...“What is your topic?” My topic is “Child behavior is worse today than it was ten years ago”. “What are the possible different main claims/positions related to this topic?” The possible different main claims/positions related to this topic are agreeing that child behavior is worse today, disagreeing that they are worst and also being neutral all with argumentative reasoning. “What is your position regarding the topic?” I agree that child behavior today is worse than it was ten years ago with argumentative reasoning. “What ‘evidence’ have you offered to support your claim/position? Have you included your survey results?” The evidence offered to support my claim/position is through conversations I have had with others on the subway, at work, at the beauty salon and just about everywhere I travel, also through my research of study on the subject. Yes, I have included my survey results. “Put your claim/position and “evidence’ through the ‘Scientific Method’ and ‘Proving a theory’ steps. Are there any steps on which your claim/position and evidence do not measure up to the examination? If so, what can you do to make them more acceptable?” Providing evidence through the ‘Scientific Method’ has measured up to the examination. However the steps to ‘Proving a theory’ may give you the evidence to have a strong case but not actually proof that your theory has been proven. There will most likely be other evidence that will give your audience or viewers a different perspective on...
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...Alexis Carter Mr Bryan Composition I 11 October 2015 Child Behavior: Then vs. Now Child behavior is worse today than it was ten years ago. The definition of behavior, according to oxford dictionary is “The manner in which one acts or conducts oneself especially in the presence of other people”. In addition to that, behavior is the way one responds to a situation. Therefore, the definition of child behavior would be the way a child conducts him or herself while relating with other people or the way they react to situations. As a general observation, ten years ago children were better behaved, especially towards their elders and parents than they are in this generation (Generation Z). Now, it is common to find a child who has deliberately refused to obey a parental command when they have been sent to do a certain task. There are numerous television shows today showing unruly children whom the parents can no longer control or discipline. These children do not do what is right for them but instead do what they wish to do. A good reality show that can illustrate the behavior of these children is ‘World’s Strictest Parents’, a reality show that depicts how some teenagers have become so rebellious, hardened and with lack of remorse for anything wrong done. Children exhibit bad behavior through lack of respect toward their own parents as well as other people. Children also show a lack of respect to their parents by shouting at them when denied something they want, or by...
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...issue of child behavior in school age children is growing rapidly and is far more worst than it was ten years ago. Some of the key role players in the behavior of children today are bad parenting, lack of respect from children, technology, like video games, cell phones, I pad, I phones, the prolong use of television and what is available for them to watch. All of these things is a distraction for children and is a part of their over all behavior. It’s not hard to see that the attitudes of some children have change over the years. All you have to do is look and listen. The children today seem to have an attitude about everything even at a young age. Some of them can’t even tell you what they are angry about. The evidence you will here in this paper is not only based on my own personal experiences but also from other researched articles. When I was growing up we had no choice but to respect our parents and elders. Talking back or acting act was not tolerated at all. Parents took the time to connect with their children instead of letting them sit in front of a television all day, or play on a computer. We had a set television time, bedtime, and playtime. And we didn’t have a problem following it because that was the rules. Children today have too much freedom. They have lost all respect for their parents and other including themselves. Their attention spans are very short and the littlest thing will distract them. As part of my evidence that children behavior is worst...
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...It was the fastest cases the doctors claimed they had ever seen. My sisters cried in disbelief and bewilderment at the news. How would we take care of our parents we all had wondered? It would be a heavy responsibility to take over our parents’ house and look after them with such a devastating case of Alzheimer’s. Alone lived my parents in their large estate that was filled with empty memories. What is left of this massive house that my parents now live in? Eight large styled living quarters and countless hallways encompass this antique styled estate. My Father and Mother were stuck on their daily routines, waking at 7:30 to roam the house for dust to sweep and dirt to mop. Ever since I was a young child my parents stuck to their routine. The...
