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- 261: Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search for Childhood Risk Factors
- ... support from friends when children were one year of age predicted behavior problems when children were three years of age.17 Verbal/Cognitive Ability Low scores on measures of children's cognitive ability such as school achievement, general intelligence quotient (IQ), and verbal ability are associated with delinquency.7,18 While there is some disagreement, most of the evidence suggests that cognitive deficits lead to antisocial behavior and not vice versa. For example, a longitudinal study of 837 children on the Hawaiian island of Kauai indicated that age-appropriate language development at 2 and 10 years protected high-risk children against later delinquency.19 Another longitudinal study of 1,037 children from New Zealand indicated that IQ deficits tended to precede the development of serious antisocial behavior and that the effects of low ... a factor is associated with later chronic delinquency does not mean, of course, that it caused the delinquency. Most human behavior develops through the complex interplay of multiple factors across multiple settings (such as home, school, and neighborhood), and delinquent behavior is no exception. Identifying its cause therefore requires sophisticated analyses designed to disentangle the effects of multiple risk factors. This task is even more difficult than might be supposed ...
- 262: The Life of My Grandfather
- ... eyes open, or twice with their eyes shut. The loser would get the peg out of the ground with their teeth. "I guess that is where the name 'mumble' came from", my grandfather laughed. Starting school when he was around seven, Robert attended a school named Bethal Elementary School. This school was heated by coal, and Robert recalls a time that his brothers were picked to go get the coal from the coal shed. The coal was kept in a shed to keep ...
- 263: Japan: Social Customs
- ... the way in simple styles, sometimes without oiro-naoshi or even without the party itself. Of course, there also exist people who love to have their wedding party even in a bigger way. Japans school-age children attend school regularly. Attendance is required through the lower level of secondary school. Children begin nursery school when they are about three. At six, they begin elementary school at twelve, middle school. Any student who has completed middle school may enroll in high school, which offers either ...
- 264: Farewell to Manzanar
- Farewell to Manzanar School and gender are two focal points in shaping an individuals' character outside of the home. At school, children see other children and how they look and act, oftentimes, for the first time ever. This is the beginning of peer pressure, kids strive to fit in and be liked by the other kids, which leads to them changing themselves to act in accordance with the majority. Gender roles are another part of fitting in at school. Boys want to fit in with other boys and girls want to fit in with other girls. In most societies, characteristics of boys, generally speaking, are physical strength, athletic ability, and seemingly endless energy. ...
- 265: Academic Shortcoming and Study Habits of College Students
- Academic Shortcoming and Study Habits of College Students Each fall a new crop of first-year college students, wavering between high hopes for the future and intense anxiety about their new status, scan college maps searching for their classrooms. They have been told repeatedly that college is the key to a well-paying job, and they ... the academic program too hard, others fall victim to the temptations of the college environment, and a large group leave for personal reasons. Not suprisingly, the academic shortcomings of college students have strong links to high school. In the past, a high school student who lacked the ability or desire to take a college-preparatory course could settle for a diploma in general studies and afterward find a job with decent ...
- 266: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- ... is like to be on the brink of starvation. Although a timid , shy , little girl , Anne does show a spark of intensity through her schoolwork . She is very competitive and driven to do well in school . This is the fuel which that will later feed her fire to participate in the "Movement" . This want for an education is also a rather new trait for black women of her time . She is ... for . Through working for her Anne learned how to be persistent in her actions therefore achieving her goal , in this case it was the freedom to do her work the way she wanted . Through her high school years Anne becomes more and more aware of what is going on in the world around her . Her first realization of extreme racial violence was when she learned of Emmit Till's murder . Through ...
- 267: Motivation to Work Well Depends More Than High Wages and on Working Conditions
- Motivation to Work Well Depends More Than High Wages and on Working Conditions 1) Discuss critically the validity of the contention that the motivation to work well depends on more than a high salary and good working conditions. This essay will define what motivation is, the influence and effect that money and good working conditions have on staff and the other factors and issues that motivate staff to ... so many people judge their own success or failure and the esteem in which they are held by the employer or the renumeration received for the job done. It must be mentioned that although a high salary is not the only motivator, it can act as an incentive to work more productively; "Pay buys the goods and services that people want to satisfy other needs. The more boring the job, ...
- 268: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- ... is like to be on the brink of starvation. Although a timid , shy , little girl , Anne does show a spark of intensity through her schoolwork . She is very competitive and driven to do well in school . This is the fuel which that will later feed her fire to participate in the "Movement" . This want for an education is also a rather new trait for black women of her time . She is ... for . Through working for her Anne learned how to be persistent in her actions therefore achieving her goal , in this case it was the freedom to do her work the way she wanted . Through her high school years Anne becomes more and more aware of what is going on in the world around her . Her first realization of extreme racial violence was when she learned of Emmit Till's murder . Through ...
- 269: Teens and Sex
- Teens and Sex An increasing problem on high school campuses and one of the main concerns of parents, school officials, and the government is teenage sex. It is on the rise, and they are worried that it may get out of control. Teenage sex can be a problem because of the pregnancies and ...
- 270: Dissecting Education
- ... real world. We start schooling at age five or six. Kindergarten is about finger paints and learning the alphabet. Before we know it, we are standing in front of our class and parents accepting a high school diploma. That is thirteen years right there. Then, if we really want to succeed we have to get through another 4 to 6 years of college. That is almost 20 years total in school. Are those 20 years well spent? Are we all satisfied with the education we received? The answer is no. It is apparent that today s education system in the United States is not satisfying ...
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