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  • Child Language Acquisition: Nature or Nurture?

    Child Language Acquisition: Nature or Nurture?

    Child language acquisition: nature or nurture? (final version) Introduction The study of language development, one of the most fascinating human achievements, has a long and rich history, extending over thousands of years (Chomsky, 2000). As the nature-versus-nurture argument is inevitable to arise whenever human behaviors are discussed, it is not surprising that language experts have debated the relative influences of genetics and the environment on language development (Hulit & Howard, 2002). Among the various proposals

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    Essay Length: 1,615 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Child Abuse

    Child Abuse

    Child Abuse and Neglect Child abuse and neglect are a growing national problem that affect all segments of the population. Child abuse may be a single incident, such as a parent burning a child’s hand to “teach” the child not to touch something. Or, abuse may be a pattern of behavior, such as incest occurring over a number of years, or parents’ continued failure to provide adequate food, clothing, or medical attention for a child

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    Essay Length: 2,034 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Child Abuse and Solutions

    Child Abuse and Solutions

    Child Abuse Child abuse, the physical and/or emotional abuse of a child by a parent, guardian, or other person, is a major problem in homes across the United States. Child abuse, including sexual abuse, beating, and murder have increased in the U.S. and it is believed that a number of cases go unreported. Within child abuse comes neglect, which covers malnutrition, desertion, and inadequate care for a child. Efforts have increased on the primary

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    Essay Length: 1,396 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Child Abuse: Causes and Underreporting

    Child Abuse: Causes and Underreporting

    Child abuse is a rampant problem in America. The numbers of reported cases have risen the past few years. However, there are still problems getting school counselors and emergency room medical workers to report abuse because it often goes unnoticed. A school counselor might not have a good enough relationship with their students to report. The students will most likely not report abuse to a counselor with whom they do not have a good relationship

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    Essay Length: 467 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Max
  • Marx’s Alienation of Labour

    Marx’s Alienation of Labour

    Marx’s Alienation of Labour There is deep substance and many common themes that arose throughout Marx’s career as a philosopher and political thinker. A common expressed notion throughout his and Fredrick Engels work consists of contempt for the industrial capitalist society that was growing around him during the industrial revolution. Capitalism according to Marx is a “social system with inherent exploitation and injustice”. (Pappenheim, p. 81) It is a social system, which intrinsically hinders all

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Being the Youngest Child

    Being the Youngest Child

    Being the youngest child in a family has definite advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, babies are fussed over and pampered. They enjoy special status in the pecking order and often get away with behavior that other family members can't. On the other hand, many youngest children feel that they never quite measure up to their more experienced and accomplished siblings. To borrow a phrase from a famous comedian, they get no respect.

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    Essay Length: 752 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Child Abuse

    Child Abuse

    Child Abuse “Help me!” This is the plea of many children in America. As you read this, one little girl is crying out in pain, one little boy is begging not to be touched anymore. Many children live through everyday being abused sexually, physically, and emotionally. “More than two million cases of neglect and physical abuse are reported annually. Studies have shown that most parents who abuse their children were once abused as a child

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Was Napoleon the Child of the Revolution?

    Was Napoleon the Child of the Revolution?

    On August 15th, 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of a poor Corsican noble was born and so began the legend of Napoleon Bonaparte. Many ask to this day, "Was Napoleon a child of the revolution?" What Napoleon achieved and gave to the world after the French Revolution had been won truly gave the world a new sight of mind. To first determine that Napoleon was in fact a child of the revolution you must first

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Communities Need to Be Informed of Alleged Child Molesters?

    Communities Need to Be Informed of Alleged Child Molesters?

    Communities need to be informed of alleged child molesters? Every thirty minutes another child is abducted, whether it be from home, school, or their Neighborhood playgrounds. Imagine that the next thirty minutes it’s your child. Now also try to Imagine that your child’s abductor has been living in your community unknown to you. These Intruders feel they have the right to invade the privacy of these citizens and commit horrible Crimes such as kidnapping, rapes,

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Having a Child with a Disability

    Having a Child with a Disability

    When Andy was born I was the happiest woman on Earth. When I saw his beautiful face and his tiny body I cried, I will never forget that moment. We stayed in the hospital for three days. That first night back from the hospital Andy didn’t do anything but cry all night long. I did not know what to do, this was my first child, and I didn’t know how to calm him down. I

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Jon
  • Gay Child Rearing

    Gay Child Rearing

    Introduction The sexuality and development of children with gay parents must be most affected by the rearing of the gay parents. Does having gay parents affect a child’s mental health and growth? Can education and socialization be decreased with the presence of gay parents? How could it be possible that children are not affected by having two parents of the same sex? Doesn’t this cause some gender confusion for the child? How can a child

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Artur
  • Observation of Child

    Observation of Child

    1) describe th physical characteristics of the environmental setting you are observing. What did you notice about its organization? What type of activities and materials were available to the children? what were the adults doing? The first observation I did was at my friends house. Alishaba was coming over on sunday. the house itself was pretty big but since no kids lived there it was pretty boring if I look at it from a kid's

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Jon
  • Substance Abuse and Child Welfare

