The problem of binge drinking, alcohol abuse among contemporary college transfer students
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Except for scratches and wounds that occur during school breaks every year, the most notable outcomes of college drinking that frequently come to the public's attention are sporadic student deaths resulting from excessive use of alcohol like for instance alcohol poisoning or other alcohol-related...
All day kindergarten Vs half day kindergarten
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Kindergarten programs first became popular after World War I. The kindergarten programs during that time were given on a half-day basis in order to serve more children and to save more money. During the depression, the enrollment in kindergarten programs got too low that a majority of school...
Alternative Vs Traditional School Calendar In The United States
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
There is an increasing popularity in year-round school programs that are seen as alternatives to the traditional ten-month school calendar. This alternative was seen as necessary in order to match the educational superiority of economically leading countries such as Japan which have longer school...
The Application of Metacognitive Reading Strategies by Learning From and Teaching Disabled Students in the Regular Classroom
Essay - 9 pages - Educational studies
As a child, I was an average reader but never enjoyed reading. I especially dreaded reading chapter books because once I had completed the book I had forgotten what had happened at the beginning. Even though I struggled with the comprehension of reading for pleasure, I was able to pass...
The benefits of existentialist psychology
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
JD is a 26-year-old Hispanic male with quadriplegia who has been refereed to treatment by his primary care physician. Anxiety and depression appear to be the most prominent issues facing the client at the present time; however, the client both denies suicidal and homicidal ideation and is...
Emotional Intelligence - publié le 20/06/2008
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
As you all know, IQ tests are taken by those who want to measure their intelligence in a scientific and objective way. However, some theories tend to let us think that IQ is not the only indicator of intelligence, and that other sorts of intelligence also need to be taken into account. I will...
An investigation of Edgard Varèse's Poème Électronique
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To those who are familiar with the unique historical context in which he was growing up, it comes as little surprise that Edgard Varèse was a composer at the forefront of the twentieth-century electronic music movement. As Malcolm MacDonald claims in his treatise on the artist, Varèse grew up...
The Ideas of the University Student
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Here at Columbia University I am asked to weigh two arguments, which are concerned with the nature of the scales I use to weigh them as well as with the purpose of those scales. By scales I am referring to the university setting in America. The first argument is made by John Newman in The Idea...
School desegregation in the United States and problems with this issue as a pervasive part of social discourse
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Boston's Mess 1974-1978 Research on the process of school desegregation in the United States reveals that even though notable steps were taken after the Brown v Board of Education (1954) ruling to reduce segregation, problems with this issue remained a pervasive part of social discourse. For...
Gardens: Revealing the State of Our Minds
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
A garden is a simple place, a small escape from the home, where one can roam at leisure. But there is more, something about its sensuousness gives rise to deeper feelings. In the Decameron and in Augustine's Confessions gardens become representative of the consequences of beauty. But they also...
Educational Culture
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Introduction Culture is an interval part of society and all of its institutions. Thus, it is not surprising to find that educators examining the development of public school education have been forced to address the issue of culture in the context of organizational development. If schools are to...
The magazine 'What else?'
Practical guide - 13 pages - Educational studies
Each year, at the same period, at the IUT, students of 2nd year spend one day with their counterpart of 1st year, that permit to everyone to know the others. The journalists of "What else" were of course on the spot. This day starts firstly with an afternoon of games, where 1st year students were...
Providing Library Multimedia Services to Children and Young Adults
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Introduction Recent studies on the development of multimedia services demonstrate that children and young adults are most likely to utilize these services (Kuhlthau, 1997). Because children from Kindergarten to high school typically find themselves in need of information, for both personal and...
Second Language Acquisition
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is learning development in which people acquire a new or more commonly known as “second language” in addition to their native tongue. The second language is often referred as “target language” or “L2”. Moreover, a second language...
Marabouts in Morocco : how to explain the vigour of maraboutic practices today in the Cherifian Kingdom?
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The term "marabout" comes from the deformation of the Arabic term murabit. The murabit is a disciple who receives the religious teachings of a master of in a ribat. Their necropolises are often located on what used to be the old major caravan routes, where they represented spaces of neutrality,...
