The system of selective college admissions, for the most part, is based on tests geared to favor US middle- and upper middle class students, not students of the working class, or of different cultures, who may not have had comparable opportunities (Sternberg, 2004).
A powerful sultan in the Ottoman Empire was Mehmet II also known as Mehmed the Conqueror. He ended the Byzantine Empire and conquered Constantinople (which was then the capital of the Ottoman Empire). Mehmed is still considered a highly influential and inspirational figure in modern-day Turkey and many sites around the country are named after him.
HÃ¼rrem Sultan (Turkish pronunciation: [hyÉ¾ËÉ¾em suÉ«ËtaËn]; Ottoman Turkish: Ø®ÙØ±ÙÙÙ Ø³ÙØ·Ø§Ùâ, á¸ªurrem Sulá¹­Än; c. 1502 â 15 April 1558, also known as Roxelana) was the favourite and later the chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and the mother of Åehzade Mehmed, Mihrimah Sultan, Åehzade Abdullah, Sultan Selim II, Åehzade ...