death conveniently resolves the problem of the murder of the Soc and is followed within hours as Whissen puts it, "Dally is made into a tragic antihero. He 'fought for Johnny,' and when Johnny dies, Dally, too, must die. And what he dies for is the Continue Reading...
Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family David J. Pelzer is a child-abuse survivor who has shared his experiences as a public speaker and an author. He tells his own story in a series of three books. Pelzer is the son of an alcoho Continue Reading...
Lost in Translation This story is a typical immigrant success tale. It is a rich and an ambiguous story with the first section of the narrative representing, "Paradise," and revolves around Hoffman's childhood and adolescence in Cracow. The most pr Continue Reading...
Like before, we did everything together. We were inseparable. One of the inevitable events in any young man's life is the development of an interest in young girls. For my best friend and me it happened at nearly the same time and, unfortunately, i Continue Reading...
Biracial Children Proposal for Study: Is society causing biracial children to struggle with their identity? When forming their identity, children seek to look, act, feel, and mimic significant people in their social environment. "In his book Youth Continue Reading...
causes that explain clique behavior in high school, and as to the male cliques, it isn't simply a matter of "boys being boys." While it may look like typical adolescent rebellion -- teenage angst -- it is more a matter of self-image and self-esteem. Continue Reading...
This is largely due to the global nature of the phenomenon as the Internet is indeed the trademark of interdependence and globalization. The relations and connections it facilitates allow people around the world to come together in all sorts of acti Continue Reading...
NI observed a five-year-old female playing at a playground. The tasks I witnessed included seeing the child running, playing on a slide, ascending stairs and climbing on playground equipment. The child is in Erickson's third stage of development whe Continue Reading...
behavior of a serial killer? Many people attribute genetics to some of the actions of a serial killer, but is environment more of a determining factor? People who usually kill have had very traumatic childhoods. And although in some cases genes may Continue Reading...
Life of a Slave Girl In Harriet Jacobs' novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the narrator takes several steps to assert her status as a person and to make a case against the dehumanization inherent in slavery. The dehumanization of Jacobs' Continue Reading...
Children have amazing learning potential. In school and at home, children absorb information at rates faster than adults do. However, does the emotional development of a child give children a higher development potential than thinking does? Articles Continue Reading...
Child Monitoring In the age of sex predators and other exploitation, parents would be wise to keep a keen eye on their children. Indeed, children are abducted every day. These abductions are often by people familiar to the parent or the child but st Continue Reading...
Doll's House Henrick Ibsen's work, A Doll's House, focuses largely on the theme of obligation, which can be viewed in turn as a basis of the human experience to which all human beings can relate. In viewing this overarching theme of "obligation" wit Continue Reading...
The primary aspect of Billy's scenario is that he has the propensity to be disruptive. I believe that this tendency of his is due to the fact that he is able to complete his work relatively quickly, the work is easy for him to accomplish, and then h Continue Reading...
Faith Factor and Promoting the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents The faith factor has traditionally been negatively correlated with at-risk behaviors given the tendency by the government and community-funded groups to work independent of churc Continue Reading...
Social Support in Ensuring Successful Parenting Social support is absolutely essential in ensuring successful parenting for both parents and children. This is a broad area of study, and there are an increasing number of research studies that are be Continue Reading...
The case In this particular case study, the client is a 15-year-old minor. She has suffered neglect and abuse and has lived with toxic parents and guardians for a while. As of today, she has had residence in 8 separate communities. Her problems start Continue Reading...
The Red Girl is a significant symbol in this novel. Not only does she represent the colonialism in Antigua at the time, but she also represents Annie's growing independence, her maturation process and the changes she is going through in her life. T Continue Reading...
The parallels between these situations and Frye's basic assessment of the plot of New Comedies are not, perhaps, immediately apparent, but they have the same effect by the end of the play, where "the audience witnesses the birth of a renewed sense Continue Reading...
It is also important to help parents understand the extent of the problem, while also impressing upon them the positive points within their children. In the case of learning disabilities, it is a good idea to have a copy of documentation such as the Continue Reading...
