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Criminal Justice System and the Treatment of Children as Children and Not Adults

children as young as ten will fall under the juvenile court jurisdiction (1997) It is true that some children seem to deserve th...

Schizophrenia in Adults

factors still were largely obscure. "One suggestion is that brain damage occurring at or around the time of birth in some way con...

A 2003 Steptoe et al Article 'Behavioral Counseling to Increase Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables in Low Income Adults' Revieweed

that "brief individual counseling in primary care can elicit sustained increases in consumption of fruit and vegetables in low inc...

Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Developmental Identity

the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and...

Dr. Murray Bowen's Family Systems Therapy Theory and Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides

to as nuclear family emotional systems. According to this concept, the family acts as a "unitary whole," which is affected by two...

Elderly Sexuality: Gender Differences

way the Social Security Administration does and proclaim that anyone age sixty-two or over will be considered "elderly". It seems...

Teaching Diversely Aged College Students

2001, p. 3). Adult learners may need help in structuring their time, learning good study habits, etc. just as much or more so tha...

Teen and Adult Parenting Styles

she found out. It brought my mom and I closer but my dad and I, were not close any more at all" ("Melinda"). Because this girl is ...

Should Minors be Tried as Adults?

approach to juvenile justice has changed from the idea of rehabilitation to what Hughes calls our "lock em up culture" (2002, p. 1...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Abstract for Article on Diabetes Screening

criterion for inclusion in the study as all children previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were excluded. Body mass index (B...

Adult Development/A Case Study

Art Institute. Each school could have one representative and Ritas art was chosen to represent her school. She won. This brief d...

Socialization and the Individual

in Western culture. Consider, for example, the games played by rural Indian children and compare them to the games played by rura...

Plagiarism in Adult Education

same assignments" (Jocoy; DiBiase 2006). Overall the study indicated that through strategies to reduce and educate about plagiaris...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

Adequate Housing for Older Adults

adults becoming an ever-increasing percentage of the population is expected to continue until roughly 2050 (Boyd, et al, 1994). Th...

Juveniles, Transfer Laws And Adult Court

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

Children’s Perceptions of Adults

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

The Importance of Schools in Preparing Adults

the child to learn that society expects something from them when it comes to their appearance. By learning how to conform to dres...

Film Review/Finding Nemo

but are rather handled subtly and well, as they are integrated into the context of the narrative and the way the character change ...

Improving Adult Immunization Rates

considered important for their health, we can consider the statistics on influenza vaccinations specifically. National guidelines...

Arguing in Favor of Eighteen Year Olds Having the Right to Legally Drink

eighteen, it would encourage these young adults to form a pattern of behavior that includes the sensible and mature use of alcohol...

Gender Identity: The Role of Hormones and Environment

intervention to sculpt the individual into a better reflection of a particular sex in terms of their external genitalia. Parents ...

Having an Alcoholic Parent/Effects in Adulthood

with college students as participants who were self-identified as adult children of an alcoholic parent concluded from the study d...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

Article Analysis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...

Diabetes Education w/Adult Hispanic Learners

well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor...

The Adult Entertainment Industry as a Noncriminal Deviant Sub-Culture

nudity. Mens bodies, by contrast, are almost never shown nude; if they are, they are usually exaggerated into a "heroic" style. Fe...

Workforce Development Issues in Adult Education

think that adult education is a new idea. Yet, adult education is something that is an old institution. The first adult educatio...

Role of Orality in Personality Development

early childhood experiences and, again, prioritize the mother-infant relationship as pivotal to later development. In other words,...