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Teaching styles and student achievement under No Child Left Behind

No Child Left Behind was passed to improve the overall performance of students across America, with a focus on achievement on standardized testing (Payne-Tsoupros, 2010).

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Political party affiliation and health care system preferences

Democrats, Independents, and Republicans on current health care options, I would conduct a survey and analyze the results using the Chi-square test.

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Descartes' method of systematic doubt and the cogito

Skepticism is the definition where each and every aspect of one's knowledge -- including belief of one's reality is questioned.

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Understanding synesthesia: cross-sensory perception and neurological mechanisms

What is synesthesia? Synesthesia means "joined perception" (Phillips, 2010). In the simplest terms, synesthesia refers to a condition in which a person has cross-sensory experiences, such as seeing colors in sounds, tastes, smells, cutaneous experiences, or even numbers or letters of the alphabet…

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Fetal origins of adult disease and developmental health outcomes

Fetal origins of health and disease has developed into a new medical frontier for researchers.

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Epicurus's argument against the rationality of fearing death

You know, it's really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. -- Milan Kundera, Immortality

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Crime and punishment in Victorian England's economic transformation

The issue of crime and requisite punishment has been a part of human society for millennia. It seems that given the human condition a certain percentage of any population tends towards deviance from laws and regulations designed to allow society to prosper.

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How online dating facilitates self-presentation for socially uncomfortable individuals

With the internet and other social media tools becoming as common as face-to-face interactions, it is no wonder that more people are turning to internet dating as a means of finding a partner.

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The scientific research process: qualitative and quantitative methodologies

The primary process of research is to discover, interpret, and (in the case of applied research) use certain methods that will lead to more reliable, evidence-based knowledge about our world.

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Vygotsky's zone of proximal development in classroom instruction

Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of education turns on the process of dialectic, in which, "while admitting the influence of nature on man," one must assert that man, "in turn, affects nature and creates through his changes in nature new natural conditions for his existence" (qtd in John-Steiner and…

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