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...Gropper COM/172 - Elements of University Composition and Communication II August 11, 2014 Ms. Elaine Boyle Today's Modern Family - How it has Changed.... Traditional families of the past are nothing like what they are today; due in part to the continual pressure society places on the modern family. “The nuclear family (or traditional family) is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children.” (Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 2011) Society is constantly trying to put a label on individuals, spouses, and families, like the nuclear family. Because of these labels and a competitiveness between relatives and the rest of humanity – families have found themselves trying to stay one step ahead in life. “Families are susceptible to mounting pressures from finances and work. Raising a family can be rewarding and demanding even in healthy social and economic climates, so stressful times can make things much more challenging.” (American Psychological Association, 2010, Paragraph 1) These stressors could include financial hardships, changes in the family; including divorce, additions to the family, or even death, and the continual changes with technology. Therefore; does the term “traditional family” still abide with society today? If not, how can society bring back the family values that once existed within our ancestors? Constant Stressors Often times a family is like a bank account. When too many items are coming out and not enough is going...
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...The Impact of Divorce on Children Lisa Greatwhite Liberty University PSYC 210-D07 Abstract Compared to forty years ago the divorce rate has increased at an alarming rate. Leaving the children torn and confused about their lives before and after. Children that where once seen as resilient are now seen as vulnerable. There is a vast amount of research that supports how children are affected before, during and after their parents’ divorce. Some of the issues that impact children can cause short-term psychological issues. Leaving those children that are affected to act out in various ways, from regressing backward in the developmental process to psychosocial well-being as it relates to academic performance. Long-term effects for children that result from divorce remain present throughout life. The adult child of divorce may carry unresolved issues into their own relationships. This behavior can put the adult child in high risk for divorce. With this understanding many schools and courts are beginning to offer ways to help children emotionally and socially through counseling and interventions. The Impact of Divorce on Children The research conducted on the divorce rate in the last decade has shown a steady climb. Daniel Pickar (2003), stated in an article from Sonoma county Medical Association, “Forty percent of all children growing up in America today will experience a parental divorce”. (Pickar 2003, p. 1) Most contributed the drastic increase to the court laws on what...
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...Bricks, Epithets, and Other Hurtling Projectiles My frustrations churned about in my mind. Pulling two furious twelve year olds apart, wrestling a homemade shiv from a 13 year old, chasing after runaway children, dodging tossed plastic chairs, and getting hit in the chest with a brick during a single day was just as horrendous as it sounds. Today was the day our supervisor had warned us about at our orientation, where all the kids are tired, cranky, unresponsive, and ready to go home. This was the day where the kids would be especially rowdy and try to push the team leaders away. Even in spite of Jamir’s warning, my two other team leaders and I were still not prepared. Our every waking moment was dedicated to taking care of the kids. We woke up at 6 am to go to a meeting to discuss our responsibilities for the day. After a brief breakfast with the other camp counselors, we divvied up who was going to man each station. We had mountain-boarding, arts and crafts, rock climbing, swimming, going to the lake, and various other activities to attempt to entertain the kids long enough throughout the day to completely tire them out by bed time. After the activities were introduced, it was time to go wake up the children. In the first few days, the kids would be up and full of energy by the time we returned to the humble decrepit teepees. The vigor they displayed was inspiring to us counselors, yet wearisome at the same time. They were already extremely hyper even before they received...
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...rather than on problems. We learned a long time ago that when there is a problem, many professionals spend a great deal of time thinking, talking, and analyzing the problems, while the suffering goes on. It occurred to a team of mental health professionals at the Brief Family Therapy Center that so much time and energy, as well as many resources, are spent on talking about problems, rather than thinking about what might help us to get to solutions that would bring on realistic, reasonable relief as quickly as possible.We discovered that problems do not happen all the time. Even the most chronic problems have periods or times when the difficulties do not occur or are less intense. By studying these times when problems are less severe or even absent, we discovered that people do many positive things that they are not fully aware of. By bringing these small successes into their awareness and repeating the successful things they do when the problem is less severe, people improve their lives and become more confident about themselves.And, of course, there is nothing like experiencing small successes to help a person become more hopeful about themselves and their life. When they are more hopeful, they become more interested in creating a better life for themselves and their families. They become more hopeful about their future and want to achieve more. Because these solutions appear occasionally and are already within the person, repeating these successful behaviors is easier than learning...
