The following analysis seeks to demonstrate how the Obama administration, through its rhetoric, is attempting to build public support for a potential military conflict with Iran. Further, the study seeks to show how the...
Palabra clave:
Iran, Political Myth y Rhetoric
Tema:
Political oratory -- United States -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Presidents -- United States -- Oratory -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Obama, Barack -- Oratory -- History and criticism, United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran -- 21st century -- Public opinion y United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009- -- Public opinion
Students who transfer from a two-year institution to a four-year institution often have some difficulty settling into their new university home, but a combination of social and academic supports can ease the transition. This...
Palabra clave:
Online Program, Social Media, Social Supports, Transfer Student y Transition
Tema:
Online learning and distance education, Western Carolina University, Social media, Social networks y Transfer students
This study investigates how a variety of oxidants can be used to chemically modify ground peanut hulls. Low density and high density hulls were modified using three different oxidizing environments: an alkaline peroxide...
Palabra clave:
Alkaline peroxide, Oxidation, Peanut hulls, Potassium permanganate, TEMPO y Wastewater remediation
Tema:
Peanuts, Peroxides, Oxidation, Potassium permanganate, Heterocyclic compounds y Sewage--Purification
Change is constant. We constantly change ourselves. This personal “overwriting” is similar to a tradition called palimpsest, which is the incomplete erasure of text from books to make room for new text and ideas on the same...
Tema:
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art y Self (Philosophy) in art
The present study examined parental opinions of a structured functional curriculum for children who have significant intellectual disabilities. Parents from the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School District in North Carolina...
Tema:
Children with mental disabilities -- Education y Parents of children with disabilities
Child maltreatment continues to be a serious and prevalent issue that affects a significant portionof the population each year, and has been shown to predict negative short and long term effectson victims, and the family as a...
Palabra clave:
Child Abuse, Child Maltreatment, Child Protective Services, Substance Abuse, Substance Use y SUD
Tema:
Abusive parents -- Substance use -- Case studies y Child welfare -- Evaluation -- Case studies
This study utilized retrospective reports from a sample of college students and their primary care giver during childhood to examine the interplay among parent and adolescent personality, parent psychopathology, parenting...
Palabra clave:
adolescent, behavior, parent y risky
Tema:
Parent and teenager, Personality in adolescence, Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence, Teenagers -- Sexual behavior, Teenagers -- Substance use, Adolescent psychology y Teenagers -- Family relationships
Child maltreatment continues to be a significant problem in the United States. Although afamily’s involvement with Child Protective Services (CPS) may increase the welfare of children,the risk of maltreatment reoccurrence...
Tema:
Abusive parents -- United States -- Case studies, Child abuse -- United States -- Case studies, Abused children -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies y Abusive parents -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies
Do parenting styles continue from generation to generation? It is counter-intuitive to think that parenting styles do not continue from generation to generation, yet many researchers have found this to be true (Campbell &...
Palabra clave:
continuity, individualism, Intergenerational, parenting, society y transmission
Although language proficiency in bilingual children is often viewed as delayed, it is not ethically correct to compare language development in monolingual children to language development in bilingual children (Fleischman et...
Tema:
Bilingualism in children, Language acquisition y Parent and child
