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Libraries and Censorship Filters

content specifically set out in the CIPA statue;... 2. Certain broad categories of content--among them journalistic, medical, educ...

Roman Catholic Church Child Sex Scandal

is both a government (via the Vatican) and an organization, it is a church. The data are astounding. The John Jay College of Crimi...

An Analysis of Childrearing in Great Expectations

her pretty brown hair. Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well. Let me see you play cards with this boy" (Dickens Cha...

Government, Financial Assistance, and Childcare

p. 04E) have demonstrated aberrant characteristics in the kindergarten years. Parents who cannot afford to make a direct emotiona...

Math Education for Children with Special Needs Article Critiqued

observations in several different locations throughout the school over a period of three semesters. Each participant was also int...

Children and the Impact of Violence

in recent times that certain parts of the world are beginning to recognize the significant impact spousal abuse has upon the victi...

Pediatric Patient Catheterization

Sometimes just the opposite can occur and the bladder does not empty like it should, if at all. Other problems that seem to be ass...

Child Spanking and Canadian Law

found. First Reason The first reason for objecting to spanking is that the line between it and child abuse can become blurred. ...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Child Labor Practices Among Farm Workers in Florida

Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Smith, 1995). At the same time, children who work all around the nation are being either hurt or kill...

Giuseppe Verdi and His Life's Influence on His Music

its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...

Catalan Identity in 'Teta I La Luna'

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Literature Review on Early Childhood Literacy

The methodology used in this study largely substantiates the utility of the hybrid approach. The children from two Head Start cl...

No Child Left Behind and Standardized Testing

testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...

Diane Levin's Teaching Young Children in Violent Times

and to feel safe" (Corby). After addressing the impact of violence on children, Levin describes how to build a peaceful classroo...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

No Child Left Behind - Illinois

black-white achievement gap in fifth-grade mathematics narrowed by seven percentage points" among others (NCLB making a difference...

An Article on Disadvantaged Children Critiqued

families without active phone numbers were mailed surveys. The results indicated, even after controlling multiple variables, suc...

Treatment of the Unborn Child, Surrogacy Laws, and Abortion

Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) with reference to the Abortion Act 1967 (Lexis, 2003). This makes abo...

Deaf Child and the Impact Upon a Hearing Sibling

sisters" (Lobato, et al, 1991, p. 398). While studies that have focused on the siblings of handicapped children are rare, there ...

Child Development and Verbal Abuse

told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...

Lessons and Developmental Activities for Children Aged Nine Months to Four 4 Years

the infant simply plays with the play dough, feeling it as it squishes through hands and fingers (The Baby School Company, Inc., 2...

Children Suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder

has a direct correlation with unattached disorders, with institutionalized children reflected as being particularly compromised in...

Overview of San Diego's Project 'Jump Start'

enter for up to a full year. Because obesity is a family problem as well as one of society, project Jump Start has the potential ...

Proposition 82's Cost Benefit Analysis

African-American and Latino students" (New Research Exposes Hidden High School Drop Out Crisis, 2005). "Official" graduation rate...

Budget and Objectives of Project 'Jump Start'

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

Constructing Ego and Confidence in Children Who Are At Risk

no question that animals offer unconditional love and support, which is what most at-risk children desperately need. While this i...

Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Behavior and the Influences of Nutrition

the formulation of childhood externalizing behavior (Liu, et al, 2004). Addressing this need, Liu, et al (2004) formulated a lon...