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...Kat Biddle Mr. Martinous Composition II 28 November 2012 Life’s a Twitch: The Misconceptions and Personal Impact of Tourette Syndrome Georges Albert Edouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette was a French physician who today would be known as a neurologist and the physician whose name is the eponym for Tourette syndrome. Tourette syndrome was discovered more than a hundred years ago, in 1885, by Gilles de la Tourette while he was a physician at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France. Tourette syndrome (also called, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or, simply Tourette's or TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic. These tics characteristically wax and wane, can be suppressed temporarily, and are preceded by a premonitory urge. Tourette's is defined as part of a spectrum of tic disorders, which includes transient and chronic tics. (Mashpedia.com) Tourette syndrome (TS) is easily misunderstood and as a society we scrutinize these people for having bad behaviors or parents for not being able to control their children. Tourette’s can impact a person/family’s life socially and emotionally because of the misconceptions of Tourette’s. With the first symptoms of TS appearing in early childhood, they become more apparent closer to adolescences and TS can be a chronic lifelong condition with no cure, with progressing symptoms appearing...
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...Context of Interview and Subject Background It was a cold morning as I walked up the hill toward my neighbor’s house. The monkey grass needles bent with the weight of frozen dew. I look to my left and Tim has planted eight blueberry bushes. An addition to the garden both he and his wife tend. A gentle knock at the door and I am warmly welcomed by Tim's wife Lynn. She directs me to the living room where I sit to begin the interview. Tim says to me "it's going to be hard to put sixty five years into an hour and a half, but I will do my best". Tim and his wife live in a four bedroom house that was built in 1980. It is a wonderfully quaint red brick house, secluded in five acres of woods that is just six miles from downtown Knoxville. The inside of the house is fully decorated and furnished, but without clutter. I am immediately offered coffee and cinnamon toast. I begin by asking Tim to tell me his life story in his own words. Tim was born in 1946, the first year of the baby boomers, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was raised in a Catholic family that instilled core values in his life. Tim and his wife Lynn have six children and several grandchildren. There are pictures of family on many walls of the house. In his life he has served in the military during Vietnam, graduated from college, had a successful career, and even raised a family. As he begins, my pen is moving, and it hardly stops for the next hour and a half. Cultural Identity "Identity, or a sense...
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...different issues using ten different articles from Business week and five sources of peer reviewed articles. The first issue that we addressed was Global Self-Awareness which is “the continuum through which students develop a mature, integrated identity with a systemic understanding of the interrelationships among the self, local and global communities, and the natural and physical world.” The next issue addressed was Perspective which is “Taking the continuum through which students develop a mature, integrated identity with a systemic understanding of the interrelationships among the self, local and global communities, and the natural and physical world. Another issue we addressed was Cultural Diversity which is “the ability to recognize the origins and influences of one’s own cultural heritage along with its limitations in providing all that one needs to know in the world.” The next issue talked about was Personal and Social Responsibility which is “the ability to recognize one’s responsibilities to society-locally, nationally, and globally- and to develop a perspective on ethical and power relations both across the globe and within individual societies.” The next topic discussed was Understanding Global Systems which is “the complex and overlapping worldwide systems, including natural systems and human systems, which operate in observable patterns and often are affected by or are the result of human design or disruption. The final topic addressed was Applying Knowledge to...
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...1960s, up 12 % since then. Obesity is not to be confused with being overweight. Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute guidelines (NHLBI)" (p.708). Ferraro and Kelley-Moore (2003) go on to claim that, “Obesity is an important mediating variable between socioeconomic status and health. Persons of lower socioeconomic status are more likely to be obese, and the effect of obesity reduces the independent association between socioeconomic status and health measures” (p.724). There are many arguments about what is causing obesity, poor diet, genetics and low socioeconomic status are just a few factors blamed for obesity. Adler and Stewart (2009) reinforce Ferraro and Kelley-Moore’s findings of the correlations between socioeconomic status and obesity, “Environment also plays a role in obesity. Poor communities lack health promoting resources; for example, poorer communities have fewer supermarkets, more fast-food restaurants, and fewer accessible and safe recreational opportunities” (p.49-50). In the next ten years obesity will be at its highest rates if it continues on this path. With healthcare costs rising and obesity putting people at high risk for serious health problems, human kind will experience great social change for the worse if serious changes are not made. Adler and Stewart (2009) go on to state that, “Over the last half century, the U.S. population’s life expectancy...
