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Need for Technology in the Digital Age Classroom

This research paper describes the need for educational reform in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century, with a parti...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Med-Surge Nursing

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

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...

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...

Deprivation Consequences and the Acquisition of Language

that there are cognitive structures that are "hardwired" in the human brain concerning language acquisition, but Lennebergs perspe...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

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...

Impact of a BSN on Nursing Role

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

A Future in Nephrology

are Patient Care Manage, Employee Manager and Facilities Operation Manager (DaVita Dialysis, 2007). Each these areas require speci...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

attitude for science and the availability of educational opportunities, and the need for nurses in the job market, a the heart of ...

ELL Funding

Furthermore, all language designed to promoting bilingual education has been removed from federal legislation pertaining to ELL ed...

Personal Nursing Ethics

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

Race Relations in Detroit

The white exodus from Detroit is truly mind-boggling. There were 1,600,000 white living in Detroit after World War II, and roughly...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Realism and Language

the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...

Setting in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

Tutorial on the Acquisition of Language

way they learn other things. He offered a number of justifications for this proposition: * Children are exposed to very little co...

Nabokov & Use of Language

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

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...

Oral Language & Lessons Plans

twice-weekly in 15-minute sessions. The adult reading the books asked both literal and inferential questions of the children using...

Acquisition of Language and Memory Encoding

primary sample population in this study consists of subjects selected from the population of university students in a laboratory c...

The Dyslexic Student and Classroom Assistance

Dyslexia is THE most common and most prevalent of all known learning disabilities states the National Institute of Health(NIH). Gi...

Critical Thinking and Language

t hat has been linked to complex problem solving and other forms of higher cognition, such as deriving abstract principles and cha...

Sports, Sexism, and Language

dark, wavy hair and deep brown eyes, hes drop dead gorgeous...a real basketball hunk" (p. K0164). Hastings, of course, made up thi...

Language and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

Education for the Deaf

part of its grammar and utilizes space to impart nuances of meaning. For example, the word "look," can be changed to mean "grace, ...

Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

people to propose a number of ill-conceived schemes that would "fix" social and economic ills with miraculous ease (Wittkowsky 85)...

Race Relations in Kankakee, Illinois

been brewing in Kankakee that is connected to a "personal matter" concerning Dr. Brian Ali, the Superintendent of Kankakee School ...