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Internet Gambling, 2007.
An analysis of the impact of Internet gambling.
1,830 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 73.95
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This paper provides an overview of Internet gambling in order to determine some of problems it has created now that consumers can gamble in their own homes without physically even going to a real casino. An analysis of what effects the proliferation of advertising for online gambling sites may have on the nation's youth is followed by a discussion as to whether there is sufficient information being presented on the possible pitfalls of gambling as compared to the information being presented on substance abuse and sex. A summary of the research and salient findings is provided in the conclusion.
Outline:
Introduction
Review and Discussion
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
Current and Future Trends
Conclusion
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"The Act also permits federal regulators to exempt certain types of online transactions that would be impractical to require identification and blocking; for example, it would be enormous difficult to apply these procedures to paper checks: "Banks have no way now of reading who the payee is on paper checks and cannot be expected to go into that business. Banks tried to defeat this bill, not because they cared about patrons' privacy, but because they knew that it would cost them billions of dollars to set up systems to read paper checks" (Rose 3). All of the literature reviewed concerning the Act indicated that because of its recentness, its ultimate impact remains unclear, particularly in view of the fact that millions of Americans continue to apparently break the law to some extent by gambling online in one form or another, and these issues are discussed further below. "
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Teenage Alcohol Abuse, 2007.
This paper examines statistics and research involving teenage drinking.
1,856 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 74.95
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During recent years, alcohol consumption among young people in the United States has raised serious concerns, particularly the practice of binge drinking The paper relates that while peer pressure is often cited as the primary reason for adolescent drinking, studies indicate that there are several variables consider. The paper examines the influence of factors such as age, gender, family income, ethnicity and school attendance.
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"According to a nationwide 1994 study, the prevalence of alcohol use among African American and Caucasian students increased with age. Among African American students: 18.6 percent of 8th graders, 30.2 percent of 10th graders, and 32 percent of 12th graders had used alcohol within the last 30 days prior to the study (Weaver). Among Caucasian students: 26.6 percent of 8th graders, 44.1 percent of 10th graders, and 56.9 percent of 12th graders had used alcohol during the last 30 days prior to the survey (Weaver). This study revealed the Caucasian students across all three grade levels had higher prevalence of alcohol consumption than did the African American students (Weaver)."
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Life Coaching, 2007.
This paper discusses the role of a life coach in helping adolescents achieve success in their adult lives.
2,261 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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The paper discusses how, between the ages of 18-23, big life transitions occur, including college, trade school, entering the job market, getting married and having children. The paper reveals that unfortunately, life could also include drug use, underachievement, depression and lack of motivation. The paper presents an examination of techniques that a life coach could use in order to help young adults with behavior issues learn how to successfully use life skills. The paper explores the importance of positive thinking, open ended questions and self-reflection in young adults.
Outline:
Introduction
Positive Thinking
Open Ended Questions
Self Reflection
Conclusion
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"Between the ages of 18-23, young adults go through what could arguably be defined as the most significant changes in their adult lives. It is an era in which high school is completed, and adult life begins. That life may include college, trade school, entering the job market, getting married and having children. Unfortunately, that life could also include drug use, underachievement, depression and lack of motivation as well. It is during this five year window that that the pattern is set to will govern the rest of that person's life. While it is possible to change behaviors and outcomes at any age, the first five years of being launched into the adult world can be crucial to setting one up for success."
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ADHD and Medication, 2007.
A look at the controversy surrounding the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder with medication.
1,199 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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ADHD is the designation for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, which affects both adults and children but which is seen as a particular problem in children, affecting their ability to learn and to socialize with others during their developmental stage. This paper looks at how medications have been developed that help reduce the ill effects of this disorder and how these medications are often prescribed for children. It also discusses how this fact has produced criticism about medicating such children, about possible side effects and with some recommending behavioral modification techniques over medication.
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"Alex S. Hall and Arlinn G. Gushee report on some of the medications available, their possible side effects, and how they may be used in conjunction with psychosocial interventions. Specifically, the authors make recommendations to and offer information for school counselors who may have to deal with these issues and who may have to dispense medication to their charges. The authors first note that there may be a need for mental health and school counselors to partner in order to give information to nurses, physicians, parents, and young people themselves."
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Children and Violence, 2007.
This paper is a literature review of the problems caused when children, particularly African-American children, witness family and community violence.
1,745 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 70.95
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This paper hypothesizes that medical professionals, specifically nurses, must understand that the lives and future lives of African-American children are impacted when they witness violence. The author points out that the literature review does indicate that children witnessing family abuse are negatively impacted in many areas of both cognition and emotional regulation and that these children generally are depressed and joyless. The paper relates that this study demonstrated that an overwhelming number of African-American children witness family and community violence and that more than two-thirds of African-American children are not assessed for family violence trauma and go untreated.
