Activism Annotated Bibliographies Samples For Students

Lee B. And Harkavy I., (2001). Leading The Way To Meaningful Partnerships

This article looks into the matter of contention in the partnerships between the community, schools and higher education institutions. The article emphasizes on the importance of these partnerships while looking deep into detail on each of the three subjects and analyzes carefully various methods of assessing each. The article gives various strategies and protocol that can be followed and used effectively while considering the outcomes and initial experiences passed through while analyzing each method. These strategies include the ability to increase the potential of the institutions by careful involvement of each party concerned to play the varied and distributed ...

- Palmer, Anna. (2009) .”I’m not a “math’s-person”!’ reconstituting mathematical subjectivities in aesthetic teaching practices. Gender and Education.21 (4):387-404

#The author of the paper is a faculty member at the Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden. The author had credibility by virtue of her chair and position at the department, is a qualified teacher –educator and researcher.
#$The purpose of the study was to understand the rationale behind the maths –anxieties.
#The study was conducted to find out the loopholes in the traditional method of math education that creates anxiety and fear towards math
#The ...

An analysis of the poem by Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop aims to demonstrate female suffering. Women were forced to live under violent conditions and inequality circumstances. Therefore, Plath and Bishop used metaphor and irony to show the desire of feminism and equality in society. This paper shows how profound feminism has developed over the years as denoted in different writings by various Authors

Black-Phones: Postmodern Poetics within the Holocaust Poetry (Sylvia Plath Boswell), Matthew Critical Survey20.2 (2008): 53-64,112.

This journal talks about the suffering of Plath. She uses the poem ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’ to describe her generation. Plath’s technique of using “Lady ...

Theories of Criminology and Deviance

Kraska, P. (2006). Criminal justice theory: Toward legitimacy and an infrastructure. Justice Quarterly, 23 (2), 168-185.

The article offers great and valuable information regarding the criminal justice theories that play a leading role in promoting justice in several criminal systems around the world. The source deals with the criminal justice theory, which deals with crime rates and crime. The article points out the fact that pursuing criminal justice is in some cases implicitly, and tacitly, referred to the narrow responsibility of descriptive and evaluative scholarship.

Thus, this article explores the details for the field’s failure to identify the prominence ...

Behind, No Child Left. No Child Left Behind. Conference report to accompany HR Rep, 2006.

The states that have adopted the no child left behind program have implemented other standards to evaluate their systems such as how many students enrolled to college etc. The waiver removes the term failed from low performing schools and names them, and also focuses on improving the bottom 5 performing schools. The standards of the policy have been so stiff that there has been extremely low performance in various states, e.g. Massachusetts had 80% of schools did not meet the standards of improvement even after improved test performance rendering it senseless to term all of them failures. The wavering ...

Introduction

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a prominent American playwright who was born in 1930 in Chicago and died at the age of 34 in New York City. She was also a renowned stage director and civil rights activist. As a Black-American woman growing up during the depression, her life was characterized by the negatives that accompany slavery and gender discrimination. However, it was this same restricting environment that shaped her writing career because she was able to capture the struggles and conflicts within black families in her works. Her most prominent work of literature is A Raisin in the Sun which derives its ...

Part I: Post-disaster management

Crawford, L., Langston, C., & Bajracharya, B. (2013). Participatory project management for improved disaster resilience. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 4(3), 317-333.

This study contributes to understanding of disaster management relative to project and stakeholder management. Placing value in participatory project management approaches, the study aims to contribute to improved disaster resilience opportunities. Summative content analysis (qualitative) of project management in disaster management discourse is used based on two sets of text from institutionalized discourse (e.g., policies) and the inquiry report from the 2011 Queensland Floods Commission. Limitations were identified as a narrow analysis – a wider ...

Affiliated Institution

Same-sex marriage can be described as the union between two individuals of the same gender identity or biological sex. It is also referred to as gay marriage. The term equal marriage or marriage equality refers to the legal recognition of same-sex marriage or the possibility of to carry out same sex marriage. (Mulholland 2012). The proponents of same-sex marriage have characterized its legalization as “redefining marriage”. (Byrone 2012).
The first decade of the 21st century brought about the enactment of the first laws that allow same-sex marriage. As at the 19th of August 2013, about fifteen different ...

Nursing ethics and patient safety

Kangasniemi, M., Vaismoradi, M., Jasper, M., & Turunen, H. (2013). Ethical issues in patient safety Implications for nursing management. Nursing Ethics, 20(8), 904--916.

Patient safety is defined as the lack of protection given to a patient while in the process of receiving health care. This article discusses the importance of ‘patient safety-hood’ and to point out ethics needed in nursing management. The authors indicate that human dignity is in itself important in the nursing field and it involves giving respect as a requirement to achieving it. It is with this concept that the essence of being worthy, respected and ...

THEME 1: Culture, Gender and Social Norms

Haught, John. Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. Print.

