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nicotine in cigarette smoke which causes an increased heart rate and raised blood pressure and peripheral vascular resistance, con...
and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...
not only understanding themselves but themselves in relation to others and others as individuals. Within social studies it is gene...
"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...
would relapse into drug use within the first three months after completion. More than likely, the number would be closer to 8 out ...
age of 15, "compared with 21 percent of Hispanics and 16 percent of non-Hispanic whites" (Non-Hispanic black teens, 2003; p. 7). ...
people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...
the social skills that one to one contact would offer them. As such, then, these teens are not able to effectively reach out emoti...
problems.... Because theyre not supporting anyone else, they can afford to wait for the right job " (2001, p.28). This is true. ...
p. 685). American Demographics reports that a significant trend is the rising rate of teenage pregnancies among Latinos (Suro, 19...
1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...
times more births among junior high school girls and two and a half times more births among senior high school girls than do the g...
for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...
more than twice as likely to become pregnant as white teens and Latina teens were 3.5 times more likely to get pregnant than white...
group, as expected, there are quite a bit of pregnancies for the teenagers. This is true despite the fact that there is a decline ...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
of Australian society. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth cent...
al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...
to speak more loudly than any words on the subject. "My teaching was silent on issues of race, and it was a silence that must hav...
needs to be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnanci...
points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
of distinguishing cultures within the larger diaspora through linguistic boundaries. What is Language? Language in...
to 27.2 percent of females (SAMHSA, 2004). * 31.6 percent of teen drinkers were white; 19.8 percent were non-Hispanic blacks and 1...
categories (Turrisi, 2004). Being under the legal drinking age has little impact upon the problem itself (Turrisi, 2004)....
the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...
Journal, 2001). This phenomena is of serious concern in that it is not only life threatening but is increasing on a world wide ba...
situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...
study is well written and comprehensive, as it encompasses all of the major subheadings included in the article, that is, the stu...
The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...