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- 901: Gangs
- ... make kids do things that are strongly against their morals. One of the ways that kids morals are bent so that gang violence becomes more acceptable is the influence of television and movies. The average child spends more time at a TV than she/he spends in a classroom. Since nobody can completely turn off their minds, kids must be learning something while watching the TV. Very few hours of television ... shows on television today are extremely violent and are often shown this from a gang's perspective. A normal adult can see that this is showing how foully that gangs are living. However, to a child this portrays a violent gang existance as acceptable. 'The Ends Justifies the Means' mentality is also taught through many shows where the "goody guy" captures the "bad guy" through violence and is then being commended. A young child sees this a perfectly acceptable because he knows that the "bad guy" was wrong but has no idea of what acceptable apprehension techniques are. Gore in television also takes a big part in influencing ...
- 902: Abortion
- ... on the key issue right now on abortion. I will tell you my side and how I fell, and hope that after this you would agree with my opinion. Abortion is the killing of a child before the birth. They usually take a needle and put it into the mothers womb, and kill it. Although that is not the only way to do it. There are other ways also of killing a child. There is a abortion called have abortion. It comes out of the womb half way, then they kill it. To me that is just sick. I think that it is in humane to kill a live child. Just think, it is alive. It needs oxygen to breath. It needs food to live. And if you don't take care of the baby, it wouldn't come out. Like if you do ...
- 903: Alcoholism
- ... percent are the skid row type. Ninety percent of all alcoholics are employed, and many work for years before their alcoholism becomes so bad that they cannot perform their job. Federal officials estimate that the abuse of alcohol costs the economy well over one hundred billion dollars every year. Alcohol does this by making people be less productive at work, taking more sick days, sustaining on the job injuries, collecting more ... If children are exposed to drinking as a activity in which drinkers are careful and moderate they are more likely to become a responsible drinker. If the children grow up seeing heavy alcohol use and abuse they are more likely to use alcohol in that way. Also, if the children are exposed to large amounts of peer pressure from the kids around them they are more likely to drink. Alcoholism is ... the eight hundred thousand car accidents caused by alcohol. Alcoholics are seven times more likely to be involved in fatal accidents than non-alcoholics. Alcohol is also related to three out of five cases of child abuse, up to one out of two incidents of domestic violence, one out of three suicides, and up to seven out of ten deaths by drowning. What Im trying to point out here ...
- 904: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... is genetic, is the stunning likelihood that mood disorders are in their family. About half of all bipolar patients have at least one parent with a mood disorder (Kaplan, 1991.) It has been prove a child with parents with less severe cases of bipolar disorder are less likely to have bipolar disorder than children with parents that have severe bipolar disorder (Badal, 1988.) Research shows that a child who is adopted is likely to have a mood disorder if their biological parents have one, regardless of their adoptive parents mental state. This shows that bipolar disorder is at least partly innate. The ... Another problem associated with the use of lithium is experienced by pregnant women. Its use during pregnancy has been associated with birth defects, particularly Ebstein's anomaly. Based on current data, the risk of a child with Ebstein's anomaly being born to a mother who took lithium during her first trimester of pregnancy is approximately 1 in 8,000, or 2.5 times that of the general population (Jacobson ...
- 905: Pro_choice Among Women
- ... is correct in deciding on terminating her pregnancy. The determinants to this would be from being unfit or unplanned. If the woman is unhealthy in any way, then that creates an atmosphere for the unborn child that is unhealthy as well. Pro-choice followers do feel that there is a time when abortion is immoral and unethical, which is aborting after the second trimester. By the third trimester, a fetus has ... or rape, Pro-life followers tend to direct the woman towards adoption services, or orphanages. To Pro-life believers, the cost of adoption is incomparable to the cost a life. If finances decide bringing a child into the world, then Pro-life activists believe there is no reason not to fulfill a pregnancy. They will raise funds, or incorporate funding from the government to support an infant that can not be ... from federal funding. Overall, there should not ever be reasons to turn to abortion if you are a Pro-life supporter, or are there? The government funds some or most of the costs for a childs nourishment, shelter, and health. Should the government also fund the costs of treating an aberrant infant? If an infant were born premature, due to environmental or maternal factors, the cost of medical aide ...
