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  • At Promise - Children and Families

    At Promise - Children and Families

    “At Promise”: Children and Families When an individual hears the words, ‘at risk’, they immediately think of all the negative characteristics of terminology: teen pregnancy, troubled teens, gang bangers, drop outs, substance abusers, and so on. I know I sure did. In reading Beth Blue Swadener’s article, “Children and Families “at Promise”: Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk”, I’ve learned that there are so much more to labeling at student ‘at risk’. There is actually a

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    Essay Length: 1,366 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Alcoholism and Its Effects on the Family

    Alcoholism and Its Effects on the Family

    Alcoholism and its Effects On the Family Alcohol is a very powerful drug. It can ruin someone’s life. It may also be able to ruin everyone that alcoholic lives around. But first what is alcoholism. Alcoholism is a chronic disorder characterized by dependence on alcohol, repeated excessive use of alcoholic beverages, development of withdrawal symptoms on reducing or ceasing alcohol intake, morbidity that may include cirrhosis of the liver, and decreased ability to function socially

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    Essay Length: 648 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Family as a Product of the Environment

    Family as a Product of the Environment

    What is family? Family can be described in several ways, a group of persons of common ancestry, or by a person’s perceived view of what a family actually is. Everyone has their own beliefs on what actually makes and defines a family. We will compare the views on family based on Karl Marx’s “Communist manifesto” and Jose Saramago’s “The Cave” to see the differences and similarities that take place, and then we will come to

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    Essay Length: 1,610 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Yan
  • Social Work Intervention with the Disabled and Their Families

    Social Work Intervention with the Disabled and Their Families

    OC 28: Social Work Intervention with the Disabled and their Families Case Study: Select a family of the disabled child/PWD (person with disability). Become acquainted with the PWD/ family through interviews. Case: Jeevan Anand Chavan, 25 years • Introduction Jeevan Anand Chavan is a 25 year old, enthusiastic individual whose vivacity takes you by surprise and makes you want to know more of him. He is working as a Project Coordinator (Self-Employment Scheme) at The

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    Essay Length: 634 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jon
  • Effects of a Non-Traditional Family on Children

    Effects of a Non-Traditional Family on Children

    Family helps mold every person into who they eventually will become. The family is a guide for the success of a child’s future. The stability of family creates a building block for how the child will progress throughout life. When parents divorce, the children are left with no stability causing them to lose basic concepts of childhood that may carry with them throughout life. Children of divorced parents have less success and happiness creating less

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    Essay Length: 1,725 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Family Essay

    The Family Essay

    When I was in India, I have heard lot of people going America for study. One of my cousins also came her for study. She told me that study in America and in India is so different. I was very eager to know about it. She told me the main difference is: The relationship between teacher and student, study policy, unity of students. To respect teachers is very important in India. Students have to

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    Essay Length: 442 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Effects of Single Parenting on the Family

    The Effects of Single Parenting on the Family

    The Effects of Single Parenting on the Family Single parenting has been a part of me throughout my entire life. Being raised in a single parent home, my mother struggled to support her four children. Today, I also am a single parent experiencing many of the same stressors my mother had to endure. While observing my mother juggle the time she spent working, mentoring her children, and participating in church activities, I had no idea

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    Essay Length: 2,720 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Yan
  • Importance of Family Life

    Importance of Family Life

    Importance of Family Life Euripides, a famous Greek playwright once wrote, “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” This quote is extremely prevalent in the unit of socialization. Throughout this unit, three films were used to exemplify the importance of a solid home foundation and the effects of what happens if a child is deprived of this. In one of the films Stand by Me which was originally written by Stephen King, offers an

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    Essay Length: 914 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Tasha
  • A Bit About Divorce and the Effects of Divorce on a Family’s Well Being

    A Bit About Divorce and the Effects of Divorce on a Family’s Well Being

    A Bit about Divorce and the Effects of Divorce on a Family’s Well Being Boy meets girl. Girl and boy fall in love and get married. Girl and boy have children and life could not possibly get any better. Many years later: Boy and girl start to notice something different in their relationship, something wrong. They decide that their relationship is over, whether they’re both happy with that decision or not and they divorce. Boy

