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Andrew Lam: Article Review, 2008.
The author criticizes Andrew Lam's article, "Too Much Self-Esteem Can Be Bad for Your Child" by making the argument that Lam fails to make a strong case by generalizing and using limited source data.
822 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper critiques Andrew Lam's article, "Too Much Self-Esteem Can Be Bad for Your Child", which presents one aspect of contemporary culture and American education, and uses a personal story drawn from the very trendy YouTube phenomenon. The author of the paper argues that while there is some substance to the argument against placing self-esteem above real achievements, Lam's article as written uses very limited source data and uses this data to make a hasty generalization without dealing with any opposing or alternative data that might present a contrary case.
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"Following the two studies, Lam devotes the remainder of his article to an elucidation of his subjective opinions about the success of Asian students in American colleges, and about their recent dominance on certain campuses in the University of California system. While his opinions may be worthy of exploration and discussion, they do not logically arise from the limited data he has brought forth up till now. He appears to be biased in favor of "Asian" students, although he simultaneously seems to be reinforcing positive stereotypes about them, as well as over-generalizing by failing either to distinguish between different Asian nationalities and cultures (of which there are many) or between different non-Asian nationalities and cultures. Also left unanswered is why so many successful, intelligent Asian students are leaving their home nations to study in the United States, when one must presume that their own nations' universities must be at least on a par with those in the West, if not superior."
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Impact of Schools and Family on Deviant Behavior, 2008.
A discussion of risk factors for adolescents and the development of antisocial behavior and the role of school and family in the development of deviant and criminal behavior.
2,583 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 78.95
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This paper discusses the impact of schools and family on future deviant or criminal behavior and discusses the proven correlation between negative school and family environments and future deviant or criminal behavior. It describes risk factors for adolescents and the development of antisocial behavior. The paper looks at the role of escape conditioning during family interactions in the development of aggressive and antisocial behavior and discusses the application of the social learning theory.
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"According to Williams (2000) Long Beach school officials found that in the year following implementation of the school uniform policy, overall school crime decreased thirty-six percent, fights decreased fifty-one percent, sex offenses decreased seventy-four percent, weapons offenses decreased fifty percent, assault and battery offenses decreased thirty-four percent, and vandalism decreased eighteen percent. Unexpectedly, fewer than one percent of the students have elected to opt out of the uniform policy."
"Some school systems have allowed students to decide whether to wear uniform clothing, but others have determined that a mandatory school uniform policy with no opt out provision is necessary to address a disruptive atmosphere. According to Cruz (2001) a Phoenix, Arizona school, for example, adopted a mandatory uniform policy requiring all of its students to wear school uniforms, or if they choose to defy the policy, attend another public school. Encouragingly, this Phoenix school uniform policy was recently upheld by a state trial court."
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Childhood in "Girl with a Pearl Earring"., 2008.
An overview of the novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier.
1,243 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper provides an account of the book "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier, describing some of the experiences of children in this novel and explaining the factors that influenced their treatment. The author then continues to compare the experiences of these children to today's childhood. In addition, based on the evidence, she draws a conclusion about the value of studying the past and comparing it to the present.
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"This novel presents an interesting comparison between the lives of children in wealthy homes and in poor homes in seventeenth century Delft. Griet at 16 is young enough to remember her happier childhood with her brother and her sister. However, Griet is also old enough when her father loses his eyes to a kiln accident to realize that her chance for a better future rests on her making a good marriage. Those chances are seriously reduced when she has to go clean house to help help her family. Griet living elsewhere will reduce the reduce the strain on her family's ability to support itself, but the eight stuivers that she makes each day will also provide financial assistance (Chevalier 6-8). Griet is not the only child who is working in the family, however. Her brother, Frans, is also employed as an apprentice at the age of thirteen. Clearly the apprenticeship was not a result of the accident, given that their father had "saved hard to pay the apprentice fee" and had planned to set up a tile factory with his son (Chevalier 10)."
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The Problems Associated with Teenage Pregnancy, 2008.
A review of the problems associated with teenage pregnancy, both to the parents and to the children.
812 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses the problems associated with teenage pregnancy. It describes the issues in terms of the damage to teenage girls who lose part of their childhood and may have their education interrupted and in terms of an increasing number of single-parent households. It also looks at the damage done to the children of teenage mothers because of neglect and poverty and at the problems society faces because of increased welfare costs and other social issues.
