Reviewers complained that those efforts were "quantitative" instead of "qualitative"; and resulted in more classes with complex names, with little change in instruction and content that often to live up to the course title. ... There, technology is considered a way of supporting the ultimate goal of involving students in more complicated "real-life" experiences and new organizational structures within the current educational system. ...

• Word Count: 313
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Graduate

Kyla Bender-Baird's book, "Transgender Employment Experiences: Gender Perceptions and the Law," is an insightful compilation of the transgender community's employment life and experiences with critical analysis on the politics behind bylaws governing gender rights and its implications in the real world. The book puts the spotlight on the lived experiences of 20 transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying, violence, and discrimination. ... The anxiety created by these events caused a great deal of stress and adverse health consequences, prompting...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Home schooling deprives children of real-life situations that develop cooperation, problem-solving skills, and interdependence with their peers (Reich, 2002, 57). In the public school system, children are constantly exposed to social, cultural and gender differences that will teach them how to work and live in an ever-changing world. ... "Socialization begins at birth and continues throughout one's entire life span: It's not as much an achievement and accomplishment as it is a process socialization is unavoidable- (Penn-Nabrit, 2003, 69). ... Whether it was that I was lucky to have t...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This chapter begins to introduce in detail the difference in how the Native Americans and English colonists lived on the land. ... The Native Americans learned to adjust to living a life of complete mobility. ...

• Word Count: 1323
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

For fans and enthusiasts, popular music can be a leisure-time pursuit occurring on evenings or weekends; alternatively, it can constitute a lifestyle, or way of life (e.g., Deadheads-a group of fans of the American band Grateful Dead who saw the band at as many gigs and festivals as possible from the 1970s onward). ... Different forms of popular music can create pleasure and excitement for some and moral panic and dread for others; it is a much debated and important realm of cultural life with significant implications for our understanding of consumer culture. ...

• Word Count: 2711
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

From the outset, American politics were relatively democratic when one compares it to the political systems of other nations (most of the world's population at this time lived under some variation of autocracy). ...

• Word Count: 2312
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

Beyond position-taking, the Jacksonians propounded a social vision in which any white man would have the chance to secure his economic independence, would be free to live as he saw fit, under a system of laws and representative government utterly cleansed of privilege. ...

• Word Count: 2407
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate