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Assessing and Evaluating Cures for Climate Change, 2008.
An assessment of cures that could stop global warming.
1,003 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 57.95
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This study analyzes the definitive cures for stopping the current global climate change that has been worsening in recent years. By discussing how human beings can reduce carbon dioxide emitting energy sources, one can realize how the climate can be saved by a new environmental consciousness.
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"One major factor in the cause of global warming in the current global climate is how is how human beings interact with their environment. The emission of carbon dioxide from automobiles around the globe has been a major factor in why the world is becoming a warmer place. With the world's temperature rising faster than it has for over 50,000 years, there is a definite scientific consensus that human machines are a serious problem for curing the world's climate issues (Maslin 56). Since carbon dioxide emitted from vehicles acts as an agent that opens holes in the ozone, there is a growing problem with how the extremely warm ultra violet rays from the sun will escape. Carbon dioxide basically opens the holes for the sun's rays, but they also trap the heat on the earth's surface. One solution would be to use electric cars or hybrid vehicles to help reduce the amount of gas being used, which also reduces the amount of carbon dioxide they emit. Houghton (2004) defines this as an important step in slowing down the emissions growth rates in current times:"
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Assessment and Evaluation of Standardized Tests, 2007.
A review of the assessment and evaluation of the standardized Woodcock-Johnson III test.
2,214 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 110.95
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This paper discusses standardized tests and evaluation tests used at Smithback Middle School, in terms of relevant publication information, stated purpose, participants and scoring and interpretation of results. The paper then focuses on the historical origins of the Woodcock-Johnson III test, looking at its purpose and development, as well as the advantages of its use.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Summary of Interview and Tests
Part II. Three Tests Used in this Setting
Part III. Further Exploration of the Woodcock-Johnson III Test
Conclusion
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"At the time of its creation, the Woodcock-Johnson III test was much better suited towards identifying and describing the intellectual performance of younger persons than the standard IQ test. Cultivation of the methodologies over time suggest that it has been improved; while the IQ test has also been revised and retooled over the decades, it is necessary to identify these two tests as having distinctive outcomes."
"The Woodcock-Johnson III test seems to be useful to parents, teachers, and students. The limitation of the steep initial fee may be cost-prohibitive for some communities, but it is useful and can be reused. It is not fully known what the test can achieve in respect to allowing students with learning disabilities and special needs to participate in the traditional classroom setting."
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Assessment, Evaluation and Treatment Planning, 2006.
A review of family therapy and the issues at hand.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 85.95
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This paper analyzes a family with a problem that consists of one individual that has taken control over her husband and children, to include her control of their emotional and behavioral patterns. Through this control the family members have developed negative thought patterns and have become dependent on the one individual to determine their present and future roles within the family and society. This paper discusses the problems that have engulfed the family, and it is at this time that they have all agreed to begin some form of family therapy in order to address their personal and family issues. The basic family pattern begins with the triangle of the mother, father and children.
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Assessing Instrumental Music Students, 2008.
A research proposal to provide more concrete criteria and a methodology for assessing music knowledge and ability.
2,875 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, AU$ 137.95
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This paper presents a research proposal that will evaluate several different assessment techniques for evaluating the music student and that it will focus on assessment in music class. The paper also explains that the proposed research will answer the research question "What are the best forms of assessment for an instrumental music class?", and will examine several types of assessment methods and tools in order to determine their applicability in the music classroom.
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Abstract
Purpose
Research Question
Rationale
Definition of Terms
Literature Review
Portfolio Assessment
Standardized Tests
Concert/Recital
Summary
Methodology
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"On the collegiate or professional level, the most common form of assessment is the portfolio. For the music student, this portfolio will include evaluation from third parties and self- evaluations of performances and other works. The portfolio might contain various pieces of evidence that support the student's competence in a given area. It will also include some original pieces, or evidence of independent research. As Goolsby (1995) notes, reliability is one of the key disadvantages of the portfolio as a method of evaluation."
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Climate and Culture within a Professional Organization, 2007.
This paper assesses and explains the concepts of climate and culture within a professional organization.
