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The Clark-Kozma debate on media's role in learning

The popularity of online schools and the use of the Internet have fueled a debate among educators. From the time educational television first hit the media circuits, the ability of any media form to improve education has come under scrutiny.

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Concurrent engineering, fault tree analysis, and product traceability

Concurrent engineering, as the name implies, involves the simultaneous designing of various components of a given product.

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De Tocqueville's observations on Christianity, liberty, and democracy in America

In human history many events change the course of nations, not intentionally, certainly not at the exact time of action, but later, as events domino from each other into what becomes a mythological event captured in writing, art, popular music, and even the heritage of a nation.

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The limits of human language in representing God

We cannot adequately represent the fullness of God within the confines of human language and discourse. The author is correct to assert that it is a difficult activity to address the concept of God.

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Temptation and sin in Christian belief: a personal tax ethics analysis

The temptation arrives on a mental level; internally. When a Christian acts on this temptation and succumbs to it, the act is externalized. The goal of attempting to deal with temptation is to maintain the temptation in the internal arena without letting it degenerate into action.

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Context-dependent memory effects across sensory modalities and species

While we often speak of ourselves as having a 'good' or a 'bad' memory, the nature of human learning and the process of encoding memory is considerably more complex than simply being 'good' or 'bad' in terms of memory storage and retrieval.

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Reform policies of Mustafa Kemal and Reza Khan compared

In the aftermath of World War I, the world had begun to experience massive structural change, with a wave of imperial collapses producing a groundswell of nationalism and independence movements.

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Qualitative research methodology in online K-12 education and air traffic control

Both use qualitative research in significantly different roles within their methodologies, making significant contributions to each.

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How spreadsheets enable companies to achieve organizational objectives

The value of spreadsheets has grown in direct correlation to the breadth of their adoption, and the creativity users have applied to using these software applications in solving problems.

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Charter schools as models for educational innovation and community collaboration

Charter Schools: Wave of the Future? The best examples of models for family, community and school collaboration are those which combine the forces of family, church (as well as other community organizations) and the public school. This is especially true amongst parochial schools.

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