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Using assessment results to guide writing instruction

There are two major strategies in linking assessment and instruction: 1) making instructional decisions in light of assessment results or 2) planning instruction to achieve the objectives represented by an assessment.

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Leadership and transformation in Dead Poets Society

"Carpe Diem, boys! Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary." The image of Robin William's teacher in the film Dead Poets Society (1989) has become an iconic representation of what a good teacher should resemble: Williams embodies a teacher who inspires a love of poetry in his students, and…

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John Huston's Battle of San Pietro as anti-war propaganda

To the eyes of a modern viewer, the Battle of San Pietro, a documentary crafted by John Huston, seems a very rare thing: a film intended to be a propagandistic war film that is also a work of art. "John Huston was one of the Hollywood directors enlisted by the U.S.

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Faulkner's fragmented narrative treatment of time and Bergson's philosophy

William Faulkner's treatment of time in his novels. As to William T. Going suggests, "At the core of any fruitful discussion of meaning and narrative method must lie some understanding of Faulkner's treatment of time" (53).

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Neo-Aristotelian analysis of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

Since he began his campaign for the presidency of the United States, Barack Obama has been consistently criticize for his "rhetoric." These criticisms seem as prone to using the epithet "high-flown rhetoric" as Homer was likely to describe the sea as "wine-dark." But both general comments on Obama…

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Human activity's contribution to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels

CO2: Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Linked to Human Activity (http://zfacts.com/p/194.html): Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere can be linked directly to the release of the gas by human beings since the rise of industrialization (zfacts 2007).

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David Hume and John Hick on the problem of evil

One of the most challenging questions that faces Christian -- theologians, clergy, and the laity -- is why does God permit there to be evil in the world. If God is both omnipotent and benevolent, then why does He permit evil to persist and often even to flourish and triumph?

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Alfie Kohn's critique of the grade inflation myth

Straight talking on straight as: Alfie Kohn's essay on "The dangerous myth of grade inflation" Straight talking on straight as: Alfie Kohn's essay on "The dangerous myth of grade inflation"

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GIS Ireland 2009 Conference: presentations and spatial data infrastructure applications

The nature, scope and purpose of the meeting. The GIS Ireland 2009 Conference took place on October 14, 2009 at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland in an effort to provide a venue for presenting current information concerning global information systems and how they are being used.

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Lyndon B. Johnson's political career and presidential legacy

Large in physical stature and colorful in personal demeanor, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a powerful force in mid-20th century politics in Texas as well as later in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. When he became President John F.

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