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Comprehensive Engagement, 2005.
A discussion of the Clinton Administration policy of comprehensive engagement.
3,680 words (approx. 14.7 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 127.95
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This paper discusses the Clinton Administration's use of comprehensive engagement in its relations with China. The paper asks whether Clinton's China policy was justified. The paper examines issues of increased trade and containment, while also looking at the historical picture: the start of changes in U.S.-China relations that began with Richard Nixon.
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"The relationship between the United States and the Peoples' Republic of China PRC has been both complex and controversial for several key reasons. First the polarization of the ..."
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Civic Engagement, 2007.
This paper discusses nuclear weapons and looks at the influence of civic
engagement on arms control.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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In this article, the writer notes that an examination of civic engagement in global public policy demonstrates that citizens have increasingly joined transnational networks to try to influence policy and bring about change. The writer points out that some of these campaigns have been very successful, some have had mixed success, and some failed to achieve their goals altogether. The writer discusses that in the 1980's, the civic engagement of millions of people to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union was a mixed success, for significant nuclear arms reductions were achieved, but nuclear war is still a threat to the survival of humanity. The writer maintains that many aspects of this civic engagement need to be examined and analyzed, not only because these efforts helped to end the Cold War, but because similar efforts are needed today to prevent new nuclear arms races from developing, both regionally and globally.
The writer concludes that examining civic engagement in global public policy demonstrates that concerned citizens have increasingly participated in transnational efforts to try to influence policy and effect change. The paper includes an annotated bibliography.
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"Criteria such as the signing and ratification of these treaties confirms the success of this civic engagement campaign, as does documented evidence that the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers were reduced by fifty-percent in many strategic and tactical weapons categories, while other categories such as short-range and medium range nuclear ballistic missiles were eliminated entirely. This was all achieved without any direct participation by citizens in international decision-making forums, and was produced primarily through domestic political pressure."
"This campaign was legitimate, for the nuclear arms race had escalated for decades after the first atomic bombs were developed, and the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers consisted of more than forty-thousand nuclear warheads by the early 1980's."
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Academic Engagement in the Classroom, 2004.
Discusses how academic engagement can improve the education of a student.
2,536 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 27 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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The purpose of this discussion is to explore academic engagement and the effects of a token economy on students with emotional and behavioral disorders. This discourse will contain a literary review that will compare and contrast various studies that have been conducted pertaining to this topic. Academic engagement is defined as a combination of classroom activities, which include asking and answering questions, participation in tasks, writing, reading, and discussing academics.
Contents
Introduction
Literature Review
Academic Engagement
Token Economy
Discussion
References
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"A study conducted by Bean et al (1999) found that engagement in reading and writing improved overall academic engagement skills. Studies have also found that peer relationships impact academic engagement. Watkins and Wentzel (2002) found that peer acceptance motivates students to behave appropriately in academic settings. The authors found that academic environments in which peers were encouraging of academic success, students were more likely to experience successful academic engagement. (Watkins and Wentzel (2002) Greenwood et al (2002) explains that behavior is a significant factor in determining the amount of academic engagement that can be achieved."
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Civic Engagement, 2004.
A look at different views of America?s social forms of engagement with one another, with the world, and with its own history.
1,976 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines how the rules of American social engagement come into play, not simply on a personal level, but are codified and defined on multiple levels. Through a review of the books, "Bowling Alone" by Robert B, Putnam, William K. Tabb's "Unequal Partners", and Alan Dawley's "Changing the World", it looks at how the changing and evolving rules of social engagement in America invariably relate to how, as a society, a complex nation such as America is constructed on a socially stratified level. It also explores how America functions on a globally stratified level among other nation states in a social and civic fashion and discusses how, although social engagement with one?s peers, with one?s fellow nationals, and with one?s fellow human beings may have grown increasingly atomized and absent in recent years, it does not mean such laws have been erased.
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"All authors see a fundamental lacking in the way that Americans relate to other Americans, how America relates to the world community, and how America perceives its political responsibility to those in need within its borders and abroad. However, all three authors, because of the different paradigms they use to view this lacking of civic engagement, offer quite different solutions. Putman takes a sociological paradigm to examine American post-war Baby Boon social trends, Tabb uses the environmentalist and international relations paradigm of America?s location in a global society, and Dawley takes the historian?s point of view, contrasting the Progressive movement of the turn of the century with American social movements today, stressing the contemporary lack of political movements to cohere and achieve similarly internationalist and civic political ends."
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Comprehensive Income, 2002.
This paper discusses reporting comprehensive income.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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FAS 130, issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board deal with the subject of reporting comprehensive income. The statement sets a standard for the reporting and display of comprehensive income, and its components, including revenue, expenses, gains, and losses. These are set in a full set of general-purpose financial statements.
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Price Elasticity in Engagement Rings, 2005.
