Adulthood Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Romero, R. R. (2004). Religious involvement and adult mortality in the United States: review and perspective. The free library (December, 1). Retrieved from: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Religious involvement and adult mortality in the United States:-a0127069493

Purpose

The report seeks to analyze empirical data on the linkage between religion and adult mortality in the United States. The main objective is to examine how religion influences mortality outcomes.

Summary

Much of empirical data from medical, public health and social sciences literature suggest that religious involvement leads to lower mortality rates compared to little or no involvement. Research on religion and mortality outcomes show that different religious ...

- Fitzroy River Turtle (R Leukops)
- The Biology
Fitzroy River Turtle, Rheodytes leukops is also called the white eyed river diver referring to its Latin name. Locally, it is sometimes called the “bum breathing turtle referring to its ability to utilize cloacal ventilating. This method of breathing improves its breath-holding capacity and enabling it to colonize riffle zones and take advantage of the associated greater densities of food resources during the wet season and early dry season. . “R. leukops was first described as a new genus and species in 1980 (Legler and Cann,1980) and most publications ...

Literature Review

This literature review will explore the different factors that can affect teaching English as a secondary language to adult learners. The need for learning English has met an increased demand when it became a universal language. Compared to other major languages like Spanish and Mandarin, there are significantly more people from different parts of the world who use English as their main medium of instruction. Hence, we will supplement this research with a literature review of published researches and studies related to English as second language learning for adults. All related literatures mentioned in this chapter are published journals that have a publication ...

Literature Review

This literature review will explore the different factors that can affect teaching English as a secondary language to adult learners. The need for learning English has met an increased demand when it became a universal language. Compared to other major languages like Spanish and Mandarin, there are significantly more people from different parts of the world who use English as their main medium of instruction. Hence, we will supplement this research with a literature review of published researches and studies related to English as second language learning for adults. All related literatures mentioned in this chapter are published journals that have a publication ...

English Literature

The Jabberwocky is the principle example of nonsense poetry but is a clever allegory for the traditional bildungsroman story. Its theme is the idea of growing up with the Jabberwocky representing the trials and fears that we must overcome in the process of becoming an adult. Within this essay, I will discuss the themes, imagery and language used in the poem to create this central idea. Mina Loy stated that “poetry is prose bewitched” (Gioia & Kennedy 1114) and in The Jabberwocky, Carroll tells an important story that is just this.

Carroll has clever used language to distract his reader from ...

Psychology

Parental death in childhood is a traumatic experience for any child. Each child handles the passing of a parent differently and the ability to experience normal grief can depend on experiences before the death. Some children need no professional help after the death and seem to handle the tragedy by the normal grief process. Others have problems with depression or anxiety in the short-term; some children ‘act out’ with inappropriate behavior. The long-term consequences of the loss of a parent in childhood can be very strong; so strong that the consequences may be carried on into adulthood.

The intensity of the impact of childhood ...

Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” explores the concept that children are connected with the divine and with an idealised outlook on the world. Although, according to the poet, people lose both of these qualities when they enter adulthood, the memory of such times allows them to sympathise with others.
The first four stanzas are of a nostalgic tone and childhood is certainly mentioned. The nostalgia isn’t for childhood itself, however, but for certain elements of it. Wordsworth views childhood at a time when a person’s sense of identity is comfortable; it is not in question. Furthermore, Wordsworth seems ...

Abstract

This essay offers an expository interpretation of Joyce Carol Oates’ short story, entitled “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” It portrays the female protagonist’s urge to be accepted, admired, and thought of as beautiful, while she continues to put on a personal display of maturity and sexual attraction. Once the opportunity for her to be treated as a truly mature person presents itself, it becomes all too clear that she is far less mature than she originally presented herself to be.

Keywords: teenager, rebellion, adulthood, sexuality, seduction

Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” raises numerous unsettling issues ...

Introduction

In this day in age, the need for older workers to enter the education realm is increasing. More adults are starting to participate in training and education programs in order to increase their skills and employability. The twenty-first century learners are now given endless options when it comes to obtaining educational resources. This has exposed these individuals to several different learning opportunities, such as online learning in higher education. Online learning gives these individuals the skills they need in order to retain their current positions through the comfort of their own home. This paper addresses the advantages and disadvantages ...