This work traces the origin of humankind and the underlying values that have often informed behavior of man. Ever since the emergence of evolution theory, many questions have been posed in regards to its viability and especially on how it impacted human behavior over time. Evolution gives a scientific account of the development of man and it is often at loggerheads with the theological account of creation. The author of this work has a similar professional background with the author in the previous entry. Both authors have strong theological backgrounds in the Catholic Church and they are accomplished historians. This book gives ...

The country of United States of America has had different times in its history that different important things have happened. These things have helped shape the country to where it is now. Among these things that help shape the country are wars, demonstrations, strikes and other rebellions that have been of great help in the introduction of several laws in the country. The differences between the groups that constitute the population of the country have been differing over time, and this has helped since they discussed and came to a common ground after many years. These different incidences and different ...

Annotated Bibliography: Organizational Development

Aubry, M., Hobbs, B., & Thuillier, D. (2009). The contribution of the project management office to organizational performance. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2(1), 141-148.

The objective of this article is to be able to summarize and defend some scientific results on in regards to a recent Organizational Development phenomenon, the Project Management Office (PMO), in a location where most of the literature is currently coming from advisers. The emphasis of this research article shows how important the project manager is when it comes to the PMO transformation process rather than on the clarification of their great diversity. ...

Campos, David. Sex, Youth, and Sex Education: A Reference Handbook. California: ABC- CLIO. 2002. Print.

Campos, an outspoken educator and associate professor of education at the University of the Incarnate Word claims that abstinence is not all about avoiding sex but rather about a voluntary non involvement in sex and other sexual activities. It is a decision that he thinks should come from an individual person and therefore a person needs not to be coerced into not being party in sexual activities. According to him, abstinence and sex education is a very important aspect of growth which needs not to be ignored. In ...

Annotated Bibliography on Protestant Ethic and the Enlightenment in America by Benjamin Franklin

Beeman, Richard "Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment” The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin. Eds. Dilys Winegrad. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. 1990. 15-28. Print.
This is a volume of works that consists of essays written by different authors that contributes to the body of knowledge of Benjamin Franklin. The book speaks of the deep philosophical thought of Benjamin Franklin and explains further why the man still holds high appeal in the minds of Americans today. It is a scholarly piece of work where the authors have written personal essays or responses to the overall topic. The article written by Richard ...

Browne, L. L., Mehra, S. S., Rattan, R. R., & Thomas, G. G. (2004). Comparing lecture and e-learning as pedagogies for new and experienced professionals in dentistry. British Dental Journal, 197(2), 95-97. doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.4811484
Objective: To evaluate the relative effectiveness of e-learning versus lecture learning in VDPs and trainers. Design: Experimental comparison of two groups'learning retention. Setting: VDPs and trainers from two regions were assessed by independent researchers.Method: One region's VDPs and trainers received e-learning; another's received a traditional one hour lecture. Retention and understanding were tested and compared. Personal preference was assessed in group interviews. Results: Significantly greater retention ...

Annotated Bibliography - African American history

Rothman, D.J. (1982). Were Tuskeegee & Willowbrook 'studies in nature'? Hastings Center
Report, 5-7.

The Rothman article compares the Tuskegee syphilis experiment to the Willowbrook experiments of the 1950s and 1960s and discusses their ethics, or lack thereof. Arguing these experiments as "science gone mad," Rothman states that these types of research methods are ambivalently feasible as 'studies in nature,' where researchers are examining diseases that they can currently not stop in any way. The Tuskegee experiment in particular is chalked up to bad science, as the research had no formal protocols, it was sloppily executed and did ...

Introduction

This paper will explore existing literature on the topic of eco-tourism as a form of sustainable business. It is argued that eco-tourism has been around for 20 years however during this time it has been hard to define, this is due to the complex nature of eco-tourism. This paper will provide annotated bibliography based on the form of eco-tourism to discuss the link between eco-tourism and business. The annotated bibliography will look at cultural variations and different eco-tourism products to identify any common patterns.

The research identified the use of a holistic approach to eco-tourism which is in alignment with the ...

Lionel Richie's life and music career has been a fascinating and eventful one. He is a famous singer, songwriter, musician and record producer as well as an activist. Lionel Brockman Richie was born on June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama USA; son of a system analyst and an educator¹. He grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute before his family moved to Illinois, where he graduated from high school. Being a great tennis player, he was granted a tennis scholarship and went to Tuskegee Institute, where he graduated with a major in economics in 1974. While he was in college, he ...

This annotated bibliography is meant to be an overview of my research towards a paper on same sex marriage. It evaluates four pieces of literature that I have chosen to use as external sources for my paper, providing a summary of the text and an argument for its relevancy: Case and Stewart’s (2009) study “Heterosexual Privilege Awareness, Prejudice, and Support of Gay Marriage Among Diversity Course Students,” Nussbaum’s (2010) article “A right to marry?”, Mills’ (2009) editorial “It's time to allow gay marriage in Australia,” and Australian Marriage Equality’s (2011) article “The Case for Marriage.” In my paper, ...