USMB, I am proud to present you with a clear case of liberal bias

[Sunshine]

The format didn't copy over to USMB, since it doesn't appear to recognize tabs.

Perhaps I could edit it for you? Make it more legible? One thing you never do is copy paste from Word. Ever.

Economic freedom is the cornerstone of civilization. There are a few basic principles of economic freedom, as defined by the Heritage Foundation’s Index: rule of law, open markets, limited government, and regulatory efficiency. In other words, countries with stable currencies, limited federal spending, and fewer burdensome regulations have more economic freedom than those which do not. No country has ever become prosperous without following the precepts of economic freedom. In fact, there is a strong, positive correlation between the economic freedom of a nation and its quality of life, environmental health, civil rights, and employment rate.

Unfortunately, those on the left abhor economic freedom despite its proven benefits for the vast majority of the inhabitants of a nation. “Liberals” favor restricting economic liberty in favor of the pseudo-egalitarian notions of “fairness” and “equality”; however, the countries which abandon economic freedom in favor of the liberals’ warped view of society tend to do very poorly in the long run. The United States used to be a world leader in economic freedom, but since President Obama has taken power and enacted his big-government agenda, America’s ranking has fallen from number 5 to number 10 in the index. Sky-high government spending and piles of onerous regulations do not make for a more fair society, only a more destitute and unjust society. Ultimately, The Crucible illustrates the importance of economic freedom and the bitter lessons which are learned when its tenets are abandoned.

Two countries that encapsulate the effects of economic freedom (or the lack thereof) the most are Zimbabwe and Botswana. In 1960’s, when the British left Southern Africa, Botswana was the third poorest country in the world while Zimbabwe was known as “the breadbasket of Africa”. However, once the British left Zimbabwe, big-government socialist Robert Mugabe took control over the country. Mugabe’s socialist record was pitiful. He increased spending by over 100% per year by the 2000’s, and his policies produced so much inflation that a $100 trillion bill became utterly worthless. Ultimately, Mugabe’s policies caused Zimbabwe to go from a relatively well-off country to arguably the poorest in the world. Botswana took a different approach; the country decided to support free-market economic policies rather than Marxism.

Botswana knew the importance of limiting government spending, keeping inflation in check, and upholding the rule of law. Thanks to its valiant efforts, Botswana experienced faster growth in per-capita income than any other country since 1965. These two countries illustrate how crucial economic freedom is; moreover, they serve as symbols in The Crucible. Specifically, Abigail and John Proctor represent Zimbabwe and Botswana, respectively. Before the witch trials, Salem was governed under a strict code of propriety and decorum. When these expectations of proper conduct began to melt away during the Witch Trials, Abigail showed her base nature and ultimately died as a prostitute in Boston. Abigail shows what happens when a nation experiences a revolution which is followed by the imposition of Marxist, amoral leadership that abrogates economic freedom. Meanwhile, John Proctor is more analogous to Botswana. Despite starting at a tough situation with a significant amount of sin, Proctor stood his ground and fought for his convictions. Despite ultimately being hung, Proctor was able to forgive himself and regain salvation. Proctor’s personal improvement is similar to Botswana’s gains, which were obtained through hard work, economic freedom, and free enterprise.

Another good example illustrating the importance of economic freedom is the case of Detroit and North Dakota. Leaders in Detroit embraced big-government, socialist policies. The results are absolutely atrocious. Detroit went from the richest city in America during the 1950’s to the poorest city in America now. Its population decreased by threefold, and parts of the city are so desolate that they face bear attacks. Meanwhile, North Dakota started out with a significantly tougher position, with a primarily agricultural society but little else. However, North Dakotans decided to abandon their support of Populists and Democrats, and began to elect free market Republicans. These conservative Republicans fought for more American energy, the rule of law, free trade, and low, flat taxes. The best way to describe the discord between these two competing ways of governing (Detroit’s strategy versus California’s) can be illustrated through the characters Reverend Hale and Tituba. Tituba decided to confess to witchcraft to save her life; unfortunately, she started to believe the charges herself and pretended to be a witch in the beginning of Act 4, saying “the devil’s gonna take me down to Barbados.” Tituba loses her goodness in the novel; even though she was never guilty of a crime, Abigail’s accusations ultimately caused her to lose her morality and dignity. This is similar to the situation of Detroit. She abandoned the basic tenets of goodness when facing duress.

