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Feminist Ideals in Twain's, Pudd'nhead Wilson

for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...

Nurse Leadership, Clinical Pathways, Discharge Planning, and Quality Management

synopsis will be provided for each of these articles and one article will selected for a more detailed discussion of how its findi...

Adult Learner Curriculum Design

a theorist who suggests that adult learners call on different experiences they might have had in the learning process (Merriam & C...

Societal Structure Lessons in The Republic by Plato

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

Feminist Themes in Shakespeare's, The Tempest

can further see feminist perspectives. Lorie Jerrell Leiningers essay, The Miranda Trap: Racism and Sexism in Shakespeares Tempes...

A Feminist Interpretation of, The Yellow Wallpaper

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

Feminist Reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare

a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest,...

Relaxation Techniques

Reading a book is also a relaxation technique for many people. Often, people read before going to bed, allowing them time to unwi...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Feminine Reading of Woolf's, A Room of One's Own

an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate fem...

Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

An Analysis of Three Communications Articles

must learn to use the written word in manner considered appropriate by a "particular speech or discourse" community (McCarthy 234-...

Literature and the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

seen in any other character in the novel. He began to see that he was different, and not human. Then he came upon a bundle that...

Feminist Reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...

Analysis of Debate

are based more on the liberal position that America should be welcome all comers. The growing disparity of language in border sta...

Reading and Research Literacy

constructs were analyzed. The model, which combined letter identification, phonological awareness, and rapid naming, was identifie...

Reading Disabilities and Exceptional Children Interventions

events and the relations of those events. This simultaneously gains insight into the brains representation of language and into t...

"Bridging the Gap Between School and Home Using Children's Literature"

to read under the covers while at home or while in a classroom with the lights darkened just for the occasion. "Flashlight Friday...

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...

Reaction Essay/Pedophiles & Priests

abusers" (Jenkins 133). This use of language paints Church officials as innocent victims of social change, rather than being knowi...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

Karen Cronkite on Depression

sought. A third point that Cronkite makes is that human behavior is complex. There is a tendency in American society to want to ...

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

Teaching Reading with the Fernald Method

channel, thus, giving all students the opportunity to learn through whichever channel is their strength. This approach has childre...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Dwell in Possibility' (#657)

Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...