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This paper describes the effects of child abuse on child development and also the problems that is causes in later life for the ad...

adults, their youth and relative weakness decreased their chances of survival in the camps, where they were subjected to violence,...

districts near New York City for example, began to collect funds and they also rounded up needed supplies. At some point, the work...

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

contributing to delinquent behavior it may be nearly impossible to formulate an appropriate and meaningful intervention or treatme...

classroom environment is therefore designed to encourage children to exercise control over the environment and to function with an...

analyse what they see in the media, and consider whether it offers a valid option or not, children do not have the same level of d...

in recent times that certain parts of the world are beginning to recognize the significant impact spousal abuse has upon the victi...

condition. Other mitigating factors in regard to asthma include psychosocial variables, and possibly environmental exposure to a...

to Schweinhart and Weikart (1990), effective and developmentally appropriate programs for children (they are discussing Head Start...

their responsibilities. For example, the marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the nor...

often bullied in their profession. This is true even through one might think that to be unlikely. Nurses are generally perceived a...

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

(Papert, 1999, p. 104+) - believed that children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the ...

broad social perspective and also with regard to the many different kinds of requirements which disabled or special-needs children...

28 percent in 1999 but that number has also jumped to more than one-third of children today (Blundo, 1999). * Women married younge...

million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...

completely. As well, within the scope of learning there needs to be some semblance of order. Using guided discovery, educators...

and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...

from even his or her family for trying to improve himself. Hoggart also addresses the working class who have taught themselves s...

ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his family displaying the dysfunctional behavior and not that of his friends, ...

to be with his father in the last months of his life, as he would have wished. This would make him think deeply about his own life...

in general have been a topic of considerable debate practically since the first Kibbutz was formed. The first kibbutz was founded...

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

and social degradation which is consuming certain segments of our society could be considered to in some ways actually escalate th...

missing the fundamental basics of human life; as such, a legal shift in focus took place in order to provide them with more emphas...

on more than one occasion. As of the year 2000, there were approximately 2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and ...

covenant of irrevocable personal consent" and that procreation was not the sole purpose or the basis for the union (Lawler, 2001, ...

Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...