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"Pearl Harbor": A Critique of the Historical Accuracy of this Popular Movie

would become a primary target of that vengeance. For the United States to incur a direct attack on its shores was perceived as sa...

Higher Education in Kings County and Tulare County

it is forecast to grow at a rate of 6.95% through 2009 ("Regional Overview"). (The only explanation for the disparity between the ...

Avian Flu: A Student's Perspective

to the human population as well. Interestingly, biotechnology plays both a positive role and a negative role in this potent...

Starbucks' History and Evolution

the end of 1987. * 1991 - Starbucks undertook a number of socially responsible projects including a CARE coffee sampler and becomi...

Higher Education For Police Officers

upon a combination of myriad elements that work in a synergistic way to address the criminal mind. The aspects of psychology and ...

Higher Education and the Preferable Choice of Distance Learning

summer school at no cost and so they instead prompt students to enroll in another facility for a nominal fee, or take an appropria...

Adult Population Training and Higher Education

it is necessary first to understand the basic shift in the view of education and vocational education in recent years and the impa...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Reitz’s Heimat and World War II

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Women and Higher Education

are deeply entrenched ("Academic Women Face Quiet Desperation," 2008). That is, there are inequalities in the profession, but they...

Funding, Access and Teaching: The Canadian Experience of a Mass System of Higher Education

gradually Canadians as a whole were looked on in that same light. Not only were concepts such as fairness and justness responsibl...

The Boston Tea Party

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

History of Professional Football and How it was Affected by World and National EventsA History of Professional Football

This paper examines the history of professional football, and discusses how it was affected by both world and national events such...

Downsizing and Retrenchment in Higher Education

quickly, but these are times that the institutions have to appear as if they are making rational decisions (Ashar & Shapiro, 1990)...

THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN CLIMATE CHANGE

of greenhouse gasses, in other words, CO2 and other gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere and increase the temperature on ea...

Motorola's Quest to Regain Market Share in China

European competition and finally local competition seriously reduced Motorolas market share. 2. What were the forces that contribu...

Iran and its’ Nuclear Power Program

the nuclear programme in Iran has been in operation for some time. The programme was initially launched during the 1950s with the ...

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

a long history; though the actual founding date is somewhat foggy, teaching and education in some form existed at Oxford in 1096, ...

Overview: The Civil Rights Movement

This research paper presents an overview of the history of the civil rights movement. The major major events that characterize thi...

Higher Education Accountability

This essay discusses factors needed for establishing a culture of assessment, which would demonstrate accountability. Steps needed...

Brief History of American Civil Rights

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

African American History as Reflected Through Art

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

Higher Education and the Need for Assessment Programs

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at curriculum mapping as a change strategy for universities. The assessment of such chan...

Subterfuge and the CIA and FBI

properly! Over time the US...

The Problem with British Airways

can extrapolate the employee relations is the way in which this relationship takes place. Gospel and Palmer also note that there ...

Higher Education and the Gender Gap

gender gap in higher education. There are other plausible explanations for the status quo such as affirmative action, poor treat...

Educational Instruction and Reading Accountability

that are more than apparent in his surrounding community, successfully overlooking a persons skin color or lack of education as a ...

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...

The Argument for Banning Generically Engineered Food

an absence of proof for specific harm. If we cannot sell drug that are not safe, with the requirement for intensive and long term ...