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Essays 1981 - 2010

Gender And Socialization: Nature Or Nurture?

in the field of child development have consistently found that this incongruous approach parents have toward their children begins...

Criminal Behavior: Psychological And Personality Theories

the inherent connection between why some people engage in criminal activity and others do not (Barondess, 2000). III. DIFFERENTIA...

Can Free Will And Determinism Coexist?

life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...

Capuchin Monkeys/Grooming Habits

epitomize the popular concept of a monkey (Capuchins, Subfamily cebinae No date). Capuchins live in large social groups in which t...

Social Withdrawal in the Child and Adolescent

coveted brand of tennis shoes or jeans, having the "right" clothes can be perceived as tremendously important. Those teens that f...

Individual Behavioral Traits

a child develops, but perhaps even more importantly, the media and society affect how the child will be treated because of their e...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Intervention/Treatment Programs For Domestic Violence Offenders

is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...

Conservation And The Environment

natural resources as did President Franklin D. Roosevelt forty years later (Petulla, 2001). Conservation to preserve the environm...

Oedipus Rex: Behavioral Perspective And Interactionist Theory

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

Health-Promotion Behaviors that Promote Self-Healing

for its victims. Diabetes is caused by imbalances in glucose levels. Rapid fluctuations of glucose levels can result in either h...

Reducing Playground Violence

take an indirect form, such as gossip. There are also direct forms, such as name-calling; as well as range of behavior that includ...

Performance Management

often conflicts with relationship management" (p. 47). Negative feedback from the manager does not motivate an employee to perform...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

Anorexia: A Lifestyle Choice

as a whole. While these influences are most obvious in terms of teenage girls, they are present as well in regard to teenage boys...

Beauty, Competitiveness and Death in Snow White

(Weber, 2004). One has to wonder whether or not there is a problem in respect to clarity. That said, Snow White provides a tale th...

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response

The authors recognize how utilizing this single Chicago community is not sufficient to represent the entire Chinese American popul...

U.S. Foodservice Scandal

by the parent company, Ahold? Yes, sales targets were too high. Financials for U.S. Foodservice could not be found and historical...

The Reduction in Criminal Offences After Adolescence

of the frequency of their transgressions, as opposed to seriousness, it is also true that only certain types of juveniles are like...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior in Children and Teens

2006). The media is in fact a catalyst for violent expression on more than one societal front (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006...

Juvenile Delinquency Theories - Choice And Criminal Atavism

very distinct physical characteristics (Clinton Community College, n.d.). Examples include a flattened nose, very large jaws, stro...

Ethics In Nonprofit Organizations

there is no singular set of ethical disciplines that are adhered to by all sectors. Distinguishing these moral and ethical action...

Motivating Children

the method by which children responded. That kids were being praised or rewarded for appropriate behavior as opposed to being pun...

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Behavior Analyst Explanation

in a single multidimensional self" (Stephens, 2005). Key indicators include: * The presence of two or more distinct identities, ...

Employee Behavior Management; The MARS Model

Glinow, 2005). Motivation has long been accepted as an important influence on the way an employee will behave. This was consider...

Issues in Staff Development

principals expressed views and their actual observed behavior Holland and Weise found numerous discrepancies. First of all, the pr...

How to Encourage Organizational Citizenship Behavior

as it respects this issue and they are generalized compliance and altruism (DiPaola & Hoy, 2005). Altruism is important because it...

A Sociological Analysis of Hannibal Lecter

in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...

An Experience in Critical Thinking

their introduction to "A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology" Barbara Myerhoff and Jay Ruby (editor) obser...