Essays 1981 - 2010
What should a nurse do when she knows that a surgeon is incompetent and killing children on his operating table? Even today, there...
This essay discusses the effects of drinking and smoking during pregnancy. It also discusses electronic media and young children a...
This research paper presents a literature review that focuses on non-pharmacological interventions that address ADHD n children an...
This essay presents the argument that Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel is a sympathetic, sensitive character who is ...
In the recent past, the literature has been emphasizing including gifted children in the regular classroom rather than placing the...
Theorists point out that even infants learn. In fact, infants learn math and science before they can talk. Young children are natu...
This paper offers an overview of the plans for a research study that pertains to childhood obesity. The study will target a specif...
This personal essay relates the abuse that a student suffered as a child and the factors that aided her survival. Five pages in l...
Sir Richard Branson has been an entrepreneur since he was a child. He founded The Virgin Group in London, England in 1970. It has ...
Anne Moody was raised in the rural South where she suffered extreme racism throughout school and beyond. She was a very active mem...
In this scenario, a counselor is conducting a research study of the resilience of children whose parents have recently become divo...
This paper is an evaluation of Restoration House's New Hope for Families program, which is a community-based residential treatmen...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of curfew laws in the United States. This paper includes the lack of evidence that curfews pre...
The WISC was first released in 1949 as a downward extension of the adult IQ test. Wechsler revised it in 1974 and it has been revi...
Bipolar Disorder dramatically changes a person's life and quality of life. It affects every part of the patient's life. There is v...
Could a Woman Working in Manufacturing Introduce Her Baby to This paper considers how industrial contaminants might impact not jus...
The zone of proximal development is defined as the gap between what a child knows and his potential for the next higher step. Vygo...
This research paper/essay pertains to a plan designed to convince a legislator to support a bill that mandates that bike helmets s...
Internet pornography accounts for $2.5 billion of the $57 billion pornography market. The Web has made porn easily accessible by i...
In five pages this paper discusses how athletes serve as role models to children in this discussion of violence in sports. Eight ...
In twelve pages biblical teaching instruction for children in their early to mid teens are considered in four lesson plans on heal...
After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...
the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...
62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...
affects them behaviorally, and what the long-term consequences of their environments is going to be; however, as someone once said...
In five pages this paper examines the postmodern family in terms of various types and child rearing. Five sources are cited in th...
In five pages this research paper examines homosexual and racial issues as they pertain to contemporary child adoption. Six sourc...
In ten pages brief essays considering dying, death, and bereavement are presented in a consideration of terminal illness and child...
In nine pages the potential of parents employing genetic enhancement to ensure child characteristics is discussed with benefits an...
In six pages a 1996 article featured in the Journal of Child Psychology by Smart et al on reading and behavior problems is evaluat...