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Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

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...

Alcoholism: Children of Alcoholic Parents

2007). In first examining this condition, from a broad perspective, it is helpful to note some of the facts concerning families/ch...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

Learning Disabilities in Young Children

disability is limited proficiency in English, or "lack of instruction in reading or math" (Guidelines, 1999). The guidelines also ...

Jane Eyre as a Child

"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...

Suffer the Restless Child by Alfie Kohn

children every year, all pointing to the fact that it is really not just one condition, and that many factors play a part in how p...

Public Health in Haiti; A Research Proposal

To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...

The Role of Mothers in the Social and Educational Upbringing of Their Children, Particularly in Japan

differences they expect to find as they observe mothers with their children are not gross; that is, they dont expect to find Ameri...

Belief In A Just World Theory

the just world theory. Some of those outcomes include: more satisfaction with life, in general, better mental health, better physi...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

The No Child Left Behind Act

implications that definitely go against the grain of some long-established educational practices. Given the problematic n...

Logico-Mathematical Thought And Montessori’s Mathematical Mind

to the thought (Durak, 2005). This process is needed for mathematics and logic to exist, as it is a way that a student will create...

The Go-Between and Lolita

In the case of Leo he is simply a liaison between lovers and learns of sexuality through them. Lolita appears to like the control ...

Impact of Advertising

the news and entertainment media draw on advertising revenues for their operating budgets and this afford advertisers considerable...

ELL Funding

Furthermore, all language designed to promoting bilingual education has been removed from federal legislation pertaining to ELL ed...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

California Should Encourage More Adoptions

to adopt white infants, which, among other things, gives the lie to the myth that Americans love children. If they did, all childr...

Group Development And Effectiveness

than fulfills this purpose. They offer more information in more forms than one could digest in a week. The organizations Web site ...

Family Systems Theory

goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...

Social Engineering and Predatory Crime

social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...

Review of "Filicide-Suicide: Common Factors in Parents Who Kill Their Children and Themselves"

descriptive study into this area. Purpose of the Study The purpose of the study is that which is stated by the authors in...

High Risk Family Assessment/Violence

education or less; little or not prenatal care; unlisted telephone number; low income; history of unemployment; current under or u...

Taylor and Hickey: “Tunnel Kids”

about tunnel dwellers. Methods: Once the ethnographers heard about these kids, they knew they wanted to get to know them, and the...

Article Review/Childhood Motivation

that driving time was a factor in selection and that all interviews were conducted in person, it can be assumed that the study was...

Insensitive Teachers and Ethnic Students

has to do with her background as well; if her parents didnt value other cultures, they will not have passed that appreciation to h...

Child Development, Birth to 2 Years

follow a logical progression. Babies learn to coo, imitate sounds, babble, form their first words, and then their first sentences....

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Research Design To Test The Hypothesis That There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Memory Recovery Of Child Sexual Abuse And The Development Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...

Intervention - Recovered Memories And Trauma

be validated through other means (Science Daily , 2007). An overwhelming majority of victims who recover such memories are women. ...