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Deborah Sampson Gannett: cross-dressing Revolutionary War soldier

Deborah Sampson Gannett is the first American woman known to have impersonated a man for the purpose of serving in the colonial army during the American Revolutionary War.

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Elie Wiesel's works and high school curriculum integration

Elie Wiesel is a renowned American-Jewish novelist and political activist. He is best known for being a Holocaust survivor, the subject of the majority of his over forty books. His best known work, Night, is a memoir of his experiences while imprisoned in Nazi operated concentration camps.

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Teaching children dance: curriculum, standards, and classroom integration

Teaching Children Dance can't dance." How many times have you heard an adult say this, at a party or even at a family function like a wedding? Probably many times. How many times have you heard a child say this? Probably never.

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African-American pioneers in social work and their lasting impact

Pioneers in the field of social work laid the ground work for programs, agencies, and policies still in effect today. Especially of note are African-American social workers from the past who not only impacted the field of social work, but also presented landmarks in African-American history.

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The American Constitution and the gradual abolition of slavery

The story of Africans and the Americas is a violent and painful one. Africans were used as a race of slaves by white colonists in America, and in regions across the world for centuries.

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How music and sports helped me cope after my mom's death

Before my mom died, I had been playing guitar for years. At first it was just in school for band practice and then I got an electric guitar for Christmas and started to rock out, practicing at home with my little amp and headphones. My chops were getting pretty good by the time she died.

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Captain John Smith and the American self-made man ideal

Hoobler, Thomas and Dorothy Hoobler. Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream. New York: Wiley, 2005.

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Addressing achievement gaps and staff discontent in schools

One of the main concerns the school has to come to face with is the significant gap in student achievement between white students and non-white students and by students with disabilities in general. The first step is to assess the reasons why these gaps exist.

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Clara Reeve and Walter Savage Landor's Egyptian narratives

Writers who place their tales in exotic locations may have visited those locations or they may be imagining them on the basis of an image they have of the site. They may also derive what they believe about distant locales from what another writer has put in print.

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Sylvia Plath's use of imagery for personal healing in Daddy

Sylvia Plath's Daddy is a deeply personal account of coming to terms with the loss of a parent, i.e. her father, but beyond that, the poem is a reflection of the paternal symbol and its implication in Plath's life.

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