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Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

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 ...

Language Development: Observation

This paper recounts the writer observations garnered from observing a three year old and a one year old and discusses the children...

Promotion of ESL Student Literacy and STEM

This paper pertains to the needs of English as a Second Language students and STEM instruction. Twelve pages in length, ten source...

Foreign Language, Benefits of Learning

This paper pertains to the benefits of learning a foreign language, the future of this field and gap-testing strategies. Three pag...

Melting Pot or Tapestry How to Best Integrate Cultures

This paper argues that forcing people to abandon their own culture and language in favor of another is wrong. There are two sourc...

A Disadvantaged Workforce

concept of work is changing and jobs "appear to be less stable than they were twenty-five years ago" (Working for America). If th...

IDEA ’97

brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and development aphasia....The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result ...

The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Reallocating School Resources - Case Study

free and reduced lunches. Test scores for language arts are low, in fact, 6th grade reading scores fell short of expectations by -...

Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Tools at Work

First Amendments rights for free speech seem to always be in the news. There are cases when this issue is confusing-exactly what i...

Social Networking and the Learning Organization

there are at least six characteristics common to all organizations that others can label as being attuned to learning from events ...

Universal Design

(ADA, 2008). Balancing the legal mandate for accessibility while at the same time remaining within an already straining budget is...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Border Control and Immigration Policy

fence, but rather that remedies should address both social concerns and the realities of this social, economic and political probl...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

Robert W. Howard's "The Shrinking Of Social Studies" - Reaction

learning through more evenhanded methods. Howard (2003) duly points out how standardization benefits no one but the bureaucrats w...

Subtleties of Legal Language

Campagnola was entitled to the value that she would have received had the malpractice not occurred. As this suggests, the differen...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

Language Learning Styles and ESL Teaching Strategies

study will assess existing learning styles and educational strategies used to assess the impacts of ESL/TESOL and Bilingual educat...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Holistic Nutrition: Language

to holistic nutrition with a prescriptive connotation as being used as "an alternative to, or in conjunction with, traditional med...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

The Language of the Abortion Debate

rhetoric can go a long way to change opinion (Bailey, 2002). They realize that if they use religious verbiage, it will only have a...

The Brain and Foreign Language: Acquisition

which memory is responsible for structuring learning foreign language is both grand and far-reaching; that certain components of r...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...