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Defining gospels and epistles in early Christian literature

In Christianity the word gospel means good news. This word has come from the Old English word which means "good news." This comes from a translation of a Greek word "evangelion." The word gospel is used in different ways, but the main usage is in the announcement or proclamation of the saving…

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Grammar error correction best practices and challenges

The art and science of grammar correction has seismic implications on native and new speakers to English alike.

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Eadweard Muybridge and early cinema technology pioneers

One of the more important names in the history of cinema technology is that of the Englishman, Eadwaerd Muybridge, 1830 to 1904, who was at the outset a photographer and an inventor of technologies beyond his own times, and who became famous for his photographic studies of the locomotion of animals…

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Texas groundwater regulation and agricultural water sustainability

Groundwater is found below the earth's surface in crevices of soil and rock Rubicon Real Estate Services. The laws in Texas regarding groundwater use is based on the English common law of "absolute use" or the "Rule of Capture" Rubicon.

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Adult literacy levels and barriers in African-American communities

The modern definition of literacy extends beyond reading and writing. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 defines it as "an individual's ability to read, write, speak in English, compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job, in the family...

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Fleming's VARK learning styles theory and classroom application

Fleming, Neil. VARK: A Guide to Learning Style. (2007). Retrieved December 9, 2008, at http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=categories.

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The Whorfian hypothesis and second language learning: academic perspectives

How relevant is the Whorfian Hypothesis (WH) - also referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - to language learning, in particular for the person who learned (or is learning) English as a second language?

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Language planning and bilingual education for Native American tribes in California

Bilingual education inevitably involves teaching academic content in two languages. While most people think of immigrants learning the English language, the fact that Native Americans are commonly raised with English as their second language is rarely considered by policy makers.

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Sir Alexander Cuming's diplomatic mission to the Cherokee nation

The character of Sir Alexander Cuming is draped in mystery and legend. Respected and even loved by the Cherokees, marginalized by his own aristocratic English society to which he belonged, Alexander Cuming was deemed simultaneously a madman, an adventurer, a true patriot or even a diplomat,…

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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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