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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...

“Whatever It Takes”

what Canada decided to do (Tough). He started with "a 24-block zone of central Harlem" that he named the "Harlem Childrens Zone" ...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

Iris Vinton: “The Story of Robert E. Lee”

of Northern Virginia, and finally to the last years after the Civil War (Vinton, 1952). Young readers who want a brief, simply wri...

Summary and Outline: Childhood Development

jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...

The Play's the Thing by Ted C. Fishman

safety factors mentioned above, kids are able to work out their penned up frustrations, improve dexterity and experience what it i...

Children and Young Adult Literature with an Annotated Bibliography

Covey who wrote the original book regarding the seven habits of highly successful people. While the elders book is rather intricat...

First 4 Chapters of There Are No Children Here by Kotlowitz

in Chicago comes form Pharoahs keen observations of the citys skyline and the awesome view, as well as one distinct butterfly. Ind...

Book Review of The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

reader wish he or she could share in the adventure. The fantastic inventions and methods used by the Robinson family to make thei...

Maturity, Loyalty, and Friendship in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

inner struggles that can be set free through no other means than verse. Indeed, the adventures of the Mole, Water Rat, Badger and...

Crime in the Making by Robert Sampson and John Laub

overwhelming temptations, from the smallest infraction of stealing candy to the most contemptible of all crimes: murder. Ke...

Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven

love of this frightened child is the healing agent that helps Turtle to grow. The symbolism of Turtles name, for she has retreate...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Taylor and Hickey: “Tunnel Kids”

about tunnel dwellers. Methods: Once the ethnographers heard about these kids, they knew they wanted to get to know them, and the...

Analysis: “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” and “The Hours”

happy: "Except that one day Haroun asked one question too many, and then all hell broke loose" (Rusdie, 1990, p. 8). The question ...

Belief In A Just World Theory

the just world theory. Some of those outcomes include: more satisfaction with life, in general, better mental health, better physi...

Nursing Homes & Liability

to a hospital, where he was intubated so that he could receive nutrition. He was again returned to Eastbrooke3 on July 23, 1990, w...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Chapter Analysis of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's classic and best known novel, The Return of the Native, is examined in this 5 page paper. The writer analyzes each ...

The Fragile Bridge

which was eager to join with the silk workers in their fight against the oppression of the factories. The Wobblies were a radic...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

Book Report on 3 Books

Jewish. The student could also state they did not know he was German. What were the weaknesses, failures, or disappointments for t...

Book Report on 3 Books

one down. It is a story of hope in a world where there is hunger and darkness. It is an uplifting book because Oliver goes through...

Wright: "The Challenge of Jesus"

and lay persons; those he calls the "next generation of thinking Christians" (Wright). In order to reach these people, however, he...

The Likely Effects Of E-Commerce On The Future Of Book Publishing

issues may still have the potential for a very large impact. The idea of the e-book is that a book may be bought in electronic f...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Amazon; Expansion and the Future of the Printed Book

This 3 page paper is written in two parts. The first part considers the potential of Amazon to expand into ore product lines. The ...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

Kremlin Capitalism (Book Report)

capitalism in Russia, but it was very weak (Blasi, Kroumova & Kruse, 1996). It is no wonder then that the Russian Revolution would...

The Importance Of Nehemiah

out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...