For the educational system standardized testing is appealing but it measures students by a common yardstick, which should not exist. ... It does not make sense to test everyone the same and to expect everyone to do the same. ... For example the SAT exam will not tell you anything about other important qualities like critical thinking, sense of beauty, persistence or their ability to innovate and create. ... Contrastingly, "anesthetic" is when they shut this sense off. ...

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However, case study is a relatively weak method in the sense that gives little ground for making generalizations on other people. ... I investigated life histories of many people, and tried to find regularities between them, so that I could classify and organize them in such a way that it would make sense. ...

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Maine is different in this sense. ... With little to agree upon, America was losing its great sense of patriotism that it had established at the conclusion of the second world war. ... This perspective is unquestionably compromised with bias due to the influence of the common American's beliefs of the era. ...

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If we are to find a common problem that offers any sort of unity to what we have been studying, it must be that each philosopher wants to discover how to go about experiencing reality. ... To appreciate an experience unconditionally, it must be shorn of that which is sensed and that which is opined. ...

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Despite their differences, however, all have one thing in common: an overwhelmingly optimistic vision for the future. ... This ambiguity heightens our sense of curiosity. ... On a different level, this also offers to us the idea that the mind is the only constant throughout life: while the tangible body ages and decays, the spirit remains the common denominator that makes each and every one of us an individual. ...

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The creature's desire to seek vengeance is a trait common in humans, but absent in animals. ... The creature is overwhelmed by the sense of betrayal when Victor constantly rejects him, causing him to swear vengeance. ...

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So there is no objective reality in the novel, and the reader cannot say for sure that a character is like this or that, but he has to rely on the novel´s character´s impressions and on his sense of sympathy. ... Thereby Virginia Woolf uses connecting devices like the common past of certain characters, or public events attended by several characters, in order to procure for the reader an insight into how each character experiences a certain issue, and what their respective thoughts on the occurring issues are. ...

• Word Count: 2383
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