Child welfare is a set of government and private services that protects children and encourages family stability. These services include investigations of alleged child abuse, foster care, adoption services, and services that can provide support at-risk families so that they can remain intact especially in poorer countries where the government infrastructure is much weaker (Child Welfare 2003). However, there are many challenges that child welfare is facing due to lack of funding and resources. Some of these challenges come from child abuse, where parents' rights come first rather than the child's best interest. Another challenge is adoption because so many potential parents are rejected due to their race and more children are left limbo (Bartholet 1999).. There are solutions for these issues; however they remain unused, which puts child welfare into an unfair position. Despite the issues, there are still debates if gay adoption should be allowed because some people be

INTRODUCTION Inclusion is a much-debated topic and this is particularly true in the elementary school environment. This is evidenced in a report entitled: "Teacher's Attitudes Toward Inclusion: Survey Results from Elementary School Teachers in Three Southwestern Rural School Districts" reported in the Rural Education Quarterly Spring Issue 2003 by Hammon and Ingalls. This work reports the benefits identified by those who support inclusion as well as the reasons that inclusion have not bee supported. There are many benefits and as well, there are many drawbacks to inclusion in the elementary school setting as evidenced in the work of Hammon and Ingalls (2003). This work seeks to discover precisely what the pros and cons to inclusion in the elementary classroom are and to present those findings in the review of four separate report reviews in the sections to follow on the pros and cons of inclusion in the elementary school setting. For this purpose, the following artic

Marxism was a response to the Industrial Revolution. Before factories and mass production, people lived more simply, usually on farms. They did not own a lot because most of what they had they made themselves. For example, clothing began with cotton or wool, which was spun into thread, woven into fabric, then cut and sewn into garments, sheets, table coverings, towels, etc. Food was grown, picked, and preserved. Just to live required much more effort than it does now, but people took pride in t

As parents and caregivers are becoming more and more aware of the importance of communication in their children's development, Internet resources regarding language development have begun to appear in great number. The following are just five of the vast language development resources available on the Internet. I.The Child Development Institute: Language Development in Children Created by a clinical child psychologist, The Child Development Institute was designed to provide important development information to parents and caregivers. Though the site contains information about all types of child development, the language development web page is especially intriguing. The page provides an age chart ranging from six months to eight years that details briefly details language development. From four months to five years, the page also provides more detailed language development milestones. Because communication is a goal of regular language development, the page includes info

INTRODUCTION Since the advent of man, he has tried to communicate with each other to get their thoughts and ideas across to the other. The earliest man used some form of communication and it was much later that scripting was invented. Today the earliest writing that has been discovered are those of the Sumerians and the Indus Valley Civilization. With increasing time and age languages became an important part of communication and many were recognized for the languages they spoke. Today there is a diversity of languages all across the globe. Arabic, Chinese, Persian, English and French are the most commonly spoken languages. In schools the national language of a country is taught and other languages are not really given any importance. However people do learn different languages and make them able to communicate with a person who speaks a different language. Native Americans had their own form of communication and when people from Europe started moving in and became dominant in America

"Is that you? How changed you are now that you have become a fallen angel! I remember how you were in heaven, where your brightness outshone all of the other bright angels. You joined with me in a glorious enterprise of rebellion once, and now you are joined with me again in misery in the pit of hell. God has proven stronger with his thunder-who knew the force of his power? But despite the fact that he is victorious, I neither repent nor change my inner conviction that what I did was right, although I am changed in my exterior appearance. My mind is set as to what we should do. You and I engaged in a rebellion with one hundred other spirits who also disliked God's reign and shook his throne, even though we did not beat Him. So what if we lost? All is not lost! Our will, our careful study of how to take our revenge, our hate and our courage are still there. We can overcome anything. No matter how great God's glory or anger, I will never ask for mercy on my knees. I defy his power. After all, not so long

Your mind (Greek, nous; German, Geist [often translated 'spirit', but always meaning mind]) is absolute because you are able to think about yourself and know that you exist: you don't need anything other than thinking to prove that you exist. When you think about the world, however, you only have the evidence of the senses to go on. You have to interpret sense perception. When you look at the desk you are sitting at, for instance, you can only un

