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A Reading of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily

This paper discusses the character of Emily in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.' This five page paper has no outside referen...

Reading the Book of Nature by Peter Kosso and Science

In five pages this paper examines if truth is generated by science in this analysis of Peter Kosso's text. Four sources are cited...

A Review of Alive by Piers Paul Read

they are high in the Andes, where no food is to be had. We could, in reality, have a story that would read like "Lord of the Flies...

A Feminist Reading of Dorothy Allison's, Bastard Out of Carolina

father, for she is dependent upon him economically, and for whatever social status she hopes to realistically acquire. In his lit...

The Reading Crisis by Chall, Jacobs, and Baldwin

the formulas are based on three factors: word length, sentence length and the number of uncommon words. For example, a 15-word sen...

Psychoanalysis Reading of 'The Lost Titian' by Christina Rossetti

do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...

High School Medieval Literature Class and King Arthur Reading Materials

In twenty pages twenty works related to the King Arthur legend and Camelot are briefly reviewed and include Le Morte d'Arthur by T...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Taking a Toddler’s Blood Pressure

pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...

The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Jan Vermeer

its geometrical balance with the map, and essentially we are presented with an incredibly intense visual image. But, is this parti...

A Critical Reading of a Passage from Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club

Christs face and that an imprint of His face was then left on the cloth. There is also the Turin Shroud, also that is said to have...

The Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Poem #632

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead Reading Comparison

traits or by innate traits (Margaret Mead: Human Nature, 2002). In Part Three of her work she studied "The Lake-Dwelling Tchambuli...

Uses of Technology in the Classroom

in order for the children of today to be "effective leaders and productive citizens" of tomorrow, they will require confidence in...

Dyslexia and ELL

with the acquisition of print literacy (reading, writing, and spelling). Dyslexia is characterized by poor decoding and spelling ...

Slut by Leora Tannenbaum

to her being labelled as a slut, presuming on the grounds that it is the sexual activity per se, rather than her consent or lack o...

Teaching Respectfully

worthless. According to Schlechty, one of the most obvious discrepancies in education today is the tendency to place the high ach...

5 Articles on Teaching and Commentary

expected to assimilate quietly and with no input. Instead of this method, the teachers, in order to make learning a true learning...

The Effects of Alcoholism

parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...

English Schools and the Teaching of Citizenship

too narrow-minded and limited. During the aftermath of September 11, it became increasingly evident that when terrorism touched o...

Student Achievement and the Importance of Class Size

compared the achievement of students who were in classes of between 13 and 17 students to classes where there were 22 to 26 studen...

Analyzing Curriculum Improvement by Ronald Doll

is that he provides for outcomes which can be measured, and therefore this allows the curriculum to be acted upon and improved. ...

A Comparison of Piano Instruction with Teaching Strategies

initial "position" for quite some time. In other words, the thumb ( as finger #1) lines up on Middle C, with each subsequent finer...

Pop Quiz's Validity

the material presented has been sufficiently saturated and incorporated into the students base of knowledge? Most educators would ...

Teaching Jr. and Sr. High School History Problems and Perspectives

do not care-they just want high test scores in math and English" (Weber, 2001; a2weber.htm). But, as we all know, history is much ...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

Educators and the Significance of Commitment and Attitude

were attending some type of mass transit facility rather than enrolled in a facility for learning. Teachers stand on the front li...

Urban Schools and Lack of Quality Educators

have emergency teaching certificates (NASBE, 2002). Consider these data: * Urban schools are twice as likely to hire unlicensed or...