A release of studies has revealed a considerable correlation between art education and academic performance. In fact, these studies have shown that high school students who are actively involved in art courses have higher standardized test scores than those who had little to no involvement in art courses. According to Lauren Stevenson's research, "students who took four years of arts coursework outperformed their peers who had one half-year or less of arts coursework by 58 points on the verbal portion and 38 points on the math portion of the SAT" (Stevenson 9). ... Further studi...

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This is a fact shown in resent studies that while only 35% of college graduates in 1960 were women, now 54% of college students between the ages of 18 and 24 are female. ... Those that do not support affirmative action believe that it is "reverse discrimination", claiming that a white applicant with higher SAT's and a higher G.P.A., who is rejected in favor of a minority applicant with lower scores, is being discriminated against [Alm03]. ... Studies have shown that affirmative action harms Historically Black Colleges and Universities and produces a low minority retention rate[...

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I use this narrative anecdote to introduce this ethnographic study because it highlights the unifying and cathartic power that the ideology of our "war on terror" has upon Americans, as illuminated within the microcosm of Boston College. ... " According to The Long Shadow of 9/11, a recent Rand Corporation study, more than 70,000 American's have been killed or injured in this conflict. ... An examination of cultural critics who have made a study of America's response to terror following the 9/11 attacks suggests that the phenomena that occurred at Boston College on Apr...

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