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Should Minors be Tried as Adults?

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

Teaching Diversely Aged College Students

2001, p. 3). Adult learners may need help in structuring their time, learning good study habits, etc. just as much or more so tha...

Plagiarism in Adult Education

same assignments" (Jocoy; DiBiase 2006). Overall the study indicated that through strategies to reduce and educate about plagiaris...

Socialization and the Individual

in Western culture. Consider, for example, the games played by rural Indian children and compare them to the games played by rura...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

The Case of Miss A; Planning with a People Centred Approach

housework and laundry. Miss A is unable to do much housework, does not eat meals with him and goes to bed very late due to eating...

The Influence of Television on American Society

1977, p. 4). For children in particular, there is no activity that permits as much intake "while demanding so little outflow" (Win...

Two Lesson Plans for Adult ESL Learners

to memorize these words or phrases. * Working in dyads, students will practice one of two dialogues, either speaking with the nurs...

Teen and Adult Parenting Styles

she found out. It brought my mom and I closer but my dad and I, were not close any more at all" ("Melinda"). Because this girl is ...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Abstract for Article on Diabetes Screening

criterion for inclusion in the study as all children previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were excluded. Body mass index (B...

Children and The World Wide Web

childs use of the Web. In many ways the Internet might be considered a sociological experiment. While most adults are...

Singer: Recriminalizing Delinquency

(Singer, 1996). The case was shocking for a number of reasons, but two stand out: Bosket was only 15; and he was already in care a...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Juveniles Tried as Adults: A Problem Statement

the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...

Media Article Analysis/TV and Aggressiveness

revulsion to blood and gore that the researchers discuss as one of the desensitizing aspect of exposure to violence. Parents watch...

Adult Development/A Case Study

Art Institute. Each school could have one representative and Ritas art was chosen to represent her school. She won. This brief d...

Autobiography/Growing Up in Poland

I still take my responsibilities very seriously. Throughout my childhood, my parents had chores for us and household responsibilit...

Perks of Being a Wallflower/Should It Be Banned?

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

Creativity

activity than the adults brain (Jalongo, 2003). Theta waves are those that are active during the time "between being awake and fal...

Humanism in Adult Basic Education

endorsed, but personal development is practiced; Brookfield wonders why the contradiction exists, and finds his answer in the text...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Lord of the Flies & Social Order

Ralphs group is Simon, who is sensitive and spiritual in nature. At one point in the novel, Simon hallucinates and images that t...

The Influence of Change on Adult Learners

themselves, "such changes become ... the framework for new beliefs and actions" (Taylor, Marienau and Fiddler). Clearly this is an...

Weight Study Proposal

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

Adult Education Contributions of Mary M. Bethune

Moodys Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago. She understood, as she grew, that many African American children...

Medical Law and Refusing Consent

it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...