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- 1161: Psychological Perspectives
- ... 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 ... socioeconomic status influence their decision making. Because different cultures, ethnicity groups, and social statuses have many different imaginary guidelines by which they follow, decisions are made based on these different aspects. For example a young child from a minority background may not feel that school is with worth while, one because they do not have any of their own people to observe that choose to do well in school. Or ...
- 1162: Negative Effects of Television on Today’s Youth
- ... on Today’s Youth Has someone ever told you that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? In today’s society, acts are being imitated that should not be. How would you feel if your child acted out some of the violent acts they’ve witnessed on television, or repeated some of the things that they’ve heard? Since the children of today are tomorrow’s future, it’s best we ... located in their bedrooms (Jaglom 21). Also, proving that television is a major influence in children’s lives, children spend more time learning about life through media than than through any other manner. The average child spends about twenty eight hours a week watching television, which is twice as much as they spend in school (Boyatizis 98). One of the most mind-boggling facts is that the average American child will witness over 200,000 acts of violence on television, including 16,000 murders, before the age of 18 (Kalin n.p.g.). Even additions designed to protect the American public from witnessing these ...
- 1163: Abortion: Pro Choice View
- ... abortion to end their pregnancies. What to do about their pregnancy is mandatory, although many or them felt they were ending a life. They are wise enough to know how they would treat their illegitimate child. They hate their rapist, and worry that if they kept their babies, they would hate their children for reminding them of such a painful time. Young women between 15 and 19 account for at least ... million of them in the United States. In fact, one of every five pregnancies happens to a teen-age girl. In situations like this, some people are sure that they could take care of the child, while others know that they aren't ready or mature enough to take so much responsibility. In many cases the child would have no one to rely on but a single mother with no schooling, and maybe a non-supportive family. He or she would have a twisted, miserable upbringing, left vulnerable later in life. ...
- 1164: REAL BOYS
- ... on the outside but on the inside they are hiding something. When they are asked if anything is wrong they say no everything is just fine. This is because ever since the boy was a child he has been taught not to express his emotions. Little boys are made to feel ashamed of their feelings. Also society places an emphasis on boys separating from their mother at an unnecessarily young age ... This is not true; the mother should get close to the boys. Sometimes it is not society, which forces the boy to be masculine; it is the confusion of the mother. The mother wants her child to grow up and be athletic and tough. This causes boys to sometimes loose the ability to show their emotions and relate with others. Mixed messages from mothers cause an even greater problem they confuse ... s masculine self-confidence. Boys who are close to their fathers since infancy have been shown to benefit from this greatly. There have been studies to show that when a father is involved in the child’s life the boys turn out to be less aggressive, less overly competitive, and better able to express their feelings of vulnerability and sadness. Fathers can get involved in the boy’s lives by ...
- 1165: Cloning Is Ethically And Moral
- ... physical and psychological effects on both groups. The following issues dealing with cloning and its ethical and moral implications will be addressed: cloning of human beings would result in severe psychological effects in the cloned child, and that the cloning of non-human species subjects them to unethical or moral treatment for human needs. The possible physical damage that could be done if human cloning became a reality is obvious when ... and individuality. Many argue that cloning crates serious issues of identity and individuality and forces humans to consider the definition of self. Gilbert Meilaender commented on the importance of genetic uniqueness not only to the child but to the parent as well when he appeared before the National Bioethics Advisory Commission on March 13, 1997. He states that "children begin with a kind of genetic independence of [the parent]. They replicate neither their father nor their mother. That is a reminder of the independence that [the parent] must eventually grant them...To lose even in principle this sense of the child as a gift will not be good for the children" (Expert Opinion). Others look souly at the child, like philosopher Hans Jonas. He suggests that humans have an inherent "right to ignorance" or a ...
