Word: effect
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...predominantly black city, hip hop and soul music, when played over the radio, can have the effect of taking the difficulties of urban life and depersonalizing them, making them a communal problem rather than an individual failure. As Ulf Hannerz points out in his 1969 ethnography of Washington, D.C., Soulside, "the ghetto cultural apparatus also assures the members of the audience that their personal troubles are only reflections of the public issues of the community...
...teachers. But his study was limited to students in junior high and high school. What about younger children? In 1989 University of Missouri psychology professor Harris Cooper reviewed more than 100 studies on homework and concluded that while benefits from homework can be measured starting in junior high, the effect of home assignments on standardized test scores in the lower grades is negligible or nonexistent. "Piling on massive amounts of homework will not lead to gains," Cooper says, "and may be detrimental by leading children to question their abilities...
...system whose goal is not human equality but the appearance of social justice. The elevator bosses take their leisure at riotous banquets where the entertainment consists of humiliating minstrel shows. The civil rights movement, in Whitehead's parallel universe, either never happened or has been reversed. Either way the effect is eerie, suggesting that the path to freedom is not inevitable and never has been...
...seriously that he once washed a departing staff member's feet as a gesture of thanks, Brownback has an idea about what his constituents are praying for these days: "They just want it over with," he says. And however it turns out, they tell him, it will have no effect whatever on their lives. "That," he says quietly, "is an amazing thing...
...effect of the change on students should benon-existent...