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Problematic Sollutions
Words: 1238 - Pages: 5.... include ending governmental economic support such as welfare, subsidized housing and food stamps, increasing social stigma, and returning to the ideals held in the mid 20th century. Although these suggestions do contain some validity in theory, I don’t believe that implementation would have the desired effect.
Murray’s opinion is that some women go through with pregnancy because they know the government will support them through the Welfare system. Therefore Murray feels this economic policy should be abolished. To understand his theory you must look at illegitimacy as a circle: It is a fact that women, especially teenage wom .....
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Tinnitus
Words: 521 - Pages: 2.... Prior treatments in a group of sufferers seeking treatment. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 66 (2). 107-110.
Four groups were obtained from sixty-nine sufferers aged 22-76 years to try and describe the distress they go through based on if they have had treatment or not. The four groups were: not treatment (24 people), acupuncture (19 people), relaxation (13 people), other treatments. (13 people). These people were asked to rate helplessness, capacity for rest, acceptability of change, emotional effects, hearing and ability to ignore using the Effect Questionaire. The only major difference that was found was that the untreated .....
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How Media Influences Women
Words: 1082 - Pages: 4.... so little wonder why when you read this bumper sticker “few women admit their age, few men act it” a lot of women won’t divulge their age. To do so would be to admit they are perhaps older than they look or if we were to know their real age we might say something (hopefully to ourselves) like “jeez, she looks a lot older than that!”
The media is really the one at work that shapes a lot of our attitudes and beliefs. They might not necessarily be healthy attitudes and beliefs but they are the ones that have been shoved in front of our faces from the day we were born. Believe me, they know how powerful and influential they (the med .....
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Antigone
Words: 1054 - Pages: 4.... to the gods and her family rather than the king. She then asked Ismene, her sister, to assist her with the burial, but was denied any help. Ismene justified her decision by telling that they were already punished and that there was no need to make matters worse for the two of them by defying Creon’s law.
Oh my sister, think- think how our own father died, hated,
his reputation in ruins, driven on
by the crimes he brought to light himself
to gouge out his eyes with his own hands-
then mother…his mother and wife, both in one,
mutilating her life in the twisted noose-
an .....
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Book Report On 1984 By George
Words: 1968 - Pages: 8.... that in this place where Winston lives they use what is called a telescreen which watches and hears everything everyone is doing. There is a telescreen placed in every corner of every room. This telescreen could not be turned off. If you are heard thinking of something the Big Brother does not want you to think then you will be punished by the Thought Police. This punishment could be death or a sentence of 25 years in a forced labor camp. You had to keep your feelings to yourself and try to hide them from the Thought Police. “Your worst enemy is your own nervous system,” (page 67) this is something you hear all the time from cr .....
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Cultural Synopsis: The Philipp
Words: 584 - Pages: 3.... the late 1940s. Major legacies of that period are an American-style educational system and, with it, the teaching of English, which today is spoken as a second language by about two fifths of the population. Along with Pilipino, a language derived from Tagalog, English is one of the two official languages.
The Philippines achieved full political independence in 1946, following four years of occupation by Japanese armed forces during World War II. The period since independence has been marked by repeated crises. The Philippines consists of 7,000 islands of only which 2,000 are inhabited. The two largest islands are Luzon and Mindanao and se .....
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Endangered Species In Canada
Words: 1476 - Pages: 6.... animals from
hunting, that would be enough. Today we now know that we must also protect
there habitats. This is where they find food, water, shelter, and a place
to have their young. Even if they are not hunted, animals will die out if
these necessities cannot be met.
In this century, loss of habitat has been one of the main caused of
extinction (pg 8, Silverstein). People share the country and the planet
with all the other creatures that live here. As human population grows,
people spread out into areas that once were wild, and they compete with
animals for living space. Mort times than not the animals lose in this .....
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Billiards
Words: 837 - Pages: 4.... used straight, narrow ones.
The sticks weren't used as they are today to hit the ball but rather to push the
balls around the table, similar to the game of shuffle board. As the game got
more popular, as it is today, the sticks got narrower and easier to use
(Billiards, http).
A few games today are similar to billiards, such as shuffleboard, and
the same equipment - stick and balls. One of the most important tools to
playing any game of this type is the table. In the fourteenth century, the
length of the tables was much longer than today becuase they were used instead
of playing outside. Today the sized of the tables varies all over th .....
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My Personal Search For A Meaningful Existence
Words: 3851 - Pages: 15.... and subsequently our ability to exist, because we have been cursed
with a wealth of advantages and a lack of restrictions. For example: I am free
to choose my own religion, I am not stifled by or subjected to economic
disadvantage, I am not bound to subservience by an oppressive or tyrannical
government, I am blessed with a myriad of conveniences by my technologically
advanced society, and I come from a nurturing and supportive family, so who the
hell am I to complain about my circumstances. The only explanation I can give,
in retort to my profession that I have been cursed by my inherent advantages,
is: since my life is complet .....
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