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Using assessment results to guide writing instruction

There are two major strategies in linking assessment and instruction: 1) making instructional decisions in light of assessment results or 2) planning instruction to achieve the objectives represented by an assessment.

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Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction and groundwater contamination

Marcellus Shale is a black fine-grained laminated formation of sediments. It extends deep underground from Ohio and West Virginia into Pennsylvania and southern New York (Paterson 2011). In some locations, it is exposed at the ground surface.

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Collateralized debt obligations and the global financial crisis

Collateralized debt obligations were one of the most significant contributing factors to the global economic downturn. In particular, they played a role in spreading the crisis so widely, and in being a root cause of the credit crunch that precipitated the worst of the recession.

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Lee's six romantic love styles and partner selection

Choice in romantic partners encompasses numerous different conceptual issues in addition to factors that are likely impossible to quantify in objective terms.

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Overprotective parenting and anxiety development in childhood

"Between a touchy temperament in infancy and anxiety disorders in adulthood lie two highly significant things: Parents" (Hortrum, 1994, p. 18).

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North Korea's nuclear weapons program and international tensions

The successful test occurred within the context of increasing tension between North Korea, its neighbors to the south and the democratic western world. At roughly the same time, North Korea accused South Korea of stockpiling arms along their shared border for the purpose of launching an attack.

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Human Computer Interaction: organizational contexts and interactive technologies

What my take-away messages on this subject topic of HCI are. The objective of this report is to show why I enrolled for the Human Computer Interface (HCI) this course and my initial objectives (expected outcomes).

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Harry Markopolos' decade-long investigation of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme

In late 2008, Bernie Madoff, a then-reputable career New York financial professional and a former NASDAQ Chairman, confessed to federal authorities that he had been running a tremendous Ponzi scheme from his financial investment and securities firm in midtown Manhattan (LeBor, 2010).

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Gender nonconformity and academic performance in school settings

In a society at any given time, there are preconceptions about what being feminine or being masculine (i.e., being a female or being a male). In this regard, a society holds that certain ideas, behaviors, activities, and so on are "right" for a person of a specific gender.

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Luc Faydherbe's Beguinage Church of St. John the Baptist in Brussels

Beguinage Church in Brussels, Belgium (Eglise du Beguinage) 1676 ("Brussels" Europe-cities) or possibly 1656 as is noted by Gilliant-Smith in the Story of Brussels (235) to replace a much more demure church built in the 13th-14th century for the Beguinage, is attributed to the Flemish Baroque…

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