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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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Blair Ruble and Michael James on urban migration and multiculturalism

Melange Cities, Blair a Ruble. The Wilson Quarterly; Summer 2006; 30, 3; Academic Research Library.

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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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Theoretical causes and effects of global warming

It has been almost impossible in the past decade to avoid media mention of the issue of global warming.

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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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City diplomacy and the role of cities in international politics

Over the past several decades, there has been a tendency for cities to be involved internationally and this is stated to demonstrate that demonstrates that the maintenance of international relations is no longer exclusively the domain of national governments.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

The writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., are not as well-known to the public as his impassioned, widely publicized advocacy speeches and his Gandhi-like non-violent demonstrations that blazed trails for civil rights in the U.S.

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