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Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first fo...

Traditional Research Interpretations

customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes, 2002; p. 72). This perspectiv...

Thomas Whyte's The Heart Aroused and Beowulf

states that such archetypes are "mental predispositions independent of individual experience, which have their source in the colle...

United Kingdom and How to Meet Asian Housing Needs

is genuine and stills exist and how, despite government polices which focus on nuclear families, there have been some projects whi...

Animation Advancements in Geri's Game Short Film by Pixar

won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...

Nursing Theory and Its Sub Specialties

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

Theoretical Perspectives on Nursing

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

George Herbert Mead's Symbolic Interaction and Talcott Parsons' Structural Functionalism

involves constant self-conscious adjustment of the parties involved to the conduct of each other, a "repeated fitting together of ...

ARDS and Prone Ventilation

The causes of ARDS are not fully understood, but there are two main types of injury which can cause it. In the first, there is a...

Continuing Oppression of Disabled Individuals

specific individual. According to Joseph Shapiro (author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement)...

Saugerties, New York's New Rhythm and Blues Quintet

successful, particularly in America, you must do the same thing over and over and over again" and NRBQ categorically refuses to do...

Laws of Exclusion and Japanese Immigration

workers from immigrating to the US (Peck 12). Ironically, the exclusion of the Chinese served to encourage Japanese immigration, ...

Buddhism and the Second Noble Truth

a "thirst for something" (Samudaya, 2004). As this suggests, the Buddhist view is that the primary cause of human suffering is a...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Abusive Behavior, Consequences, and Responsibility

their emotions, their actions and their reactions to certain circumstances or other peoples behavior (Holmes, 2004). The perpetra...

Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

High Schools and Later Starting Times

of Sleep Medicine and a professor of internal medicine at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, the effects of starting the sch...

Ethics and Radiology

thereby avoid "the use of ionizing radiation entirely" (Lozano). Patients are seldom provided information regarding the risks an...

Australian Immunization Issues and Policies

should the MMR immunization series (measles, mumps, rubella); the DTP series (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) and the polio vaccin...

Spirituality and Religion/Hospital Setting

the dietary restrictions of Jewish and Moslem patients should be honored and other tenets of these faiths should influence nursing...

International Expansion

models may be divergent, but they have several characteristics in common. For example, each has a method of progression with the a...

Beliefs and Tenets of Islam and Sufism

a more intimate and personal approach to God than was provided by Sunni formalism and detachment (Lippman, 1995). The Sufis found ...

Jealousy and Love in William Shakespeare's Othello

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

San Marino, California's The Ellesmere Geoffrey Chaucer Manuscript

The illuminated first page of "The Knights Tale" can be viewed at http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/knightel.jpg. The student resea...

Semantic Features and Theories of Linguistics and Prototypes

The best-known definition of a word is the one proposed by American linguist Bloomfield, who described a word as a "minimum free f...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Experiments in Sociology and Method Applications

hypothesis. Suppose someone wonders whether or not girls who have grown up in broken homes are more likely to use illicit drugs; i...

God and the Trinity Doctrine

was opposed by Athanasius, the deacon of the main church in Alexandria (Bolton, 2002). The Bishop of Alexandria, Alexander, heard...

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Treatment Seeking Influences

an SD of 17.2, compared with the heavier mean of those seeking treatment of 194 with a SD of 38.5. The sample used was 100% whit...