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Kicking the Can
<p><em>Kicking the Can</em> is a video documentary that explores the financial crisis of 2008 and the socio-political factors that led to the collapse. The documentary was produced over the course of a year and a half, and contains interviews with economists, politicians, academics, and U.S. …
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A Mirror Can Shatter
<p>This is an historical fiction novel.</p>
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SCREAM IF YOU CAN
<p>Scream If You Can is an episodic memoir that captures the driving lifestyle of southern California while focusing on significant life events of a twenty-something young woman. The memoir explores themes of family, trauma, and perseverance. Biculturalism and disability are explored alongside the …
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Can Savonarola be Justified?
… who after the lapse of over four hundred years, can still arouse the deepest interest in all students of history, and fascinate then by the ever-recurring problem of how the quiet, retiring youth, thoughtful and prayerful, developed into the man of fire, who denounced the evils of his day in …
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"We can take words apart" How can I Enhance my Teaching of Phonological Awareness?
The aim of this research study was to enhance my practice in the area of phonological awareness instruction. Having worked as a Junior and Senior Infant teacher in a disadvantaged setting for the past number of years, I became increasingly concerned about the low level of early literacy development …
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Paper Hearts Can Beat Forever
Essays and poetry.
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Can Education Help Me Now?
<p>The purpose of this case study was to examine the perceived benefits, economic and personal, attributable to the attainment of higher levels of education as sought by displaced employees from the Levi Strauss Johnson City, Tennessee plant that was closed in 1999. Data was collected through …
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How Can We Live Together?
The research aims to explore an informal settlement called Hopefield (commonly known as “Kapok”) in Ennerdale. It has been a point of inquiry that sees a need for infrastructural development as well as social engagement to fulfil the idea of a self-sustaining community. The outcomes for the …
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How companies can leverage crowdsourcing
… by employees or contractors. These activities can range from solving scientific problems that baffle the in-house experts to repetitive and boring tasks that are deemed too mundane for the employees. Other activities include content generation, product design, idea generation, and product …
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: A Qualitative Inquiry of Sibling Achievement in Sport
<p>Author's abstract: Within a family, siblings are fixtures of children's lives (Whiteman, McHale, & Crouter 2007). With this being known, researchers have examined modeling and deidentification behaviors based on sibling interaction and motivation (e.g., Whiteman, McHale, & Crouter 2007; Whiteman …
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Can Baseball Help Students Learn Statistics?
Can Baseball Help Students Learn Statistics?
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Can Justice be Traded for Democracy?
… democratic state and questions whether justice can be sacrificed without ultimately undermining the basis of the democracy. While other studies have focused on the moral implications of amnesty, this work examines the functional realities. Rather than asking whether democratic elites should …
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Writing Apprehension: Can Sentence Combining Help?
<p>This study tested the hypothesis that seventh-grade students who practiced a regimen of sentence-combining would have less apprehension about writing than students who were taught composition in the traditional mode. The subjects were four intact classes of seventh-grade students whose average …
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Can Metacognitive Monitoring Ability be Trained?
<p>Low performers tend to greatly overestimate their performance on a task, but high</p> <p>performers slightly underestimate their performance; the unskilled-unaware effect (Kruger & Dunning, 1999). Because assessment of one’s own skill (monitoring) impacts future decisions, such as selecting …
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Juvenile Delinquency - Can It Be Measured
In this thesis the ultimate goal has been that, in the interpretations of its findings, teachers, administrators, educators and parents might find enlightenment in terms of possible approaches to the problems of eliminating or controlling causation factors in delinquency to the benefit of the …
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Can we intentionally forget associative information?
I report three item-method directed forgetting (DF) studies to evaluate whether DF impairs primarily item information, or whether it also impairs associative information. Previous research obtained DF in an associative recognition paradigm, implicating possible impairment of associative …
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Can and do Ericas self pollinate?
… of this paper was to establish if Erica species can and do self-pollinate. Two Erica species, E. plukenetii and E. urnaviridis, were obtained from Kirstenbosch nursery, where hand-pollinations were performed on 15-20 flowers of each of three treatments (self-pollination, crosspollination and …
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Sophisticated sensitivity : can developers guess smarter?
… volatility, the question must be asked: how well can real estate developers predict returns? The purpose of this thesis is threefold: First, to determine whether real estate developers are accurately projecting real estate development returns; second, to determine where input assumption estimation …
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Can US venture capital scale internationally?
Venture capital has been an important factor in driving innovation and creating wealth in the US. Even outside the US, venture capital is playing an increasingly important role, influencing many aspects of start-up companies. While the US has traditionally been at the forefront of the venture …
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