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Education and Issues in the Classroom

Teachers in America face critical issues in making everyday classroom decisions. This paper examines a fictitious first-grade clas...

Families on the Fault Line by Lillian B. Rubin

In five pages this sociological text is summarized and analyzed in a consideration of the working class 'invisible' American citiz...

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

Online Education and an Annotated Bibliography

In five pages taking classes on the Internet is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. An annotated bibliography featu...

Women of the Renaissance by Margaret L. King

prove their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude t...

'The Miller's Tale,' 'The Shipman's Tale,' and 'The Cook's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

These ribald stories featured in The Canterbury Tales and the class conflicts they represent are discussed in this paper consistin...

Characteristics of Echinodermata

In two pages the phylum Echinodermata, class Asteroidea, is examined in terms of its various characteristics along with the Cerama...

A Trainee Teachers Course Known as an ELT Pre-Service Training Project

In twelve pages this paper provides an historical overview along with current available methods to teach English as a second langu...

Learning to Labor by Paul Willis

In five pages this paper considers Paul Willis' studies of Great Britain's working class laborers as they existed in the 1970s. T...

Class Differences and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In five pages the 'Pygmalion effect' is among the topics considered in this discussion of the treatment of class differences in Ge...

US Social Class Structure

In 5 pages this paper discusses the reasons why the American social class structure exists. There are 4 sources cited in the bibl...

Comparing Works by Richard Wright and Jo Ann G. Robinson

In five pages this research paper examines these authors' refusal to accept African American second class citizenship in a segrega...

Nazi Era and German Working Class Socioeconomic Conditions

of Jewish property: I can still feel today the way I thought back then. I wondered: "what will happen to us some day because of a...

Japanese Bushido Code of Ethics and the Samurai During the Meiji Restoration

characterize the government and society of the period. In the bakuhan, the shogun had national command and the daimyo had regional...

American Middle Class and the Republican Political Party

Republican Party wants to establish itself as the quintessential conservative, or at least "mainstream," political party of the g...

American Industrialization

In two pages this paper discusses nineteenth century America and how industrialization had resulted in a turbulent political clima...

Change and Continuity During the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

Class Rights Variation and Corporate Control

example, preference shareholders will still usually have the rights to attend meetings, even where voting rights are not held. Thi...

Pornography as a Social Problems

Opinions are mixed. Table-dancing or lap-dancing, for example, is something that has become popular of late (Sweet, 1998). Dr. Si...

Australia and Tennis

helpful, and some may construe it as essential to conduct business (1996). In other words, small talk in Australia seems to revolv...

Hawaiian Kingdom's Ali'i Ruling Class

foresight that brought all of the various Hawaiian Islands together. He was to be the last of the great Hawaiian rulers, for after...

Benefits of Reducing Class Size

"rarely instructed how to learn" (p. 71). Moreover, Applebee (1984) strongly suggest that strategy instruction is all but absent ...

U.S. Quality Education Decline

that can only be provided in smaller-size classrooms (Gilman and Kiger, 2003). Unfortunately, with most U.S. education budgets be...

Contemporary World and Class Struggle

power and cannot be equated with a salary range. The fisherman who may bring in six figures one year may never be considered a par...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and Social Class

her father until an outsider convinces them that she did not break the rules or cross the boundaries of her social class....

Lower Social Classes in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream

In eight pages this paper analyzes the plebeians featured in Julius Caesar and the rude mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream i...

America's Poor and Rich and Bridging the Gap That Exists Between Them

In five pages this paper discusses how to bridge the gap between the affluent and impoverished classes in America, that can only c...

David Hamburg on Today's Children

This 6 page paper examines the book Today's Children by Dr. David Hamburg with regard to his treatment of government funding, clas...

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...

Housing in Boston

In essence, the state is offering to take low-income residents and build homes for them where those with greater financial resourc...