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    Essay Length: 1,558 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Bred
  • A Death in the Family

    A Death in the Family

    The story takes place in 1915 in Knoxville, Tennessee, where Jay Follet, an ordinary man approaching middle age, lives with his wife Mary and their two small children, Rufus, who is about six, and Catherine, who is almost four. One night he gets an anxious telephone call from his brother Ralph asking him to the bedside of their sick father, who appears to be at death's door. Jay agrees to go, and in an excellent

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    Essay Length: 1,461 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Family and Environment

    Family and Environment

    FAMILY STUDIES ASSIGNMENT 4. Using data available from Statistics Canada, summarize the demographic changes that have occurred in the formation of marriages in Canada since Confederation. 5. Summarize the evidence from the chapter that supports procreation, love, and companionship, identity, and economics as the purposes of marriage. Explain which purpose appears to be the most relevant today. 8. Should cohabitation have the same legal standing as marriage, or should cohabitation be an alternative relationship for

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    Essay Length: 355 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Business Life Vs. Family Life

    Business Life Vs. Family Life

    Business Life vs. Family Life “The Metamorphosis” written in 1912 by Frank Kafka is one most popular and read novellas of twentieth century literature. A story, which captures the life of Gregor Samsa a businessman who strives to keep his family (parents and sister) financially stable. Until one day, Gregor awakes to find himself morphed into a “vermin”. However, this metamorphosis is not what dehumanizes Gregor. Gregor had alienated himself long before his metamorphosis into

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    Essay Length: 865 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Max
  • Philippine Law on Persons and Family Relations: What It Says, What It Means, and Why It Is like That

    Philippine Law on Persons and Family Relations: What It Says, What It Means, and Why It Is like That

    PHILIPPINE LAW ON PERSONS AND FAMILY RELATIONS: WHAT IT SAYS, WHAT IT MEANS, AND WHY IT IS LIKE THAT By Gilbert S. Coronel I. THE BARANGAY The Philippines is an archipelago. It has more than 7,100 islands and the islands form three main groups: Luzon up north, Mindanao down south, and Visayas in the middle. Early historians claim that the original inhabitants of the archipelago were Negritos, who were short, dark, kinky-haired and snub nosed.

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    Essay Length: 1,346 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Artur
  • First They Kiled My Father - Family

    First They Kiled My Father - Family

    Q. In times of upheaval, it is one’s family that is important. Discuss. First They Killed My Father is a highly emotional, moving account of the survival of a family - a family brought together through challenging times. The importance of family in the survival of Loung and her siblings throughout and beyond the Khmer Rouge years cannot be overstressed. Essential family values such as a mother’s love for her children, obedience to caring father’s

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    Essay Length: 472 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Family Worship

    Family Worship

    FAMILY WORSHIP A paper presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the course EN 153(A)-Research Technique To Mrs. Annie Sanjeevan By Jervis Date: November, 2002 OUTLINE FAMILY WORSHIP Family worship in the morning and evening is essential for the spiritual life of the family. I. Home A. School B. Training Center for the Children 1. For Ministry 2. For Way of Life 3. For How to Speak II. Family Worship is Important A.

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    Essay Length: 1,924 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • Well Child Care for a Somali Bantu Family

    Well Child Care for a Somali Bantu Family

    Running Head: WELL CHILD CARE FOR A REFUGEE SOMALI BANTU FAMILY Well Child Care for a Somali Bantu Family Community This project consisted of the Somali Bantu refugees living in the Tennessee Village Community in Nashville, TN. Within this population set, the subset includes families with children aged 12 months and younger. It is estimated that 8-12,000 Somali Bantu will to arrive in the US in the 2003-2004 year (USDS:IIP, 2003). Of this 8-12,000 refugees,

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    Essay Length: 770 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Janna
  • Family Assessment

    Family Assessment

    One of our main objectives as future nurses is to understand individual patients is to first gain an understanding of family background. Working with family from a systems perspective, the nurse is able to gain an understanding to the ways in which family members interact, what the family norms and expectations are, how effectively members communicate, who makes decisions, and how the family deals with needs and expectations (Edleman & Mandle, 2002). In the concept

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    Essay Length: 1,570 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: July
  • Do You Feel Family Is the Most Important Influence on Their Children?