Abigail is representative of the liberal special interests that flooded the states in the 1960’s (like LBJ’s Great Society cronies) which ruined its economy and led to massive welfare-induced pathologies. Meanwhile, Reverend Hale went from being a part of the wrong side [supporting the witchcraft trials] to the correct one, standing up for John Proctor in Act III when no one else would. Hale represents the values of North Dakota – hard work, common sense, economic freedom – that made the state a beacon of opportunity.

Ultimately, economic freedom is crucial to the success of any country; this principle is clearly indicated in The Crucible. America is at a crossroads thanks to President Obama’s big-government, spread-the-wealth, statist, leftist policies. The election of 2014 is not about the next 2 years; it’s about the next 40 years. Our economic freedom and prosperity is at stake. Now is not the time for bigger government; empirical evidence proves that smaller government, the rule of law, lower taxes, and stable money lead to a stronger economy. It’s time to win this election for the next generation and stop the advance of policies which will surely lead to our demise.

I notice you are prone to comma splicing. On top of that, in American grammar the period is placed inside the quotes. I would have given you a C simply because it is well composed, but has literally nothing to do with the book you are writing about.

Unless something has changed, in APA style the period is outside the quotes.

I agree on the grade. A 'C' at best.

 

[bodecea]

Another leftist, I presume?
Actually, weren't you the person that had a fervent radical Muslim as a "personal" family friend?

Who is this "fervent radical Muslim" you're referring to?

"Debbie Almontaser"

Courtesy of "TheDoctorisIn".

http://www.usmessageboard.com/polit...blic-schools-and-textbooks-major-players.html

Checkmate.

I'm sorry, but your thinking skills are seriously stunted.

 

[Sunshine]

Sadly it is really only at the bachelor's and master's level in Nursing that one does much in the way of writing other than tests. But I can tell you as a former Nursing prof that getting all butt hurt over a grade is really silly. College students are insane. I had one argue all the way to the president of the college that her answer that a dose of medicine was 3 1/2 drops was logical. WTF is 1/2 of a drop? Needless to say she wasted a lot of time that would have been better spent studying. And then there was the one who declined to do an assignment for 2 points of extra credit. The assignment had a deadline. Then when she failed by 2 points she wanted to be allowed to do the extra credit assignment. Not in this lifetime or the next. She flunked. Essays like yours are subjectively graded at best. Take advantage of your advantages. You got a 92. Be glad it wasn't a 29.

 

[bodecea]

The format didn't copy over to USMB, since it doesn't appear to recognize tabs.

So...you are too lazy to edit it?

 

[rightwinger]

Once again, I am amazed at how liberal the grading is in your school. As in your other posted assignment, your essay had nothing to do with The Crucible and should have received a failing grade. Are they afraid to fail students?

Are you bullshitting us again?

Specifically, Abigail and John Proctor represent Zimbabwe and Botswana, respectively

 

[American4Americ]

The wording could have been better for that sentence, but I only had 20 minutes to write it all down.

 

[Hoosier4Liberty]

Once again, I am amazed at how liberal the grading is in your school. As in your other posted assignment, your essay had nothing to do with The Crucible and should have received a failing grade. Are they afraid to fail students?

Are you bullshitting us again?

Specifically, Abigail and John Proctor represent Zimbabwe and Botswana, respectively

Look, I'm not saying the grading was wrong, but the essay most certainly was about The Crucible.

Also, are you aware of the fact that the average high school student can barely read or write proficiently? They certainly wouldn't know anything about economic freedom, and their word choice/syntax would be far less robust. Compared to the average high school student, the OP is very, very intelligent.

 

[Sunshine]

Once again, I am amazed at how liberal the grading is in your school. As in your other posted assignment, your essay had nothing to do with The Crucible and should have received a failing grade. Are they afraid to fail students?

Are you bullshitting us again?

Specifically, Abigail and John Proctor represent Zimbabwe and Botswana, respectively

The philosophy of education these days is that all students should pass. If they can't pass on their own, then help them pass. That is from the administration. Then from the student side, 'I paid my money, give me the degree.' In prereqs the profs just sell out, then we have to deal with their messes in the clinical classes. I spent 2 hours one night before the nurse pinning ceremony with a student's mother who came to argue the answer of every question on the final exam. At 6:45 I told her I had to leave because it was time to go to pinning and she said, 'I'll meet you back here when it's over.' My response, 'You don't understand. I've been here since 7 this morning. When pinning is over, I'm out of here. Good night.' Her next question, 'well where do we get the $18,000 to pay back these student loans?'

