Sentences with phrase «account of adolescent life»

Along with Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and Bruce Beresford, Schepisi was a key figure in the renaissance of the Australian film industry, making the acclaimed features The Devil's Playground (1976), a semi-autobiographical account of adolescent life in a religious boarding school, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), based on Thomas Keneally's novel.

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When looking for correlations between the micronutrient levels and physical fitness, they took into account the adolescents» age, time of year, latitude of the city they lived in, body mass index, age of menarche in females, and amount of regular physical activity (using accelerometers).

While adolescents are dealing with chlamydia, the mid — life adults account for many of the gonorrhea cases.

In their taxonomy of antisocial behavior, Moffitt (1993) and Moffitt et al. (2002) demonstrated that two prototypes of offenders, the life - course - persistent (LCP: childhood onset and continuing into adulthood) and adolescent - limited group (AL: beginning in adolescence and desisting in young adulthood), account for the bulk of antisocial behavior (two additional groups were identified and labeled abstainers and low - level chronics, but these groups were relatively small, i.e., around 5 % and 8 % respectively).