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Infant spatial environment, handrail use, and cognitive development

Berger and Adolph's (2003) research indicates how infants use handrails to navigate their surroundings and to expand their immediate environmental travels. They conclude with the observation that:

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Comparing Woellert and Magnusson's national ID card arguments

The debate over whether the United States should institute the use of National ID cards in the wake of 9/11has raised many questions among citizens concerned both with safety and government intrusion. Lorraine Woellert and Paul Magnusson debate the issue in BusinessWeek Online.

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Student assessment of food advertising and nutrition literacy

For a week before the unit, students will keep a 'food diary' of everything they eat, and after composing the diary, they will find out the calorie counts of the food, and basic information on the foods consumed such as vitamin and mineral content, fiber, protein, and sugar values.

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Harvard Sitkoff's "The struggle for Black equality" and its historical significance

When Harvard Sitkoff published his book (The Struggle for Black Equality, in 1981) Barack Obama was 20 years old. Today of course Obama has ascended to the White House in part because of the struggles that Sitkoff describes so well in his book.

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George Kateb's theory of democratic individuality and Emerson

Democratic Individuality? George Kateb, in "Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics," suggests that democratic individuality is rooted in the notion that when an individual's rights are deemed as scared and protected, that individual is then free to explore and fulfill his role as an…

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The purpose of prison sentences: retribution versus reform

Crimes are committed daily in our modern day society and can be loosely defined as any action, that by society's standard, equals the breaking or disobeying of some accepted rule, standard, statute or cultural opinion. Crimes can be committed by either or both adults and juveniles.

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Environmental philosophy and farming practices in Jefferson's legacy

Consider asking questions about the ways Ling conveys his attitude while still imparting reliable facts. You might also ask whether Ling is right about the impact Jefferson's farming practices have had on our economy.

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Can democracy be implanted through military intervention in Iraq?

Will "Implanting democracy by the sword" carry the seeds of its own failure? This is an important and topical question, especially given the foreign policy that the U.S. has adopted in the recent past.

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Rhetorical purpose and style in Edwards, Henry, and Emerson

rhetorical purpose in the works of Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God), Henry (Speech to the Virginia Convention), and Emerson (Nature).

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Derrida's deconstruction of Rousseau on language and supplementarity

Jacques Derrida deconstructs Jean-Jacques Rousseau to make two main points. First, language is at the most a representative reality. Language is, in Rousseau's terms, supplemental. It can only approximate reality and mediate the truth to which the writing points.

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