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Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and Constructivism

way will these children be able to discriminate, to make distinctions that penetrate below the surface" (Campbell, 1995, p. 216). ...

Visitor Studies and How They Developed

seek to attract the public. Visitor studies can be seen as historically categorised and studied in terms of the educational per...

Reading Education History

eye" which meant that there was more to reading than decoding. Reading was perceived now as a process. The key motto was "reading ...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Prewar Nazi Germany and the Origins of Anti Semitism

much of Germany for centuries. In the span of time following the Protestant Reformation Jews had begun to make numerous inr...

A John Romita, Sr. Profile

fact that he had been stationed at Governors Island in New York Harbor during the war where he was doing recruiting posters (1999)...

Democratic Approaches to Education

Oakes & Lipton have said lies in individual educators who "construct something whole and wonderful." (Oakes & Lipton, 2002, 3). In...

Theories and Moral Truths

of moral realistic thought and debate. Thomas Hills "Moral Agency Presupposes Autonomy of the Will"...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

Adolph Appia, Edward Gordon Craig and Radical Theatrical Stage Design

church that, presumably, looms overhead (Macgowan and Melnitz, 1955). Adolph Appia was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of L...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Russell Barkley

that the individual suffers constantly, since childhood, and that the symptoms continue throughout life and are quite severe in ma...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

Increased Tourism and Cost Benefit Analysis

the dollar value of the gains against the dollar value of the losses. If the value of the gains exceeds the value of the losses, ...

Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and the Feminist Movement

of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...

1956's Roth House

property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth Hou...

Nonprofit Organizations and the Impacts of Charitable Donations and the Estate Tax

* Research has shown that taxes or lack thereof dont make a difference in philanthropy IV. Conclusion The concern shouldnt be ove...

Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius

star through them. He could then compare the magnitudes of the stars by the number of glass plates needed to extinguish the light ...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

Choreographers Charles Weidman and Alvin Ailey

which included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (Beginnings of Modern Dance, 2004). By the end of the 1920s, th...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Austrian Economist Carl Menger

much is really not certain. Other economists who emerged prior to Menger contributed a great deal as well. Menger did try to sign...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Life and Philosophy of Denis Diderot

considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...

Marbury v. Madison and the US Supreme Court's Jurisdiction Justification

tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...

Development of Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud

a blaring pitch. All of a sudden the individual is stunned motionless by the realization that she has not fed or watered the anim...

Life and Career of Psychologist Hugo Munsterberg

to ideas which differed from his own. He clinged tightly, however, to two basic psychological principles:...

U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

technology that would be more accessible to everyone through a common language" (OHanlon, 2001)....