How do you define a well rounded person? For me, it is someone who has a sense of direction, who knows that there is more to life than money and power, and who can think for others when in position of prosperity. Trying to look for such a person amid some national and international heroes may actually be quite a disappointing exercise in complete futility. Heroes in sports and media have done good work for sure but other things like involvement in drugs or such news of such anti social behavior mars their image in seconds and they fall from grace very rapidly. But when Forbes published its list of billionaires in February 2008, we got a pleasant surprise. When Forbes announced the list of richest men in the world in 2008, the world certainly took notice. Because this time things were different! It wasn't Bill Gates occupying the first place and neither anyone we had heard too often about. It was Warren Buffet, the owner of several businesses in the US, with an estimated worth o

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of capital punishment. Specifically it will discuss why I support juvenile capital punishment. We live in an increasingly violent and angry society, and one of the most disturbing trends in the growth of violence is the growth in youth committing crimes. In the United States, youth under the age of 18 are not considered adults in our society, and yet they are often treated as adults in the court system when they commit heinous crimes, and they can be executed under the death penalty, and there have been cases of juveniles being executed in this country. When a juvenile commits an adult crime, such as murder, they can face capital punishment, and I think that is a fair and binding law. Often, when juveniles commit violent crimes, their defense says they did not understand the consequences of their crime, or they were motivated by something they saw on television or video games. Even if the child was so naive that they thought murder and mayhem on television were not

Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has been known as one of the strangest and most psychedelic novel ever written. The plot takes place exclusively in a mental institution, which is almost cut off completely from the outside world because of the despotic management of the ward by nurse Ratched. The novel thus offers important insights on human condition and the human society. The oppression and the terror promoted by the mental institution is a symbol for social oppression and the intimidation produced by all the systems and mechanisms of the modern world. The story is told in the voice of a half-Indian man named Chief Bromden, a huge man who is however extremely shy and isolated. The schizophrenic Bromden pretends to be deaf and mute, so as to shield himself from what he guesses to the threat posed by the ward's medical staff. His behavior betrays his unconscious desire to defend himself against the aggressive environment. His distorted perception of h

The film The Pianist (2002) Roman Polanski is an adaptation of the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman a Jewish pianist who lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland during WWII. According to the sources, Roman Polanski supplemented the story with a few anecdotal events that had occurred in his life during WWII as a boy. (INMB, NP) The film is characteristic of other period films of WWII and especially those of the Jewish experience. Polanski frequently tried to stay within the confines of the real experience and the real words of Szpilmam who apparently frequently stated when witnessing particularly adamant German Nazi sympathizers in action, "The all want to be better Nazi's that Hitler." The story line of the film is the life of one Jewish family during WWII in Warsaw Poland. The family began the war rather well off with Wlad working as a rather famous pianist for a radio station and other unknown income. Yet, as the war moved on and restrictions on Jews became fiercer

Effectively managing a classroom is an essential part of teaching. The time-out is one of the most widely used forms of behavior management. Unfortunately, unless teachers learn how to properly use this technique, it can result in an increased number of unwanted incidents, and in some cases may bring on lawsuits. The main purpose of the time-out is to decrease unwanted behavior while at the same time increasing desirable behaviors. Although it has been found that reinforcing wanted behaviors is extremely effective, there are times where teachers have to instead address unwanted behaviors, and this is when using one of the time-out techniques is an option. By definition, a time-out is when an individual is removed from a situation when he cannot display an appropriate behavior. There is not one single time-out model to follow. Dependent upon the situation, a teacher may choose from four main types of time-out procedures. They range from least intrusive to most restrictive, and each involves removing access to reinforcement. An inclusion time-out involves allowing a student to remain in the classroom,

