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Feminist Themes in Shakespeare's, The Tempest

can further see feminist perspectives. Lorie Jerrell Leiningers essay, The Miranda Trap: Racism and Sexism in Shakespeares Tempes...

Reading Disabilities

regarding a definition of RD that is widely acceptable (Siegel and Smythe, 2005). Researchers have not been able to agree on defi...

Phonological Awareness

as this allows understanding to develop. In their 1982 study, Wolf and Morris discuss "Tony" a young boy who demonstrated both ex...

Fast ForWord Scientific Learning Software

as "b" and "d." It has long been known that "b" and "d" have presented young learners with difficulty, and for years it was belie...

Feminist Theory in Ibsen's, A Doll's House

than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...

Adult Learner Curriculum Design

a theorist who suggests that adult learners call on different experiences they might have had in the learning process (Merriam & C...

Societal Structure Lessons in The Republic by Plato

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

Is New Software Negatively Impacting Students' Effectiveness as Readers and Writers?

Indeed, the world suffers from a monumental overpopulation problem that is at the root of many of todays educational problems. Th...

Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

Student Reading of Nonacademic and Academic Articles

requires breaks to be taken, only a few seconds but also a break to get a drink. This may be due to the level of information being...

Primary and Secondary Reading Instruction Changes, Testing, and Higher Accountability

teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...

Narrative of Equiano & Douglass/A Comparison

resisted the imposition of another name, Gustavus Vassa, by his master. Nevertheless, despite being treated as an animal, Douglass...

Close Readings/Darker Face of the Earth & Oedipus

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

a family and part of that beautiful communion involves eating, but yet interestingly enough it is also the source of their trouble...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

How Technology Affects Middle School Student Reading Achievement: A Field Experience

of technology to expand learning, especially in the area of literacy. In particular, this experience will seek to assess both tes...

Elementary Student Studies Considered in 2 Article Critiques

goal of this study was to discern if a successful intervention could be devised that would have a beneficial effect on inappropria...

Reading Theory Defined

of the whole language approach to reading and a weighty critic of the phonics system of reading instruction. Goodman contends tha...

Opening Section of Part III in Toni Morrison's Beloved Analyzed

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

Readings of the Old Testament Books of Genesis, Samuel, Ruth, and Judges

was not of Gods people. This, along with other social expectations, brought about a clear division of the people and set the stage...

David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

2 Articles on Reading Reviewed

difficulty accepting and using rules of spelling, one of the problems that Liben and Liben (2004) describe as having occurred at t...

NCLB and AR Program

determining comparative success in educational. The NCLB has not only redirected educators to a "teach to the test" method for in...

Imperialism and Mark Twain's 'King Leopold's Soliloquy' and Lesley Falls' 'An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II'

Leopold is doing what he promised, or doing what he is supposed to be doing. Falls recites one who he says has been close to Leopo...

Worth Reading 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin

a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...

Intermediate English as a Second Language Class Reading Lesson Plans on US History Themes

the topic and an understanding of the goals that are valuable to intermediate ESL leaders. The following are the four central que...

Character Traits Relating to Educational Readiness

variety of educational models that underscore learning as an element of individual nature as well as cultural and social variables...

Karen Cronkite on Depression

sought. A third point that Cronkite makes is that human behavior is complex. There is a tendency in American society to want to ...

How Literacy and Writing is Enhanced by Science

slight changes to start the process over again (Martin, Martin and Carvalho, 2008). Also, another aspect of this problem, which ...

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...