Remember the days when doing research meant going to the library and poring through a stack of books to find the information you needed? ... The college's history department voted to bar students from citing Wikipedia as a source in papers or other academic submissions. ... The decision came on the tails of several students incorporating the same misinformation into their papers, all cited as being taken from Wikipedia. ... Additionally, it is generally a good research practice to cite an original source when writing a paper or completing an exam. It's usually not advisable, part...

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According to Moghadam (as cited in Bacchus, 2003) globalization has become one of the recurring themes in 21st century, which affected to the various dimensions of life: economy, capital mobilization, and political views. ... According to Neumayer and de Soysa (as cited in Cho, 2012) globalization has positively affected women, however these authors focusing only on economic integration. ... Rosenau claims that (as cited in Cho, 2012) people in a socially globalized countries are respectful to each other's thoughts and show high level of correlation. ... Even in developed countries where...

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In this regard, he cites the case of Saul, where Saul runs into a company of prophets playing a tabret, a pipe, and a harp. ... He claims that the first four books by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John don't even provide a history of Christ, but only detached anecdotes of him. It appears from these books, that the whole time of his being a preacher was not more than eighteen months; and it was only during this short time that those men became acquainted with him. ... In an interesting twist on Paine's argument utilizing Aristotle's ideal on poetics, Paine claims that the imagery in t...

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However there are those who wish to see it banished to the history books. ... Those who wish to see alcohol banned from sale cite it as the cause for violence and other crimes like rape. ... However although I am opposed to the banning of alcohol in our societies down to the reasons cited, I am aware that some sections of population have equally strong arguments for it to be removed from human consumption. ...

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Susan cites film from the first mermaid on film all the way the movie The Little Mermaid, to build on their symbolism. ... She has cited tons of sources throughout her text and also in the end of her article she ha bibliography fifty-four books and articles long. When looking further at the bibliography it is realized that this does not include the extensive number of films she cites along the way. ... Although I may not agree with all of her points, my counter argument would just be one persons mar opinion against her arsenal of history, books, film, and psychologists....

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The scientific perspective was not the only perspective to be considered by the authors of this article, educational perspectives were also cited. ... I was able to look up the cited authors and their publications to see if their work was peer reviewed or belonged to published books. ... Identification and Analysis of Key Practitioners There were no cited key practitioners mentioned in this article because emotional intelligence is not a defined discipline. ... One of the key practitioners to take note of is Joseph Zins who has written books and produced many articles related to emotional...

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Further cited, "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation", (US Constitution, Amendment 13, Section 2). ... Historians cite various reasons for the 13tha amendment, some say it was Lincoln's understanding and belief that slavery was wrong. Other Historians cite that Lincoln had no choice but to free the slaves in hoes of African American men joining the losing forces of the North during the civil war. ... Clearly, this memorandum cited Nixon's goal to eliminate the quota system initiated in 1969. ... Labor trend analyzers cite that women of all raci...

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(Law Reform Commission of Victoria 1991, p119, cited in Stuart 1992, p97). ... A phone-in survey conducted by the Real Rape Law Coalition (1991b, cited Stuart, 1993, p97) quoted one complainant as stating: " He threatened to kill me if I told anyone about the assault. ... According to Anna Clark, (1987, cited Smart, 1989, p41) consent was not a matter of a woman's will, or whether she resisted or not. ... The comments by Judge Bland (1993, cited Rathus 1994, p32) only serve to reinforce how crucial it is for a clear concise definition of consent. ... Kathy Mack (1998) cites the "Corrob...

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The text has an extensive bibliography citing such writings as The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953; New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest, Henry, Alexander, Francis P. ... He illustrated many well-known books among them are "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson and "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford. Carl Burger did not begin to write books until he was 72 years old, and with the last illustration completed just days before his death, this book was not published until a year after his death. ...

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The move to only drop the general prohibition of books offering the notion of heliocentrism from the Index of Forbidden Books occurred about a century later in the year 1758. ... In February of 1990, Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) delivered a speech at the Sapienza University of Rome where he cited some of the current perspectives concerning the Galileo affair as forming what he called "a symptomatic case that permits us to see how deep the self-doubt of the modern age, of science and technology goes today....

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Books one through nine chronicles his life, in which he describes episodes of his life where he can find parallels to the Old Testament and other parts of his life that exhibit god's grace. ... The last two books are a study of scripture where he concentrates heavily on Genesis and the methods of god's creation of the earth. ... He makes many claims in his book that back this up including citing instances of power in nature like the Sun, the "the mighty waves of the see", the mountains, amongst many other observations in nature. ...

