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Dylan Klebold Eric Harris
570 wordsIt happened April of 1999. It was the single worst tragedy ever to occur within a high school. Two high school students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, marched right into their school armed head to toe with weapons, and opened fire on their peers. Who is to blame for this senseless act of slaughter? Should the parents have discovered their childrens plot before it happened, should we consider their peers part of the problem, or should we find the media at fault with placing violent thoughts into...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder World War Ii
2,009 wordsIt was not until World War I that specific clinical syndromes came to be associated with combat duty. In prior wars, it was assumed that such casualties were merely manifestations of poor discipline and cowardice. However, with the protracted artillery barrages commonplace during "The Great War, " the concept evolved that the high air pressure of the exploding shells caused actual physiological damage, precipitating the numerous symptoms that were subsequently labeled "shell shock. " By the end ...
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Billion Dollars Teenage Girls
2,195 wordsAs the sun shines a little bit too brilliantly through the window and your silver-plated designer alarm clock blares, you roll out of bed. Being the troubled, sassy, and tired genius teenager that you are, you reach for your Sony laptop and hurriedly cram it into your North Face backpack. You smile at the originality of its buttons and patches that don street smart sayings whose purpose are to differentiate your black bag from all of the other clones that are seen in your schools hallways. As yo...
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People Who Suffer Downs Syndrome
2,784 wordsAll children that are born with Downs Syndrome (previously called mongolism) have a common characteristic appearance and may also share similar congenital birth defects. Dr John Downs, of whom the condition is so named after, found that children who were born with these similar characteristics and that after testing were complete. It was found that there was a common chromosome abnormality, which is known as Trisomy 21 (Cunningham, 1996). Every pregnant woman is at risk of having a Downs Syndrom...
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Obsessive Compulsive Emotional Intelligence
2,192 words... emissions of affect are, however, fixated at a childhood level and are therefore relatively undifferentiated, so that they are not readily available for thought about oneself. [Theaters of the Mind] Graeme Taylor provides a example of this behaviour in Disorders of Affect Regulation: During the early months of therapy it became evident that James struggled with a great deal of anger and rage, but usually he was unaware of such feelings until he lost control. On one occasion, he impulsively p...
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Runnin' Down Some Lines Book Review
1,387 wordsDeprived of opportunities for advancement in mainstream society, [black ghetto] teenagers elevate their personal style into a philosophy of life. Their exemplars are pimps and gangsters... Gangs develop to bolster self-identity through psychological control of the streets; hip "threads" and "freaked out" cars also serve as outward signs of inner creativity. Both sexes consider coitus ("doin' the do") a natural and desirable part of adolescence; soft drugs, primarily marijuana ("tea"), also offer...
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Little Things School Shootings And Teasing
1,538 wordsIntroduction - Examples of shootings related to teasing and solutions to problem I. Change Atmosphere A. Assailants generally rejected B. Psychological damage C. Led to kill tormentors D. Quotes from others 1) Re: Columbine and its shooters- at least took a stand 2) it did take guts 3) Maybe itll make people think next time II. Students responsibility A. Intentions always told to peers 1) Usually detailed 2) Rarely taken seriously or reported B. Bethel, Alaska story C. Is it worth risking the li...
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Nobel Prize Creative Thought
2,227 words... that thinking process disease known as "hardening of the categories. " This becomes a special problem when the knowledge is focused in a small specialty area, because the breadth of alternative information that could be used in creative synthesis is missing. Creative Leaders Are Original Thinkers Original thinking is not the same as creativity but is obviously prerequisite for creative thought. Originality requires an active search for the different. This may involve deliberate attempts to c...
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Are Gender Rolls Rightfully Accepted By Society
1,172 wordsMost people understand that there are strict behavioral rolls that guide individuals how to act appropriately as males and females. These gender rolls dictating appropriate gender behavior seem to be predicting in how society sees the relation between sex and gender. Males and females have very different statuses. Often times ones gender is inconsistent with what society deems appropriate. In the book, The Last Time I Wore a Dress, by Steve Ottero and in the movie, Boys Don't Cry, by Janis Thoma...
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Effects Of Maternal On Infant Development
1,639 wordsThe topic of this paper is the debate of whether or not maternal employment has any effect on infant development. Research on this described topic has recently become popular due to the rise of working mothers over the past several decades. Their increasing numbers in the workplace and decreasing numbers as stay at home moms are creating a number of different issues to be studied. The effects of maternal employment are determined by a number of factors that include, the mother's job satisfaction...
