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Almost all states around the world have ratified the ICCPR and ICESCR in which the main human rights standards are stipulated. Many have accepted the other relevant international human rights instruments including CRC, CERD, CEDAW and CAT. Many have also incorporated human rights provisions in their Constitutions. Ethiopia is one of the countries that have ratified all the major human rights instruments mentioned above. However human rights problems involving civil and political rights are...
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African American Males in School and Society: Practices and Policies for Effective Education, edited by Vernon C. Polite & James Earl Davis. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999. 272 pp. $54.00, cloth. $23.95, paper. Reviewed by Jeanita W. Richardson, State Council for Higher Education in Virginia. In African American Males in School and Society: Practices and Policies for Effective Education, Vernon C. Polite and James Earl Davis have compiled works by various authors who provide valuable...
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In the years after the Civil War, white Americans north and south debated the capacity of former slaves to be educated for citizenship, while leading African American authors (and some white supporters) used fiction, speeches, and other forms to demonstrate the capabilities of the race for full civic participation. As evident in teaching texts like Lydia Maria Child's The Freedmen's Book and novels like Albion Tourgée's Bricks Without Straw, this discourse about democratic participation was...
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ions. Poetry Readings is a project that is born out of the general population of the student's interest in highly structured spoken word. This observation was clarified through a casual conversation, which became the subject of a full class discussion on Rap music, the Hip-Hop movement and the strong Oral I Story telling tradition within African Diasporic cultures.The project, which had been in the back of my mind as a method of form generation in my own work was introduced not as Rap but as...
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This paper reports the findings of a study which is the result of international cooperation between teacher education institutions in five different countries. It is part of a larger study on Students' Attitudes: Creative Arts; National and Overseas Associates (CASANOVA), which involves 939 pre-service non-specialist primary school student teachers (82% females and 18% males) from five countries (Australia (NSW), Namibia, South Africa, USA (Illinois) and Ireland). Initially the paper...
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Intestinal parasites are prevalent in many countries all over the world. Low socioeconomic standards poor sanitation improper hygienic practices lack of awareness and environmental factors contribute to this phenomenon. Gaza Strip in Palestine is an overpopulated area without any proper sewage disposal system in most of the localities. This in addition to low standards of living contribute to the high prevalence of parasitic diseases. Two studies on the prevalence of the intestinal parasites...
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Recently, the professional literature as well as the media have focused on the achievement gap between African American and White students. Although some of the solutions proposed are grounded in substantive thinking, others are representative of the typical quick fixes that continue to dominate public education while not improving the teaching and learning of these children. Successfully educating African American students is a complex process involving both big-picture considerations and...
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Preface (H. Pasch). Single Molecule Detection of Macromolecules (J. Hofkens, et al.). Early Recognition of Oxidative Degradation in Polymers by Chemiluminescence (J. Boxhammer). Analytical Techniques for Polymers with Complex Architectures (H. Pasch). An Investigation into the Fracture Behaviour of Ethylene Propylene Impact Polymers (K. Marcus, et al.). On the Mechanism of Formation of Isotactic and Syndiotactic Polydiolefins (L. Porri, et al.). Ethylene Copolymers with Fischer--Tropsch...