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Teaching current events literacy through student newscast creation

Overview of activity, purpose of activity, rationale behind choice: Students are encouraged to read the newspaper regularly, to build a sense of civic obligation, to learn about current events, and to think critically about important issues.

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Thomas Jefferson's argument for religious freedom in Virginia

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was the person most responsible for normalizing religious freedom in America. In this document, Jefferson argues against the intolerant policies in Virginia, still extant after independence.

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Ethical debates and international perspectives on euthanasia as medical practice

Baird, Robert M., Rosennaum, Stuart E. Euthanasia: The Moral Issues (Contemporary Issues in Philosophy). New York: Prometheus Books, 1998.

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Lesson plan for a deaf-blind fifth grade student

Designing lesson plans for students with hearing or visual impairment is difficult. To design one for a student with both is even more strenuous.

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Behavioral characteristics, causes, and treatment of rejected-aggressive children

Up to 15% of children can be classified as being rejected or rejected-aggressive based on their difficult peer relationships (464). Rejected children exhibit a number of behaviors and characteristics ranging from anxiety and conceit to withdrawal and aggression.

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The Socratic method in Plato's dialogues versus historical Socrates

It can be inferred by the fact that Socrates left behind no philosophical writings that his focus was far more personal in manner, and required more direct interaction between individual minds, than any great thinker that followed him.

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Political rhetoric and divine authority in King, Jefferson, and Plato

There appears to be two unifying factors between Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From A Birmingham Jail," Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, and Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which is excerpted from book seven of his seminal work entitled The Republic.

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Personal statement: motivation for studying law

Ever since I was a young child, I have always wanted to study the law. Documents that have protected people's rights throughout the ages such as the United States Constitution and the Magna Carta seemed to me as sacred as the Bible.

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Eastern icons and the development of Renaissance portraiture

Icons and Early Modern Portraits" adds a fascinating new twist to the investigation of the material culture of the Renaissance, which may be brought to bear directly on the study of Renaissance art.

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Chung-Ying Cheng's onto-hermeneutical vision of Chinese philosophy

The author though acknowledges that a sense of knowledge and the analytic use of language have often been the guiding principles for the Greeks for presenting arguments and conclusions; in spite of knowing the overall vision of the truth.

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