Abstract
This paper analyzes Chester Finn's article "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Test?", which concerns national education testing. It explores Finn's view that national educational testing is the solution to the problems confronting education today.

From the Paper
"Chester E Finn Jr has written an article that supports establishing national testing standards for schools. This is not a balanced article that considers the advantages and disadvantages of the issue and ..."

Tags:education, big bad test, finn, national, education, testing

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This essay is about how good and bad kids come to be just that, good or bad. Studies have shown that there are certain things that kids who can be classified as good all seem to have in common; unfortunately, there are also common denominators for kids considered to be bad. This report attempts to show how and why this type of research is so important and to present a solution for the types of problems that produce bad kids, suggesting that the solution can be found in developmental assets.

Introduction
Assets
Search Institute

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"There have been many studies conducted throughout history to try to find the key or the catalyst that change all kids into either good or bad kids. "We concentrate on alcohol and other drug abuse prevention, largely because of the funding that schools receive from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program and because of public opinion polls that consistently rank drug abuse near the top of local school problems." (Rose, Gallup, and Elam 1997) Until very recently, the consensus was that this phenomenon was a completely random issue or a completely natural process contained in some brain cell or DNA strand. But, it has been discovered that there may be specific reasons why some kids get involved in dangerous activities and others become contributing members of society. "

Tags:youth, families, students, communities, support, empowerment, boundaries, expectations

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The paper explains how the article "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Public Opinion Polls" classifies polls into good, bad and ugly categories. The paper relates that "good" polls use primary source information and are very open about their sources of information, so readers can check facts for themselves. The paper contrasts this to the "bad" polls, which are manipulations of information and poll results, and which do not reveal links to sources for polling information. The paper then discusses how advocacy groups can sometimes create "ugly" polls in the interests of specifically manipulating facts or bring a polling agency into disrepute, an unethical practice.

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"This website makes a crucial explanation of the difference between polls. It points out that polls in their purest form as we know them are meant to inform the public regarding general public opinion in a sampling of large sectors of the population. The site seeks to point out to students who are just learning how the world works how they can identify the difference between polls, which the author categorizes into the three categories of the good, the bad and the ugly (Renka, http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/renka/Renka_papers/polls.htm). The author is concerned about the amount of bad polls that are on the internet, which can be further subdivided into bad polls and ugly polls."

Tags:information, sources, advocacy, groups, data, manipulation

Abstract
This paper discusses that some of the devices and instruments featured in many popular science fiction novels and films are, in essence, conceived through bad engineering, meaning that these devices and instruments are neither practical nor possible according to present scientific knowledge. The author points out that Verne's "rocket to the moon" stands as the ultimate example of bad engineering, even when one takes into consideration that Verne was using his imagination as a means of conveying his ideas to the reading public, who, at the time of the novel's publication, were obviously quite ignorant of science. The paper relates that Capek's plot in "R.U.R" is the seminal robot motif that has influenced every science fiction film, but the vision of creating a race of robots that take over the roles usually assigned to human beings in the context of work and labor was far-fetched for its time and is still so even in the 21st century.

From the Paper
"Michel Ardan then suggests that the spaceship launching will be powered by a formidable quantity of guncotton, and that the occupants of this spaceship will be protected from the shock of the launch by a layer of water filling the space between the vehicle's double walls. There will also be thick glass portholes for observation, sealed during the liftoff and then opened by screws controlled from the inside of the vehicle. The air supply will be renewed by oxygen obtained by heating potassium chlorate, a powerful oxidizing agent. The flight, of course, will be monitored from the ground by a powerful Rocky Mountain telescope operated by the Cambridge observatory."

Tags:practical, possible, knowledge, rocket, robat

Abstract
This paper examines the role of paintings in ekphrastic poetry (the rhetorical description of a work of art). It shows how Elizabeth Bishop makes her fictional painting 'real' through her poem, "Large Bad Picture". It presents a comparison between "Large Bad Picture" to W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts." The paper also provides an examination of how Bishop divides her poem between setting the scene and then delivering the poem's argument.

