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Article by Mike Lieberman
So you want to learn more about Martin Luther King Jr., but there is so much information out there that you don't know where to start. There is no way that you can read all of it (at least not in the next 200 years). Just Google his name and you get close to seven million results.
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Article by Mike Lieberman
By now we know that President-elect Barack Obama will be sworn in as the first African-American president in US history. I've read that anywhere from 3 to 5 million people will be attendance for Inauguration Day. That would more than double the record set by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 with 1.2 million. Visit the DailyQi for more presidential inauguration firsts and memorable moments.
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American Education week is November 16-22, which is a good time to wonder what it would be like to be educated in, say, Trinidad and Tobago. Here are some fun facts to study, and no, there won't be a quiz at the end.
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In honor of Guinness World Records Day, here are a few world records to ponder.
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There's been a lot of talk this election about where Barack Obama went to college (Columbia University and Harvard Law School). If he becomes the 44th president, he won't be the first to hail from the Ivy Leagues and likely not the last. But, if Sarah Palin becomes the next Vice President, she will be the first to fund part of her college education with a beauty pageant scholarship. Whoever moves into the White House come January will join a long line of presidents with quirky educational backgrounds. Here's our Top 10:
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The first moving pictures were really just that. You looked through a viewfinder and turned a crank to flip through hundreds of individual pictures—like those flip book animations you made when you were a kid. Can you imagine watching the latest Batman movie standing in front of one of those machines, or would you rather go see it in 70MM IMAX. Wow, we've come a long way.
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In high school, history is always repeating itself—and not just because you have to go to the same class every day.
You may have heard that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. This might refer to unfortunate students who fail history and have to repeat it the following year. Or maybe it’s the idea that the patterns of history hold important lessons for anyone who's paying attention.
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So your teacher just assigned you a 10-page research paper, and you have no idea where to start. Maybe your topic choices are already limited, and you just have to pick one. Or, horror of horrors, your teacher has left the topic choice totally and completely up to you.
With research papers, picking the right topic can make the difference between writing an A+ paper (and maintaining adequate sleep and a social life) and tearing your hair out for weeks only to land a C-. You'll need to pick a topic that's broad enough to be interesting, but not so broad that you don't know where to focus. For example: "The Civil War" is way too broad. Instead, consider a specific question such as "How did Union and Confederate forces adjust their military strategies during the war?" or "How did women's daily lives change while their husbands and fathers were at away?"
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There's nothing like the web when it comes to research. Where else can you pull up information about virtually any subject in a matter of seconds—at 11 pm on Sunday? But there are drawbacks to basing all of your research on information you find online. For starters, chances are all of your classmates are digging up the same information on, say, the history of the Titanic, as you are. If you really want to stand out from the crowd, there are other ways to research a subject besides the web. Say, speaking to the great-granddaughter of a Titanic survivor—now that beats late night web research any day.
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