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Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Africa and Profit From Slave Trade

(Shillington 20). Tunde Obadina, director of Africa Business Information Services, asserts that the "vast majority of slaves tak...

American Institute Of Conservation (AIC): Preservation Methods

symbols and letters, writing implements that resemble modern day pencils and a legend of some sort to indicate the meaning of each...

Mark Monmonier's "From Squaw Tit To Whorehouse Meadow" - Changes To America's Cultural Landscape

respect local tradition (Monmonier 71). The place-naming process outlined in Monmoniers book illustrates the transitional ...

Both Modern and Ancient Views of Beruit and Cairo

is still regarded as sacred ground. "The citys long journey across history started more than four millenia ago. Throughout the ag...

Analysing the Impact of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) on Overseas Bilingual Students' Learning in a University Setting: Problems and Prospects

These 8 page paper is a proposal to examine the current and potential influence of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE’s) on intern...

Lessons Learned From Love Canal

with earth and sold it to the city for one dollar" (Beck, 1979). Shortly thereafter a residential community and school sprouted u...

Training and Change

it though learning. The different models can be seen as based on learning styles, how information is communicated and also how t...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Education And Senior Centers

active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

Formulating an ESL Theory

between grammatical and communicative approaches to second-language teaching. Grammatical approaches refer to instructional method...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Learning Theories And Teaching Models

to associate the ringing of a bell with being fed and would subsequently salivate when the bell was rung (Encyclopedia of Educatio...

Adolescent Motivation To Learn And Achieve

this youngster is challenged with massive physiological and emotional changes. This stage is called: Identity vs. Role Confusion (...

The Brain and Foreign Language: Acquisition

which memory is responsible for structuring learning foreign language is both grand and far-reaching; that certain components of r...

Park's "The Siege: The First Eight Years Of An Autistic Child"

they could understand. Even so, Park believed this was the best option for Elly if she was going to assimilate into any semblance...

Adolescents And ADHD

What has been established thus far is the fact that depth and duration of consciousness, coupled with how old the individual is wh...

Sameroff's Transactional Model Of Development: Association With Cognitive Development

Whether typical in nature or fraught with learning difficulties, Sameroff (1975a) contends the extent to which parental involvemen...

Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?

controversial - examples of how the spoken language has fallen victim to the lazy tongues of many bi- and multilingual societies. ...

Personal Definition Of Video Games

methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Adult Learning Styles, Temperaments And Theories In "Educating Rita"

a person and requires the individual to participate fully and completely in the experience. The first segment of the Kolb Model -...

Possible Benefits Of Video Games On Academics & Academic Studies

game makes it obvious how this long-considered time wasting, socially depriving commodity be put to use for its beneficial propert...

Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Inclusion And Cooperative Learning

a variety of models to increase academic performance of special education students. They have met with some success in that 65 per...

An Overview Education Concepts

Five educational concepts were explained with comments about how they would impact the student and the instructor. The concepts ar...

Modallity Preferences

We all have a preference in terms of how we want to receive information and how we tend to convey information. This essay describe...