Abstract
This research paper looks at the subject of disabled students and the advocacy that goes into developing their self-determination within the education context. Analyzing modern education and its use of integration, the writer looks at resources provided by both public and private groups that are being uses. In addition to this study are the methodologies used to help promote individualism amongst the disadvantaged in society.

Outline:
Introduction
Background
Literature Review
Steps to Curricular Development
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The literature review which is to be undertaken hereafter will consider the increasingly evident value in focusing inclusive special education according to the will, desire and interests expressed by the student. Allowing self-determination and encouraging self-advocacy have the potential not only to enhance individual engagement in one's process of education, but also begin to instill in the student a capacity for independence that will be crucial to make a transition toward secondary or occupational education. If the primary impetus of inclusive education is to actually pursue its declaimed ambitions of helping special needs students make the leap to further education or a profession, this interest in easing the transition is essential. Indeed, there is a wide range of resources available to students completing their publicly availed education which are not sufficiently utilized by families, schools or communities and there is also empirical cause to believe that there is a social impetus for refining and better illuminating these resources.
"Accordingly, we find that "existing research is very persuasive on the need to improve transitions for young disabled people. It can also be used to provide clues as to the sorts of support and service configurations that need to be in place to ensure positive transitions." (Beresford, 585) This constitutes the primary impetus for the transition plan recommended here. By helping the student to actively identity his own needs, and to distill his own detectable skills, an educational institution and family can help to channel his abilities into a desirable and productive future avenue."

Tags:disabilities, social work, advocacy, health care

Abstract
This paper proposes a study with the hypothesis that religion accounts for, in large part, the number of children born to a woman. It looks at how most studies have found that women's fertility rate is determined by religion and other variants, sometimes equally, such as cultural, socioeconomic, age at time of birth, education, income and urban or rural position.

Outline:
Introduction
Literature Review
Socioeconomic Factors on Fertility Rate, Compared to Religion
Religion as a Factor in Fertility Rates Among Hindus and Muslims
Rural and Urban Effects on Fertility
Fertility Decisions and Desires in Bangladesh
Effect of Religion through Fertility Norms and Possibility of Dissolution
The Relationship Between Religion And Fertility: Evidence From Austria
The Religious Denomination Factor in Fertility in Canada
Results of the Multivariate Analysis
Discussion
Summary and Suggestions

Hypothesis
Data
Analysis of the Data
Discussion
Summary and suggestions

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"After economic standing, a study by Lutz attempts to account for the effects of culture and religion on fertility rates. This study tries to assess the effects of culture and religion on fertility after accounting for a country's socioeconomic standing. Estimates for covariance models are analyzed for 128 countries between 1950 and 1975. The gross reproduction rate is the dependent variable and independent variables are infant mortality rates, aggregate standing of female education and gross domestic product per person. Categorical variables for religion and cultural region are taken into account as well. Surprisingly, even though socioeconomic standing is higher, European countries have lower fertility rates than Arab countries. Culture and religion have a measurable effect on fertility and in Arab countries it is positive. "

Tags:culture, hindus, muslims

Abstract
Never in American history was the Electoral College so "visible" to the voting public than in the 2000 Presidential election. The results of the election - which were nearly two months in determination - were not fully decided until the U.S. Supreme Court finally gave the nod to George W. Bush. Following that decision, the Electoral College has come under the microscope of intense scrutiny. Should it be abolished, changed, or just kept in place in its current form? Those are the issues I address in this paper.

Tags:AMERICAN STUDIES AND HISTORY / GOVERNMENT, electoral college viable

Abstract
This paper examines how Mu-lan, Jaia Sun Childers, Zhang Xinxin, and other contemporary Chinese female writers, persist with the idea that women cannot achieve a wholeness in the assumption of a role, whether it be that of Chinese soldier, revolutionary warrior, or scorned lover. It looks at how gender roles appear only to limit a woman; only once she has achieved wholeness with her femininity and her strength as a woman, outside of traditional bonds or in a cultural gender-neutral framework, can the Chinese woman truly aspire to autonomy, intellectualism, and love.