From the Paper
"Having settled her reader comfortably, Bishop then takes the next two stanzas to describe in clear, precise language the subject of the painting. In one long sentence enjambed over two stanzas, she describes the sunset, the span of high blue cliffs and the small caves that dot their base. The final line of the third stanza returns the reader to the title describing the caves that riddle the cliffs as being "masked by perfect waves." (12). Her description of the waves as being "perfect" give the first hint of her contention that this is a bad picture. The reader begins to understand that this composition, while possibly well executed, is unrealistic, that the painter has seen perfection in natural phenomena that are inherently imperfect and organic."

Tags:anthropomorphization, personification, seascape, setting

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This paper discusses the Tuskegee Syphilis project and a book, "Bad Blood" by James Jones, that reports about the project. The paper discusses the duration of the project and the negative objectives of the study. The paper also discusses the main theme, racial bigotry, of "Bad Blood", and the horrific descriptions it provides of the Tuskegee project experiments.

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"James Jones' Bad Blood is certainly one of the most popular books to emerge from 1990s decade. The book can have a profoundly disconcerting impact on the readers but is definitely worth reading because of the well-researched contents. This book exposes the unethical behavior of government and medical community, which resulted in the death of hundreds of black men during a torturous government-sponsored Tuskegee Syphilis project which lasted 40 years and caused immense harm to poor illiterate African-American families."

Tags:government, medical, community, death, poor, illiterate, african, american, black, men

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This paper explores three of George Saunders' stories from "Civil War Land in Bad Decline" in order to demonstrate how the distortion of social norms helps the reader to understand that the norm itself is already absurd. The stories that are examined are the title story of "Civil War Land in Bad Decline", "Bounty", and "The 400- Pound CEO".

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This paper discusses the internal and external causes of bad behavior in the classroom. The internal causes are described as being part of the student's psychological make-up. The paper outlines revenge, compliance, defense, being offended and image as being internal influences of classroom misconduct. The paper evaluates the influence the environment has on a student's behavior. The external causes of bad classroom behavior presented in the paper are negative media exposure, domestic violence, abuse and loss of a close relation.

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"Abuse, in all its forms, leaves the most negative and lasting impact on a student's psychology. Abused students are hardest to recover from their abuse trauma. It leaves them unable to build and retain cordial relations with anyone. Most abused students are found to stay aloof and cold in attitude. If others try to forcefully mix with them, make fun of them or try to share things about their life, such students can burst out in a very bad conduct in classrooms, even to the extent of attacking others (NASP, 1999)."

Tags:abuse, violence, misconduct, environment, envy, revenge, defense, media

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The paper discusses how, in the short story, "Betel Nut is Bad Magic For Airplanes", author John Kasaipwalova portrays the importance of civil rights and shows, through his characters and narrator, what an important part they play in civil society. The paper discusses the injustice the native people feel at this point in history and how it is apparent in every part of this short story. It shows how, using situations and speaking with the voice of the native people of Papua New Guinea, Kasaipwalova weaves an entertaining and message driven story about the quest for social justice.

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"This exchange shows the clear rage and anger the people felt at being subjugated by white people, being colonized and told to follow unjust laws that were no their own. The narrator says he wants, at that time, nothing more than to be a true kanaka. He wants to fight the colonizers down and retake what he believes is rightfully his, and he is willing to do whatever it takes, even go to prison, to try and prove that he is right, and return civil In liberties to the natives of the island."

Tags:consensus, colonizers, Motu

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This report reviews Harold S. Kushner's "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People" and provides a positive view by the paper's author. The essay includes examples from Jewish history.

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"It would be so much easier to live in a world where God punishes the evil and rewards the good; a world where everybody knows only good things will happen to them if they follow God's commandments and calamity will be visited only upon those who do not. However, that type of world would eliminate the freedom to make choices between good and evil. People who chose to be good because they will be rewarded are no better than trained dogs performing for treats. The choice is meaningless."

Tags:holocaust