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07 Jul 2008
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A herbarium report on: Aralia spinosa, saponaria officinalis, schinus molle and sphaeralcea cisplatina

Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies

Perhaps, most of the time, if not always, what actually makes plants attractive to common men is the presence of budding flowers. However, not all organisms under the kingdom Plantae bear flowers. Nevertheless, in the vast taxonomy of plants, there is one class that is composed of flowering...

07 Jul 2008
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Psychological assessment

Essay - 5 pages - Psychology

Psychological assessment is the process of integrating information gathered from different sources. You can obtain valuable information from psychological testing. Interview with medical practitioners could also yield important information about the medical records of the individual. Another...

07 Jul 2008
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The significance of computer literacy in college and in the workforce

Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies

Today's information age has progressed very rapidly that the world is suddenly controlled and overwhelmed by vast innovations - the most dominant of which are the computers. The device has literally run every single detail of our lives that people are almost obliged to familiarize themselves with...

04 Jul 2008
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How music can affect academic achievement

Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies

The Cognitive theory is concerned with the development of one's thought processes or basically how the mind acquires knowledge. There are many ideas that make up the cognitive theories—from the developmental theories of Piaget to relatively more recent theories like Gardner's Multiple...

03 Jul 2008
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An analysis of the history, effects, and implications of the most common psychostimulants

Essay - 6 pages - Psychology

Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) generally denotes a kind of deficit to selectively attend and (thereby) selectively inhibit certain stimuli. Evidently, the psychological community has much else to say about the disorder, frequently positing other cognitive and behavioral...

03 Jul 2008
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Category - Specific semantic deficits

Essay - 11 pages - Psychology

The task of explaining the organization of conceptual knowledge is both promising and difficult. It is promising because if conceptual knowledge is organized, then in principle it should be possible to form theories which would account for the nature of conceptual organization in normal brains...

03 Jul 2008
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Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and consciousness

Essay - 6 pages - Psychology

The state of consciousness defies definition, but it may involve an awareness of self, dreams, emotions, moods, perceptions, sensations, and thoughts, although not essentially all of these. The issue surrounding the definition consciousness, and in what sense and to what extent this state exists,...

03 Jul 2008
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Arresting the alienation of foreign college students in the United States

Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies

College life in itself is proven to be a challenging time. There are quite a number of factors that can inhibit college success. Some of these factors may be financial—such as the demand of scholarships, the inadequacy of monetary support from the parents, or the need to look for a part-time...

30 Jun 2008
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Women, Prison and Crime

Book review - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences

This book examines female institutions and the treatment of women inmates in the past and today. It focuses on why women are incarcerated, the different programs in prison available to them, crimes women commit, incarceration and crime rates compared to men, prison socialization, and how female...

29 Jun 2008
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Can SATs survey scholarship, skills and service?

Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies

Panic swallows the streets of a small town in southern New Hampshire. At every turn, people are wallowing in sadness: bent over backwards begging the heavens for answers. What could have happened to cause such appalling misery, a flood or a fire? No, college rejection letters have arrived in...

27 Jun 2008
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The problem of binge drinking, alcohol abuse among contemporary college transfer students

Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies

Except for scratches and wounds that occur during school breaks every year, the most notable outcomes of college drinking that frequently come to the public's attention are sporadic student deaths resulting from excessive use of alcohol like for instance alcohol poisoning or other alcohol-related...

26 Jun 2008
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All day kindergarten Vs half day kindergarten

Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies

Kindergarten programs first became popular after World War I. The kindergarten programs during that time were given on a half-day basis in order to serve more children and to save more money. During the depression, the enrollment in kindergarten programs got too low that a majority of school...

26 Jun 2008
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Alternative Vs Traditional School Calendar In The United States

Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies

There is an increasing popularity in year-round school programs that are seen as alternatives to the traditional ten-month school calendar. This alternative was seen as necessary in order to match the educational superiority of economically leading countries such as Japan which have longer school...

24 Jun 2008
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The Application of Metacognitive Reading Strategies by Learning From and Teaching Disabled Students in the Regular Classroom

Essay - 9 pages - Educational studies

As a child, I was an average reader but never enjoyed reading. I especially dreaded reading chapter books because once I had completed the book I had forgotten what had happened at the beginning. Even though I struggled with the comprehension of reading for pleasure, I was able to pass...

23 Jun 2008
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The benefits of existentialist psychology

Essay - 5 pages - Psychology

JD is a 26-year-old Hispanic male with quadriplegia who has been refereed to treatment by his primary care physician. Anxiety and depression appear to be the most prominent issues facing the client at the present time; however, the client both denies suicidal and homicidal ideation and is...