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Jury Of Her Peers Men And Women
759 wordsA Jury of Her Peers A short story A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell is a masterpiece of a short story genre. A woman named Minnie Wright is accused of the murder of her husband. The plot of the story is simple. There are three men to investigate the case. An author uses the symbolism to justify the murder. The symbolism as the authors method is used throughout a story. It begins with the name of suspected Wright that sounds like right, i. e. either innocent or right in her deed. Lots of thi...
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Correlation Between Child Abuse And Schizophrenia
2,275 wordsCorrelation Between Child Abuse and Schizophrenia The purpose of this research is to see whether there is a correlation between schizophrenia and child abuse. There were numerous studies and researches on that very subject, therefore it is not that hard to consolidate all the findings and come up with the justified conclusion. Based on all the research material available, it is evident that there is a direct correlation between child abuse and schizophrenia. Between 1992 and 1996, 27 adolescents...
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Abuse Or Neglect Commit A Crime
2,421 wordsA person would be considered to be acting defiantly in society if they are violating what the significant social norm in that particular culture is. What causes humans to act certain ways is a disputed topic among researchers for some time now. There are three types of researchers that have tried to answer this question. There is the psychological answer, biological answer, and the sociological answer. With all of the studies that have been performed, no one group has come up with an exact reaso...
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Abuse Or Neglect Commit A Crime
2,257 wordsA person would be considered to be acting defiantly in society if they are violating what the significant social norm in that particular culture is. What causes humans to act certain ways is a disputed topic among researchers for some time now. There are three types of researchers that have tried to answer this question. There is the psychological answer, biological answer, and the sociological answer. With all of the studies that have been performed, no one group has come up with an exact reaso...
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Teenage Suicide Suicide Prevention
663 wordsThe teenage suicide rate has risen to crisis proportions over the past 20 years. Between 1957 and 1975, the rate of suicide among 15 to 24 year olds tripled; and Native American adolescents, the suicide rate increased 1000 % (TEENAGERS IN CRISIS, 1983). It is estimated that 5, 000 to 6, 000 teenagers kill themselves each year, and at least ten times that many attempt to do so. Because many suicide attempts go unreported or are reported as accidents, the estimated number may be as high as 500, 00...
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Baton Rouge Lincoln
1,020 wordsHenry Wager Halleck Dissension Among Generals by Glen R. Hee Henry Wager Halleck, or Old Brains as he was called, served as general in chief of the Union armies in the Civil war. His nickname referred to his theoretical brilliance although there were severe doubts as to his field skills. General Halleck was the source of many other General? s difficulties and his actions portrayed a man obsessed with self service. His indecision and lack of tactical competence would lead strife among the very tr...
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Hearing Loss Child
1,291 wordsThe nature, causality, assessment, prevention, accommodation, and my personal reflection of the hearing loss will be discussed in my paper. I. Nature of the Exceptionally: According to Gallaudet University, approximately 1 of every 1, 000 infants is born deaf while 6 of every 1, 000 are born with some degree of hearing loss. Permanent hearing loss at birth annually affects 24, 000 infants in the USA. In other words, 6 infants per 1, 000 will have a hearing loss in a least one ear that will affec...
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Titus Andronicus Othello
2,023 wordsCynthia I. Quintana Racial Background Effect in Othello During the Elizabethan times it was uncommon for black people to act out roles in plays. Shakespeare introduces this to his audience in two plays, the first Titus Andronicus and the second Othello. The first black character, Aaron, is portrayed as a secondary villain. Othello on the other hand is of higher status than many of his peers in the play. This was different for Shakespeare to present a minority person with such authority as a main...
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Mother Or Father Love And Acceptance
1,243 wordsLifetime Parental Support Love for Life [Another WR 122 paper]-RJ Love for life Raised with strict family values, I cringe to phrases like, I can? t wait to get my children out of the house, or As soon as my children reach 18, they are on their own. I become shocked to discover that age defines the release date in which children are no longer supported by parents. Children are the offspring to which parents give birth to in life. Regardless of the age, an individual will always be a child to one...
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People Don T Commits Suicide
1,601 words? Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. ? I feel that it isn? t the right solution, that there are other options. This is one reason why I chose teen suicide as my I-search topic. I have had personal experience with teen suicide involving my friends, and the next time that one of my friends comes to me saying, ? I want to die. ? I want to be able to understand where they are coming from and how I can help them. I also chose this topic because I want to educate others on how ser...
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