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The Way Forward for Xerox

firm that had already made significant changes and had been more successful in integrating acquisitions. Xerox have not had a high...

Does Studying Literature Improve Individual Writing Skills?

medical surgeon needs more than just the study of human anatomy to perform. However, it can be argued that although it takes more ...

Medication Error Kills Newborn

In this case, there were a series of system failures that included a language barrier, incomplete clinical information, unusual w...

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...

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...

Case Study of the ELL Program

Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...

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...

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...

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...

Learning and Utilizing Language

the language acquisition device" (p. 255). Others say that language development is a reaction to environment. This writer/tutor ...

Laws, Equity and Compensaiton/Sex Discrimination

place. Many of the guidelines for the state laws are similar to those imposed in the state of Maryland. In Maryland, the Civil Cod...

Sexual Harassment in the Police Department

conduct of a sexual nature ... when ... submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions ....

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...

Assessment of English Language Learning

this manner (Assessment of ELL Students, 2004). The Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey basically provides a measure of a students lan...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

Language Characteristics

service in that it ensures that all involved share a common understanding of the terms being used. It also provides a means of cr...

Language Cases of Discrimination

by speaking only in Spanish, even while they leered in her direction. Upon investigation, the salesmen proclaimed their innocence,...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

Edward Said's 'Self' and 'Other' Concepts in an Examination of English as a Global Language

have English as a second language, and in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres English is already widely used, since it is t...

Overview of the 3rd and 4th Generation of Computer Languages

and error prone to program computers, leading to the first "programming crisis", in which the amount of work that might be assigne...

Gendered Interpretations and Development of Language Relating to Childhood Cognitive Development

century, psychologists, social theorists and educators have considered the notion of cognitive development and the progression of ...

English Language Teaching Methods Critically Compared

speak English as a native language; rather, the extent to which focused training serves to mold an effective ESL instructor is bot...

ESL is Better than Bilingual Education

(Bilingual/ESL, 2004). Carrasquillo and Rodriguez (1996) point out that mainstreaming LEP students is one of the most significan...

1984 by George Orwell and Language's Power

everyone gets the aggressive tendencies out of their system in a controlled fashion) the Ministry of Truth is really full of decei...

Language Teaching Naturally

predominant line of thinking is that the antiquated approaches are just too stringent and are actually insufficient. There are ma...

Comparative Analysis of Procedural and Nonprocedural Computer Programming Languages

Because the object-oriented languages and paradigms (i.e., non-procedural) ended up providing a stronger return on investment for ...

Global Language of English

speak English at some level of competence, and it would be counter-productive to try and establish another language as the one whi...

Language Competence and Language Performance Differences

a play we can look at this further. The role of a play may be to entertain and inform, yet, whatever the purpose of the play there...

Pros and Cons of Learning a Second Language

among the most notable. Essentially, he believes that natural language and conversation is the best means of acquiring a second l...

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...