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Biological and environmental factors affecting problem-solving ability

Children must find ways to overcome obstacles with toys or with playmates in order to get what they want. Adults must find ways to deal with traffic or commutes to work, workplace issues, and so on.

~2 min read

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Research Paper Graduate 3,774 words

CSCL Tools and Critical Thinking in History Education

Evaluates a 20-week CSCL intervention for Secondary One history students, measuring gains in critical thinking skills and academic performance via pre/post tests.

Education

~19 min read

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The Lizzie Borden trial and 1890s American society

And gave her mother forty whacks. At one point or another, every schoolchild typically hears this small rhyme scheme, whether to accompany a hot-scotch match or as a joke towards the macabre.

~11 min read

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Sounds and awakening in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Kate Chopin's novel the Awakening (1895) is replete with human and other voices, cacophonous sounds, laughter, sobbing, ambient noise, and beautiful music.

~11 min read

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Real differences in how equality is applied across the United States

When it comes to the principle of equality -- which in this time of political change, of ongoing violence perpetrated by Islamic radicalism, and the uncertainty of what climate change will bring to the people of the earth -- it is simply a concept that has appeal in a philosophical context.

~6 min read

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Research Paper Undergraduate 3,973 words

Educational Theory and Philosophy: 1950s Through 1990s

A decade-by-decade survey of American educational theory and philosophy from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing key thinkers, movements, and ideas.

Education

~20 min read

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Research Paper Undergraduate 3,163 words

Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Federal Right to Die

Explores the policy case for federally legalizing physician-assisted suicide, examining social, ethical, economic, legal, and nursing implications.

Health

~16 min read

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Coleman's power-conflict theory and interactionist perspective limitations

Coleman (2006) has done a great service to the community of scholarship by bringing together a number of views of power. He provides summaries of these views in an attempt to formulate a helpful rubric for understanding power-conflict dynamics.

~28 min read

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Language, race, and cultural relativity in Boas and Whorf

If one had to pick a single attribute that defines us as human, our ability to talk to each other must surely be among the top choices. Certainly there is our opposable human thumb and our use of sophisticated tools, and these would also be possible choices.

~19 min read

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Yiddish songs and Jewish-American immigration and assimilation

Yiddish music has helped tell the story of European-Jewish immigrants to the U.S., and Yiddish songs about immigration and assimilation at every stage of the process help to better illuminate the experiences of these Yiddish-speaking immigrants.

~8 min read

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