A look at how price elasticity varies in the market of diamond engagement rings.
1,101 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper attempts to determine how to assess the price elasticity of a diamond engagement ring, as produced by a De Beers luxury diamond retailer, as opposed to a discount engagement diamond retailer.
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"Of course, demand for engagement rings may shift, not because marriages increase or decrease, regardless of the market, but because of fashion. "The third influential factor is time...[for instance] tobacco is inelastic because the change in the quantity demand will have been minor with a change in price, but consumers may cut their abuse of the substance in the face of higher prices." (Investopedia, 2005) Should diamonds ever become too pricey, demand for diamond rings might decline for engagement purposes, as young couples chose to spend their money elsewhere-or if diamonds become too cheap, causing the good to be valued less as a symbol of permanency. However, as the diamond still seems to hold its value and its symbolic importance, in the engagement ring market De Beers luxury diamonds still outsell their competitors to potential husbands, even when the De Beers diamond market dominance is on shakier ground, as it loses some of its monopolistic control over the overall market."
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Comprehensive vs. Abstinence, 2002.
This is an argumentative essay written on the side of comprehensive sexuality education in schools verses the traditional abstinence-only sex education.
1,920 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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Should schools include comprehensive birth control education within the sexuality education curriculum? This paper argues this serious question that needs attention as every year millions of teenagers are making decisions that affect them the rest of their lives. The author feels that a clear effective program should be a major priority for educators and politicians. This paper analyzes articles that were published within the past few years written by those who did research in the field and had their results to prove their point. It argues strongly on behalf of the comprehensive sexuality education. If information is left out, students are left out.
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"?I lost my virginity at age 16 to my high school sweetheart and he dumped me two months later. Sex was never a big issue in my junior high or high school; I never fully learned everything until I got to college when they gave incoming freshman a test and a presentation. You mostly learn things about sex from friends and sometimes parents.? --JM, (avert.org) This is a submission of a young lady to a website dedicated to educating young adults about what they deserve to know about sexuality. Are websites such as this one necessary? According to young people like JM, they are. Parents would be alarmed to find out that most adolescents learn more about sex from their peers than from parents or school. The same adolescents who cited peers as their principal source of information on sex also had more permissive standards about sexuality than those whose sources were more reliable (Fromme & Emihovich, 1998)."
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Comprehensive Income, 2002.
This paper descibes the reporting of comprehensive income.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper directs htat a statement sets a standard for the reporting and display of comprehensive income, and its components, including revenue, expenses, gains, and losses as part of a full set of general-purpose financial statements. Briefly put, the standard "requires that all items that are required to be recognized under accounting standards as components of comprehensive income be reported in a financial statement that is displayed with the same prominence as other financial statements."
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ASEAN and Myanmar: Constructive Engagement 1991-2005, 2005.
An analysis of the impact of ASEAN's constructive engagement on Myanmar and ASEAN's standing in international politics.
3,237 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 25 sources, APA, $ 93.95
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This paper argues that ASEAN's (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) constructive engagement has failed to meet its goals of the development of Myanmar's human rights conditions, the minimization of Chinese influence in Myanmar and the enhancement of regional cooperation among Southeast Asian nations. It also investigates the impact of constructive engagement on ASEAN's standing in international politics.
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"Beyond the superficial endorsement of human rights, rationale behind constructive engagement was more complex and pragmatic. As argued by Carey, a policy that from the outset was meant to benefit ASEAN's members first and foremost. The main motives for constructive engagement can be divided into political factors and economic factors. The major political factor in the implementation of constructive engagement was ASEAN's desire to counteract the influence of the People's Republic of China in Myanmar and to deter Myanmar from becoming China's ally. Initially, ASEAN was established as a barrier against communism in Southeast Asia. After Vietnam attained ASEAN's membership in 1995, ASEAN's policy gradually shifted to preventing Chinese hegemony in Southeast Asia."
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The Influence of Civic Engagement on Arms Control, 2008.
A discussion of the effectiveness of civic engagement in influencing global public policy on nuclear arms control.
4,030 words (approx. 16.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 109.95
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This paper states that its research on the issue of civic engagement in global public policy confirms that citizens and peace activists all over the world have organized transnational networks in order to influence arms control policies and bring about change. Their efforts have produced mixed results, from remarkable success to complete failure. Ultimately, their influence on arms control policy depends upon their ability to generate public support for arms reductions, for public support translates into political pressure on government policymakers. The paper brings historical examples from the Cold War to illustrate this, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union, the Salt I Treaty, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the START treaty. The paper concludes by stating that arms and militarism have been an inseparable part of every major empire or culture throughout human history and that this is a dilemma peace activists may not be able to resolve. The paper includes an annotated bibliography.