Introduction

Development is defined as the act of adaptation while personality development basically refers to the mental, emotional, psychological, temperamental and behavioral growth that one acquires (Schulz and Heckhausen, 1996). Also, personality development can be described as the averagely constant and stable features and characteristics a person bears with time (Alea, Diehl and Bluck, 2004). Personality development usually is an attribute associated with age and experience.

Success can be defined as the achievement or realization of desired goals or objectives hoped for. On the other hand, successful ageing is basically the eminent and prosperous growth in personality, self-concept and values acquired ...

Abstract

Mentorship is a critical subject that has been founded to be the baseline behind good morals among youths today. While different theoretical constructs have been postulated to explain the concept of mentorship to the youths, a lot is yet to be exploited in this learning dynamics. On the other hand violence is antisocial habit that is associated with youths, and its manifestation has ravaged the social fabrics of the society. Thus, a cross-learning integration between a mentor and a mentee determines the formidable correlation and impacts that mentorship program is likely to trigger. Besides, the lessons that a mentee ...

INTRODUCTION

Children are one of the most vulnerable and tender section of the society. They are the ones who shape up the future of the world. At the same time, any bad incidence with them will lead to increase in the sufferings of the world in every aspect or field. Children are being exposed to many illicit and harmful activities which affect them in a negative way mentally, physically and socially. One of those many activities is the act of childhood sex abuse. The incidences of sexual abuse have been on the rise since the last few decades. The increase ...

English

24 May 2011

In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the reader is privy to the adventures of the inquisitive Alice as she tumbles down the rabbit hole and finds herself ensconced in a world of magic, talking animals and vaguely ‘trippy’ happenings. Throughout the novel, there are a number of magical transformations where the characters transition between forms, much like characters do in a number of traditional fairy tales: for example, the pumpkin becomes the carriage in Cinderella; the beast becomes the handsome prince; the wooden puppet becomes a real boy. All of these events happen to represent an underlying message – for ...

English

24 May 2011

In his novel, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie presents his readers with a fantasy world named ‘Neverland.’ The properties of this place are that you must be a child to go there and that it exists outside of the solid, real world. The novel of Peter Pan discusses the idea of never growing up and maintaining child-like innocence for an eternity. Peter Pan, the character, does not grow up and his band of ‘Lost Boys’ are also permanently children. The obvious implication of this is that Barrie has carved out an allegorical message of why, as adults, it is ...

Introduction

Childhood obesity as a medical condition affects a lot children across the world. According to Dieticians Association of Australia (2014) childhood obesity is when a child has too much body fat and the child’s weight is well above normal for his or her age and height and this puts their health at risk. In Australia as well and in fact, across the world, the community is becoming increasingly concerned with the rising prevalence of childhood obesity (Jacqueline. 13). The health consequences for obese children at their current status as well as in the future has acted as an impetus for raised ...

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (as cited in Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008), there were 905,000 children who were victimized by child abuse and neglect in 2006. Aside from the physical injuries, which may or may not be readily visible, the abuse and neglect can have lifetime consequences for children, their families, and the society. In particular, the consequences of child abuse and neglect can be classified as societal, behavioral, psychological, and physical, although in reality, it would be impossible to separate them completely from each other (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008). Some ...

Child Abuse and Neglect: Literature Review

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (as cited in Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008), there were 905,000 children who were victimized by child abuse and neglect in 2006. Aside from the physical injuries, which may or may not be readily visible, the abuse and neglect can have lifetime consequences for children, their families, and the society. In particular, the consequences of child abuse and neglect can be classified as societal, behavioral, psychological, and physical, although in reality, it would be impossible to separate them completely from each other (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008). Some ...

The first step in prioritizing healthcare resources is to estimate the burden of disease. High-income countries have reliable systems to assess the causes of death in the population; however, mid- and low-income countries do not have such systems in place, and mortality rates from a specific disease have to be extrapolated from incomplete data. Several studies have approached the problem of estimating the burden of disease by using a variety of methods to determine which diseases are responsible for the most deaths, which countries are carrying the highest burden of disease and death, and which populations are at the highest risk ...

