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American Contributions of Edgar Allan Poe

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

Senility and Aging

allowing the elderly to stay mentally alert is: "a sense of belonging and purpose"...

Education Paid for By Students

their parents cannot afford to send them to college, will know that if they plan on doing so it will be hard. They thus begin, at ...

Pros and Cons of Bilingual Education

not concur with this claim. All one has to do is look to the past for a dramatic lesson in total immersion theories. Many...

Policing and Higher Education

2002). Senior officers are expected to train their subordinates and all officers must have excellent communication and organizati...

U.S. Incidences of Teen Pregnancies

be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...

Supporting Canonical Education

definition, it is easy to argue that it is the right course of action. Relativity never works. As the ebonics experiment clearly d...

Life Balance and Myths

the Internet that dealt with three topics: the values and beliefs of Hinduism; the advantages and disadvantages of a college educa...

Brown v. Board of Education and Societal Prejudice in the Law and in Cartoons

Hundreds of cartoons were generated in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Many of them have made their way to the World Wid...

Distance Education Research

as being "respectable" and as representative of "real" science. During the 1960s and 1970s, that was not the case. Research of a...

Adult Education and Code of Ethics Framework

possibilities for ethical code violations in practically every aspect of our lives. Ethics of practice is, in fact, a pop...

Social Inequality and Education

minority of home-schoolers - knowledge and skills are imparted within the context of a very specific organisational structure, sep...

Public School Inclusion of Special Education Students

1998). They even question what schools and teachers are actually supposed to do to meet the needs of disabled children (Stout, 200...

Continuing Education and Online Learning Effectiveness

result; the achievement of something planned or attempted. We could conclude that effectiveness and success in education is define...

Levels of Nursing Education

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

The Work of a Crime Scene Investigator

One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigation, the "study of fire-...

Styles of Learning and Outdoor Education

to guide ones objective to the most appropriate fruition: 1. Teach a commitment to human responsibility for stewardship or care o...

Social Change is Not Reflected by Statutory Law

positivistic rather than classical criminal justice theories. Classical criminal justice theory states that if a person is...

Troubled US System of Education

are sexualized by society and begin dating and having sexual relations early. There are drug problems in many schools as well. Mig...

Past and Present Educational Diversity Trends

made to correct this problem have been both limited and ineffective; the combative environment that is often the schools location ...

Teen Pregnancy, Regulatory and Legislative Influences

Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...

The Social Importance of Relative Adoptions

PLIGHT OF FOSTER CHILDREN IN EDUCATION Theory In a related study, Emerson & Lovitt (2003) performed a meta...

Managing Classroom Disruptions

not have video games, CD players, cell phones or other electronic devices, but not all school systems have been willing to take st...

ESL is Better than Bilingual Education

(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...

Contrasting and Comparing Theories of Public Education

to those in public schools, but the testing does not always bear this out. From a study of Giarellis chapter, it seems likely tha...

Higher Education and People with Physical Disabilities

the situations in the country. Literature Review The first article to be examined is one that discusses wheelchair sports in o...

3 Generations of a Black Woman's Family and the Transmission of Personal Identity and Strength

out. My grandmother had little education in the formal sense yet she had overwhelming common sense. She learned to appreciate th...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Children's Scholastic Success and the Involvement of Parents

finishes with a section on parental involvement and its affect on school success through attendance as well as improved performanc...