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...will begin a process of change by lowering Kim's profile. Professor Ruediger Frank, a North Korea specialist at the University of Vienna, visited Pyongyang in September and for the first time noticed that portraits of North Korean leaders had been removed from his hotel room. In an essay posted on the Internet, Frank says that half the slogans in the capital now read, "The Great Leader Kim Il Sung will always be with us," which suggests a renewed emphasis on Kim's father, who died in 1994, and less emphasis...
...been argued that the new SAT will remove the advantage that wealthy students have traditionally had on the test, outperforming their poorer counterparts. However, this argument clearly overlooks the necessary factors to scoring well on an essay on a standardized test. The weight of cultural gaps as well as monetary ones will be increased by the addition of the essay because the ability of one to write a high-scoring essay will be sorely hindered by language barriers and cultural barriers. The margin for error increases exponentially...
Writing an essay on the spot requires having a firm grasp of English and all its grammatical rules and nuances at one’s fingertips. One group of students who are likely to have trouble with one or both of these skills is students for whom English is a second language and not spoken at home. Wealthier students are more likely to have parents who speak English at home. And they are more likely to have leisure time to study, as opposed to having to work at a part-time job after school...
...Both Melissa [Dell] and Sarah [Hill] started their applications over the summer,” Copelovitch said. “They were writing drafts and drafts of their essay...
...that the words themselves are all that inspiring or coherent to begin with. Many, like an excerpt from Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover and an essay on Judith Butler, are too lengthy and obscure to hold one’s attention for long, despite Evans’ claims that they were “reservoirs of possible meanings that…unravel many discursive journeys.” Far more amusing are the pop up boxes displayed on all the monitors warning that Windows had insufficient virtual memory...