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Creative Essay 'The Grass Rider'

In three pages this creative essay considers how a new neighborhood kid attempts to learn how to ride a bike as a way of making fr...

Juvenile Delinquency, Youth Culture, and Renegade Kids, Suburban Outlaws by Wooden

account of youth cultures that exist among white, middle class adolescents in California, and relates these suburban sub-cultures ...

Alcohol on the College Campus

is apparent that raising the legal drinking age to 21 has not discouraged many young people from drinking alcohol. In a 1997 study...

Ending Access to Tobacco for Children in California

California and Smoking in the Nineties In 1988, California residents passed Proposition 99. The law increased the tax on ea...

The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut and Conformity and Appearance

IN ten pages the author's contention that conformity interferes with self understanding is examined within the context of three st...

Rima Shore: What Kids Need

the practical advice along with the posing of the problems. Many times books which are produced only serve to point out what is wr...

Game Manuals Assessment

in an auto race and his goal is finishing the race first. In Soccer Kid, aliens have snatched up a world-level award trophy and d...

Categorizing Films Through Genre

in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Overview of San Diego's Project 'Jump Start'

enter for up to a full year. Because obesity is a family problem as well as one of society, project Jump Start has the potential ...

Actual Life of 'the Sundance Kid'

animals on August 7, 1891; he serves as the best man at his foreman Ebb Johnsons wedding; he saves the life of his good friend Fre...

Taylor and Hickey: “Tunnel Kids”

about tunnel dwellers. Methods: Once the ethnographers heard about these kids, they knew they wanted to get to know them, and the...

Generations: The Baby Boom to the Millennium Kids

(Turner, Mitchell & McLean, 2005). Generation Y would come next. Stephanie Armour (2005) characterizes Generation Y, a generatio...

Beverly Daniel Tatum: “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”

to become part of black culture, she had to be able to get away from the dominant white culture entirely. This wasnt possible in a...

White Privilege and Black Kids

womens disadvantages so vigorously that any discussion of the phenomenon has taken on the aspect of a social taboo (McIntosh, 1988...

Tatum, Racial Issues

voices of whites, blacks and Asians and how they voice their fears. For example, Tatum quote Christine Sleeter, a white woman and ...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

Symbolic Speech and I Am an Impure Thinker by Eugen Rosenstock Huessy

In six pages various chapters of Rosenstock Huessy's text are examined in an examination of how symbolic speech is represented. T...

TV Violence and Foul Language and its Negative Impact on Kids

of television are at greater risk for aggression if they have deficient social information processing patterns" (Cesarone, 1998; p...

Am I Thin Enough Yet?

become everything. Delia not only wants to look good for the attention that it gets her, but she is also determined that her sel...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

Reality According to the Philosophy of Rene 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...

Kids and the Detrimental Impact of TV

In five pages this research proposal analyzes the perception that children are adversely affected by what they see on television. ...

Violence on Television and Kids

In five pages this paper discusses the effects of TV violence upon child psychosocial development. Six sources are cited in the b...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

Male Bonding in I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell

In five pages the bonding of men as examined from the author's Southern perspective is analyzed....

Homeless Women's Plights and Tell Them Who I Am by Elliot Liebow

In five pages homeless women and their plights are examined within the context of the sensitive portrayal offered in Elliot Liebow...

Analyzing 'I Am a Catholic' by Anna Quindlen

In two pages Catholicism's traditional meaning is contrasted with the view presented in Quindlen's contemporary interpretation....