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Lives of Street Kids, 2002.
A comparison essay that contrasts "Youth Gangs and Moral Panics in Santa Cruz" by Tim Lucas and "Living on the Street: Social Organization and Gender Relations in Australian Street Kids" by Hilary Winchester and Lauren Costello.
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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Discussing how gang activity is on the rise throughout the United States, along with the poverty that is the root cause. Comparing two articles that deal with this issue - Tim Lucas' article focuses on the general panic across America concerning the presence and spread of gangs. It explores the barriers built between the white majority and the impoverished Hispanic minority in Santa Cruz's Beach Flats area, and discusses how these barriers have affected the rise of gangs. The second article details a study in which Australian street kids were observed and interviewed. This study focused on gender relations between street kids as well as social organization and moral conduct. These two articles are compared on several grounds, this first being an assessment of the main points of each, second is an evaluation of their contributions to the literature on this subject. Next, the differing approaches to research are contrasted, as well as the results of this research. Finally, the strengths and weaknesses of each article are compared.
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"The issue of urban poverty, homelessness and gangs is a very serious one, and will only continue to gain importance as more and more of the world develops. These two articles both deal with this issue but in very different ways. Lucas tries to develop a model that can be universally applied to urban gangs, and does this through the example of the Beach Flats area of Santa Cruz. It?s main conclusions are that although youth crime is increasing, there is an over inflated fear of this increase, and that it is the boundaries formed in the midst of this moral panic that the problem of youth gangs is exacerbated. Winchester and Costello?s article is at the opposite end of the spectrum, in that it focuses solely on a single group of homeless children, in an attempt to understand their nature more thoroughly, but with no attempt made to provide deeper insight into the problem of homelessness as a whole."
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Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids, 2005.
An overview of the Nigerian Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper presents a brief introduction to Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids, a benefaction of the Edo prince Nosa Okunbor and others, often of the Nigerian elite abroad. The paper shows that the organization is typical of those that emerge in response to particular, topical developments, in this case, the news that Nigerian anti-AIDS treatment was being extended to adult cases, ignoring the countries thousands HIV positive children.
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"The mass media can give the idea that large and longstanding non-governmental organizations, or United Nations agencies, are the main source of relief or development work in poor societies. However, Nigeria's Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids provides a reminder of how important quite small, and privately financed projects can be. The charity's main sponsor has been Prince Nosa Okunbor, a member of a family much involved in different kinds of Christian and other Edo activism, alert to the need to invest in children in sub-Saharan Africa, as the only chance for the future."
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"Myspace: Your Kids' Danger", 2008.
A rhetorical and semiotic analysis of a CBS news item, "Myspace: Your Kids' Danger: Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators," by Sandra Hughes.
3,101 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper presents a rhetorical analysis of Sandra Hughes' CBS news item, "MySpace: Your Kids' Danger? Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators." It aims to move beyond the implicit and relatively superficial review of the text to a fuller understanding of how the text creates meaning, how it helps the reader to construct knowledge and how it sways us to take action. The paper specifically looks at how the language of this article works.
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"Visually, the story is arranged as a headline, a smaller-font secondary headline, and then twenty-two paragraphs, this for a story containing not quite 650 words. Immediately below the headlines, half of the reading column is taken up by a graphical image showing a computer in silhouette with transparencies of several young children, mostly girls, and several of them using cellphones. Below the graphic is a quote, suggesting the danger the article warns of. The effect of the graphic, the quote, and the headlines is to draw readers to the story that follows, a story that opens with three suggestive vignettes about children being approached in a sexually explicit manner on the Internet. Two of the three teenage girls described in the opening vignettes were murdered."
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Not All Kids are Created Equal, 2005.
This paper argues that, because not all kids are created equal, the educational system of tracking as represented by the core curriculum approach should be abolished.
1,730 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper explains that, by schooling low-ability pupils and high-ability pupils together, the low-ability pupils may wrongly come to understand their position in the hierarchy as a reflection of individual worth and most often do even worse academically than before. The author points out that many European schools do not employ tracking and yet their students as a rule perform better than American students. The paper stresses that, if a child runs into problems, only a careful analysis of his own personal case can ever hope to resolve the difficulties rather than imposing a core curriculum that is the same for every child.
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"Nor will dividing an individual class into ability groups necessarily alter relative performance. This method, while having the advantage of keeping the students together at least on a social level, still divides them when it comes to learning. If the teaching method used with each group is identical, the division into groups will only benefit that group for whom the teaching method is most suited. A "head start" reading program in pre-school for example, will benefit high-ability students but will likely do nothing for low-ability students who need more attention or cannot keep up with the pace. At the same time, students who flunk out of such a program will then be behind their peers. In other words instead of being on the "fast track," they will be on the road to underachievement. Once a bad apple, always a bad apple."
