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Culturally Diverse Teaching

cultural backgrounds, planned efforts to cross social borders and develop caring, respectful relationships are essential" (Weinste...

Scipio Africanus on the Nature of War

to be disappointed. He also humanizes Scipio for his readers, since this is a man who accomplished great things and is still not w...

Does Technology Improve Learning

classroom with state-of-the art technology, it must be worth the expense. Part 2. Examples of studies investigating this questio...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

Events Leading to Operation Desert Storm

the tension caused by the U.S. presence in the region; it is also the incident that can be said to have caused the Gulf War (Pittm...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

“I Alone” by Live

stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...

Women in Ancient Literature and Now

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

Capital Punishment: Morally Acceptable And Effective Crime Deterrent

far less heinous than murder, so how is it that the Bible can be mistaken for harboring judgmental opinion against capital punishm...

Beauty and Body Image

coffee break, and theyll jog around the block" (Jordan). Fat people, on the other hand, are far more real and "Fat people...will l...

"Option Four" By Ramesh Ponnuru: Review

plays a role in mandating its recognition as a union, will it automatically segue into an issue of rights that have been heretofor...

Immigration in the United States

already in existence regarding illegal immigrants (Preston, 2007). Such an argument would seem to make sense for if there are laws...

Unionization in America

stage for the emergence of unions. The workers were treated poorly and not paid fairly. Other problems would become apparent such ...

Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

Transient - and Disappearing - Benefits

true, but it seems as though these same organizations are being rather myopic in planning for the future. The single constant fac...

Van Gogh's Self Portrait (1889)

to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Need and the Inventor’s Spirit

and which will continue to grow in their impact. Additional effects of fossil fuel dependence are even more straightforward. The...

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...

Ukraine - Orange Revolution And After

they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnyc...

Women's Rights: How Small Strides were Made During the Renaissance

not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...

Families: Then and Now

author notes, importantly, that, "There is no medium more powerful than television in shaping the way people view family life" (Ja...

Women Renaissance Writers: The Tragedy of Mariam by Carey

fair I might have provd me wise:/ But I did think because I knew me chaste,/ One virtue for a woman might suffice./ That mind for ...

Machiavelli's Beliefs and Modern Political Relevance

concern the ultimate goal or greater good." In essence, he is arguing, according to Oldham, that the end justifies the means and t...

A Project Assessment

and then works backwards looking at the different influences and indicating the relationship, as the diagram is drawn more factors...

Virginia's Way of Life and American Revolutionaries

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...

France and the Law on Cloning

is preferable, especially since the problems of transplant rejection can be avoided if the cells used for culture are replaced in ...

News Stories on the 2004 Tsunami

have been amazing stories of survival by people caught unaware. But there have also been horrible stories of people swept up by th...

Sexual Perversion and Sigmund Freud

of the opposite sex (McCormack, 2004). Recently, the term "heterosexual" when it comes to discussion has also encompassed "homosex...