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Thomas More's Utopia and sixteenth-century social reform

Utopia's origin in the More's and hopes of the individual author's times. Utopia is the place where all our needs are balanced by abundant resources. Utopia is believed to be a perfect state, a place which has social justice, political peace, and moral harmony in all aspects of life.

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Planning and administration in adult literacy education programs

Adult literacy was an issue of disquiet for developing nations where it was regarded as a cause of health, economic development, and civic participation as late as the 1980s.

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James Loewen's critique of heroification in American history textbooks

Lies My Teacher Told Me stresses how students can repeat the same social studies class three times and still be ignorant of American history. Today, U.S.

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Personal journey and motivation for pursuing dental education

I am Serbian by birth, and was raised in Romania, a neighboring country of the former Yugoslavia, now Serbia. I have been in the United States since 1999, working as a dental assistant. I attended university in Romania in 1994, and graduated in 1999 with a degree in psychology.

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Jazz as a global musical language and cultural bridge

The reasons for this are its flexibility. This flexibility, as well as its ability to effortlessly mould itself not only to current events, but also to current musical paradigms, ensures that jazz has a past, a present and a future that can be rivaled by few other genres in music.

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Immigration and legal education: from Seoul to law school

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." -- H.L. Hunt immigrated to the United States when I was seventeen from Seoul, South Korea.

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Edgar Johnson's analysis of colonial economic divergence from British mercantilism

American Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century by Edgar AJ. Johnson. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1961). 202 p., (HB119.A2J6).

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Joanne's academic and social development: a case study of a bilingual middle school student

Middle School child -- "Joanne" case study in the quick maturing quality of today's youth of a ten-year-old girl (Observation done a middle school during student's lunch period)

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Teacher assessment methods across elementary, middle, and high school

The author interviews three teachers and presents their empirical evidence as well as researched data to outline teacher assessments, and then presents some suggestions for change based on this gathered information. There were five sources used to complete this paper.

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Proposition 227 and bilingual education implementation in Los Angeles schools

According to the Los Angeles Times articles, "Hundreds Wait for Bilingual Education," by Louis Sahagun and Nick Anderson (October 23, 1998), there are hundreds of students awaiting arrangements for bilingual classes; these students' parents have petitioned the Los Angeles (LA) school system to…

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