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Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Social Learning and Social Control

genders. "Testosterone exerts powerful effects on human bodies, helping make them stronger and bigger. It also increases sex dri...

Psychological Testing and its Counseling Role

in this fashion. Ethical questions are raised by such experimentation as well as the mere availability of such things to the lay ...

Education Study and The Sick Role by Talcott Parsons

"(1) a person is exempted from ordinary social obligations; (2) a...

Prohibiting Laboratory Experiments on Primates, Cats, and Dogs

animals for whatever purpose he deems necessary without a thought for the animals needs. The issues that surround animal rights a...

Home, Workplace, and the Psychological Effects of Color

research difficult but within species research possible. In addition, it has been studied that the perception of color within a sp...

Patience and the Civil Rights' Reform Strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

publicized achievements, the Birmingham Bus Boycott in which hundreds of blacks practically shut down the bus system by their non-...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...

Developing a New Product

word, mark the book or cut and paste sections as well as highlighting the sections for restaurant at a later date, all without mar...

Compare and Contrast Public School and Christian School Administrators

determines both the content and the means of instruction" (Bob Jones University, 2001). Thus, we conclude that a Christian educati...

Steroid Testing in the Major League

has a bill in place that would require all sporting organizations wishing to play in the state require drug testing (2002). Such...

Seeking a Job in Investment Banking

field in which frustrations mount - but on the other side, there are times when you feel exhilaration when everything falls into p...

Impacts of Plato, Pythagoras, Wolfgang Kohler, and B.F. Skinner on Education

(Bosomolny, 2002). He founded the Pythagorean school of philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences. His teachings soon attract...

LD Testing

deal to work situations, it also affects special education. What it had done is to change, from a legal perspective, the notion o...

Education and Leadership

full members, 275 planning schools and 558 exploratory schools (AEL, 2000). The major goal of this coalition is to "help create sc...

Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

Scholastic Achievement and School Vouchers

tuition at local parochial schools but less than half the costs of private nonsectarian schools (Thigpen, 2000). For more than tw...

Evaluation of Aptitude Tests as Assessment Instruments

a brief evaluation of their applicability and effectiveness. General Aptitude Test Battery The General Aptitude Test Battery o...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...

Issues in Minority Education

must come. When black Americans were first freed, the desire to become educated was strong. Being able to read and write, they...

Children and IQ Testing

caregivers educational level, home environment, socioeconomic status and prenatal exposure to substance abuse, violence exposure w...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

Educators and Development of Technology Staff

In twelve pages this paper examines 3 journal articles pertaining to the development of technology staff in an educational setting...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Alternatives to Student Learning Assessed

is made. Further, a great reliance on norm-referenced standardized tests has emerged over the last few decades. Standardized norm-...

Adult Education and the Theories of Program Design and Development

plus enough reading, and arithmetic to run their households, but that was all (Flaceliere 56). Ancient sources tell us, moreover, ...

Leadership and Education

School Reform : Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education as a means by which to illustrate how the notion of education...

Carbon Dioxide Production in Saccharomyces and the Impact of Temperature

into Carbon Dioxide and Ethyl Alcohol in approximately equal quantities (McGowen, 2002). The role of temperature can be seen as ...

Sports and Drugs

we may wish to consider, for instance, if the testing of an athlete may be seen as ethical, and why bother with the testing anyway...