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  • The Sexual Victimization

    The Sexual Victimization

    The sexual victimization that Aileen Wurounos experienced as a child was an enormous factor in what led to her criminal career. Not only did she suffer initial reactions from her sexual victimization, she also experienced long-term effects, resulting in her killing many men. Early responses to child sexual abuse include “anxiety, depression, fear, anger, hostility and inappropriate sexual behaviors.” According to our text, many victims become very sexual as a result of their own victimization.

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    Essay Length: 417 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Child Abuse

    Child Abuse

    Abstract The paper covers the debate of nature versus nurture. Within the paper there is an introduction in which the hypothesis is given and a literature review that provides the reader with previous studies done with nature versus nurture. The methods, results, discussion and recommendations from the research study are also provided within the paper. Introduction and literature review The research question is: When comparing Nature verses Nurture in children which one is stronger than

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    Essay Length: 2,631 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Sexual Harrassement

    Sexual Harrassement

    The term ‘sexual harassment’ can be interpreted in many different ways. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 defines sexual harassment as, any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Unwelcome conduct becomes sexual harassment and actionable by law when any one of the following three criteria’s is met: 1. The submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term

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    Essay Length: 878 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Child Abuse and Neglect

    Child Abuse and Neglect

    Table of Contents Introduction I. Abuse and Neglect at Home A. Single Parent Home B. Step Parents Homes C. Nuclear Homes II. Forms of Abuse A. Physical Abuse B. Physical Neglect C. Emotional Abuse D. Sexual Abuse III. Forms of Punishment A. Physical Punishment B. Verbal Punishment IV. Abuse and Neglect in School V. Emotional Problems A. Suicide B. Crime C. Syndromes 1. Munchausen’s Syndrome 2. Stockholm’s Syndrome 3. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) VI. Prevention

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    Essay Length: 295 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Child Abuse

    Child Abuse

    “Child Abuse” Child abuse is a very serious and controversial issue that is escalating in today’s society. As we look back to the 1940’s and 1950’s, it was almost unheard of to let anyone outside of your immediate family know anything about your personal life. Every family was thought to be, or shown to the general public to be, the “perfect family”. Some schools had the authority to punish a child by either spanking them

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    Essay Length: 862 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Spousal Abuse

    Spousal Abuse

    Title: Spousal Abuse General Purpose: To inform people about Spousal abuse and its affects Central Purpose: The affects towards both men and women Thesis: throughout history, it has been more common for spousal abuse to be given from the man to the women. In most recent generation it is becoming more common for the abuser to be a woman Introduction Attention: 1. Did you know that there are five different common types of spousal

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Juvenile Delinquents and Drug Abuse

    Juvenile Delinquents and Drug Abuse

    Does only the juvenile drinking or drugging up suffer, or do others get involved? The answer is, not only do the users suffer, but so do their family, friends, and the community. However, due to the rise of juvenile’s becoming involved in substance abuse, the juvenile justice system has resulted in an increased burden. Over the past fifteen years, the fad of drug use among kids has steadily been increasing. Persistent substance abuse among youth

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    Essay Length: 1,420 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Top
  • Sexual Harassment

    Sexual Harassment

    Many companies have instituted formalized sexual harassment policies. Israel Discount Bank, PepsiCo., Mitsui & Co., and Time Warner were questioned regarding their sexual harassment policy. The opening statement of a policy establishes the tone for the rest of the policy, clarifying a company's position on the issue. Three of the above-mentioned companies opened their statements of policy forcefully and definitively, stating that all employees have the right to work in an environment free of sexual

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    Essay Length: 517 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Anna
  • What Athletic Directors Can Do About the Steroid Abuse Crisis?

    What Athletic Directors Can Do About the Steroid Abuse Crisis?

    Anabolic steroids are no longer reserved for professional athletes who are looking for an extra advantage. Nowadays every athlete is looking to obtain an advantage over the competition. Some athletes simply up the intensity of their training and go on special diets, while others take the easy route or look for the quick fix which is steroids. In a study conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 2003 over one million junior high

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    Essay Length: 785 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: regina
  • Heightened Sexual Attraction Under Conditions of High Anxiety

    Heightened Sexual Attraction Under Conditions of High Anxiety

    SOME EVIDENCE FOR HEIGHTENED SEXUAL ATTRACTION UNDER CONDITIONS OF HIGH ANXIETY Male passersby were contacted either on a fear-arousing suspension bridge or a non-fear-arousing bridge by an attractive female interviewer who asked them to fill out questionnaires containing Thematic Apperception Test pictures. Sexual content of stories written by subjects on the fear-arousing bridge and tendency of these subjects to attempt postexperimental contact with the interviewer were both significantly greater. No significant differences between bridges were

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    Essay Length: 3,562 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: July
  • The Philosophy of Sexuality

    The Philosophy of Sexuality

    The Philosophy Of Sexuality Sexuality and Sexual Philosophy A Comprehensive Thesis Bryan Kissel March 21, 2001 The philosophy of sexuality, like the philosophy of science, art or law, is the study of the concepts and propositions surrounding its central protagonist, in this case 'sex'. Its practitioners focus on conceptual, metaphysical and normative questions. Conceptual philosophy of sex analyses the notions of sexual desire, sexual activity and sexual pleasure. What makes a feeling a sexual sensation?

