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Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

Divorce and Its Impact on Children

that the family is a central, positive institution in every society. It performs two functions: the nurturing and socialization o...

ASEAN Role Against Child Soldiers

both within the army and in the ethnic and other armed groups pitted against it" (Spaeth PG). "ASEAN and its dialogue part...

Discrimination and Children

educational opportunities for persons of minority races but they did nothing to change the social power structure (Vernay, 1990). ...

Presenting the 'Food Guide Pyramid' to Children

a wide range of creative possibilities for designing a presentation on the concepts the pyramid presents. Planning and Designing t...

Child Aggression and Its Sociocultural Influences

to changing environments (1997). Perhaps the brain can create behavior, but it is also true that behavior can alter the brain (199...

Canada and the Adaptation of Immigrant Children

peer groups( Samuel and Verma, 1992). As the extent of this list implies, immigrants and their children make up a population of pe...

Gifted Child Challenges

interested in daily academic lessons. "Most gifted children manage to fit in fairly well with their peers. They can learn the sa...

Children and Social Attachment Issues

as a baby," (Harmon, 7, 2001), which should serve to remind us that "infants and toddlers are part of relationships and that to un...

Children, Teens, and Preventing Smoking

advertisements make it clear to young people that smoking is a sophisticated and reasonable way to be an adult. Obviously, better...

Mentally Disabled Children and Language

In eleven pages this paper discusses how language instruction should be approached regarding children suffering from mental disabi...

Same Sex Couples and Children

In seven pages an overview of childrearing by couples of the same sex is presented. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Exploitation and Promotion of Child Labor by the U.S.

In five pages this paper presents the argument that many Americans exploit and promote global child labor without even knowing it....

Group Therapy and Children of Divorce

In fourteen pages children who are products of divorced families are discussed in terms of group therapy benefits. Twelve sources...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Ibo Children

In six pages this paper examines what social, political, spiritual, and physical symbolism children represent in this acclaimed Ni...

Gay Families and Children

are in fact protected by the society--by social services, by nosy neighbors, by teachers-so it stands to reason that society shoul...

Child Temperament, Motivation, and Nature v. Nurture

In twelve pages this paper discusses child temperament and motivation with regard to the nature v. nurture debate. Fifteen source...

A Proposal for a Child Care Center

and security, as well as the positive aspects of learning through mistakes; the development of cognitive skills - including proble...

Child Development and the Effects of the Internet

In seven pages this paper examines the possible effects of the WWW on child development. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograph...

3 Year Old Child and Parenting

talk, they retain old habits; many suck their thumbs, sleep with teddy bears and exhibit some other holdover of baby behavior (Bum...

School Children, Internet, and Computer Classes

everywhere - in the workplace, in libraries, and in the home. According to a 1998 commercial survey, some 60 percent of American ...

Negative Impacts of Television's Violence and Bad Language on Children

p. 56). Another author in the article suggested that children who are physically disciplined and watch violent television may well...

Exceptional or Gifted Children and Tracking or Grouping

("Report," 2001). The problems noted by the report suggest that the system is overwhelmed; it has high caseloads and large amounts...

Epic of Gilgamesh and Relationships Between Parents and Children

In five pages this paper examines how parent and child relationships are portrayed in this epic in a consideration of Gilgamesh's ...

Tutorial on Whether or Not Hyperactive Children Should be Treated with Drugs

In six pages this tutorial defines ADD, ADHD, and MBD, along with diagnosis and treatments of each outlined and then opines with j...

'Suffer the Little Children' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...

Children, New Family Structures and Their Impact

In five pages this paper examines 1990s' family research in a discussion of how children are being affected by families and the re...

Parent and Child According to the Attachment Theory

how the child or infant would react to separation based on the initial strength of the attachment experienced with the mother. T...

Child Aggression and its Many Forms

In thirteen pages this paper examines the many ways in which child aggression can manifest itself in a discussion of definitions, ...

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...