What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline? When was the term coined and what does it mean? The term school-to-prison pipeline has been coined relatively recently (in the early twenty-first century), although the phenomenon itself has been going on for decades. But what exactly is the school-to-prison pipeline? Simply put, it’s the process whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds are pushed out of schools and onto the pathway to prison. Keep reading for the answer to the question: what is the school-to-prison pipeline?

Statistical Evaluation: How to Assess Legitimacy

Statistical Evaluation: How to Assess Legitimacy

What are the five questions you should ask yourself when looking at statistics? How can you tell when a statistic is being manipulated? It is important to perform a statistical evaluation before you trust any statistic you’re given. Many statistics are manipulated to fulfill an agenda but even manipulated statistics can provide you with valuable information. Continue on to learn how to perform a statistical evaluation.

The How to Lie With Statistics Book Guide

The How to Lie With Statistics Book Guide

What can you learn from the How to Lie With Statistics book? What are the ten techniques that liars use to manipulate statistics? How can you assess if a statistic is reliable? In his book How to Lie With Statistics, Darrell Huff explains how people (advertisers, companies, anyone with an agenda) can manipulate numbers to yield statistics that support their cause. Since these people aren’t actually lying, it isn’t considered illegal. Huff teaches you what to look out for and how to see through liars. Continue on for more on How to Lie With Statistics.

Planning a Business Startup: Questions to Ask Yourself

Planning a Business Startup: Questions to Ask Yourself

Do you have a business idea in mind? What are some business startup questions you could ask yourself as you plan its execution? The startup stage of any company is one of the most uncertain, but at the same time, most exciting periods in the business life cycle. You should use business startup questions to help you flesh out your idea and articulate a plan for its execution. Here are some business startup questions to take your idea from conception to inception.

Evolutionary Medicine Should Be Taught in Med School

Evolutionary Medicine Should Be Taught in Med School

Why isn’t evolutionary medicine taught in medical school? How could understanding how our bodies came to be this way help us to accept diseases and inspire hope? Medical schools prefer to teach using science that they can test in a lab rather than evolutionary medicine. However, evolutionary medicine can explain some attributes that modern medicine cannot. Keep reading for more on evolutionary medicine.

Interpreting Symbols and Metaphors in Literature

Interpreting Symbols and Metaphors in Literature

Why is it so difficult to interpret symbols in literature? What do you do if an author uses unique symbols? Interpreting symbols in literature isn’t always easy. Literary symbols can sometimes overlap, develop new meanings over time, or be unique to an author. However, there are some common symbols and themes you can look out for. Continue on for more information about interpreting literary symbols.

Sexual Symbolism in Literature: Encoded and Explicit

Think and Grow Rich: Sexual Transmutation Demystified

What do encoded and explicit sex symbolize in literature? Why is it important to look beyond sex when reading literature? In literature, sex and sexuality are used symbolically in two different ways: encoded sex and explicit sex. Encoded sex means the author uses symbolic imagery to imply sex in a scene, but the reader never sees the sexual act take place. Explicit sex is when the author uses a sex scene to symbolize a larger theme in the story.  Continue reading for more information on what sex symbolizes in literature.

Irony in How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Irony in How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Why does irony change everything when it comes to literature? What are the different kinds of irony? If there is a disconnect between your expectation of a story and the reality of how it plays out, it is most likely ironic. The three most common types of irony in literature are verbal irony, ironic mode, and dramatic irony. Continue on to learn more about irony from How to Read Literature Like a Professor.