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.
Sultan Mehmed II is considered one of the most famous Ottoman sultans. Sultan (/ËsÊltÉn/ ; Arabic: Ø³ÙØ·Ø§Ù â sulá¹­Än, [sÊlËtË¤ÉËn, solËtË¤ÉËn]) is a noble title with several historical meanings.Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning strength, authority, rulership, derived from the verbal noun Ø³ÙØ·Ø© sulá¹­ah, meaning authority or power. Sultan of Sultans-the sultanic equivalent of the style King of Kings. 2  Certain secondary titles have a devout Islamic connotation; e.g., Sultan ul-Mujahidin as champion of jihad (to strive and to struggle in the name of Allah).