Table of Contents:
Objective
Hypothesis
Literature Review
Summary and Conclusion
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"...is a case study and discussion of a child whose mother was shot and killed while the child was nineteen months of age by the child's father who killed himself two weeks later. The child was noted as having separation anxiety and timidity or reluctance to discuss either of her parents. Further the child believed that someone was going to 'get her'. It was revealed in the study that the child did in actuality remember the traumatic event due to her extreme reaction to the sight of blood and particularly her grandmother's red coat. "
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Gender Roles and Children, 2007.
A discussion regarding the factors that contribute to gender stereotypes.
966 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 43.95
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This paper looks at the issues that influence children and shape traditional gender roles. The paper also reviews articles that discuss gender stereotyping. According to the paper, parental influence and social pressures are the two main factors that determine gender roles.
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"Throughout history, gender and gender stereotypes have played a substantial role in the development of social attitudes towards women and men. The Web site www.minddisorders.com points out that in the 1800s, the industrial revolution brought dramatic changes to gender roles; men began going off to work and earning money, transferable to goods and services. The work women did, though, was "not transferable"; prior to the industrial movement, men and women often engaged in the same tasks, working a farm or a homestead, and things were equal and shared. So, men's relative independence gave them influence and power, while women were kept at home and stereotypes were attached to them as frail, domestic, suited for child rearing and cooking."
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Adoption, 2007.
This paper discusses the rights of biological parents in adoption cases and related aspects.
1,177 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 50.95
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In this article, the writer notes that there are approximately 120,000 adoptions in the United States each year, many of which are successfully completed. However, the writer points out that while substantial amounts succeed, nearly twenty percent disrupt before legalization can occur. The writer maintains that this is due, in part, to the high level of rights retained by the biological parents in adoption cases. This paper discusses the rights of biological parents and the court's reasoning for upholding these rights. The writer then looks at the consequences of such rights to adoptive parents. This shows that while adoptive parents do hold some right to their new child, the biological parents have far more rights during the adoption process, and even following birth.
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"The consequences for the adoptive parents can be devastating. In open adoption cases, where the adoptive parents have provided monetary support, physician care, and other necessities to the biological mother, a pre-birth consent is still not binding. This means the time, money, and effort exerted by the adoptive parents may be for nothing, clearly showing the biological mother's rights to be valued higher than those of the adoptive parents. Even in agency adoptions, the adoptive parents are forced to relinquish the child if the biological parent revokes consent, even if the child has already been placed within the home."
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Cigarette Smoking in Canada, 2007.
An analysis of the reasons why Canadians begin smoking, continue smoking and quit smoking.
2,720 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 101.95
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This paper focuses on discussing the reasons why Canadians smoke. It examines why individuals begin smoking, continue their smoking trends and finally what motivates them to quit smoking. The paper discusses the sociological understanding of human motivation in an attempt to understand the above three factors with regard to cigarette smokers.
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"Overall however, the outlook is bright for Canadian non-smoking campaigns. For the first time this last year, there are more ex-smokers than current smokers in Canadian society. Those who use to smoke have made the conscious decision to stop the cycle for their loved ones and children. Smoking begins with Canadian youth who are influenced by social media as well as adults and society to begin smoking and it perpetuates because of the social typecasting and overall clique nature of smokers. The herd mentality is the strongest impetus for all three stages of a smoker's cycle, because individuals associated smoking as a strongly social activity. However, as society moves away from smoking as a socially accepted medium, more and more youth will look to smoking less as anti-culture and more as irrelevant. As this process continues the next decade will see less and less smokers both take up and perpetuate this disgusting habit."
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The Effects of Barbie, 2007.
This paper provides a critical review of the effect of Barbie on girls age five to eight.
879 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 39.95
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In this article, the writer critically reviews research published by H. Dittmar, E. Halliwell, and S. Ive on the effects Barbie has on the body image of five- to eight-year-old girls. This paper summarizes key findings, identifies strengths and weaknesses of the research, assesses the quality of the research and suggests areas for additional future research. The writer concludes that Barbie does have a negative impact on the body image of young girls, 5 1/2 - 6 1/2 and 6 1/2 -7 1/2 years old. However, the writer maintains that by the time girls are 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 these same negative impacts are more influenced by size-16 Emme. The writer concludes that there are a lot of societal influences other than the dolls that are causing negative body images in young girls.