Islam and Modernity : towards a modern comprehension of Islam
Essay - 6 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The events of the 20th century have totally disturbed the geography of Islam. Decolonization and globalization have been raising new issues in Muslim societies throughout the world. In this essay, we will see how the tension between the search for a Muslim identity on the one side, and the push...
The Killing of Pain: How We See Ourselves?
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
Thinking about the self is obviously quite different from thinking about something else because there is a degree of control and understanding that doesn't extend to other objects. Suppose the sun had a conscious, it might more easily perceive that objects orbit around it than would a person...
John Dollard and his work
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
Freud's introduction of psychotherapy in the early twentieth century spawned significant interest in the study of psychology and the practice of counseling. Over the course of the last century, notable progress has been made toward understanding the human psyche, the process of human development,...
The Impact of poverty on child development
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
The impact of poverty on the development of the child has been well examined by scholars. Although poverty's impact on the child's development has been well examined, what is often not understood by the layman is the specific areas in which poverty impacts the child's development. In an effort to...
Adult learning theory and self-directed learning
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Over the course of the last several decades, researchers have made notable progress in understanding the process of human development and learning. While the principle focus of investigation has, in many cases, been with respect to child development and learning, what has been learned in this...
Citizenship education: are children coming from immigration well integrated or not in the host countries?
Essay - 9 pages - Educational studies
Migration is a world-wide phenomenon, and many people are constantly on the move. There are 130 million people of immigrating in the world. This topic is often in the news, particularly at the border Mexico-United States and at the border between Africa and European Union (Strait of Gibraltar)....
Methods for Improving Reading Fluency among Struggling Readers in the Intermediate Grades
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
The ultimate goal of reading is being able to comprehend. There are many components and stages to reading that need to be addressed before comprehension can occur, beginning with the concepts of print on up to phonemic awareness and word recognition. Many people believe that once a child is...
Point of Purchase: Bookshops and Stationers as Agents of Change
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It was not so much the press itself, but the uses to which the press was put that revolutionized the exchange of ideas in early modern Europe and on into the present. In order to change an entire cultural consciousness, it took not only the invention of a useful tool, but also the motivation and...
Is multicultural education a paradigm for improving education?
Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies
Over the course of the last 45 years, the process of multicultural education has emerged as one of the most notable paradigms for student development. Although multicultural education is often seen as antithetical to more traditional educational paradigms, the reality is that this process has a...
How conflict theory provides an insight to sociologist in to the process of criminal activity and behavior
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Psychology
Conflict theory has developed throughout the course of the twentieth century as a principle theory for better understanding the development of criminal behavior. Although conflict theory directly links criminal behavior to the development of larger social inequities, research on this paradigm...
The educational system in Ireland
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Over the course of the last decade, notable changes in education have occurred throughout the international community. While many of these changes have taken place in the context of primary education, research demonstrates that changes have also taken place on the post-primary or secondary level....
The clout of the British aristocracy
Essay - 19 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The British aristocracy is known worldwide, not only because of its prestigious past, but also for all its special ways of life. Many stereotypes can briefly define them: they have a great economic power, they are important actors in the British political life, and they have very specific habits...
The Sociological Aspects of the Globalization of Soccer in the United States
Essay - 5 pages - Sports
Through an extensive review of related literature, the present study intended to investigate the sociological aspects of the globalization of soccer in the United States. The key findings are as follows: 1) poorer countries suffer from “leg drain” over the richest soccer clubs,...
Personhood: Social psychology
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
Social psychology is an interdisciplinary area of study on how social conditions affect human beings. The focus from the psychological perspective is explaining the influence of interaction (whether actual, imagined or implied) with others on an individual's thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It...
Neural Representation of Semantic Knowledge
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
The human ability to look at and label objects, though taken for granted even in very young children, has long puzzled and fascinated scientists investigating the organization of knowledge systems in the brain. A central question in this investigation is the way knowledge of objects are...