Introduction

Various medical conditions continue to plague the world. Sadly, many suffer from such conditions during infancy or childhood without knowing about their real conditions until they reach young adulthood. Inpatient treatments are widely available throughout the country. The medical facilities that provide them have all the equipment and healthcare professionals needed to make sure that the care given is consistent and remains within the universally accepted protocols of medicine and health. However, even in advanced health settings, some patients still do not recover optimally. That is why extended care is strongly recommended (John Griffiths, 2005, p. 504). This may ...

Introduction and background

Depression is a global health problem but which can be contained using non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches (Dhingra and Parle, 2011). It is the leading cause of mental disability in the whole world and it remains one of the most undertreated health issues in old age (Barry, et al, 2012). In United States, a tenth of the adult population is affected by depression each year and it is estimated that by the end of this decade depression will be the second leading cause of health disability (Dhingra and Parle, 2011). According to Dhingra, in 2011, depression was the fourth most costly disease ...

One of the major public health problems and the societal concerns these days is the maltreatment of children which impacts millions of children all over the world. There are a variety of long and short-term health consequences of child abuse and neglect which leaves a long-lasting impact on the mental and social growth and development of the children. Child abuse does not just mean broken bones or bruises, it impacts the safety, physical, social, mental, emotional and educational needs of the children. Child abuse and neglect as defined by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 2010, ...

Divorce has become a common occurrence in the society today, and many individuals who take the extreme step of divorcing appear to have lost sight of the values and the vows that are associated with the institution of marriage. Many parents with growing children at home opt for divorce without realizing the damaging effects their one-time decision may have on the lives of their children. Even though divorce may be a relief to both the partners in marriage who find no further meaning in living together, it definitely is a life-transforming experience to their innocent children. For instance, after ...

Introduction

One of the largest social problems facing the modern society is illiteracy. By wide definition, illiteracy refers to the inability of an individual to read and write. However, as will be seen later, this definition is relatively outdated. In the current modern society, every single human being has the right to acquire the basic knowledge of writing and reading. Those who do not have this knowledge or have been deprived of this knowledge are usually referred to as the illiterates. Despite the enormous modernization of the current society, the problem of illiteracy stills persists and there are ...

Adequate physical activity has been shown to benefit older adults by reducing the risks for age-related physical degeneration including osteoporosis, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and a higher likelihood of falling (Tiedemann et al., 2011; Ewald et al., 2009). However, a sedentary lifestyle has increasingly become the norm among older adults. Inadequate physical activity is defined as engaging in moderate-intensity exercise for a duration that is less than the recommended 2.5 hours per week or failing to do moderate exercise for 30 minutes on most days of the week (Jancey et al., 2008; Sims et al., 2010). In Australia about 49-63% of ...

Discussion and Comparison of Laparoscopic and Open Surgical Inguinal Hernia Repair in Adults.

Abstract
There is an ever increasing number of hernia repair surgeries required likely due to decreasing levels of physical activity amongst young adults and concurrent muscle wastage in the abdomen. Time off from work, staffing issues at hospitals, and cost of hospital bed space are some of the issues associated with the high cost of open surgical methods. Wound infection, decreased mobility, and recurrence of the hernia are problems associated with all surgeries. The last thirty years has seen the advent of laparoscopy and minimally invasive techniques of surgical repair. These methods offer the promises of decreased surgical ...

The book is a young adult’s novel written by Gennifer Choldenko back in the year 2004 and published by Putnam’s Sons with approximately 215 pages in the first printing. As a young adult’s novel, the book is written for people ages 10 and up. Along with this, the protagonist is set to be 12 years old so that other young adults can relate to it more (Literature Circle) (Putnam Sons).
The book revolves around the life of Matthew “Moose” Flanagan and his family moving into the prison island of Alcatraz Island in the year 1935 as his ...

