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  • Tangerine

    Tangerine

    I read the book Tangerine, by Edward Bloor. It was a fictional book, and it took place in a modern-day setting. Many characters and events from the book can be symbolized by objects in a book box. The main character in Tangerine was Paul Fisher. Paul happened to be the dynamic character as well. Paul is represented in my book box by thick glasses and a diary. One major plotline of the book dealt with

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Tangerine

    Tangerine

    In the fictional town Tangerine in Tangerine County, Florida, lightning strikes almost every afternoon during the summer. Lighting striking a field of lignite is the cause of muck fires. For the residents, it's nothing different than usual. 12-year-old Paul Fisher, who plays soccer despite a mysterious eye injury believed to have been caused by viewing an eclipse for too long has recently moved to Florida after his father takes a job in civil engineering. However,

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    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Max
  • Taoism

    Taoism

    Tao Te Ching Taoism applied to everyday life Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place (Chapter 3). In Taoism this is the concept known as wu wei. Wei wu wei is the practice of doing and not-doing. This concept comes from the theory of the Yin and Yang. The Yang, along with wei, is the practice of doing. The Yin, along with wu wei, is the practice of not-doing. One compliments the other, and

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Victor
  • Tape Worms

    Tape Worms

    Hobbit The book I did my book report on was The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote it. I thought that the novel was one of the best novels I have read. Bilbo Baggins is the main character. He is a hobbit. Thorin is the most important dwarf. His father was the king of Lonely Mountain. Gandalf is the great wizard who helped organize the adventure. Beorn is a large man who can change shapes into other

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: regina
  • Tartuffe

    Tartuffe

    Aliya Hussaini June 5, 2006 History 1b Prof. Norberg TA: Latimer Tartuffe In his most notorious play Tartuffe, Moliиre relates the story of an attempt, by a manipulative hypocrite, to destroy the domestic happiness of a citizen who, charmed by his seeming piety, has taken him into his home as a respectable guest. The play was disallowed after its first performance because it was deemed anti-religion. However this ruling was made unfairly since true religion

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Taste and Other Tales by Roald Dahl

    Taste and Other Tales by Roald Dahl

    Taste and other tales by Roald Dahl This is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. I have chosen to tell about my three favourites. The first one is Taste. It is about two men who both claim to be good wine connoisseurs, and they have an old habit of placing bets about who knows which wine is being served. On this occasion, their stakes have gone out of hand and one has bet

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    Submitted: June 2, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Teaching 2nd Grade

    Teaching 2nd Grade

    I am a second grade teacher at Timber Point Elementary School in East Islip. I enrolled in the year-long Suffolk County Reading Council to enhance my literacy expertise in reading and writing topics. There were a plethora of wonderful authors and topics presented, not to mention many activities and ideas I could introduce into my classroom. This experience has already sparked me to work on lessons over the summer that will help my students become

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: David
  • Teaching as a Career

    Teaching as a Career

    Teaching is an important and increasingly popular choice of career for all kinds of people. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a teacher. Teaching is the greatest career ever. It is very satisfying and tricky at the same time. I think that it is a once in a million time life chance to get teaching as a career. In order to be a teacher you need special skills and special awards

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    Essay Length: 320 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Vika
  • Teaching as an Amusing Activity

    Teaching as an Amusing Activity

    The Entertainment in Education In Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death, he discusses the impact that television has on the American culture. Postman talks about how much the American culture hands itself over to the television and he show the ways that it is being done He shows the impact that television has on the written word, education, and the youth in America. Postman explains how the way teaching has changed to make

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Max
  • Teaching for Competency

    Teaching for Competency

    , Summer 2 Term Book Review on Teaching for Competence For my book review I chose Teaching for Competence by Norman Higgins and Howard Sullivan. The authors feel that teachers and students will teach and learn more effectively by using C.B.I. or Competency based instruction. When using the C.B.I. approach teachers will clearly state to students the defined objectives, give effective types of instruction, and lastly teachers will assess the students. When preparing your

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Yan
  • Team Communication

    Team Communication

    Team Communication Charles Waxter University of Phoenix Gen 300 Olivia Miller February 26, 2007 Team Communication This paper outlines what positive and negative communication can lead to, plus things that may contribute to conflict. The bottom line is that some aspect of positive and negative communication is essential for good teams and is unavoidable. As a leader, you must determine how to deal with this situation. Our ability at any time in anyplace with anyone

