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Gender differences in special education and academic performance

This study will seek out gender differences among students, especially in special education. Identifying and understanding these gender differences will help schools develop approaches and programs, which will address the differences and maximize students' learning and future career opportunities.

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Budget cuts and school closures in New York City Public Schools

The current economic crisis is having ripple affects for the New York City Public Schools. This is because lower tax revenues and declining budgets are exacerbating the various problems that have existed in the system; the most notable would include underperforming schools and budgets.

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Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and American culture

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a short story by American author Washington Irving, was actually written while the author lived in England.

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How iron triangles shape American policymaking since 1980

As high school students we all learned about the Constitutional separation of powers. With each of the three branches of government -- the judicial, executive, and legislative -- having the power to limit the power of the others, no one aspect of government could hold the American people hostage.

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Tapioca Express franchise expansion strategy for New York

Tapioca Express is an 11-year-old bubble tea chain from California. They are expanding in to the New York market via franchise. The company has a favorable operating environment with competitors primarily being independent shops with limited marketing capacity.

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Cadman's analysis of transculturalism in higher education

Goods flow across international boundaries as easily as carbon dioxide. The idea that we are all global citizens is not simply a metaphor any longer: It is the simple truth. This erasing of traditional boundaries and borders extends to the world of higher education.

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Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower" and Al-Qaeda's path to 9/11

The attacks which occurred on September 11th 2001 were immediately received by the United States as an act of war.

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The 2004 European Union enlargement and economic convergence criteria

After a decade, the Single European Act of 1987 was set to pave the way for a single European market and for a monetary union, known as European Monetary Union (EMU). The Maastricht Treaty, which was signed on February 7, 1992, and came into effect on November 1, 1993.

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American mass incarceration and the need for systemic prison reform

The United States has many reasons to be proud, its prison system is not one of them. America has fewer than 5% of the world's population, but nearly 25% of the world's prisoners (Liptak, 2008.) the U.S. has 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population.

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Connecting talent and skills: an MBA path to investment banking

Talents aren't things developed. One is born with talent -- a natural propensity for accuracy and efficiency in particular tasks. A knack for a certain intellectual task. Skills, on the other hand, are things learned, practiced, and known; they're the result of schooling, training, and experience.

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