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Besides publishing over 200 scientific articles and reviews, she translated Wundt's Ethical Systems in 1897, and wrote two books: The Animal Mind, 1908; and Movement and Mental Imagery, 1916 (Hergenhahn 2001 p.328). ... Among her years at Vassar she was a well-liked professor, students commenting, "Miss Washburn's lectures were brilliant, exact, clear, with such a wealth of references and citing of original sources as almost to overwhelm a student...I recall wishing that the course in social psychology would never end, both because of the absorbing fascination of the material, and be...

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In this study, I collected and analyzed 13 articles on the Internet, journals as well as books. ... The rest came from books written by worldwide famous authors in my research field such as Nelson Brooks, Claire Kramsch... ... Ellis (1982) was cited as indicating that the former can be gained directly through approaches of formal communication and gradually through those of informal communication. ... Then, ELT course books, with target culture given a major priority, as Gray (2000) suggested, "possibly have an alienating effect on learners who are unwilling to be culturally assimilated; ...

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An evaluation of data, found within numerous articles and two books concentrating on the issue of phonics versus whole language instruction, indicates that providing instruction in both whole language and phonics is the most effective way to teach elementary school students to read. ... The first instructors of English reading were priests who taught children to read by first introducing the alphabet, then the syllables that form words, and finally, the Primer, or Prayerbook (Davis, 1973, cited in Hempenstall). ... The phonic technique ruled supreme in the Unite...

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Robert K. Merton has contributed some of the most influential theories on the issue of deviance. Unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of our time, Merton has also made numerous contributions to the field of criminology. Merton's influence has also been felt by historians of science,...

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For youths and college students, a poll showed that 76% of young Arab Americans of traditional college age, 18 to 29 years, have experienced personal discrimination (cited in Shammas, 2009). Abu El-Haj (2007) reports that several Muslim veiled female students were harassed in their neighborhood school, being told by their teachers that they "look like a disgrace in that thing," while some were threatened with disciplinary sanctions if they did not remove their scarves (cited in Bonet, 2011). ... According to all the holy books of all the main religions of today's world, killing ...

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The books he has written, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have helped to influence presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. ... He cites William Jennings Bryan's 1896 critique of supply-side economics: "There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. ... Among other things, he cites ''financialization,'' a preoccupation with success in ''finance, technology and services'...

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The A & B cycles that Frank cites in ReOrient are from an early book that he wrote and a theory that he developed in earlier works. ... Frank references approximately 335 different authors and in several cases many books from the same author as sources of information in ReOrient. ... Reorient presents us with overwhelming amounts of evidence that Frank cites throughout the book in an attempt to prove his point about the development of the world economy. ...

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The teacher then launches the student on an individually tailored program through a series of books that are graded for difficulty. In each session, the child reads several books, beginning with one that is already familiar. ... These books provide natural language rather than a controlled vocabulary. These books also offer the child a chance to gain experience in fluent reading; (2) Independent reading of the previous days book from which the teachers does a running record or miscue analysis of the student's reading performance. ... There are approximately two thousand books that ar...

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Having defined cooperative learning in relation to other learning modes, this essay will now discuss the often-cited advantages of cooperative learning, as well as the less well-known disadvantages. ... For those in the present study, exposure to cooperative learning in books or journals was not associated with relative use of cooperative learning toward a preferred level. The gap was similar regardless of whether the teachers were exposed to cooperative learning in books or journals. ...

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According to an article by Danielle Dorky, as a writer, Maya Angelou acquired her inspiration from different authors who had written books and poems, which she used to read from her childhood (1). ... In most of her interviews, Angelou constantly cited Edgar as one of the first writers who acquired her attention since childhood. ... Angelou also cited Ann Spencer, a former teacher among her inspiring writers (Danielle Dorky). ...

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The appellant Roth ran a business, based in New York, which published and sold books, photographs and magazines. ... Similarly, the appellant Alberts, ran a mail-order business based in Los Angeles and was charged with "lewdly keeping for sale obscene and indecent books, and with writing, composing and publishing an obscene advertisement of them"#. ...

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It is censorship if books are seized and burned; it is not censorship if books are tossed into the trash because their authors mock the liberty that made the books possible. ... Although the auditorium had been rented for a wide variety of expressive activities prior to Southeastern's application, Chattanooga city officials refused Southeastern's request, citing Hair's nudity, tacit approval or drug use, sexual themes, and bad language. ...

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Maimonides taught that the Messiah would come again, the 12th principle affirms this teaching and further cites that the Messiah will come into the world as a human and as a Son of David " will prevail upon Israel to walk to way of the Torah and to repair its breaches" (Maimonides). ... The 13 principles of faith have now been included in Jewish prayer books (Siddur) and is the basis for many Creedal statement. ...

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Ashley Jones Response Paper: Moral Dilemmas Rel. 110-0007 In the situation of an instructor of religion traveling at a rate of sixty-five miles per hour in a fifty-five miles per hour zone, killing an opossum, there are ethical and religious dilemmas. In the religions of Jainism and Buddhism, th...

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