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Staff and parent partnerships for improving student achievement

Effective Staff Development on Cultivating and Maintaining Positive Relationships With Parents In order to offer children the best possible educational experience, school staff members - counselors, teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators - face enormous responsibilities and take on constant…

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Defining capacity and overcrowding in American prisons and jails

When Chief of Corrections Statistics Program Allen Beck (2001) testified that prison facilities were less crowded today than they were in the last decade, his report elicited a debate on the definitions of capacity and overcrowding in American prisons and jails (Trovillion 2005).

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The historical and medical case for legalizing medical marijuana

The legalization of medical marijuana has been an issue of passionate debate during recent years. Opponents fear that legalizing marijuana for medical purposes will open the door for legalization across the board, and cite that synthetic versions of the drug work as well or better.

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Seven habits of highly effective people and business success

The book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" was originally published in 1990. It was a groundbreaking book at the time and it is still a bestseller.

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Canadian nationalism and environmentalism in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing

For Americans or Europeans who are oblivious to the justifiably pessimistic feelings many Canadians have toward the U.S. In particular and Western attitudes in general, reading Margaret Atwood's book Surfacing should serve as enlightenment.

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Chaucer's female characters and medieval English society

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, like the works of Homer, stand as a piece of literary history and also as an indication of actual history.

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Characterization and social class in Renoir's Rules of the Game

At the level of high culture, most clearly in its modernist phase, there has always been this dream of transcending the local, the provincial, and the national, or in social terms, to transgress the narrow bounds of the bourgeois world and to enter a realm that is nothing if not International: the…

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Double imagery and moral duality in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train

When writers create a story or movie script, they don't start off with an underlying "theme" in mind. After the first writing, as they read it over, a theme -- or the kernel of a theme -- emerges, that is, something the writer (or director) wants to say about the human condition via the story.

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Genital herpes epidemiology and transmission statistics

Genital herpes is another type of sexually transmitted disease. This disease is caused by the herpes simplex viruses (HSV) type 1 and type 2, however, most of the genital herpes recorded today are caused by HSV type 2 (Division of STD Prevention, May 2005).

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Harriet Beecher Stowe and American social reform

When President Abraham Lincoln met her in 1862, he gazed upon the petite woman who stood less than five feet in height, remarking, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." He was, of course, greeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, and was referring to her 1852 book,…

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