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"Civic engagement on arms control policy emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War in response to the development and deployment of nuclear weapons by the United States and the Soviet Union. After the fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union amassed huge arsenals of atomic bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic jet bombers, and ballistic missile submarines, and it seemed that conventional battles fought by massed armies of tanks and infantry would never occur again. The general consensus among government officials and the public as well was that possession of nuclear weapons was the new measure of any nation's military power."
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Improving Test Scores through Student Online Engagement, 2008.
An overview of a project to improve test scores through student online engagement.
4,136 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 110.95
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The paper discusses a program in which its main goal was to increase state standardized test scores in math and language arts. The paper states that this goal would be accomplished through a new school policy that required all students to engage in coursework and participate in online classes.
Outline:
Description of the Community
The Work Setting
The Teacher's Role
Problem Statement
Problem Documentation
Causative Analysis
Relationship of the Problem to Literature
Anticipated Outcomes and Evaluation Instruments
Solution Strategy
Results
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"This school is an internet based school that has been in operation for five years. The students complete all of their course assignments through the use of a computer with a high speed internet connection that is set up within their home. Some students work on a desk top computer and others work on a lap top computer. The students are sent all of their necessary school supplies such as paper, printer ink, calculators and other things through the mail via UPS from the main school office."
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"The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide", 2004.
A critique of Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz's "The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide".
2,187 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper explains how Theissen and Merz explore the subject matter of the historical Jesus in light of primary sources, especially relying on the Gospels, both canonical and apocryphal. It discusses the unique style of the layout and sources of the book and provides a critique of its shortcomings.
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"The book is divided into four main sections, in addition to a meaty Introduction, a ?Retrospect? called ?A Short Life of Jesus,? and two helpful indexes, one of Biblical References and one of Names and Subjects included in the text. The Historical Jesus, published in North America by Fortress Press, was translated from the original German by John Bowden. A full set of sources and collections of sources is provided by the authors at the beginning of the book; moreover, at the onset of each chapter of the book are blocks of bibliography offering the reader a helpful guide for further research and reading. Therefore, the authors do not follow the traditional arrangement of bibliographical information by providing a set of sources at the end of the book; however, footnotes are frequently used. Furthermore, suggestions for further readings are provided at the end of some of the sections. Following the initial source selection is a comprehensive list of abbreviations used within the text. The Historical Jesus is as comprehensive as its title purports; it is also a well-organized, structured, and straightforward piece of accessible scholarship."
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Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, 2004.
A discussion about the effectiveness of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper provides an examination of the FCAT. It discusses its role in schools, as well as its impact on students, teachers, and administrators. The paper concludes with a subjective discussion on the merits and weaknesses of the FCAT.
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"The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, commonly called the FCAT is designed to measure benchmarks in Florida?s educational achievements and whether assigned goals are being met. Additionally, selected FCAT Reading and Mathematics tests measure student performance against national standards. These norm-referenced tests allow comparisons between the performance of Florida students and the performance of students throughout the nation."
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"Comprehensive Mercury Reduction Act Proposal", 2006.
This paper analyzes the political and financial issues likely to emerge from the "Comprehensive Mercury Reduction Act Proposal".
1,670 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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This paper explains that mercury preparations and compounds are a vitally important component of U.S. production in a wide range of industries, but its use carries with it some known health and environmental risks. The author points out that the coal, agricultural and healthcare industries, which use mercury compounds, are most likely in favor of the legislation because of a lack of a suitable alternative. The paper recommends that the U.S. Senate support the proposed legislation because it represents a viable approach to moderating the impact of mercury emissions across the board, provides those industries that are not currently able to achieve EPA standards with the opportunity to improve and is cost advantageous.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Background and Overview
Coverage in the National and Local Media
Conclusions and Recommendations
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"How is this proposal likely to play out in the press? Clearly, this is an emotionally charged issue that is fraught with opportunities for misunderstanding among the public, and these misperceptions about the safety record and importance of mercury in many industrial applications may be overlooked. There is, in fact, valid reason for concern. According to Stadler and Murray, during a 12-month period beginning in 2000, several major developments in mercury-related industries emphasized the need for oversight in order to eliminate mercury pollution and exposure in the United States."
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Basque Nationalism: A Comprehensive Study, 2000.
This paper provides a comprehensive look at the realities of the Basque struggle and the way that it is perceived according to international media groups.
6,145 words (approx. 24.6 pages), 18 sources, $ 144.95
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"The Basque nationalist movement is rapidly rising to the top ranks of separatist movements in Europe. However, it is one of the least understood among them. With the peace process in Northern Ireland slowly but steadily taking hold and the situation in the former Yugoslavia shakily maintaining the appearance of being under control, a vacuum has been created for the study of another European nationalism. In conjunction with this vacuum, the most brutal offensive by the Basque terrorist group ETA -Basque Homeland and Liberty- since 1992 has brought the Basque question into the spotlight. While most media sources report on only the current violence conducted by extremists, this paper will explore the various faces of Basque nationalism throughout its history."
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