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- 591: Drug And Alcohol Abuse
- ... use of drugs and alcohol throughout our state. The advice I would give him is to impose stiffer penalties for those who manufacture drugs and focus on prevention, and, most importantly, rehabilitation, of those who abuse alcohol or drugs. According to the Missouri Department of Mental Health, alcohol and drug abuse affects more than 259,000 Missourians and another 800,000 who are family members of substance abusers. That is roughly 20% of Missourians who are affected. Intoxication by the means of drugs and alcohol contribute ...
- 592: Order In The Classroom
- ... teachers because they were treated like adults and expected to treat their teachers in turn. They also were not subjected to the constant media environment that shortens the attention spans of today's youngsters. The child's current lack of self-control can also be attributed to the dissolving family environment. The family is dissolving because of the increased rate of single parent families and when two parents are present very ... current situation of the unruliness that takes place in the classroom of our public an private education systems on a regular basis. There have been many suggested methods in order to deal with a unruly child or children in the classroom setting. One of the most popular and predominant through out the history of modern education has been the use of corporal punishment. Corporal punishment generally consists of a painful stimulus ... with out the teacher having to take considerable time away from the rest of the class to deal with one or several problem children. This type of reinforcement is often as simple as telling a child that he or she has done a good job when they have succeeded. This method used often over the course of several weeks is often all that is usually needed to help a child ...
- 593: Homeschooling
- Homeschooling Many parents do not stop and think about their child’s education. Perhaps, they should. It is one of the most important decisions a parent will make for their child. There are many choices of schooling: public school, private school, on-line school, satellite school, and homeschooling. In our family, we have decided that homeschooling was the best of all the options. For the last ... In grades 1-4, children perform an average of one grade level higher. In 5th grade, the gap begins to widen and by 8th grade, they average four grade levels ahead. Family race and income, child’s gender, and parent’s education does not seem to affect the test scores for homeschooled children as it does for public and private school children. Among white homeschooled children, the average reading score ...
- 594: Sweat By Zora Hurston
- Spousal Abuse You sho is one aggravatin nigger woman! ; this is only one example of the abuse in Zora Neale Hurston s short story, Sweat . Spousal abuse is a very common issue in today s society. Hurston represents this form of abuse through the way the husband talks to his wife and the way he treats her. Delia is a hard- ...
- 595: Scarlet Letter - Pearl
- ... is conceived through sin, and how she suffers when her mother and the community situate this deed upon her like the scarlet letter on her mother's bosom. Pearl is thought of being an evil child with demon like qualities, yet she is spirited and very loving towards her mother. Hester Prynn constantly questions Pearl's existence and purpose asking God, "what is this being which I have brought into the world, evil?" or inquiring to Pearl, "Child, what art thou?" Hester sees Pearl as a reminder of her sin, especially since as an infant Pearl is acutely aware of the scarlet letter A on her mother s chest. When still in her ... hand" (Hawthorne 66). The torture Hester felt was reflected by the significant reminder of the sin that brought Pearl into life. Hester feels guilty whenever she sees Pearl, a feeling she reflects onto her innocent child. In this manner, Hester forces the child to become detached from society. Pearl becomes no more than a manifestation based entirely upon Hester's and Dimmesdale's original sin. She is described as "the ...
- 596: ADHD ON INTELLIGENCE
- Running Head: ADHD ON INTELLIGENCE Social and Bio-genetic Influences of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder on Child Intelligence The subject of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has undergone intense research in the past decade. Much of this is rooted in the fact that approximately 5% of children are affected with the disorder ... mystery to researchers. Within the field there are many correlates to biological (genetic) and social causes. The present paper seeks to explore current research through investigating the social and bio-genetic influence of ADHD on child intelligence. Testing and treatments of those with ADHD will also be discussed. In accordance with Dulcan et al. (1997) ADD, ADD-H, ADHD, although not identical, will be considered interchangeably due to similarity. Characteristics and ... intellectual ability and to search for learning disabilities. Tests such as the Wechler Intelligence Scale are used for intelligence testing, yet, much debate exists because of the need to change the test to meet the child's attention deficits (Braswell, 1991). A new intelligence test has been created by Naglieri (1997) called the Cognitive Assessment System to help diagnose and measure ADHD intelligence. This test is based on the premise ...
- 597: Gender Selection
- ... For the first time in human history, both sexes have been given the chance to fulfill their potentials without discrimination. Parents, despite preferences of having a girl, or a boy, have known that regardless, their child would have an equal opportunity at life. The cutting edge technology, however, means that all this could change. The ability of parents to actually select the gender of their child could have not only devastating effects on society, but on the lives of so many children and parents. Whether parents had a girl or a boy has always been left up to nature to decide ... it. Now, with the dawn of the twenty-first century, that technology has arrived and mankind is faced with a very important decision: whether or not to “play God” and manipulate the gender of their child to suit their preferences. The romance of having the perfect nuclear family, with two boys and two girls’ fills the heads of young couples everywhere, and when given the opportunity, many are likely to ...
- 598: Familial Themes With Shakespea
- ... means to be within and part of a family. This idea of a natural law, in which it deals with society’s and family’s expectation of what is to be given from parent to child as well as the bond which is made. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, the two plots revolve around a parent’s dealing with children who are not proper to what is expected of them. King Lear is a story, which deals with the idea of familial expectation and the roles in which parents and children play. Lear’s madness and his obsession with being praised blinded him to the child who was really the only one who loved him, Cordelia. The same with the Earl of Gloucester, he was blinded by his illegitimate child, Edmund, who set out to turn him away from his heir, Edgar. Within the story, these two children and a few loyal servants try to help and eventually try to save the King and ...
- 599: Abortion
- ... right to choose to continue or end a pregnancy. Pro-choice supporters also argue that legal abortion is safer than illegal abortion and that it relieves the psychological and social problems associated having an unwanted child. Being pro-choice myself, I believe that it is the woman's right to decide if she wants to have a child or not. Some women who become pregnant are not mentally, physically, or financially stable enough to raise a child. If this is the case, I believe that a child should not be brought into the world because it will then have an unhealthy life style. If a woman becomes pregnant from rape or ...
- 600: Silent Spring: Abuse of Pesticides
- Silent Spring: Abuse of Pesticides Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring brought about an awareness of the abuse of pesticides in the 1960’s. She told the stories of how deadly pesticides could be to the environment, wildlife, and even humans. There were very few regulations on all the new chemicals that were ...
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