Introduction – General Motivation Issues in American Undergraduate Education: One of the unanticipated consequences of dramatically increased enrollment in college-level education in the last half of the 20th century is the dilution of its value as a bona fide credential. In the 1950s and 60s, college degrees provided relatively reliable assurance that a prospective employee had already demonstrated a focused dedication to pursuing a specific career in an area of academic interest or personal aptitude (Mills 1953). By the end of the century, advanced education had become extremely accessible and high school graduation alone became the primary criteria required for admissions into many institutions of higher education. Lower academic standards for admission eventually changed the academic profile and, eventually resulted in a tremendous change in the fundamental attitude of many university and college students toward their studies as

There are numerous controversial topics and issues that abound in the modern world. Some of these test the limits of our morals and ethics that it is sometimes difficult to determine what is black or white as a result of varying shades of gray. Abortion is one topic that has seen the battle lines drawn between the pro-choice and the pro-life. It is difficult to fathom who's who is correct because each side have valid points that support their assertions. In the ensuing debate between the two, violent acts have often been committed only to prove the point of the proponents of each belief. The basic premise of the pro-lifers is that life is precious and it is a gift from a supernatural being that controls the lives of all living and non-living things. For those with religious convictions, this supernatural being is known as God and in one of the teachings, "Thou shalt not kill" is an absolute com

The films Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn) and Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks) are set in the same basic time period, the 1930s, though the films were made more than thirty years apart and reflect different sensibilities in keeping with the time of production. At the same time, they also reflect certain similar ideas about the nature of crime and violence, its origin, and the societal elements that contribute to crime and violence. Both films are violent, though the 1967 film is more overtly violent and also more able to show the results of violence in a more realistic way as people whoa re shot bleed, often profusely, unlike the characters in the 1932 film, who are more likely to be shot and expire with hardly a mark on them. The gangster film is a uniquely American genre based on a number of images and characters found in film after film. Thomas Schatz describes film genres as something that can be viewed as systems that have developed within the confines of commercial filmma

The modern myth of the American dream is that anyone who works hard will be successful in a material fashion. However, the recent credit crisis in the housing market has illustrated that an easy trajectory to upward mobility for the deserving through material gains is a myth rather than a reality. The American dream has long been a dream bought on credit, rather than something substantiated in fact. For example, take the American dream of home ownership. "The American dream of buying and owning a home all too frequently doesn't have a happy ending for many low-income families. Despite federal government policies encouraging home ownership among minority and low-income families, more than half of them left their houses and returned to renting within five years" (Schwartz 2004). Moreover, many of these low-income minority families bought homes in "distressed" neighborhoods, which means that the "areas continued to be significantly more disadvantaged, marked by

In this research, nurses knowledge of pressure ulcer will be addressed so that it can be understand sometimes they are informed soon enough to have a lot of treatment options. From there, cultural and personal values will be examined because it does affect health treatment. Furthermore, this paper will conclude nurses and pressure ulcer outcomes are influenced by the culture.

1. Hitler does not believe that all race are equal or deserving of education. He believes that the Aryan race is the most important, and derives this from his observations of current society. Indeed, the Aryans alone are to receive the privileges of education and high professional positions. According to Hitler, Jews, Negroes, and any other non-Aryan races are not mentally strong enough to truly deserve high professional positions. Hitler goes on to say that if these &

In "Peed Onk" the author illustrates the vulnerability and suffering of a family when they find their baby is suffering from cancer. Surrounded by a fleet of uncaring doctors and nurses in Pediatric Oncology (Peed Onk), their vulnerability and suffering are quite clear and compelling. The reader can identify with their feelings, first because the author is extremely fine at showing the inner workings of the mother's mind, and second because the situation itself is so sympathetic and poignant. Nothing could be worse, the story seems to say, than a baby with cancer, and yet, in the end, it is almost as if the mother wants to continue her suffering, because she chooses the less aggressive treatment, instead of "stomping out" the cancer as her husband recommends. Using a baby as the victim in this story makes the parents even more vulnerable and even the reader suffers when thinking about the options for the baby, and the families of the other children suffering from cancer. It brings up many of the age-old questions people ask

A forebearer to the rubber industry has been in existence since 1876 when an Englishman, Henry Wickham, returned to England from Brazil with rubber tree seeds he had gathered for germination. However, society's use of rubber predates that existence by almost 3500 years. The MesoAmericans were known to have used the latex produced by the rubber tree for a variety of purposes, including the making of rubber balls that they would use for games and entertainment. Currently, of course, the rubber industry creates a wide variety of products for which rubber is incorporated. The rubber industry not only continues to employ the latex produced by the rubber plant to produce such products, but it has also been able to add polymer blends to enhance that production. "The use of polymer blends is an effective method for altering the performance of polymer materials and is widely employed in engineering plastics, rubber and fiber materials" (Chiu, Tsai, 2006, p. 89).

