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School facilities quality, climate, and student achievement in Virginia middle schools

"The Walls Speak: The Interplay of Quality Facilities, School Climate, and Student Achievement" states that entering into recently public discourse is "the condition of our nation's schools." (nd) This work relates that a "growing body of literature...provides evidence to a link between school…

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John Locke's theories on social contract and natural rights

One of the single most influential characters in the history of nation building is John Locke.

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Political media bias in American democracy and news coverage

Knowledge is rarely neutral, often consciously shaped by these special interests and then unconsciously imbibed from our earliest childhood experiences as cultural "normality." More ominously, manipulation, misinformation, and deception are inescapably entwined with one's belief in the "truth."…

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Moral hypocrisy and female rebellion in Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary was a major shock to the reading public in the nineteenth century, leading to charges of obscenity and a court case on the issue.

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GIS/ArcView maps and problem-based learning in education

You may have a map in which every feature that can be named, every hill, brook, crossroads, is crowded in; in the effort to show the reader the lay of the land, the shape of the mountain systems, the relations of drainage, relief, communications, and so on.

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Napoleon's Napoleonic tactics in Robert E. Lee's Civil War strategy

Robert E. Lee, in his attempt to use Napoleonic war strategy, made many of the mistakes that Napoleon made and came to defeat and victory in much the same manner as did Napoleon.

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Obesity and childhood obesity's impact on military recruitment and readiness

The issue of Obesity in America has been a serious concern in recent years. In addition to healthcare, the issue of obesity affects many different aspects of our society, including military readiness.

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Reliability and validity concerns in forensic bite-mark identification evidence

Odontology has been historically used or indeed, one might say misused within the framework of the judicial system to sway juries against factual evidence and to gain a conviction because the jury fails to understand or cannot understand how evidence can be molded purposely away from the truth or…

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Leadership characteristics and power dynamics in academic institutions

To define leadership, we first have to understand that leadership is relative i.e. everyone has a different approach to define what is good leadership. There are some who try to differentiate between the tasks and approaches of an individual in terms of being a good leader or a good manager.

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Homelessness's impact on child development and educational disruption

In their study, www.eric.ed.gov:80/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=ERICSearchResult&_urlType=action&newSearch=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=au&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=%22Johnson+Regina+Jones%22Johnson,…

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