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    Margaret Fuller‚ a Re-mastering of Womanhood Margaret Fuller was a multifaceted woman who in reality did not fit into the period of which she was born. However‚ the obstacles and difficulties women faced during the 1800s‚ if they choose to be more than just a domestic worker‚ is exactly what shaped her into a prominent female figure. Margaret Fuller would go on to become an icon in the New England Transcendentalist movement‚ an editor of the first avant-garde intellectual magazine in America

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    trusses

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    n architecture‚ a truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes. External forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only at the nodes and result in forces in the members which are either tensile or compressive forces. Moments (torques) are explicitly excluded because‚ and only because‚ all the joints in a truss are treated as revolutes. A planar truss is one where all the members

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    the rest of us. Left in the surroundings of savagery‚ he grows to possess a savage language‚ superstition‚ and life... Transfer the savage-born infant to the surroundings of civilization‚ and he will grow to possess a civilized language and habit.” (Pratt 3) Pratt’s image of the “savage” Native people compared to many other people’s views of these people at this time. The creation of boarding schools was successful and effective in assisting white efforts of assimilating Native Americans into their

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    The Pony Express is more than 1‚800 miles and was only operational for about eighteen months‚ but helped many people during this time. Dry Creek Station was one of one hundred fifty seven stations along the pony express. It is the last of the original Pony Express stations on Bolivar Roberts division. The Dry Creek Station was built in 1860 and had many issues with Indians early on. A man named William H. Streeper who carried the “heavy mail” also known as “mule mail” was in that area when many

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    Teachers Day Cotations

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    precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos Bronson Alcott A central piece in Hindu scripture reads "Gurur Brahma‚ Gurur Vishnu‚ Guru devo Maheshwaraha - Gurussaakshaath param brahma tasmai shree gurave namaha‚" which translates as "The Guru (Teacher) is the Lord Brahma (the Creator)‚ the Guru

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    Broken Windows Theory

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    resulted in higher rates of serious crimes (2008). The main concept of this theory illustrated that if police were to target and eliminate minor disorders through community policing‚ it would have an overall impact on the reduction of crime rates (Gau & Pratt‚ 2008). Broken windows theory was not accepted by all‚ in fact it sparked a great deal of controversy (Wilson & Kelling‚ 1982). The opposing views of broken windows theory argued that it was too weak because of the lack thereof empirical evidence proving

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    ’transcends’ the physical and empirical and is realized only through the individual’s intuition‚ rather than through the doctrines of established religions. Prominent transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Amos Bronson Alcott‚ Orestes Brownson‚ William Henry Channing‚ James Freeman Clarke‚ Christopher Pearse Cranch‚ John Sullivan Dwight‚ Convers Francis‚ Margaret Fuller‚ William Henry Furness‚ Frederick Henry Hedge‚ Theodore Parker‚ Elizabeth Peabody‚ George Ripley‚ and

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    Be Optimistic

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    point of living‚ and of being an optimist‚ is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. – Peter Ustinov 12. My sun sets to rise again. – Robert Browning 13. I’m not afraid of storms‚ for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott 14. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. – Oscar Wilde 15. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns‚ oblivious to the rose. – Kahlil Gibran 16. Between the optimist and the

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    Silk Road

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    melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European imperialism‚ while the Silk Road historians theorized it through documents found along the Silk Road. Although modern imperialism differs substantially from the Silk Road

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    Pratt says that rewarding a good behavior provides an enjoyment which is derived from the behavior and this enjoyment reinforces the sustainability of that behavior (67). Coopersmith also comes with a supportive claim that parents who used rewarding report that their application are effective than parents who used punishment (qtd. in Pratt 67). Finally‚ it can be concluded that fear-oriented techniques are less likely

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