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Why Assertiveness is Important

care of ones needs is an important reason to become assertive. For example, if someone goes to a doctor or hospital and they are l...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

Essay: Ulysses S. Grant

and since the American Civil War is endlessly fascinating, well take a look at one of its most important - and overlooked - figure...

Behaviorism

- can condition (train) him to be whatever professional he chooses. This, he argues, is the basis upon which behavior is founded:...

Transient - and Disappearing - Benefits

true, but it seems as though these same organizations are being rather myopic in planning for the future. The single constant fac...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black...

Issues of Homosexual Parenting

sex partner and says: "I wanted to have a big wedding. We had 100 to 150 people-my parents, my extended family, my parents friends...

An Adolescent Case Study of a Teenage Black Male

best. The purpose of this paper is to assess the overall psychological functioning and the severity of the problems confron...

Grandparents and Their Changing Role

and influence and that "alternative" family structures "spell the downfall of American youth" (2003, p. 471). While it is true tha...

One Child Policy in China

the government encouraged three year intervals between children in rural areas (Akkerman and Sheng, 1998). Peasants were often sub...

Elementary School and Family Life Education

informing their children about the "birds and the bees" and expected this topic to be covered within the school curriculum (Price,...

Art of Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

Family Culture and the Importance of 'Nonna's Apron'

primarily white, with some red and green piping and a large image of an eagle in the middle. The apron has two large ties that go...

Amelia Case Study on Career Decision Making

that is based on perceived responsibilities, which, in turn, stem from family love and closeness. Beyond that, Amelia has had many...

Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family

his own discoveries, those that relate to his desire to aid the African American families that were so directly linked to his own....

Family Values and Confucianism

Two of Confucius teachings in particular are applicable to family values. These were the illustrative virtues of proper conduct a...

Botanical Description of the Olive Family, Oleaceae

of taxonomic characteristics. Although there are some rare exceptions where leaves are whorled or alternate, leaf arrangement is ...

Language History Study

century. "He claimed that he made his language as simple as he could so that ordinary people could understand it, yet it is barel...

Strategies for Parents with Children who have Spina Bifida

is called spina bifida cystica, which is something that signifies a number of conditions also known as myelodysplasia, myelomening...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Understanding Contemporary Families

never been enacted (Young, 2001, p. 27). Young, predictably, castigates Crittenden, saying that what she is proposing is "entitle...

Domestic Violence: Is Income a Factor?

domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...

Reich's "The Future Of Success: Working And Living In The New Economy" - Brief Chapter Overview

value amidst an ever-changing social landscape may present opportunity on the one hand but as Reich (2002) points out, it also ref...

Romanian Family History

and Carol I (1839-1914) was installed as its first monarch" (Wertsman). It is a very old country with a rich and varied history. ...

Down Low: Marriage and Family

marriage and family, which all forms of infidelity have, although there are also additional problems. In this form of infidelity, ...

African American Culture and Child Rearing

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

Educating Rita: Women and Education Today

see this play. It is about a woman, not that different from me because she is not from a rich family and she is from lower class, ...

Honor and Family Names in The Count of Monte Cristo

his bravery and leadership" (Faulkner). And, like his father, Alexandre apparently went on to experience a life of debauchery and ...

The Centrality of Ancestors in Chinese Neolithic Cultures

(Daily life in ancient China). Children were expected to obey their parents without question, a mindset that was an "important par...