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Media Violence Influences Teen Violence

the radar," so to speak of most parents as research indicates that once children reach high school, parents rarely check the ratin...

Maltreatment: Impact Upon A Child's Cognitive And Physical Development

to the childs mental composition. If left emotionally unattended, infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

Primary Care Screening Tool

In seven pages this paper examines an alcohol abuse screening too, the AUDIT, which consists of 10 questions and how it can be cut...

Violence and Video Games

top out at $500 million (Elmer-Dewitt, Dickerson and Jackson PG). "Mortal Kombat", one of the games which is considered more viol...

Prisons and Drug Abuse

In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...

British Columbia and the Problems of Substance Abuse Among Canadian Youth

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

Symbolic Violence and Reporting

habits the listening to the news and the reading of papers with reports may be seen as an influencing factor, propagating the mass...

Relationship Between Animal Cruelty and Antisocial Behaviors

whether parent or child, often means child abuse occurs in that family."3 At least one study demonstrates that individuals "who e...

Causes and Effects of Violence in Schools

to violent acts in the news and other programming content. Television is not alone in this respect, however. Newspapers and even...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

Do Violent Video Games Encourage Violence Among Children

This paper reviews author Scott Shackford's defense of violent video games as published in the article Imaginary Guns Don't Kill P...

Wolfgang's Theoretical Perspective on Homicide

This research paper pertains to Marvin Wolfgang's theoretical perspective on homicide and focuses on his Subculture of Violence th...

Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

Aggression in Prisons

family and friends tend to be more involved in violence. The structure of the prison has been found to have an effect on the amou...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

WorldCom and Enron

for bankruptcy due to its inability to hide such tremendous losses any longer. It took a matter of three month for the company to...

Medical Facility Abuse and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

butchering and can only be likened to that which was utilized to produce Frankenstein. Therefore, the benefit of analyzing this...

Children, Violence, and TV

are disappointed if it doesnt. What kind of message does this send our children? According to Strasburger (1999, 103) it sends a...

Substance Abuse Counselor Certification

In many circumstances, the punitive nature of those dealing with addicts of all types has changed toward an awareness that there a...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

Juveniles and Drug Abuse

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

Abuse and the Elderly

In eight pages the global aging population issue is discussed with elder abuse laws, increasing incidences of abuse and neglect, a...

Case Study Kendra and Austin

This case involves a mother and her teenage son and the abuse suffered by the mother. Her drunken husband violently abused her dai...

Government Intervention in Private Affairs

yet typically American: it reduces families "to mere aggregations of individuals [but] it also enhances personal autonomy, a value...

Food Advertising & Children

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

African American Culture and Child Rearing

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

Group Development And Effectiveness

than fulfills this purpose. They offer more information in more forms than one could digest in a week. The organizations Web site ...