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Allison Parker's second-grade teaching practices and classroom observation

Allison Parker teaches second grade at Lincoln Street Elementary School (LSES), Peterborough, New Hampshire. She has taught for five years, all of them at LSES. Ms. Parker earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in elementary education at the University of New Hampshire.

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Public choice theory and internet regulation in open source software

In the article Regulation and the Internet: Public choice insights for business organizations (Jarvenpaa, Tiller, Simons, 2003) the authors define the concept of public choice as it relates to open source software.

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Comparing juvenile justice systems in China and the United States

China in general, strives to base itself upon a restorative system of justice. It also seems to be moving as a work-in-progress toward becoming more formalized as a "rule of law" system, and problematically, youth crime has been, over the recent decades, rapidly rising.

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The paradox of teacher attitudes toward standardized content-based testing

Teachers nationwide have expressed concern about the amount of time they must spend preparing students for content-based assessments, some of which have implications for high school graduation (Journell, 2010, p. 111).

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Transportation systems: motor carriers, railroads, airlines, and water carriers

Transportation is manner of carrying goods and people from one point to another either over ground, across the water or through the air. It can be by the way of automobiles, trains, ships, boats, ferries, or airplanes (Aboard Transportation, 2006).

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Dante's three categories of sin in Inferno: incontinence, violence, and fraud

Dante's journey into hell presents the three main categories of sin, categorized in accordance with God's desire. Depending on the sins that offend God the least, the nine levels of hell put across more and more suffering as Dante advances.

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Field et al.'s study of peer and media influences on adolescent purging behaviors

Peer and Media Influences to the Development of Purging Behaviors Among Preadolescent and Adolescent Girls by Field et al.

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How military service and immigration shaped my path to accounting

In my situation, the various events from my past would determine who I became. As they would teach me two of the most important attributes to be successful in life: flexibility and focus. This is because, I was taught at an early age that I needed to be able to adapt to a host of situations.

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Managing explosive growth: Research in Motion and the Blackberry

Within the business paradigm, it is often ironic that at times the old Confucian maxim of "be careful what you ask for, you may get it," becomes true. The goal, of course, for any organization is to grow and prosper.

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Ramen as a cultural hybrid: origins, identity, and transgression

Ramen is a Japanese style of noodle. It is one of the most famous of Japan's food and it has become a representation of Japanese culture. It is part of Japanese culture that while eating ramen, one slurps as loud as they can.

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