THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION November 8, 2002 -- vol. 49, no. 11, p. B7 The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation By Alfie Kohn Grade inflation got started ... in the late '60s and early '70s.... The grades that faculty members now give ... deserve to be a scandal. --Professor Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, 2001 Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily -- Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity.
Some of his letters were taken and printed in the New York Tory newspaper. He was now seen as a traitor in America. He couldn’t go to England without confirming he was a traitor and he couldn’t go to France because he had accused the King of selfishness. He lived the next two years in Flanders, then moved to England and in 1789 set sail back to America. While on the ship, he fell ill with “dizziness in his head, and an oppression at his stomach”, he passed away only four hours after the first signs of illness.
One of the most unique rhetorical strategies he uses is belittling the public figures of the nation. “George W. Bush spoke proudly of having been a mediocre student at Yale. “And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States!”” (Moore 123). Moore also points out that George Bush has an ex-president of a dad and the Supreme Court was full of his dad’s buddies. By stating this he is suggesting that in this country it is not about what you know but who you know.
Nathan Graham Mrs. Chenault Pre-AP English-7 5 February 2013 In F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates a fictitious peninsula that branches off Long Island. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald creates a third party view of the struggles between New Money and Old Money. In The Great Gatsby, Nick recalls the events that led up to the death of his friend, James Gatz, known by the alias Jay Gatsby. Nick is a middle class man, served in the war, and is trying to start selling bonds and stocks. He is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan, a Old Money woman, with a New Money personality.
The Great Gatsby “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay." Mr. Jay Gatsby is a peculiar fellow, throughout the story you begin to understand all that he has been through. Heartbreak, crime, riches, confusion and all sorts of things that love has put him through. So really the question is, is Gatsby doing the things he’s doing because he loves Daisy? Or has he been corrupted, turning him into a corrupt “weasel-dealer”?
Coty Browning History 104: Section 5073 The Loewen Assignment 1. I believe that Loewen’s main argument in the chapter is to recognize that almost everything within American history textbooks is either wrong or unverifiable. He claims that we have been duped by an immense concoction of “lies, half-truths, truths, and omissions that is in large part traceable to the first half of the nineteenth century. He clearly lists mistakes that textbooks engage in such as underplaying previous explorers, debating where military expansion came from, amassing wealth and dominating other people by the means of winning esteem. Loewen states that “People from other continents had reached the Americas many times before 1492” (33).
Mr. Gatsby lives in a gigantic mansion and throws extravagant parties every weekend. Nick is unlike the others in Wrest Egg; he was educated at Yale and has connections in East Egg. East Egg in populated by inhabitants with not only wealth, but style too. One night Nick drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom and Nick’s old class mate from Yale. Nick is introduced to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, cynical young woman with whom
In the beginning of the story, Gatsby is introduced as a character that is very wealthy. He lives in a mansion that is an “imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy” with “more than forty acres of lawn and garden” (5). Though it is apparent to Nick that Gatsby is rich, he is still unsure of how he got his money. We soon find out that Gatsby was very poor in his younger years, as that is the reason why Daisy left him and married Tom, a wealthier man. Eventually Gatsby meets Dan Cody, the man who ultimately inspires him to pursue his dream of winning Daisy back.
Gatsby uses the house in an attempt to win happiness and respect from his neighbors. Furthermore, Gatsby thinks that someday Daisy may be attracted by the beautiful house that he has. Not only is the house itself fabulous, the party that is held every week in Gatsby’s house is huge. “…no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitiful of oboes and trombones and
He was a true hands-on manager who thoroughly enjoyed visiting Marriott’s increasingly exotic locations, as well as spending time with the ever-growing ranks of associates who, in his mind, were the secret of his company’s success. He consistently reminded his managers to, “Take care of your employees and they’ll take care of your customers.” The Marriott International’s longest operating hotel, which is located in Arlington, Virginia, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2009. Today, Marriott International has about 3,000 lodging properties located in the U.S. and 67 located in other countries. Marriott’s employees totals up to about 24,000 nationwide and about 16,000 outside the U.S. When it comes to Marriott’s competitors, their main competition includes InterContinental Hotels Group and Hilton Hotels.