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Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial Downsizing by David Gordon

In five pages this book is evaluated in terms of the U.S. economy and the role of corporations as depicted within the text. There...

Marketing Through Stories: A Comparison of Buttery Spreads

of sorts that makes doing so truly challenging. There are candy aisles, colorful high sugared cereal boxes, and high fat gourmet i...

Decisions on the Educational Needs of Children With Down Syndrome

these parents had to mentally brace themselves for the harsh reminder that for every accomplishment the other twin made Avery woul...

Prestowitz's Three Billion Capitalists

the book seems to be that America is losing economically due to some policy decisions it has made in the past. The author claims...

Hunger's Dolot's Execution

of killing Jews. It was the fault of the government, and not an unfortunate or inevitable event. While the thesis is controversial...

History Of Child Rearing Practices

(Hulbert, 1999). More children were attending school towards the middle of the century and the trend in education was away from th...

A Look at Bataille's Erotism

tell the difference, but Batailles argument deserves contemplation. In trying to reach human limits in eroticism, one can go too f...

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex De Jonge

De Jonge places particular emphasis on his spiritual transformation in early adulthood, pointing out that such transformations, su...

Satire in Hard Times

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

U.S. Policy and Children

as adults have an irrefutable obligation to create." Annan "has accused adults worldwide of failing children, forcing far too many...

Issues Concerning Children Identified as Gifted

There has been a great deal of research about gifted children over the last decade or so. They may not become eminent but they wil...

Impact of Mom-Only Families

The literature is finally taking into consideration family structure and family dynamics when comparing the outcomes of children l...

Jean M. Twenge, Generation Me

This book review pertains to Jean M. Twenge's text Generation Me, which is a study of the differences between the attitudes and se...

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...

Elie Wiesel's Night

relationship between the protagonist and his father as well as issues of religious faith (Danks 101). Again, these are coming of a...

Children and Educational Observation

In six pages educational observation of children is discussed in terms of various methods with case study uses, checklists, and an...

Child Development, Birth to 2 Years

follow a logical progression. Babies learn to coo, imitate sounds, babble, form their first words, and then their first sentences....

Checklists for Assessing Young Children

observation-based checklists are based on the use of the checklist at different points in a school year. For example, use of the ...

Purpose of the Second Edition Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale

particularly useful in determining the prevalence of at-risk students in academic populations. Uhing et al (2005) note how the BE...

1979 to 1981 Atlanta Child Murders and Conviction of Wayne Williams

and was often able to reach accident and crime scenes before the police themselves. By doing so he had managed to capture many of...

Budget and Objectives of Project 'Jump Start'

an age-appropriate level Target population Program participants Program participants Program participants Degree of change 30 perc...

How Punishment Harms Children

form of punishment but others take away privileges. In the latter case, a parent may rescind television-viewing privileges for a d...

Children, Depression, and Suicidal Tendencies

Their use, however, use comes with substantial concerns. Brent (2004) reports that the depressed children that are prescribed th...

Examination of Domestic Violence

establish partnerships with lawmakers that resulted in criminal justice reform and the establishment of womens shelters. However, ...

Sports and Children

of the young children who will soon bloom into adolescence. In fact, LeBlanc and Dickson in their book Straight Talk About Childre...

Parental Perceptions Journal Article Reviewed

In four pages a review of a journal article that evaluates the social development of children and the impacts of interaction with ...

Article Assessment of Smart et al's Study on Behavioral Problems Associated with Reading

In six pages a 1996 article featured in the Journal of Child Psychology by Smart et al on reading and behavior problems is evaluat...

Activities for Preschool Children

work with puzzles shows that he recognizes patterns and his art work shows imagination and the ability to build on the information...

Assessment of the 0-3 Program of Early Education

and the parents. The service orientation clearly has a focus on child development and early childhood learning, but there is also...

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...