Introduction

Recently, worldwide obesity prevalence has been raised rapidly and nearly doubled between 1980 and 2014, however in 2014 more than a half a billion of adult (18 years and older) were obese (11% men and 15% women) (WHO, 2014). Obesity and overweight are defined as excess body fat accumulation that leads to health risks and comorbidities. Adult weight can be classified based on the Body Mass Index. Hence, an individual having a BMI equal to or more than 25 is regarded as being overweight, while a person with a BMI equal to or more than 30 is considered obese ( ...

Abstinence

Abstinence
Sex or Sexual Intercourse is the essential process of the human civilization that has let the world reach the quality of life it has now. Of course, without sex humans can’t even have offspring to continue their civilization. It is also amusing that our Creator has perfectly matched the timing for each human to mate. It is from the time when humans reach adolescence. The human sex organ development happens at this time. The female starts to have a mature egg as well as the menstrual cycle. For the male the process of exploring their gonads is ...

Introduction

Sexual assault of women is a pervasive crime that exerts significant influence both on the lives of women, who become victims of gender-based violence, and the communities, where these women live (Klump, 2006, p.67). Sexual assault against women is epidemic to American culture (Miller, Markman and Handley, 2007, p.129). A woman can face a sexual assault both in childhood and adulthood. Different kinds of both physical and mental diseases tend to be prevalent in women, who have experienced sexual assault or another kind of gender-based violence in childhood or adulthood. The women also tend to report specific emotional conditions, such as ...

Fast D. and Conry, J. (2009). Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Criminal Justice System.

Developmental Disabilities Research Review 15: 250 – 257.

This paper examines the relationship between the long-life nervous syndrome that is found in people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) and their participation in the criminal justice system. According to the article, the FASDs are caused by exposure to alcohol during the prenatal stage. The article provides some of the disabilities associated with people having the FASDs to include poor judgment, learning disabilities, and social ineptness. The authors argue that the foregoing disabilities make people predisposed to unfair treatment and increased involvement in ...

Thesis statement

Learning various languages expands the boundaries for people and provides the different opportunities to cross-cultural dialogue, business development and employment. About 60% of the World population speak more than one language. Acquiring correct and intellible pronunciation, according to general observation, is one of the hardest tasks for all language learners.
Most of the additional language learners develop an accent, that allows other people to distinguish non-native speaker and to make suggestions about her origin and native language. Presence of an accent commonly does not change intelligibility of the speech (perceived phonological constancy, Mulak et al., 2013), that is ...

Abstract

The following paper analyzes three articles that deal with the effect of addicted mothers on infant development. The type of addiction that the paper concentrates on includes alcohol abuse, use of cocaine, marijuana, and heroin. Drug use during pregnancy has been on the higher rise as more young mothers engage in drug and alcohol abuse. Mothers who use non-prescribed when pregnant never realizes the dangers they expose their newborn babies to until the child is born and attains the age of five years. The paper will identify various problems analyzed in the selected articles and relate them to the ...

Critical Analysis

In a qualitative study, Bryon, Gastmans & de Casterle (2012) explored the experiences of nurses with nurse-physician communication that occurred during decision-making for artificial nutrition or hydration (ANH) among hospitalised dementia patients. Twenty-one nurses in nine hospitals in Belgium were selected for semi-structured interviews as they reflected a wide range of personal characteristics and practice experiences. Successful advocacy for the dying patient and his family, a nurse’s ethical responsibility, depends on the quality of interdisciplinary communication. From data analysis which used a grounded theory framework emerged three factors influencing the nurse-physician communication: the attitudes of physicians toward nurses, the attitude of nurses toward ...

Method Description

A quasi-experimental research design will be employed. The nature of the treatment variable (gender) cannot be manipulated by the researcher. However, from the nature of the study, we can deduce a naturally occurring control group (adult-sibling pairs with different gender) and a treatment group (adult-sibling pairs with the same gender). Therefore, a non-equivalent posttest cross-sectional design will be used.
A survey method will be implemented by the use of a questionnaire. Data will be collected using a questionnaire because it is time-saving as the data collection will go on concurrently. It is also cheaper than conducting interviews both in ...

