SEARCH RESULTS

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

the studies statistics (2002). Another example demonstrates that the statistics used were small. For instance, in August of 1995, ...

children of alcoholics are more likely to experiment with alcohol at earlier ages than other children (Vail-Smith and Knight, 1994...

a dog would not understand that to be a highly inappropriate social activity; the next thing she may do is approach her own family...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

down, squishing them to form a fish face. All the children were participating except for Jack, who was staring at the ceiling, mo...

Many research projects are based, in part, on interviews, for example. The problem with interviews is not merely the subjective so...