Essays Tagged: "adults"

Coaching basketball

etballSports have been a big entertainment for all types of people. Little children, teenagers, and adults all love playing and watching sports. Basketball is full of fundamentals and techniques that ... me consuming and requires patience with the team and the surrounding community. Little children and adults all love to watch and play these wonderful sports all around the world. It is the basis of ou ...

(9 pages) 143 1 4.4 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Young offenders

rson is a person who comities a crime and is given special rights. These right are less server then adults would get if they committee this same offenses."There are many cases where a young offender h ...

(3 pages) 91 0 3.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Euthanasia and the robert Latimer case

Euthanasia is undoubtedly an issue that plagues the minds of those living with children or adults who are severely disabled. Rarely is one found to have a 'neutral' outlook upon it; that is, ...

(4 pages) 74 0 4.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Historical Development Of The Juvenile Justice System

s time there was little consideration for children as needing or deserving different treatment than adults. To tell the truth there was relatively no separation of adults and children up to this point ... nt for a majority of "less serious" crimes. But even this did not create a separation of youths and adults in society or in the criminal justice system. That did not occur until the early nineteenth c ...

(3 pages) 230 0 5.0 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Do Athletes Show Us What is Right and Wrong?

pro level but it occurs in college and even all the way down to the high school level. From kids to adults, deviance occurs everywhere; but when it appears in sports it becomes an even bigger issue. A ...

(10 pages) 209 0 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Lure of Professional Leagues

ce, he is more than likely going to take it without thinking about the consequences. Themajority of adults would jump at that chance. College athletes constantly see the professionalstars doing endors ... person cannot go into a mall inAmerica where his jersey is not sold. Both little children and some adults worship him.Professional athletes are even making their own movies now. What other profession ...

(2 pages) 34 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Rock Music

to the reader a topic not touched a lot because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative adults. This topic is, of course, Rock Music. During one week, I looked for information in the libra ... ock'. In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual suggestive and outraged dull adults. In time he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and western style and became ...

(5 pages) 291 3 4.4 Jan/1994

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Ritalin

ected Collection of Testimony on theSafety of Ritalin'We give our children every day, yet we punish adults for taking speed,'stated a concerned parent(Ritalin Zone). A trip to the principal's office u ... for which there isstill no clear test. 'Basically, you are taking children who are in conflict withadults and drugging them,' said Dr. Peter R. Breggin, a Bethesda, Md.,psychiatrist and leading oppon ...

(6 pages) 126 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Reason for Returning to School This essay describes the reasons why working adults, like myself, decided to go back to college and obtain a degree.

Bachelor Degree has never been anything out of the ordinary. In today's society, I see many working adults pursuing their degrees to obtain security and self-fulfillment. While others are looking for ... g for a job.More and more each year, I see new programs for education that are designed for working adults. If there were no real demand for these programs, I believe they would not exist. But that de ...

(3 pages) 183 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Reason for Returning to School This essay describes the reasons why working adults, like myself, decided to go back to college and obtain a degree.

Bachelor Degree has never been anything out of the ordinary. In today's society, I see many working adults pursuing their degree to obtain security and self-fulfillment. While others are looking for t ... g for a job.More and more each year, I see new programs for education that are designed for working adults. If there were no real demand for these programs, they would not exist. But that demand is re ...

(3 pages) 284 0 3.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Independent Adoption vs. Agency-Assisted Adoption. Description of both types of adoption, gives pros and cons for each type, better informs people about state regulations regarding adoption.

ldren, often infants, are the subjects of adoption, but a majority of states permit the adoption of adults as well. If the person to be adopted is over a certain age, twelve or fourteen in most states ... hat it is automatically assumed that both the biological and adoptive parents are mature, competent adults capable of making a critical decision about something as important as the life of a child. So ...

(10 pages) 221 0 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Persuasive paper for not letting juveniles be tried as adults.

Juvenile Justice: Should Minors be charged as Adults?A movement has taken hold of our nation to change the juvenile justice system, and erase any ... most all fifty states have changed their juvenile justice laws, allowing more youths to be tried as adults and scrapping long-time efforts to help rehabilitate delinquent kids and prevent future crime ... ined as a person under the age of eighteen. How then can we single out certain minors and call them adults? Were they considered adults before they carried out an act of violence? No. How then, did a ...

(8 pages) 1349 11 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

A Review of "The Outsiders Club" Screened on BBC 2 in October 96

ite a review on the social group known as The Outsiders. The group's main aim is to enable disabled adults to form personal relationships, including specifically sexual ones (Shakespeare 1996), either ... apacity I am interested in sexuality and disability, and specifically in the ways in which disabled adults can establish meaningful relationships with other people (disabled or on-disabled). Issues su ...

(7 pages) 54 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Being Young

stian traditionone is considered adult after the confirmation, but I wouldn'tcall fifteen year-olds adults. At that age, they're still notready to handle the consequences of their own actions. Whenyou ...

(2 pages) 60 0 3.2 Oct/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Betrayl of the Adults to Juliet

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the adults betray Juliet because they are unable to understand her. Juliet's parents, Capulet and Lady C ... e who does not comprehend Juliet and Romeo's love for each other. These misunderstandings cause the adults to betray Juliet.The first to betray Juliet is her parents, Capulet and Lady Capulet. Capulet ... rom the Friar's self concern. As a result from Friar Lawrence's betrayal Juliet commits suicide.The adults betrayed Juliet because they did not see things in the same view as she did. Adults may not a ...

(2 pages) 28 0 4.6 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Teenage Years

ties. Well let me say this, you couldn't be more wrong if you had a lobotomy. There aren't that manyadults around who realise what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, the anxiety, the ... til now, it never occurred to anyone anywhere that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

(2 pages) 106 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

As I lay dying. An essay on drugs

are criminals. That's what makes the drug business different then any other.*Alcohol is a drug, yet adults are allowed to use alcohol products.*Nicotine is a drug, yet adults are allowed to use many d ...

(3 pages) 97 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"Reasoning Behind Fairy Tales" Portrays Fariy Tales as evil, gives reasoning of why kids should not be read them.

omain of children. Nothing could be farther from the truth" (1). Most Fairy Tales were written with adults in mind, and later adopted for children. Many tales involve imaginary characters and situatio ... atastrophe, mature men and women have been the creators and cultivators of the Fairy-tale tradition.Adults, who cannot accurately tell what affect their writing will have, create these children's stor ...

(5 pages) 284 1 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Attention Deficit Disorder

or A. D. D., and could've been helped. A. D. D. is a syndrome that affects millions of children and adults in the United States and is a very frustrating and confusing syndrome that often goes undiagn ...

(6 pages) 106 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Cynisism in American Politics

995, the Princeton Survey Research Associates conducted a telephone interview of 1514 random sample adults. In this interview, people were asked how much of the time they trusted in the federal govern ...

(4 pages) 77 0 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science