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Amboyna Conspiracy Trial: Trade, Power, and Colonial Law

Explores the Amboyna Conspiracy Trial through the lens of Dutch and British East India Company rivalry, colonial justice, torture, and shifting public opinion.

History

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Quick Smart intervention for literacy in students with learning disabilities

This article is a useful combination of theoretical information and a summary of research. The authors show the connection between learning disabilities and problems with literacy.

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Geography, history, and economy of the U.S. Virgin Islands

History of the Virgin Islands ? Virgin Islands are located at 18 Deg 20 minutes N, 64 Deg 50 minutes W. The three principal islands are St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas. There are a number of smaller islands around the three major islands.

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Phonemic awareness in early literacy instruction and reading development

According to Hoover (2002) in his web page article "The Importance of Phonemic Awareness in Learning to Read," phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the individual sounds within words. This linguistic skill is needed to read alphabetical languages.

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Behavioral and academic intervention plan for struggling fifth-grade student

In my observation I have noticed that when the other students are working on their reading passages he begins to act up in his class. He begins to recruit students to play just as well. He also sits in a corner and rarely pays attention.

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Transforming Riyad Capital through strategic leadership and organizational change

When I arrived as acting head of the it department, I had to turn around a troubled unit in record time. The team was in turmoil, overloaded and missing deadlines, with crucial projects bottlenecked for over two years -- integrated work bogging down other departments.

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Colonial perspectives on independence: religious, loyalist, and African-American views

The American Revolution was a war that began as a disagreement. The colonists largely believed that they were treated unfairly, merely pawns that were used for whatever reasons best suited the crown and parliament.

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Disney's international theme parks: cultural challenges in Paris and Tokyo

Though it would not be until 1985 that France and Disney would come to an official agreement on the site a conceived Euro-Disney, there had been consideration of this market roughly since the first successful years of the original American Disney theme parks.

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An annotated bibliography entry evaluating an article on midwifery history and practice

This information in this article relates to midwife generally and in the United States specifically, incorporating its medical, legal, and spiritual/philosophical elements in a comprehensive and brief overview.

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St. Jerome's translation of biblical texts and Christian faith spread

Intended Audience: A mixed group of high school and junior high school students with a background in the Christian Faith

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