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OP-ED EDITORIAL: LEGISLATING FINANCIAL BEHAVIOR

reform bill" will end up punishing the wrong people and institutions. This is not to say the bill isnt a well-meaning attempt on t...

Gender Identy as Affected by the Media and Video Gaming

A 16 page essay exploring gender roles as they are affected by the media and by video games. These influences promote aberrant vi...

Palestinians as Victims of War in Paradise Now, Making Of, and Palestine

acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Curfews for Young People

This 5 page paper gives an overview of curfew laws in the United States. This paper includes the lack of evidence that curfews pre...

Deterring Young People from Committing Crime

This 3 page paper gives an overview of general deterrence theory and how is it not useful in preventing young drug users from comm...

Young People and Community Service

takes a village to raise a child. Similarly, it can be said that it takes a village, that is, a community, to provide young people...

AIDS, HIV, Behaviors and Attitudes of Young People I

them at risk. In one study of urban young adults ages 18-24, an average of 30% participated in risky behaviors at some time in th...

Young Men, Violence, and its Causes

In five pages this paper examines drugs, poverty, and media desensitization as possible causes for young men's violent behavior. ...

Great Britain's Young People and the Consumption of Ecstasy and Alcohol

This topic is presented in an overview consisting of 5 pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Young People Suffering from Seizures and Construction of Identity

particular illness. An excellent example is gay men with AIDS. Due to their own perception of what AIDS involves, many gay men c...

Young People and Increasing Use of Drugs

drug use and the criminal and deviant behavior to which it all too often leads. In effect, drug use is a deviant behavior and one...

Young People and 2 Change Strategies

a good leader. In the case of youth populations, leaders can exist as members of a youth group, educators, or social workers, all...

Positive Thinking: Increases Happiness

is honest with oneself and aware of the control one has over ones outlook, overcoming sadness-inducing obstacles becomes easier an...

Work Based Occupational Skills Training for Young People and Government Involvement

In eight pages this paper focuses on the UK in a consideration of how the government can generate policies that will encourage tra...

Connection Between Social Participation, Concept of Self, and Young People

unprotected sex, drugs, theft, driving too fast, and thrill seeking. According to Lynn Ponton, author of The Romance of Risk: Why ...

Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Cigarette Addiction and Young People

More precisely, in looking at cigarette addiction in young people, what are its causes? The causes of addiction are rather physio...

Young People and the Impact of Substance Abuse

had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...

The Effects of Trends in Popular Culture

and loss of money due to gambling. A significant trend that teens have been aligned with, as a result of electronic media, is tex...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

The Effects of Media on Sexuality

so popular (Hudepohl, 2007). She goes into some possibilities as to why media is promoting this trend (Hudepohl, 2007). Of course...

Gays and Stereotyping

lose weight for genetic reasons and that of course they would be thin if it were possible. Similarly, homosexuals claim that their...

Media Representation of Lesbians and Gays

In five pages this papre examines how the media portrayal of homosexuals have reinforced negative attitudes and stereotype perpetu...

Mass Media, Negative Influences, and the Self

This paper discusses the theories of Freud and Lasch as they relate to the potential negative impact of mass media on self-esteem ...

Using socially Oriented Media by Youth

This 3 page paper gives an overview of some positive and negative parts of social media use. This paper includes things such as ad...

Social Networking Does Not Enhance Life Skills

does not make it a good thing. After all, there are many things that people do that are not healthy. Of course, some argue that th...

A Fat Guy in a Thin World

and concepts that make it clear that the skinny people of the world are the beautiful people and the heavier people are the dregs ...

Lacking Conviction in Sexual Intimacy in "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds and "Lust" by Susan Minot

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...