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- 1281: The Effects of Stress, Alcohol Outcome Expectancies, Gender, Coping Styles, and Family Alcoholism on Alcohol Consumption
- ... by Sher and Descutner in 1986 which is designed to measure family history of alcoholism. This is a yes/no type of test, and is specifically determines the extent of an individual's parents' alcohol abuse. 2. Comprehensive Effects of Alcohol (CEOA) The CEOA (Fromme, Stroot & Kaplan, 1993) has 38 questions, and is designed to measure alcohol outcome expectancies. There are seven expectancy scales, four positive (sociability, tension-reduction, liquid-courage ... with expectancy variables like Tension Reduction, liquid-Courage and Sexuality, while negative with Behavioral Impairment, Risk & Aggression, and Self Perception; b4: Positive. One would expect an alcoholic family would increase the likelihood of an alcoholic child; b5: Positive. If we restrict this variable to Drinking To Cope, it should be positive. I would plan to run a regression using one predictor variable at a time, and then adding an additional variable ... 20 years. British Journal of Addiction, 83, 269-278. Marlatt, G. A, & Rohsenow, D. J. (1980). Cognitive processes in alcohol use: Expectancy and the balanced placebo design. In N. K. Mello (Ed.). Advances in Substance Abuse: Behavioral and biological research, Vol. 1. Greenwich: JAI Press. Sher, K. J., & Descutner, C. (1986). Reports of paternal alcoholism: Reliability across siblings. Journal of Addictive Behaviors, 11, 25-30.
- 1282: Love and Rejection: Breaking Up
- ... lack of control, and interference in one's life and responsibilities. In severe cases, medications can help. As many as one in forty Americans have some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder. Along with harassment, physical abuse is yet another extremely wrong way to handle rejection. Physical abuse includes such things as slapping, kicking, hair pulling, shaking, and arm twisting. People who are being abused are advised to avoid all possible contact with their furious ex. People who are abusing are urged to ... suicidal point as teens too often are. Because children look to their parents to keep them safe, the lack of a family member could heighten their sense of vulnerability. The parent who remains with the child or children has to assume the role of the other parent in the financial, physical, and emotional aspects. From a personal viewpoint, adults have a lot more to worry about than teenagers do so ...
- 1283: Multiple Personality Disorder
- ... not recall how they got there, or they might discover a new item in their home without even knowing how it was purchased. Studies show that many cases of MPD have been related to childhood abuse or some other traumatic event. A child who develops this illness will tend to be moody or irresponsible because they may switch personalities suddenly or deny having down something they no longer can remember. In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association changed the ... I have always wanted to continue to find out about this disease. The one thing that shocked me was the fact that the main reason that someone develops MPD was by being abused as a child, or by a traumatic event. It really shocked me. I always thought that it was formed starting with birth. This disease is still somewhat a mystery to me. I still do not fully understand ...
- 1284: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... a great influence on other writers of the time, and was a principal figure in the Transcendental Movement. Born David Henry Thoreau and coming from a rather poor family in Massachusetts, Thoreau was the only child in his family to attend college. He graduated from Harvard in 1837 and became interested in natural history, religion, and world literature. Thoreau taught briefly but was dismissed when it became known that he opposed ... really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I ... spot a continent And tuned to poetry life's prose. "Haunting the hills, the stream, the wild, Swallow and aster, lake and pine, To him grew human or divine, Fit mates for this large-hearted child. Such homage Nature ne'er forgets, And yearly on the coverlid 'Neath which her darling lieth hid Will write his name in violets. "To him no vain regrets belong Whose soul, that finer instrument, ...
- 1285: Natural Born Killers
- ... in love named Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), who go on a shooting spree throughout the country. The couple is a product of all bad influences of society. Mallory was a child that watched too much television when she was young and grew up in an abusive family, she sees her life via a television sitcom as an excape from her disturbed life. Her family life is ... a template for what he portrays as daily life in a corrupt 90s family, using black and white film but instead of the ideal family life, this family is corrupt with verbal and sexual abuse from the man of the household. The satire of I Love Lucy portrayed a dysfunctional family that is not uncommon to some real life families. Stone also uses the parody of the I Love Lucy ... Stone uses laughter in these areas to ease the tension cause by the fathers unacceptable actions. Stones underlying messages in the parody states that audiences have been desensitized by television shows with violence and abuse, so much that it is a laughing matter. When presented with particular images constantly, one is prone to make popular what is seen. This popularity can be bad when violence is involved. Mallory and ...