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"The results of the study were different for different ages, 5 1/2 - 6 1/2 , 6 1/2 -7 1/2 and 7 1/2 -8 1/2, revealing differences in the way girls though they looked and the way they wanted to look after seeing certain images. For example, the youngest group, age 5 1/2 to 6 1/2, shown the Barbie picture books wished they were thinner and disliked their bodies more than girls of the same age who viewed other images. These results were even more pronounced for girls 6 1/2 to 7 1/2. Further, this age group desired more extreme thinness as adults than girls the same age who viewed images other than Barbie and the girls 5 1/2 - 6 1/2 who had also viewed Barbie pictures. The 7 1/2 - 8 1/2 age group were affected by the Emme images and not the Barbie images. The girls who viewed Emme wanted a thinner body shape for the adult figure than girls viewing other images."
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Day Care, 2007.
This paper reviews the book "Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us" by Brian C. Robertson.
1,217 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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In this article, the writer first asks what is turning America's children into murderers and psychopaths? The writer then notes that Brian C. Robertson's "Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us" implicitly asks this question at the beginning of his text, by opening his book about day care not with images of a child care facility, but with a high school shooting. The writer points out that Robertson has a simple answer to the complex questions that arose after the flurry of national self-examination that occurred after the shootings at Columbine High School, in the nation's heartland. The writer relates that Robertson blames the institutionalization of day care as a norm within the American cultural fabric for the increased violence in society and the alienation of modern youth. The writer concludes that Robertson assumes that there is an easy choice between day care or nothing, the traditional one-salary American family and the complete institutionalization of childcare, while for many working families, care may be a combination of love from two parents, grandparents, older siblings, friends, as well as day care.
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"According to Robertson, daycare disturbs the mother-child bond, despite some studies that suggest that day care makes children more independent at an earlier age. What positive studies do exist, Robertson says, are the result of the feminist academic establishment, and what is construed as independence is in fact the seeds of bullying, social estrangement, and ultimately violence. Day care is a failed, recent social experiment gone horribly wrong and must be faced and addressed, before another generation of children are destroyed."
"Despite the fact that millions of parents send their children off to day care every day, either out of necessity, because of choice, or even a desire to socialize the children early on in the boy or girl's education, mothers and fathers often experience acute anxiety about the decision."
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Childhood Obesity and Nutrition, 2007.
This paper explores contemporary treatment programs for childhood obesity.
3,896 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 37 sources, MLA, AU$ 132.95
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The paper clarifies the pros and cons of the most prevalent treatments being used by today's medical professionals. The paper reviews screening procedures as well as the treatment models being used for individuals, groups, in communities and schools. This includes medical assessments, education, individual behavioral therapy and family inclusive intervention and education programs as the types of programs effective in addressing the treatment and prevention of childhood obesity.
Outline:
Introduction
Review of Literature
Discussion
Conclusion
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"The work of Rebecca Moran, M.D. states that the prevalence of childhood obesity "in the United States has risen dramatically in the past several decades." (1999) While 35 to 30 percent of children are affected by childhood obesity, "this condition is underdiagnosed and undertreated." (Moran, 1999) Generally, factors such as hormonal or genetic factors are very rarely, what causes childhood obesity. It is extremely important that obesity in childhood be evaluated including prevention in order that children are able to avoid the long-term implications relating to their success and overall happiness. (Moran, 1999)."
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Causes of Youth Violence, 2007.
An analysis of the contributing causes of youth violence, with a focus on the media.
1,352 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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This paper discusses the possible causes of youth violence. The paper specifically looks at the contributions of the media, availability of weapons and parental involvement in the incidences of youth violence. It looks at specific examples of media violence, such as films, video games and music and explains how the ideas gained from these sources are encouraged by other sociological factors.
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"The problem of youth violence cannot be attributed to one cause alone. The media plays its part, regaling young children and adolescents with programming that is astonishingly violent in content. The orgy of gratuitous violence continues into adulthood. Viewers and listeners become desensitized to the sufferings of others. Movies and songs teach young people to be selfish and self-centered, and to denigrate and devalue feelings of empathy and compassion. Some people do indeed imitate what they see on television. But the media is not the only model. Parents and guardians provide ethical guidance and moral direction. Nevertheless, not all young people enjoy the benefits of a healthy and wholesome upbringing. Many come from broken homes, and all exist in a society that is increasingly atomized and dysfunctional. The media may help, but it is society itself that urges on individuals toward the commission of violent acts."
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Protection for Children on the Internet, 2007.
This paper discusses what steps should be taken to protect children from pornography and sexual predators on the Internet.
