Section one shows why The One-Child Policy was conceived and how it was executed. ... The fifth section deals with results of my regression analyses, and the sixth section sums up my conclusions. ... The One-Child Policy has pushed fertility down to approximately 2 children or replacement level. ... This deceleration in the population growth rate was the government's goal upon implementing The One-Child Policy. ... In a speech at the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress in 1980 the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Hau Guofeng presented China's pr...

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To drive the devil out from their child, they spank them. ... In this way, children are inflicted pain in response to child's undesirable behavior and or speaking of inappropriate language. ... The mother who hits her child with a belt may be admired as a good parent in one neighborhood; while in another, the mother who slaps her child's face may menace being accounted as an obnoxious parent. ... These are the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and the Fifth Amendment's protection of both substantive and bureaucratic due process. ... It also...

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" (Ehrenreich, Santucci, & Weiner;, 2008) Along with object permanence, the child builds normal separation response levels by the age of 3 (Ehrenreich, Santucci, & Weiner;, 2008). ... CBT therapy for children and adolescents is based on behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy and the gradual fading of the attachment figure farther away from the child (Carruth, 2000). Both the parent and child are engaged through the therapy sessions. The child is engaged in behavioral therapy and play therapy, in which the child engages in systematic desensitization and operant conditioning, in order to p...

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Pro-life activists believe that the unborn child has rights; the right to life and those rights should be protected. ... Pro-choice activists believe if a family is in financial trouble the child will be born into a life of poverty, suffering and inadequate living conditions; not only would the child suffer but the family as well. However, pro-life activist believe that just because a child will be raised in a family that has financial trouble doesn't mean that the child will be suffering or depressed; the child can live a normal life. ... Abortions were illegal only after quickening, w...

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Although it is very rare for one child to exhibit all of the physical traits associated with Fragile X, some children do not exhibit any. ... Some of the behavioral traits are as follows: hand flapping and/or hand biting, especially when the child is frustrated or excited; inattentive or hyperactive; over stimulated by touch; frustrated easily, causing tantrums; fascinated with one unusual object or event, as with autism; repetitive behavior or speech; poor eye contact, girls are often very shy and have difficulty interacting with other children. ... Along with the apparent physical and beha...

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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the works of Edwin Sutherland and his theory of differential association. The differential association theory depicts a relationship between a societal structure and criminal behavior. Sutherland illustrates the focuses of differential association in...

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Although crime victim surveys produce more accurate estimates of incidence and prevalence rates than police statistics, and confirm that many offences are not reported to police, they too are acknowledged to underestimate violent crimes of an intimate nature, particularly sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse (Grabosky 1989; National Committee on Violence 1990). ... Child victims There were 2,858 victims of sexual assault under the age of 10 recorded by the police in 1997. ... About one-fifth reported some other kind of sexual assault. ...

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Introduction Nearly every child has moments of inattentiveness, restlessness, daydreaming or hyperactivity; but if a child exhibits these characteristics with great intensity and consistency then seriousness of the issues is suspected which leads teacher or parents towards the initial evaluation of the Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity disorder. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common condition of child psychiatry in the world. ... As the condition impacts on a child's school life, it is required to provide special conditions for an individual with ADHD. ... It is...

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Introduction Nearly every child has moments of inattentiveness, restlessness, daydreaming or hyperactivity; but if a child exhibits these characteristics with great intensity and consistency then seriousness of the issues is suspected which leads teacher or parents towards the initial evaluation of the Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity disorder. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common condition of child psychiatry in the world. ... As the condition impacts on a child's school life, it is required to provide special conditions for an individual with ADHD. ... It is...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. ... Nearly all juvenile sexual offenders are a mix of heterogenous males ages 13-17, most likely to victimize females, unless the victim is a child, in which the proportion of boys is much higher (Hunter, 1999; Kalogerakis, 1992; Finkelhor, 2009). ... Research indicates tha...

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How Do I Teach My Child to be Bilingual? ... Is it harder for a child to acquire two languages at once? There is no evidence to suggest that it's any harder for a child to acquire two languages than it is for the child to acquire one language. As long as people are regularly speaking with the child in both languages, the child will acquire them both easily. A child doesn't have to be exceptional or have any special language ability to become bilingual; as long as the child is exposed to two languages throughout early child- hood, he or she will acquire them both. ...

