Wearing the “Adult” Hood Being a young person I’ve heard many a great debate over the word “Adult”. Most specifically between the kids and parents of my family‚ and these arguments are always the same. “You’re not an adult I still pay your bills”‚ and the most common “you’re not an adult you still live with mom and dad”. But those arguments don’t really give us a clear description of what makes someone an adult. There all good points on what an adult does but are they requirements? I don’t believe
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expected to say the least. Between having to deal with the difference in personalities‚ communal facilities and spaces‚ and being considered partially independent‚ this new found living has been nothing short of a major adjustment. Coming into college the thought process begins to switch from adolescent and immature to adult-like and responsible‚ at least that’s what should happen. Students walk onto university grounds and get that room assignment and think‚ “it’s finally happening”. So excited to
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More than 200‚000 children are prosecuted in adult courts each year. All 50 states can prosecute a child‚ under the age of 16 years old‚ as an adult (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Between 1992 and 1997‚ forty two states and the District of Columbia enacted legislation to enable juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult prisons (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Missouri and Indiana lowered the minimum age for transfer to an adult facility from 16 years of age to the incredibly young age of ten (Flesch
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1. Understand that any adult could be a child molester. There is no one physical characteristic‚ profession‚ or personality type that all child molesters share. Child molesters can be any sex or race‚ and their religious affiliations‚ occupations and hobbies are as diverse as anyone else’s. A child molester may appear to be charming‚ loving‚ and completely good-natured while harboring predatory thoughts that he or she is adept at hiding. That means you should never dismiss the idea that someone
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For many years there has been much debate about what‚ if anything‚ sets adult education apart from other fields of study or disciplines. According to Davenport and Davenport (1985)‚ the identification of what is unique about adult learning (in contrast to child or youth learning) has been a long-standing effort in adult education. They reasoned that if this difference could be identified‚ then the research territory of adult education could be based on these theoretical distinctions. Knowles (1980)
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Adult learning Psychological theorists agree that adult learning is most effective when an individual’s social context coincides with real life application. Adult learning differs from children’s learning in that it is self-directed‚ problem-centered‚ experience based‚ and more often relevant to life. These theories have been discussed by researchers and scholars with hope to link them to life skills and social cognitive abilities. Importantly‚ the construction of morality during development is a
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Adult Educator Interview Name AET/505 November 8‚ 2010 Instructor Adult Educator Interview The thought of becoming an adult educator is exciting and new to this author. The education realm is what a facilitator makes of it. The class can be stimulated or withdrawn just by the actions the class leader has taken. A positive experience is what this author would love to make her goal so she can be remember as the individual who made a difference. One inspiration is that of Jeremy
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Group Roles and Associated Communication Behaviours Role TASK ROLES 1. Task Leader 2. Initiator-Contributor 3. Opinion Seeker 4. Opinion Giver 5. Questioner 6. Evaluator-Critic 7. Devil’s Advocate or Central Negative 8. Energizer Typical Communication Behaviours Behaviours include goal setting; agenda making; initiating‚ seeking‚ and evaluating ideas and opinions; regulating participation of members; summarizing discussions Proposes new
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Trying Juveniles as Adults If your son or daughter were killed by a seventeen-year-old‚ would you be able to accept the fact that the murderer would be walking the streets again in less than a year because the law allows those under eighteen to be tried as juveniles? Forty-four states and Washington‚ DC‚ passed several laws between 1992 and 1997 enabling the judiciary to transfer juveniles to the adult court system. Today‚ murders committed by adults have decreased over 18%‚ but murders by juveniles
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Executive summary Conflict always happen around us in anywhere and anytime‚ conflict can be cause by any small matter but the affected to the relationship between people might be very serious. Nowadays‚ conflict not just happen among our own social life but it might be a serious problem among the global. Different countries have different culture and people‚ if we can’t study their diversity of culture well‚ even saying one words wrongly‚ it can be a very serious matter to them who are not same
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