower prices and absorb the loss from it where the other company would inevitably fail to compete with the low prices of the firm. Firms like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil rightfully took advantage of the US free market at the time, but once word of their predatory practices became publically known, these companies

  • Ernest Hemingway Soldier's Home Analysis

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    Ernest Miller Hemingway author of the short story, “Soldier’s Home”, was one of the most celebrated and influential writers whose, “succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century” (Young). Born on July 21, 1898 the first son of Clarence Edwards Hemingway, a country physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest was born in a conservative suburb of Chicago. When Hemingway was an infant, sometimes Grace would dress him in a pink dress and

  • Unifying Dualism of Women in Society

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    edu/gazette/2000/12.14/07-stereotypes.html Slater, Miriam, and Penina Migdal Glazer. "Prescriptions for Professional Survival". In Conway, Bourque, and Scott (eds.), Learning About Women: Gender, Politics, and Power.Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1989. pp. 119-135. Weiler, Kathleen. Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class, Power.New York: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, 1988.

  • Academic Capitalism

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    “You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.” (Obama, 2012) How does this quotation relate to the increase of capitalism in the education institution? It has to do with the mentality of what people believe they are entitled to which is for the