EBSCO Publishing Essays

  • Sojourner Truth's Life and Accomplishments

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    Sojourner Truth was an outspoken woman who fought for women's rights, black's rights, and antislavery. She fully believed what she spoke when she said, "Truth is powerful and it prevails." Sojourner Truth stood up for something she believed in, and it is still affecting people's lives in many positive ways today. Sojourner Truth, originally named Isabella Ardinburgh, was born sometime between 1797 and 1800, in New York, to James and Betsey Ardinburgh. Isabella had a total of ten to twelve siblings

  • Behavioral Techniques in the Classroom

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    structures have bee... ... middle of paper ... ... Moore, W.L & Cooper, Harris. (1984). Correlations Between Teacher and Student Backgrounds and Teacher Perceptions of Discipline Problems and Disciplinary Techniques. Retrieved March 19 from Ebsco Host Database. Roe, Betty & Ross, Eleanor. (1998). Effective Disciplinary Techniques. Retrieved March 19, 2004 from http:// academic.wsc.edu/edc/linked_files/student_teach_Handbooks/part6_disciplinary_techniques.doc. Short, R.J., & Short P.M

  • The Debate Over Downloading Music for Free

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    will be very hard to stop. Works Cited Atkinson, Claire. “Grammies Take Hard-line Against Online Music Piracy.” Advertising Age. 9 Feb. 2004: 3. Academic Search Premiere. EBSCO Publishing. 3 April 2004. Green, Heather. “Downloads: Next Generation.” Business Week. 16 Feb. 2004. Academic Search Premiere. EBSCO Publishing. 3 April 2004. Recording Industry Association of America. 2003. 3 April 2004. http://www.riaa.com/issues/piracy/default.asp

  • Church's Use of the Media For Religious Influence

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    religious television programming: A multidisciplinary analysis of televangelism.” Review of Religious Research. June 1989. 329-343. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO Host. Web. 26 February. 2010. Gutwirth, Jacques. “From the Word to the Televisual Image: The Televangelists and Pope John Paul II.”Diogenes. 1999. 122-123. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO Host. Web. 26 February. 2010.

  • “Mirror” and “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath

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    in the poems. “Mirror” describes t... ... middle of paper ... ...arch Premier. EBSCO. Web. 27 Mar. 2010. Axelrod, Steven Gould. “THE MIRROR AND THE SHADOW: PLATH’S POETICS OF SELF-DOUBT.” Contemporary Literature 26.3 (1985): 286. Academic Search premier. EBSCO Web. 27Mar. 2010. Freedman, William. “The Monster In Plath’s Mirror’.” Papers on Language & Literature 29.2 (1993): 152. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 27 Mar. 2010. Kukil, Karen V. The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath. New York:

  • Physical, Mental, and Social Benefits of Playing Sports

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    starting at an early age and pushed me to stay active throughout my life. ... ... middle of paper ... ...emier. EBSCO. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis, and Stuart J. H. Biddle. “Negative Self-Talk During Sport Performance: Relationships with Pre-Competition Anxiety and Goal-Performance Discrepancies.” Journal of Sport Behavior 31.3 (2008): 237-253. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. “History of Sports.” History of Sports. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. Larson, Reed, and Sean Seepersad

  • The Stranger Cultural Analysis

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    511-517. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 26 Apr. 2011. Camus, Albert, and Matthew Ward. The Stranger. New York: Knopf, 1993. Print. 24 Apr. 2011. de Cavarlay, Bruno Aubusson. "Can criminal statistics still be of scientific use? The French criminal justice system 1813-1980." Historical Methods 26.2 (1993): 69. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 26 Apr. 2011. Scherr, Arthur. "Camus's THE STRANGER." Explicator 59.3 (2001): 149. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 24 Apr. 2011. Scott, Nathan

  • Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

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    ... middle of paper ... ...Couldn't Say.” Studies in Short Fiction 26.2 (1989): 135-143. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. BYUI Lib. 25 Oct 2005. http://search.epnet.com/. Groome, David, and Nina Grant. "Retrieval-induced forgetting is inversely related to everyday cognitive failures." British Journal of Psychology 96.2 (2005): 313-319. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. BYUI Lib. 26 Oct 2005. http://search.epnet.com/. James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. Peter G. Beidler. Boston: Bedford

  • Character Education Literature Review

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    The basis of good character involves being respectful, honest, hardworking, responsible, caring, and understanding. Parents and teachers alike wish for their students to possess good character; but what does “character” mean in the realm of education; and whose responsibility is it to ensure that students do in fact develop good character? The Character Education Partnership (2003, pg. 1), defines good character as involving “understanding, caring about, and acting upon core ethical values”, and

