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Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

Behind the Attack on Pearl Harbor

proposes that World War I and World War II were not separate conflicts but one long struggle with a cease-fire in the middle. This...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

No Child Left Behind Act and IDEA

was signed into law on January 8, 2002 by President Bush. The bill was initiated by the president and written as a bi-partisan act...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

The Unanticipated Impacts of the No Child Left Behind Act

Act introduces as many problems into the educational arena as it does solutions. Two of the more controversial of its provision...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

A Theology Book For Everyone

words of major scholars and theologians from the past and present to explain ideas. There is another statement the author makes ...

Legal Representation as Depicted in the Book by Anthony Lewis? ?

the offices of the Supreme Court. He was, however, just one more convicted criminal in a long list of criminals that was pleading...

Book Reviews China's Growth

regular basis. One story is very nearly unbelievable. A young woman took her application to college tests and was informed that sh...

A Book Review of a Classic

and that He should have in todays world. unfortunately, that statement made in 1950 is even more true today, more than 50 years la...

THE MEANING BEHIND "SUPER SIZE ME"

Discusses the concept of fast food leading to health problems in the movie "Super Size Me." There is 1 source listed in the biblio...

1862 by Conroy

a book that offers up a fictional account of what could perhaps happen if the scenario presented were part of history. It reads, i...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Reviewing Rhetoric in William Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged

In this five page review the book's content, language use and organization as ways of establishing credibility are analyzed. Thi...

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS AS A METAPHOR

and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...

Brazilian Film/Behind the Sun

backlands that appears to be totally worthless. The feud dictates a continuous cycle of murder. The shirt of a victim is hung out ...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

Lincoln’s War

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

The Crusades by Riley-Smith

of crusaders, demonstrating that it was religious zeal and absolute devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which was associated an...

Code of Ethics for Nurses/The ANA Guide

evolved through various versions of the ANA Code. In addition to describing the duties and obligations that provision 1 entails, T...

Book Summary and Critique of The Feminine and the Sacred

This paper summarizes the book, but also includes a brief critique. The book is the only source listed in the bibliography of thi...

Book III of Psalms

p. 107). However, the psalmist goes on to indicate that this reaction was foolish as this simply took into account the current sta...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

of nineteenth century author Jules Verne (1828-1905) helped to create the foundation of the modern science fiction genre. The fert...

Where the Red Fern Grows

"I asked him not to say anything to my father. He promised me he wouldnt" (Rawls 20). He finally has enough money to buy the puppi...

Emerging Christianity in the Book of Acts

have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...

Source Overview of the No Child Left Behind Act

Annotated Bibliography About.com. (2011, Mar 7). Patty Murray...