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Open Ended Questions Studies Have Shown
1,069 wordsUsing young children as witnesses in criminal and civil cases has come under the spotlight in recent years due to an increased awareness of child sexual abuse. Children are now allowed to provide testimony in cases dealing with sexual abuse, where there are only two accounts of reality, that of the child's and that of the alleged perpetrator. Herein lies the major problem with allowing young children to testify in a court of law. Numerous studies have shown that there are weaknesses in children'...
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York Basic Books Addison Wesley
1,348 words... w York: Basic Books. 1985 Gardner, H. : Multiple intelligences: The theory of practice. New York: Basic Books. 1993 Gardner, H. : Problem solving in the arts. J of Ash Educ. 1971 5: 93 - 114. Gardner, H. , and Winner, E. : Artistry and aphasia. In: acquired aphasia. Sarno, M. e. New York: Academic Press. 1981 361 - 384. Gates, A. I. , and Taylor, G. A. : The acquisition of motor control in writing by pre-school children. Teach Col Rec. (19230 24: 459 - 469. Gazzaniga, M. S. , and LeDoux, J. ...
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Primary Prevention Teenage Drug
1,716 wordsOne of the goals of the City of Chicago's Health Department is to develop ways to decrease teenage drug use. Since the number of adolescents who use illegal drugs is growing rapidly, new and innovative prevention methods must be experimented with in order to solve the problem. Approaching the issue of teenage drug use from Gerald Caplan's prevention perspective will bring about the new and innovative results needed to effectively address this issue. Gerald Caplan (1964) is known as the individua...
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Credit Card Companies One Of The Most Common
1,802 wordsCauses & Cures In this essay I plan to analyze a dangerous disease that is infecting people through the U. S. This disease is called affluent it is very contagious and once infected with the disease it is difficult to unseat. Affluenza us characterized as an unhealthy relationship with money, swollen expectations and trying to keep up with the Joneses. Affluenza creates stress, bankruptcies, and causes problems in relationships. Although, there are some people who have a different definition for...
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How Reliable Are Young Children As Eyewitnesses
1,381 words... recalled less correct information than did older children, especially about what happened, and about what the games were, though there was no difference in memory for the adult person's appearance. There was also no difference in total recall whether the children were participants or bystanders. In terms of childrens memories, this was an unusual finding in that participation usually involves giving more attention to the task, and more active processing, which should increase recall. Yet thi...
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Young Children Young Man
1,171 wordsThe fairytale is often an entertaining story of miraculous and supernatural happenings. Its purpose is to galvanize the depths of our minds in such a way as to make us a part of the landscape, bound only by the limits of our own imaginations. However, it is this very 'free-for-all' fantasy land that poses a very real threat to its intended audience - children. Both traditional and contemporary fairytales experienced by children can have harmful effects on a child's psyche. This is especially tru...
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Law Abiding Citizens Arms Shall Not Be Infringed
980 wordsShould the mere fact that criminals committing crimes with the use of guns infringe the national right of the innocent to possess guns. This is a question that arouses everywhere and no matter which way it is viewed the controversy will always go on. 'A gun is a mere tool that can be used for good or evil. Our country is based on the belief that man is good until he or she is proven to be otherwise. ' (Harris p. 2) This means that only a few people are committing crimes with uses of guns and why...
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Literary Works Young Children
480 wordsThis article is part of a series drawn from work in the Handbook of Reading Research: Volume III (Kamil, Mosenthal, Pearson, & Barr, 2000). My reasoning for choosing this article is simple; I like to read to children and to tell them stories. I think we can make reading much more interesting if we get away from the Basal Readers and introduce children to all forms of literary works. Literature-Based Instruction: A Rationale Definitions of literature-based instruction emphasize the use of hig...
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Cognitive Skills Object Permanence
1,589 wordsThere are a variety of things that contribute to whether or not a child will be successful in school. Some of these include good health and physical well-being, social and emotional maturity, language skills, an ability to solve problems and think creatively, and general knowledge about the world. Different schools have different expectations for the children. One school may think its important to sit quietly and know the alphabet. Another school may believe that its more important for children ...
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Red Riding Hood Cognitive Development
1,395 wordsClassroom Observations Childrens cognitive development plays a central role in their learning processes and abilities. Understanding their cognitive development enables teachers to meet the unique needs of each child. Both Piaget and Vygotsky were constructivists, who believed students learn new information by connecting it to what they already know. They believed learning is affected by the context taught as well as by students' beliefs and attitudes. Piaget and Vygotsky both believe that the b...
