Theorists have concluded that genetics influence 25 to 50 percent of differences in personality characteristics and the rest by interaction with the environment. ... He believes that promised reinforcements could influence one's behavior. ... Eminem knew he wanted to be a rapper since he was a little kid. ...
Have you ever been influenced by some important person that helped you be the person that you are today? ... The people that have had influence on me are the most important humans beings, my family. ... She is a really huge influence in my life. ...
It is obvious that the media influences children. ... By spending so much time under this influence, children are exposed to this sexual content as well. ... Another major contribution to this sexual influence is music videos. Many kids watch music videos, and some of these singers even become role models for the children. ... All children are influenced by what they see or hear, and because sexual content is rampant in the media, the children in this country have been forced to deal with a mature subject matter at a very young age. ...
This drew me into the interview because it reminded me of when I was a kid and my dad first putting a bat in my hand for baseball and all the countless hours we spent out on the field together. ... He said "I want to influence them to play a sport, preferably soccer but I'm not going to push that upon them obviously." I really admired this response because a lot of parents really would push something like a sport or activity upon their children because that is something that makes them feel comfortable and it's something that they can teach to their kids. It's tough w...
While these events have occurred the nation has tried to find ways to explain it but when you look at the lives lost and the demented minds of these kids we realize we need not to focus just on why but also on prevention. ... At this point it seemed that almost every time you turned on the TV more kids had been shot and the students of America lived in fear. ... There we saw kids running out of a high school and two snapshots of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold being flashed in front of my face. ... In the large cafeteria of my school all the kids would gather everyday and above this was a balcon...
An estimated ten million kids in America are overweight. ... Parental influence is very important to any child, and the overweight child is no exception. ... Parent's dieting makes kids think that they should as well. ... Very common programs are the weight-loss camps for kids. ... Another program designed for kids, "Way to go Kids!" ...
Predominately all teenagers, and even kids, look up to drug dealers, admire rock stars and imitate robbers. ... Back in the day, kids spent a lot of time playing games with other children and reading books that sparked their interests. ... In first grade, I was a member of a four-kid gang that went around imitating TV westerns. ... The main reason no one knew was because the kids that did this were not very popular at all. ... "These kids are... neglected by their parents from birth. ...
But these days many kids at that age give up sports altogether or arrive at a crossroads, forced to choose among sports in order to excel at one. ... When the kids come back to the coaches in the afternoon, they're a more directed group. ... But there are so many late-developing kids, and so many get frozen out by the process." ... Yet premature specialization can foreclose the possibility of finding that out and perhaps sour a kid on sports entirely. ... "It leads to heightened expectations from parents and burnout in kids." ...
Each has many authority figures, influence, and role models to which they could look up, and sometimes they do. ... It is through this pair of scenes of outright disobedience to his teacher and the hopelessness of being raised by his mother, even if (as we saw) she is a respected power and influence over him, that Singleton shows the audience the true unique nature of the boy's ultimate paternal influence. ... Without question, Singleton shows us that Furious, not any teacher, not Tre's mother, is to be the authority, the influence - the father. ... Other elements of the movie, ...
Here he had many influences on his future. ... Al soon had other influences. Kids ran around in gangs in Brooklyn, not like the gangs we have today, but rather clicks of kids. ... Street gangs were outlets for the young kids energies. ... Capone learned a lot from Yale, but he still had other influences that lead to his eventual development. ...
I am a true believer in the fact that kids learn because they want to and not because they are made. ... However, I do believe a teacher can influence a kids life and make school fun and rewarding so they will want to learn. ... Without respect, kids can walk all over you and treat you as if you were not even there. ... I believe the first solution is to see if the kids can work it out. ... The kids will respect the fact they are going to be punished, but at th...
Family is a unit consisting of a family and their kids. ... Lastly, religion is a belief system that contains myths and rituals that influence supernatural powers and tell us how to behave. ... The geography is able to influence a society. The geological factors that can influence a culture are climate, topography, and natural resources. ... This influences the culture by creating dialects. ...
The term "Yellow kid " continuously showed up in their newspaper articles to draw attention, and sell more newspapers. ... They have one businessman sitting in a circle with five kids. The businessman asks the kid's if faster is better than slow, with no hesitation the kid's yell out "YES! ... Having the young kids explain why faster is better draws the audience to watch to see what they could be promoting. ... Media has a large persuasion to the population, and therefore can influence someone's beliefs on what it means to be male or female. ...
