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'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

Argument Against Banning Go Ask Alice

addicted to drugs and turn into a very desperate and psychotic person is what set the world on edge when it was first published. ...

Huck Finn is Not a Racist Book

and wrong the past was, as he also introduces what were still subversive ideas concerning race. For example, take the way that Chr...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

Educational Alternatives for Poverty-Stricken Children

that schools located in working-class neighborhoods tend to be more regimented than schools located in suburban neighborhoods wher...

Bauhaus and Architectural Design

but remains a symbol of modernism. When consider the term modern, until recently the use of the term modern, and the associated m...

High School Exit Examin in California

In a paper consisting of five pages 1999's California Public School's Accountability Act is examined particularly in terms of its ...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

School Safety following Columbine A Research Proposal

do harm if they want to. Columbine is a good case study to use in examining this issue. The Columbine massacre entailed the juve...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

The Application of Censorship Principles Banning the Work of Homosexual Writers of Children's Literature

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of arguments in favor of the censoring of literature written by homosexual...

Catcher in the Rye from a Critical Perspective

Seminal works like J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye spawn reams of critical opinion. This paper presents three views on this...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

Task Force Environment and Leadership

is an annex approximately three miles from the main library. It was eventually proposed by the outside company that both facilitie...

Young Adult Book Challenge Letter

to young people, the library staff applauds all parents who are interested and involved in their childrens educational process, an...

The Development of Libraries

carefulness of life and beauty, isnt that high...

Library Services Expansion

hundred residents at best, these communities are far too small to be able to support a standalone public library. They welcome th...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

British High Court Case of Farrakhan v. Secretary of State for the Home Dept.

following analysis will demonstrate the support for this contention The 2001 ruling Although Justice Turner made the ruling in Ju...

Hispanics, High Dropout Rates, and Influential Factors

In eight pages Hispanics are examined within the context of their high rates of dropping out of high school with sociocultural and...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Reducing High School Dropout Rates in North Toledo

poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Copyright Law in Education

encouraged to visit libraries so they will be able to access information without cost. In recent years, libraries have expanded th...

School Libraries and Cultural Diversity

In five pages the importance of school library diversification so that multicultural student needs can be met is discussed. Four ...

Public School Libraries and the Impact of Computers

good, sound education is for the librarian to gain the students interested in the lesson plan; while some are inherently good lear...

School Library Media Centers and Copyright Law Considerations

copy machines notifying faculty and students of copyright provisions have been just one of the precautions that have been taken (C...

High School Teens and High Dropout Rates

This paper examines the reasons why an increasing number of teenagers are quitting high school in twelve pages with various sugges...