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Guided Missiles, 2006.
This paper explores the technological development of guidance system weapons.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 51.95
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The writer of this paper examines the circumstances that brought about the development of guidance system weapons in 1944. This paper also discusses in-depth the influential role satellite communication technology had and continues to have in most areas of warfare as well as the importance of global positioning systems (GPS).
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"Although the atomic bomb was a revolutionary new weapon, it played no part in World War II until the end, and cannot be said to have had a profound impact on the actual conduct of war since. The effectiveness of nuclear weaponry is so extreme that, were it to be used, the results would be incalculable loss of life and destruction that could produce a complete change in the world as we know it today. It could also be said that the significance of the atomic bomb was in the elimination of warfare among the developed countries, but that has not happened. Instead, wars have continued almost unabated in one part of the world or another since then."
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Precision Guided Munitions, 2002.
An introduction to the development and use of precision guided munitions.
2,283 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 14 sources, APA, AU$ 102.95
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This paper discusses precision guided munitions, weapons designed to be directed against a single target which rely on external guidance or its own guidance system. It examines how these weapons, which can be launched from aircraft, submarines, ships and land vehicles, or by individual soldiers on the ground, represents the principle of the low-cost threat that forces a high-cost and difficult defence. It looks at the their growth and development since World War I along with their definite effect upon modern military affairs. It looks at the use of mines and cruise missles and future technological advancements such as hypersonic missile concepts that strike long distance targets at high speeds.
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"Although, precision has been recognized as one of the important feature of weapon development as noted by military theorist, historian and strategist Major General J.F.C. Fuller, who considered it as ?accuracy of aim? and as one of the five familiar attributes of weaponry, collectively with range of volume of fire, striking power, action and portability. Here, it is important to note that the modern precision weapon bring together the traits of accuracy, portability, striking power and range making the combination of a powerful force multiplier in nowadays' military scene."
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Guided Reading in Grades K-3, 2003.
A critical analysis of guided reading in grades K-3.
1,996 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 10 sources, APA, AU$ 92.95
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This paper addresses the benefits of guided reading in grades K-3. It also compares guided reading direct instruction methods. It explains that there are necessary basics involved in encouraging a successful guided reading lesson and then examines these basics.
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"I visited my elementary school a few weeks ago. Winfield Street Elementary School in Corning, N.Y., was where I was educated from kindergarten until fifth grade. Remembering back, each classroom always had a very traditional setup. The desks were always in rows and the teacher's desk in the front. Students were considered "empty containers" that were filled with facts and rules through lecture and discussion. The students had little choice in the direction of their learning. As I walked through the hallways of my elementary school and peeked into different classroom doorways, I saw the same setup. Sadly, some teachers believed that direct teacher instruction was still better than any other type of instruction. I do not know how or why teachers can feet that students gained from this type of instruction. Recently, in many schools, a new reading technique is being used. This new technique is guided reading and it requires teachers to have a more focused approach on reading instruction. "
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Guided Reading vs. Ability Grouping, 2004.
This paper explores whether a guided reading approach is more effective than past practices of reading instruction.
2,245 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 12 sources, APA, AU$ 101.95
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This paper explains the main criticisms of ability grouping practices, which refer to reading groups created by the teacher according to the size of the class, students' reading aptitudes, or the distribution of reading aptitudes within the class, are that such practices do not accomplish anything of benefit to students and that they fosters unequal opportunities for academic achievement among different groups of students. The author relates that the goal of guided reading is for instructors to provide an environment that will assist students in their progression toward independent, silent reading by fostering positive attitudes toward reading in students and by aiding students in the development of strategies to extract meaning from reading and to understand the reading process. The paper concludes that an approach that combines grouping strategies with guided reading practices may prove to be the most beneficial option for reading instruction.
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Ability Grouping
Guided Reading
A Combined Approach
Conclusion
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"The Four Blocks approach used guided reading as a crucial component to its instructional strategy. Guided reading was known as the basal block, because the basal reader drove instruction at this level. There are several purposes of this block, including exposing children to a wide range of reading material, teaching strategies for comprehension and challenging children by providing increasingly more difficult reading material. Guided reading provides a base for the following blocks. However, it is difficult to target guided reading practices to students that represent various literacy levels, and inevitably some students are struggling while others are not challenged enough."
