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Broken Homes The Effect Of Divorce On Children
1,182 wordsGoing through a divorce is a very difficult situation to be in. Usually it is what is happening between the parents, that concerns most people. However hurtful divorce is on the couple that is going through it, the children end up with the greatest amount of problems. These problems that the children develop are not always obvious, and do no always come to the surface right away. Most often the children responded to the announcement [of the divorce] with apprehensiveness or anger... Several chil...
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Boys And Girls Depression And Suicide
1,040 wordsDr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist wrote Reviving Ophelia to help parents and girls as they go through their Adolescent years. This book focuses on many issues young girls may face during adolescence, family relationships, divorce, developmental issues, depression and drugs and alcohol. Pipher observes the different selves of young girls and their evolving relationships with others. Adolescence is a time of discovering who you are and it is certainly not an easy task in the world in which ...
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Gang Involvement Gang Activity
418 wordsRunning head: LONG-RANGE STRATEGY FOR PREVENTING GANG ACTIVITY IN THE FUTURE Long-Range Strategy for Preventing Gang Activity In The Future December 15, 2008 Long-Range Strategy for Preventing Gang Activity In The Future Mission statement: To prevent violence and gang activity in the city through a range of carefully designed programs, opportunities provision, community mobilization, education and social intervention, organizational change and development initiatives and gang suppression. Gang P...
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Running Head Journal Article Review
932 wordsRunning head: JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW Journal Article Review June 26, 2009 Journal Article Review Abstract Marilyn R. Fitzpatrick and Shahrzad Irannejad in their article Adolescent Readiness for Change and the Working Alliance in Counseling published in Journal of Counseling and Development place emphasis on fact that the counselor-client relationship has significant impact on counseling process with adolescence. The authors discuss the importance of the working alliance and examine how readiness...
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Miss Havisham House Miss Havisham And Estella
1,658 wordsGreat Expectations: Sociology In Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations, Dickens conveys the idea that wealth leads to isolation. The novel begins when Pip, a young orphan, encounters an escaped convict in a cemetery. Despite Pips efforts to help this terrifying personage, the convict is still captured and transported to Australia. Pip is then introduced into the wealthy yet decaying home of Miss Havisham where he meets Estella, a little girl who takes pleasure in tormenting Pip about his rou...
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Advantages Of Changing The High School Start Time
1,008 wordsAdvantages of changing the high school start time. Education is very important part of our life, so no wonder that our government focuses great attention on both: education process and the students being the integral part of good educational system. The modern school educates children with one objective in mind: their academic success. There are many committees investigating the option of a later start time for the high school students. Will a later start time improve the grades of high school s...
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Risk Taking Behavior Peer Pressure
723 wordsDescribe the developmental issues associated with the "transition to school"? Becoming a member of a peer group is one of the immediate effects of transition to school. Peer groups influence adolescent society and identity by allowing young people to explore individual interests and uncertainties while retaining a sense of belonging and rank within a group of friends. There may be costs associated with becoming a member of a group of people, which include substance abuse, risk-taking behavior an...
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Child And Adolescent Psychiatry American Academy Of Child
1,280 wordsPsychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence Child maltreatment causes number of behavioral and emotional disorders that greatly influences the development of personality of a person. Numerous studies conducted at schools (sometimes in colleges in many cases it is hard for a person with serious psychological disorders to enter it) suggest that especially these types of disorders are responsible for development of antisocial behavior by an individual or create problems with education. Chi...
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Attending Physician Suicidal Thoughts
1,325 wordsDr. Daniel Gray bill [ ] Chapter 7: Case Study for Depression Sally Jone was a 16 -year-old African-American female referred to the adolescent unit of an inpatient psychiatric hospital. She was referred by her mother, Mrs. Jone, who had discovered her bleeding from her wrists in her bedroom. The amount of blood was not substantial, but Mrs. Jone had brought Sally to an emergency room anyway for treatment. The attending physician had said that Sally was not seriously injured but recommended that ...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
927 wordsCatcher in the Rye There s far more to the censorship issue than a ban on sex and four-letter words. I sometimes think that those of us who need to be the most clearheaded about these matters are planting the very trees that obscure our view of the forest, says Dorothy Briley. According to Briley, a vast amount more is needed than simply vulgar language and suggestive material to censor a novel. But this is the very reason why J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye is frequently being banned fr...
