Mothers and newborns are often separated shortly after delivery, and preterm infants are isolated from their mothers even more than full-term mothers. Some physicians stress that during the period shortly after birth, the parents and newborn need to form an emotional attachment as a foundation for optimal development in years to come. The extreme form of the bonding hypothesis-that the newborn must have close contact with the mother in the

Freakonomics to some, from first look, would be considered another boring economics book. But in reality it is far from it. It is an innovative look on how economists view the world.. I learned so much in relation to the way the world works. I enjoyed the readings because they offered insights the "merit pay debate" for public school teachers, an area I was not too familiar with. Regardless of

intelligence testing. The first of the two articles read in this article analysis on intelligence testing is called "Role of test motivation in intelligence testing," and was authored by Angela Lee Duckworth et al. This article links motivation as one of three highly important variables that is treated in intelligence testing. Significantly, the article references David Wechsler and his theory of intelligence a number of times in the text. A

K-12 Curriculum and Instruction: Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century This is not your grandfathers' economy or his educational paradigm however; today's curriculum still appears as such and therein lays a very significant and challenging problem that presents to today's educators and leaders. According to Sir Ken Robinson, "We have a system of education that is modeled on the interest of industrialism and in the image of it. Schools are still

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2, first movement (Allegro non-Troppo) The objective of this work is to conduct a music and score analysis of Brahms Symphony No. 2, first movement (Allegro non-troppo). Johannes Brahms composed Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 during the summer of 1877 while visiting a town in the Austrian province of Carinthia. In comparison to the 15 years it took for Brahms to complete his First Symphony,

DIVERSITY As someone born to an Arab Saudi father and an African Sudanese mother from the Darfur region, my life has always been heavily influenced by major issues of diversity. Arabs do not respect Africans; they denigrate them and treat them like second-class citizens. Frankly, I do not have any early memories that do not include encounters with racism, classicism and the tremendous social differences associated with relative poverty and wealth.