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Customers, Weight Gain, and Restaurant Accountability

a personal decision and the effect is not singular but one of accumulative effect. For many it is deemed that the weight gain is s...

Trouble in American Society

is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it cannot be scrapped and recast as if it were a m...

The 2001 and 2002 Collapse of Argentina's Economy

Argentina has suffered many types of economic angst in the past, and flat exports, decreased household demand and high unemploymen...

Family Reactions to a Member’s Troubles in Baldwin and Kafka

stress, particularly when the stress also involves a violation of social "norms." Some have suggested that Gregors "metamorphosis"...

When Parents Aren’t Parents: The Impact of Dysfunctional Parents on Their Children

that others do not. We need to understand the obstacles these children face in order to help them and by doing so, help society as...

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...

Banking In China

banks, i.e., those owned by the country (Wright, 2008). And, the private banking industry is growing fast in China, according to C...

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Louisiana Purchase

New Orleans, an important port city and mouth of the river" (Stief, 2009). Another author further supports this in noting that, "[...

Case study Marilyn Friedman's Model

driving distance, visiting with friends, and participating in a variety of church activities. Also, both children play sports whic...

Ansel Adams

As a child he was shy, did not really fit in and later would claim he was likely a boy who suffered from hyperactivity (Turnage). ...

Educational Alternatives for Poverty-Stricken Children

that schools located in working-class neighborhoods tend to be more regimented than schools located in suburban neighborhoods wher...

FAMILY, THEORIES AND SOCIETAL IMPACT

Discusses the relationship between family and society. Also discussed are the family stress and symbolic interaction theories. The...

U.S. Criminal Justice System Law Enforcement, Judicial And Corrections

Watch in 1636, New York Citys Shout and Rattle Watch was implemented in 1651 and Philadelphia created ten separate patrol areas th...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Using Gestalt Theory with Families

own feelings, behaviors and thoughts. The phenomenological method of gaining awareness is about "perceiving, feeling and acting" (...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Considerations in Blended Families

steps we take to make them work, blended families raise problems regarding appropriate social roles. Individuals, after all, are ...

Family Theory Questions

traditional nuclear families (Bowen). 3. How does family assessment influence health-seeking behaviors among individuals? Asses...

Asthma: A Research Proposal

chests as well as wheezing and coughing. The physiological reasons for these responses include spasms in the smooth muscle tissu...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

Federalism, Elitism & Pluralism

a result of such exclusion was meant to maintain complete control over all the respective districts political and economic decisio...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Child Development and Blended Families

parents and an undertanding of the roots of conflict. Marsolinis (2000) perspective is one that comes from the value in applyin...

Adult Day Care in North Carolina

includes seniors centers focusing on social and wellness programs and activities, adapting healthcare needs to those standards rat...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Contemporary Threats to Marriage and the Family

evolved to the point, in fact, where the extended families of old have been severed. So-called nuclear families have arisen in th...