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  • Reading and Technology

    Reading and Technology

    Reading And Technology Literacy and reading in particular is just one of the aspects in which research has provided evidence of potential impacts of new technologies such as multimedia and hypermedia. Most of the studies address literacy or reading in the early years of schooling. These technologies may be important for older readers also, particularly those that have not experienced success in their school careers already. The purpose of the paper is to determine whether

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    Submitted: December 30, 2008 By: Max
  • A Hole in the Heart

    A Hole in the Heart

    The title is somewhat difficult to understand, but give me a couple of paragraphs and you will understand why I chose this title. The problem I would like to debate today is the threat of global warming. I've research this problem for about two weeks already. Do not get the wrong idea about this statement, I wanted to gather all the information I could to really give my opinion on this problem. First off I

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    Submitted: January 16, 2009 By: Anna
  • Why Read the Books

    Why Read the Books

    It has now become clear that Italo Calvino will prove to be one of this century's major writers. In recent years, his work has been established alongside such pan-European thinkers as Barthes and Eco, particularly in the sense that his interests are polymathic. Calvino is an essayist, a literary theorist, a writer of fiction and, to a large extent, a visionary. Paradoxically, much of the modernity he has explored in his narratives has its roots

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    Essay Length: 542 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Dark Room

    The Dark Room

    The Book: Name: The Dark Room Author: R. K. Narayan Number of Pages: 214 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Date of Publication: January 1981 Classification: Fiction Summary: In the quiet town of Malgudi, in the 1930's, there lived Savitri and her husband, Ramani. They lived with their three children, Babu, Kamala, and Sumati. Savitri was raised with certain traditional values that came into internal conflict when she took Ramani, a modern executive, as her husband.

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Steve
  • Heart Disease Symptoms

    Heart Disease Symptoms

    Heart Disease Symptoms What is your heart telling you? Heart problems can take you by surprise. Suddenly, you are hunched over with chest pressure, pain or even a heart attack. These are frightening symptoms of coronary artery disease (sometimes called atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries). This disease means that your heart is not getting enough blood. The good news is that surgery and basic life style change can give your heart another chance. Warning

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Shakespeare's Comparison of Sonnets 9 and 14 and the Play Macbeth to Show Natural Vs.Unnatural and Light Vs.Darkness”

    Shakespeare's Comparison of Sonnets 9 and 14 and the Play Macbeth to Show Natural Vs.Unnatural and Light Vs.Darkness”

    “SHAKESPEARE’S COMPARISON OF SONNETS 9 AND 14 AND THE PLAY MACBETH TO SHOW NATURAL VS. UNNATURAL AND LIGHT VS. DARKNESS” Two of the most memorable themes that apply well when in context of Macbeth are, “Natural vs. Unnatural.” and “Light vs. Darkness.” these themes are declare during the play Macbeth and Shakespeare’s sonnets, which could have meant many things, In relation to the play and sonnets. This meaning is known to be in the play

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Monika
  • Sight-Reading: Factors That Affect Piano Sight-Reading and Practice Methods

    Sight-Reading: Factors That Affect Piano Sight-Reading and Practice Methods

    Sight-Reading: Factors that Affect Piano Sight-Reading and Practice Methods Introduction The definition of sight-reading is “the ability to read and perform music at first sight, i.e. without preparatory study of the piece” (Apel, 1962, p.679). Lowder (1983) surveyed college faculty members and in-service teachers to find out what they believed were the most important piano skills. The survey found that sight-reading ability was ranked second (“cadence” was first), followed by score-reading, harmonization, and accompaniment. A

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jon
  • Tell Tale Heart Summary

    Tell Tale Heart Summary

    “The Tell-Tale Heart” By: Edgar Allan Poe This story starts off with a man telling you of how nervous he was and still is, then he asks you if you think he’s crazy. He then tells you a story of an old man that he was staying with and how he was always scared of his eye because it looked like a vulture’s eye. He tells you that he then began to plan his murder.

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Organizational Dark Data

    Organizational Dark Data

    How easy is it to manage your organization's content when you don't know where a lot this content is?” The answer is simple, you can not! This is due largely to the fact that many employee's are not knowledgable about the content and/or do not know where to begin to research the content. In the article, Working with Organizational Dark Data, Paul Chin discusses intranet (an internet like network whose scope is restricted to the

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Jon
  • Someone Who Taught Me to Read or Write

    Someone Who Taught Me to Read or Write

    When I was a middle school student, I was not good at reading and writing. Also, I could not concentrate over one hour. So, my mother planned that I went to an academy which teaches reading and writing skills. My mother thought reading and writing were very important to me, because she believed I could be improved in many ways by this academy; she was a professor of literature information at college. When I went

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jack
  • My Journey with Reading and Writing

    My Journey with Reading and Writing

    My Journey With Reading and Writing There have not been many obstacles that have gotten in my way for me to be a successful reader. I am able to confidently read "Hope in the Unseen" because it keeps my interest. I like the story. I feel for Cedric. I imagine and picture the story in my mind. When a large amount of reading is assigned, sometimes my brain gets exhausted and I have to

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Journal Reading Reports

    Journal Reading Reports

    Journal Reading Reports Organizational Communication, BADM6123 Masters of Business Administration May 3, 2005 Crisis communication is one of the most important and neglected components of organizational communication in today’s business world. It is vital that every corporation have contingency plans for emergency situations, both natural and man-made. Studies show that eighty percent of organizations confronted with a major disaster runs out of business within two years.(Hickman & Crandall 1997) Nevertheless, we also know that