  • The Resistance to Change

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    caused sexual ... ... middle of paper ... ...who refuse to change with the times become lost in time. Works Cited Dilworth, Thomas. "A Romance to Kill for: Homicidal Complicity in Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'". Studies in Short Fiction. EBSCO Publishing. 36.3 (2003): 251-262. Academic Search Complete. Blinn College, Bryan, Lib. 18 Oct. 2007 Faulkner, William. "A Rose For Emily". Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 10 (2007): 29-34

  • The Impact of E-book on the World

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    Modern Society is making way for this new technological world of E-books, which are making an impact on the world, creating change in organizations and internet access, individual’s reading habits, and to the future generation of education. E-books are still books, but it is different in many ways from traditional books. Vasileiou and Rowley made a study to define e-book and not compare it to a tradition book. They state: An e-book is a digital object with textual and/or other content, which arises

  • Subliminal Advertising

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    657-674 Kiesel, Diane. “Subliminal Seduction.” ABA Journal 70.7 (July 1984): 25. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Delgado Community College Library], [New Orleans], [LA]. 12 February 2008. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&db=aph&AN=4786809&site=ehost-live>. Kilbourne, Jean. “Jesus is a brand of jeans.” New Internationalist (Sep. 2006): 10-12. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Delgado Community College Library], [New Orleans], [LA]. 12 February 2008. .

  • Increasing Technology and Decreasing Media Credibility

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    As the power of technology grows, information has become not only easier to spread, but has also become more generally accessible. Anyone who seeks news from any part of the world can easily find it on the internet. Previously, the most common form of information distribution was through newspapers, printed in large quantities and sold for small fees. Now newspapers are having to make their way on to the internet, printing less in favor for online subscriptions to digital copies of their productions

  • Young Entrepeneur Idea: A Bookmark with a LED Light

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    01 May 2014]. What is entrepreneurship? definition and meaning. 2014. What is entrepreneurship? definition and meaning. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/entrepreneurship.html. [Accessed 30 April 2014]. UK book publishing industry 2014. . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.publishers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=905&Itemid=. [Accessed 02 May 2014].

  • Xerox Case Study Analysis

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    Book-in-Time equipment allows for a publishing company to produce a 300-page book for $6.90, something which could have been previously reached only for lots larger than 1,000 copies. A significant decrease in publishing costs, given the fact that these cover up to 20 % (including the paper and binding the book), would create the possibility of an increased profit margin. Book-In-Time solution provided by Xerox is one of the most efficient solutions for publishing companies running on demand for short-run

  • Ensuring Truth Within Creative Nonfiction

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    nonfiction books must then write truthfully to ensure creative nonfiction books are truthful. This is the only practical approach for the creation of true creative nonfiction books. Fact-checking is too onerous a practice when applied to the book publishing industry and avoids the inherent issue at hand: deceitful authors. For the fiction itself created by these authors is not the issue, but the deception, the robbing of unsuspecting readers, which has created this entire mess in the first place.

  • Plagiarisma Case Study

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    The #1 Ticketing tool Heaps of customer queries giving headaches? Try this ticketing tool. www.freshdesk.com Assignment Tutors Improve your academic scores Ph.D. writers for any subjects www.totalessay.com Self Publishing A Book? Be A Published Author Today. Get Your Free Publishing Guide. m.partridgepublishing.com/Singapore Plagiarism is a serious offence ““ it can get a writer fired and a student expelled. Teachers and editors often have to check work submitted to them for plagiarism. To give

  • Essay On Importance Of Creative Writing

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    Why Is Creative Writing An Important Field Of Study? Creative Writing is still a fairly new focus in the academic world. Since it found its place as a part of the English major, its importance and validation has been continually debated. Because of the influence of popular culture, today’s students have been strongly discouraged from pursuing studies within English or Creative Writing; what they aren’t being taught is the many benefits it presents. There is a strong stigma

  • The Paperless(?) Office

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    books and papers on CD-ROM. A single CD-ROM can hold a whole room full of books. This cuts down on the physical space a company must devote to paper storage. 3. How might book publishing change as the technology of the paperless office continues to develop? Will books become obsolete? Why or why not? The book publishing industry will have to grow and change in relation to the changing technology. As the paperless office gains more and more popularity, one will begin to see more and more documents

  • Robert Frost - A Comparisson Of 3 Poems

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    Comparing Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Birches", and "The Road Not taken" Robert Frost was an American poet that first became known after publishing a book in England. He soon came to be one of the best-known and loved American poets ever. He often wrote of the outdoors and the three poems that I will compare are of that "outdoorsy" type. There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning, each