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Constructing Ego and Confidence in Children Who Are At Risk

no question that animals offer unconditional love and support, which is what most at-risk children desperately need. While this i...

Impact on Society, Innovation in Communications Technology, Impact on Society

several decades have witnessed the emergence of revolutionary technological innovations in communications, which have greatly affe...

Construct Intelligence Creativity

This essay provides definitions and short discussions of different terms in psychology, such as construct, intelligence, and creat...

Scale Creation and Process, Construct Development

This paper pertains to construct development of an instrument designed to evaluate the symptoms of depression. Four pages in lengt...

CONSTRUCTING PREFERENCES AND DECISION-MAKING

discusses the role of constructing preferences and preference building in making decisions. There are 4 sources listed in the bibl...

Social Construct and Crime

social construct (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). In looking at the role of the law in relationship to detaining what is an...

Utopian Society's Purpose

Asimov puts it, in which scientific and technological advance might impose a Utopia from without" (Mooney, 1998). That is, a tech...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Society's Views on Sexuality

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

Race, Social Class, and Society's Unequal Distribution According to Max Weber

it is in the interests of the ruling class to so define them. * Members of the ruling class will be able to violate the laws with...

Open Society's Promise

a utopia. Everything would be better. People would be happy. Of course, most people today do not support the communism ideal. The...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Aspirational Objective or Social Reality Construct of Work

what give rise to change in the first place. If, for instance, it is lack of equal educational opportunities which deprives young ...

Cheerleading and Sports Gender Constructs

peer pressure, societal norms, family expectations, all contribute towards "channelling" the individual into certain forms of iden...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Literature and Society's Veils or Illusions

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

Strong Brands Constructed Through Marketing Communications

much as a tell model, with advertising undertaking one way communication to tell the consumers of the benefits of their product. T...

Western Society's Elements Compared with Legalism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism

a loved one, we turn inward and find we are more appreciative of the people in our lives. This is not something necessarily taught...

Political Society's Objectives in On Liberty by J.S. Mill

penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" ...

Reasons for an Archaeological Suvey Before Constructing a New Hydroelectric Dam

the river prior to glacial changes. Survey Methods The region to be surveyed, then, is comprised of both hilly and smooth terrai...

The Furies Construct and Toni Morrison's Beloved in Novel and Film Form

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

Hondo by Louis L'Amour and the Connection Between the Masculine Social Construct and Violence

activities. Sometimes this encouragement is overt but sometimes it is very covert and they receive it from practically everyone th...

Society's Evils in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines society's evils as represented within Mark Twain's classic American novel. One source is listed...

Constructing Social Behavior

that humans must be seen as social beings, namely beings which live together with others and form various social groups. Human beh...

Ancient Societies' Marital Customs

This paper contrasts and compares the marital customs and women's roles in various ancient societies in 5 pages. Five sources are...

The Balance Between Society and the Individual in Urban Society

This 5 page paper argues that the urban environment is in reality a delicate balance between society and the individual. The write...

Theories on Society's Division of Labor

version of a perspective on work that became fundamental to nineteenth-century debates (Dupre et al, 1996). The idea of work havin...

Chinese American Society's Culture and Race Interaction

Chinese American communities in the United States are examined in an overview of the relationship between culture and race that ex...

Childhood as a Social Construct

et al note that in fact diarists of the period recorded their unhappiness and distress at the loss of their children and indicated...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

Gender, Social Construct, and Metaphysics in the Writings of Virginia Woolf

be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...