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- 12831: Curfews Should Be Established And Enforced By Parents, Not By The City Law
- ... arrest in what the city has planned to revert to. In a nation based on individuality and personal freedom, laws of restriction presents moral dilemmas that seem to contradict the fundamental values of the Western World. In particular, laws restricting a portion of its citizens from exercising their individuality and freedom seem to go against the beliefs of the founding fathers. It is now a crime for people under 18 to ... take rights away from good kids. Those that are causing the problems and committing crimes are criminals. By definition, a criminal is someone that breaks the law. What good will it do to implement a new law to stop these crimes? If anything, these curfew laws will foster more crime because each time a police officer takes the time to baby-sit a kid that committed no crime that is one ...
- 12832: Organization Leaders In The Workplace
- Organization Leaders In The Workplace In today's world, most organizational leaders commonly fear the word power. In America, leaders are confronted by situations that involve a choice of power all the time. A majority of them shy away from power as a means ... to it. So instead, most leaders try to fix the power problem by searching for structure that will contain the misdirected energy being expended. They might reassign the person, or regroup the department, or develop new goals, objectives, and priorities to refocus the person's energy. Sometimes leaders get lucky, and the actions they take are effective. But more often than not, the energy that was contained resurfaces in some entirely ...
- 12833: Child Abuse: Who's at Risk and the Outcomes?
- ... of Orthopsychiatry, 53(4), 645-653. Elmer, E. (1977, February). A Follow-up Study of Traumatized Children. Pediatrics, 59(2), 273-279. Gerbner, G., Ross, C. & Zigler, E. (1980). Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action. New York: Oxford University Press. Newman, D.M. (1995). Sociology. California: Pine Forge Press. Parton, N. (19850. The Politics of Child Abuse. New York: St. Martin's Press. Rothery, M. & Cameron, G. (1990). Child Maltreatment: Expanding Our Concept of Helping. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Starr Jr., R.H. (1982). Child Abuse Prediction. Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company. Wodarski, J.S., Kurtz, P.D., Gaudin Jr., J.M., & Howing, P.T. (1990, November). Maltreatment and ...
- 12834: Is Spanking A Safe And Effective Way To Get Children To Behave?
- ... punishment in American families. Lexington, MA. Lexington books. Straus, M.A. (1994b). Corporal punishment of children and adult depression and suicide ideation. In J. McCord (ED.), Coercion and punishment in long term perspectives, (chapter 4). New York: Cambridge University Press. Straus, M.A., & Kantor, G.K. (1994). Corporal punishment of adolescents by parents: A risk factor in epidemiology of depression, suicide, Alcohol abuse, child abuse, and wife beating. Adolescence, 29, 543-561. Straus, M.A., & Mathur, A.K. (1994). Corporal punishment by parents and later occupational and economic achievement of children. University of New Hampshire, Family Reasearch Laboratory. Durham, NH. Straus, M.A., Surgarman, D.B., & Giles_sims, J. (1997) Spanking by parents and subsequent anti-social behavior of children. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 151, 761- 767. Williamson, P. (1990). Good kids, bad behavior: Helping children learn self-discipline. New York: Fireside.
- 12835: Peer Pressure
- ... every day that they are growing up. It doesn’t make any difference which cultural background a teen is from, what color of skin they have, or what their interests are, every teenager throughout the world has to face and deal with pressure from their friends and the other people around them. But what really is peer pressure, and how can teenagers learn to deal with it, and resist the pressures ... that they are loved and that they are good at many things. The more teenagers know this, the easier it will be for them to stand up and be true to themselves. In a perfect world, people wouldn’t have to worry about peer pressure, being cool, fitting in with the “right crowd” and being accepted by peers, but the world in which we live in is not perfect. It’s hard enough trying to find out who the real me is, let alone having to live up to everyone else’s expectations about what ...
- 12836: From The Floutings Of The Cooperative Principle To Communica
- ... in that the addresser knowingly says something he believes to be false. EXAMPLE 6 A: What if the Iraq controls the Gulf and all the oil? B: Oh come now, Hitler has won the Second World War. In reply to A's childish question (at least B thinks so), B makes a false statement about Hitler and the Second World War, by which he implicates that A' worry is unnecessary under any circumstance. And with his own knowledge about history, A will realize that B has made an intentionally wrong uttering, and then infers what ... for the addressee to proceed with his inferring. Still take EXAMPLE 6 for instance: A: What if the Iraq controls the Gulf and all the oil? B: Oh come now, Hitler has won the Second World War. The effects of Irony can only be attained when A has such a common sense that Hitler didn't won the war. Suppose A has no such historical knowledge, B will not practice ...
- 12837: Censorship of Music in the Media
- ... fact that a politician, religious leader, or community activists refuse to acknowledge the artistic achievement of popular music does not change the definition of censorship. The restrictive power of a rating system was taken to new heights this year when Georgia and Tennessee tried to criminalize the sale of stickered CD's to minors. This has clearly gone too far. Many managers have threatened to develop and enforce their own individual ... would censor music is, Scott Williams, general manager of the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Representative Dan Tripp-R, South Carolina, says that "our kids are being affected by this trash." Mr. Tripp's new bill would forbid concerts he doesn't like from taking place at any state-owned venue in South Carolina. We have to ask how these politicians and others like them how they are able to ... then we have no need to censor questionable ideas. Bibliography Committee on Communications and Media Law. "Violence in the Media: A Position Paper." The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. April 1997: 273-342. Jenkins, Henry. Interview. Next Generation. May 1997. Katz, Jon. "The Great American Cop-Out." Wired. 30 September 1997. King, Patricia and Andrew Murr. "A Son Who Spun Out of ...
- 12838: Radical Feminism Inhibits The Liberation Of Women
- ... my ears today. This is the way many women are raised today. They are raised to be leaders and followers just like the other gender. The radical feminist, however, has one main mission in the world today to irradiate the male gender. This causes a problem because sometimes the line between feminist and radical feminist can be very gray. Unlike Adriennne Rich I see the radical feminist as destructive storm that ... radical feminist inhibits the one thing that the regular feminist have been striving for the past hundred years, the liberation of women. The increasing tendency of women in the workplace has given arise to a new feminist. This feminist sees the male gender as a different species and mainly the enemy. As always these women give the regular feminist a bad name. If you walked into a mostly male room and ...
- 12839: Affirmative Action: Why It Should Go
- ... why can¹t I become successful on my own? Why do I need laws to help me get a job?² These African Americans want to be treated as equals, not as incompetents. In my idealistic world neither Black, White, Mexican, Asian, women or men would need anything, except their skills. In a statement released in 1981 by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Jack P. Hartog, who directed the Affirmative ... only crime that they were guilty of was being white. The injustice toward the white male does not end there. After the white male has been fired, he has to go out and find a new job to support his family, that depended on the company, to provide health care and a retirement plan, in return for years of hard work. Now, because of Affirmative action, this white male, and the ...
- 12840: Psychological Perspectives
- ... a combination of both. Psychologists whom use the cognitive perspective believe that one must look inward and investigate the mental processes to understand how the mind works. They study how people solve problems, perceive the world, daydream and dream. The cognitive perspective is separated in to two parts, the Cognitive - Developmental Theory and Information Processing. The Swiss biologist Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980)is known for using the Cognitive Perspective to focus on how children and adults reason and view the world. Through studies Piaget and his followers stated that a child's conception becomes more refined as the child grows older. He also stated that even though experience is essential for children, their perception and understanding of the world seems to be related to a biological clock, which allows them to be able to understand certain situations at the right time. The other half of the cognitive perspective is Information Processing. This area ...
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