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Reading Lolita into Tehran

    Reading Lolita into Tehran

    Azar Nafisi uses the power of western literature to illustrate to her seven women students the importance of connecting books to fictional imagination. She wanted to challenge her students to discuss "the relation between fiction and reality." (Pg 6) Women in Tehran, when the Iranian revolution began, had little or no freedoms out of their houses. Nafisi took an enormous risk by inviting these seven women into her house to discuss literature. If caught she

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: July
  • Dark Child

    Dark Child

    In modern days, adults or children, they are leading very busy life according to their tight schedules. Of course, it's a good to be an excellent person as a result. However, we need to look inside the life of each person. This book, “The dark child” by Camara Laye, is an autobiographical story about one boy who sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. Reading the “The Dark Child”, I sincerely felt

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jon
  • Working with Organizational Dark Data

    Working with Organizational Dark Data

    Working with Organizational Dark Data By: Paul Chin Source: Intranet Journal 7/7/05 “How easy is it to manage your organization's content when you don't know where a lot this content is?” The answer is simple, you can not! This is due largely to the fact that many employees are not knowledgeable about the content and/or does not know where to begin to research the content. In the article, Working with Organizational Dark Data, Paul Chin

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Edward
  • Gretel in Darkness

    Gretel in Darkness

    While comparing the two poems, “Gretel in Darkness” by Louise Gluck and “Hansel and Gretel” by Anne Sexton with the original Brothers Grimm tale “Hansel and Gretel”, different perspectives, point of views and messages are shown. In “Gretel in Darkness” Gretel is reciting the poem. It is written in the first person. In this poem Gretel is overcome with certain darkness in her life. Something is haunting her from the past. Gretel describes an experience

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: July
  • Central Role of Love in Moliere's Tartuffe, Voltaire's Candide, and Flaubert's “a Simple Heart”

    Central Role of Love in Moliere's Tartuffe, Voltaire's Candide, and Flaubert's “a Simple Heart”

    The correlation between literature and love is not minor. Discussions about love are timeless that have survived mankind throughout many centuries. To this day, many people do not fully understand the depths of love. According to Wikipedia, Love is a major theme in many scriptures, tales from mythology, and literature. It is described as being interpersonal, impersonal, and religious interpretation. The central role of love is in many works that we’ve read so far. It

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Steve
  • Heart and Breathing Rate M/f Before and After Exercise

    Heart and Breathing Rate M/f Before and After Exercise

    Science: Abstract: This investigation is to show the raspatory and circulatory systems in deeper meaning. It also explains the reasons for why breathing and heart rate becomes higher during physical activity, and if there are any differences between female and males. This experiment shows the biological principles, and how to record and produce data of a quality standard. Introduction: Air goes into the alveoli when we breathe in. This lets the veins around the alveoli

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Dark Side of Relationships

    The Dark Side of Relationships

    Why do women stay with men who beat and rape them? Why don't they leave? Why do they remain in abusive relationships even as the violence escalates? Most women have at least one dependent who must be taken care of, many are not employed, their parents are either distant or unable or unwilling to help. She may lack the access to cash; she or the children may be in poor health, may face a decline

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Steve
  • Various Ekg Readings

    Various Ekg Readings

    Lab essay # 5 There are several different heart problems that show up as an abnormal EKG reading. For example, a heart block can occur when there is a delay in the signals coming from the SA node, AV node, or the Purkinje fibers. However, clinically the term heart block is used to refer to an AV block. This delays or completely stops communication between the atria and the ventricles. AV block is shown on

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Hearts and Catacombs

    Hearts and Catacombs

    Edgar Allen Poe wrote two amazing short stories featuring crazed men killing other men; these are “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” There are many aspects of each story that can be compared and contrasted to the other, including the personalities of the murderers and of the victims, the motives behind each murder, and the symbolism hidden throughout each. The personalities of the murderers seem to be quite different, one man is seen

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Summer Reading: Flatland

    Summer Reading: Flatland

    Summer Reading: Flatland I’ve never experienced much thought about the dim mentions until I read the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. He transformed my thoughts and made me sink down to the level of the narrator, ‘A Square’, and see his world from his angle. This book tells the journey of a being in his two-dimensional world and his travels below and above his dimensions. The narrator describes his flat universe, as it appears

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Vika
  • Compare and Contrast “genesis” and “penetrating to the Heart of the Forest”,

    Compare and Contrast “genesis” and “penetrating to the Heart of the Forest”,

    Topic # 3 Compare and Contrast “Genesis” and “Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest”, Looking at both myth and short story. Although there are many similarities present, a distinct difference is made between “Genesis” and "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" in that “Genesis” is a mythical narrative while "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" is an adaptation of a mythic story (Adam and Eve) in the form of a short

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Does Caffeine Affect the Heart Rate of Daphnia

    Does Caffeine Affect the Heart Rate of Daphnia

    Does caffeine affect the heart rate of Daphnia? Introduction In this experiment I aim to find out if caffeine has an affect on heart rate. Instead of using human subject, whom may already have a high tolerance to caffeine or could have ingested caffeine that day making the tests unfair, I will use Daphnia, a crustacean. They have on contact with caffeine making it fair. It will be easier to observe as it has a

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Janna
  • A Dark Revenge

    A Dark Revenge

    The story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a narrator who tells us the about the revenge he did to “friend” of his. The story mainly takes place in the dark catacombs. The same place the story not only ends, but also the life of Fortunato. The setting of the story adds horror, and suspense to an already dark plan of revenge. The time and place the story starts is very

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Kevin

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