Abstract

The teachers provided the students’ learning with care, attention, and knowledge primarily needed by the students to engage in learning. In the contemporary world of learning, the strategies utilized by most teachers have shifted from the traditional ways to the student-centered learning in the principle that the students who are good readers are classified as good thinkers because they used the new technology in the application of the constant reading practices. The reading technological methods enhanced the reading abilities of the children at the elementary level, such as the library websites, EBooks, media using educational readings, and AR programs. ...

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Research Questions

- How to use Constructivism in making art education effective?
- What is the relevance of technology in using Constructivism while teaching art to adult students?
- What are the advantages of using Information Technology in teaching art?
- Using information technology and Constructivism together, would it make the traditional methods of teaching art defunct?
- Should Constructivism be used along with technology in teaching art education, especially in a country like Saudi Arabia?
Constructivism is a teaching and learning ...

Captive Breeding of Marine Mammals: Challenges and Mitigating Measures

Introduction
The growing demand to sustain the current lifestyle of the human population puts an added strain to the natural resources of the world. The increase in the exploitation of tropical forests and marine communities leads to a series of habitat destruction thereby leaving thousands of species of both terrestrial and marine animal homeless (Soule et al., 1986). Since 1986, there are already about nineteen percent and nine percent of the world’s mammals and birds respectively that are bread by zoos as per the International Zoo Yearbook Census. Based on the International Species Inventory System, there are about ...

Abstract

The number of people being affected by various diseases that require them to have organ transplants increases every day. Meanwhile, the amount of donated organs is extremely insufficient to meet the high demand. There is also the problem of finding a donor match for a recipient and the need to take strong medications that suppress the immune system of the recipient so that the transplanted organ is not rejected. A solution to these problems has been and is still being developed, with laboratory-grown organs holding much promise. These organs can be tailor-made using the patient’s own cells or other cell sources, ...

The present description is concerned with critiquing an article entitled “Psychological distress and delusional memories after critical care: a literature review” The problem of the study is that there is a limited data with regard to the existence of a psychological distress known as delusional memories ,experienced by individuals who have been admitted in intensive care unit (ICU). The main purpose of the article was to perform to perform a literature review in order to find out and build the available empirical evidence with regard to the psychological distress linked with delusional memories in adult critically ill individuals following an ICU discharge. The ...

Introduction

This paper provides an overview of descriptive theories that have advanced in over the last decade concerning the working of the human memory and how it affects the adult behavior and experiences. Purposefully, this paper attempts by using different scholars to examine the influence of abuse on children. We explore the relationship between child abuse and repressed memory. The purpose of this literature review is anchoring an understanding of different attempts to come up with one comprehensive understanding of psychology and the developing of the human brain. While exploring the different facets of the concept of human behavior, the ...

Introduction

Following a decline, since the mid to late 1990s, in the number of young people smoking, more recent reports have indicated that these numbers are now, once again, beginning to rise. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), figures from a 2005 study indicate that 23% of high school students had smoke in the month prior, which shows an increase from 21.9% in a 2003 study (Family First Aid, 2000-2006). This figure alone is enough to prompt fears that smoking could begin to grip our nation’s youth, irrespective of the amount of anti-smoking education that they are presented ...

Introduction

Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is a physical disability that results from damage to the brain during development that negatively impacts the functional development of children14. Characteristics of cerebral palsy include an inability to control the body’s motor functioning with a potential to affect speech, learning, environmental exploration, and the skills required for independent living. In addition, these patients have delays in reaching milestones for gross motor development with problems moving such as weakness, spasticity, and impaired selective motor control27. Children born with the disability have varying levels of impairment, and while it usually develops by age three, it ...

The paper on the childhood obesity will present the preliminary literature review and an action item checklist with the goals to achieve reduction of the problem that is on the increase. The child obesity has become a vast problem of the developed world and modern way of living which must be controlled in order to have a healthier population. The obesity has been quickly spreading and the prevention of childhood obesity must become a priority in improving the nation’s health.
There are two major effects of child obesity one is the physical health that is more documented and ...