This student was convinced that God had 'called' her to be a nurse and she couldn't fail. But she did fail, and with her attitude, if she had managed to have a happy accident an pass, she would have been dangerous in the workplace.

One day I came in to work and there was an armed guard sitting at the bottom of the stairs next to my door. Administration told me that because of FERPA I couldn't know what was going on. I told administration that since my life was clearly in danger they damned well better TELL me what was going on. So, they did. At least I knew who to be on the lookout for. And yes, I got a promotion.

The administration just doesn't want to have to deal with them. And they like money. Colleges aren't the same as when we were there.

 

[Sunshine]

The format didn't copy over to USMB, since it doesn't appear to recognize tabs.

So you want the sympathy vote but are too lazy to make the effort for even that! LOL

 

[rightwinger]

Once again, I am amazed at how liberal the grading is in your school. As in your other posted assignment, your essay had nothing to do with The Crucible and should have received a failing grade. Are they afraid to fail students?

Are you bullshitting us again?

Specifically, Abigail and John Proctor represent Zimbabwe and Botswana, respectively

Look, I'm not saying the grading was wrong, but the essay most certainly was about The Crucible.

Also, are you aware of the fact that the average high school student can barely read or write proficiently? They certainly wouldn't know anything about economic freedom, and their word choice/syntax would be far less robust. Compared to the average high school student, the OP is very, very intelligent.

Be serious....have you read The Crucible?
I cannot be sure that he did

His essay is a rightwing diatribe with painfully inserted, unrelated references to The Crucible

Be honest. Could you send in something like that, that is supposed to be about The Crucible and get a 92 on it?

Is he making shit up again? or is this what our High Schools are really like?

 

[Faun]

From 1941 to the 1960's we had high taxes on the rich and high wages. The taxes were invested in education and infrastructure and the high wages created consumer demand. Now we have low taxes for the rich and low wages. What is the result? 23% of total income goes to the top 1%. 70% of our economy is consumer demand. Too much money in too few hands starves the economy of demand. Stagnation is the result.

Raise the minimum wage and tax capital gains as income.

" We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. In theory some of those loophole were understandable, but in practice, they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing." ~ Ronald Reagan

In 1965 the median wage was $6,900 a year. That might seem high to you, but most people today wouldn't be able to live on it.

Like the OP, you deserve a poor grade for writing about something which has nothing to do with what you're responding to.

 

[Hoosier4Liberty]

Once again, I am amazed at how liberal the grading is in your school. As in your other posted assignment, your essay had nothing to do with The Crucible and should have received a failing grade. Are they afraid to fail students?

Are you bullshitting us again?

Specifically, Abigail and John Proctor represent Zimbabwe and Botswana, respectively

Look, I'm not saying the grading was wrong, but the essay most certainly was about The Crucible.

Also, are you aware of the fact that the average high school student can barely read or write proficiently? They certainly wouldn't know anything about economic freedom, and their word choice/syntax would be far less robust. Compared to the average high school student, the OP is very, very intelligent.

Be serious....have you read The Crucible?
I cannot be sure that he did

His essay is a rightwing diatribe with painfully inserted, unrelated references to The Crucible

Be honest. Could you send in something like that, that is supposed to be about The Crucible and get a 92 on it?

Is he making shit up again? or is this what our High Schools are really like?

No, I wouldn't get a 92 at my high school in the honors/AP class(probably a B for the former and C for the latter), but that's because it's #6 in the state.........other high schools almost certainly have lower standards. The other thing is, he did say it was a timed essay.

And yes, this isn't the main theme of the Crucible, but at the same time, a "traditional" essay on The Crucible would just be talking about McCarthyism, how Abigail ruined everything and created hysteria; how the power of "fear" controls all; and how people like Hale are dynamic characters who have a change of heart.

For a 20-minute timed essay, it sounded pretty good to me.

 

[rightwinger]

Look, I'm not saying the grading was wrong, but the essay most certainly was about The Crucible.

