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Gloria Anzaldua's wild tongue: Chicano Spanish and cultural identity

Gloria Anzaldua has a wild tongue, a tongue that roams free from the confines of both formal English and formal Spanish.

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Standardized testing bias and the shift toward holistic college admissions

standardized tests truly reflective of all students, even those with cultural diversity, limited English, and disabilities?

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Ghosts as catalysts in Wharton and James's short stories

Oh there is one, of course, but you'll never know it," Alida Stair enigmatically warns the Boynes before they purchase their English country home in Edith Wharton's short story "Afterward." Referring to ghosts, Stair's statement echoes the strange occurrences of sceptres throughout the short…

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Creation and design of the federal judiciary at the Constitutional Convention

How was the federal judiciary created? The delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia were aware that the new nation needed to be quite different from the English structure of government they had broken away from in a bloody war, so they worked out a plan whereby the federal…

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Romance and incompatibility in Notting Hill's flawed ending

Notting Hill directed by Roger Mitchell [...] whether Anna and William will have a successful future together. This film, about a romance between a timid English bookseller and a world-famous Hollywood star, is a romantic comedy with a happily ever after ending.

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Thomas Carlyle's vision of labor and leadership in industrial Britain

The problems raised were addressed by various writes and ethical theorists, including the political theorists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the nineteenth century English essayist Thomas Carlyle, who discussed his particular views on personal freedom and its limits in his work…

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Teaching personal budget management through a multimodal social studies unit

The following thematic unit is created for my social studies classes. The course directly addresses individual needs through adaptive and instructional software, high-interest literature, and direct instruction in reading skills. The course complements their regular English classes.

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The spiritual and domestic roles of Puritan women in colonial America

Puritan women in the New World of the United States were torn between belief that their "hope and treasure lies above" and their very real need to survive and create a loving community on earth. The Puritans were English Protestants, and they had very strong views on a variety of issues.

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Sir Robert Peel and the origins of modern policing

In the mid-fifteenth century the term police, derived from the French word "porice" meaning public order assured by the state, entered the English language.

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Language learning and teaching in Jordan and Sedaris

Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan," June Jordan writes about the need to pay attention to Black English and to learn how important it is for African-American cultural identity.

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