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High School Experience Reflections

of keeping a proper balance between the informal and the formal, the incidental and the intentional, modes of education" (Dewey, 1...

Reflection, Experience, and Training Competence Building

and was told not to consider having children for fear of passing on defective genes (Sheldon, 1997; p. 34). This occurred d...

Life and Achievements of St. Joan of Arc

Joan was distinctive at even a very early age in that she was purported to hear the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine,...

Nutrition and Children

* Child poverty is highest among black families, 30 percent, then, among Hispanic families, 29 percent; it is 13 percent among whi...

Harry T. Moore and His Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

Scholastic Achievement and School Vouchers

tuition at local parochial schools but less than half the costs of private nonsectarian schools (Thigpen, 2000). For more than tw...

Leisure Concepts

so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at...

Sex, Hunger, and Achievement Motivation

necessarily outwardly obvious - is significantly associated with the ever-present motivation for achievement. Through the m...

Mortality in Epic of Gilgamesh

afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...

Biographical Profile of Philip Arthur Larkin

is said that much great poetry and other works of art are born of great pain. This may certainly have been the case in Arthur Lark...

Life and Accomplishments of Hildegard of Bingen

"The girl started to have visions of luminous objects at the age of three, but soon realized she was unique in this ability and hi...

Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt

National Monuments 1907 * Appoints the Inland Waterways Commission * Creates 4 more National Monuments: Cinder Cone; Lassen Peak...

Article on Conflict in Classroom, a Critique

stations. They practiced karate moves on the new carpets. Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as ...

Behavior Disorders in Children

that if left unchecked, the latter can develop into the former. The extent to which children with problems tend to "slip through t...

Booker T. Washington's Life and Achievements

for Washington, and he would endure much conflict and strife in his lifetime as well (Perry). Perhaps then, the best measure of W...

Oscar Wilde's Western Theatrical Achievements

older brother Willie and younger sister Isola (Kenyon 12). When his beloved sister died at the age of ten, it was a catastrophic ...

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Tests and Science Portion of LEAP 21 Compared

sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...

Napoleon Bonaparte's Life and Achievements

power. In 1806, Napoleon acted as a self-appointed leader of Europe, and changed the Batavian Republic into the Kingdom of Hollan...

British Scientist John Frederic Daniell's Life and Work

only due to contacts, but also dui to the reputation he had already been establishing for himself. Daniell had been conduc...

Economic Growth, Empowerment and Views of Both Black and White Cultures

past summer, the publication Black Enterprise (05-03) announced its 31st annual report listing the "top" African American enterpri...

Nursing Model of King

There are many settings in which nursing can occur within this framework. The most obvious is...

Tenets of Get R.E.A.L.

In five pages the respect, education, achievement, and leadership tenets known as 'Get R.E.A.L.' are discussed in terms of their y...

Psychometric Testing Online

In twenty pages this report discusses the Internet's role in individual aptitude and achievement testing in a consideration of psy...

Overview and Critique of Comprehensive Test Of Basic Skills

In five pages this achievement test is considered in an informational overview and critique with such issues as administration, de...

Science Achievement and Gender Differences Proposal

National Science Foundation reported that half of the people working in social sciences were women but only 8 percent of engineers...

History of China from Han to Tang Dynasties

In five pages 1,000 years of Chinese history are covered in terms of achievements, organization, and fragmentation as characterize...

Issues of Socialization and Achievement in Homeschooling

Estimates differ dramatically depending on who is doing the survey. As an example, a survey conducted by the National Center for E...

The Life and Accomplishments of Mary Harris Jones

years of the 20th century. She was famous in many respects because she was nobody and yet she was the embodiment of tens of thousa...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...

Life and Achievements of Photographer Bruce Weber

opened doors for the gay community in terms of securing truly complimentary photography of men. Webers experience in homoerotic ...