... , which allows the comparison between their overall academic performances. For example, the establishment of the No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB) enables the assessment of public schools through standardized testing. The creation of policies simply to regulate public education demonstrates the predominance of neoliberalism in education. Evidently, the purpose of education has been heavily influenced by neoliberalism. The neoliberal purpose of ... will be a push in raising test scores, which will lead to schools not being able to develop curricula that build on students' culture. Consequen...

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... assessment has proven to be fairly accurate. Characters in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four live in a totalitarian society, yet they can be seen as representative of groups in modern-day society. A major theme in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is capitulation. According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, capitulation can be defined as "the act of surrendering or giving up"(Zehr 419). Many characters in the novel do ... the beginning of the novel, he is working on a new edition of the Newspeak dictionary. Winston believes Syme is too intelligent to stay in the Party's favor. Winston fe...

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... business or in jail, all for censoring obscene material' from the public. "What the state can do to a piece of paper, it can do to the human body- (Califia 1995:9-10). Pat Califia refers to all the obscene material in our nation as "the forbidden-, and believes that the forbidden is needed in society for it to function as well as possible. She finds that it seems like we have full ... deviant behaviours that may result in breaking the law, such as pedophilia, are put through aversion therapy. The therapy focuses on changing the behaviour and unacceptable responses which are causing the pa...

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