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Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

can result in aggressive responses" (FAT, 2004). A triggering event can frequently be something insignificant, such as a joke, ges...

then offered up how research has demonstrated that children born to such women are at a clear social disadvantage, research that s...

of the total U.S. population (Larsen, 2003). While many of these immigrants unquestionably play a positive role in U.S. society a...

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

and physical injury with love is incomprehensible to most people, but the facts are undeniable: thousands of women suffer untold a...

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

the mid- to late-1960s. Burns identified the difference between transactional and transformational leadership theories. In 1968, B...

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

over the decades--people can opt to purchase lower priced vehicles or do without. They may own homes and cars already. Life is aff...

claim the authors, can go a long way toward assisting response to those in need (Robinson and Chandek, 2000). The authors ...

emotional stress that are associated with many social programs introduced in the school system, program coordinators have a diffic...

of settings in which one wants the listener to perceive their interest and in which the listener wants to be able to control the t...

of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

a personal decision and the effect is not singular but one of accumulative effect. For many it is deemed that the weight gain is s...

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and...

seems so hopeless. Furthermore, living in poverty is likely to take its toll in many ways as well. They...

imperialism of the past 500 years. Social Hierarchy The social histories of nations throughout Latin America provide important i...

In five pages Spanish America's social system and how it is reflected in Lobo's novel are discussed. One source is cited in the b...

for those families who depend upon its services. It is important for the student to consider the fact that if there is no role mo...

In five pages this paper examines how Margaret Fuller led the way for America's cultural renaissance in a consideration of the act...

In seven pages the text by Robert Putnam that evaluates America's diminishing attention to social capital maintenance is examined ...

things are different. Africans were seized from their homes in Africa and brought to the United States for profit. The motive was ...