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Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Fixing Failing Urban Schools

embrace the community is controversial. After all, much of the music and lyrics contain expletives and an overuse of the N word. I...

Culture: Comparison and Contrast of Two Articles

In Peasant men cant get wives: language change and sex roles in bilingual community by Susan Gal the community being studied speak...

The Power of Language in "The Tempest" and "The Birthday Party"

does the chicken cross the road?") that they might as well be physically beating him. Instead, they have the power in the play bec...

The English Language

are considered quite strong. How did English emerge? What is its history? A few hundred years ago, English was simply a hodge pod...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

The Importance of ESL in the International School Curriculum

meet the demands that society dishes out, and cultural demands as well. This is becoming increasingly more significant as the worl...

Language & Critical Thinking

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Informal Time Terms

of vague terms, they clearly have a place in it. But what about terms that are ambiguous? As noted, the complexity of language su...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

Balanced Approach and the Impacts on Teaching Literacy

that the most important result of these skills is that the "children can shift their attention away from the content of speech to ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

Child Development Activities 2

floor so the babies can crawl inside and play" (Miller, 1991) Begin to spark imagination "Have blankets and scarves for infants ...

English Language Learning and Lau v. Nichols

for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...

Wilsonian Conceptualization of Grief

process, each person may exhibit different behaviors when grieving. This is also true to the amount of time the person feels grief...

Use and Impact of Australian and Canadian Language Policies

broader ranging policy, but was also symbolic of the boarder policies in addition to having direct impact. The policies wh...

Michael Corballis' 'The Language Evolution Debate' Article

speak at certain evolutionary stages of development. It is also speculated by Corballis that language emerged from facial expressi...

Immigrant Communities and Learning Needs Addressed by Public Schools

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

Research Proposal for High School English Class Motivation

this study is quasi-experimental and uses questionnaires to provide the data to determine the effectiveness of motivational strate...

A Language Arts Lesson Plan

be read aloud in parts. The students will also be required to advance their daily reading with 20 minutes of outside reading per ...

Fact and Fallacy Regarding Body Language

only when the observer is very familiar with the culture of the individual being observed and even with the individual themselves....

Translation of Text

translated, the human translator may begin with machine translation. This is usually reserved for technical manuals and other sim...

Language Learning Instruments Assessment

data in an assessment process. According to Greenhalgh (1997), reliability and validity begin with an explicit statement of the s...

A Language Arts Lesson Plan

trust, and the conflict of good vs. evil. III. Materials Needed: This is a writing section, and so students will only be requir...

Overview of Schema Languages

in the view that DTD will have limited applications in the future (Bray et al, 2004). W3C XML Schema As...

Reality and Language

stand for, the anger of your assailant. "In other words, the knife in my wall has become an objectively available constituent of t...