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Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

Child Development: Recent Theories

contribution was his theory of developmental stages. Since Santrocks book covers early childhood through adolescence, it coincides...

What's Wrong with Democracy (Book Review)

geared for someone who already knows much about Athens. That said, this will appeal to those with much knowledge about the roots o...

Personal Statement - What Children Mean To Me

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In five pages this text is compared with Olaudah Equiano's novel and analyzed in terms of answering questions pertaining the audie...

Barbara Walters' Life and Career

In five pages the life and work of this pioneering television journalist are discussed in terms of childhood, family, and status a...

Handicapped Children and Educational Inclusion

This paper addresses the inclusion of disabled children in schools. The author uses the Handicapped Act of 1975 and the American ...

Wartime Trauma

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the presence of PTSD in children. This paper specifically looks at children who ...

Emotional Issues Faced by Creative and Gifted Children

provide that measure of acceptance that every youth aspires to achieve. These formations of like-minded and similarly aged teens ...

Issues Concerning Children Identified as Gifted

There has been a great deal of research about gifted children over the last decade or so. They may not become eminent but they wil...

Impact of Mom-Only Families

The literature is finally taking into consideration family structure and family dynamics when comparing the outcomes of children l...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Post-WWII Canada/2 books

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Critically Reviewed

will lead to prosperity for all citizens, rich and poor. He coined his approach to free trade "laissez-faire," which is a French ...

Fox Butterfield's Criminal Theories in All God's Children

she would give him a whipping with a belt. These beatings only reinforced Willies belief that the best way to settle problem situa...

What Schools Are For by John I. Goodlad

administrators and staff; and effective/efficient operation. "...All aspects of [teacher] preparation programs, from mission to e...

'Grim Fairy Tales and Gory Stories' by Aviva Layton

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

The Impact of Play on Early Childhood Development

address their own boredom or fill their time; play is an essential and developmentally appropriate method through which children d...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

The Use of Assessments in Early Childhood

useful in early childhood classrooms (Gullo, 2005), and also in work with children who benefit from modifications to instructional...

Checklists for Assessing Young Children

observation-based checklists are based on the use of the checklist at different points in a school year. For example, use of the ...

The Theme of Vegetables in Kindergarten Curriculum

as well (Rog, 2001, p. 7). One of the difficult elements about creating these kinds of instructional strategies is that there are...

Literary Portrayal of Arabian Women

In five pages the authors' different approach to similar female intentions are considered in this comparative analysis of Djebar's...

Growing Up Bilingual by Anna Celia Zentella

In six pages this paper reveals the author's detailed linguistic study of New York Spanish Harlem's Puerto Rican children. Eleven...

David Lambert's, The Field Guide to Geology

This book report discusses the book, The Field Guide to Geology. The author covers topics such as the makeup of the Earth, rocks,...

Overview of One Hell of a Gamble Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

is evident that Fursenko played a major role in assessing some of the documents that became available following the opening of the...

Chapter 5 of Race Rules by Michael Eric Dyson

In eleven pages this is a letter written to the book's author regarding chapter five. There are no other sources listed....

An Analysis of Harold J. Rothwax Critique of the Criminal Justice System

This paper analyzes Judge Rothwax's book Guilty, The Collapse of Criminal Justice. The author concludes that Rothwax's arguments a...

A Review of Lopez's Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages

of the arts) were administered accordingly. One of the most significant changes brought about by the barbarian age was its ge...