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: July
  • Team Dynamics

    Team Dynamics

    While it is important to recognize your weaknesses, what you are not good at doing; it is far more effective to focus on your strengths, what you do more naturally and excellently. Businesses and organizations will have outstanding results when each individual's strengths are recognized and roles assigned based on their talents and not only their knowledge and skill. Connect with your willingness to identify your own strengths and/ or your team members' strengths and

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Victor
  • Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution in Work Teams

    Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution in Work Teams

    Within effective working teams conflict always seems to happen. There are many types of conflicts that exist, such as emotional conflict. This is what physiologists refer to as an A-type conflict. Emotional conflict is someone that takes criticism personally, or is always on the defensive. ... Other types of conflict exist within working teams, and team members must be able to identify these personalities. ... These are the individuals who add constructive criticism and stimulation

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Top
  • Tears of a Tiger

    Tears of a Tiger

    Plot Tears of a tiger is about four high school boys Robbie, Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. They just had an important basketball game. They decided to get together and go celebrate their victory. They start drinking, expect for B.J who has never drunk in his life. They were in a car Andy the main character is driving with Robbie his best friend and captain of the Hazelwood Basketball Team in the passenger seat, and

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Tears of a Tiger

    Tears of a Tiger

    Overall the book was very good. It relates to a topic that is very real to me and to my classmates. The one thing that I disliked throughout the entire book was the way that these kids talked. You could tell that a teacher wrote this book because she tried to replicate the speech of her students. However, she fell short in her attempt. The language that this story used, such as "live game man,"

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Tears of a Tiger

    Tears of a Tiger

    Tears of a Tiger After a basketball game, four kids, Andrew Jackson, Tyrone Mills, Robert Washington and B.J. Carson, celebrate a win by going out drinking and driving. Andrew lost control of his car and crashed into a retaining wall on I-75. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped from the four-door Chevy right after the accident. Teen basketball star and Hazelwood high team captain was sitting in the passenger’s side with his feet on the dashboard.

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    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: Victor
  • Tears of a Tiger

    Tears of a Tiger

    Tears of a Tiger By Sharon Draper 192 Pages This book deals the issues that can or already influence every teenager in America. It addresses the issues of peer pressure, sorrow, death, friendship, teen drinking, guilt and teen suicide. Various youth have said “That won’t happen to me” or “I can handle my alcohol” or “I am ok to drive, I just had a few!” As teenagers, you have countless ideas and myths about drinking

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    Submitted: June 13, 2010 By: Monika
  • Techniques of Feliks Skrzynecki Poem

    Techniques of Feliks Skrzynecki Poem

    Feliks Skrzynecki Stanza 1: • Attribute to Felik’s dignity and stoicism in the face of loss and hardship. • Personal/Possessive pronoun “my”-final relationship • “Gentle”-tender adjective • (warm feelings, loving affection) • ‘Kept pace only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making’ • Colloquialism • Alliteration of ‘M’-‘Mind’s making’ (Has his own values, individual-sets his own standards) • Initial picture of a man detached from the world that surrounds him-shows immigrant isolation but also

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    Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Technolgy

    Technolgy

    Year 2004 Q. No. 1 Mr. Ramlal the general manager of Y ltd. Retired on December 31,2003 after 30 years of service. The particulars of his income are as follows: (a) Salary Rs. 8,000 per month from January 1, 2003. House rent allowance Rs. 3,000 per month from January 1, 2003. (b) Medical expenses reimbursed by the employer Rs. 21,000 for the period from April 1, 2003 which includes Rs. 5,000 paid to a

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    Submitted: April 23, 2011 By: pankaj.v.54
  • Technology - Ray Bradbury

    Technology - Ray Bradbury

    PLEASE READ AND REWORD WHAT YOU FIND OUT OF PLACE THIS WAS WRITTEN IT A QUICK MANNER Technology is becoming increasingly popular; we are forced to confront it everyday. Ray Bradbury has noticed this trend of people becoming more and more dependent on technology; after all we use the television, computers, and even automobiles everyday. In the pedestrian Ray Bradbury has used insect images in The Pedestrian that suggests that with the increasing number of

