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Reading Fluency

read aloud together (Welsch 180). This strategy actively engages the learner for a longer period of time in oral reading than the ...

The Clean Slate

be seen as lacking this soul. However, their lack of exposure to the great works and ideas also means that when they are exposed t...

MacDonald: "Company Commander"

that is perhaps due to the fact that hes not primarily a writer but a soldier and a historian. No matter how he does it, he tells ...

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

Casement: "Learning from our Mistakes"

therapist becomes more concerned with conducting the therapy in an "approved" manner or following a particular school of thought, ...

Robert Dallek/FDR & American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...

Bringhurst: "Elements of Typographic Style"

2002). Effective typography is also durable, not faddish; it changes when necessary but does not strive to keep up with the latest...

Quadagno: "One Nation, Uninsured"

believed were Communist inspired (Quadagno, 2005). The Communists established the Comintern, an organization dedicated to worldwid...

Azuela: "The Underdogs"

we learn very little else of importance. We dont know much about how he thinks, what his philosophy is, what his hopes and dreams ...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

"Jasmine" by Mukherjee

instead. And she approaches relationships almost from a mythical standpoint. For instance, when she falls in love with Prakash, h...

"Arc of Justice" - Justifiable Homicide

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

Comparison: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks"

racism, this time not the violent confrontation of the KKK, but the institutionalized, systematic racism that is so much a part of...

Bogus Arguments Against Bilingual Education - Review

These background, including economic factors, have a proven impact on a childs ability and motivation to learn and affect that stu...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Millman: "The Other Americans"

that it has grown from a small concern to a huge business that now makes over 400,000 tortillas a year (Millman). Fernando Sanchez...

Vonnegut: "Cat's Cradle"

was a POW in WWII and went through the firebombing of Dresden (an experience that plays out in his books repeatedly) (Priest). Wi...

"The Little Prince" of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the Fable and in the Reality

some critics believe that "post-colonialism" implies, mistakenly, that "colonialism is over when in fact most of the nations invol...

"Brinkley: "The Great Deluge"

"democracy pragmatism" in public policy suggests that it is a way to measure the success of public policy with regard to the democ...

"The Jungle": Unfairness in America

them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...

Gender in All Quiet on the Western Front

is fantasizing about sex. All Quiet on the Western Front is an older but expressive work that captures the problem of war through...

Peace and Freedom by Simon Hall

(Hall, 2006; 28). This also brings into play the truth wherein many African Americans sought out communism as a solution to the pr...

Elisha and the Romans

As a Driven Leaf. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of a real person, Elisha ben Abuyah, an early Talmudic scholar w...

The Bone Woman by Clea Koff

governments to prosecute mass murderers for their crimes. The expose writing: This term usually refers to someone who is knowledg...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

Childrens Literature The 2011 Newberry Medal and Caldecott Medal

Childrens literature is extremely diverse both in content and in style. The most notable authors always...

John Ortberg's Philosophy

simplest gift of God" (Ortberg 67). In other words, celebration is when we stop to appreciate Gods wondrous gift of life, such as ...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...

A Film Documenting Growing Old and Dying

"Tuesdays with Morrie" is based on the book by Mitch Albom. Mitch was a previous student of sociology professor Morrie...