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Example of a Woman Sexual Renunciation and Augustine’s Conversion to Christianity in 386

    The Example of a Woman Sexual Renunciation and Augustine’s Conversion to Christianity in 386

    The Example of a Woman Sexual Renunciation and Augustine's Conversion to Christianity in 386 Endnotes are marked by numerals in brackets and appear at the bottom of the file. File as a whole is about 100K. For you converted me to you so that I neither sought a wife nor any other worldly hope. I was now standing in the rule of faith in the same way that you had revealed me to her

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    Essay Length: 11,064 Words / 45 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Child Abuse and Prevention

    Child Abuse and Prevention

    Child Abuse and Prevention Traci Ledford Axia College, University of Phoenix Utilizing Information in College Writing, Com 125 Lea Ann Douglas January 11, 2007 Child Abuse and Prevention . Child abuse is a growing problem and prevention education is the key. There are more children being abused in the United States everyday. People need to learn the sign of abuse, when it is appropriate to report abuse, how to report abuse, and what to do

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    Essay Length: 1,844 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Effects of Child Abuse

    The Effects of Child Abuse

    This is a REport on the affects of child abuse on American Society as a unit, through history and modern examples. Child Abuse: An Exposition By Dominic Ebacher Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and

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    Essay Length: 2,246 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Exploring Sexuality with William Shakespeare

    Exploring Sexuality with William Shakespeare

    The presence of homoerotic references in the works of William Shakespeare was a direct result of the Elizabethan attitude towards sex during the English Renaissance. Within the privacy of the sonnets, Shakespeare could effusively express a passion that the Elizabethan Era, with its social mores, stifled greatly as it frowned upon homosexuality. Given the freedom to express himself uninhibitedly, Shakespeare cast aside the homophobia of his age and inscribed love sonnets for another male,

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Drug Abuse - People Abused Vs. Drugs Abused

    Drug Abuse - People Abused Vs. Drugs Abused

    Drug Abuse People Abused vs. Drugs Abused Drug abuse most often refers to the use of drugs with such frequency that it causes physical or mental harm to the user and impairs social functioning, according to the definition stated in "Software Toolworks Encyclopedia". This term also refers to the use of a drug prohibited by the law, regardless of whether it was actually harmful or not. Although the term seems to imply that users

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • Canada: Drug Abuse

    Canada: Drug Abuse

    Introduction Drug use and abuse is as old as mankind itself. Human beings have always had a desire to eat or drink substances that make them feel relaxed, stimulated, or euphoric. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But it was not until the nineteenth century that the active substances in drugs were

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    Essay Length: 1,423 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Max
  • Sexual Harassment, Does Education Help?

    Sexual Harassment, Does Education Help?

    Sexual Harassment, Does Education Help? I recently observed sexual harassment behavior at work. Here’s what I did. In my ENG Research in Human Sexuality class at Glendale Community College, I set out to observe whether or not MY definitions of sexual harassment actually occurred in my workplace on a regular basis. I define female harassment the same for males: touching, verbal terms, sexual questions, and sexual flirting were my most obvious concerns. From January 20

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Sexual and Romantic Development in Youth

    Sexual and Romantic Development in Youth

    Sexual and Romantic Development in Youth This paper explores the effects of one’s context and biology on sexual and romantic development in youth and young adults. I find it perplexing that children mature very differently in terms of their sexuality. This brings to question whether nature or nurture controls one’s sexuality and romantic relationships. Many authors debate over the importance of hormones and biological factors versus environmental factors in relation to sexual development. Despite Freud’s

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Sexual Harassment

    Sexual Harassment

    Just 20 years ago, in most states a woman could not sign an apartment lease, get a credit rating, or apply for a loan unless her husband or a male relative agreed to share the responsibility. Similarly, a 1965 study found that fifty one percent of men though women were "temperamentally unfit for management." There can be no doubt that we have progressed a long way from these ideas in the last three decades. However,

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    Essay Length: 548 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Anna
  • Domestic Abuse

    Domestic Abuse

    ENOUGH Introduction Every nine seconds, a husband physically abuses his wife in the U.S. On average, 12% of marriages will involve some sort of domestic violence. The injury done to women because of domestic violence greatly surpasses injury done by any other violent crime or car accidents combined. Medical expenses to care for the abused cost $3 to $5 billion dollars a year. Obviously, domestic violence is a prevalent and costly crime that is on

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    Essay Length: 2,504 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Jack
  • 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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    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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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Nusing Home Abuse

    Nusing Home Abuse

    With over 1.5 million elderly and dependent adults now living in nursing homes throughout the country, abuse and neglect has become a widespread problem. Even though some nursing homes provide good care, many are subjecting helpless residents to needless suffering and death. Most residents in nursing homes are dependent on the staff for most or all their needs such as food, water, medicine, toileting, grooming- almost all their daily care. Unfortunately, many residents in nursing

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    Essay Length: 1,079 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Coming on Strong; Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s Sports

    Coming on Strong; Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s Sports

    The general argument made by author Susan K. Cahn, is that in" today’s' society there are women athletes who are media celebrities and a source of inspiration for many. But not long ago, being serious about sports was considered appropriate only for men and boys”. Throughout the 20th century, women's increasing participation in sports has challenged our conception of womanhood. Some celebrated the female athlete as the embodiment of modern womanhood, but others branded

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    Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Yan

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