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An Article on Childhood Obesity and Television Critiqued

In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...

Characteristics of Human Service Systems

In eight pages this research paper discusses how child abuse can be prevented through the use of the FDCS human service system in ...

Public School Students and Nonverbal Learning Disorders

In six pages this paper examines public school students and nonverbal learning disorders that affect about 10 percent of LD childr...

Abused Child Florence in Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son

barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

Literature Review and Case Study on Family Therapy

addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...

Child Rearing Over the Course of a Century

those that already had become urban (New York and Boston, as example) still retained a rural atmosphere in terms of how families a...

Education Reflections

food for thought on this concept. Another phenomenon is that of Harry Potter where it had been suggested that it was the first tim...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Vulnerable Populations and Nursing

their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...

Language Connections and Conclusions

understanding what is being asked of them in the classroom is that over time, the use of language became too casual in intent. In ...

Working Mothers

exist even though he cant see them, and he realizes that they have properties that are independent of his actions upon them" (Meye...

Infant Cognition, Habituation and Violation Of Expectation

combination of judgment and awareness; indeed, this aspect is most definitely associate with ecological concern, inasmuch as cogni...

School Children, Internet, and Computer Classes

everywhere - in the workplace, in libraries, and in the home. According to a 1998 commercial survey, some 60 percent of American ...

U.S. Constitutional Rights and Minorities

degree throughout the 1950s and 60s. Although 46.4% of all American women between the ages of 18 and 65 now work outside the home,...

Exceptional or Gifted Children and Tracking or Grouping

("Report," 2001). The problems noted by the report suggest that the system is overwhelmed; it has high caseloads and large amounts...

Homicide Survivors Support Groups

deeply felt. Grief is the strong, complex emotion that accompanies loss, and mourning is the public rituals associated with bereav...

Tutorial on Whether or Not Hyperactive Children Should be Treated with Drugs

In six pages this tutorial defines ADD, ADHD, and MBD, along with diagnosis and treatments of each outlined and then opines with j...

Kids' Buying Power

In five pages children under the age of 18 and their purchasing power are examined in terms of population data along with their in...

Sam Shepard and William Faulkner on Family Dysfunction

In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...

A WISC III Intelligence Scale Examination

examples in answer (Kaufman, 1994 and See Also MacMillan, 1996, p. 133). This essay discusses potential Wechsler candidates, the...

Child Development and the Effects of the Internet

In seven pages this paper examines the possible effects of the WWW on child development. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograph...

3 Year Old Child and Parenting

talk, they retain old habits; many suck their thumbs, sleep with teddy bears and exhibit some other holdover of baby behavior (Bum...

Negative Impacts of Television's Violence and Bad Language on Children

p. 56). Another author in the article suggested that children who are physically disciplined and watch violent television may well...

Special Needs Population and Child Abuse

perpetuate certain undesirable behavior patterns. Physical abuse can kill, and has. Some abusive parents have been responsible for...

Fully Restorative Programs

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of ju...

Child Temperament, Motivation, and Nature v. Nurture

In twelve pages this paper discusses child temperament and motivation with regard to the nature v. nurture debate. Fifteen source...

ADHD from a Mother's Perspective

In this paper consisting of eleven pages the mother of a child recently diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is...

Child Abuse and Neglect Laws in Louisiana

This paper addresses child abuse and neglect laws both federally and within the state of Louisiana. The author provides both fede...

A Proposal for a Child Care Center

and security, as well as the positive aspects of learning through mistakes; the development of cognitive skills - including proble...