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Precision Guided Munitions, 2002.
Examines the impact of precision guided munitions on the revolution of military technology.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 12 sources, AU$ 129.95
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This ten-page graduate-level paper examines the impact of precision guided munitions on the revolution of military technology, discusses how precision guided weapons have altered the way we fight wars today, and analyzes how this will affect the revolution in military affairs in the future in terms of organizational and doctrinal changes.
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Guided Reading and the SPED Classroom, 2003.
A practical use of guided reading in the special education, self-contained classroom
3,505 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 24 sources, APA, AU$ 143.95
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This paper deals with the practical use of guided reading in the special education, self-contained classroom. It offers other tools to be used along with guided reading. The research is based on a wide variety of sources.
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"A review of the literature has shown that it has been used in a regular education classroom. However, very few studies have been conducted using the impactof guided reading and reading growth with special education students. As a special education teacher, I have determined that it can be used in a SPED classroom, because it is based on reading grade levels that my children are on."
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Guided Reading and the Classroom, 2002.
A review of the literature regarding guided reading and potential classroom use.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 20 sources, APA, AU$ 82.95
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This paper deals with a review of the literature using guided reading as a tool in the classroom and how it can be used in a classroom. It offers a comprehensive methodology of how to implement guided reading and how to achieve the benefits of this activity. The research is based on a wide variety of sources and provides a good review.
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"A critical foundation in guided reading is that students read the materials at their instructional levels. During a typical lesson, students discuss both the content and the strategies that they used to make sense of what is being read. Specific attention is devoted to comprehension levels, questioning, before-reading strategies, during-reading strategies, and after-reading strategies."
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Why Did Khrushchev Install Missiles in Cuba in 1962?, 2002.
This essay explores the reasons why Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba, and judges how successful he was in realizing his goals.
3,260 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 136.95
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A variety of reasons influenced Khrushchev's decision to install missiles into Cuba, including pressures from home, the U.S., Europe, China, and Cuba itself. This essay examines the importance of the different factors, and in doing so challenges the often held theory that Kennedy won, and Khrushchev lost.
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"In international opinion, the Soviet Union was largely held to have been defeated in the Cuban Missile Crisis, having been 'successfully rebuffed' by John F. Kennedy, who had displayed 'cool nerve during an extraordinarily dangerous situation' . Such was the nature of the Soviet Union's perceived defeat that it influenced a break in Sino-Soviet relations; the Chinese viewing the Soviet Union's withdrawal of nuclear missiles in response to a U.S. quarantine as a sign of their weak resolve in the face of U.S. strength; thus, the Soviet Union did not warrant her status as the protector of world communism. In the West, the Soviet Union was widely regarded as having been the aggressor, and her placing of missiles in Cuba was an aggressive policy which could have resulted in nuclear war. Khrushchev defended himself, claiming that his sole purpose had been in 'protecting the freedom-loving people of Cuba' , a purpose in which he had been entirely successful as he had stalled imminent U.S. military action against Cuba, and had extracted a promise from the U.S. not to support action against Cuba in the future. However, none of these viewpoints reflected the full picture. Khrushchev had never intended nuclear war, neither had he solely sought to protect Cuba from U.S. aggression. Indeed, Khrushchev can be shown to have had a wide range of aims and objectives, some realised, some failed, but which question the plausibility of his perceived 'defeat'."
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Guided Imagery & Psychotherapy, 1997.
Theory, techniques, types, applications, examples of positive images used to promote healing, relaxation, cognitive restructuring and patient-therapist relationship.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 139.95
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"GUIDED IMAGERY & PSYCHOTHERAPY USES
Introduction
Guided imagery is a part of the field of mind/body medicine, defined as using the power of the mind to evoke a positive response. Imagery is a flow of thoughts allowing one to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste in the imagination; it is an inner representation of our experience or a fantasy, and a symbolic personal language. Imagery is viewed as the language of emotions and the interface between the mind and the body. Worry is a form of imagery that is common to most; a good worrier may be a good candidate for guided imagery. Guided imagery can provide access to cognitive structures that allow for psychotherapy to take place, it can also help heal by reducing stress, slowing the heart rate, stimulating the immune system, reducing pain, and.."
