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    class with them every day. Textbooks for college students aren’t cheap. By introducing online textbooks, students would be able to save money due to the fact that online textbooks are cheaper than the ones from the school bookstore. The money saved could help out students who are in tough financial situations. Also, with new additions in technology on campus, the online textbooks would be even more easily accessible to students. In addition, the use of online textbooks will eliminate the hassle…

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    Told Me, Loewen contradicts information and the way it is presented in average high school American history textbooks. United States History is taught in American high schools to inform students of the mistakes made in the past, hoping they will learn from them and not make those mistakes again. Traditionally, American students are taught the history of their nation by reading from textbooks that list and group together important facts, dates, and events. Unfortunately, students relentlessly…

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    our unique lives. Being a university student, textbooks plays a huge role in my life. I spend most of my times with textbooks. It is an inseparable object, which accompanying throughout my life. Therefore, The object that best represents me is a textbook. This can be demonstrated through Personal, Practical and Universal analysis. Textbook’s personal significance to me is unbelievable. It plays a similar role to my life. My life is a textbook with infinite…

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    In Chapter 1, Loewen 's main thesis is on the idea of Heroification in American History textbooks. This is the process of making people seem like flawless heroes in order to preserve their image in the eyes of others. This is especially done with historic figures; textbooks mask all of their "unpleasant traits", thinking that it may keep readers more ignorant and more importantly, patriotic. Loewen 's argues that, in reality, this ignorance is what makes teenage students hate history class and…

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    Communist Party and the Soviet Union as a whole. One of the primary methods of reforming the Soviet History curriculum was through the development of a new history textbook that would replace the old one, as this was one the sources of Stalin’s primary criticism of the Bolshevik textbooks. Thus, with the mission of developing a new history textbook to be used in Soviet schools, the Politburo, which was the executive committee for the Central Committee of the Communist…

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    something entirely different from what we had. Hospitals, Parks, Transportation, Restaurants, offices and even homes are equipped with the latest technologies. Even though we live in a techno world, Students are still forced to carry heavy backpacks of textbooks and notebooks. The Educational Technology Debate (ETD) seeks to promote discussions and ideas that will help in providing low-cost information and communication technology to the developing countries. Kentaro Tayoma argues for the ETD…

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    Texas Education History

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    the McGraw-Hill company, most have criticized the textbooks because of the downplay of abuse and suffering during the time of slavery. Because of the Texas Board of Education and statewide standards, many facts during the slave period have been altered…

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    Thucydides Vs Herodotus

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    “responsib[ility]” belongs to humans and their “actions” (textbook 199). Such a view – like Herodotus’ view on other cultures and women – would undoubtedly incur displeasure among the majority of Thucydides’ contemporaries. However, this view is not unprecedented. For example, adherents to Leucippus’ remarkably enlightened theory of atomic matter posit that “whatever was active in shaping the form of matter was a natural force and not a divine being” (textbook 195). Anaxagoras, moreover,…

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    ‘ The textbooks that will be discussed in this part of the study are Georgios Kafentzis’ History of Modern Times (Ιστορία των Νεωτέρων Χρόνων) which was taught from 1974 to 1979 to the pupils of the last year of primary education (Dimotiko) and Georgia Koulikourdi’s Modern European History from the 15th Century A.D. to the Present (Νεώτερη Ευρωπαϊκή Ιστορία από τον 15ο αιώνα μ.Χ. ως σήμερα) which was taught from 1975 to 1984 to the pupils of the last year of the first circle of secondary…

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    Textbook Reference: 6.4 What Are the Active Processes of Membrane Transport? Page: 120 5. Barrier formation is only one function of the cell membrane. Describe some other functions of the membrane and discuss how the membrane is suited for those functions. Answer: Membranes function in processing energy transformation and in the organization of chemical reactions. Integral and peripheral proteins contribute to these functions. The membrane serves as a holding site for the catalytic enzymes…

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