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Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

Accommodations for Disability

should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronize...

Disabled Students

prevent those from receiving the special attention they need. Contrary to that opinion is how full inclusion will serve to drasti...

Workforce Transitioning

considerable amount of both federal and state legislation has been passed that addresses the transition process. The Individuals w...

Education's Inclusive Theory and Disabilities

disabled and the non-disabled are to be best served. The educational arena presents a number of challenges in regard to the...

Disability Defined

lack of some ability. If we examine the Merriam-Webster Dictionarys definitions we note the following: "1 a : the condition of b...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Learning Event/Math Lesson Plan for 5th Graders with ADHD

cycle. Description of learners: There were 98 students in total enrolled in Armels fifth grade during the 2007-08 school year. T...

Learning Event/Math Lesson Plan for 5th Graders with ADHD

cycle. Description of learners: There were 98 students in total enrolled in Armels fifth grade during the 2007-08 school year. T...

Correlation Study: First Year Of College

populations (p. 24). Because detailed quantitative research can make the data themselves both formulate and limit the analy...

The Concept of Learning

along the details of a high-profile news story that illustrates the person has discovered something he did not previously know. T...

Four-Blocks Literacy Framework: Literature Review

literate, regardless of which approach is most compatible with their individual learning personalities"...The second basic princip...

Overweight Children

It is no secret that a large percentage of the American population is overweight or obese. The tragedy is that a large proportion ...

The World is Getting Fatter

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

Adolescence: Identity Formation

very pressure it places upon the youth. There is a tremendous burden for teens to perform within their respective peer groups, wh...

WorkSpace: Benefits For Students, Teachers And Parents

to focus more closely upon the sometimes subtle requirements students have where learning is concerned. Computers represent one o...

Bottge's ' Reconceptualizing Mathematics Problem Solving For Low Achieving Students' - Summary

"Conceptual knowledge incorporates the other two forms of knowledge, but in unique and novel ways; it requires understanding in or...

Adult Learning Theories

the learner is involved in reflection. This essay will discuss several learning theories. The essay does not make any specific c...

In What Ways Is Reading Literary Works of Another Age Of Value To Understanding History And To Understanding One's Place In History?

age help to dispel myths and mistruths about the past that have erroneously been passed on as fact. Sometimes history is portraye...

HIV Prevention for Youth in Rural Areas

sex (Dunn, et al, 2007). Statistics, such as this, indicate the clear need for HIV prevention programs that specifically target ad...

A Program to Reduce Overweight Kids

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

Danny Zuko From The Movie Grease

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

A Case Study on Adolescent Development

creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Pi...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

Proposal for a Project to Tackle Obesity in Adolescents

need to be the skills, including cooking skills, the ability to design menus, and the approaches taught also need to be available ...

Young Males and Anorexia

and behavior. However, males with anorexia are usually suffering in silence because of the lack of social acceptance that this is...

Cliques, Crowds And Adolescent Development

groups are open to anyone, while cliques are restricted to only those who are accepted by virtue of the defining quality. Moeller...

Nutritional Needs Of Adolescents

food. In order to maintain a sense of acceptance, adolescents often forego the necessary elements of a proper and healthful diet ...