3,104 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 112.95
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In this essay, the writer notes that children affected by pornography are most of the times left with emotional scars that affect the rest of their lives. The writer claims that for this reason it is important for all the parties involved and those able to take decisions to act jointly in order to limit the spread of child pornography. The writer concludes that legislative measures are the most efficient means of combating child pornography. Taking into account the authority of the state to apply the law and convict those breaking it, the writer argues that aside from any independent initiatives, it is the government that can and must take action against child pornography.
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"We live in an era governed by technology and increased global interdependence that tends to manifest in every aspect of the society. It was therefore natural for children to have an increased access to everything involving gadgets, devices, and means of communication and information. At the same time however, these means are indeed available worldwide and do not discriminate between users and information receivers. This is why, more and more often, these universal means of communication have become a very common tool for those interested in pornographic and sexual practices. It can be said even that the Internet has facilitated their actions and now, pornography and sexual predators have an easier task in achieving their goals."
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Down Syndrome, 2007.
An analysis of the impact on families of children with Down syndrome.
2,891 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 106.95
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This paper discusses the impact on the family with a Down syndrome child. It specifically focuses on the impact on the other children in the family unit. The paper analyzes various articles that discuss the issues that families face and also analyzes the prevalence of Down syndrome. It looks at intervention strategies for children with Down syndrome, as well as transitioning intervention and how these can be assessed.
Table of Contents:
Impact
Impact
Intervention
Assessment Of Intervention
Assessment Of Intervention
Transitioning Intervention: From High School To Life After High School
Prevalence Of Medical Conditions Linked To Down Syndrome, And Interventions Into Those Conditions
Prevalence Of Down Syndrome
Three Research-able Questions That Support And Strengthen The Evidence For Intervention Strategies Presented In This Paper
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"Also, integrated screening (combining the results of tests in the first and second-trimesters) has also proved to be valuable in terms of detection of DS during pregnancy. The problem with integrated screening, the article points out, is that there is quite a period of time from the initiation of the testing until completion. But the larger question is, what is a woman to do if indeed her baby has a mis-matched chromosome count? If it is caught early enough, would she consider an abortion? That is a moral and personal privacy issue, of course, but it is worth consideration given the issues that arise for a family with a DS child."
"If a pregnant woman is screened properly during her first-trimester, and that test indicates that she is at "increased risk" of aneuploidy she should then be offered genetic counselling as an intervention, the article explains; and she should have the option of CVS (chroionic villus sampling) or at least second-trimester amniocentesis should be offered."
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Piaget, 2007.
This paper discusses Jean Piaget's observations regarding child development.
1,214 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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In this article, the writer notes that within the context of language awareness, one should be inclined to accept the notion that the human being cannot simply be characterized as an input-output mechanism, though in many isolated cases this may be beneficial. One of the main observational considerations that needs to be taken into account is the aforementioned progression of language awareness from intuition to mastery. The writer points out that Piaget is the researcher credited with devising cognitive theories about child development. The writer discusses that Piaget did not believe that language development was crucial to children in relation to the development of their intellect, and indeed he believed that language development was simply the means a child would use to express himself and not a crucial element of cognitive development overall. The paper then goes on to explain why the author disagrees with Piaget's theories.
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"Behaviorism is an increasingly broad area of study, which has its roots in the very beginnings of modern psychology. The driving notion behind the theory is that we, as ordinary human beings, possess no direct way to look into the human mind and observe precisely what it is comprised of or how it operates. Consequently, the only workable approach towards psychology, according to behaviorists, is to conceive of the mind as the relay between external, physical inputs and their resulting outputs. In other words, the mind is simply a mechanism that performs certain functions when specific inputs are given to it, and the result is an output--this output is human behavior. In other words, although the ideal way to analyze human behavior and thought would be to observe the mechanisms of the mind first hand, psychologists must be content to observe behavior and make inferences about the mind. Doubtlessly, even though significant advances have been made in our understanding of the physical mind, the mental and subjective machinery within will forever remain a black box to our probing."
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Curriculum Assessment, 2006.
A discussion regarding teaching methods and curriculum assessment.
1,153 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 49.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the forms of curriculum assessment and the perhaps failure of the education system to cater to the abilities of all students. According to the paper, children have many different ways of learning and presenting knowledge. The paper is written from a personal perspective.
Outline:
Introduction: The Issue
Background
Problem Statement
Conclusions and Recommendations
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"I have also developed a preliminary assessment method to determine the needs of my students. This is very informal, and does not count towards the students' more formal assessment sessions during and at the end of the school year. My preliminary assessment entails developing a profile of each student, his or her perceived strengths and weaknesses, as determined by the students themselves, and how these can be used to improve their language skills and prepare for formal assessments. The main problem in our system is the formal assessment sessions."
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