Information Technology Management

Management Concepts and Models
IT portfolio management
IT portfolio management is the efficient management application to deal with the investments, activities and projects of the department of information technology (IT) in the enterprise. It is the application of all the IT resources including planned and current to provide a framework for the planning, analysis and execution of portfolio of IT in the organization (Casco-Arias et al 2012).

Business/IT alignment

Business-IT alignment is a vibrant condition in which the ability of the organization begins to use information technology (IT) for achieving the objectives and purposes of the business. It is the capability ...

In

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World

In her recently published memoire, My Beloved World, 1 Justice Sonia Sotomayor narrates her personal story, from her childhood growing up in a Bronx housing project up to the time she first becomes a judge. Focusing on the events and persons that made her the person she is today, she recounts how she becomes a successful lawyer and judge, overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, such as chronic juvenile diabetes and limited English language skills. She weaves an engaging story where many of her relatives and friends such as her paternal grandmother (Abuelita) and her Yale mentor José Cabranes come to life as ...

1) Spoken language is an absolutely integral element of learning which is often undervalued in educational settings – textbooks and written/visual stimulation are typically the preferred methods to teach students. However, spoken language has a great deal more to offer as a vehicle of learning than is typically considered for a variety of reasons. For example, the use of grammar and inflection is an important component to understanding, as words can often be divorced from their meanings. To that end, spoken language is an absolutely vital tool to teaching and learning, as complex ideas and concepts can be conveyed through the linguistic systems ...

Introduction

The last few decades have witnessed a massive increase in the incidences of homeschooling in the United States. This is a deviation from earlier years throughout the 19th Century where many students received their education in formal learning institutions. In fact, up to the 1970’s, almost all the students in the United States received their education in schools. This trend however started changing, and homes became popular education locus where parents elected to educate their children at home rather than take them to school. Current data seems to suggest that almost 3% of all students in the United States are ...

Online Learning

Introduction
Online learning is defined as the use of web to access learning materials; to interact with the content, online tutor, and other fellow learners; and to obtain the necessary support during the learning process; in order to gain knowledge, to construct personal meaning and grow with the learning experience .
Personality is a set of important characteristics which determine how people interact with others . The five essential components of personality include physical, social, intellectual, value system and emotional . Hans Eysenck developed a model made up of three personality traits - 1) Introversion/Extraversion which involves directing attention towards inner experiences ...

1. What evidence-based communication skills, change processes, and interventions are you using to guide your work in the field experience? Please be complete and provide at least 2 examples of how you are using these practices.
Communication is a key skill that leads to the translation of research evidence into practice. Constructive feedback is an evidence-based strategy of communicating observations about a staff member’s behaviors. It entails focusing on the behavior and not the person, stating observations rather than judgments, and working out with the staff how to communicate more effectively (Duffy, 2013). In the course of my field ...

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Introduction

The use of statistics in behavioral sciences examines the relationships between variables. This paper discusses the application of statistical measures such as t-test, ANOVA, and chi-square on three different studies to determine the correlation between variables. The objectives of this paper include the following:

Article 1: The Effects of Participation in Athletics on Academic Performance among High School Sophomores and Juniors

An ongoing discussion concerning the impacts of participation in athletics on academic accomplishment has been around since the 60s. Recently, this issue has ballooned due to the imposed limits on budget for education. A lot of decision makers also found it comforting to cut programs intended for athletic development due to their notion ...

Introduction

Maladaptive behaviours that are notable amongst individuals of various ages and genders, ranging from preschool to third grade remains to be a topic of interest across different contexts. This is perhaps the main reason as to why various researches have and continue to lay significant emphasis on the most adequate interventions that could address maladaptive behaviours. The main point of concern regarding maladaptive behaviours amongst preschool up to third grade students align with the implications of such behaviours. Maladaptive behaviours result in a loss of the requisite academic skills that assist students in school and beyond. Maladaptive behaviours primarily connote to ...

‘Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know’ is a well written book that discusses on use of marijuana. The Authors Jonathan P. Caulkins, Mark A.R. Kleiman and Angela Hawken probes a much debated issue whether marijuana should be legalized or not (Caulkins et al., 2012). These authors present a detailed survey report wherein more than half of American population suggests that use of marijuana should be legalized. These authors also take a view about national as well as international opinion on the use of marijuana. Currently marijuana is not permitted in several countries and its use is banned in almost every country across ...

