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Applying Maslow and Piaget to improve Algebra I achievement

I teach Algebra I in a high school in a small district where the student demographics are 76% Hispanic, 18% Anglo, 5% African-American and 4% Asian. The majority of the students (85%) are on free and reduced lunch, so they are coming from a low socioeconomic background.

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Carlyle's philosophy of clothes and spiritual meaning in Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus can be read in many ways; the book simultaneously functions as an outlet for Thomas' Transcendental ideas, a gentle parody of German intellectualism, and a commentary on the nature of writing.

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The language problem in defining animal consciousness

Animals Conscious? Before taking a position on the longstanding, controversial issue as to whether or not animals truly possess consciousness and whether or not this concept even applies to them, it first becomes necessary to examine both contemporary and historical models addressing this topic.

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SMS technology and its impact on human communication patterns

The advent of the Short Message Service (SMS) has altered the way that way communicate by making the 'text message' or the act of 'texting' a standard form of personal and professional communication.

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European train systems and a near-fatal childhood mistake

We visited France, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland. In Europe, the train systems are much better, more efficient, and more easily accessible than the American rail system.

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Augustine and the Celtic church's competing missions to early Anglo-Saxon Britain

A number of people would like to give credit for the reintroduction of Christianity to Gregory. It is said that one day the Catholic monk spotted two fair-haired, blue-eyed boys being auctioned in the Roman slave market. He quickly inquired who they were.

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Enslaved Africans' creation of society and culture in America

Slavery began in Africa even before the Europeans came into colonization of the African countries. This was evidently seen especially when the whites wanted people to work for them in their firms.

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Slavery and indentured servitude in shaping Revolutionary America

slavery shaped eighteenth-century colonial and Revolutionary America and analyze the role played by enslaved men and women in helping to shape the American Revolution and the early American Republic

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Education alignment and American unemployment solutions

Policy makers in the United States continuously seek the silver bullet(s) -- plural solutions because there is clear recognition that the issue is multifaceted -- that will achieve healthy levels of employment in the nation.

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Adolf Hitler's expansion strategy and the rise of fascism in Europe

World War I was believed to be the last general war that this world had to go through. Due to massive losses during the first major conflict, people believed that no country will ever want such an event to happen.

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