Small World Problem Is the world really that small that we are connected to everybody through six intermediate chains? ... The small world problem is a reoccurring theme in people's everyday conversations. ... We picked up one of her friends, then we headed over to her brother's place and it ends up being the guys I had met a couple of weeks ago. ... This experiment of finding contacts through web mails can give you an idea of how small the world really is, but it might be even smaller than it appears. ... If everyone was aware of the small world problem, it is possible that...

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The people responsible for showing one their place in the world are called "significant others." ... It is more of a fine tuning of one's place in the world. ... I decided that if I learned at least a small amount of everything, then I could make an educated decision about my future. ... Mother Theresa once said, "You cannot do great things, only small things with great love." To me, bettering yourself to be able to contribute more to the society in which you exist is doing small things with great love. ...

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The people responsible for showing one their place in the world are called "significant others." ... It is more of a fine tuning of one's place in the world. ... I decided that if I learned at least a small amount of everything, then I could make an educated decision about my future. ... Mother Theresa once said, "You cannot do great things, only small things with great love." To me, bettering yourself to be able to contribute more to the society in which you exist is doing small things with great love. ...

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The people responsible for showing one their place in the world are called "significant others." ... It is more of a fine tuning of one's place in the world. ... I decided that if I learned at least a small amount of everything, then I could make an educated decision about my future. ... Mother Theresa once said, "You cannot do great things, only small things with great love." To me, bettering yourself to be able to contribute more to the society in which you exist is doing small things with great love. ...

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Yet for all our vaunted achievements we have made very little progress in understanding ourselves, our place in the universe, where we are heading as a species, the nature of our souls, whether or not we have souls, etc. ... It is my assertion that though they are well intentioned, Blooms' goals are much too small to have any permanent effect. ... "Most students-, says Bloom "will be content with what our present considers relevant; others will have a spirit of enthusiasm that subsides as family and ambition provide them with other objects of interest; a small number will spend their live...

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And I just figured that since this school was so small it would not care about track but I think I have seen more people at track meets than at football games. ... I kind of felt out of place but I kept warming up and got ready to throw. ... I ended up throwing really well and got tenth place at the state meet. ... I was ranked fifth going into the state meet and luckily I still go fifth place. ... I was not really expecting a small college to have such a passion for track and field but that makes me feel really good because I love track and field. ...

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This small percentage mainly consisted of children from upper and middle socio economic background. ... Civil Rights Act of 1964 followed by the Higher Education Act of 1960's facilitated increase in number of students who proceeded to college after secondary school by more than half by putting into place the necessary legislations (Kimball and Bruce 89).The 1990's saw the increase in financial aid to students inform of tuition discounting and this enabled more students to access highly competitive courses at the university. ... Much of this increase is attributed to public and commu...

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It is believed that the term "charter" originated in the 1970s when New England educator Ray Budde suggested that small groups of teachers be given contracts or "charters" by their local school boards to explore new approaches. ... In a class of a larger size, many may not notice, but in a smaller school, that opinion is definitely relevant and should be considered when arrangements are being made. In some cases, such as that of Crete-Monee School District, the students at the alternative students are to complete workbooks in place of a credit or class. ... Understanding them will not decre...

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Utopia: A Wonderful Place A utopia is defined as a vision of an ideal place. My utopia is not a "perfect place," by that I mean it's not a land where everything is perfect and nothing goes wrong. ... This seems like a small detail, but small details put together make big chaos. ...

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It's definitely not the most cheery place in town. A small comparison was then made. The author tells us of how women were hurt in previous years because society told them that there place was in the home. ... How many people are robbed of their dreams and talents because they are told that college is the best place for them? ... College has become a place of escape rather than learning. ...

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I received my first job as a secretary and bookkeeper for a small company in Stover, Missouri, to where I then moved. ... The company, for whom I worked, was family-owned; therefore there was no place for advancement within that company and I began searching for another place of employment. ... I did my job well, as I have always done in any place I have worked. ... As my children are now teenagers, I have found that working full-time in my place of employment was affecting my family life. ... I am able to apply new learning skills into something I can relate to or actually apply those skills ...

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According to Jonathon Fast, Ph.D (2008), the types of shootings that take place in a school setting should actually be labeled as "school rampage shootings." ... According to Fast (2008), this specific type of violence is especially devastating because they "throw people's lives out of kilter and convince them that the world is a menacing place. ... Like the aforementioned book, this article discusses a fairly newly implemented resource whose main purpose is to keep violence out of the school system in the first place. ... Cornell and Scheithauer (2011) state that the ultimate goal of th...

