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Looking at Africa Through the Eyes of Camara Laye in the Autobiographical Text The Dark Child

This essay consists of five pages and discusses African tribal life as depicted in the text....

Amazonians and Sexual Behavior in Anxious Pleasures Sex Lives of an Amazonian People by Thomas Gregor

In five pages this anthropological and sociological text is reviewed....

Overview of Metabolic Syndrome

shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome.) An...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Stephen Flynn's America the Vulnerable

9/11 have declined and are honestly not very effective. He claims that once the initial fear and anger, on the part of the public,...

Multicultural Classroom and the Effects of Involvement by Parents on Literacy

Many of these students are described as limited-English proficient (LEP) students, and many teachers current lack the skills and l...

Dorothy Rabinowitz's No Crueler Tyrannies

changed by Gerald Amirault and the mother began to notice the boy was now wetting his pants. This led to the belief that the boy w...

Excerpt from The Silent Partners by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

Grades Seven through Twelve and Literacy That is Literature Based

materials are deemed important for student interest as well as student ability. The program includes teacher resources, such as s...

Assessing Adult Literacy

attend school, and how long to remain there. Many programs are "open-entry, open-exit" by design; retention of students is a major...

Stanislav Grof's The Holotropic Mind

could have come into existence through the random interactions of inert matter has aptly been compared to that of a tornado blowin...

Tom Dyja's Play for a Kingdom

ball games" (Lychack, 1998). What they are doing is extremely dangerous, in many senses. Not only is fraternization with the e...

Second Grade and a Literacy Program Based Upon Multicultural Literature

In nine pages in which an abstract is also provided this essay examines the development of grade two literacy in a consideration o...

The Functions of the Executive by Barnard

internal problems within organizations. The focus is on the employee, his or her goals and feelings and how employees should be tr...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

How a New Teacher Should Teach Reading

a time (Torgesen, 1998). Letter-sound knowledge can be measured by presenting one letter at a time and asking the child what sound...

Extraordinary Minds by Howard Gardner

malign) (Gardner 49). By the time the twins are born, B has had 1,300 positive experiences, while M has had 1,300 negative experie...

Second Grade Literacy Teaching

In seven pages this paper discuses inner city schools and the various approaches for teaching literacy to second grade students. ...

Suzanna Lonchar's A Brooklyn Rose

are also incredibly personal stories that come from the view and experiences of a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the infor...

Three Typical Social Problems

for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...

Instruction Design Document on U.S. Military and the Education of High School Students

class given for one quarter of the school year where students learn how to work the computer, surf the Internet and so forth. Fami...

Bossidy's Execution Getting Things Done

potential is never fulfilled. But dont most companies have some kind of a people process? According to this book, yes and no. The ...

Book Review of The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John C. Maxwell

Throughout the book, in fact, the key goal of Maxwell isnt necessarily how to grow and develop leadership, but rather, how to grow...

Bas van Fraassen's A Defense of the Observational/Theoretical Distinction and Grover Mazwell's Theoretical Entities

He admits that the higher powered the glass through which we are looking, the more vague our observations may be, but he also indi...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

Marcus Garvey's Africa for Africans and Alain Locke's The New Negro

black people of the nation to begin to take control, to rid themselves of 19th century dreams or ideals or expectations. His work ...

William Ivy Hair's Carnival of Fury Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900

about his troubled time and place" (Hair, 1986; 3). In this we see that Hair simply seems to desire to convey to the reader a hist...

Robert Putnan's Bowling Alone Summarized

group meetings like they used to. He brings in the idea of bowling, as seen in the title, indicating that there has been an incr...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...