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Critical thinking skills applied to pursuing a graduate degree

Using critical thinking skills nearly always results in better decision making and therefore better actions. Personal change is always accompanied by a long list of critical issues that require thought and development in order to cement into a cost-benefit balance.

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Silicon Valley's dot-com boom and bust in historical context

Lecuyer, C. (2006). Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. This book illustrates the history of Silicon Valley. Lecuyer places the rise of Silicon Valley in historical context.

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Symbolism and satire in Turgenev's "Bezhin Meadows" and Dostoevsky's "Crocodile"

Entry #1 -- Bezhin Meadows -- Ivan Turgenev -- "I finally reached the corner of the woods… but there was no road there at all…an empty field was visible."

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How attribution theory helps people find meaning and control

In general terms, attribution theory explores and sheds light on aspects of the psycho-social perception of reality. More specifically, this theory refers to the way that individuals make decisions and judgments about the actions and behavior of others, as well as their own actions and emotions.

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How disability concealment shaped American presidential campaigns

The perception of American presidents as healthy and able-bodied men has always been one that served to convey confidence and support of them by voters during their campaign bids for the office.

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Richard Wagner's revolutionary music and political influence in nineteenth-century Germany

Composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist Richard Wagner lived during a vibrant time for German culture: the romantic era. Among his contemporaries were some of that country's greatest and most influential thinkers, like Nietsche, Marx, and even the twilight of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Classroom behavior management through moral guidelines and logical consequences

According to Slavin (2009), the first days of school are critical for establishing order in the classroom. Teachers who spend extra time reviewing class rules and establishing procedures during the first week of school have fewer discipline problems throughout the year.

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CBRN weapons proliferation and the evolution of modern terrorism threats

Biological Weapons - a bioterrorism attack uses biological weapons (viruses, bacteria, or germs) that are released in a manner that will negatively impact either humans, flora or fauna in a given environment.

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The Dred Scott decision and its role in polarizing America over slavery

Dred Scott, as commonly known, was an 1857 U.S. Supreme Court Decision written on the subject of slavery and Congressional authority. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the Court; six concurring, two opposing.

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Vladimir Sorokin's obscenity and Soviet totalitarianism in Four Stout Hearts

Russian Literature and Vladimir Sorokin: What Is the Goal and Is the Soviet Response Reasonable The plots in the two novels by Vladimir Sorokin are sharply different, however the author's approach appears to be relatively similar.

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