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 2004.
This paper discusses the Cuban Missile Crisis, a confrontation between President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev over the placement of Russian missiles in Cuba in October, 1962.
2,420 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 107.95
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This paper discusses that the Cuban Missile Crisis confrontation involved an American blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviets from delivering any more missiles or other weapons to Cuba. The author points out that the event recently was compared to September 11, 2001, as a time when Americans realized that the oceans no longer protected us from enemy attack. The paper stresses that the speeches Kennedy made on American television demonstrated his concern about public opinion and his desire to have the American people watch carefully as he challenged the Soviets.
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"Kruschev believed that if he could get the missiles into Cuba, he would close the gap between the Soviet Union and the United States and gain a strategic advantage. Kennedy certainly saw this possibility as well. Kennedy knew that American strategic interests lay in keeping the Soviets from gaining this advantage and in keeping the Soviets out of the Western Hemisphere, asserting the Monroe Doctrine that told all other powers to keep out of this part of the world. Kennedy also knew the Soviet capacity in terms of missiles and other weaponry, though he could not be sure that the Soviets would not use those weapons even if they could not follow up an attack with as much power as could the United States. Morgenthau also cites the mass of intelligence data gathered from the Russian spy Penkovsky, a trove called Ironbark, which told the United States what weapons the Soviets had and much more about their operations."
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 2002.
An overview of the 1962 missile crisis between America and the Soviet Union.
2,213 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 99.95
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was a major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to install ballistic missiles in Cuba although they had made a promise to the U.S. that they would not. The paper shows that when the U.S. discovered the construction of missile launching sites, President John F. Kennedy publicly denounced the Soviet actions, demanding that they remove the nuclear missiles from Cuba.
When this did not work, Kennedy imposed a naval blockade on Cuba, threatening that the U.S. Days would meet any missile launched from Cuba with a full-scale retaliatory attack later and Soviet ships carrying missiles to Cuba went home. The paper examines how Khrushchev soon agreed to dismantle the missile sites. The U.S then ended its blockade within a month, and shortly after, all missiles and bombers were removed from Cuba. The paper provides a detailed overview of this confrontation.
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"The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the first time that the world was in danger of full-scale nuclear war. When the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, the U.S. viewed this as an act of hostility that could not be tolerated.
However, many critics say that the Soviets were simply reacting to the Bay of Pigs invasion, in which Kennedy used Cubans against Castro without providing the American military support they needed. Americans saw this as a great embarrassment. But to the U.S.S.R., it was viewed as an American-sponsored military offensive against Cuba, which was a communist country and Soviet ally."
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Ballistic Missile Defense at the Global, State, and Local Levels, 2001.
An analysis at the global, state, and local levels of the US decision to move forward with a ballistic missile defense system, with background, reactions of other countries, ideologies, and policies.
2,835 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 12 sources, AU$ 123.95
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This paper examines the US decision to move forward with a ballistic missile defense system. The author gives a background on the history and technology of ballistic missile defense and then examines the reactions of other countries to the American missile defense decision. Also discussed are the ideological and moral support for missile defense at the state level. Finally, missile defense is analyzed as a political issue in relation to the 2000 elections and as an economic issue for defense contractors and certain parts of the country that stand to gain business from an expanded missile defense.?
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"On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan began one of the most important legacies of the last stage of the Cold War with a speech outlining his Strategic Defense Initiative. The Star Wars program, as it came to be known, immediately created tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as between the US and its allies, and sparked debate over the feasibility, cost, benefits, and consequences of ballistic missile defense (BMD). This debate may not have mattered much when missile defense technology was too immature to make deployment practical or even possible. However, seventeen years later, technology has advanced to the point where the US must decide now whether it wants missile defense in the future. A decision of this magnitude, involving billions of dollars and potentially billions of lives, must be examined closely at all levels of analysis."?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 2006.