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Adolescents' Exposure to X-Rated Material & Early Sexual Experimentation: Is There a Connection? Picture yourself perusing the Internet for tickets to see Bon Jovi at the Orpheum. At the bottom right of the page you see a picture of a practically nude woman who is "looking for some fun " in your area. If you click on her picture, it directs you to an X-rated website, offering movies, images, and all kinds of graphic material. Though you may be mature enough to see websites such as this, some "ankle-biters " are not. ...

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Abstract Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the family without their knowledge. ... Megan's Law and Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the family without the community's knowledge. ... Offenders who had victimized a child were on average 5 years older than the violent offenders who had committed their crimes ...

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Levinthal references the spiral model of the stages to clearly illustrate that a patient may pass through these stages several times throughout the recovery process. 2 The fifth key component that facilitates successful recovery includes a strong support system of family and friends. ... Although the child may be age appropriate with respect to their emotional level, they are most likely mature in other areas far beyond their young years. ...

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Pythagoras found the fundamental musical laws, which relate to musical proportions, such as an octave, a fifth, and a fourth (Gamwell, 149). ... After researching Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, for example, Derek Haylock "finds that the famous opening 'motto' appears not only in the first and last bars (bar 601 before the Coda) but also exactly at the golden mean point 0.618 of the way through the symphony (bar 372)." ...

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Quickening generally occurred during the mid-point of gestation, late in the fourth or early in the fifth month, though it would and still does vary a good deal from one woman to another (pg.3). ... Every person who shall, willfully and maliciously, administer to, or cause to be administered to, or taken by, any person or persons, any deadly poisons, or other noxious and destructive substance, within an intention him/her/them, thereby to murder, or thereby to cause or procure the miscarriage of any woman, then being quick with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall suffer imprisonme...

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Quickening generally occurred during the mid-point of gestation, late in the fourth or early in the fifth month, though it would and still does vary a good deal from one woman to another (pg.3). ... Every person who shall, willfully and maliciously, administer to, or cause to be administered to, or taken by, any person or persons, any deadly poisons, or other noxious and destructive substance, within an intention him/her/them, thereby to murder, or thereby to cause or procure the miscarriage of any woman, then being quick with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall suffer imprisonme...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. Some refer to family situations. They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather th...

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Many see it as a primarily economic phenomenon, involving the increasing interaction, or integration, of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment and capital flows. However, one can also point to a rapid increase in cross-border social, cultural and technological exchange as part of the phenomenon of globalisation. The sociologist, Anthony Giddens, defines globalisation as a decoupling of space and time, emphasising that with instantaneous communications, knowledge and culture can be shared around the world simultaneously. A Dutch academic who maint...

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On January 6, 1994, while in Detroit preparing for the U.S. National Figures Skating competition, skater Nancy Kerrigan was struck on the knee by an assailant. Within ten days, the perpetrator was identified as Shane Stant, an amateur hit man hired by competing skater Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, and ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly. Harding, who went on to win the Nationals, claimed she was not involved in the attack. With two other men, Eckardt and Gillooly were charged with racketeering, conspiracy to commit assault, and assault. ...

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Many of the children and parents were knowledgeable of the researcher via the child having taken a class with the researcher, exposed through other academic activities in the district, or other activities within the community and surrounding communities. ...

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The numbers of troops they eventually put into service in South Africa reached almost four hundred and fifty thousand by wars end, which was just a few thousand more people than the Boer republic's entire white population of man, woman and child combined. The Boers were only able to muster one fifth that number of soldiers and the age group ranged from teenage boys to old men with more and more women joining the commandos as the British began their final phase of scorched earth and concentration camps for Boer civilians. ...

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The first experiment had the students rate their feelings on a "State Hostility Scale," the second dealt with word parings, the third included more songs and had the participants rank the violent content before filling out the hostility scale, the fourth used humorous violent songs instead of rock songs, and the fifth combined humorous and non humorous songs (Anderson, et al., 2003). ...

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Questions I and II What are the central concerns illustrated in the article "The Crisis of Belief"?" How does this show symbolically in the poem "Dover Beach,"" by Arnold? Response The central concern is the despair of the modern man who loses the certainty that belief gave him, the inner conflict ...

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New Zealand primary and secondary school curriculums have been changed and adapted regularly and considerably since the first nationwide mandated curriculum was introduced 1877. This essay will work to respond to the O'Neill, Clark and Openshaw (2004) statement; while identifying and explaining the ways in which the New Zealand curriculum has been changed and adapted from 1877 to 1970. This essay will do this by first, investigating the 1877 Education Act and examining the ways the New Zealand curriculum has been changed by several of processes over this time period. Second this essay w...

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