Essays Tagged: "textbooks"

A Not Entirely Benign Procedure... Four Years As A Medical Student

iencing when I become a medical student. Also, Perri's statement, "you can absolutely memorize your textbooks, you can earn a perfect score on every multiple choice test, but none of that leaves you e ...

(1 pages) 65 1 3.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Schools missing $1 million in textbooks from last year in Palm Beach county.

Schools missing $1 million in textbooks from last yearMaybe Palm Beach County's students love reading more than anyone realized. I ... ed. In the last school year, they failed to return nearly $1 million worth of the school district's textbooks.A state audit released this week criticizes the school district for its collection procedu ... this week criticizes the school district for its collection procedures in gathering lost or stolen textbooks that totaled $964,758 during the 2000-2001 school year.That's about 19,000 books, at an av ...

(2 pages) 33 0 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Discuss some of the implications of new techologies for teaching and learning in universities.

education for many students. The constantly changing world of technology means that blackboards and textbooks have been replaced with electronic libraries, interactive video and of course the Internet ... uter-based learning allows more information to be retained through interaction, unlike reading from textbooks, which often results in the reader becoming tired, also the learner can benefit from immed ...

(1 pages) 72 0 2.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The Columbus Day, as celebrated by people in the United States annually, is a total joke, as you will consent to after reading the article below.

olumbus Day and did not view it as a cause for celebration. From all my past readings in historical textbooks, Columbus has been described as a lover of the sea, who, as a little boy, dreamed of setti ...

(3 pages) 111 1 3.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Importance of EMH in the valuation and investment Internet-related stock market

net-related stock market, and the importance of EMH in its valuation and investment.1.2ScopeVarious textbooks on finance and certain web-sites were used to gather information and discuss the issues.1. ...

(12 pages) 198 1 3.9 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Process analysis of my "morning ritual".

try to maneuver myself off the bed without stepping on one of the many piles of notebooks, comics, textbooks and other oddities that congregate at the foot of my bed. I scoot all the way to the end b ...

(3 pages) 164 1 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Amy Lowell Research Paper

Amy Lowell once said, "Poetry and history are textbooks to the heart of man". Lowell is trying to say in this quote that the words a person uses t ... techniques that can be used to describe the comparison Caesar to the quote "Poetry and History are Textbooks to The Heart of Man" -Amy Lowell. The characterization between Caesar and the quote mentio ... ad everyone else. Caesar had many good qualities as bad qualities.The quote "Poetry and History are Textbooks to The Heart of Man" -Amy Lowell was compared to Julius Caesar through characterization an ...

(3 pages) 26 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Changing the number of days in a school week.

ut-of-school extra-curricular activities.Also the schools could save extra money and use it for new textbooks or improving our school's lunches or sidewalks. According to EducationWorld, schools in Ar ...

(1 pages) 30 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Ghandi.

ile in college he stated, "During the days of my education, I had read practically nothing outside textbooks and after I launch into my active life. I have very little time left for reading, I cannot ...

(6 pages) 72 1 4.5 Jul/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

How each mentor in To Sir, With Love and Dead Poet's Society reached his students.

these students, he expressed this to the fullest, by having them rip out the introduction of their textbooks because of what the book told them to do with poetry. By ripping that out, they realize th ...

(3 pages) 44 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

When I was A Little Boy.

ftand asked them numerous questions. I got to meet many aeronautics engineersand borrowed their old textbooks and read them till the wee hours of themorning. As technology improved with information su ...

(5 pages) 39 0 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Lack of Funds for Education in Bulgaria

he erudition of the lexicographers, and required us to purchase expensive seventy-page color-filled textbooks from an English publishing house, which turned out to be intended for intermediate level a ... workforce, and making students skeptical about achieving something by painstakingly perusing their textbooks.To sum up and fulfill Jane Tompkins' requirement that "reasons must be given, evidence add ...

(8 pages) 39 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The Celts.

While textbooks stress the descent of Europe from classical culture, the face of Europe throughout most of ... otland and the northern coast of France.SocietyThe Celts are traditionally ignored in world history textbooks and course, but the Celtic way of life, Celtic institutions, and the Celtic world view wer ...

(15 pages) 98 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Good journalism v.s. Bad journalism. Compare and contrast. Research essay.

ften, people come across bad journalism. It comes in numerous forms. Sometimes it is in the form of textbooks, television, and radio broadcasts. These stories are biased and untruthful. Often, lies ar ...

(2 pages) 118 0 4.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays

Ancient Egyptian Mathematics

subtract, multiply, and divide. They could find the area of a field and do basic algebra. They had textbooks to teach you math like the one Ahmes the Moon Born wrote called How to Obtain Information ...

(3 pages) 62 0 2.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

The Benefits of Working Full Time before College

the things which instructors are saying, because he has done all of thing that basically are on the textbooks.There many people for different reasons that cannot directly go to college after graduatio ...

(2 pages) 66 1 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

The things I carry...

al school day, a bulk of books and a collection of special things can be found in my bag, including textbooks, folders, a calculator, papers, and color pens. My bag on a good day may weight about 4 po ...

(3 pages) 43 0 2.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Marketing a new product for Cadbury's

e, Place and Promotion).I will get the information required from various sources. Mainly I will use textbooks, the Internet and through some primary research (visiting supermarkets and shops). I got s ...

(29 pages) 797 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Why was the Euro Disney's Land failed?

1.3 MethodIn order to complete this report, information has been researched from academic journals, textbooks, newspapers and websites.1.4 AssumptionsIn preparing the last part of the report, it was a ...

(21 pages) 629 3 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

ention of onlookers, not only the onlookers of that time, but also onlookers that were yet to come. Textbooks captured these events, and they were preserved in the hearts of the people. However, some ...

(5 pages) 81 1 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck