Textbooks

Throughout the Colonial Period of America, limitations surrounded education for women, reducing it to biblical teaching that lasted only through the primary years. As Enlightenment ideas settled in the country, the concepts of freedom, liberty, and equality pervaded revolutionary thought. In addition to shaping many nation-forming documents of the time, it engrained these Enlightenment concepts into the American identity. This identity led many minority groups in the new nation to question their…

established a relationship between us as we are in the same circumstances and we can assume that whatever he has to say will be applicable to us as college students. The author later demonstrated a decision being made between paper copy textbooks and an eBook textbook. The author demonstrated his hesitancy in purchasing an eBook due to the common stereotypes.…

When it comes to Neuroscience, authors Paul Rees, Rhonda Booth and Alice Jones are experts on the topic and display it in the article The emergence of neuroscientific evidence on brain plasticity: Implications for educational practice. After countless studies on brain activity, researches have found that “The use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and radioligands is helping to identify concentrations, activity, synthesis and transport of neurotransmitters during development and this may, in…

An interview with Tiffany Burgess, a high school teacher who teaches theatre arts class and a director of school productions, was conducted to provide background information and her point of view on writing in the arts and humanities. I was also invited to watch some of her students perform their monologues as instructed. I took notes on her lecture and noted her perseverance to always do their best on their monologues. Because of her perspective on writing and her classroom working hard,…

do they bring pressure to all three branches of government? According to our textbook, an interest group- also called a “faction”, “pressure group”, “special interest”, “organized interest”, or “lobbying group”- can be defined as any organization that actively seeks to influence public policy. There are some similarities between interest groups and political parties but they do differ in many important ways. As textbook describes, interest groups have a linkage mechanism: they serve to connect…

To have schizophrenia is to have a chronic and severe mental disorder. It truly affects the way a person thinks and feels. According to the Exploring Psychology textbook is described as a mental disorder that deals with disoriented speech and unorganized thoughts and delusions. Wikipedia defines schizophrenia as a mental disorder that creates abnormal social response and failure to understand what’s real. Symptoms of schizophrenia include but not limited to delusions, hallucinations,…

Results. 2060 discusses the requirement of the chief audit executive to “include [all] significant risk exposures and control issues, including fraud risks, governance issues, and other matters” when reporting to “senior management and the board (Textbook).” Mr. Eatough purposefully evaded reporting an issue of fraud by downgrading the severity of the company’s situation and avoiding the use of the word fraud altogether in his final report to the CFO. 2440 requires the chief audit executive to…

could give me. For example, I didn’t realize that stories had symbolism and held deeper meaning that could reveal truths about human nature. This opened my mind and gave me a new insight on how to properly read a book. Now, whether it’s a novel or textbook, I do not mind spending most of my free time reading. My perspective on reading first changed when I entered middle school. Unlike elementary school where we rarely went to the library, we now had the opportunity in…

much larger than in the North. Leaving many plantation destroyed and the cotton market that would not recover. The Civil War was viewed by the South as the “Lost Cause” (textbook, 452) justifying the defeat by moving on hoping for a better future. In turn, the white southern seen the African Americans as “adversaries” (textbook, 453) seeing them as challenging the superiority of white southerner. With so much destruction of property and the defeat to the psych of the southern people. The Civil…

Connecting Students with Accessible Text, the use of accessible texts to compensate for the challenging content presented in social studies textbooks is thoroughly analyzed. Tovani explains how social studies textbooks cannot be the only source of instruction because they lack the format to develop authentic instruction. Aside from being too stiff, textbooks are usually at a more advanced reading grade level than where students are currently at. In order for instruction to be comprehensive and…