Some mentionable awards include The American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award in 1990, The Legacy Association National Award in 1996, The Humanitarian Contribution Award in 1997, The Alston/Jones International Civil & Human Rights Award in 1998, The Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature in 1999, The Presidential Medal of Arts 2000, and a Lifetime Membership to the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2002, along with a mass of other medals, awards, and achievements. Harold Bloom, the distinguished professor at Yale University, has included Angelou in his series of study gu...

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The English Literary Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. ... The English Canon acts as a guide for scholars as it provides a diverse range of sophisticated texts that are guaranteed to satisfy and...

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To guide the development of lay ministry, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have written Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord: A Resource for Guiding the Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry, a source that clarifies certain issues and lays the path to ecclesial ministry. ... According to Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord: A Resource for Guiding the Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry, there are four areas of formation. ... So, reading, studying, meditation on Scripture strengthens the identity and the spirituality of a minister. ... Lay ministers engage in th...

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Personally, my method of studying is a little bit different compared to others. Most often I prefer to study alone and during studying alone not because of being alone helps me learn more, the main reason is that much of the students are not good in group studying also I have to say that Pictures and diagrams help a lot. ... In the case of subjects like biology or chemistry performing processes myself helps me learn better and for subjects like English literature or college algebra practicing it on paper definitely helps me more than just reading the formulas. ... As mentioned before taking ...

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Humanism isn't just the study of Literature and Philosophy it also includes many other aspects such as architecture and music. Anything that is studying "classic works" to extend human knowledge is considered Humanist. ... By studying how humanists before them used reason instead of religion to explain things they learned from it. ... This was pretty much a guide to becoming successful. He was studying the rulers of ancient times and by studying what happened to them he wrote an entire book on informing people the correct rules of being in power. ...

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Novels were an important type of literature. A novel is a type of literature that expresses itself in a narrative form. ... Philosophers are people who study philosophies, which could be in naturalism, or other philosophies. ... Those kinds of people who loved to study naturalism in philosophy were called philosophers. ... During his time at Christ's College, Camberidge when he was studying theology he loved to collect plants, insects, and geological specimens, guided by his cousin William Darwin Fox, and entomologist. ...

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The literature works, Falling Leaves, is about Adeline Yen Mah's life. ... Adeline did however have Aunt Ba Ba, whom guided Adeline through her toughest obstacles. ... Adeline applied to University Collage in London to study medicine. ...

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The title of the book was Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner. ... After reading Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, I explored the other types of witchcraft. ... Unfortunately, I have run into this thinking in the majority of my studies. ... The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft. ... Hate Literature: Wicca & Satanism & the Way Out. ...

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Children, if not guided and monitored properly, may experience some adverse effects of watching television. ... To avoid these consequences, children should be carefully monitored and guided while ensuring minimum freedom and choice. ... Present day children are subjected to so much stress as a part of studies in school that a minimum amount of relief and entertainment is not only desirable but also essential for their well-being. ... Programs focussing on arts and literature may prompt children to use their own creativity and discover their own abilities like poetry, painting, music and da...

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He also graduated from Tokyo Imperial University majoring in literature, politics and political economy. ... After graduating college Kano secured a position as a literature instructor (at Peer's school), an exclusive school for children of high born Japanese. ... These principles can be a positive force, useful in guiding behavior, developing spirit, and serving humanity. The study of these principles are called O Judo ( large or major Judo). ...

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Terrorists, for instance, can learn from the Internet a wide variety of details about targets such as transportation facilities, nuclear power plants, public buildings, airports, and ports, and even about counterterrorism measures.They use the Internet to collect intelligence on those targets, especially critical economic nodes, and modern software enables them to study structural weaknesses in facilities as well as predict the cascading failure effect of attacking certain systems. ... A number of websites have included compilations of nuclear weapons information gleaned from literature els...

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And actually we are surrounded by mythology in today's society everywhere, whether you realize it or not: in films, in the names of the cities, in literature, in art, in cultural traditions. ... That's why the beautiful images of the mysterious world of myths and fairy tales were introduced to various forms of art, literature and films. ... The younger generation is not guided by the instructions of elders. ... To answer to my question "Why it is important to study myths", I can quote Joseph Campbell: "Read myths. ...

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Scholars could study and brainstorm the possible meanings and metaphors for years on end; and yet a child can read through it and understand the meaning of almost every word. ... "Through the Looking Glass- would serve as a guide through adolescence, deception and addiction. ... All that is known for a fact is that this is an excellent piece of literature and an introspection into the mind of a would-be addict. ...

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These different sources include an unabridged dictionary, a thesaurus, Concordance to the Bible, Concordance to Shakespeare, Grangers Index to Poetry, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, and the Oxford English Dictionary. ... The last thing that I did research on was a story from The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. ... It all may seem very modern loving in an American style but the study that humans can be influenced by chemical signals may be an impact that goes way beyond its romantic role: love. ...

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These discussions once again delve into the fundamental questions of life and Shakespeare has been able to explore this through Hamlet, creating a moral guide that is still relevant to a contemporary audience. Hamlet is not only a staple in literary studies, but also forces intellectuals to discuss various aspects of life, one of the reasons that Shakespeare's masterpiece is able to resonate its message in today's society. While Hamlet is a revenge tragedy, it separates itself from the typical structure of literature of the day in that the action in the play is delayed for many sce...

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It examines and studies many different fields. ... He received the regular elementary education in literature, music, and gymnastics. Later in his life, he began to study the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists, the speculations of the Ionian philosophers, and the culture of Periclean Athens. ... Socrates appeared as a guide to a better life in all of these people's lives. ...

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Ethical Orientations of State Police Recruits and One-Year Experienced Officers There is significant literature in criminal justice focusing on teaching criminal justice students and criminal justice personnel to analyze professional ethical dilemmas ostensibly with the goal of improving ethical decision-making. ... Like most pro- fessions, the various components of the criminal justice system have established ethical standards to guide professional ethical decisions. ... There were two groups of participants in this study. ... As you can see this study examined the quest...

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Literature, poetry, films, TV movies, and video games are full of violent content. ... The guide of Physciology and it's Practice supports this ides by stating "It's not that the television, movies, music, and games of our culture are necessarily evil in themselves "though in some cases they are "but that our attraction to them can draw us away from the good and the peaceful and push us onto the very threshold of the door to malevolence and death."" ... Many professionals from social scientists to psychologists have been studying what makes adolescents violent. ...

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Plato founded the Academy and came up with a new form of literature, dialogues and speech. ... In his study of physiology he believed that everyone has their own free will. ... During the Hellenistic Period, science were the mathematicians, Alexandrian Euclid created the study of geometry. ... He believed in the good which he guided human behavior. ... Even though their input was probably overlooked, we still study and utilize till this day....

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An ethnocentric curriculum is when the school emphasizes the values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as much as they may have of their own culture, however this is not recognized, hence the pupil is doomed to fail as they may not know or understand the ˜basic' English/British cultu...

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Jessica Suttles INLA 102 Bruce Miracle March 6, 2003 The Miller Imagine leaving to go on a voyage to Canterbury. Traveling down the road to the designated meeting place, you see this short, stocky, extremely unattractive man riding up further along on the path. As you get closer you ask h...

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