3,439 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 156.95
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In this article, the writer provides a detailed explanation of the concepts of climate and culture within a professional organization. The writer notes that doing so will help familiarize the reader with how these separate processes both impact the status of the organization. This paper also demonstrates how an effective leader can change these processes and therefore help improve the quality of the work environment for his or her employees.
Outline:
Introduction
Explanation of Climate and Culture
Climate
culture
Development of Climate and Culture
Changing the Climate and Culture
Conclusion
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"The climate of an organization is manifest by its workers. As such, climate research predates culture research as there has traditionally been a strong psychological component of attempting to assess job performance through exploring the perceptions, attitudes, preferences, and motivational drive of employees. Ashanskay et al. find that the early research on climate was done with a focus on Gestalt psychology, suggesting that the study of a climate in an organization was similar to the study of field theory on any population set."
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Assessment, 2002.
An opinion paper arguing that assessment and evaluation of children are a difficult but necessary process.
932 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 54.95
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The author of the paper uses her own personal experience with the assessment process of special needs and disabled children. The evaluation process reviewed in this paper involves a full skills assessment, IEP development and finally an ARD. The author argues that assessment, evaluation and testing are difficult but necessary processes that all learners, administrators, and curriculum designers must do to ensure effective learning.
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"Many believe assessment is a necessary evil, but to my children it is a foundation to build upon. When developing my home special needs educational plan for my children I had to review their assessments to learn where they currently stood, and what direction they should go. My personal experience with the assessment process has not been a positive endeavor. Watching professionals query my flesh and blood for responses was sometimes painful and confusing. Often, I felt the results were wrong and that the children could do more. This perceived inaccurate assessment is often the case when evaluating special needs and disabled children. While the process may not appear to yield fruitful results it does however allow for planning, and a starting point."
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Environmental Articles on Climate, 2008.
Compares two environmental articles about climate: A. Simms' "Why Do We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster?" and R. Gelbspan's "Boiling Point: Nature Doesn't Compromise on Global Climate Change; Activists Must Not Either".
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 55.95
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The paper explains that A. Simms in his article "Why Do We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster?" discusses how society is living way beyond its means in relation to climate. The author then relates that R. Gelbspan elucidates in his article "Boiling Point: Nature Doesn't Compromise on Global Climate Change; Activists Must Not Either" how weather or climate is the premier issue since it threatens all of humanity. The paper evaluates the articles on moral, imaginative and emotional criteria. The author concludes that both articles were not filled with jargon which made them informative and powerful.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Moral
Imaginative
Emotional
Conclusion
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"Gelbspan does not bring the issue of global warming to such a personal level. With Simms, I feel as though he is sitting with me at my kitchen counter helping me balance my check book and showing me that I am in debt to climate just like I am to my credit cards. Although Gelbspan is a more logical article and the rationale is more intellectual the message is still the same as with Simms--the feeling just isn't the same. Gelbspan's passion and imagination come from his bashing of the American people and their representatives."
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The Climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, 2002.
A discussion of the climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, with respect to climate classifications, its effects on farming and other activities.
2,405 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, APA, AU$ 118.95
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This paper discusses how climate governs the entire ecological structure of the planet earth. The author examines how climate, in relation to the topography and latitudinal location, determines the vegetative types, the hydrology, soil, agriculture and various human activities.
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?Climate represents a long term average of various weather features such as temperature and precipitation. The World Meteorological Organization uses 30-year averages to define climatological "normals" for these various features. Climate determines how resources such as water and vegetation are distributed and, until the onset of technology, climate also determined where people lived and worked. Many factors, such as topography, proximity to large bodies of water, and latitude affect a particular location's long-term climate. It is important to note that because a region's climatology is a 30-year average, significant year to year variability is likely. For example, a particular location may have a dry, warm winter one year and a record snowfall the next year.?
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The Climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, 2002.
The following paper discusses the climate of the U.S.A. and Canada, with respect to the climate classifications, its effects on farming and other activities.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 118.95
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This essay discusses how climate governs the entire ecological structure of the planet earth. The author examines how climate, in relation to the topography and latitudinal location, determines the vegetative types, the hydrology, soil, agriculture, and various human activities.
