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    Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered? Eighteen, that magical age, everyone has dreamed about turning. The number eighteen is significant in America because it is when teenagers are finally given the chance to show the world they’re responsible young adults. This group is no longer viewed as children in America, but as young adults who can experience the same rights and privileges as other adults. As society keeps growing and changing, the discussion to keep the drinking age at twenty-one or to…

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    Violence Analysis and Prevention/Intervention Juvenile Violence When studying any form of crime, we always come back to the offenders and juveniles. The following variety of questions are imposed: “What caused the behavior?”, “What could have been done to help?”, and “How can such behaviors be prevented?”. The path of crime and delinquency is always shaped during one’s upbringing. The childhood and early adolescent phase in one’s life is deemed the most important time the shaping one’s path…

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    Teen Mothers

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    paragraphs above. The opportunities provided by states leave a lot to be desired and are less than ideal. The educational arena further subjects this population to more scarlet letters as Pillow pointed out in 2006, accountability to and for these students is ignored even now after 43…

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    these women should simply leave their marriages, but if the risk of being left alone and destitute wasn't enough, Sharia law also states that a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man's. In simple terms, this means that in Afghan divorce cases parental custody will almost always be awarded to the father or grandfather; Afghan women are therefore further entrapped through fear of losing their children. The plight of Afghan women has been explored on a number of different platforms, not…

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    boarding school in France, where she then spent the remainder of her teenage years. While attending school, she was left with no direct parental guidance and instead relied upon the instruction of her caretakers as well as her own developmental instincts. She described this time as one of independence and self-sufficiency, but also loneliness as she was without the parental link that so many of us have come to rely on. Up until this point in my mother’s life, there are already numerous…

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    reasons why there is a large, disproportionate influx of Asian-American students choosing to pursue majors within the STEM fields. Could this observation be a result of parental pressure, culture factors, or something unique about the experiences of the individuals? It may honestly be a result of all these factors combined. Data Collection and Method For this project, I had interviewed three second-generation Asian-American students whose studies currently coincide within the STEM fields. All…

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    Egg Consumption

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    dependent variables in this study were the risk of CHD and stroke. The independent variables were egg consumption and characteristics of the participants (total energy/food intake; smoking; age; alcohol consumption; history of hypertension and diabetes; parental history of myocardial infarction (MI); body mass index (BMI); multivitamin use/vitamin E…

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    Dropout school students or low socioeconomic status students have less access to the resources therefore they have less knowledge about the risk factors related to tobacco use. During puberty, high school students are more likely to be curious to use tobacco products. At that time their attitudes plays a vital role to become future nicotine addictive. Some teens…

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    For example if a child is having problems at home which is not being communicated to staff then it may affect that child’s behaviour or attitude to school. By being open to all involved, you can prevent this and be immediately aware of any issues and therefore assist that child in coping. If communication is effective parents/carers are more likely to contribute to and offer support to the school. Also Communication is important because it provides you with a link to between people. It is…

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    The person I interviewed for this assignment was someone I knew from my high school. For the sake of keeping her identity secret, I will call her Jane. Jane is a seventeen-year-old 11th grader that lives in Maryland. She currently lives at home with her eight-year-old sister and her two relatively young parents. Jane’s mother got pregnant while she was living in El Salvador at the age of 19. Neither her nor her husband spoke English, but they wanted to move to the United States so that their…

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