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Approaching Child Abuse from a Multi Dimensional Perspective

In sixty pages twenty first century child abuse presents a statement of the problem, traces its history, provides a literature rev...

Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke and The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell

In five pages this paper examines these two poems in terms of Rilke's presentation of the hero and child relationship and Kinnell'...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

UK Welfare Benefits and Asylum Seekers' Dissertation Proposal

and then will face a large number of barriers such as language and culture barriers. The barriers can create difficulty in finding...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

Two Articles' Main Points: "Driven To Extremes" And Seasonality And Children's Blood Lead Levels"

link, with added impacts on urban childrens health (Laidlaw et al, 2005, p. 793). II. DRIVEN TO EXTREMES Human activity is...

Does Divorce Affect The Children? - Literature Review

indeed, mothers and fathers may wrongly believe that some children are old enough to both understand and accept the concept of div...

Cultural Prejudices in Parent Teacher Communication

Interpersonal communication affects practically every aspect of our lives. This is certainly true in the educational arena. Inde...

A Program to Reduce Overweight Kids

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

Evaluating Latino and Hispanic Children's Literature

and language barriers. Cohn, D. (2002). Dream Carver. Chronicle Books. This book features Mateo who is a wood carver. However, w...

Children's Literature and Female Role Models

force, violence and darkness, are depicted, and how these are then set off against the purity and angelic nature of positive (thou...

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World and Johann von Goethe's Living Hand to Mouth

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these two works in terms of the importance of the contemporary world's awareness o...

The War in Iraq is Not Justified

is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...

"Bridging the Gap Between School and Home Using Children's Literature"

to read under the covers while at home or while in a classroom with the lights darkened just for the occasion. "Flashlight Friday...

Study Proposal on Children's Pulmonary Function and the Effects of Second Hand Smoke

In twenty one pages this paper discusses second hand smoke and its effects in this study proposal and survey focusing upon the pul...

Literature, Guilt, and Children's Treatment by Adults

In four pages On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson are ...

Children's Literature and How Adult Scenes Function

Inn 10 pages this paper analyzes the function adult scenes in children's literary works serve in Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, Doc...

Children's Literature, Transformation and the Quest

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's quests and how they transform them in a comparative analysis of the children's...

Two Children's Books Compared

However, Berger also points out that it is society that forms us as individuals. "Man cannot exist apart from society" (3). Withou...

Child and Adult Voices in Literature for Children

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

Literature Review on Children's Phonemic Awareness Remediation Strategies

comes from the ability to recognize sounds that the words share (knee, key), rather than assessing the visual similarity in words ...

Achebe's "Civil Peace" and Cultural Values

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Achebe's "Civil Peace". Iwegbu's cultural values of optimism are examined. Paper use...

Framework For Seeing the World

get it home. Advances in science and medicine have cured diseases and increased life span. The is a phenomenon of the last 30 year...

War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Pessimism and Optimism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

generation." This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. One aspect of this story that seems t...