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Standards-based curriculum implementation: roles for administrators and teachers

The purpose of this project is to devise a plan, based on research, to provide a standards-based professional development for staff at a selected school.

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Marshall McLuhan's theory of media as extensions of human senses

Today, a large majority of people in the Western industrialized world take electronic media for granted. Stores such as Circuit City or Best Buy, where huge flat-screen TVs, cell phones, laptop computers, PalmPilots, etc., etc., etc.

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Courtly love and Guillaume de Machaut's medieval lyrics

Western ideas about romantic love came in large part from the classical Greek and Roman past. However, they were also filtered through the very different culture of the European Middle Ages. One can trace the concepts that dominated Western thinking until recently to the mid-12th Century.

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The search for meaning and reality in Moby Dick

Moby Dick or, The Whale is a book that can be read on a number of levels. On the surface it is an adventure story and a mine of information about whaling and the whaling industry.

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Rawls and Nozick's competing theories of social justice

Justice has been explained by different theorists in different terms. The theories of John Rawls and Robert Nozick differ in key ways, but both theories are normative, offering a model of what they each believe justice should be.

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Defining terrorism: Bush administration policy and alternative approaches

There are a number of ways to interpret terrorist attacks in the modern world. The Bush administration has chosen a particular perspective that is intended to justify the employment of the United States military as a tool for rooting out terrorism in general.

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the definition of cult movements

In 1982 Ingrid D. wrote home to her mother, "I have joined a wonderful group of spiritually minded people and am living in an ashram.

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Historical leaders and techniques for effective public speaking

In front of hundreds of thousands of people they deliver stirring and moving speeches that touches each listener's heart and soul. Each of their gestures while delivering words of wisdom demands respect and attention.

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Political violence and helplessness in García Márquez's "No One Writes to the Colonel"

Colonel' and many other short stories contained in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's collection have similar themes and setting. They are set in the mid-20th century and discuss the political situation in the Columbian town of Macondo.

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Catholic values and organizational culture at O'Connell Consolidated High School

My position as the Director of Development at a private Catholic high school in Galveston, Texas exposed me to the nature and dynamics of the educational institution I am part of. The thrust of my organization, O'Connell Consolidated High School, is best expressed through its Mission Statement:

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