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Divorce and Kids, 2002.
Uses studies to determine the effect of divorce on children.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper examines the effect that divorce has on kids. Uncertainty is a big factor for kids as they grow. Studies are looked at in this paper in examining this important topic in our society.
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Larry Clark's Controversial Film "KIDS", 2000.
A look at how this film is meant to be a commentary on the need for parental supervision in an adolescent's life.
2,120 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 66.95
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This paper provides an overview of the film "KIDS" and looks at the issues that the film brings up such as AIDS, drugs, violence and teenage sex. The paper shows that the film?s intention is not to encourage the behavioral problems that the teens in this movie portrayed, but to emphasize the importance of the role of a parent in a teenager's life.
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"In the summer of 1995 Larry Clark, an established stills photographer, shocked society with his first directed movie known as KIDS. Over the course of one humid Manhattan day this film follows the lives of a handful of teens in the streets of New York. So much controversy has arisen due to the plethora of profanity, drugs, violence, and sex that take place in the brief hour and a half movie. Within this day there are three sex scenes, occurrences of trespassing, stealing, urinating in public, and a disturbing scene where a mob of teens beat up an African American. The director used such extreme measures to force people to think twice about teenagers? activities and actions that are undoubtedly shaping our youth. Since kids are not getting enough attention from their parents they look for it in another place, with their friends. Teenagers find it fundamental to fit in with a group of friends because friendships appear to be the only way to cure loneliness. Friendships allow teens to fit in, but at the same time they can be easily influenced to do things that they would not normally do. Larry Clark portrays teenagers as violent drug abusers, who are being ignorant towards societal rules and end up living unruly lives. Obviously, not all teenagers live this type of fractious life, which is most prevalent in the inner city population. Every teenager does not do drugs and routinely walk down the streets of their neighborhood with forty's of Old English in the mid day. But the movie KIDS portrays what can happen to any teen. While parents are too involved with their jobs, inner city New York teens get lost in the hustle and bustle environment and are forced to experience reality on their own. Lacking love from their family some teenagers take it upon themselves to start doing what they want, when they want. This often results in the teen losing respect for all authority and they become inconsiderate for other beings. As they become their own parents they may get increasingly vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases, like AIDS. All of these possible results stem in part from the absence of an authority figure in a teenager's life."
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Rich Kids and Crime, 2004.
This paper discusses that a new culture and "breed" of children, who come from wealthy backgrounds and whose behavior is characterized by a tendency towards crime, is developing.
1,735 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 56.95
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This paper explains that, while societies in the Western world have become wealthier, the traditional cultural bonds and structures for youth guidance in communities have weakened; parents of these children express their affection by giving their children money and material possessions instead of love and positive guidance. The author points out that numerous reports indicate that rich kids are more inclined to commit crimes, knowing their parents have the resources to get them out of trouble. This paper stresses that crime among wealthy children is often an expression of neglect or rejection and a rebellion against a society that offers them no meaning.
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"Why do ?rich kids? get involved in crime? There are a number of possible reasons. One of the often-suggested reasons for this phenomenon is that rich kids are ?spoilt?. This means that wealthily children have too much time and money on their hands and, having exhausted their avenues of entertainment, turn to crime for thrills and excitement. Another view that many experts offer is that many rich kids are in fact neglected by their parents who are too busy making money to spend quality time with their offspring. This implies that parental neglect as a possible reason or catalyst for criminal activities. A study undertaken in the UK stresses the connection between a lack of parental supervision and the number of children from wealthy home that turn to crime."
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Straight Parents and Gay Kids, 2002.
Examines the socialogical and psychological complexities of relationships between straight parents and their gay children.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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The relationships between straight and "new" parents and gay children undergo complex social and psychological processes that lie mostly beyond their immediate emotional and social controls. This paper examines those processes, relevant theories of explaining those processes, and the positions of straight parents and gay kids in the processes.
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Kids that Kill, 2002.
A documented comparison of two powerful arguments of why children can become murderers.
6,620 words (approx. 26.5 pages), 36 sources, MLA, $ 151.95
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This paper examines the rising trend of cold-blooded, ruthless slayings performed by minors. It looks at recent cases and tries to establish what is turning these children into ruthless killers by analyzing two major issues, the impact of television violence on children and the issue of kids having access to guns as related to violent crime. It reviews the rise of violence on television and attempts to pinpoint the link between viewing violence and acting the violence out as well as evaluate what can be done about the media violence problem. It looks at current gun control laws and the ease in which minors can acquire firearms.