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"Climate represents a long term average of various weather features such as temperature and precipitation. The World Meteorological Organization uses 30-year averages to define climatological "normals" for these various features. Climate determines how resources such as water and vegetation are distributed and, until the onset of technology, climate also determined where people lived and worked. Many factors, such as topography, proximity to large bodies of water, and latitude affect a particular location's long-term climate. It is important to note that because a region's climatology is a 30-year average, significant year to year variability is likely. For example, a particular location may have a dry, warm winter one year and a record snowfall the next year"
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Climate Change and Developing Countries, 2008.
This paper explores the impact of climate change on the development of Third World countries.
2,032 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 9 sources, APA, AU$ 103.95
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This paper examines how climate change will impact the development of under-developed lands that figure to be (and already are) hardest hit by changes in the natural environment. In particular, the paper looks at how the development projects already in place in the developing world (or those now being conceived) will shortly - if not already - find themselves the targets of new, restrictive regulations aimed at cutting down runaway greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the paper looks at the human toll caused by climate change and how this injures the growth and development of Third World nations. In addition, the paper examines the role climate change plays in depleting natural resources - chiefly water - that fuel important economic activities in lands that can scarcely be without these activities. The paper also looks at how the local tourist sectors of these countries will suffer (are surely suffering already) as biologically diverse locales decline in the face of relentless global change. Last of all, climate change as a precipitator of foreign control over the economic policies of developing states is discussed with a focus upon how climate change has wrestled control for many economic initiatives out of the hand of Third World countries and placed that control firmly in the hands of international regulatory bodies dominated by western elites.
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"Climate change means trouble for impoverished "Global South" nations in a host of other ways, as well. A study recently concluded by the World Health Organization insists that climatic changes unfolding since the middle 1970s could be causing (at this very moment) nearly 150,000 annual deaths in the developing world and approximately five million "disability-adjusted life-years" (DALY) in that part of the world, as well. In short, climate-instigated diseases and "heat-related morbidity" are both seen (at least by the WHO) as heavily impacting the developing world even though the developing world is hardly culpable for man-made global warming (Patz, 2006; for a slightly more recent study that affixes a greater responsibility for global climate change to developing lands, please see Raupach, 2007)."
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School Climate and Student Results, 2007.
Examines the impact of the school's climate on student achievement results.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 12 sources, APA, AU$ 97.95
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Literature is replete with studies which show the importance of school climate in terms of learning potential. This paper focuses on the impact that the school climate has on achievement as well as on concomitant issues that affect and relate to student achievement levels. Achievement within the ambit of overall education cannot be separated from other aspects and variables. This paper therefore also provides examples of the interdependence between increased achievement and factors affecting school climate, in order to create a more amenable and productive school and learning environment.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Definitions and Importance of School Climate
Literature Overview and Discussion
Outcomes and Possibilities for Improving School Climate
Conclusion
References
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"Studies have also found that there is a significant correlation between school climate and other variables which need to be taken into account. For instance, there is an important link between different economic and social strata and problems with school climate. The study by Esposito ( 1999) states that achievement is also related to different school situations. For example the study found that problems with regard to school climate are more often found in low-income districts and are concomitant with problems related to student achievement and socialization."
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Climate Change, 2002.
An analysis of the relationship between man and the earth regarding climate change.
3,525 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 207.95
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This paper will look at the coin of climate change, where on the one side the human impact on the earth will be shown, and on the other, the impact of earth on man. Such a study is inevitably somewhat polemical, as it is still open to debate what the precise effects of man have and will be on climate change, and also what climate change will mean to man. It will also be quite general in analysis, as a paper of this scope can allow no more. What will be made clear, nevertheless, is that the relationship between man and earth is clearly changing. More specifically, man is outgrowing the earth. If the relationship is to continue indeed prosper then a new balance needs to be found. The issue of climate change holds one important key to this balance.
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A Sceptic's View of Climate Change, 2006.
