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This is an article/study that explain the history/study that explains the history of the Mozart Effect and the experiment being conducted by Cristy Ho, Oliver Mason and Charles Spence. The main purpose for the Mozart Effect was to improve people's intelligence, however that wasn't the intention that was used for this particular study. Their purpose was to determine whether the Mozart Effect was for the "visual attentional blink", also known as AB, which provide dynamics of visual attention.

This is a document describing the research for faith and religious aspects of the history. In this document it describes a few different ways to look at how faith has changed of the centuries and the differences that are involved.

This article tells about a man that feels like the Bible is read and interpreted to generally in the recent years. He feels that the people in the ancient history took the bible as very literally and now it is read as something that will benifit us in modern times.

An interesting look at the history and complexity of the N-word.

Washington Commentary states that the lowest percentage of young adults (18-29 years of age) participated in the national elections for 2000. Several reasons influence the decisions of these young adults: parental focus and attitude, below proficient levels of understanding, and comprehension in history, social studies, and civics classes, and lack of practice or experience in political engagement. Although the article is informational, the content does not lead itself to the particular point of interest.

A film on OhioLINK. Could be useful for students analyzing the rhetoric of politics. As Maya Angelou points out in The Power of Speech, "If the words and delivery are powerful, they echo down the centuries." To emphasize the point, Angelou and other writers and orators examine the moving oratory of 14th-century tax protester John Ball, 19th-century slave Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Each speaker's technique is examined within the context of why the speech is being delivered, and to whom. Examples of how great orators throughout history have used their skills for good and evil drive home the immense power of the spoken word. A BBC Production. (30 minutes)

A film on OhioLINK. Could be useful for students analyzing the rhetoric of politics. As Maya Angelou points out in The Power of Speech, "If the words and delivery are powerful, they echo down the centuries." To emphasize the point, Angelou and other writers and orators examine the moving oratory of 14th-century tax protester John Ball, 19th-century slave Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Each speaker's technique is examined within the context of why the speech is being delivered, and to whom. Examples of how great orators throughout history have used their skills for good and evil drive home the immense power of the spoken word. A BBC Production. (30 minutes)

'Mozart Effect' Revisted talks about the history of the Mozart Effect, which is a study method for students to use when withholding information. In this text, it''s combining the Mozart Effect with children. For example, Ten years ago Chinese University neuropsychologist Agnes Chan reported that adults who had been taking music lessons for more than 6 years had better memory for words.

This article describes the results of the Federal Reserve Financial Literacy Test on high school seniors. It explains that the results of the most recent test are the worst in the history of the test. The article does a great job linking the poor results with the current mortgage crisis, and expresses the importance of financial literacy in consumers today. The article is very useful in providing concrete data on the state of our country's financial literacy.

Dalton discusses the long history of literacy problems in African Americans. It is believed that the need to become literate mainly started during the emancipation era when it was prohibited in many places for slaves to have the knowledge to read and write. Dalton goes on to speak about how certain African Americans were able to be literate, and went on to write exquisite literature. This article is very interesting and a decently easy read and it helps one out to understand not just the literacy of today, but the literacy in African Americans years ago.

Good for background information.

Lynn Waterhouse's article summarizes evidence for three cognitive theories, one including the "Mozart Effect" theory. Since I was doing this project about the Mozart Effect, I figured I'll pay more attention on the passage concentrating more on MI. In the review, it discusses the history of the method as well as evidence showing how effective this is. It also talks about the Mozart Effect as an arousal tool, that Mozart music creates excitement. Like many of the sources that I'm using, this source also presents that some researchers disconfriming the evidence of this method.

Michael Linton talks about the history of the Mozart Effect as well opinion on how he thinks this method has been throughout the years.From his research, the Mozart Effect has not only improve the thinking process but has also has cured many diseases and personalities such as schizophrenia and prejudice. In his opinion, Linton feels that the idea of the "Mozart Effect' has been long before it was introduced in 1993. The only difference is that Mozart's music wasn't the only music being used.

This article starts off explaining brief history on the Mozart Effect and how it influence the way the mind and music connect together. Will Dowd, the author, also goes on explaining Don Campbell, who wrote the "The Mozart Effect or Children". Dowd uses an example for Campbell's book explaining " Mozart's music enhance the network of connection forming in the infant brain." Towards the end of the article, Dowd explain how there are scientists out there that feel that the Mozart Effect is ineffective.

This essay is an overview of the theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, ideological, and power-related issues of world Englishes: varieties of English used in diverse sociolinguistic contexts. The scholars in this field have critically examined theoretical and methodological frameworks of language use based on western, essentially monolingual and monocultural, frameworks of linguistic science and replaced them with frameworks that are faithful to multilingualism and language variation. This conceptual shift affords a "pluricentric" view of English, which represents diverse sociolinguistic histories, multicultural identities, multiple norms of use and acquisition, and distinct contexts of function. The implications of this shift for learning and teaching world Englishes are critically reviewed in the final sections of this essay.

This document describes how the Georgia State Board of Education made the decision to allow the Bible to be taught. This document describes the courses that they offer as well as describes why it is legal to teach this.

In this document, which is more like a debate, there is an argument using many good biblical examples to prove or disprove that faith plays a vital role in historical research. In the end of this article the chosen "correct answer" is that faith does play a role in historical research. Also mentioned, was that faith actually connects some of the historical events to today because of some of faiths traditions that have lived on.

This article is based out of Israel and their education system. The Bible is used in the academic parts of Israel according to this document. Furthermore, it tells how they believe that the community uses the Bible to shape the next generation into what they believe is a good person. Moreover, it explains the lifestyle of the group of people called "Zionist" which was where these beliefs seemed to originate from.