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What It Means to be a California Peace Officer: A Cadet’s Story

breaking down Penal Code 502 (c)(6) into its proper sections. This breakdown is based upon the code as stated in version three of...

Community Service and Education

Though meeting performance outcomes is necessitated by modern educational directives and the No Child Left Behind Act, it does not...

Language And Syllogisms

and the Internet could well be viewed as a foreign language. For example, consider the word mouse which is a creature, and undesir...

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...

Learning Tasks

it with "simple graphics" that are appropriate to the age level of the students (Landers). Another example is the "B-EYE" site, wh...

Discovering the Ancient World

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

Technology, Learning, Leadership, Ethics, and Environmental Perspectives on The Body Shop

toiletries was what Anita saw as the lack of integrity in the beauty industry (Chryssides and Kaler, 1999). The market that Anita ...

Learning Ability Improvement

doubts that listening to classical music, especially at a very young age, will effect the spatial-temporal reasoning, an ability n...

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...

Technology and Learning Styles Among High School Freshman

about the impacts of specific instructional methodologies and motivational elements. As a result, Cohen called for the expansion ...

The Identity of Adult Learners

In this paper that consists of five pages the identity acquired by adults through the learning process is examined within the cont...

Frustrating Technology and Distance Learning

for their students. When an individual heads for college from the comfort of his or her home without the fundamental basics of co...

Learning at a Distance

not check or censor messages in this way, and the discussions tend to be less structured and often rather more heated in tone....

Behavior of Adults and Children

of the skin, children get along (unless theyre fighting over a toy, but thats a different matter). Its only when parents let the c...

1990s Global Financial Crises, Causes, and Reforms

of the 1990s came as a surprise to economists who thought that more globalization would have the effect of stabilizing internation...

Contemporary World and Adult Self Directed Education

most dynamic approaches to the systematic collection of knowledge in an environment in which that knowledge is collected with the ...

Educational Models for Learning a Second Language

In seven pages this paper discusses the education regarding second language instruction with models such as Teaching English to Sp...

Use of a Journal to Teach Business Ethics

of ethical behaviour. The problem with ethics in business can be seen in the way that there is a conflict between the ideals of e...

Lessons Learned From The Failure of Prohibition

enhancing family life, and creating a safer society, crime increased. There is a great deal of evidence to show that organized cri...

Learning Lessons in Billy Budd and Antigone

left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...

Characteristics of Learning Organizations

to explore what is meant by the term "learning organization." According to Senge (1990), early-on in life, we are taught to "fra...

Learning Theories of Maria Montessori

their environment, stating that first the senses, then the education of the mind(Wesissglass 1999, see also Schute 2002). ...

Rural America and English as a Second Language

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

Online Degrees and Distance Learning

for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical proximity...

S. Foss's Inviting Transformation, Presentational Speaking for a Changing World and Public Speaking

those principles and put them into action and practice presentational speaking. Nevertheless, the first part of my task is accompl...

Adult Learning Environment and Code of Ethics Establishment

discern professional behavior from non-professional behavior, others simply operate on a loosely defined set of rules. Dougherty ...

An Article on Journalists' Lessons Reviewed

the case. The hypotheses were: 1. The mean response on the measure of perceived change will be less than 3. Not supported, mean av...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Autistic Child Learning, Discrete Trial Training and Applied Behavior Analysis

hydrocephalus impairs ones thinking processes - headache, vomiting, lethargy, change in head size, modifications in thinking, such...

Is Aggression Learned or Genetic?

been studied from several different perspectives, but it appears that there has been no attempt to relate grade expectations with ...