- 906: Drugs and Pregnancy: Drugs Affect On The Baby
- ... the time of birth, either inherited or caused during gestation). (1) Prenatal exposure to psychoactive drug, including tobacco, alcohol, and cocaine, are serious and growing problems. (1) According to a recent National Institute on Drug Abuse study on estimated use of selected substances during pregnancy, 5.5% of the women surveyed reported using illicit drugs while they were pregnant. Additionally, 18.8% reported using alcohol, and 20.4%reported using tobacco. (3) Parents who abuse alcohol and illicit drugs face risks of losing custody of their children. Pregnant women who continue to use drugs against medical advice face increased risks of losing their babies once they are born. In some ... during pregnancy are at a higher risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) than are babies of non-smokers. (1) If the mother smokes during pregnancy, it can cause, in the later life of her child, hyperactivity, short attention span, and lower scores on spelling and reading tests. (1) Statistics Smoking by pregnant women is responsible for up to 10% of all infant deaths in the country. (1) Smoking by ...
- 907: Beloved: Sethe and Her Daughter
- ... to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the physical, emotional, and spiritual oppressive horrors of a life spent in slavery. Sethe's action is indisputable: she has killed her child. By killing her "Beloved" child, the question arises whether or not Sethe acted out of true love or selfish pride? The fact that Sethe's act is irrational can easily be decided upon. Does Sethe kill her baby girl because ... problem is rooted in her inability to recognize the boundaries between herself and her children. Paul D. stabs at the heart of this problem by suggesting that Sethe had overstepped her boundaries by killing her child. The taking of someones life is not meant for people, but of someone of a higher status. Sethe details a defense for killing her baby to the woman she believes is her reincarnated, ...
- 908: Ebonics A Bridge To Help Black
- ... also how the Chinese and the Japanese learn English. As a quote from an article writes, The real question is what happened to the good educational philosophy, which states that in order to teach a child you had to start from where the child is. The new Hispanic immigrants understand this and that is why we now have a move going on across this country for BI-lingual education. They demand, and get, teachers who understands Spanish and other Latin American dialects to teach their children English. They know that it does not matter if a child is African American, Chinese, Spanish, or Italian. For a child to learn they know you have to build on what that child knows. Therefore, if the child comes into the room saying 'dis' and ' ...
- 909: Maturity In The Book To Kill A
- ... the story. The next most obvious person in the book that drastically matures is Jem. At the beginning of the book Jem is much like Scout in that he has the innocence of a young child. For example Jem tells Scout and Dill various made-up stories about Boo Radley to satisfy his need for excitement in his life and for the childish need to scare Scout and Dill. His immaturity ... understands where Atticus is going with his questions to the witnesses. Jem realizes that Atticus has proven Tom innocent way before even the adults come to that realization. There is still a little bit of child however in Jem at this point. He can not seem to understand how the jury could find Tom guilty even after his innocence was plainly set out for all to see. His is the naοve ... Jems uncle, Uncle Jack, has who is about as old as Atticus (50) also matures a little in this book. It is by a lesson taught to him by Scout who is a mere child, which just goes to show maturity comes with experience not age. In the book Scout says some inappropriate words which Uncle Jack overhears, he tells Scout to never use these words unless under extreme ...
- 910: Summary Observing and Remembering
- ... split second, the girl wanted it all to stop. But there was nothing she could do at this point. The decision was already made. So she just lay there on the table like a quivering child, just wanting to see him, the person she loved and gave her heart to, the one that helped create this soul they were destroying. But she didn't want him there to witness it. She ... a part of my soul that day, but I also gained a strength that will help me overcome difficult things in my life ahead. In "Counterculture parents" (Blade Aug 15, 1991), you only need a child to belong. In the summer of 1991 the American Academy of Pediatrics called for a ban on television ads. They showed that one Saturday morning of TV cartoons advertised 202 junk-food ads. Lets face ... kids see something on TV they automatically want the item being shown of TV. Pediatricians are finding obesity and high cholesterol in children whose parents do not monitor what they eat and give into the child's wants. The AAP was attacked by the grocers' association and by the PR "parent responsibility" group. Those organizations said that the American people do not need bans, the people need parents who know ...
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