SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Rainy Day Reading

Essays 181 - 210

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

Accounting Concepts and Reading Accounts

by the period over which it is creating revenue. For some items the historic cost is not a suitable measure. For example, building...

Reading Ability of Compact Disc Players

cassettes and rivaling the even older vinyl? The ability to store data was revolutionized when CD players were invented. They ...

Burmese Days

there. This is further evidenced by another critic who indicates how, ""George Orwell actually was indeed a policeman in Burma in ...

Teaching Reading, A Personal Philosophy

good readers, reading is not a guessing game and that the grapho-phonemic or letter-sound information should be the first element ...

Teach Metacognition and reading with Newspapers

(Hopkins, 2005). Research also indicates that students enjoy reading the newspapers (Hopkins, 2005). If they develop this habit in...

Days of the Week Characters in Chesteron’s Novel

in anarchy wherein a lack of rules in a society would lead to utter chaos and the ultimate destruction of order in the world. Sy...

Reading Skill Improvement Through Learning Centers

In eight pages this research proposal examines how improved comprehension in reading can be achieved through learning centers with...

California Reading Scores and Public School Staff Development

In twenty two pages this paper discusses public schools in California and various issues pertaining to reading scores and includes...

Why Kids Should be Read to

at an early age (Lynch, van den Broek, Kremer, Kendeou, White, & Lorch, 2008). There are links between comprehending what is read...

Narrative Structural Analysis of Groundhog Day

that Phil has always been a jerk, even in his youth, as first of all, he dismissed ordinary people, such as Ned, as beneath him an...

SERIES BOOKS AND TEEN READING

says any kind of reading is good reading, and unless the books being read are immoral or harmful to the teenager, its a good thing...

Four-Day Work Weeks: Advantages and Disadvantages

can be carried out (Daly, 2008). Two Brigham Young University professors recently released a study in which they determined that ...

The Day of Battle - Rick Atkinson Looks at the Italian Campaign

on whether or not to invade Italy; its quite another to read about the meeting between FDR and Churchill, the dickering that took ...

The First Day at Kindergarten

were screaming at the top of their lungs and the sounds the bus made as it came to a stop and then lurched forward were scary. Je...

Chestnutt: A Close Reading of The Web of Circumstance

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

Polygamy Among the Latter Day Saints

Polygamy, the practice of having more than one spouse, has been practiced by numerous peoples over time. In contemporary times, h...

Sick Days

they are fearful of losing their job they will likely be more inclined to go to work, and thus threaten the health of other worker...

BUSINESS AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN FORMING A DAY CARE

depending on the equipment needed and remodeling necessary (Small Business Notes, 2009). Full-scale day care operations that opera...

Ninth Day, Sixth Story and the Reeve's Tale

as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...

University Days by James Thurber

describes his economic class and the perplexed foot player who has difficulty naming one means of transportation. Again, the humor...

ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY

to be on the first Tuesday in November? As with a variety of U.S. historical activities, it wasnt always that way. Beginning in 17...

Reading and Perceiving Color

The time it takes individuals to enunciate a color when presented with the written word representing that color can vary according...

"Family Guy" - A Sociological Reading

cross-country destination to fulfill a nefarious purpose. Despite being a baby and a dog, Stewie and Brian are both fully articula...

The Day the Cowboys Quit

but is part of the town because of the members of the community, cowboys have long done most of the work. Those men who come in wi...

Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life

jobs a man can get that doesnt require him to toil long hours in the hot Egyptian sun. You might even say I have it made! Entry 2...

The Position and Strategy of JetBlue Following the Valentines Day Debacle

being difficult for the entire airline industry. The International Air Transport Association projected in 2007 that the 2008 perfo...

"Around the World in Eighty Days" - Colonialism and Enlightenment

infuse his novel with educational motifs, reflecting the novels thematic notion that educational and scientific advancement are th...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

of nineteenth century author Jules Verne (1828-1905) helped to create the foundation of the modern science fiction genre. The fert...

"Last Night I Sang to the Monster": A Psychoanalytic Reading

things from the conscious mind (Boeree 2006). For Freud, personality and behavior results almost solely from interpsychic tensions...