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...incidents and outlines some strategies to help encourage young bystanders to act in these situations. OUR CHILDREN Nov./Dec. 2003, pp. 8-10 Reprinted with permission from National PTA. Article originally appeared in OUR CHILDREN magazine, Vol.29, No.3, November/December 2003 pp. 8-10. The Bystander: A Bully's Often-Unrecognized Accomplice By Margaret Sagarese and Charlene C. Giannetti A few years ago, an upstate New York newspaper headline noted that 60 high school girls and boys, ages 14 to 21, faced criminal prosecution for leering at and cheering on two brawling 15-year-old boys. The headline and accompanying story startled us. What we found amazing about this news item was that the police were holding "the human boxing ring" accountable. The "innocent bystander" status usually accorded people on the periphery of such violence was ruled out. The furor over the Glenbrook North High School (Northbrook, Illinois) incident this past May also stripped bystanders of innocence. Even though no one watching or videotaping the vicious female hazing was formally charged, public outrage reverberated throughout the country. The senior girls barraged junior girls with mud, garbage, human feces, and paint thinner while beating many of them with fists, kicks, and buckets. After the videotape surfaced,...
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...Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. “Manager should do everything they can to enhance the job satisfaction of their employees”. Discuss your view on and support your position whether you agree or disagree to the above emphasis. 2 2.1 What is Job satisfaction? 2 2.2 What are the outcome of job satisfaction? 3 2.3 Understanding employee attitudes and motivation 4 2.4 Methods for Increasing Job Satisfaction 5 2.5 Responsibility of manager on job satisfaction 5 3. “Thirty-five year ago, the young employees we hired were ambitious, conscientious, hardworking and honest. Today`s young workers don’t have the same values towards work.” Do you agree or disagree with this manager`s comments? Support your position with research evidence. 6 3.1 Values 6 3.2 Values Across Cultures 7 3.2.1 Power distance 8 3.2.2 Individualism versus collectivism 8 3.2.3 Masculinity versus Femininity 8 3.2.4 Uncertainty Avoidance Index 8 3.2.5 Long term orientation versus short term normative orientation 8 3.2.6 Indulgence versus Restraint 8 3.3 Deficiency, Need and Desire differ the values of individual 8 3.3.1 Physiological needs 9 3.3.2 Safety needs 9 3.3.3 Love and belonging 10 3.3.4 Esteem 10 3.3.5 Self-actualization 10 4. “Recognition may be motivational for the moment but it does not have any staying power. It`s an empty reinforce, because when you go to the grocery store, they don’t take the recognition as a form of payment.” Discuss...
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... Abstract In recent years there has been a surge in the number of young girls living as teenage prostitutes. The average age of a teenage prostitute today is 13 years old, and this problem has hit communities from the impoverished to the upper middle class. The lure into prostitution has captured girls that are runaways from broken homes, as well as those who suffered emotional and sexual abuse. Although these girls are offenders, they are first victims; thus causing advocates, social workers, and policy makers to unite to establish prevention programs and provide help to those girls living as prostitutes under the hands of men who represent themselves as their pimp a way of escape. Teenage prostitution is a problem in our community that many have failed to look at the severity of its growing presence. The number of girls living a life of prostitution has greatly increased over the last few years and is now beginning to draw local and national attention. The numbers and tragic stories of these young girls lured into this lifestyle for various reasons are beginning to cause society to stop and take notice. Girls as young as eleven years of age are being forced into a lifestyle of prostitution as a means for survival. In order to begin to work on addressing the problem of teen prostitution, it is important to understand the dynamics of this cycle of lifestyle choice today and why it has become so widespread. The community...
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