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"Single women have long had fewer opportunities in society, and single mothers face even more difficulties not only because of fewer opportunities but because of the exigencies of child-raising while working full time. They also face difficulties with tolerance from others, with curtailed freedom because of the needs of the family, and may face religious censure in some communities. To a degree, they may be challenging the normal social roles. Single-parent families resulting form death and divorce constitute one largely unavoidable population, while single-parenting by choice is a different matter. Society can absorb a certain number of single-parent families by necessity, but an increasing number come about through the exercise of personal choice, from pregnancy resulting from unprotected sex to artificial insemination and other ways of deliberately starting a single-parent family. Women exercising free will is a good thing, as is the demand for tolerance for those making different choices. However, it is even more important to assure that children have the solid foundation in life conferred by the traditional family."
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School Readiness, 2008.
This paper examines the differences in the level of school readiness in Canadian preschool children.
1,838 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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The paper interviews three school teachers and a Coordinator from the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program who all discuss how and why children in Canada come to school with varying levels of readiness. The paper explains the differences in family background and the impacts of socio-economic factors. The paper also discusses how parent education is necessary in order to emphasize that they are their children's first and most important teachers. Additinaooy, the paper notes that children can benefit from high quality preschool programs, which can help to compensate for the limitations of their family backgrounds.
Outline:
Introduction and Literature Review
Description of Participants and Procedures
Summary and Discussion of Interview Data
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"There are many reasons for the differences in levels of school readiness. For example, it is important to bear in mind that family backgrounds vary enormously in Canada, as it is a multicultural country with an active immigration policy. This impacts crucial aspects of the family background. For example, more and more parents do not speak English; and some parents may be dealing with cultural dissonance and acculturation (King and Goodwin, 2002). Further, King and Goodwin (2002) point out that by 2020, 46% of the public school population will be children of colour. They also quote from parents who have difficulty communicating with teachers because they (the parents) do not speak English, or they do not think in English."
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African-American Women and Drug Trafficking, 2008.
This paper explores the relationship between African-American women and the selling of drugs.
1,180 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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The paper discusses the observation that young African-American women have a higher proclivity to sell drugs than other races such as their young Caucasian counterparts. The paper examines studies that shows this relationship between at risk behaviors and young African-American women. The paper also looks at research that explores how early adolescence affects African-American women later in adulthood insofar as drug-related problems are concerned. The paper discusses a proposed study that will determine the degree to which poverty and economic related circumstances contribute to drug trafficking in a specific urban center among the young African-American female population.
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Abstract
Introduction
II. Literature Review
III. Methodology
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"This research project is designed to identify the primary factors related to the high incidence rate of young African American women who commonly sell drugs or engage in drug trafficking activity in the nation's urban centers. The working hypothesis states that poverty and related economic factors directly impact the study populations' proclivity to engage in drug trafficking as an economic alternative. While this might seem criminally obvious, there are social and cultural implications related to the study outcomes which the criminal justice system must learn to accommodate for such as devising adequate drug treatment programs for repeat offenders that better assess and target the contributing behaviors (Laudet, Cleland, Magura, Vogel & Knight, 2004). "
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"Myspace: Your Kids' Danger", 2008.
A rhetorical and semiotic analysis of a CBS news item, "Myspace: Your Kids' Danger: Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators," by Sandra Hughes.
3,101 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper presents a rhetorical analysis of Sandra Hughes' CBS news item, "MySpace: Your Kids' Danger? Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators." It aims to move beyond the implicit and relatively superficial review of the text to a fuller understanding of how the text creates meaning, how it helps the reader to construct knowledge and how it sways us to take action. The paper specifically looks at how the language of this article works.
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"Visually, the story is arranged as a headline, a smaller-font secondary headline, and then twenty-two paragraphs, this for a story containing not quite 650 words. Immediately below the headlines, half of the reading column is taken up by a graphical image showing a computer in silhouette with transparencies of several young children, mostly girls, and several of them using cellphones. Below the graphic is a quote, suggesting the danger the article warns of. The effect of the graphic, the quote, and the headlines is to draw readers to the story that follows, a story that opens with three suggestive vignettes about children being approached in a sexually explicit manner on the Internet. Two of the three teenage girls described in the opening vignettes were murdered."
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Uninsured Families in America, 2008.
This paper discusses the gaps in health insurance coverage in the United States, particularly affecting low socioeconomic status families and individuals.