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Emergent Literacy In A Classroom
583 wordsEmergent Literacy in a Classroom Literacy development begins in the very early stages of childhood, even though the activities of young children may not seem related to reading and writing. Early behaviors such as "reading" from pictures and "writing" with scribbles are examples of emergent literacy and are an important part of children's literacy development. With the support of parents, caregivers, early childhood educators, and teachers, as well as exposure to a literacy-rich environment, chi...
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Young Children Child Care
1,732 wordsMothers and Fathers in Aspect to Childcare In light of recent reports about the state of childcare, parents, business and government should be taking immediate steps to ensure that children grow up in a healthy environment. Two weeks ago the Families and Work Institute in New York reported about 9 percent of family childcare and relative care was good. An earlier study showed about 10 percent of childcare centers provides good care. A Carnegie Corp. report showed child development suffers in poo...
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Video Games And Violence
2,219 wordsVideo Games and Violence During resent years video games play an important role in development of our society, especially younger people. Many young children play video games when they have free time and nothing to do, some engage in this process even to a higher extent. Recently there is an opinion among sociologists and psychologists that video games cause violence among children. In my opinion this is a wrong assumption because violence is created inside the children themselves due to other t...
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Child Labor Negative Consequences
1,987 wordsThe History of Young Children being exploited for Cheap Labor In my essay I will reflect on the history of child labor and discuss the state of things that exists in today society. For this purpose I will define the concept of exploitation of child labor. Then I will set the historical background of this issue and narrate the history of young children being exploited at the close of 18 th century in Great Britain and in the period of industrialization in America. Afterwards, the next part of my ...
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Gods And Goddesses Guilty Conscience
1,288 wordsMyth- Aliki, The Gods and Goddesses of Olympics History 106 - 05 Nov. 27, 1996 Eng. 265 - 01 Oct. 1, 1996 Prof Janice Antczak Myth- Aliki, The Gods and Goddesses of Olympics, Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. After reading The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, my first reaction was that it was a wonderful and fascinating example of how Greek mythology explains the theories about life, death, and the wonders of nature. Although I enjoyed the book, I also wondered if it was a little too confusing to a...
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Violence On Television Acts Of Violence
806 wordsViolence, What Are It s Effects? Children begin watching television at an early age, sometimes as early as six months. Children are most prone to being influenced by what they see when they are young. So the question arises as to how the content being viewed affects children at the younger stages of life? Some claim that television violence does not affect children in a negative way, yet others say that it plants ideas in children s head that could become destructive. Many arguments are focused ...
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Labour Force Equal Pay
1,139 wordsWomen In The Labour Force The past decades their has been a dramatic increase of women participating in the labour force from countries all over the world including Canada. In 1950, one Canadian worker in five was a woman. By 1980 this percentage had doubled, and women are expected to make up more than 44 percent of the labour force by the end of this century. The increase in female participation started occurring during the 1970 s. This increase also caused the largest baby boom that the Canadi...
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Gender Differences Gender Roles
1,892 wordsThe topic of my research has been differences in math learning and aptitude between boys and girls. This topic was suggested to me by my mentor, Mike Millo, as it is of particular interest to him. Mr. Millo is an Algebra teacher at Ball High. Much has been made of gender differences in math by the popular media and Mr. Millo felt that it would be interesting to examine this topic and explore the findings of educational researchers. I also found this topic personally intriguing as I am currently ...
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Coal Mines Extremely Hard
1,377 wordsThe industrial revolution was a time of change in which machines helped produce goods more efficiently. This time of change resulted from technological advancements, mostly in factories, which allowed machines to replace human labor. However, human labor was a very big part in the mills and mines. A large number of people were needed to do some of these jobs, and some were even forced into working. The conditions in many of the mills and mines were not very good at all. Because of the horrible a...
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Gods And Goddesses Guilty Conscience
1,255 wordsMyth- Alike, The Gods and Goddesses of Olympics, Harper Collins Publishers, 1994. After reading The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, my first reaction was that it was a wonderful and fascinating example of how Greek mythology explains the theories about life, death, and the wonders of nature. Although I enjoyed the book, I also wondered if it was a little too confusing to a young child, since many long Greek names were used and many characters interacting together became too complicated and involv...
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