19 Jun 2008
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An investigation of Edgard Varèse's Poème Électronique

Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences

To those who are familiar with the unique historical context in which he was growing up, it comes as little surprise that Edgard Varèse was a composer at the forefront of the twentieth-century electronic music movement. As Malcolm MacDonald claims in his treatise on the artist, Varèse grew up...

19 Jun 2008
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The Ideas of the University Student

Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies

Here at Columbia University I am asked to weigh two arguments, which are concerned with the nature of the scales I use to weigh them as well as with the purpose of those scales. By scales I am referring to the university setting in America. The first argument is made by John Newman in The Idea...

17 Jun 2008
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School desegregation in the United States and problems with this issue as a pervasive part of social discourse

Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies

Boston's Mess 1974-1978 Research on the process of school desegregation in the United States reveals that even though notable steps were taken after the Brown v Board of Education (1954) ruling to reduce segregation, problems with this issue remained a pervasive part of social discourse. For...

17 Jun 2008
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Gardens: Revealing the State of Our Minds

Essay - 3 pages - Psychology

A garden is a simple place, a small escape from the home, where one can roam at leisure. But there is more, something about its sensuousness gives rise to deeper feelings. In the Decameron and in Augustine's Confessions gardens become representative of the consequences of beauty. But they also...

15 Jun 2008
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Educational Culture

Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies

Introduction Culture is an interval part of society and all of its institutions. Thus, it is not surprising to find that educators examining the development of public school education have been forced to address the issue of culture in the context of organizational development. If schools are to...

12 Jun 2008
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Providing Library Multimedia Services to Children and Young Adults

Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies

Introduction Recent studies on the development of multimedia services demonstrate that children and young adults are most likely to utilize these services (Kuhlthau, 1997). Because children from Kindergarten to high school typically find themselves in need of information, for both personal and...

10 Jun 2008
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Second Language Acquisition

Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is learning development in which people acquire a new or more commonly known as “second language” in addition to their native tongue. The second language is often referred as “target language” or “L2”. Moreover, a second language...

06 Jun 2008
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The Killing of Pain: How We See Ourselves?

Essay - 3 pages - Psychology

Thinking about the self is obviously quite different from thinking about something else because there is a degree of control and understanding that doesn't extend to other objects. Suppose the sun had a conscious, it might more easily perceive that objects orbit around it than would a person...

04 Jun 2008
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John Dollard and his work

Essay - 3 pages - Psychology

Freud's introduction of psychotherapy in the early twentieth century spawned significant interest in the study of psychology and the practice of counseling. Over the course of the last century, notable progress has been made toward understanding the human psyche, the process of human development,...

04 Jun 2008
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The Impact of poverty on child development

Essay - 6 pages - Psychology

The impact of poverty on the development of the child has been well examined by scholars. Although poverty's impact on the child's development has been well examined, what is often not understood by the layman is the specific areas in which poverty impacts the child's development. In an effort to...

04 Jun 2008
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Adult learning theory and self-directed learning

Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies

Over the course of the last several decades, researchers have made notable progress in understanding the process of human development and learning. While the principle focus of investigation has, in many cases, been with respect to child development and learning, what has been learned in this...

03 Jun 2008
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Methods for Improving Reading Fluency among Struggling Readers in the Intermediate Grades

Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies

The ultimate goal of reading is being able to comprehend. There are many components and stages to reading that need to be addressed before comprehension can occur, beginning with the concepts of print on up to phonemic awareness and word recognition. Many people believe that once a child is...

03 Jun 2008
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Point of Purchase: Bookshops and Stationers as Agents of Change

Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences

It was not so much the press itself, but the uses to which the press was put that revolutionized the exchange of ideas in early modern Europe and on into the present. In order to change an entire cultural consciousness, it took not only the invention of a useful tool, but also the motivation and...

03 Jun 2008
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Is multicultural education a paradigm for improving education?

Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies

Over the course of the last 45 years, the process of multicultural education has emerged as one of the most notable paradigms for student development. Although multicultural education is often seen as antithetical to more traditional educational paradigms, the reality is that this process has a...

03 Jun 2008
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How conflict theory provides an insight to sociologist in to the process of criminal activity and behavior

Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Psychology

Conflict theory has developed throughout the course of the twentieth century as a principle theory for better understanding the development of criminal behavior. Although conflict theory directly links criminal behavior to the development of larger social inequities, research on this paradigm...