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The Disparate Treatment of Black Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Author(s): Phyllis Gray Ray
New Second Edition Now Available! The overrepresentation of Black (African American) youth in federal and state juvenile justice systems in the United States continues to challenge families, practitioners, other community stakeholders, and researchers. The Disparate Treatment of Black Youth in...
Humor and Laughter as Medicine: Physiological Impacts and Effects
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Sample For the most part, humor has been viewed as a social phenomenon that has its primary focus on human relationships. Most research takes the form of investigating the impact that humor and the communication of humor have on a variety of social situations, relational contexts, as well as the ...
When Patient Becomes Caregiver: One Couple, Two Cases of Advanced Cancer
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Abstract This project extends family communication patterns theory to a caregiver typology and applies the typology to the case of a husband and wife, both afflicted with stage IV cancer (ovarian and prostate). The case of Vivian and Harold identifies the essential characteristics of the Manager ...
The Quest for Understanding: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy
Author(s): Dr. Douglas Giles
The Quest for Understanding: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy is a fresh approach to teaching philosophy for a new millennium. It presents philosophy as a long conversation of people seeking to understand who we are, what the world is really like, and how we can build a better life. Based ...
Dealing with the Development of Children's Ethnic Identity in Interracial Marriages
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Abstract This specific case study deals with a couple (an Asian wife and American husband) who have two young biracial kids. The husband, Mark, feels that since the children are born in the United States, they should be raised with American values. The Asian wife, Ling, would like to expose the k...
Public Speaking Strategies
Author(s): Mark Huglen, Megan Bell, Lynette M. Mullins, Kevin Duane Thompson
This new edition includes insight into how to avoid microaggressions when public speaking and information to advance remote presentation skills. No doubt there is racial tension and racial strife in the world today, and some of those tensions are obvious and affect us to the core emotionally. There ...
OpenStax: Precalculus
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Constitutional Law
Author(s): Thomas O'Connor
Constitutional Law is a forward-looking and expansive book on constitutional law and constitutional theory. The author seeks to capture all of the conceptual nuance surrounding constitutional theory, an area of academia that has been neglected. The text includes thorough chapters on ten important an...