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Critiquing an Assessment of the Research Study on Relationship Between Learning Disabilities and HIV Risks

students have numerous misconceptions about how HIV is transmitted (Blanchett, 2002). Blanchett (2002) attempts to provide more d...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Adult Education and Code of Ethics Framework

possibilities for ethical code violations in practically every aspect of our lives. Ethics of practice is, in fact, a pop...

Criminal Justice and Treating Juvenile Crime as Adult Offenses

does not treat all of its juvenile offenders as adults. Indeed, the state is one of the most progressive in the nation in terms o...

A Perspective on the Value of Juvenile Offenders Being Sentenced as Adults

out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders. For particularly violent crimes, in fact, one of the most effective means of crime c...

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 ...

Family Influence and Pursuing an Education

maybe attend the local community college, but then again was also thinking about getting a job with a friend of mine in a construc...

UK Qualitative Study Proposal on Understanding the Effects of Sexual Abuse on Adult Learning Disabilities

services in the U.K. In 1997 the Lewisham Social Services described the protection of adults with learning disabilities as "a rela...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Comparative Analysis of Adult Pregnancy and Teen Pregnancy

times more births among junior high school girls and two and a half times more births among senior high school girls than do the g...

Alternative Adult Education Models

adult education within the confines of a college, university or junior/community college. Adult students attend such institutions ...

Adult Literacy and the New York City Public Library

potential" (National Assessments of Adult Literacy n.d.). An individuals literacy level cannot be defined by a single skill, such...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

Juvenile Offenders and Adult Prosecution

members of minority groups. That law has been in place since 1992, and has prompted 40 states to develop programs to reduce minor...

Prison and Juveniles

and as a result of this, there was a change in the way that the courts (read..judges) were to view juvenile offenders. For particu...

Hardened Criminals and Juvenile Incarceration

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

Target Aggregate Assessment

incidence of heart disease are short statements commenting on the items weight of relative increased risk. It has been long recog...

Arguing in Favor of Adult Sentences for Certain Juvenile Offenders

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

The Identity of Adult Learners

In this paper that consists of five pages the identity acquired by adults through the learning process is examined within the cont...

Gap Between Youth and Adult Culture Growing Wider

our new culture with such new pursuits as video games, new styles of music, and even new forms of art that play a negative role in...

Ralph Ellison's 'Battle Royal' and James Joyce's 'Araby'

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

Learning and Theories of Human Development

under role model and peer pressure. A critical stage for developing self-identity (University of Hawaii, 1990). 6. Stage 6: Young ...

Adult Education Articles

In five pages both articles that appeared in Adult Education Quarterly are briefly reviewed with one discussed in greater detail t...

Critique of a Critique of Maele

considers how wise is it to introduce the question of morality into learning, she will want to discuss how Maeler proved Newmans m...

Preferences of Adult Learners

school (Belzer, 2004). This conflict is clearly shown in Belzers article and her case studies of five students. All the subjects...

Criminal Justice VI

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...

Medical Law in California California Compassionate Care Act

the belief that only God has the right to end a life. Assisting a patient to die is usurping the position that rightly belongs to...

Welfare Reform, Vocational and Adult Education

which tend to create adult learners who can be considered as "exploitable surplus laborers" rather than "empowered political actor...