.... driving force behind my final decision to apply myself to an advanced placement class is due to the fact that I want to be able to go into the real world with some understanding of how and why it functions as it does on a daily basis. Through the study of humanities, I hope to attain this goal. The past classes which have helped to prepare me for the advanced placement Humanities course have been three years of English honors, one year of United States history honors, and the present enrollment of advanced placement United States history. These classes have challenged me as a student to strive, achieve, and excel beyond my expecta .....

.... spandex was made for females to wear. However, knowing all of this, there are some people who are considered exceptions to these concepts. Dennis Rodman is one of these exceptions. Rodman is a professional basketball player who is known for his aggressive style of play on the court. This aggressive style gives him a very masculine image. Nonetheless, he portrays himself as having many feminine characteristics when he is not playing basketball. Knowing this, are people like Dennis Rodman redefining the gender identities? Persons who display success and high status in their social group, who exhibit †.....

.... my baby-sitter after school, until my mother remarried. Then we became a very close knit family. My mother quit her job and became a stay-at-home mom. She was the one who made sure the homework was done, our chores got completed before we went out to play, and we were yelled at when necessary. My step-dad provided our financial backbone and took over the discipline when he got home to give mom a break. Sometimes he would work two jobs just to provide for the family and our well being. Society has always played a major role in aspects of marriage and family. As a child I remember wanting to marry a handsome, rich man and adopting loa .....

.... this figure has declined slightly from its 1998 share of 13.4%. The dip is due to Dell Computer Corp.’s heavy presence in the small PC market, (Industry Survey, Apr. 2000). Compaq has a wide range of PC products from smaller, less expensive machines to more costly, high-tech systems. CCC has been most successful with their smaller machines, targeted to the home/family segment, because they are able to sell large quantities. However, Compaq has been unsuccessful in retaining customers because most of them were pleased with their smaller machines and did not upgrade to CCC’s more expensive, high-tech systems,(Hamblen 1-2 .....

.... and the destination. A source may be an individual or a organization (like a newspaper or television). The message may be in form of ink on paper, sound waves in the air or else. The destination may be an individual listening, watching, reading, or even a member of a group, such as a discussion group, a lecture audience or even an individual member of a particular group. All the above illustration is referring to what is called the traditional concept of . On the other hand, the discovery of consists more in a new way of thinking about the human condition than in a new awareness of particular form of human action. Commonsense .....

.... seem sincere to want to make a noticeable difference in the world. The Ben & Jerry's foundation, established in 1985, receives 7.5 percent of the company's yearly pretax profits, which is donated to charities. Ben & Jerry's has two bottom lines: one is profit and, the other is "how much the company contributed to the quality of life." The Peace Pop and Ice Cream bar on a stick was packaged with a message saying, "One Percent for Peace" and, donated one percent of the profits for peace efforts. They also used their ice cream shops for voter registration sign-ups, giving every voter registering one free cone. They helped register t .....

.... surrounded aspartame since it’s creation in 1879. On a large scale, the public remains uninformed of the hazards of this popular chemical. Why aren’t people asking “What is this stuff made of, and why is the FDA forced to put a warning label on every product containing aspartame?� The average diet pop drinker doesn’t realize how much of this chemical he or she is consuming on a daily basis, or the possible effects aspartame toxicity could have on the body. What is it? In 1879, while developing new food preservatives, a young Johns Hopkins chemistry research assistant accidentally discovered that one of the organic compounds he .....

.... however, the boy did recover (Gordon 12-13). Through out the centuries there have been many cases of girls “fasting�, and not due to religious purposes. In the 1870’s the disorder became a topic of more medical concern. It happened around the time two doctors, Sir William Gull and Charles Lasegue, simultaneously published papers on a number of cases dealing with self-starvation (Alexander-Mott &Lumsden 101-102). Gull actually came up with the term , because he believed it was a nervous disease. Both doctors note four distinctive characteristics with each case. All of the patients experienced high levels of hyperactivity. Each of .....

.... (Ronfeldt 72). Studies consistently show that it is women who are disproportionately likely to sustain serious injury. Some significant negative consequences are emotional harm, feelings of victimization, and fear of further violence (Barnett, Miller-Perrin, Perrin 164). The most popular explanation for dating violence is that it is a learned behavior acquired in the family origin. Witnessing parents’ marital aggression or being the victim of harsh corporal punishment may greatly increase the chances that a child will grow up to use violence in a dating relationship (Simons 468). There is a substantial body of evidence suggesting that vi .....

.... a struggle between groups. The people and social order are formed by force & authority. An interactionalist view of society is effected everyday through social interaction. People create their own social worlds through relationships and encounters with other people. The social order is maintained by an understanding of everyday behaviour. Marx being a conflict theorist believed in class conflict, a society made up of two groups. Those who have the means to produce wealth and those who don't. The capitalist class vs. the working class. A factory owner will gain income by allowing people to work for him. The people working for hi .....