Congestion Theory and Transport Investment by William S. Vickrey Congestion Theory and Transport Investment identifies the major problems of traffic congestions. The findings in the article are based on empirical evidence and calculi and it is written in a formal and specialized style, addressing as such the expert in urban economics. The ten page article is structured into seven parts: 'Deepening' and 'Widening' of Transport Investment, Types of Congestions, Accidents as a Cause of Congestion, Construction to Ease Bottlenecks, Expansion of Routes in the Presence of Alternative Routes, Variations in the Value of Time and Evaluation of Investment in Congestion Relief. 'Deepening' and 'Widening' of Transport Investment 'Deepening' and 'Widening' of Transport Investment emphasizes on the need to analyze various forces before establishing the necessary investments to be made in transportation channels. These factors

Thousands of people all over the country fail to fully compensate the government in the form of taxes. Forensic accounting is a branch of accounting which is relatively unknown to the general public, but proves to be an important tool in the prosecution of individuals and corporations guilty of tax evasion. Despite its obscurity, this branch of accounting is responsible for many convictions and successful audits. Such successful audits resulted in the collapse of several infamous names in the corporate world; therefore inspiring legislation preventing such offenses such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Forensic accounting represents a branch of accounting which focuses specifically on the evaluation of taxes in order to determine if an individual or corporation has committed the felony crime of tax evasion. Basically, the genre of accounting is involved with examining tax documents and information for the possible conclusion of a federal or state court case based on faulty or

Natural Context: environment in which the art was made Despite its religious subject matter and location in the Renaissance tradition of papal patronage of art, Michelangelo's sprawling fresco across the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican impresses many contemporary viewers with its visual resonance with pagan and pre-Christian artistic images dating back to Greece and Rome. Although the ceiling depicts the Fall of Man, the visual iconography is filled with excitement and celebration of the human, sexualized form in the tradition of pagan antiquity. This is consistent with the artist's style and also the spirit of the age when it was constructed. Artist's Biography: life story and circumstances of the artist With the possible exception of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni stands as the most famous painter and sculptor of the High Renaissance style in the Florentine and Roman tradition. During this period of art history, although religious

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of the Gold Rush in American history. Specifically it will discuss the impact the Gold Rush had on women, Native Americans, and minorities, along with which group benefited the most and which group benefited the least. Clearly, the California Gold Rush, which began in 1848, had an enormous impact on California and its people. It affected people in different ways, however, and not all actually benefited from the Gold Rush. Women, minorities, and Native Americans all took part in the Gold Rush, and they all added their own input to the overall Gold Rush experience. However, women, minorities, and Native Americans all suffered from discrimination and prejudice during the Gold Rush, and ultimately, it was the white men who most benefited from the Gold Rush, whether they were miners, businesspeople, or miners in the newly forming state. The California Gold Rush took place beginning in 1848, through about 1855.

Persona is probably Ingmar Bergman's most famous film. Its notoriety goes beyond the sum of its controversial ingredients, however, which are many (the inclusion of footage of an erect penis in the pre-title sequence, graphic verbal descriptions of an orgy, etc.); rather, its enduring legacy has more to do with the fraught complications of the plot itself, which has proven to be nearly impossible for critics and audiences to unravel ever since its release in the year 1966. While I make no claims of being able to "solve" the mystery of Persona, in what follows, I intend to focus on one primary aspect of the film – the role that the human face plays throughout – in order to gain insight into what I believe to be one of Persona's central clues. From the very beginning of the film – the famous pre-title sequence – the face plays a primary role. The pre-title sequence, of course, consists of a montage of different still images, but culminat