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The foundation of the modern Japanese educational system was set during the many reforms that took place during the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and was again reformed after Allied Occupation in 1947. ... By the end of the Tokugawa period in the mid-nineteenth century there was a literacy rate of 50 percent for boys and about 20 for girls even though only a small percentage of the population is said to have attended school before the reformation took place (Cleaver 205). ... When the Meiji Restoration took place in 1868 the Japanese school system was reformed and in 1872 a new educational syste...

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It is supposedly the safest place our kids can go. ... While most of America was shocked that such a thing could ever happen in our schools, a small segment of kids suddenly found a pair of martyrs. ... And junior high and high-school are such a small portion of experience to go on, but by the time you graduate it's been the last third of your entire life. ...

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Parents can plan special trips to follow up on many different areas that you have been studying, where there are many things have to be taken care of before a public classroom can take a field trip and take a lot of preplanning and extra funds to be able to take advantage of this educational resource, where if parents who were home schooling could make changes in their schedules to benefit from new places and exhibits that follow up on the educational activities they have been working on. ... Since the child teacher ratio would be smaller in a home schooling situation than in a public school t...

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The world is a lonely place without the ability to communicate. ... From leading small group discussions to performing before packed audiences of over 200,000 on mission trips, I have gone from fearing the possibility of being misunderstood to embracing new challenges before me. ... The world is a lonely place without the ability to communicate. ... The world can be a lonely place without a voice. ...

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This is where the tools are applied, and a more specialized kind of learning takes place. ... For example, a small town farm community with around 200 students in attendance may not have the materials (textbooks, learning tools, and computers), educational staff, and resources as a large private school. ... While on the other hand, women prefer small groups, support of friends in debates, personal teachers, and female teachers over male teachers. ...

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On the other hand, those with a small net worth lack the money needed to up their total income. ... This data supports the idea that the big earners continue to accumulate wealth, while the smaller earners see slim amounts of income growth. ... These high college costs shut the lower class out form the opportunity to earn a college degree, and are therefore places them at a disadvantage in terms of employment. ...

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At this point I began writing on everything in my sight, copying words onto walls, scraping my fingers along the sides of the small piece of chalk left on the driveway, and using my finger as a pencil for writing on my moms dirty car. ... I carried a small, handheld notebook with me wherever I went. ... One can only imagine the places that the author creates in his own mind when writing his novels in the depths of his most inner thought. ...

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​Littleton, Colorado, like every other small town in America, awoke April 20th, 1999 to what seemed to be a normal day with everyone going about their business as they have countless times before. ... The Columbine incident will be the biggest school shooting until the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 but the attack holds a special place in the minds of Americans. ... The ever present bullying by the jocks on those they deemed inferior created a situation that pitted a ruling class against smaller, weaker ones (Tonso, 394). ... The issue of gun control was reopened with one side saying that m...

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The educational system requires competent strategies that incorporate emerging trends to facilitate success. Leadership and diversity are some of the factors that should be incorporated in the school system. A set of standards in the rapidly changing school environment can be useful in guiding the administrators' objectives. The standards play a major role in reforming an underperforming school, and improve the overall performance of both teachers and students. The school should have a vision that enables the members to work towards achieving the set goals. ...

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This is not much different in the U.S except for one small side note, if you are going to have children in America you need to be married. ... Even in the deep-south places where everything was closed on Sundays has changed to a regular business day. ...

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In the aftermath of each tragedy, everyone has been left to wonder why such an atrocity has taken place. ... With so much violence being sold as entertainment, children have come to see violence as having a place in our society. ... Gangs have also spread to smaller communities and are not just a problem of the inner-city schools. ... Being more watchful of others, and being more willing to listen to the problems of others might be a good place for all of us to start i...

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It is a one-on-one tutorial method of education using the parents as teachers/tutors and most often takes place within the home of the students. ... Some home schooling families operate like small versions of conventional schools, with textbooks and tests and traditional grades. ... Also, many families believe in interest-initiated, child-led, natural learning and they give their children considerable control over what is learned and how learning takes place. ... Technology is drastically altering education, and "the school of the future may be less a place than a password onto the informati...

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On the other hand, some schools are very poor, have a lot of crime and violence within the school, and is located in a poor location, which gives the students that attend those schools a very small chance of even graduating. ... Students who need extra help will be able to seek their teacher much easier because of the smaller size of the class. ... The teacher will be able to spend more time helping those students who need it with a smaller class size. ... The cafeteria will consist of a hot lunch line each day, an Ala Carte line, and two healthy fast food places, Subway and Campbell'...

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