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Secular humanism's rise and influence in the twentieth century

Basically, humanists believe in freedom and pluralistic democracy as virtually our first principle, and we are disturbed by any authoritarian effort to impose one point-of-view on America.

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Cheating as a culturally embedded form of academic dishonesty

Cheating takes a wide array of forms. An act of dishonesty or habitual acts of dishonesty used to deceive others, to advance one's self, to gain the upper hand in a competitive circumstance or to engage in illicit behaviors while attempting to obscure these behaviors, cheating conjures a number of…

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Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in social research

MIXING METHODS WITHIN RESEARCH PROJECTS? The objective of this work is to discuss some of the issues involved in 'mixing' methods within research projects? This work will further answer whether it is possible to work with more than one methodological approach simultaneously?

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Rote memorization versus critical thinking in high school mathematics

How important is it to teach students to think more critically, to connect and evaluate their ideas? Describe a course that you took in high school that you think would have been much more effective if it were taught through critical thinking instead of rote memorization and explain why.

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Ethnocentrism, stereotyping, and prejudice as barriers to intercultural communication

In what way do ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination act as barriers to effective intercultural communication?

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Eyewitness testimony errors and reliability in criminal justice

One of the fundamental assumptions of the American criminal justice system is that the testimony of eyewitnesses can be trusted -- in fact, that it can be trusted absolutely.

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Post-tenure review processes and effects on student satisfaction

To assess the ability of the post-tenure review process to enhance student learning, a quantitative study could compare students' satisfaction levels with professors at institutions that used post-tenure review with students' levels of satisfaction at institutions that did not utilize the…

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Why teachers leave the profession: retention and motivation in Canadian secondary schools

Teaching is one of the professions that many and indeed probably even most people enter with a large measure of idealism.

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Personal and political obliteration in Dickens' Tale of Two Cities

Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens portrays the cities of London and Paris at a time just prior to and during the French Revolution.

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Christian sexuality and marriage in the Penners' Gift of Sex

Human sexuality has been a prominent feature of the species and the culture since time immemorial, for reasons both obvious and more subtle.

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