According to a study funded by the cable television industry, fifth-seven percent of television programs contain "psychologically harmful" violence (3). ... Most people would say "how can a cartoon affect a child?" ... While watching a show such as "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" a child sees almost 30 minutes of non-stop fighting. ... After watching the show, a child may become bored because the reality of the television show is more interesting. The child then imitates what was seen on television. ...

• Word Count: 809
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This is a child's first educational learning experience. A child will then go on to kindergarten upon completion of pre-school. ... Elementary school comes next in a child's ladder of education. From first to fifth grade, a child learns the most useful information they will need in life. ... If a child has a head start on a concept, they will pick up on it quicker, and may not loose it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As a child, I wasn't in good shape physically and I was very overweight. ... My apartment was located on the fifth floor of my building so walking up those stairs felt like I was climbing a mountain. This was probably because I also suffered from asthma as a child. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A World Bank report concluded that reducing gender inequality leads to falling infant and child mortality, improved nutrition, higher economic productivity and faster growth. ... Fifth, government officials must ensure the rights of women by creating regulations that protect it. ...

• Word Count: 1175
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• Grade Level: High School

Considering the fact that sometimes families of twelve people were crammed into a tiny tenement that was 10" by 10", sickness was so common that one out of every three children born would die by their fifth birthday. ... The government looked the other way when it came to issues such as child labor and unsafe factory conditions, saying that only factory owners could decide on how to treat their employees. ... The child workers, ages five to fifteen, made up about thirty-four percent of the labor force in New York. ...

• Word Count: 2083
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• Grade Level: High School

The film is seen from the viewpoint of the eldest child, Frank, beginning as a six year old. ... Detailed Summary: This is just the story basically Ab ;0) The film opens in Brooklyn, New York 1935, where Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt and their four children are celebrating the birth of their fifth child, and first girl, Margaret-Mary. ... Frank, the eldest child, is sent to the bar to shame the father into coming home. ... He is an alien in his parental homeland, the oldest child of a father whose background in "the North" engenders continual suspicion, and a mother (Angela of ...

• Word Count: 3537
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Slave families then were held together by a web of kin connections; grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins became the nurturer of the child when the absence of one or both parents occurred. A great majority, four-fifths in 1800, of American families farmed the land for themselves and their neighbors despite the growing expansion of commerce, transportation innovations, and manufacturing. ...

• Word Count: 1578
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The few that can comprehend the severity of the situation who speak out and tell their parents are then classified as the problem child who is imagining things or who may not have understood what was said because of the language differences. ... Reading this as a class assignment in the fifth grade became an enlightening experience. ...

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The invention of the gun back in the fifth-teenth century was the main reason that these people were able to go to another continent and enslave so many people. ... Fractional amounts, usually one-half, were allotted to each child in the family. ... As a child, Ross was "hired out" by her master as a nursemaid for a small baby, much like the nursemaid in the picture. ...

• Word Count: 2041
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• Grade Level: High School

Generative-transformational grammarians believe that a child is born with linguistic competence, which enables him to acquire his native language. ... Without such a social and cultural environment, the child cannot acquire his language at all, though he is born with a linguistic mechanism. ... Consequently, it is believed that the process of child language acquisition is also the process of his cognition and understanding of the world and the process of the development of his cultural competence. ...

• Word Count: 2958
• Approx Pages: 12