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her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

first element of establishing a proactive approach to addressing the issues of gambling and juvenile drinking problem in the Westw...

discriminatory practices. The primary problem with fair housing is the fact that there exists a great deal of racial, gender and ...

the English Poor Law tradition, the nations welfare system has been through a maze of change since its original inception. Indeed...

the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...

Journal, 2001). This phenomena is of serious concern in that it is not only life threatening but is increasing on a world wide ba...

makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

a precursor of their own behaviors? 3. When parents actively voice opposition to alcohol use, what impact does this have on the c...

after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

to speak more loudly than any words on the subject. "My teaching was silent on issues of race, and it was a silence that must hav...

of Australian society. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth cent...

al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...

more than twice as likely to become pregnant as white teens and Latina teens were 3.5 times more likely to get pregnant than white...

not consider certain factors and pays little attention to individual differences (Papalia, Olds and Feldman). This site also gives...

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

rose from 40.5 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 in 2005 to 41.9 births per 1,000 in 2006--a 3 percent increase" ("National Camp...

its production and distribution down to a science, when it comes to marketing movies, there is always room for improvement. Lionsg...

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 ...

The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...

carry out specific behaviors influences the behaviors in which they engage, their persistence in the face of obstacles, and the ef...

study is well written and comprehensive, as it encompasses all of the major subheadings included in the article, that is, the stu...

teen pregnancy rate is applied to actual population numbers to determine the potential numbers of program participants. As a resu...

indicates that teens are often confused by abstinence-only programs, as this approach to sex education sidesteps around issues and...