From the Paper
"Chinese women writers have found it necessary even in modern times, to reject the social roles that men have imposed upon them. These social roles represent one that is quite different from that which faced Mu-lan. For Chinese women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, it has become more crucial for them to bring the idea of femininity into focus, as opposed to Mu-lan who had to hide her femininity entirely. Much of this stems from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. At this time, many of the traditional social and moral values changed, and lost their validity. At this time, women writers who produced works which embraced and celebrated femininity were widely criticized for having thought and ideas that ran counter to the revolution."

Tags:mu-lan, jaia, sun, childers, zhang, xinxin

Abstract
Determinism says that the environment, heredity, defense mechanisms, and other influences direct the way people act. Soft determinism states that people are determined, but they also are free. The paper shows that human behavior is the result of different deterministic forces that directs them in making different choices with people not being forced to act in certain ways, because they have the freedom to make choices as shown and stated in the philosophy of soft determinism.

Tags:determinism, hobbes, philosophy

Abstract
This paper begins with a discussion and explanation of theories about free will and determinism, explaining that most people believe in both determinism and free will, even though there is a basic contradiction between the two theories. The paper then takes a look at how we can apply the theory of determinism to the study of criminal law and the judicial system if we, at the same time, believe in free will.

From the Paper
"Most individuals are inclined to believe that every event or occurrence has a cause, rather than think that things happen haphazardly. The belief that there is a cause to every event is known as determinism. To think otherwise would be considered nonsense. It would be ridiculous if someone thought, for example, that her clock stopped working for no reason whatsoever. Even if no one could determine the precise cause or causes, we still would not accept the idea that the clock's stopping had no cause. Whether the subject is clocks, lights coming on, the workings of a computer, or the common cold, each has a cause. The same could be said for the actions of humans, every action that is said or done have causes. An action is an event. The actions may be caused by hereditary, previous experiences, some peculiarity in personality, the circumstances under which the act occurred, etc. Most would agree that actions have causes; otherwise they would happen by chance and that is thought is frightening."

Tags:individuals, self-determining, agents, morally, responsible, actions, freely, freedom

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that health inequalities have a direct correlation to societal factors related to economic or social advantages or disadvantages. The writer maintains that to understand the social determinants of health in Canadian society it is necessary to appreciate not only the factors that lead to health inequalities (e.g., income, education), but also the societal forces that contribute to these factors (e.g., social, economic and political policies), and how the various determinants of health interact.

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"As early as the mid-nineteenth century political economists had identified a correlation between health and social class in Great Britain. By the end of the twentieth century there was a general consensus among scholars and policymakers in western countries that health inequalities have a direct correlation to societal factors related to economic or social (dis)advantages."

Tags:health, determinants, social

Abstract
This paper looks at liberty and determinism and whether man can change the future to make humanity better. The paper examines this question from the point of view of Marx, who believed in determinism, and of Sartre who believed in free will.

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"Marx believed that science could predict the future but only if that future was predetermined, i. e. the future is the present in the past. He believed in pragmatism and that a scientific background was needed by practical politicians, i. e. socialist politicians. He taught that science would yield practical results and that a person should always look at the practical results of a theory. Believing that science telescoped the past present and future together led Marx to the belief that a rigid scientific method..."

Tags:liberty, determinism, Marx, Sartre

Abstract
The paper details the notions of free will, soft determinism, and hard determinism with emphasis on the implications for moral responsibility. The paper also discusses the regularity theory that dissolves the argument.

From the Paper
"The ongoing argument regarding whether or not free will in fact exists is one that has far reaching implications concerning the nature of humanity's role in the universe, the appropriateness of praise and blame, and the notion of individual and moral responsibility. Are the hard determinists, those deeming that all natural events including human actions are predestined, correct in declaring that free will is an illusory, mythical concept? Are free will proponents correct in debunking determinists' theories..."

Tags:determinism, free will, soft, hard, moral responsibility, logical, epistemic, caustic

Abstract
In this article, the writer maintains that health is a social good that cannot be discussed or promoted in isolation and that depends on a wide range of conditions. This paper uses various examples to discuss the community health care process. The writer discusses that the concept of determinants of health can be very effective depending on the definition used and the perspective that results from it.

From the Paper
In the processes of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, all of those conditions must be taken into account. One of the best examples that illustrate the determinants of health in action relates to Native people with their issues such as substance abuse and suicide along with disease of poverty such as tuberculosis (Kosteniuk & Dickinson, 2003). Homeless and extremely poor people are prime targets for such disease.

Tags:determinants, nursing, health