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    Submitted: May 20, 2010 By: Vika
  • Teen Alcoholism: Problems for America’s Youth

    Teen Alcoholism: Problems for America’s Youth

    Teen Alcoholism: Problems for America’s Youth “In 1991, a study by the United States Surgeon General’s office stated that 8 million out of the 20.7 million young people in grades 7 through 12 drank alcoholic beverages every week. It went on to say that 454,000 of those youngsters reported weekly binges (Claypool 21).” In the United States and all over the world underage teens are drinking, and it may be because they just don’t know

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Teen Drinking

    Teen Drinking

    The average American begins drinking at 15 years old, despite the fact that the legal drinking age in the United States is 21 years old. Underage alcohol use is more likely to kill young people than all illicit drugs combined. I believe that raising the drinking age to 25 years old can save many young lives. Affects of Adolescent Drinking Adolescent drinking affects a child’s mind, body and future. Adolescence is the between childhood and

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Edward
  • Teenage Alcoholism

    Teenage Alcoholism

    Socraric Method The Socratic Method of philosophy is basically a series of question leading to an answer. In order for this method to work though, two conditions must be met. The first one is that the interlocutor has to say what he believes. The second is that the answers must be kept short. Here is a classic example of how this method works. It is a dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro. The thesis is “What

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Edward
  • Teens Drug Use

    Teens Drug Use

    Teen drug use is on the rise in the 90's. But one of the most popular drugs is marijuana beacause it is so easy to get and usually cheap. But there are many other kinds of drugs, you got PCP, LSD, Hash, and many others that come from the same plant but all of them are hazardous to your body and your health. Most people use the drugs just to forget about everything, but they

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Telecommunication - Global Communications

    Telecommunication - Global Communications

    Problem Solution: Global Communications “Communication refers to the process by which information is transmitted and understood between two or more people. Communication supports work coordination, employee well-being, knowledge management, and decision making,” (McShane & Glinow, 2005, p. 31). Effective communication is faced with multiple problems in today’s highly developed society. Technology is allowing our workforce to correspond by electronic mail (email) and instant messaging (IM); therefore, face to face contact is diminishing. Furthermore, technology permits

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Victor
  • Telemakhos’s Personal Odyssey

    Telemakhos’s Personal Odyssey

    Telemakhos’ Personal Odyssey A primary example of personal and emotional growth through a remarkable event is apparent in one of Homer’s most famous novels, The Odyssey. The Odyssey is reveals a series of great adventures that crosses upon Odysseus’ path as he returns home from the Trojan War. Although The Odyssey, was named for the great warrior, Odysseus it cannot be solely regarded as the experience of one person. It is mainly Odysseus’ son, Telemakhos

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Television Production

    Television Production

    ABSTRACT Television has been an excellent medium for entertainment and information ever since the invention of the electron scanning tube in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who is considered the father of the modern television. With the conversion to digital format 1080i in 1998, there has been a boom in the production of different types and technologies for Televisions. A new generation of televisions has been developed, including liquid crystal display (LCD), rear projection, and

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Tell Me I’m Here

    Tell Me I’m Here

    Chapter: The search for a cure chapter four. Issue: The cause of mental illness. Initial statement: Throughout the novel there are many different views on the causes of mental illness, some believe it is the mothers fault for overprotecting her child while others believe it is a very unfortunate medical condition that people suffer from. In this part of the novel we meet Jacqui who has a centre in India called Athma Shakti. She

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    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Tell Tale Heart and the Black Cat

    Tell Tale Heart and the Black Cat

    Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The two short stories that I have chosen by Edgar Allan Poe are The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. These two stories in particular have many things in common as far as technique goes, but they do have some significant differences between the two. In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the readers attention

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • Tell-Tale Heart

    Tell-Tale Heart

    The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is a short story that dives into the mind of an insane man. The story only features five characters. There is an old man with a blue eye, the crazed killer, and three police. The story is narrated by the nameless murderer. It is his attempt to justify his behavior and to prove to the reader that he is not crazy. As the story goes on you come

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    Essay Length: 1,169 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Anna
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