A quote was once said my a famous person in our history " the man who becomes Americanized ... and who talks United States instead of the dialect of the country which he has of his own free will abandoned, is not only doing his plain duty by his adopted land, but is also rendering himself s service of immeasurable value... ... By the time they apply for college, students with four or more years of foreign language study score higher on the SAT verbal section, according to the PSMLA. ... In fact, knowing a foreign language helps children with their native tongue. ... I easily communicate in tw...

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"Extending the school day would also help families. ... Based on the chart from Text A, we have the lowest amount of school days compared to the rest of the countries that were documented.(180 days) Which in turn shows why we may have lower SAT and standardized test scores; however Finland may have 10 more days of school than the United States, but they don't give homework! ... Proponents argue that all other nations in the industrialized world offer more free public education than does the U.S - and most often, they are scoring higher on standardized tests and entering college bette...

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Everyone just sat and watched. ... The Red Cross, Hospitals from Cities and States beyond were put on call and fireman, policeman, and the National Guard all in relief to try and offer some help to an almost completely helpless situation. ... Freedom was beginning to be as free as your ability to not look like Osama Bin Laden in the United States for a while. Something that sat in my mind, when this happened, was the fact of how the US is going to go about this so-called "War On Terrorism." ...

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It is a movie about two high school students who ace their SAT tests with the help of a dead buddy who re-appears when they smoke "grass" that was accidentally planted in a pot that already contained the dead guy's ashes. ... Its ironic because Ed Norton's character went to jail for a hate crime and comes out hate-free but his brother who worships him is full of hate and anger. ...

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On February 1st at 4:30 pm four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a whites only lunch counter inside a Woolsworth's Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina and requested to be served. ... Robert Kennedy who was then the US Attorney General help meetings with the governor of Mississippi and finally persuaded him to allow Meredith to enroll into the university. ...

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