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Program planning for integrating K-12 and higher education online

From high school English teacher, to stay at home mom and day care provider, to an expert in program planning and adult education with a doctorate, this program planner not only ended up working in adult education, but also used it to advance her own career.

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Satyajit Ray's "The World of Apu": idealism and disappointment in Calcutta

APU - Bengali with English Subtitles talented, intelligent, educated and creative person with no practical job skills is probably going to struggle to find work and happiness whether it is in Tokyo, Boston, Amsterdam or, in the case of the film "The World of Apu," in Calcutta, India.

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The Birmingham pub bombing and wrongful convictions in "In the name of the father"

Irish and the English have been in conflict for decades ever since the British defeated the Irish and made them subjects for almost 700 years until the 1916 Irish revolt.

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Romantic idealization of women in Goethe's Faust

The Romantic period in English literature is usually considered to extend from 1798, when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their Lyrical Ballads, to 1832, when Sir Walter Scott died (Abrams et al. 1-3).

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Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper": innocence and experience contrasted

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker whose works continue to influence readers today.

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Hume's argument against the validity of induction

According to the empiricist English philosopher David Hume, inductive logic is inherently invalid.

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Colonialism and moral complexity in Zelazny's Lord of Light

When the English invaded India (and other countries) and occupied for purposes of colonizing it, they cared nothing about the indigenous people who lived there. They put the "natives" to work to help them exploit the riches of the country. This is the nature of colonization.

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Iago's manipulation and villainy in Shakespeare's Othello

According to the great English essayist and critic William Hazlitt, the character of Iago in William Shakespeare's masterpiece Othello "is one of the most mysterious characters created by Shakespeare's genius," due the fact that Iago's "villainy is without a sufficient motive" (345).

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Balancing individual liberty and common good in American founding ideology

When the English Parliament and Crown enclosed their views with undue fiscal and theoretical restrictions upon the citizens of the North American colonies, the men who would become known as America's Founding Fathers rejoined with a quick, powerful, rhetorical and later military response.

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Elizabeth Bennet's pride and prejudice in Jane Austen's novel

One of the great English novelists' most famous works, "Pride and Prejudice," keeps fascinating the reader even today.

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