This paper discusses the question of how close to war were the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1961 Cuban missile crisis.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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The paper explains that, considering the information now available, it seems unlikely the Soviets would have attacked the United States over the Cuban missile crisis. The author states that it actually appears the United States was the aggressor: The missiles were placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union as deterrents in response to a real threat from the United States because the United States had been planning on attacking Cuba for years, going back to the Eisenhower administration. The paper concludes that the weapons did ensure a peace because (1) the United States government agreed not to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles from Cuban soil, which they did, and (2) the United States agreed to remove missiles from Turkey. Several long quotes.
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"The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the defining moments in twentieth century United States history. The Cold War was at its apex. The Cubans asked the Soviet Union to protect them against an American attack. In 1961, the United States sent troops into Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. The attack failed and later became known as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. In 1962, Kruschev sent missiles into Cuba in order to deter an American attack. We were at the brink of World War III, both sides used verbal threats, and War was only averted when the Soviet Union removed the missiles in return for an American promise to not invade the island."
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TV Guide Corporation ? Case Analysis, 2002.
In this case analysis, the current business situation of the TV Guide Corporation is investigated.
1,035 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 53.95
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In this case analysis, the current business situation of the TV Guide Corporation is investigated. This analysis is done from a marketing perspective, and assesses and applies marketing concepts to a real-life situation at TV Guide magazine. In this case study, a situational analysis, which reviews TV Guide corporation, and its main product, TV Guide, along with additional offerings is shown. A brief history of TV Guide is given; the corporation?s current business situation is assessed. A comprehensive SWOT analysis is given. This analysis lists the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) that are faced by TV Guide. A comprehensive recommendation for the marketing strategy is given for TV Guide. Finally, a conclusion summarizes the important information given in the other sections.
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"Interestingly, TV Guide corporation is much more than its most well known product, the TV Guide. Since the publication of McDonald?s article TV Guide has become much more diversified, and global. It operates four main business units. These are: TV Guide Television Group, TV Guide Interactive Group, TV Guide Magazine Group, and United Video Group. TV Guide markets and distributes products to over 100 million cable and satellite homes each and every week.
Perhaps the biggest news in the TV Guide area is the formation of Gemstar-TV Guide international on July 12, 2000. This company formed when Gemstar International Group merged with the TV Guide Company. Gemstar-TV Guide International now has television listing products licensed to over 180 companies, in industries like cable, satellite, Internet, personal computers and consumer electronics."
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Critical Review: "The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies", 2002.
This paper looks at the book "The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies", a complete guide for parents of premature babies.
793 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 41.95
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The paper gives a detailed report of the reference book, highlighting its strengths and the reasons why a parent of a premature baby would find it useful. The writer gives a table of contents from the book, outlining the subjects that are covered, and ends with a recommendation of the guide.
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"Even a parent with no medical knowledge or experience should have an easy time of understanding what is happening to their baby both in terms of problems and possible treatments. There are also a large number of diagrams and drawings that help to clarify the anatomy and physiological processes being discussed. At the same time, there is no attempt to oversimplify what are often complicated and complex procedures and issues. The book is organized in a way that will make it useful for readers who are at every stage of dealing with their premature child?s experience."
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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1990.
Examines crisis management of Kennedy Administration in 1962 confrontation with Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba, in context of overall Kennedy approach to foreign & domestic politics.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 92.95
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"INTRODUCTION
This research examines the crisis management practiced by the Kennedy Administration during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. While the emphasis in this research is on the Administration's crisis management, it is also necessary to consider the issue of Soviet missiles in Cuba for reasons other than the obvious: the issue created the situation wherein crisis management was required. Among some analysts and historians, however, there are doubts that the presence of the Soviet missiles in Cuba increased significantly the Soviet threat to United States (US) national security (Fitzsimmons, 1969; Walton, 1972). Many of these analysts and historians tend to think that the Kennedy Administration felt compelled to treat the issue as a crisis, and to appear, at least to come out of it a winner, because of the.."
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