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Adolescent Peer Pressure and Advertising

as beautiful, wild, or successful. Taken one step further, when a product is purchased by an adolescent who is perceived ...

Peer Groups

and thus feels isolated and unwanted, the popular youth revels in the notoriety of being one of the "in" crowd. Incidents t...

Philip Zimbardo's Peer Pressure Theories

in Berzonsky, 1995 ). A dimension found which influences the impact of public self-expressions on self conceptions is firmness of ...

Two Child Development Cases

In seven pages this research paper analyzes the lack of theory that would provide greater understanding in cases involving peer an...

Contemporary Work Ethics, Managers, Employees, and Peers

In five pages this paper examines the workplace changes that have occurred in recent years and discusses the impact upon work ethi...

Literature Review on Teen Drug Abuse

In five pages this research paper examines various theories regarding teenage drug abuse in a consideration of peer pressure and o...

Alcohol on the College Campus

is apparent that raising the legal drinking age to 21 has not discouraged many young people from drinking alcohol. In a 1997 study...

Theories of Cultural Deviance

Juvenile delinquency is considered in twelve pages within the context of the Theory of Differential Association by Sutherland and ...

Dropouts Among Gifted and At Risk Students

In six pages it is argued that students who are gifted, at risk are more likely to quit school than their peers who are not gifted...

Overview of Peer Mediation

In twelve pages this paper considers peer mediation in a discussion of various aspects along with an interview of student program ...

How They Compare 'Ungraded' or 'Multi-Age' Classrooms

This paper consists of 10 pages and chronicles the evolution of school organization from the nineteenth century and continuing wit...

Elementary School Students Motivational Approaches

In twelve pages this paper discusses student intrinsic and extrinsic motivational techniques and theory and the roles played by pe...

School Impact on Children Who Have Epilepsy

In six pages this research paper considers how children with epilepsy are perceived in the academic environment with different sei...

Analyzing the Painting Rembrandt Contemplating the Bust of Aristotle

In five pages this painting is analyzed in terms of three aspects of the subject's psychological mood, light, and shadow which is ...

Short Stories and Rounded Character Building

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

Pediatric Asthma and Interventions of Public Health Peer Education

In fifteen pages this paper features the results of a Chicago case study regarding the importance of peer education for families o...

Socialization

In five pages this paper examines socialization in an overview of peer groups, school, and family relationships. One source is ci...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Canada, Victimization, and Juvenile Delinquency

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

Differences Between Girls and Boys

and often the meaning. Without realizing it, parents verbally address their male children differently than they do their fe...

LD Students and Educational Instruction

by teachers along with discussion and reading the material, such as the text book or workbook (Swanson, 2003). Strategy instructio...

Harlem's Peer Education Program and Pediatric Asthma

environment. One of the most obvious nursing concerns for pediatric patients is the differing ability of the patient to employ pr...

Interpersonal Relationship Formation and Adolescent Development to Young Adulthood

change that is then made even more complex by changes related to sexual awakening and reproductive capabilities. It is also the po...

Society, Weight, and Popular Culture

and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...

Montessori and Vygotsky: current applications.

the main query as to how students learn, Vygotsky explored how students construct meaning (Jaramillo, 1996; p. 133). Vygots...

Teachers' Perspectives on School Violence

In 7 pages this paper discusses U.S. schools and dealing with growing violence with zero tolerance policies and peer counseling am...

At Risk Students and the Support of Peer Tutoring Groups

In nine pages this paper discusses how peer tutoring groups can provide support to at risk students at any age with program benefi...

Peer Pressure

In eight pages this paper discusses the concept of peer pressure and whether or not is steeped more in myth than in actual fact. ...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Adolescent Biopsychosocial Development

In a paper consisting of seven pages early adolescent development is considered in terms of biopsychosocial considerations with ch...