    Substance Abuse and Child Welfare

    There are many different problems present in the child welfare system these days. Each individual family has it own set of unique circumstances that effect its members individually. Problems of abuse and neglect are often what the public hears the most about. However, there are other issues that can have an effect a child’s home. Substance abuse is one of those troublesome issues. Child abuse and substance abuse are almost interrelated. Various studies and reports

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Mikki
  • A Child Called "it" - an Acquaintance with Darkness

    A Child Called "it" - an Acquaintance with Darkness

    An Acquaintance with Darkness ~By Ann Rinaldi Ann Rinaldi has written many books for young teenagers, she is an Award winning author who writes stories of American history and makes them become real to the readers. She has written many other books such as… A Break with Charity, A Ride into Morning, and Cast two Shadows, etc. She was born in New York City on August 27, 1934. In 1979, at the age of 45,

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Max
  • Child Trafficking

    Child Trafficking

    Children's trafficking has been an issue of major concern for the international community in recent years. Trafficking in persons, the illegal practice of procuring human beings for unpaid work in physically abusive settings, has reached large scales lately, with figures such as 1.2 million children annually being transported from poverty-stricken countries to wealthier nations. The trafficking of children often involves exploitation of the parents' extreme poverty. The latter may sell children to traffickers in order

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Anna
  • Child Spanking Psychology

    Child Spanking Psychology

    Spanking is most often a deliberate form of punishment seen as corporal punishment. “Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain intended as correction or punishment.”(www.wikipedia.com) This practice is limited because of its intent for disciplinary reasons and not torture. Although corporal punishment is still widely used in domestic situations it has been banned in seventeen countries, although in the United States some states still allow paddling. Massachusetts has proposed a bill banning all forms

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    Essay Length: 1,079 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • Child Abuse Is Underreported

    Child Abuse Is Underreported

    Child abuse is underreported. According to The National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, there were 1,054,000 cases of child abuse and neglect reported and confirmed in the year 2000 (Hopper, 2005). That number seems high, but in congruence to how many cases aren't reported each year the figure is small. There is no known number of how many child abuse cases there are in the United States, because figures are only based on what is

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Monika
  • Child Abuse

    Child Abuse

    The Rate of child abuse has been increasing over the years. It has become a serious problem in our country and something needs to be done about it. There are many things that could be done to reduce the amount of child abuse and neglect each year. But for changes to be made the government needs to get involved and more serious laws need to be made. Everyone can somehow make a difference on the

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    Essay Length: 1,134 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • A Child Called It

    A Child Called It

    I read "A Child Called It." It was about the problems of a boy named Dave Pelzer. Dave was put through hard times and at some point lost hope in his dreams and doubted the humanity of mankind, but in the end because of his strong will he was able to overcome his problems and make a better life for himself. When Dave was younger him and his brothers, Ronald and Stan were happy in

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    Essay Length: 581 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Victor
  • Child/parenting License

    Child/parenting License

    Child/Parenting License In year 2000 alone there was a reported 27,714 thousand infant deaths due to homicide. Homicide accounts for more than one in five injury-related deaths among infants (under one year of age) in the United States. Infants are most likely to be killed by their mother during the first week of life but are more likely to be killed by a male (usually their father or step-father) thereafter. Half of all infant homicides

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Child Labor

    Child Labor

    Child labor is one of the biggest issues around the world because it puts children in danger, it deprives them of an education, it is widespread and it’s often hidden or invisible especially in agriculture, big industries and mines especially in poor countries. In this document of child labor it’s explain what the meaning of child labor is, why it exists, also why it is so widespread in poor countries. There are also examples

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Jack
  • Child Development

    Child Development

    What major psychological challenges do children face during middle childhood? In middle childhood children face many new challenges: the challenge of knowing who you are, the challenge to achieve, the challenge of peers, the challenge of family relationships, and the challenge of school. All of these challenges are affected by influences of peers and family relationships. 2. What important changes occur in a child’s sense of self during middle childhood? A child’s sense of self

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Top
  • A Child Left Behind: Sociological Perspective

    A Child Left Behind: Sociological Perspective

    A Child Left Behind: Sociological Perspective Why was Paige held back in the third grade, not once, but twice? If you ask Paige, she would say it’s her teacher’s fault. They didn’t like her. If you ask Paige’s teachers, they would say it’s her failing math scores and “repeated problems with discipline”. According to Paige’s mother, it was Chicago’s failing school system or possibly because she hadn’t spent as much time reading to Paige when

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Artur
  • Chil Labour: A Major International Issue

    Chil Labour: A Major International Issue

    Child labour usually means work done by children under the age of fifteen, which limits or damages their physical, mental, social or psychological development. Some work does not harm children and may in fact be beneficial for them. Most people agree that when we talk about child labour, we refer to something in tolerable - young children denied school and play working simply to live, in dangerous conditions. Some of the worst child labour

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: regina
  • Child Development Case Study

    Child Development Case Study

    Is it right to tell an adult if you know that a friend is about to commit a crime? While you ponder on this question about morality. Imagined that the child who’s willing to commit the crime is your child and the one person that might be the only witness to the crime is your child best friend. This is my case study about a nine year old boy who faces his own moral dilemma

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    Essay Length: 940 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Mikki

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