A brief review

Abstract
Recidivism rates are very instrumental in the policy making, offender incarceration and treatment. However when these rates are surrounded by uncertainty and are lacking, these rates do more harm than good. This is truer in sexual crimes, particularly in child molestations. While criminological literature emphasizes low recidivism rates for sexual criminals, the public fueled by media, consider it otherwise. Nonetheless recidivism rates are high for child molesters among the sexually offending group. Even among child molesters, there is much difference between the intra-familial and extra-familial groups too. Framework models and tools help specialists in identifying individuals with ...

Introduction

Young adults of today spend more time “accessing digital-media information than information from traditional printed texts” (Hsu & Wang, 2011, p. 68), which contributes to their negative reading achievement. As such, it is important to determine how online literacies and new media affect the reading skills of students in higher education.

Educational technology has been in use throughout history, going back to as early as when sign writing was used for capturing and transmitting knowledge (Ellison & Wu, 2008). Computer technology, in particular, began to be used in the classroom setting in the 1930s when teachers used audiovisual tools ...

Written by the American author Robert Cormier, the Chocolate War is a novel set in the Trinity High and is an account of the protagonist Jerry Renault as he takes on the revered schools cruel mob rule by the vigil notorious for giving assignments that range from the ridiculous to the absurd. This secret society uses intimidation as a way of enforcing its cultural norms on the school. The novel also gives a sizeable attention to sexuality, one of the major characteristics of young adults’ fiction following the protagonist’s sexual desires.
The novel adopts a third person point of view constantly ...

In the 1960s, following John Bolby’s article The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, many psychoanalytic figures criticised his work. They claimed that attachment theory was “mechanic, nondynamic, and explicated according to thorough misunderstandings of psychoanalytic theory” (Fonagy, 2001, page 1, p2). Critiques felt that Bowlby treated his human subjects like animals, and used too many labels and categories when reporting on experiment results.
When examining the attachment theory today and, in particular, Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation experiment, it does appear that the critiques’ points were valid. The personalities and behaviours of human beings are extremely diverse, ...

Literature Review

Impact Mitigation

Intelligent locomotive bumper designs have been touted as possible life-savers for pedestrians. Paden, Kelly, Hines, Botham and Simms explored the feasibility of a life-saving locomotive bumper (103). There were several motivations behind their paper. Perhaps the most important one was the high number of pedestrians that were killed every year in train impacts. Between the years 2007 and 2012, about 10,950 non-suicide deaths were attributed to train impact on humans. Including suicide deaths on railroads, 28,800 pedestrians were killed during that 6-year period. Also, Paden et al., noted that passenger trains served densely populated areas ( ...

Prediction of PCL-R Scores

Psychopathy is defined as a mental disorder that is normally characterised by an individual always carrying out his activities in a manner that is selfish and manipulative and they always lack remorse. In addition to this, they are always in most instances emotionally detached from the public in that, they are always anti-social and further have the callous-unemotional traits. It was further realised, that in cases that the an individual shows these traits, then he or she ends up not caring that much about the people around him or her.Over the years researchers have had in place various theses ...

Abstract

Profound education is the basis for the successful career development and personal growth of any individual. Many scholars are trying to give an answer to the question of what makes the learning process more effective. Different aspects of learning theory provide answers to some of these questions. Theories of learning can be grouped into following three categories: behaviorist learning theories, cognitivist learning theories, and constructivist learning theories. Many researchers pay much attention to the process of scaffolding that is actively discussed as a significant element of learning process. The researcher Albert Bandura has devoted a number of his scientific ...

The society has changed and crime is increased and good behavior reduced among the youths which is not good for civilization. The unity in the society is not anymore which caused writers such as O’Conner and Oates to write on the behavior of the current society. It is with no doubt that a good man is hard to find in the present society due to loss of trust and many young people having adopted bad lifestyles. This means that the arguments written by O’Connor and Oates are very good in giving the picture of what the society ...