Day: August 29, 2005
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Reflection Questions 6 – Education Essay question/answer(200 Level Course)
Reflection Questions 6 – Education Essay question/answer (200 Level Course) Q: The National Education Association of Secondary School Principals make This statement about successful secondary schools: “In good secondary schools, the principal and teachers develop and maintain a variety of cooperative links with the community. Family and
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Reflection Questions 5 – Education Essay question and answer (200 Level Course)
Reflection Questions 5 – Education Essay question and answer(200 Level Course) Q: Why is it important for teachers to know the history of American education? How might you use such knowledge?
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Reflection Questions 4 – Education Essay question and answer (200 Level Course)
Reflection Questions 4 – Education Essay question and answer (200 Level Course) Q:What role, if any, does religion play in your philosophy of education? R:Religion plays an active role in my philosophy of education. For me, I believe that in order to personally teach and model character education ethics to others, I must have a…
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Reflection Questions 3 – Education Essay question and answer (200 Level Course)
Reflection Questions 3 – Education Essay question and answer(200 Level Course) Q:Can you remember examples of the “everyday ethics” of teaching shown by the teachers you had in elementary and secondary schools? Can you remember examples in which your teachers’ ethical behavior was questionable?
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Reflection Questions 2 – Education Essay question and answer (200 Level Course)
Reflection Questions 2 – Education Essay question and answer(200 Level Course) Q: Do you think parents should he concerned about the role or lack of it that technology tools play in the education of their children?
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Reflection Questions 1 – Education Essay question and answer
Q: Do you agree that having an enthusiastic teacher teach an unimportant subjet is preferable to an uninspired teacher teaching a crucial subject? What implications do you see in this remark? On what assumptions about teaching, students, and subject matter is based?
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Carol Moseley-Braun – African American Studies Essay (300 Level Course)
Carol Moseley-Braun – African American Studies Essay (300 Level Course) Carol Moseley-Braun, the daughter of a Chicago law-enforcement officer, made history in November, 1992 when she became the first black woman ever to be elected to the United States Senate. It was the latest in a string of firsts – first woman and first African…
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Introductory Concepts in Business – Business Question/Answer (100 Level Course)
Introductory Concepts in Business – Business Question/Answer(100 Level Course) 1. What is the difference between revenue and profit? – Revenue is the total amount of money a business takes in during a given period by selling goods and services while Profit is the amount of money a business earns above and beyond what it spends…
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James Buchanan – The Fifteenth President – History Essay
James Buchanan – The Fifteenth President – History Essay The fifteenth president of the United States has been either one of the most ineffective presidents or one of the biggest casualties of his era. James Buchanan was president from1857 till 1861 and like the fourteenth and thirteenth presidents, Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce, before him…
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Carol Moseley Braun Essay – Women’s Studies
Carol Moseley Braun Essay- Women’s Studies Carol Moseley Braun attended public school in Chicago and later graduated from the University of Chicago with a Law degree in 1972. Braun has become a pioneer for African American women in the arena of politics. She has managed to
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Cost of Pharmaceutical Needs Equals the Quality of Life – Business Research Paper (600 Level Course)
Cost of Pharmaceutical Needs Equals the Quality of Life – Business Research Paper(600 Level Course) According to research done at Purdue University, the more expensive a person’s pharmaceutical, the better quality of life the patient had. This happened no matter what the person’s ailment. Retail sales of prescription drugs totaled $154.5 billion in 2001; the…
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William Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra – Theatre Essay
William Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra – Theatre Essay William Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra tells a story of a scandalous affair between the Roman General Antony and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, and encompasses the battles between western and eastern cultures and between reason and passion that eventually leads to the characters death.
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The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) – Business Research Paper (400 Level Course)
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) – Business Research Paper (400 Level Course) In the early stages of American civilization, employers had little to no commitment to their employees. This spawned horrifying working conditions and multitudes of injustices. The United States government has been traditionally slow to react to the difficult and unfair work…
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The 401(k) – Business Research Paper (300 Level Course)
The 401(k) – Business Research Paper(300 Level Course) Daily Water cooler talks in offices spread from Los Angeles to New York are filled with questions and rumors about the down fall of social security. George Bush has used social security as the only other major reform platform in his presidency second only to his war…
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Understanding Intentions – Ethics Essay
Understanding Intentions – Ethics Essay People are important in personal interactions, yet sometimes they can overstep their bounds and present a negative impact. While this is never desirable in life it happens nonetheless. This proved the case for me a few years ago in a relationship that I was having with a young woman. The…
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Chiapas: Any Hope for the Future – Government (300 Level Course)
Chiapas: Any Hope for the Future – Government (300 Level Course) As the uprising in Chiapas enters its sixth year, there appears to be no immediate solution. Will the new president elect Fox be able to bring about peace in this troubled area and succeed where his predecessors have failed?
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Harding’s Death and Post–mortem Legacy – Government (300 Level Course)
Harding’s Death and Post–mortem Legacy – Government (300 Level Course) Warren Gamaliel Harding was elected as the twenty-ninth president of the United States of America on March 4, 1921. Simply put by author H. L. Mencken, “no other such a complete and dreadful nitwit is to be found in the pages of American history.” It…
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Memo to the UN Security Council: – Government (300 Level Course)
Memo to the UN Security Council: – Government (300 Level Course) I would like to take this opportunity to commend not only those members of the Security Council but all members of the United Nations as well for dedicating time, resources, and men to many causes circumventing the globe. But you forgot to do one…
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Memo to the Bush Administration: – Government (300 Level Course)
Memo to the Bush Administration: – Government (300 Level Course) As a citizen of this great country as well as a voter and tax payer, I feel that it is my civilian duty to give my opinion to those that run the government; my government. What you eventually decide to do with this information is…
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Commentary on the World Bank – Government (300 Level Course)
Commentary on the World Bank – Government (300 Level Course) Commentary on the IMF: According to the Meltzer Report As the Meltzer Report was released, the world continued to turn, and with these continuing revolutions new problems arose. Problems that will hopefully be dealt with more appropriately because of the work of the Congressional Commission…
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William Taft and a Lack of Progressivism – Government (300 Level Course)
William Taft and a Lack of Progressivism – Government (300 Level Course) William Howard Taft became the twenty seventh president in 1909; handpicked by Theodore Roosevelt to carry on the Progressive torch of the Republican Party. While some argue that Taft was not the best choice, that perhaps Roosevelt’s Secretary of State Elihu Root or…
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Rousseau and the General Will – Government (300 Level Course)
Rousseau and the General Will – Government (300 Level Course) The general will is defined by Jean Jacque Rousseau as the common good of all of the people that live in the state. While this explanation of general will is vague, Rousseau does in fact delve deeper into a working definition of it by expressing…
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Karl Marx and Alienation – Government (300 Level Course)
Karl Marx and Alienation – Government (300 Level Course) For Karl Marx, the idea of alienation is not as important as it is fundamental for everything that he has to say. Marx understands alienation as the claim that a product of one’s labor is objectified and that the value in the product is in the…
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Yeltsin’s Critical Inactivity – Government (300 Level Course)
Yeltsin’s Critical Inactivity – Government (300 Level Course) Boris Yeltsin took the office of the Russian presidency in 1991 under a black cloud, following a failed coup against then president Gorbachev. Yeltsin’s presidency has become synonymous with failure and by the question of “what went wrong?” This question of what has gone wrong during the…
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Man of the Year – A Journal Theatre
Man of the Year – A Journal Theatre I can honestly say that I took this course in order to learn something about theatre. Theatre has been one area of interest that I have previously been unable to tap into on a personal level. I have seen a number of theatrical performances in the past…