During the 1970s and ' 80s, Cassandra B. Whyte did significant educational research studying locus of control as related to the academic achievement of students pursuing higher education coursework.

Individuals with internal control tendencies are likely to persist to better academic performance levels, presenting an achievement personality, according to Cassandra B. Whyte

Cassandra B. Whyte researched about the ever increasing role that computers would play in higher education.

According to the work of Cassandra B. Whyte, the continuing attention to aspects of motivation and success in regard to E-learning should be kept in context and concert with other educational efforts.

In 2007, the National Orientation Directors Association reprinted Cassandra B. Whyte's research report allowing readers to ascertain improvements made in addressing specific needs of students over a quarter of a century later to help with academic success.

Cassandra B. Whyte researched and reported about the importance of locus of control and academic achievement.

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Cassandra B. Whyte researched how control tendency influenced behavioral outcomes in the academic realm by examining the effects of various modes of counseling on grade improvements and the locus of control of high-risk college students.

The lifelong learners, including persons with academic or professional credentials, tend to find higher-paying occupations, leaving monetary, cultural, and entrepreneural impressions on communities, according to educator Cassandra B. Whyte.

Cassandra B. Whyte studied locus of control and academic performance and determined that internals tend to achieve at a higher level.

Cassandra B. Whyte ( Whyte, 1978 ; Lauridsen & Whyte, 1985 ) noted the importance of internal locus of control tendencies on successful academic performance, also compatible with self-regulated learning.

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Cassandra, was daughter of Hecuba and Priam, and Troilus ' half-sister.

Apollo fell in love with Cassandra and promised her the gift of prophecy to seduce her, but she rejected him afterwards.

In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

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After the capture of Troy, Cassandra, doomed prophetess and daughter of Priam, fell to Agamemnon's lot in the distribution of the prizes of war.

After a stormy voyage, Agamemnon and Cassandra either landed in Argolis, or were blown off course and landed in Aegisthus ' country.

Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra.

Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are said to have been the motives for her crime.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

According to some writers, he even raped Cassandra inside the temple.

The whole charge was sometimes said to have been an invention of Agamemnon, who wanted to have Cassandra for himself.

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

The abduction of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in Greek works of art, for instance on the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias and in extant works.

Cassandra by Evelyn De Morgan ( 1898, London ); Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy at the peak of her insanity.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek, also, also known as Alexandra ) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

When Cassandra of Troy told him she wanted to stay a virgin, Apollo placed a curse on her so that she and all her descendants ' predictions would not be believed.

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba and the twin sister of Helenus.

Cassandra was described as the " second most beautiful woman in the world.

Apollo's cursed gift to Cassandra became a source of endless pain and frustration to her.

While Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy ( she warned the Trojans about the Trojan Horse, the death of Agamemnon, and her own demise ), she was unable to do anything to forestall these tragedies since no one believed her.

Coroebus and Othronus came to the aid of Troy out of love for Cassandra.

Cassandra was also the first to see the body of her brother Hector being brought back to the city.

Cassandra was then taken as a concubine by King Agamemnon of Mycenae.

* The character of Camille in Cassandra Claire's Mortal Instruments series may be based on Carmilla, given the similarity in their names and descriptions.

* Achievement style theory focuses upon identification of an individual's Locus of Control tendency, such as by Rotter's evaluations, and was found by Cassandra Bolyard Whyte to provide valuable information for improving academic performance of students.

* Whyte, Cassandra Bolyard, " Effective Counseling Methods for High-Risk College Freshmen ", Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 10, 4, January 1978, 198-200.

* In the episode " Cassandra " in the eighth series of the show, the Dwarfers make contact with a prophetic and clairvoyant computer that has the ability to predict the future without a margin of error.

Maya, now a heroine of the hive, becomes a teacher, like Mrs. Cassandra and shares her experiences and wisdom with the future generation.

Christa Wolf provides another degraded future for the character in Cassandra by once more naming her Briseis and including the Homeric story of her slavery to Achilles and Agamemnon.

One instance was portrayed in " Modern Men ", when Mike ( the landlord at the Nags Head pub ), announced a toast to future Mum and Dad " Cassandra and Rodney "; everyone said " Cassandra and Rodney ", but Trigger could be heard shouting " Cassandra and Dave ".

The celebrated American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury described himself as " Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past — a combination of both ".

Cassandra, who has been driven partially mad due to a curse by which she can see the future but will never be believed when she warns others, is morbidly delighted by this news: she sees that when they arrive in Argos, her new master's embittered wife Clytemnestra will kill both her and her new master.

In X-Men: The End, taking place in a possible future, the Brood hatch a plan with Lilandra ( possessed by Cassandra Nova ).

Stephanie experiences a number of future events, including a time-travelling adventure with Cassandra and Barbara, the Royal Flush Gang attacking her at her college graduation, and eventually training the new Batgirl, a girl named Nell.

* Cassandra ( voiced by Sandra Bernhard )-The Trojan War prophet appears as an anti-social girl, that has visions of the future ( usually bad ) once in a while, which are rarely believed.

The mummudrai that became Cassandra became telepathically entangled with the future Charles Xavier, who possesses vast mutant telepathic powers.

Cassandra factors prominently in the future depicted in X-Men: The End storyline ( Book 3 ).

Then Paris builds his ships at Aphrodite's suggestion, and Helenus foretells the future to him, and Aphrodite orders Aeneas to sail with him, while Cassandra prophesies the outcome.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was doomed to foresee the future, but never to be believed.

It was aboard the Silverberg that the Canaries found Cassandra, a computer who can predict the future with 100 % accuracy.