- 1286: Domestic Violence
- ... is best for everyone involved. They are the leading women?s advocate for this area. Eligibility requirements for Oasis, firstly the women must be in a dangerous situation at home. She is a victim of abuse or sexual abuse. She does not have anywhere else to go and cannot leave on her own. She is not aloud to give the location of the shelter to anyone, that would put the whole house at risk ... assistance through medical examinations, law enforcement and court procedures. They provide information and referals and also educational programs to schools and the community. Oasis is a short-term assistance program only. If a woman and child were to come to them with only the clothes on their back?s, then Oasis would provide them with the basics. The shelter will feed them, clothe them and provide temporary housing. Oasis also ...
- 1287: Secrets In Scarlet Letter
- ... partially away from her soul. Thus, she demonstrates how the pathway to spiritual healing opens with her accepting her sin and not trying to hide her symbol. When the young woman the mother of this child stood revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress. While she experiences immense humiliation from wearing the scarlet letter, she does not lash back, she accepts the abuse of Puritans, child and adult alike, all the while keeping an almost prideful manner about herself, desperately trying to keep some dignity. She remains silent and finds strength from inside; since she is secluded from the outside ...
- 1288: Charles M. Manson
- ... arrangements fell through. As a last resort she sent Charles to Gibault School in Terre Haute. Mrs. Manson couldn't keep up the payments and once again Charles was sent back to his mother's abuse. At only fourteen Manson rented himself a room and supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities. Once there Manson met Rev. George Powers who had him ... moved to California to be near Charles. Her mother-in-law had a seldom streak of maternal sympathy and came to help care for her grandchild. In 1958 Charles got out of Prison his wife, child, and mother had left him alone again. Several arrests for car theft and pimping followed; in 1960, Charles was given ten years for forging government checks. While he was serving his ten year sentence at ... spring of 1968. The group of fourteen consisting of nine girls and five boys were arrested near Oxnard for sleeping nude in a field; the mother of a newborn infant was arrested and charged with child endangerment. But the charges were dropped when they agreed with authorities to leave Ventura county. Once in Los Angeles the crew stayed in Topanga Canyon, which, originally was a haven for hippies, which, like ...
- 1289: Recent Changes To Welfare
- ... said parent fails to find a job or exceed their five year total, what would happen to the children? The answer, disturbingly, is nothing. During a floor debate, Senator Edward Kennedy described this as "legislative child abuse". (Edelman) While the authors are agreed that this is ,overall, a bad idea, they also each can't help but praise a few pieces of the legislation, such as the child care and self-improvement initiative. They express how the program set forth in a well intended manner, in the hopes of correcting one of our nations greatest problems, can turn into many new problems. ...
- 1290: Beloved: The Degradation of Slaves
- Beloved: The Degradation of Slaves Two boys bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger woman holding a blood-soaked child to her chest with one hand and an infant by the heels in the other. This gruesome image is a result of the many degradations that black slaves face. The humiliation these slaves suffer is ... capable of identifying just what some of these trials consist of and the effects they have on American black slaves. One of the more obvious degradations the characters in Beloved face is that of physical abuse. Morrison writes, Thats what they said it looked like; a chokecherry tree. In this instance, Sethe is describing the tree-like shape of the scars on her back. Like many slaves, Sethe is whipped ... bit which disables him from swallowing, let alone speaking. This not only belittles slaves but it prevents Paul D. from coming to the aid of Halle during his time of need. These displays of physical abuse that Morrison portrays in her novel only begin to scratch the surface of the tortuous physical degradations that American black slaves are forced to deal with. In addition to physical degradation, the characters also ...
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