The effects of residence location on parental involvement with the school
Dissertation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Various educators, the public and other education policy makers have tried to ascertain whether there is any impact of residence location on the parental involvement in schools. In a bid to obtain such relationship, educational stakeholders have carried out various researches and studies to find...
Spankers and Non spankers
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Despite the fact that the study revealed that mothers were more likely to spank their children if they received intense messages on spanking, received less intense messages that opposed spanking, if their children were younger, and in case they came from poor socioeconomic...
Advantages of public/private schools over home schooling
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
There is a current trend among parents of school-age children around the world to educate kids at home instead of in an institutional form. Although these parents want the best education and choices for their children and emphasize the difference, as well as the benefits of the home...
Substance abuse in the media
Case study - 4 pages - Journalism
Differing from the traditional advertising, the depictions from the media regarding the legal drugs do not invite any criticism since they are regarded to be positive and not as an advert. The outcome portrays mixed messages to young people about these substances, significantly contributed by the...
Adverse and positive effects of Video Games
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Children are vital part of the information age. Information is shared quicker today than ever before. This allows trends to prevail quicker than ever before as well. One phenomena that seemed to be a trend, is becoming an actual rite of passage for children. Video games are in...
Cognitive Development Perspectives of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Teacher preparation with regard to teaching students is a very sensitive issue and there is need to consider the cognitive development perspectives of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. These two theorists provide different perspectives about young children's learning patterns, but they both...
Marketing Mix - H&M
Case study - 4 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Since the opening of the first store in 1947, the H&M brand has continued to perfect its growing success. Specialising in the sale of ready-to-wear clothing, H&M is known for its good quality products at affordable prices. It evolves in the market of clothing and accessories for women, men, and...
Marketing Mix - Zara
Case study - 4 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Zara is a Spanish brand of clothing for women, men and children. A few years ago, the brand created a line called Zara HOME, which includes decorative objects and articles intended for the home, sold in different stores. The Zara brand is owned by the Spanish group Inditex. Zara is...
The Guardian, We are family - Maureen Rice (2002) - Gay Adoption
Presentation - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
The document is an editorial analysis in the form of an oral presentation on the theme of gay adoption. The 1976 Adoption Act prohibited unmarried couples from jointly adopting a child. Twenty-five years later, on May 16, 2002, the British government presented an amendment in order to lift the...
Marketing Mix - Disney
Case study - 4 pages - International marketing
Walter Elias Disney co-founder of the Walt Disney Company with his brother Roy since 1923. Originally few people know that Walter had created a production company alone which unfortunately went bankrupt, during which time he produced Alice in Wonderland. However, he did not let that hold him back...
Trusts Problem Question
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
There are various ways of dealing with this group of people, in order to ensure they receive what they are entitled under the will. Firstly, HH has mentioned charitable status, and one needs to first explore whether ‘Children of Paradise' can fit under the rules governing charitable...
Room to read, a charitable organization
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The first step in the analysis is the category of the organization. There are six steps that evaluate whether an organization or a business. The motivation of the founder is often contained in the mission statement of the business, because mission statements often communicate the values of the...
Leandro v. State of North Carolina, 488 S.E.2d 249 (1997) - Educational Equity in North Carolina: The Leandro Case and Its Impact on Achieving a Sound Basic Education
Case study - 11 pages - Educational studies
Amid the complex web of North Carolina's educational framework, two persistent issues exist - the challenge of achieving educational equity and the struggle to provide a high-quality academic environment to all students. In a multicultural context where people from different communities and...
SWOT Analysis - Burberry
Case study - 5 pages - Luxury marketing
Initially, in 1856, it was only the British tailor Thomas Burberry who made men's clothing such as coats and raincoats. Burberry clothes were intended for the wealthy of the time, given their quality and lust. Indeed, the British Royal family granted the brand this recognition in 1955, and...
Speech on Violence Against Women
Speech - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Good afternoon. I am here to speak to you about violence against women. Violence against women is widespread across the whole world and is a major problem in the public health industry. Domestic violence is one of the most common acts of violence against women. Large amounts of domestic violence...