2,220 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 68.95
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This paper discusses the gaps in health insurance coverage for families as a significant health care problem in America. The author goes on to assess that these problems are experienced mostly by impoverished immigrants and minorities in the form of dissatisfaction with services, barriers in enrolling themselves or their children due to legal or political "fallout" from adapted U.S. foreign policy or incompatible cultural health beliefs. Furthermore, the paper shows that these issues present themselves in worsened health and increased risk for the uninsured. Lastly, the paper states that culturally sensitive initiatives must be established.
Outline:
Population Description
Significance of the Problem
Related Health and Social Problems
Evaluation of Current Strategies
Ethical Implications of Current Strategies
Proposed Community and Public Health Nursing Interventions
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"Flores, Abreu and Tomany-Korman (2006) identified risk factors that made a child more likely to be uninsured in interviews conducted among 1,100 parents, of which 900 were of Latino ethnicity. The probable factors studied included having older children with a mean age of 9 years, being poor (income < $20,000 per annum), possessing a limited English proficiency, being non-U.S. citizens and if both parents were employed. It is of significant note that ethnicity was not a factor (OR 0.94; 95% CI 0.49-1.81) with regard to child's age (1.11; 1.07-1.15), documented (1.96; 1.09-3.53) or undocumented (6.06; 3.22-11.4) immigrant status, two working parents (2.08; 1.01-4.29) and income $15,000-19,999 per annum (1.84; 1.13-3.00) (Flores, Abreu & Tomany-Korman, 2006). Nonetheless, apart from income, immigration status and plan ineligibility and the availability of state-funded health insurance, cultural aspects regarding health beliefs need to be factored in, especially with regard to delayed or not seeking medical treatment in times of need and the absence of a regular primary care physician (Greenwald, O'Keefe & DiCamillo, 2005; Flores, Abreu & Tomany-Korman, 2006; Shone, Dick, Brach, Kimminau, LaClair, Shenkman et al, 2006)."
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The Cost of College, 2008.
Argues that the cost of a college education is the responsibility of the child, not the parent.
775 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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This paper explains that the rising cost of college can place a burden on the family. The author points out that, if a high school graduate holds off from attending college until they are no longer legally a dependent, the family will be better off financially. The paper also relates that the choice of a college also widens because students are no longer hindered by their parents' financial woes and poor planning for their future. The paper concludes that the rising cost of higher education need not affect the family, but rather the child who is willing to work for the privilege of a higher education.
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"How many students begin saving for their college education in high school? How many students are in work study programs or working while they go to college? Where are parents in this equation? Many begin a college saving account when their son or daughter is born. Others never think about college for their children and never save a penny. Which is the best route for a family to go no one knows."
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Society and Children Today, 2008.
A personal perspective on the upbringing and socialization of children in contemporary American society.
855 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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The writer discusses the commercialism and violence that are dominant features of our culture today, the lack of a sense of security since the September 11, 2001 attacks and how many children do not have the benefit of strong two-parent family ties. The writer reminisces about the years of his own upbringing which were marked by an optimism and sense of confidence that the United States could prevail against any challenge that it faced. The writer is of the opinion that the current leadership has not risen to the challenges of today's young people.
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"A child being socialized in contemporary America would probably emerge from childhood believing in the paramount importance of two aspects of our culture: commercialism and violence. By modern American culture, I mean that web of system of shared values, beliefs, principles, customs, and rituals that people in our society use to deal with the world around us, including other people (Bates & Plog, 1990, 7) . The critical social forces in modern American culture are economics and science & technology (Kornblum, 2005, 49-78, 108-38) ."
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Content Analysis of Childhood Obesity, 2008.
This essay analyzes the problem of childhood obesity and includes a working definition of childhood obesity, a look at its causes and effects, and suggestions for solving the problem.
785 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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This essay focuses on the problem of childhood obesity and is based on a systems analysis approach to the problem. The author first defines the key terms that are involved in the problem of childhood obesity, and then determines how the problem as a whole can be dealt with. The author concludes that child obesity is a significant problem in modern society fortified by mass media, but that there must be more active familial responsibility in order to correct childhood obesity.
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"Although this is a systems analysis, the role of cause and effect cannot be overlooked. The problem of childhood obesity cannot be solved without looking at what might cause this problem. What are some of these causes? Many experts who study nutrition and diet have concluded that a big cause is today's culture. First, people want things quickly and done easily, as their time seems to be limited. As a result of this cause, parents give their children too much "fast food" and other types of prepackaged and prepared foods that are often highly unhealthy and filled with fats and cholesterol. The second cause is today's high-tech media, which gives many people, including children, a very "sedentary" or nonactive life style."
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