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Thursday, August 11, 2011

The link between ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and testing - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

The link between ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and testing - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

The link between ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and testing

This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State.

By Carol Corbett Burris

I went to see “Rise of the Planet of the Apesthe other night. After the first ten minutes, everyone in the theatre knew things would not end well — at least not for the humans. The well-meaning protagonist ignores the warning signs that something is just not right with his experimentation. The damage is compounded when the entrepreneur smells the profit. The doomed experimentation accelerates and chaos