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These accommodations help the student perform better overall because the mental disabilities they face can cause insurmountable barriers to success. A voiceless mentally ill population is exploited in America. With nigh zero mention of mental illness in the current health care debate because mental health issues are the elephant in the room when discussing health care, the voiceless are being pushed aside for big interests to see their agenda through the health reform bill. We can see similar practices on a smaller scale at Harvard...
...Crimson battled not only the five other teams in the meet but also less than ideal weather conditions. Despite the extra opponent, the team was still able to perform and place well, although top finishes were not Harvard’s first priority during the weekend competition...
...It’s hard to put [what happened] into words,” said junior 2V rower Kate Morris. “On the whole, we didn’t perform the way one ideally would like to, but we hope that we’ll be able to improve...
Additionally, students’ unofficial understanding of the value of an internship skews their perspective on the conditions under which their work is important. Those who perform menial tasks under the auspices of an internship often receive greater prestige than those who perform the same tasks for pay. This magnification of an internship experience fails to give equal credit to those who do the same labor but need financial compensation for their work...
...reward, it seemed, diminished the act of drawing. So instead of giving kids gold stars, Deci says, we should teach them to derive intrinsic pleasure from the task itself. "What we really want is for people to value the activity of learning," he says. People of all ages perform better and work harder if they are actually enjoying the work - not just the reward that comes later...