Also, are you aware of the fact that the average high school student can barely read or write proficiently? They certainly wouldn't know anything about economic freedom, and their word choice/syntax would be far less robust. Compared to the average high school student, the OP is very, very intelligent.

Be serious....have you read The Crucible?
I cannot be sure that he did

His essay is a rightwing diatribe with painfully inserted, unrelated references to The Crucible

Be honest. Could you send in something like that, that is supposed to be about The Crucible and get a 92 on it?

Is he making shit up again? or is this what our High Schools are really like?

No, I wouldn't get a 92 at my high school in the honors/AP class(probably a B for the former and C for the latter), but that's because it's #6 in the state.........other high schools almost certainly have lower standards. The other thing is, he did say it was a timed essay.

And yes, this isn't the main theme of the Crucible, but at the same time, a "traditional" essay on The Crucible would just be talking about McCarthyism, how Abigail ruined everything and created hysteria; how the power of "fear" controls all; and how people like Hale are dynamic characters who have a change of heart.

For a 20-minute timed essay, it sounded pretty good to me.

All he did was take a rightwing diatribe on the economy and Obama sucks and insert unrelated references to The Crucible

If I tried that bullshit when I was in High School 40 years ago, I would have gotten an F. Most teachers back then would have recognized a blatant tactic from someone who had not read the "play"and was trying to skate by with bull shit

 

[American4Americ]

Be serious....have you read The Crucible?
I cannot be sure that he did

His essay is a rightwing diatribe with painfully inserted, unrelated references to The Crucible

Be honest. Could you send in something like that, that is supposed to be about The Crucible and get a 92 on it?

Is he making shit up again? or is this what our High Schools are really like?

No, I wouldn't get a 92 at my high school in the honors/AP class(probably a B for the former and C for the latter), but that's because it's #6 in the state.........other high schools almost certainly have lower standards. The other thing is, he did say it was a timed essay.

And yes, this isn't the main theme of the Crucible, but at the same time, a "traditional" essay on The Crucible would just be talking about McCarthyism, how Abigail ruined everything and created hysteria; how the power of "fear" controls all; and how people like Hale are dynamic characters who have a change of heart.

For a 20-minute timed essay, it sounded pretty good to me.

All he did was take a rightwing diatribe on the economy and Obama sucks and insert unrelated references to The Crucible

If I tried that bullshit when I was in High School 40 years ago, I would have gotten an F. Most teachers back then would have recognized a blatant tactic from someone who had not read the "play"and was trying to skate by with bull shit

You have no sense of anything, right-winger.

 

[rightwinger]

No, I wouldn't get a 92 at my high school in the honors/AP class(probably a B for the former and C for the latter), but that's because it's #6 in the state.........other high schools almost certainly have lower standards. The other thing is, he did say it was a timed essay.

And yes, this isn't the main theme of the Crucible, but at the same time, a "traditional" essay on The Crucible would just be talking about McCarthyism, how Abigail ruined everything and created hysteria; how the power of "fear" controls all; and how people like Hale are dynamic characters who have a change of heart.

For a 20-minute timed essay, it sounded pretty good to me.

All he did was take a rightwing diatribe on the economy and Obama sucks and insert unrelated references to The Crucible

If I tried that bullshit when I was in High School 40 years ago, I would have gotten an F. Most teachers back then would have recognized a blatant tactic from someone who had not read the "play"and was trying to skate by with bull shit

You have no sense of anything, right-winger.

Are you making this one up like you made up your "poem" when you first came on the board?

I am detecting a trend

 

[American4Americ]

Why would I take the time to write that if it wasn't real?
I never made up that poem btw.

 

[rightwinger]

Why would I take the time to write that if it wasn't real?
I never made up that poem btw.

Did you read The Crucible?

 

[American4Americ]

Why would I take the time to write that if it wasn't real?
I never made up that poem btw.

Did you read The Crucible?

Yes, I did in fact read The Crucible.

 

[Faun]

Why would I take the time to write that if it wasn't real?
I never made up that poem btw.

Did you read The Crucible?

Yes, I did in fact read The Crucible.

Regardless, your grade was more than fair given your [purported] paper wasn't even about The Crucible, so it appears you have failed miserbly in your OP to actually prove your grade was the product of Liberal bias.

 

[bodecea]

Somehow or another, the OP has learned that it is acceptable to whine about something he doesn't like by crying "political bias".