The media has been purposely used for decades to influence people. ... Hirsch, who both claim that the media has no influence on American Values. ... When it becomes this accessible to us, how can we not be influenced by it? ... She stays home to take care of the kids and the house, and in her spare time she likes to gossip with her girlfriends. Though she is the perfect mother, she is often also the one that punishes the kids when they misbehave. ...
Consumerism is an increasing influence on kids that counteracts what parents are trying to do. ... The actions of people who are influenced too strongly by advertisements consist of the desire to earn money and buy goods (Shah). ... Kids want them because they see them on television. ... Parents also have a hard time providing guidance and being an influence on their children due to many conflicting influences outside. "Kids not only want things, but have obtained the social right to want; one which parents aren't excited to violate" (Cook). ...
This paper is to put into perspective what is to become of the kids of tomorrow when injected into these facilities and it is the duty of us as American citizens to know what is being done to revert them back to society. ... Token Economy In the U.S there are too many kids that are placed in correctional facilities and being dubbed Juvenile Delinquents. Their far cry for help has been underrated in terms of the help that they are given, so how can we as a nation expect these kids to be good citizens of society? ... These kids are labeled as juvenile delinquents and are put into facilities simi...
Imagine that in this so called nation the kids instead or going to school would rather throw rocks at members of the other nation instead of going to school. Imagine that one day that that kid that was throwing rocks might one day strap a bomb to himself and go and try to blow people up because he thinks it is the right thing to do. ... Now that you can see how the mid-east became what it is today and you know what each nation wants you can see what must be done by the United States, who has strong influence in the UN, to create peace in the mid-east. ...
The kids in these gangs are hurting themselves, each other, their families, and the communities they belong to. ... In actuality, gangs use a variety of methods to lure kids into their group. ... Or they may resort to other methods to force a kid to join them. ... Also, kids that use drugs may think that they will have easier access to drugs if they join the gang. Kids that have a bad home life may feel that they can "escape" through the gang. ...
Economic factors, a rise in feminism, parents" influence, attitudes about sex, educational pursuits, and divorce statistics are discussed and their influence on women's attitudes toward marriage are explored. ... The belief that "kids do better" when their mothers control a larger fraction of family has been proven (Lundberg & Pollack). Parental influence and upbringing, no doubt, have a penetrating influence on a woman's ideas and her perceptions on marriage. Several studies have focused on parents" influence on a woman's marital timing. ... Modern attitudes about sex are also ...
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It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. ... Most parents, when they say to schools, "Give my kid a quality education," mean, "Do something to him that will get him ahead of all the other kids." ... They mean, make him a winner in a race where most kids lose... ... Wherever such tracks exist, studies show that they correlate almost perfectly with family income, the richest kids in the top tracks, the poorest in the bottom. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "...
DARE teaches kids how to recognize and resist the direct and subtle pressure that influence them to experiment with alcohol and drugs. ... DARE was founded in 1983 by the Los Angeles Police Department, it was influenced by the "just say no" approach, supported by Nancy Regan, then the First Lady. ... Kids wore T-shirts with DARE logos. ... During these weekly classes, DARE officers taught the following: Personal safety practices; Drug use and misuse; Consequences of using and not using drugs; Resisting pressures to use drugs; Resistance techniques-ways to say no; Building self-esteem; Ass...
Exposure to pornography and substance abuse are noted to be predisposing factors, however, they are more likely to be classified as dis-inhibitors than causal influences (Hunter, 1999, Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d., Van et al., 2007). ...
What really influences teens to do drugs? ... Now what influences them to do it? ... He got the influence from his father, and the neighbors. ... He was called "Tubby" and "Crisco Kid," he just had to take a chance. ... Drinking can influence what you decide on. 40% of guys say that alcohol influences their decision to do something sexual, and 32% goes for the girls. ...
The kid keeps asking the millionaire raider and trader. ... The kid is a broker for a second-tier Wall Street firm. ... The kid, named Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), comes from a working-class family. ... The movie has a traditional plot structure: The hungry kid is impressed by the successful older man, seduced by him, betrayed by him, and then tries to turn the tables. ...
