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Childhood treasure hunt and discovery of buried time capsule

When my brother and I were young, we liked to play 'explorers' during the long, hot, lazy light-filled nights of summer. This game involved us packing flashlights, my toy binoculars and walkie-talkies, and a bunch of blankets and sleeping in the yard at night.

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Mitosis: stages of somatic cell division and cytokinesis

The classification of 'somatic cells' comprises all of the cells within the human body, with the exception of reproductive cells.

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Canter and Gardner's perspectives on educational test interpretation

Tests within the educational industry can often subject teachers as well as students to such high levels of stress that it is easy to lose a macro perspective of how tests should be interpreted in an educational context.

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John Locke's influence on the American Revolution and Constitution

How did the ideas of the Enlightenment influence the American Revolution and the formation of the American Government?

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Structured poetry and ambivalence in Dylan Thomas' villanelle form

structured poems such as William Wordsworth's 'The World is Too Much with Us,' or Dylan Thomas' 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,' do not adequately address the concept of ambivalence."

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Male anger and objectification in Lessing's "A woman on a roof"

"A woman on a roof" by Doris Lessing is a story about male anger and male perceptions of female sexuality.

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Challenges and best practices for open-ended questions in interviews

Open-ended questions have certain challenges, particularly in interview situations. Opinions tend to be expressed, which may entail that the data may not be reliable or valid. Furthermore, these questions could lead to a tendency to provide answers that are not relevant.

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The pencil as an artist's creative tool and instrument

The pencil is not beautiful. Its pointed, dark grey, graphite nib is as ugly and drab as the lead-tipped pencils of my parent's childhood. It leaves a long, steely trail across the white, heavy-woven page. What will the slashing action of the pencil bring to life? A horse? A mountain?

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Genetic basis of wing pattern mimicry in Heliconius butterflies

In the article How the Butterflies got their Spots (2010), it talks about how scientists at Cambridge have found "hotspots" in butterflies' genes that they believe will explain one of the most extraordinary examples of mimicry in the natural world.

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Fiscal and monetary policy responses to US economic recession in 2010

Although GDP increased at an annualized rate of 5.7% in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 2.2% in the third quarter (BEA, 2010), the United States economy in general is still in a recovery phase.

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