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Cause And Effect Child
902 wordsThe American education system has been taking some serious hits recently. In an article entitled? What Our Education System Needs Is More F? s, ? Carl Singleton suggests that students are merely attending class, but do not complete an acceptable level of learning. Teaching levels are of low quality and impersonal in nature with an emphasis on passing the students from their classroom to the next without ensuring their level of learning meets the minimum requirements. By a widespread issuing of F...
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Narrator Real Life
447 wordsExplication of A Study of Reading Habits A Study of Reading Habits, is Philip Larkin? s poetic warning that escapism and ignoring reality only makes real life less fulfilling. Larkin develops this idea via a narrator who prefers to escape from life rather than deal with it, as well as through changing use of language and subtle irony. Larkin? s most direct expression of his warning comes through the narrator? s experience with escapism through books. The narrator reveals his changing attitudes t...
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Joyce Gold Coin
653 wordsTwo Gallants are Callous Men Try not to let the title fool you. Two Gallants, written by James Joyce, is a short story centered around two callous men. One, Corley, is an older man of some rudeness and has a taste for womanizing. The other is a self-conscience, older man of some weight, named Lenehan. The story begins with a light approach, description of the evening weather and the? illumined pearl? lamps of the street. All of Joyce? s stories found in the work, The Dubliners, have a poetic qua...
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611 wordsGone Parental Delinquency Parental Delinquency? Gone are the good old days when mom and dad were around to teach their children about morality and the basics of growing up. Instead, we see parents who have replaced caring and personal involvement with the purchase of material goods. We see parents who are afraid to discipline their children and who are afraid to set boundaries. We see parents who are afraid to hug their children and be involved in their lives. A childs behavior shows the kind of...
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Marijuana And Aging Affect Marijuana And Aging Drug
524 wordsMarijuana: Effects and After Effects One of the most common illegal drug in the United States is marijuana. There are mixed views about this drug, some people want it legalized, other people dont. In this essay, I hope to display the facts about this illegal narcotic, and explain many vie Marijuana has many different names such as kif in Morocco, doggo in South Africa and gang in India. There are many slang terms for this type of drug such as grass, pot, weed, reefer, mj, boo, broccoli, ace, joi...
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Aggressive Behavior Violent Juvenile
801 wordsI. Marijuana causes behavioral changes A. Chronic Marijuana users become more aggressive during withdrawal. People who have smoked marijuana daily for many years display more aggressive behavior when they stop smoking the drug, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, is further evidence that a withdrawal syndrome is associated with abstinence from long-term marijuana use, a...
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Jarvis And Janice Member Of The Wedding Frankie
739 wordsThe Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is the story of an adolescent girl who triumphs over loneliness and gains maturity through an identity that she creates for herself in her mind. It is with this guise that twelve year old Frankie Addams begins to feel confident about herself and life. The author seems to indicate that one can feel good about oneself through positive thinking regardless of reality. The novel teaches that ones destiny is a self-fulfilled prophesy, seeing ones self in a...
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Difference Between Right And Wrong Parents And Teachers
589 wordsWhat is the importance of moral values or life long lessons to a young adolescent? The majority of our youth in America know very little about this question. The behavior of children in this society proves that my question is hardly even a subject of importance. Today, the violence and crimes in this nation mostly occur when a troubled teen or a fragile child cannot handle the pressure and stress of reality. The influential factor of violence spreads so easily; a child finds this influence simpl...
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Cardiac Arrest Life Time
558 wordsThe Longman dictionary of American English defines life as, the force that enables us to continue. Life in my eyes is the interval of time between birth and death. Throughout life you will be placed in situations, and put to the test of time. There will be times when you are joyous, and times when you are sorrowful. This is the period of trial and tribulation. Face the fact life is hard. Being an adolescent, a person is premature to the world. The value of an inexperienced adolescent is meaningl...
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Artist As A Young Man Heart Of Darkness
1,167 wordsA Comparison Between Conrad's and Joyce's Imagery To children, night lights give a sense of security and leave the imagination to rest. The comfort of light is helpful for children who often conjure up monsters that lurk under the bed and ominous shadows from tree branches. Dark scenes are often depicted as the foreboding unknown and things one may not rather learn more about. However, when Jake comes to a divine revelation to reunite the band in the movie, The Blues Brothers, he hollers, I see ...
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