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Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

Reform Debate Regarding U.S. Social Security

Social Security system and the reform of the program, it is helpful to explore its history. Why was this program that some equate ...

The Welfare System: Failure

the English Poor Law tradition, the nations welfare system has been through a maze of change since its original inception. Indeed...

Healthcare Economic Implications for the Aging Population

of twenty and sixty-four for every individual in that aged category (Bernanke, 2006). The significance of this ratio is that the ...

Cultural Competency

in relationship to human development categories. In looking at this perspective one author notes, in quoting another, that, "Psy...

Aging and Dying in the Modenr Family

process can have tremendous detrimental effects on families, both from a financial standpoint and an emotional one. Results from t...

3 Technology Questions

has strong a weak forms (Cross et al, 1974). Question 2 The open source software movement may be seen in relation to the way th...

Policies of Criminal Justice and Drug Issues

tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...

Society and Explanations Offered by Sociological Theories

that tries to explain incidences in daily life in respect to resources like money, time, organizational skills and so forth. Ones ...

Social Security in America

if the economy does slow down, Social Security will be able to pay full benefits to recipients until 2037 (Hill). "After 2037, Soc...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

The Role of Law

system such as due to the cost. However, the law may also have a positive influence; it may support social changes which are neede...

Medicaid and Abortions; A Literature Review

three it may not bee seen as automatically a womans right, but an issue that can be subject to judicial decision where courts can ...

Comparison Between Catholic and Mormon Interpretations of Christianity

will proclaim their "Christian" beliefs but such beliefs often do not square with the traditional Christian ideologies of either t...

Child Welfare Programs

different counties sometimes. The National Association of Social Workers wrote that social workers have historically played a majo...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

Social Needs Child Centered Curriculum Theory

Bobbit and Dewey would be placed under the same category but both theorists wanted to work within the system and that is the link ...

Criminal Justice and Social Engineering

was not always this way (Mocete, 1997). The prison system persists in its newfound role most likely due to the fact that there i...

Social Policies and Social Exclusion

an affluent, professional, middle-class black family is significantly less than that suffered by an unemployed black family living...

Comedy and Tragedy Distinctions in Measure for Measure and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...

Women's Roles in Latin America vs. Native America

is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...

DIFFERNTIATING BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

writes, "The leader should be a servant." Military leaders, in particular, are very good at this. Military leaders, good on...

"Letter from the Birmingham City Jail," and Martin Luther KIng's Concepts of Just, Unjust, and Morality

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

Considerations in Journalism

the situation analyzed from a three pronged perspective, a perspective that Kidder prefers to call the "trilemma", a perspective t...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Universal Design

(ADA, 2008). Balancing the legal mandate for accessibility while at the same time remaining within an already straining budget is...

Philosophical Critique of Iris Marion Young’s Concept of the Distinction Between Self-Development and Self-Determination

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

Can A Sense Of National Unity Be Constructed Through Cultural Policy?

even simply a shared feeling of community which is aided by a common enemy. The increased fragmentation that has been seen today ...

Ecological World View as a Cultural Artifact: Native American Subcultures vs. Mainstream White Americans

cultural artifacts. Many have contended since the original "discovery" of this country that Native American spirituality is...