Peers and Parental Influence The issue of peer influence and pressure is one which has received considerable attention in recent research on child and adolescent development. There is a growing consensus that peer influence is just as, if not more, Continue Reading...
Violence in the Family, Violence Against Children is a Cycle To have a rational understanding of the cycle of violence and abuse that occurs within families as a result of past sexual abuse and present drug abuse upon the heads of the family, one mu Continue Reading...
Dysfunctional Family and Its Impact on Children's Future A dysfunctional family can be described as a family characterized by constant and regular misbehavior, conflict, and behavior that become accommodated by members as part of normal daily life. Continue Reading...
Multiple Intelligence The two most critical things parents must do to support education are to work closely with their children at home, actively engaged in their homework and subjects; and to participate in school and community meetings. By partici Continue Reading...
Infanticide in Australia Infanticide is the act or practice of killing newborns or infants. It has been committed or performed in every continent and in every level of culture from the poorest hunters and gatherers to the richest and most advanced c Continue Reading...
Authors Communicate There are a number of points of interest regarding "Massage therapy in post-operative rehabilitation of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy - a pilot study." On the whole this is an extremely well-organized article, whi Continue Reading...
Therefore, I was lonely and missed home. I had to actively seek ways to make my new environment more comfortable. No longer could I rely on mom and dad to create the feeling of home, with its smells and artifacts. Besides the regular phone calls an Continue Reading...
Personality Development in Immigrant Children Personality development is one of the most commonly researched areas of psychology. At first blush, the relation between personality and the cognitive development of immigrant children may appear somewha Continue Reading...
Maternity/Paternity Leave Easing the Parenthood Pinch: A Plan for Modernizing the American Attitude towards Parental Leave Americans pride themselves on their high standing in the developed world. We have a strong government, a premier military, a Continue Reading...
patterns of physical activity and exercise indicates that there has been an overall trend of decreasing physical activity levels and increasing levels of inactivity among adolescents and adults (Gordon-Larsen, McMurray, & Popkin, 1999; Van Der H Continue Reading...
Risk and Resilience: Accommodating the Needs of Our Children The children and adolescents in today's America are at a high risk of failure, based on certain internal and external factors that may or may not have been chosen by them. The societal f Continue Reading...
(Causal Theories of Juvenile Delinquency: Social Perspectives) Charles Cooley in his publication Human Nature and the Social Order analyzed the personal perception of juvenile delinquents by means of the studies of children and their imaginary frie Continue Reading...
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations is a novel about the formation of the self in relation to childhood. In this tale, we are met by Pip, first a young boy taken under the wing of a felon who places him with a delusional old maid, then a snobbish you Continue Reading...
Lament for a Son: Christian Grief There are few human experiences as all-encompassing in their horror as the loss of a child. It feels unnatural for a child to die before a parent. The "natural" order of things is that the parents raise the children Continue Reading...
Walker and Avant (2010) as a technique of describing real phenomena in the realms of nursing practice. Concept analysis is noted by Walker & Avant (2005, pg. 63) to "allows the theorist, researcher, or clinician to come to grips with the various Continue Reading...
In fact, even executives in fashion and beauty magazines see an alarming trend of "too thin" to the point of looking emaciated and unhealthy -- certainly not a look that "sells" (Wilson 542). What is happening is a continual push to be something di Continue Reading...
Lastly the FAA would be a stakeholder as well, since it is the organization that is going to be held responsible for any children that die because of the decision. In cases such as these the FAA (or any other government organization) needs to be in Continue Reading...
Difficulty in Adulthood in Individuals that were Sexually-Abused as Children Introduction to Sexual Abuse in Children Sexually-abused children commonly develop problems that persist into adulthood. Child sexual abuse has come to be regarded as a ca Continue Reading...
Whoever runs the day care center might also not understand how to work with disabled children or children whose first language is not English. Parents might want to monitor their child's progress at the child care center before committing to a long Continue Reading...
