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Race Relations in Detroit

The white exodus from Detroit is truly mind-boggling. There were 1,600,000 white living in Detroit after World War II, and roughly...

After-School Programs

providing encouragement and praise, reinforcing expectations consistently, and handling broken ground rules in a firm but not hars...

English Language Teaching And Metacognition

to clarify: if a student asks what a word means, he is using cognition; if the student asks what the best way is to learn and reme...

Global Warming and Animals

the words of one individual, referring to studies involving plant and animal life in recent years, it seems that half of the plant...

WWII: Overview

of anger and frustration, as well as a need to retaliate (History Learning Site, 2007). During this time there was also the Leagu...

Churches and the French Revolution

France. And, as Hines (1999) states, "You might say that bread was the fuel that fired the Revolution, for just about every major ...

Australian Impressionism

concerned themselves primarily with the physical nature of light, emphasizing the way in which light altered colors as it rapidly ...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Berry Gordy: Life and Works

When Berry was a junior in high school he dropped out so that he could be a boxer, once fighting on the same...

The Cuban Missile Crisis

many ways (The History Learning Site, 2007). While Castro was essentially a man who sided with socialism, it was not really until ...

Therapy: Alexander Technique

is not. It is not a form of relaxation or a set of exercises to improve posture. Neither is it an alternative therapy; although ra...

Human Trafficking

remain the same, seems to apply here; Minors have been, are, and apparently will continue to be the most sexually exploited class ...

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Homeschooling

child and then test to ensure/prove their child is learning the required levels presented by their school district. They must meet...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

Constructivism

that knowledge is something that grows throughout childhood and it is not linear (Silverthorn, 1999). His theories focused on how ...

Language & Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

Deciphering Gertrude Stein

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Concept Clarification on Physical Pain

how much pain a person, or a patient, is experiencing. A level of pain that may puts one person in tears may be easily handled by ...

INTO THE WILD -- A SUMMARY AND REVIEW

and mood of the chapter -- and through others, is able to bring together the portrait of a young man who met his end on the other ...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Cultural Meanings of Silence

things for the good of all the community, and that winning is good for all, not just the individual. There are apparently...

Bullying

well. "Every day thousands of teens wake up afraid to go to school. Bullying is a problem that affects millions of students, and ...

Gay Marriage

since the beginning of time. In fact, one could likely argue that in many cultures it has been, and is, far more prevalent than it...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language Using Neurolinguistic Programming

in teaching (Baker, 2005). Using NLP "will enable us to uncover the basis of our perceptions and so teach us how we think and lear...

Wilsonian Conceptualization of Grief

process, each person may exhibit different behaviors when grieving. This is also true to the amount of time the person feels grief...

Nursing Ethics/Case Scenario Response

the conflict between ethical principles that the case scenario entails. The steps that the nurse and Dr. F. may have followed in d...

Funk Music

was despair. It was a time of high energy and it has become part of the nations mythology. It was unsettled and crazy, and funk mu...