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Catherine McAuley's understanding of service through mentoring and community work

To whom much is given, much shall be expected." In my life, I have been given many great things. I have a wonderful and supportive family. I am a part of a strong yet academically challenging school community.

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Margaret Atwood's "Variations on the Word Sleep" and transcendent love

Margaret Atwood's dreamlike poem "Variations on the Word Sleep" offers a lyrical, undulating series of images that resemble the dream state itself. Symbols, metaphors, and piquant imagery allow Atwood to address the non-physical, mystical aspects of the human experience.

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The Fact and Fiction Project's approach to boys' reading engagement

Boys with reading problems do not always get the attention they need and deserve to help them. It is possible that boys are stuck in a rigid classification as underachievers and they can't escape from that classification.

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Trade barriers: tariffs, escalation, and quotas

Name three major types of trade barriers most commonly used. There are numerous ways a government can regulate the flow of goods into its country; some of those ways are seen as fair, and some are viewed as "protectionist." The World Trade Organization (WTO) defines tariff as "customs duties on…

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Presidential pardon power: constitutional authority and controversy

The writer explores the general powers to pardon that are given to the president and the controversies that have come up with regard to that power over the years.

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Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Benjamin Britten got the plot for this opera from Shakespeare's play by the same name. In 1960 he, along with his companion, Peter Pears, presented it as a showpiece for his friends and for a wide variety of talents.

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Botticelli's Birth of Venus: iconography and religious influence

Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli is a 500-year-old work of art that remains important and relevant today. The 15th century painting, which depicts the birth of the Roman goddess Venus, makes use of the technical styles of the time, but also demonstrates some important differences.

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Deception and tragedy in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing

Shakespeare's play Much Ado about Nothing effectively combines the comic and tragic elements in its structure.

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Schools as agents of empowerment: Marxist and humanistic approaches

Knowledge, power, and culture are interrelated. Knowledge is power: it is a source of cultural capital that aids in the creation of elite classes of individuals who possess the skills necessary to gain economic and political might.

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Recreation and leisure programming for people with disabilities

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there are 34.1 million non-institutionalized Americans currently living with some form of disability that impairs usual activities - that represents roughly 12% of the U.S. population (Disabilities, 2007).

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