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"In Boston, no young people have died from gun wounds in more than two years thanks, in part, to gun tracking. What has made gun tracking easier to do is the fact that the possession of firearms among teens is ?chic??that is, children are bragging to their friends and displaying handguns that make them feel important and brings them attention from others. Nearly 13,000 guns were used in crimes in New York City last year alone. Of those, eleven percent came from juveniles. Nationwide, the figure is ten percent. In Seattle and Memphis, juveniles were responsible for more than twenty percent of illegal gun crimes. Experts have proven that if you want to decrease violent youth crime, you must decrease the supply of guns into the market."
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Kids and Contemporary Racism, 2002.
A discussion of the issue of racism and discrimination which influence the youth today.
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The writer of this paper addresses the issue of how prejudices and racism are caused by stereotypes. He then examines how this influences children and how youngsters are so exposed to these issues. The paper analyzes certain derogatory words and phrases and how their intentions can be misinterpreted.
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"Martin Luther King?s infamous words- ?I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character?- still resonate in today?s society. While it is clear that numerous advances and improvements have occurred in race relations over the past century, difficulties and tensions continue to persist. In recent years, violent rioting has occurred in Los Angeles, California in 1992 (after the white police officers who brutally beat Rodney King were acquitted) and a black man was dragged to his death behind a truck in Texas. Thus, it appears that the United States has a long road to travel if it ever hopes to truly reflect a ?melting pot.?"
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Television, Violence, and Kids, 2002.
A study of how violence in the media engenders violent behavior among the youth.
1,230 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper examines how, traditionally, people have looked for cues about how they should behave in their social environment from peers, family, school and church, and how, increasingly, these social cues regarding acceptable behavior have come from the media. It looks at how incidents such as the Columbine High School shootings were inspired by movies and the television. It discusses how television has a tremendous opportunity to instill good values and principles in today?s youth, but because of the amount of violence shown, it instead inspires violent behavior in children and adolescents in a variety of ways, as well as a certain long-term desensitization towards violence.
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"By inflating the prevalence of violence, television contributes to increased perceptions of the world as a dangerous place (Center for Communication and Social Policy 28). This increases the motivation of a child or teen to carry a weapon. Among urban youths, studies have shown that interpersonal violence is the greatest cause of death and injury. Gun violence has replaced accidents as the leading killer of children and adolescents each year. Although violence on television is not the only factor in these deaths, pediatricians have recognized exposure to media violence as a significant risk for their constituents (Hogan et al)."
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Domestic Violence and Kids, 2002.
A look at the effects of domestic violence on a child's psychological development.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 13 sources, $ 80.95
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A comprehensive 9-page literature review of the effects of domestic violence on a child's psychological development.
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City Shoes: The Horseshoe Game for City Kids, 2002.
Presents a marketing plan to produce and market a lawn game for children, based on traditional horseshoes.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 80.95
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City Shoes(tm) is a lawn game based on traditional horseshoes that employs large rubber washers instead of metal horseshoes. It is lightweight, portable, durable and safe. The marketing plan includes a SWOT analysis, marketing strategies directed at sporting goods stores and lawn and garden shops and processes for control and analysis of the plan.
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Racism and Sexism in Kids Books, 2002.
A look at three examples of children's literature where racism and sexism appear.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This seven-page undergraduate paper discusses three children's books: "The Indian in the Cupboard", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Five Chinese Brothers". The criteria are those of Norton and the Course Kit.
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Differences between Generations in Raising Kids, 2002.
An analysis of three post-WWII American generations.
3,635 words (approx. 14.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 101.95
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The paper shows that since the end of World War II, the American people have seen an extraordinary change in the economic, social and moral priorities of the nation and its people. It discusses the three generations which have grown up since the war, each positively and negatively influenced by their parents and social change. It explores the choices made by each generation in raising their children which have had an enormous effect on how the following generations turned out.
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"But the parents of baby boomers tended to encourage their children to occupy their free time by doing constructive things. Baby boomers were an extracurricular group in school, participating in many activities, including band, track, basketball, choir and dance. Children were also encouraged to get after school jobs, like paper routes or baby-sitting. By the 1980?s most afternoon papers had disappeared. While many children continued to get after school jobs, less did. Interest in after school activities declined during this time, as well, and malls and parking lots became popular after school hangouts."
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