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- 271: The Real Issue Of Youth Violence
- ... evidence,' said Jenne Funk, a clinical psychiatry professor at the University of Toledo in Ohio. 'Scientifically we don't have a lot of studies at this point on the subject. It takes, I believe, a child who is already troubled,' she said." (Associated Press) Depictions of increasingly graphic violence in video games have raised concerns about the affects of such games on their users. Opponents assert that such gratuitous violence leads ... filled with toys including toy guns that looked identically like real guns. It turned out that all of the children gravitated towards the guns, but the most interesting results had to do with a particular child. One of the preschoolers was being raised in an environment where he was told everyday of his life that guns were wrong. That also means he was not exposed to TV violence or video game violence. Even if this particular child would turn to a station that had violence of any type, he would quickly change the cannel because he knew that guns and violence were wrong. Strangely, this child only took ten minutes to ...
- 272: The Effects Of Television On A
- ... follow a television show and kids are raised on television believe that it takes less effort to learn from television rather than books because they have been spoon-fed information by television. Opportunities for a child s imagination to develop are also denied by habitual viewing. (Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain) Children need some unstructured time to Wise, 2 allow imagination skills to form by thinking about a book or story, a conversation, or an event. Television also conditions a child to dual stimui: sound and images. (Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain) The constant and rapidly changing sound and images can condition a child to expect the level of televisions in other situations. The problem with this is that in school children are called upon to speak, to listen, to work some problems, or read, and none of ...
- 273: Inclusion
- ... schools, the legislatures, and the courts should tell us a lot about the place of exceptional children in our society. In the category of exceptional children one would find a list of any and every child that requires education in academic matters as well as life skills. These children must work at things that average society takes for granted. Out of this group of exceptional children has risen a disability that ... Downs baby then that of a couple of high school drop outs. This odd occurrence has lead to more affluent families to give birth to one or more Downs babies. The limitations facing a Downs child will affect the childs whole life and it is the environmental circumstances around him that determine how he fares in life. Included in these circumstances are his family and their unity and maybe most importantly his level ...
- 274: Abortion
- ... or not, you can find support for either side. Many individuals take the side of anti-abortion or pro-life which means they don't think women should have the right to abort an unborn child. This is the con side of legalizing abortion. Some of the pro-life members think that the reasons women shouldn't be able to abort is that the mother is ending an unborn child's life and if the mother is old enough to get pregnant they are old enough to have the child. Some pro-life activists think that even if you have to put the baby up for adoption later you should still have it. Although some of the reasoning that pro-life activist use, might ...
- 275: Aristotelian
- Can a Child be Virtuous? In this paper I will argue against Aristotle and his idea that children cannot be virtuous, as we discussed in class. I will do this by giving concrete examples that a certain widespread religion believes in this virtuosity of a child. I will also use a more common example that occurs all the time in America. Aristotle says that children cannot be virtuous because virtues are something that, to be acquired must be practiced over and over again. A child has not had enough practice, time or understanding of what he is doing to be considered virtuous. However, I think that there are virtuous children, and that not only Athenian gentlemen are virtuous, but ...
- 276: Child Labor
- Child Labor By definition, child labor is described as any economic exploitation or work that is likely to be hazardous, or interferes with the childs education, or is harmful to the childs health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development. Although this is clearly stated in Article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of the ...
- 277: Migrant Labour
- ... force. This essay will focus on the crucial role the migrant labour system had in the development of the South African economy and its detrimental effects on the South African family and the South African child. To completely understand the impact that migrant labor has had on the African family and child. It must first be understood why the migrant labor force was created, who benefited from it and how it worked. To understand this we must go back to the beginning of colonialism in Africa. With ... families behind in order to financially provide for them. The manner in which the migrant labor force was created to function has had a devastated effect on the South African family and the South African child. This destruction was achieved for the preservation and advancement of the economic, political and position of power that whites held within South Africa (Unecso, 1972). This view has also been expressed by others such ...
- 278: The Internet, Pornography, and Children
- ... not ignored. This paper will attempt to intelligently discuss some of those issues. Areas covered will include what the Internet is, risks to children who are viewing the Internet, what pornography is, and laws concerning child pornography (in general and over the Internet). Additionally, the number, content, and accessibility of pornographic sites will be discussed. Lastly, this paper will discuss what measures can be taken to protect children from pornographic Internet ... have the Internet. It is estimated by the end of the 1998-1999 school year, about 95.9% of all American schools will be hooked up to the Internet.4 There are risks to a child that a parent should consider before allowing the child to access the Internet. Some of the risks include the following: 1. Exposure to material that is sexual, hateful, or violent in nature and the possible encouragement of illegal or dangerous activities. 2. The ...
- 279: Education 2
- ... difficult to say a mother has no bond to her infant (Mercer 19). Attachment is crucial to the survival and development of the infant. Kenneth and Klaus point out that the parents bond to their child may be the strongest of all human ties. This relationship has two main characteristics: before birth the infant gestates within a part of the mother s body and after birth she ensures his survival while ... is so great that it enables the mother and father to make the unusual sacrifices necessary for the care of their infant. Day after day, night after night; changing diapers, attending to cries, protecting the child from danger, and giving feed in the middle of the night despite their desperate need to sleep (Mercer 22). It is important to note that this original parent-infant tie is the major source for all of the infant s subsequent attachment and is the formative relationship in the course of which the child develops a sense of himself. Throughout his lifetime the strength and character of this attachment will influence the quality of all future ties to other individuals. The question is asked, "What is the normal ...
- 280: Child Labor in Pakistan
- Child Labor in Pakistan Child labor is a byproduct of the industrial revolution and was used mainly because Child Labor is a cheap labor force, and because of the child size they could get into places where adults could not. During the late 18th, through the 19th century there has been a visible ...
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