- 1166: Nutrition In Schools
- ... with school lunches. Everyone from U. S. Senators to a student group called Kids Against Junk Food (KAJF) is demanding better food in school cafeterias (Norvell, 1995). On November 5, 1994, President Clinton signed the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill, this bill requires schools to meet dietary guidelines. The previous law, the National School Lunch Act, required schools to serve nutritious and as well as well-balanced lunches that provided one-third ... a bread, and milk. The law didn’t say anything about things like the fat content, cooking methods, or freshness of foods (Meyer&Conklin,1998). Those loopholes are the reason that President Clinton signed the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill. The Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill was designed to increase calories from nonfat or low fat sources. The meat requirements basically stayed the same but, fruit/vegetables, and grain/bread components went up. This type of menu ...
- 1167: The Owls Are Not What They See
- ... are that the audience, typically composed of males, would become desensitized to these images, and further, believe that the bold stance that Twin Peaks takes on femininity is true. Twin Peaks treats domestic violence and abuse with a creepy insensitivity. The incestuous relationship between Laura and her father Leland is almost ignored- being blamed on the possessive spirit, BOB. After Leland s confession and suicide, Agent Cooper asks Sheriff Truman whether ... be a whore, that the seductive adolescent perhaps wants a real man to hurt her (George 115). The consequences for the visions that Twin Peaks portrays is that it is acceptable for men to sexual abuse, hurt or even murder women, without any repercussions for their actions. The desensitization of violence and sexual abuse directed towards women, by men, is not without its consequences. In the US a woman is battered every fifteen seconds. A rape is committed every six minutes. Three to four million women are beaten ...
- 1168: Impact of Television Violence In Relation To Juvenile Delinquency
- ... a different measure to determine aggressive behavior. They gave nine to thirteen-year-old boys and girls situations such as the following. Suppose that you are riding your bicycle down the street and some other child comes up and pushes you off your bicycle. What would you do? The response options included physical or verbal aggression along with options to reduce or avoid conflict. This group found that physical or verbal ... Ross,1961:575-582, 1963:3-1) working with young children, and by Berkowitz and his associates (Berkowitz, 1962; Berkowitz & Rawlings, 1963:405-412; Berkowitz, Corwin & Heironimus, 1963:217-229) who studied adolescents. A young child was given a film, then projected on a television screen, the film showed a person who kicked and beat an inflated plastic doll. The child was then placed in a playroom setting and then they recorded the amount of times that aggressive behavior was seen. The results of these early studies indicated that children who had viewed the aggressive ...
- 1169: James Rachels' Death and Dying
- ... through what was sure to be her death in later years. However, the government decided that it was wrong for Baby Jane to die so they were forced to have the surgery done to their child (Rachels 60-62). So is killing someone worse than letting them die passively? Rachels asks us to consider two cases. Let's take for example a guy named Mike will gain a large inheritance if anything should happen to his young cousin. One evening while the youngster is taking a bath, Mike sneaks into the bathroom and drowns the child, and then arranges things so it will look like an accident. In the second case, a guy named John will gain a large inheritance and plans to drown his cousin, but as he enters the bathroom John sees the child slip and hit his head and fall face down in the water. John watches and does nothing. Now, Mike killed the child while John let the child die. Now did either man behave better, ...
- 1170: Aldous Huxley
- ... a drama critic for the Westminster Gazette, was an assistant at the Chelsea Book Club and worked for Conde Nast Publications (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley married Maria Nys in 1919. In 1920 they had a child named Matthew. The family split time between London and Italy and traveled around the world in 1925 and 1926 (Aldous Huxley-Biography). In 1955 Maria died of cancer, and a year later Huxley married Italian ... Huxley wrote the Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. These novels deal with the “inebriated states produced by hallucinogens.” They describe the alteration in sensory perception that Huxley experienced with mescaline (LSD-My Problem Child). The rock group the Doors named themselves after the Doors of Perception (It’s Online-Aldous Huxley). Huxley had become a guru for hippies in California and began to use LSD (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley ... and his wife experimented with LSD and psilocybin. He didn’t like to refer to them as drugs because he believed in “the importance of agents producing visionary experience in human evolution” (LSD-My Problem Child). Huxley continued his drug use and experiments until his death. While lying on his deathbed with terminal throat cancer, Huxley asked his wife to inject 100 mmg of LSD into him, sending him to ...
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