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Annotated Bibliography [1] R. Holtz, W. Kovacs, T. Sheahan. An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering, 2nd Ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2011, pp. 294-301. Liquefaction is a phenomena that appears in not very cohesive soils. There are many factors linked to the existence of quicksand. Holtz, Kovacs, and Sheahan describe how the seepage forces, liquefaction, earthquakes, soil stress and underground water table are crucial elements to the understanding of quicksand. Additionally, the book provides…

Annotated Bibliography Kiesner, J., & Pastore, M. (2005). Differences in the Relations Between Antisocial Behavior and Peer Acceptance Across Contexts and Across Adolescence. Child Development, 76, 6, 1278-1293. This article examines the general variations within the relations between antisocial behavior and the way it compares to acceptance across contexts and across adolescence. The study believes that in adolescence antisocial behavior is performed and becomes absolutely related to peer…

Annotated Bibliography Clancy, Paul “Cyclops, Part 2: Secondhand stories- and a photo- sail in.” Virginian Pilot 30 Jan. 2011. This article is valuable for research because it analyzes the mysterious disappearance of the USS Cyclops, a WWI cargo ship, which was used to transport combat materials from the Caribbean back to Baltimore. It provides many alternate theories to what happened to it, including the best possible theory, based on the research that has been discovered and examined. It was…

Annotated Bibliography A, Paul. (2014, July 1). Why schools efforts to block the internet are so laughably lame. Retrieved March 30, 2016, from http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/07/banned_website_awareness_day_why_schools_efforts_to_block_the_internet_are.html In this article, Paul takes a stance against blocking the internet access at schools. She believes that the attempts that the schools make to block the access of students is considered to be laughable and…

Annotated Bibliography Theory – this section contains sources that will help build my particular theoretical framework and its development throughout each part of the essay. Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 2003. In chapter seven of his book, Talal Asad argues that Egyptian society had to undergo reconfigurations in its social landscape; that is it had to develop new social spheres among ordinary Egyptians that could…

Annotated Bibliography Johnson, Vernon Elso, ed. Race in William Shakespeare's Othello. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. Social Issues in Literature. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 Nov. 2016. In this book the author Vernon Johnson, focuses on breaking down the characteristics of Othello as a character and as a free black man in a white culture. At the beginning Johnson talks about what questions maybe running through the audience’s heads while reading Othello which he then continues to…

Hamlet Annotated Bibliography Chambers, Edmund K. “Critical Appreciation of Hamlet.” Theatrehistory.com. Web. 1 May 2016. This article was originally published in 1895. E. K. Chambers, an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar argue that for sure Shakespeare did not mean for Hamlet to be mad. Chambers adds, Hamlet is the tragedy of a soul who pretends his madness to “think it over,” his plan to kill his uncle Claudius. This article is useful to my research as it states that Hamlet…

Annotated Bibliography 1. (n.d.). School-wide strategies for managing mathematics. Intervention Central, Retrieved from http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/math/school-wide-strategies-managing-mathematics In this article the importance of children’s development of number sense, understanding of how number concepts work and the relationships between numbers is discussed along with thes and order of operations and then by upper middle school they begin to master word…

Annotated Bibliography Working Thesis: The gender pressures pushed on men by society are preventing men from seeking help from depression, which in turn leads men to have a higher suicide rate then women’, this must change. Mandracchia, Jon T., and Phillip N. Smith. "The Interpersonal Theory Of Suicide Applied To Male Prisoners." Suicide And Life-Threatening Behavior 45.3 (2015): 293-301. PsycINFO. Web. 26 Oct. 2015. In this study researchers looked into 39 male prisoners and their suicide…

Annotated Bibliography Kirkey, Sharon. “Doctors Discriminate Against the Obese: Expert.” Halifax Daily News, 4 Feb 2008, p.9. LexisNexis Academic. http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnaucui2api/results/permalink.do This source’s main claim is that obese patients are dissatisfied and fed up with the mistreatment from their doctors. Specifically, patients are being misdiagnosed and hurried throughout their appointments. Also, some patients are so unwilling to go see their doctor because of weight…