From the first point of view, standardization has ruined education because it has distort the student growth based on how much emphasis it has placed on test rather than pure learning and understanding in schools. The syllabus the teachers were to cover on certain subjects have been neglected which may affect American's children in the nearest future. It must also be known that scandalized test has destroyed creativity and reasonable thinking.
On the second answer, the test time that are taking inform of prep after schools will result into longer period of time students will be spending in schooling with extra cost paid.
Thirdly, the writer description about ingenuity simply means that student ability to be creative will reduced based on the fact that standardize test only support a direct way or single answer with no deep thinking of other possible answers.
i guess that get up is the answer
India’s geography contributed to its isolation from the rest
of Asia. It is a peninsula but on the North, the Himalayas shields it from
invasion of both men and ideas. On the East there are dense forests that
although have lower height, is infested with malaria. Great oceans surround the
south and mountain ranges that are difficult to traverse block the West. As a
result, the Indian community developed its caste system, the most elaborate
expression in history of an unmoving agricultural society.
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The figurative language used in the excerpt is a simile. It adds to the characterization because it compares <span>the mother as a calm/silent person.
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