When a president of the United States begins incorporating religious rhetoric into his speeches, alarm bells must sound. When that same president allocates taxpayer monies to religious groups, then citizens should be experiencing widespread panic.
Bush's No Child Left Behind Act is no less frightening than the faith-based initiative. Hiding behind good intentions, the No Child Left Behind Act fails to take into account a major factor: reality. Jim Donlevy notes, "It simply is not reasonable to continue to identify thousands of failing schools throughout the United States and then to see through to completion the sanctions written into the Act." The Act includes provisions for annual testing for schools, with progress requirements in core subjects such as English, math and science. "The idea is to be sure that all students are learning at higher standards," (Donlevy). However, the Act demands too much too soon. Forcing some schools to shut down due to substandard testing performance, the Act essentially discriminates against poor and underprivileged communities and the students that reside within them. No Child Left Behind focuses too much on test scores and too little on the problems that cause low test scores such as insufficient funding for inner-city and other poor schools.
I will refute the Presidency of George W. Bush based on his unsatisfactory performance regarding the war in Iraq, the faith-based initiative, and the No Child Left Behind Act. Bush's foreign policy is overly ambitious, violent, and disruptive to world peace. The faith-based initiative unravels years of social progress by reintroducing religion into the domain of politics. Because the two spheres of politics and religion should remain separate in any democracy, President Bush's administration represents a step in the wrong direction. Finally, the No Child Left Behind Act ends up leaving behind precisely those children it claims to help: the poor and underprivileged.
A refutation of George W. Bush's presidency is rooted in the ideology of liberalism, as outlined by Thomas E. Patterson in his book We the People. Liberalism implies tolerance above all else. A liberal ideology cannot stomach the war in Iraq because that war was a preemptive strike against a sovereign nation. A liberal ideology cannot fathom...
George W. Bush George Walker Bush is the second man in the history of the United States to have followed in his father footsteps and become the President. Bush served two consecutive terms as President, starting with January 2001. He was born in 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, but most of his childhood, he spent in Midland, and then his teenage years in Huston, Texas. George W. Bush was the first
Unemployment stands at a respectable 4.6%. Well, fine. But the other side of the ledger groans with distress: a tax code that has become hideously biased in favor of the rich; a national debt that will probably have grown 70% by the time this president leaves Washington; a swelling cascade of mortgage defaults; a record near-$850 billion trade deficit; oil prices that are higher than they have ever been;
Other things being equal, higher sap sugar content translates to lower costs of production and greater profits (World Book Encyclopedia 1992). Black and sugar maples start their growth later in the spring than red or silver maple. As maples begin their growth, chemical changes take place in the sap which makes it inappropriate for syrup production. The term "buddy sap" is often employed to late season sap which produces syrup
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