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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...

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...

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...

Learning Abilities and the Impact of Variables

In eight pages this research paper assesses the impacts of motivation, locus of control, influence of peers, socialization, achiev...

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...

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). ...

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...

Personal Political Perspectives

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

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...

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...

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 ...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Cigarette Addiction and Young People

More precisely, in looking at cigarette addiction in young people, what are its causes? The causes of addiction are rather physio...

Children Ages 7 to 11 and Positive Environmental Influences

(Kwon & Yawkey, 2000). Freudian theory would spark interest in terms of how the environment would affect emotional impulses as wel...

Political Socialization and Its Major Agents

mass media, school and peers are "major agents of political socialization." Family Lundblad (2004) describes two of her "de...

Scholastic Performance and the Impact of Peer Programs

success of peer programs pertinent to academic achievement. II. Peer Leadership Peer feedback as well as modeling have been...

Socialization of the Individual and Effects of Religion, Family, Peers, and School

gender roles will continue throughout the individuals life. The same theory applies to religion. The young child does not understa...

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...

Aggression and Peer Rejection

acts of violence resulting "from ones reduced ability to regulate the expression of aggressive behavior in interpersonal situation...

Women’s Writing and Male Domination

both the other woman and herself. She tells her shocked husband, who faints when he sees her creeping around the wall, that she ha...

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

Janet Wilson James' Women in American Religion

This text is reviewed in five pags. There are no other sources listed....

Studs Terkel's Hard Times An Oral History of the Great Depression

In five pages Terkel's text is the focus of this insightful book review....

Richard E. Porter and Larry A. Samovar's 'Intercultural Communication'

is titled "Intercultural Interaction: Taking Part in Intercultural Communication." It possesses three chapters, titled "Verbal Pro...