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This essay looks at the unusual case of conflict in the arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates and his arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department.  The case of Dr. Gates, a Harvard Professor, reached a national arena and the President of the United States has opportunity to help solve the conflict.  A detail of the facts of this case is provided as well as a discussion of communication conflict theory.  Opinions from experts have also been explored. …

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Individuals entering the teaching profession from other fields have much to offer in terms of practical experience in fields such as business, private industry, law enforcement, and the military. The authors examine the phenomenon of second-career teachers with specific emphasis on the motivating factors, common experiences, and reflections concerning the decision to leave already established professions in order to pursue a career in teaching. This particular issue of life vocation…

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Virtual manipulatives were used as an intervention tool between assessments to determine, through quantitative and qualitative data, their effect on developing conceptual understanding of mathematics. Fourth grade elementary students were selected to participate in this case study. The students were exposed to virtual manipulatives designed to develop an understanding of time, coordinates, the conversion of fractions, and the difference between area and perimeter. Furthermore, this…

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Anderson, Verl. Economic and Social Sustainability of Deaf and Blind Students in Russia, The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, vol. 7, 2011.

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Using Global Commodity Chain (GCC) approach, the present study investigates the factors that influence the positions of developing nations within the governance structure of the international sex trafficking network.  Previous research focuses on the influences of economic reforms or culture on countries' positions within the network, for both developing and developed nations.  The present paper focuses on developing nations to avoid biasness, and to address contextual differences. …

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This mixed methods research study examines the phenomenon of filicide, which is defined as the murder of children by their parents. Previous research has investigated filicide across a variety of contexts including legal, social, and cultural but not from a viewpoint of managing and resolving intra-family conflict. The goals of this research are to provide additional insight and practical applications for social workers, law enforcement personnel, counselors, and other individuals…

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Inclusion in public schools involves providing the least restrictive environment for students with disabilities.  A lack of understanding often exists among general and special education teachers in relation to the implementation of inclusion in general education classrooms. The focus of this phenomenological study was to describe the daily lived experiences of 4 general and 4 special education elementary school teachers who taught in an inclusion setting in a large urban district in…

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The lending practices of the IMF have been under scrutiny for many years with critics asking whether or not these conditionalities are in the best interest of the countries (Butkiewicz & Yanikkaya, 2005).  These lending practices are often criticized as "anti-growth" and "anti-poor" since governments are given a set of conditions that curb local demand resulting in adverse effects on the economy in the short run (Butkiewicz & Yanikkaya, 2005).   Countries participate in the…

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All too often, Pauline and Synoptic scholars seem to live in different worlds, all the while forgetting that their subjects of study did not. Moreover, because of the lack of verbal agreements between Paul and the Synoptics, many dismiss a direct relationship between the two. However, many students of Paul, myself included, comb his letters looking for allusions to the OT based not only on shared language, but also on shared themes and the availability of texts, among other criteria.