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The World is Getting Fatter

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

USPS Analysis

This report discusses a number of issues about the post office. It begins by identifying the two Congressional Acts that establish...

Old Age Conceptual Understanding

In eight pages this paper attempts to understand the concept of 'old age' and the current lack of respect being accorded senior ci...

Growth In Later Adulthood

the meaning of life" (Your text, p. 515). The very old knows about the uncertainties in life and they have lived through many of l...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

Human Mate Selection

often precluding what others believe to be more valuable and essential characteristics. The American culture panders to popular c...

The Impact Of Culture On The Experience Of Aging

of the elderly - especially when culturally and institutionally coerced - is not necessarily accompanied by affection...In the pas...

In What Ways Is Reading Literary Works of Another Age Of Value To Understanding History And To Understanding One's Place In History?

age help to dispel myths and mistruths about the past that have erroneously been passed on as fact. Sometimes history is portraye...

Ageism In America

Age discrimination has become more than a minor inconvenience throughout the twentieth century (Rupp et al, 2006); indeed, the iss...

Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

Children Ages 7 to 11 and Positive Environmental Influences

(Kwon & Yawkey, 2000). Freudian theory would spark interest in terms of how the environment would affect emotional impulses as wel...

Ethics in the Digital Age

add to this there is also a general agreement that this is unethical as well as illegal. However, it is not always this clear-cut,...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

Panic Over Aging in 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath

the limited life choices facing women during her era. Women were destined to be wives and mothers - the "pink" professions. Plath ...

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Irony

most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...

'Peter Pan Syndrome' and Men of Middle Age

members of our society, however, we must force ourselves to separate truth from fiction and to ferret out the reasons within which...

Digital Age and the Effects of Privacy Threats

to information management, it has also ushered in many concerns about information privacy. Indeed, individual expectations of pri...

Aging in 'Minuet' by Guy de Maupassant

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Technology and Theater of the Victorian Age

In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...

Comparison of Aging in Africa and in the United States

responsible for perpetuating this socially accepted attitude, inasmuch movies, books and other forms of broadcast rarely portray t...

Great Britain During the Victorian Age and the Roles of Women

police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...

Impact of Workplace Workers Over Age 65

and virtually worthless individuals. The notion of ageism, the negative attitude associated with getting old, is apparent in myri...

Aging Theories

of mid-life to the later years of life (Atchley, 2002). In fact, Atchley (2002) argues that continuity is the most substantial st...

Jazz Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald

the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

Five Stereotypes Associated With Aging and Senior Citizens

warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...

Ancient Times to Middle Ages and Religious Development

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

Teaching in an Information Age and Global Economy

the cost of a car wherein 60% of the cost is related to the materials used and the workforce to create the car (Riegle, 2007). In ...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...