Essays 271 - 300
The authors conclude that the anger-in scale of the STAXI may be less reliable for younger groups but that it is still valuable fo...
unprotected sex, drugs, theft, driving too fast, and thrill seeking. According to Lynn Ponton, author of The Romance of Risk: Why ...
ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...
nicotine in cigarette smoke which causes an increased heart rate and raised blood pressure and peripheral vascular resistance, con...
age of 15, "compared with 21 percent of Hispanics and 16 percent of non-Hispanic whites" (Non-Hispanic black teens, 2003; p. 7). ...
1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...
the social skills that one to one contact would offer them. As such, then, these teens are not able to effectively reach out emoti...
problems.... Because theyre not supporting anyone else, they can afford to wait for the right job " (2001, p.28). This is true. ...
them with the behaviors necessary for formulating good health decisions. The target audience for the program are African American ...
these teens the freedom and boosts to self-esteem that may not be afforded them in the real world. In these communities they are a...
they posit that in order to reduce teen birth rates, it is imperative that there should be further comprehension regarding the sig...
acts of violence resulting "from ones reduced ability to regulate the expression of aggressive behavior in interpersonal situation...
people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...
minutes, so try and act decent. Like, dont pick your nose or nothin. BOOMER: (pulls grass from the back of Angies hair) Wearing gr...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
of distinguishing cultures within the larger diaspora through linguistic boundaries. What is Language? Language in...
to 27.2 percent of females (SAMHSA, 2004). * 31.6 percent of teen drinkers were white; 19.8 percent were non-Hispanic blacks and 1...
categories (Turrisi, 2004). Being under the legal drinking age has little impact upon the problem itself (Turrisi, 2004)....
points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...
molecule through the digestive process and accompanies it to its destination cell, waiting with it after it receives its instructi...
any longer than the regular sex education curriculum that is taught in many schools and that "Morality needs to incorporate realit...
is "largely agricultural and the political life is local" (Deflem, 2001). The Gesellschaft, on the other hand, is "organized at th...
medical attention if they were identified as organ donors (Minniefield, 2002). One hundred percent of the 25 to 35 years olds expr...
Academy of Pediatrics, 2006). Grades, falling grades, also indicate that a teenager has changed and is having some trouble (Americ...
to speak more loudly than any words on the subject. "My teaching was silent on issues of race, and it was a silence that must hav...
the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die d...
lack thereof - will most certainly be the cause of an accident (Croal, 2005). II. THREE RESEARCH QUESTIONS The strength of...
of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...