A look at the issue of climate change from a sceptical point of view.
2,272 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 113.95
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This paper questions whether or not climate change has in fact been caused by man and discusses the main arguments put forward by the
sceptics. The accuracy of the computer models used to predict climate change is examined as well as the variation of temperatures in the past in relation to man-made climate change.
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A sceptics view of climate change
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"Sea levels are rising, the ice caps are melting, summers are hotter and the world as we know it is doomed unless we reduce greenhouse gas emissions now. This is the alarming view of global warming presented almost daily in the world's media. How much real scientific data is there to back this up?
"In order to assess the problem of man made global climate change the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The IPCC has so far produced three assessment reports based mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature. Hundreds of scientists across the world were involved. These reports are used as the basis for most public policy on climate change such as the Kyoto Protocol.
"In the second assessment1 published in 1996 the IPCC reported that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is discernible human influence on global climate". In the most recent report in 20012 the IPCC more categorically said that "most of the warming observed the last 50 years is attributable to human activities". Whilst the majority of the scientific community agree with the findings of the IPCC there are still those who are sceptical of their findings."
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Business and Climate Change, 2004.
Discussion of the impact that climate change has on industries and business.
932 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 54.95
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This paper examines the problem of climate change brought about by the operation of major global industries. The paper looks at the threats imposed by climate change and the opportunities presented by action on climate change. Also discussed are the different business strategies applied by American and European firms in response to climate change.
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"Climate change has become a major issue on the forefront of economic and political discussions. The cause of climate has been indicated as a build-up of greenhouse gases (mostly CO2) in the atmosphere as a result of emissions mostly from industry. The evidence presented in support of global warming has been robust but not completely conclusive (Levy & Kelley, 1997). The mass sum of greenhouse gas emissions produced by all nations of the world could yield potentially devastating ecological effects (Levy & Kelley, 1997). However, businesses and industry that rely on energy produced by fossil-fuels are concerned that early action on global warming in the absence of conclusive evidence could lead to terrible economic losses. On the other side, inaction could also prove disastrous, since global warming could potentially lead to floods, droughts, rising ocean levels, and disruptions in the global food supply. Moreover, there are both threats and opportunities that are presented to industries due to climate change."
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Economic Impacts of Climate Change, 2008.
This paper discusses the direct impacts that climate change has on economics.
855 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 16 sources, APA, AU$ 49.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that with the advent of globalization has come the realization that many of the issues traditionally viewed as national concerns have their international implications. The writer notes that climate change has been an enduring issue of concern since the discovery of the ozone layer depletion and its subsequent effects to ecosystems in the early 20th century. The writer discusses the economic impacts of climate change that affects individuals and industries and concludes that there is a realization that climate change has an impact directly and indirectly to the state of economics, policies and social development nationally and internationally.
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"One of the best illustrations of climate change related tradeoffs and marginal choices is the Kyoto Protocol. The agreement recognizes that industries have their environmental costs and gives incentives to countries that will be able to function below the CO2 and CH4 production allocations. Though the effort has been seen to be one of the most cohesive global efforts to reduce emissions, some have pointed out that measures only motivate countries to falsehoods on their CO2 and CH4 production. Bohan believes that though these measures control industries' impact to the climate, they do not aid in addressing existing climate problems. Considering the cumulative impact individual environmental issue to climate change, there is concern that marginal efforts to alleviate climate change do not impact climate conditions. Coupled with other economic issues, some analysts believe that existing measures are not able to deter the impact of climate-related issues regardless of the perspectives used to evaluate the issue."
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How Will Climate Change Change Atlantic Canada?, 2006.
A discussion regarding Atlantic Canada and the unusual climatic changes.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 71.95
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This paper discusses how more and more scientists are now accepting that the world is undergoing unusual climate change. This paper examines the most important and likely ways that Atlantic Canada will be affected by climate change. The paper shows how climate change has the potential to have a devastating effect on the forests, farms and economy of Atlantic Canada. Natural Resources Canada reports that the latest analysis provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides more scientific proof that climate change really is happening.
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