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Central Television of China

move toward democratization and modernization, a movement of equal force takes place that is related to the strongly-ingrained pra...

Chinese Reform and Financial Markets

having an impact on the Chinese economy. Well also touch somewhat on Hong Kong to determine how Chinas economic policies and finan...

Connection Between Social Participation, Concept of Self, and Young People

unprotected sex, drugs, theft, driving too fast, and thrill seeking. According to Lynn Ponton, author of The Romance of Risk: Why ...

The Effect of TV Violence on Young People

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Cigarette Addiction and Young People

More precisely, in looking at cigarette addiction in young people, what are its causes? The causes of addiction are rather physio...

Great Britain's Young People and the Consumption of Ecstasy and Alcohol

This topic is presented in an overview consisting of 5 pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Young People and Increasing Use of Drugs

drug use and the criminal and deviant behavior to which it all too often leads. In effect, drug use is a deviant behavior and one...

Young People and 2 Change Strategies

a good leader. In the case of youth populations, leaders can exist as members of a youth group, educators, or social workers, all...

Young People Suffering from Seizures and Construction of Identity

particular illness. An excellent example is gay men with AIDS. Due to their own perception of what AIDS involves, many gay men c...

AIDS, HIV, Behaviors and Attitudes of Young People I

them at risk. In one study of urban young adults ages 18-24, an average of 30% participated in risky behaviors at some time in th...

Work Based Occupational Skills Training for Young People and Government Involvement

In eight pages this paper focuses on the UK in a consideration of how the government can generate policies that will encourage tra...

The Effects of Video Games on Young People

useful training for real life situations (Clapperton, 2007). Another study found that doctors who played video games were genera...

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

Young People and Community Service

takes a village to raise a child. Similarly, it can be said that it takes a village, that is, a community, to provide young people...

Curfews for Young People

This 5 page paper gives an overview of curfew laws in the United States. This paper includes the lack of evidence that curfews pre...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Negative Moral Influences on Youth

were smoking dope, too. Though I had made up my mind not to make the same mistakes my brother made, my friends coaxed me into hav...

Obesity and America's Youth

obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...

Juvenile Gangs and Sociocultural Forces

understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...

Communication and Young Adults Leaving Home

need to learn to shift their perspective; and they need to differentiate "between personal discomfort and intellectual disagreemen...

Harry Potter A Twenty-First Century Revival of the Adventure Genre

children a hero. They coupled this with a complex multi-layered plot that was worthy of note. Alton (141) devotes consider...

Developing a Marketing Plan for Viagra

to influencers Pfizer may appeal to men who would not otherwise come forward. It is undertaken in a tasteful manner, in line with ...

The Most Destructive Illegal Drugs - A Ranking

unable to feel pleasure or function normally without meth (National Institutes of Health, 2012b). Moreover, the potential to overd...

A Children's Ministry

what the ministry is trying to accomplish is absolutely essential. Dwight Mix, childrens pastor at the Fellowship Bible Church loc...

"I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady

care without losing her job, as the spouse "cannot miss classes at school" (Brady 361). I know a young couple where it is the husb...

Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, and Media's Portrayal, the Effect on Children

clear that the portrayal of underage alcohol and drug abuse that is presented in the media, as well as the portrayal of sexual beh...

The Motivations of Aspiring Actors

The writer discusses some of the influences which may motivate young people to become actors fore stage or film. External and int...

Gang Membership and Criminology Theory

This research paper/essay pertains to Strain theory and Routine Activity theory as explanation for gang involvement among young pe...