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The 1979 energy crisis' impact on U.S. foreign policy and domestic consumption

The 1979 Energy Crisis was a major international turning point in energy policy and had far reaching political and economic ramifications. The crisis created a raised awareness of the interconnected nature of the world energy markets, specifically the oil markets and gave citizens in the U.S.

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Imagined geographies in travel writing and consumer culture in Latin America

Latin American Studies" (by Philip Swanson) by answering questions 1-12. Travel writing in Latin America was imagined in such a way to create certain stereotypes of both the inhabitants and physical geography when it was reported back to readers in Europe.

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The relationship between human resource development and adult education

Human Resource Development should fall under the larger umbrella of Adult Education for several reasons.

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Supporting English language learners through guided text conversations

Iddings, Risko and Rampulla entitled "When You Don't Speak Their Language: Guiding English Language Learners through Conversations about Text" discussed the need for support among monolingual English teachers who teach second language learners.

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China Mobile's international bond offering and currency strategy

Why did China Mobile feel it was necessary to issue equity in markets outside of its home base in Hong Kong? What are the advantages of such a move?

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Allegory and social status in Kafka's The Castle

feelings, events and behaviors in the Castle are so common in people's everyday lives (alienation, betrayal, the indifference of bureaucracy to human value), why does Kafka choose the medium of the dream/allegory in which to express them, rather than a straight Realist approach of one man facing…

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Forest conversion to pasture and hydrological response in the Ji-Parana basin

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Cognition and metacognition in adult education and Sternberg's intelligence theory

There are significant differences between learning and learning how to learn. Learning is a cognitive strategy, whereas learning how to learn is metacognitive.

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Andragogy and pedagogy: comparing adult and child learning approaches

Andragogy and pedagogy differ in several key respects. The first is by definition.

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Jerome Bruner and Paul Bergevin's theories of adult learning

The theories of Jerome Bruner best fit my position as an adult learner. Bruner believes that learning falls into three categories: the acquisition of new information, making the new information transfer from one area to another, such as from the classroom to the assessment or from the assessment to…

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