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Ethics in America DANTES/DSST Test Study Guide - Paperback

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by Passyourclass (Author)2022 Edition Our DANTES study guides are different! The Ethics in America DANTES/DSST study guide TEACHES you what you need to know to pass the DSST test. This study guide is more than just pages of sample test questions. Our easy to understand study guide will TEACH you the information. We've condensed what you need to know into a manageable book - one that will leave you completely prepared to tackle the test. This study guide includes sample test questions that wil...

Computers, Cockroaches, and Ecosystems: Understanding Learning through Metaphor - Paperback

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by Kevin J. Pugh (Author)Of all the topics ever studied, surely one of the most compelling is human learning itself. What is the nature of the human mind? How do we understand and process new information? Where do new ideas come from? How is our very intelligence a product of society and culture? Computers, Cockroaches, and Ecosystems: Understanding Learning through Metaphor brings to light the great discoveries about human learning by illuminating key metaphors underlying the major learning ...

Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers (HC) - Hardcover

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by S. G. Grant (Editor), John Lee (Editor), Kathy Swan (Editor)Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers, features tasks designed to take preservice teachers deep into schools in general and into social studies education in particular. Organized around Joseph Schwab's commonplaces of education and recognizing the role of inquiry as a preferred pedagogy in social studies, the book offers a series of short chapters that highlight learners and learning, subject matter, teache...

Study Guide to Bleak House by Charles Dickens - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Bleak House, said to be one of Dickens's most powerful novels due to the way it challenged Britain's court system and caused legal reform in the 1870s. As an 1830 novel set in London, Bleak House unveils a different way of life where the court system is corrupt and ruled by the affluent. Moreover, the struggles throughout the story highlight the love betwe...

Study Guide to David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel of the main character. As an 1800s English work, David Copperfield shows how power leads to corruption, a still-relevant theme today. Moreover, the novel draws from several of Charles Dickens's own personal experiences and demonstrates the harsh life caused by greed along with the hope that is born from love. Th...

Study Guide to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, a novel that influenced many future authors with its unique storytelling and themes. As a novel of nineteenth-century England, wealth determines power, and Dickens comments on how the former does not produce happiness. Dickens explores themes in this novel by commenting on the society of 19th century England. This Bright Notes Study Gui...

Study Guide to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charlotte Br nte's Jane Eyre, a story of a young woman who challenged social norms. As a classic novel written in the Victorian era, Jane Eyre is thought to be one of the reasons women equality has progressed to the extent that it has. Moreover, the novel discusses still-relevant social issues such as women's employment, genteel poverty, marriage, and education. This Bright...

Study Guide to The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Clark - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident, said to be one of the greatest Western novels ever written. As a classic novel set in 1885 but written in 1938, The Ox-Bow Incident draws parallels between Nazi brutality and the vigilantes showcased in the novel in order to communicate unjust violence can occur anywhere at any time. Moreover, the novel serves as a great examp...

Study Guide to The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, regarded by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as one of the key texts of the women's movement of the 1960s. As a uniquely structured four-part novel published in 1962, The Golden Notebook focuses on the idea of fragmentation, both in the structure of the book and the content. Moreover, the novel discusses big picture topics such...

Study Guide to The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country, a short story written during the Civil War. As a work of patriotic literature, The Man Without a Country bolstered support across the U.S. for the Union in the North. Moreover, Hale uses irony, mystery, and realism to tell the gripping story of a man who feels seemingly no patriotism or connection to his country during a war ...

Study Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emily Bront 's Wuthering Heights, one of the most famous novels of Victorian literature. As Emily Bront s sole work, Wuthering Heights unveils the harsh reality behind a toxic and abusive relationship, in which the complex characters are unpredictable. Moreover, Bront 's lyrical and mystic novel allows the reader to explore various interpretations and metaphors. This Bright...

Study Guide to All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, written in 1929 as a reflection of WWI. As a work considered to be historical fiction, All Quiet on the Western Front focuses less on the story of war and more on the mental and physical destruction of those involved. Moreover, as a WWI veteran himself, Remarque delivers authentic and raw accounts of war using various t...

Study Guide to The Octopus by Frank Norris - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Frank Norris's The Octopus, a novel based on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880. As a powerful work of fiction, The Octopus tells of the conflict between a railway company and ranchers in a fight for land rights. Moreover, Norris's novel serves as a great example of romanticism, as he navigates the metaphor between an octopus and monopolization. This Bright Notes Study Guide...

Study Guide to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for by Gabriel Garc a M rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, considered a classic due to its effective use of magical realism and winner of The R mulo Gallegos International Novel Prize. As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a work of magical realism, which proved to be a bold statement during that time period, as it allowed for Marquez to ...

Study Guide to Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as "indisputably the greatest whaling novel." As an 1851 tragic epic, Moby Dick tells the story of a captain's expedition to track down and seek revenge on a whale from the point of view of one of the sailors. Moreover, Melville uses allusion, simile, and metaphor to showcase themes such as revenge, sanity, and hu...

