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I'd like to know what others think of the Standards of Learning (SOLs) tests.?I believe President Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" has had an effect on schools, especialy with the SOLs and their impact on schools. Can anyone confirm or refute this?
I'm looking more for opinions based on the facts that are out there. I know a good bit about the subject already. The reason I posted this question was to see what others' thoughts are on the subject.
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Both essays are easily understandable. I think you could use either. To help with grammar and word choices, I used the first. I have put my corrections/suggestions in CAPITOL LETTERS.
Hi Basima!!
How are you?
Japan is a very interesting country, isn't it?
Did you know that in the year of 1908 the Japanese immigrated for Brazil? [ "TO Brazil" instead of "for". You leave "for" somewhere, but go (or immigrate TO somewhere.)]
That happened on the 18th of June.
This (this or that?) [THAT would be correct because you just used THAT in the sentence above, however, I might actually say "THE IMMIGRATION was a consequence" since you are starting a new paragraph. Sometimes you want to restate your subject after a break.] was a consequence of the disintegration of the Japanese rural layers, that had been happening since the mid 19th century"
For the Japanese government, the emigration represented the possibility to alliviate this crisis.
But their travel was not easy at all, [This should be 2 sentences - BUT THEIR TRAVEL WAS NOT EASY AT ALL. IT LASTED...] it lasted 52 days, since they went by sea (in a ship called Kasato Maru).
Many of them were sent to work on coffees [COFFEE, not "Coffees"] plantations (that up to today, it is [ARE instead of "is" because "plantations" is plural. If you were talking about 1 plantation than "is" would be correct.] still largely cultivated in Brazil).
The years passed by, and today Brazil shelters(shelters or has?) [HAS] the biggest Japanese population outside Japan,
nearly 1,5 million of nikkeis (term used to call the Japanese and his descendants). [THEIR descendants instead of "his"]
Today there are nearly 62000 Japanese inhabitants living in Brazil.
That`s a lot of people!!!
[the i in i've should be capital "I've"]
I hope i`ve been helpful!!!
Have a nice day,
Yui."
I hope these corrections aren't too confusing, I wanted to tell you the reason behind them instead of just correcting things, but since I couldn't change the color of my font, it sort of all blends together.
Good luck!