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This paper reviews John Abbott and Terence Ryan's article, "Constructing Knowledge, Reconstructing Schooling." The paper discusses the content in the article relating to education and teaching methods. It also discusses the issues that the authors stress and the aspects of the educational system that they find disturbing.

From the Paper
"Open-ended learning methods that challenge conventional assumptions about the world are necessary to creating a technologically sophisticated workforce that is flexible and truly adapts and shifts with the needs of the present age. The impersonality and passivity of modern schooling is not effective because it does not mirror the future workplace, and also because our ancestors learned practical skills and applied them to generalities that evolved into laws and concepts, rather than learned about life sitting at a desk, in a book, with no reference to lived experiences. Using student choice in selecting materials, creating experiments to demonstrate principles, and allowing student control over the social studies issues and history taught in class, as well as giving students open-ended, multidisciplinary creative research projects to assess them are all simple yet effective ways to realize the principles of the article."

Tags:classroom, student, teacher, learning

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The paper discusses a sample project for constructing an efficient frontier using six asset classes. The paper includes graphs for two efficient frontiers.

Tags:Finance, efficient frontier asset classes

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The paper discusses the reasons why the Nazis constructed Terezin, a fake ghetto for Jews that was intended to show that Nazis were not killing Jewish people.

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"According to Joza Karas, the forceful evacuation of the Gentile population had hardly begun when the first Jewish transport arrived in Terezin on November ... The task assigned to these young men was building new structures in the town of Terezin for new inhabitants who would consist of Jews and others destined for incarceration by the Nazis. The camp called Theresienstadt served any number of purposes not the least of which was a propaganda function. The purpose of this essay is to identify the rationale used by..."

Tags:Terezin, Nazis, Jews, ghetto

Abstract
This paper constructs a comprehensive theory of counseling that takes into account a delineation of personality structure that considers motivation and human development. The stated theory also accounts for individual differences and provides a definition of health, illness and elements of comprehensive theory of cure. Furthermore, the paper discusses techniques that guide the therapeutic process and explains how the overall theory relates to a comprehensive worldview. The paper focuses on Christian counseling.

Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Personality Structure
Motivation
Human Development
Individual Differences
Definition Of Health
Definition Of Illness
Elements In A Comprehensive Theory Of Cure
Techniques That Guide The Therapeutic Process
Demonstration of Effectiveness
Relation Of Theory To A Comprehensive Worldview
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The idea of this approach to counseling takes into account the idea of secular counselors but it is not dependent upon them. The world views counseling as a discipline like many other professions but that type of thinking is incorrect. Counseling does not depend on growing amounts of technical knowledge administered by highly trained professionals. This approach is more about developing relation to cocreate solutions to problems (Kollar, 1997). This approach demonstrates that counseling is a relationship between people who care (Crabb, 1977). The world looks at finding happiness when it encounters problems. The overall goal of the individual should be to respond biblically to the situations, circumstances and illnesses that come with life (Crabb, 1977). Our modern emphasis on personal wholeness, human potential and freedom to be ourselves from a selfish perspective has shifted us from a commitment to be more Christlike (Crabb, 1977). We must get back to the mindset of the Garden of Eden when Adam walked in the cool of the day with the Lord having all of his needs met and everything was very good (Gen 1:29-31)."

Tags:knowledge, health, illness, relationship

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This paper examines the media's role in social construction of a criminal stereotype/category, in the example of Tamil gang activity in central Toronto. This paper reports that notions of criminality and psychological upset, on account of the war in Sri Lanka, and alleged connection to the Tamil Tiger movement in Sri Lanka have created a new variety of the glamorous terrorist who lurks among us.

From the Paper
"Schissel and Brooks explain the public and social construction of crime and criminality. (2004) When examining assertions of criminality in Toronto's Sri Lankan Tamil community one is reminded of Michael Parenti's study, Inventing Reality, with regard to images of Tamil youth criminality that have been encouraged by the central Canadian print media. (1993) The Greater Toronto Area's very large Sri Lankan Tamil community began to take form in the early 1980s. Nevertheless, one finds that ignorance and media representations of the violent, gang-involved Tamil have created a situation in which other Canadians know practically nothing else about the community."

Tags:social, tamil, media

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By examining and analyzing several of Katherine Philips's poems, the author of this paper shows how Philips' poetry was most notable for its creative construction of gender and female sexuality, but surmises that the vision was secretly expressed inside the conventional language of female friendship.

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"This is a point in Philips' poetry where she moves into the more conventional realm of Platonic love a safe and respectable realm in the 17th century but also a point at which she begins to manipulate her audiences' ideas of what that realm really is. For example, Philips implies that ascending towards Platonic love (i.e., spiritual or ideal love) allows friends or lovers to imagine an alternative reality for themselves, different from the one in which they now find themselves. This realm would give the two women the freedom to live out their "Fate" (l.7). In fact, in Philips' poem "To my Excellent Lucasia," she writes that her connection to Lucasia is "As innocent as our Design, / Immortal as our Soul" (ll.23-4)."

Tags:Platonic, Lucasia

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The paper discusses how the western novel has long been a source of many compelling themes and conceits; however, there is one notion that the novel has advanced over time that can be too easily overlooked by people: the notion of normalcy. In other words, the paper explains that anything that is not "normal" - statistically normal, normal in a physiognomic sense, normal in an intellectual or even physiological sense - is rendered into an unsightly "other" that actually threatens the capitalist, bourgeois underpinnings of polite society.

From the Paper
"The western novel has long been a source of many compelling themes and conceits; however, there is one notion that the novel has advanced over time that can be too easily overlooked by people: the notion of normalcy. In other words, anything that is not "normal" - statistically normal, normal in a physiognomic sense, normal in an intellectual or even physiological sense - is rendered into an unsightly "other" that actually threatens the capitalist, bourgeois underpinnings of polite society. Certainly, Davis believes that the ordinary man becomes idealized (the...)"

Tags:constructing, normalcy, ideological

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Statues and monuments to great leaders of the past are paid for and maintained by states at a great cost because they are often necessary to justify the legitimacy of the state. In this context, as this essay will argue, our understanding of the past is shaped by the writing of history as "national" history.

Tags:constructing, national, history

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In the structure of any given curriculum, there are terms that must be clarified in order to accurately address the nature of the materials being taught. However, in the development of the curriculum itself there are also terms that need expression, so that the educator and the students alike will be able to acknowledge the purpose of the education process and the methods being used to deliver the materials at hand. This paper defines and describes ten terms and their impact on the educational process.

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"Constructing The Sexual Crucible
Introduction
Constructing the Sexual Crucible by Schnarch (1991) offers material to help people with sexual concerns who fall into the functional, dysfunctional, and blessed few categories. The goal of the book is to create a paradigm shift or a new modality for sexual-marital therapy, rather than to simply increase knowledge in this area (pp. xiv-xv). This reaction paper regards Schnarch's model as a treatment modality pertaining to intimacy and sexuality, constructing the crucible, and inside the crucible related to sexual dysfunction in the marital relationship.

The sexual crucible is a treatment approach based on intimacy and eroticism. It focuses on a non-reciprocity model of intimacy with sexuality as a vehicle for growth. It is.."