    Do You Feel Family Is the Most Important Influence on Their Children?

    I have watched a movie which is called “The Dead Poets Society” recently. Roughly, it tells the story about the relationship between students and teachers as well as their parents. After watching this movie, it gave me an insight into the influences of family. How children are influenced by their parents often hinges significantly on what is termed parental style. Since family is the first school a child enters, parents are children’s primary role models,

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    Essay Length: 782 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Edward
  • Violent and the Role of Family

    Violent and the Role of Family

    Topic: Violence & the role of family. The massacre at Virginia Tech can be linked with the responsibilities of family. One of the most reason lead to crime Children whose parents have divorced are increasingly the victims of abuse and neglect. They exhibit more health, behavioral, and emotional problems, are involved more frequently in crime and drug abuse, and have higher suicide rates The breakdown of marriage or family is the real root causes of

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    Essay Length: 848 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Good Enough Family

    The Good Enough Family

    The Good Enough Family The families of the not too distant past were oriented along four axes. These axes were not mutually exclusive. Some overlapped, all of them enhanced each other. People got married because of social pressure and social norms (the Social Dyad), to form a more efficient or synergetic economic unit (the Economic Dyad), in pursuit of psychosexual fulfilment (the Psychosexual Dyad), to secure a long term companionship (the Companionship Dyad). Thus, we

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    Essay Length: 261 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Max
  • The Developing Family

    The Developing Family

    RESOURCE REVIEW The Developing Child: Focusing on Nurturing and Learning Magna Systems, Illinois VHS 28 minutes Available at DBCC This resource discusses children with disabilities with a focus on each individual child and their personal character traits. It also takes into account the child’s parents and how the disability affects them as they learn to cope with the situation. Although a child has a disability, this resource reminds us that it does not make them

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    Essay Length: 398 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The American Family

    The American Family

    The American Family The essay “The American Family”, written by Stephanie Coontz, takes a historical perspective to examine the contrast between common beliefs about the past and the reality of that time. Furthermore, Coontz analyzes and challenges the conventional view that families today face worse problems than in the past. According to Coontz, families today face a multitude of problems, arising out of fears about inattentive parenting, teen violence, child abuse, conflicted marriages, and antisocial

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    Essay Length: 536 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Victor
  • The American Family

    The American Family

    Just picture the typical American family going on a short trip to grandma’s house. Do you see dad in the driver’s seat, mom on the passenger’s side, and the kids in the back? What about an old red station wagon? One might picture a father who is a little too nerdy for his own good; a mother who is calm, cool, and collected and maybe just a little too pretty for the dad. If the

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    Essay Length: 634 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Poside Family Tree

    Poside Family Tree

    POSEIDON is the son of KRONOS (Cronos) and RHEIA, brother of ZEUS, HADES, HESTIA, DEMETER and HERA. He is one of the six original Olympians. His mission is to give voice to the earth. Poseidon was commonly called the Earth-Shaker and the Earth-Encircler in the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer. He pounds and shakes the earth and sea with his wrath and pleasure and answers to no one, except Zeus. His kingdom is the

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    Essay Length: 358 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: regina
  • Utah Family Center

    Utah Family Center

    We chose to learn about, evaluate and present the Utah Family Center. The goals of this paper are; to explain the logistics of the program, to tie together what we learned with Epstein's Framework, to describe the climate and those who typically utilize the center, and include some final concluding thoughts about the center. As a group, we referred to the Utah Family Center website, we visited and walked through the center, and we talked

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    Essay Length: 1,568 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Bred

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