Comparison and Contrast Essay - Araby and The Lesson
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
“Araby” presents a character, the narrator, who secretly finds himself emotionally in love with a girl from his locality, but never talks his heart out. He has a caring family, his aunt and an uncle. “The Lesson” on the other hand narrates of Ms. Moore, a lady who gives back...
Role of education in gender equality: stereotyping
Presentation - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Today, I would like to present you the emergence of the patriarchal social structure started approximately 12 000 years ago when ancient civilizations became agricultural societies. The structural aspect of societies led to an increase of power and professional skills among men that directly...
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger's (1951)
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
This novel is often considered to have been the bible of the postwar young, the story of Holden Caulfield, an upper-middle-class adolescent schoolboy just on the edge of losing his presocial and presexual innocence - which he is able to express, like Huckleberry Finn, in his own vivid vernacular...
Idea of progress - Can the new generation change the world?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I am going to ponder over the notion of progress. So, before all, let me introduce it. The idea of progress concerns a forward movement permitted by eventual actions or prowess. It's something which can concern a lot of subjects as politics, technic, or even sciences. But the type of progress...
Places and forms of power - Can young people have a real impact on the world?
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
I am going to ponder over the notion of places and forms of power. So before all, let me introduce it. The power refers to the ability to act, to exercise an influence on something. It can be divided in several categories: there is the legislative, the executive, the judiciary power. For...
Analyzing the links between disability and child abuse and evaluating the role of Social Services with regards to Disabled Child Protection
Thesis - 21 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The protection of children is today a high profile issue, within both the voluntary and statutory sectors, although the abuse of disabled children is a matter that has only recently attracted professional interest. Whilst many people find it difficult to believe that disabled...
Committee on the rights of the child
Thesis - 22 pages - Civil law
The Convention on the Rights of the Child and two Optional Protocols have marked a turning point in international law and children are essential tools in the implementation of national laws designed to stop crimes that are sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,...
Epidemic of Obesity in the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Medical studies
Research on the epidemic of obesity in the United States demonstrates that in the past decade, the number of adults and children classified as overweight or obese has increased drastically (Evans & Renaud, 2006). In particular, researchers have noted that at the present time, 15 percent of...
A child's sex and age as predictors of the total time spent engaging in sex-specific toy play
Tutorials/exercises - 14 pages - Philosophy
This naturalistic observational study examined the effect of a child's sex and age with regard to how long comparatively that child is likely to engage in the three established categories of sex-specific toy play: male sex-specific toy play, female sex-specific toy play, and neutral toy play....
Child advocacy groups and class action lawsuits
Essay - 9 pages - Other law subjects
Children's Rights, Inc. is one organization dedicated to improving and reforming state-run child welfare systems, and ensuring that those state-run child welfare systems are held accountable for providing safe and adequate environments for the children under their care. Since the...
Divorce and its effect on educational development
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Divorce is something that we see more often in society today. From starting as an unheard of phenomenon within families, divorce has increased, and is encompassing more and more children each and every year. Is divorce something that we as educators can expect to affect our students?...
Legal issues in child health
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Lawyers are uniquely suited to help improve the health of today's children. Many would argue that health insurance and ethics are the dominant concern in the health of America's youth. The best legal support for children is to help allow the child to participate in their own...
The experience of the Indian and Pakistani immigrant communities in Great Britain from 1948 to 1971
Essay - 42 pages - Modern history
The history of Indian and Pakistani presence in Britain is long as it dates back to the seventeenth century. Yet the influence of the South Asian community was almost insignificant at that time, for its size remained very small. Only after the Second World War (1939-1945) did South Asian...
The importance of developing self-esteem in childhood
Essay - 9 pages - Psychology
The aim of this essay is to create a body of knowledge for a follow-on research on the subject of the impact of self-esteem on the behaviour of primary school pupils. For this purpose, information was gathered through observations as well as through study and analysis of materials presented in...
The relevance of attribution theory to educational psychology
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Attribution theory refers to the “causal explanations that individuals infer for their own behavior, and that of others, in an attempt to interpret their social world” (Burgner and Hewstone, 1993. p.125). As Eslea (1999) notes, “attributional styles have been found to be an...
