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Glossolalia in the New Testament: language, translation, and interpretation

Glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, is a vocalizing (sometimes writing) of speech-like syllables as part of religious fervor or practice. It is controversial, even among the religious; some consider it to be meaningless ramble brought on by a euphoric state, and others part of a holy language.

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Evaluating the SAT's predictive validity and bias claims

Under the helping hands of school counselors, parents, and teachers, more than 1.2 million high school seniors took the Educational Testing Service's SAT in 2008 (Zemelman et al., 2008).

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Spiegelman's Maus and the graphic novel canon

Upon examination of the evolution of the Graphic Novel, one discovers that amusing drawings have been around forever. But the rise of the newspaper industry in the late nineteenth century was the force that brought comics into everyday American households.

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Global warming, pollution, and the Medieval Warm Period Project

Rapid growth of the global economy profoundly effects modern economic development and stability, labor, and, most especially, the environment.

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Religious iconography and propaganda in the Soviet Union

However, long before the communists came to power, the Russian government was a highly repressive regime and already possessed many of the characteristics of Arendt's conception of "a ruthless, brutal, and…potent form of political tyranny whose ambitions for world domination are unlimited.

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Why teachers leave the profession: retention and motivation in Canadian secondary schools

Teaching is one of the professions that many and indeed probably even most people enter with a large measure of idealism.

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Student plagiarism through internet paper-selling websites

One of the first lessons on which college students receive instruction and lecture about is a lesson of integrity: your work must be your own. If a student writes a paper, they must give credit to the originator of any ideas that you incorporate into your work in support of your ideas and theories.

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Learning English through parental encouragement and formal education

It was a sunny week-end during my high school days in Saudi Arabia but the conversation we were having in our humid living room was even more intense than the desert heat.

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Learning journals and critical reflection in adult computer students

Learning Journals in Higher and Continuing Education (2002), Arthur M. Langer of Teacher's College at Columbia University, examines in-depth and with great authority the issue of utilizing learning journals "as vehicles for encouraging critical reflection among non-traditional students" and for…

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Ethics of raising animals for human consumption

That question can have many different answers, depending first upon one's concept of ethics and morality. Moreover, answers will depend upon in what period of history one has lived, where one lives, what culture a person is part of, and what food is available for consumption.

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