Study Guide to Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, one of the last books to come out of British Colonization in Africa. As an autobiographical narrative of the mid-twentieth century, Out of Africa is a coming of age story with ideas of serenity in the wilderness, the courage and simplicity of primal peoples, and nature as a moral force. Moreover, Dinesen explores various literary techniques and...

Study Guide to The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which was the best selling book in 1939 and won the National Book Award. As a 1939 American realist novel, The Grapes of Wrath follows a struggling family on their search for work, success, and safety during the Great Depression. Moreover, Steinbeck discusses social philosophy by weaving in themes such as family, betrayal, and change. T...

Study Guide to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Joseph Heller's Catch-22, which eponymously coined the term so frequently used today to describe the predicament of being trapped by contradictory rules. As a novel of post-World War II America, Catch-22 is profound in its conception, complex in its artistry, and radical in its message. Moreover, in some colleges it is studied as the modern counterweight to Homer's Iliad. T...

Study Guide to Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, an immediate popular success when it was published as Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in 1726. As a novel of eighteenth century Britain, Gulliver's Travels was a satire on human nature and a parody of the """"travellers' tales"""" literary subgenre that was popular at the time. Moreover, Swift has given us a book which h...

Study Guide to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an instant success across all popular media. As an anti-war novel of the 1960s, Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five as a double story: the main character suffers from the traumatic effects of war; the author struggles with the effects of war on both the character and the author. Moreover, his writing shows his belief that art is no longer...

Study Guide to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which he claimed as his first true novel despite having written several before it. As an 1877 realist novel, Anna Karenina follows a Russian wife in the midst of a love affair, who risks all she has for a lover. Moreover, Tolstoy discusses the betrayal by weaving in themes such as forgiveness, social class, and jealousy. This Bright Notes Study ...

Study Guide to Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, ranked number 11 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, Under the Volcano is an almost autobiographical tale of self-destruction inspired by Lowry's real experiences. Moreover, the text is considered one of literature's most powerful and lyrica...

Study Guide to The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, one of West's great novels that comments on the social and cultural properties of American life. As a novel of the post-Great Depression era, The Day of the Locust depicts the failure of one popular conception of the "American Dream." Moreover, West's novels highlight and intensify aspects of American life to show what it is, as oppos...

Study Guide to The Good Earth by Pearl Buck - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932. As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, The Good Earth was inspired by Buck's experience living in China during the Boxer rebellion with her missionary parents. Moreover, the novel shows the author's intense interest for people through description of the cycle of life. This Bright Notes Stud...

Study Guide to Satyricon by Petronius - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Petronius' Satyricon, a once hardly-known work that has become one of the most popular and certainly one of the most influential books of our time. As a collection of prose and passages of first-century A.D. Rome, Satyricon continues to inspire avant-garde novelists, film-makers, playwrights, and poets. Moreover, Pentronius provides an early written text that includes liter...

Study Guide to Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Theodore Dresier's Sister Carrie, known by many to be the greatest of the American urban novels. As a novel of the turn of the 20th Century, Sister Carrie moved away from Victorian era values and towards naturalism, realism, and instincts of human thought and behavior. Moreover, this first novel introduces readers to a common theme Dresier addresses: the individual against ...

Study Guide to Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, the last novel written by Hardy before he moved his concentration to poetry. As a satirical novel of the late nineteenth century, the themes of marriage and religion were perceived negatively. When the novel was published, Hardy's contemporaries reacted bitterly, and a bishop ordered the text to be publicly burned. Moreover, Jude the Obscure...

Study Guide to Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd, the publication attributed with Hardy's achievement of literary success. As a novel of Victorian England, Far from the Madding Crowd tells the realities of living in the idyllic farming communities of southwest England. Moreover, Hardy is acknowledged for his use of Victorian and modern literary techniques with traditional construc...

Study Guide to The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, arguably the most popular of Hardy's 14 Wessex novels. As a novel first published in the magazine Belgravia, popular for its sensationalism, Hardy classified The Return of the Native as a "Novel of Character and Environment." Moreover, themes from Hardy's novels draw interesting conversations around the power of imagination. This Bri...

Study Guide to The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, a book that pioneered the feminist science fiction movement. As a science-fiction, fantasy novel of the mid to late 1900s, The Left Hand of Darkness explores androgyny, tragedy, and love. Moreover, Le Guin's writing shows that in fantasy, journeys into outer space are often metaphors for journeys inward. This Bright Notes Study Gu...

Study Guide to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - Paperback

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by Intelligent Education (Created by)A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, a novel portraying the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrants in major US cities in the early twentieth century. As a novel of the turn of the twentieth century, The Jungle reflects not only the American scene of Sinclair's young manhood but also many of his own life circumstances. It becomes important to view the novel in terms of both...

ASWB Exam Practice Test Questions 2020-2021: ASWB Bachelors Exam Prep Book and Practice Test Questions - Paperback

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by Trivium Social Workers Exam Prep Team (Author)You're probably thinking this is just another typical study guide. Because we know your time is limited, we've created a product that isn't like most study guides. With Trivium Test Prep's unofficial ASWB Exam Practice Test Questions 2020-2021: ASWB Bachelors Exam Prep Book and Practice Test Questions you'll benefit from a quick but total review of everything tested on the exam with real examples, graphics, and information. Imagine having your ...