Papers on Politics and Government
The Effects Of Television Viol
Words: 1625 - Pages: 6.... it and hoping it will go away. Still others donÕt even seem to care. However, the facts are undeniable. The studies have been carried out and all the results point to one conclusion: Television violence causes children to be violent and the effects can be life-long.
The information can't be ignored. Violent television viewing does affect children. The effects have been seen in a number of cases. In New York, a 16-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked him why he was wearing gloves he replied that he had learned to do so to not leave fingerprints and that he discovered this on television. In Alabama, a .....
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Privilege And Justice
Words: 1141 - Pages: 5.... seem to go hand in hand in today’s society; great advantages come with being wealthy. For example, material items are abundant for people with money. Wealth allows people to own anything they desire, from finest clothes and furnishings to the automobile of their dream. Those who posses these items are already at an advantage, they have what the latest magazines say you need and what everybody else wants. I find it a bit discerning that these material items dictate the social order, but the fact is, they do. Along with material items, beauty also determines your place in society. Once again, money allows for people to make necessary adj .....
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Multicultural Education
Words: 3021 - Pages: 11.... has changed more noticeably in the last ten years than in any other time in the twentieth century, with one out of every four Americans identifying themselves as black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, or American Indian (Gould 198). The number of foreign born residents also reached an all time high of twenty million, easily passing the 1980 record of fourteen million. Most people, from educators to philosophers, agree that an important first step in successfully joining multiple cultures is to develop an understanding of each others background. However, the similarities stop there. One problem is in defining the term "multiculturalism". W .....
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Violence And Pornography
Words: 4406 - Pages: 17.... into my life, but I
couldn’t behave like that and maintain the success I had
worked so hard for. I generated an alter-ego to fulfill
my fantasies under-cover. Pornography was a means of
unlocking the evil I had burried inside myself” (Leidholdt
47). Is it possible that pornography is acting as the key
to unlocking the evil in more unstable minds?
According to Edward Donnerstein, a leading researcher
in the pornography field, “the relationship between
sexually violent images in the media and subsequent
aggression and . . . callous attitudes towards women is
much stonger statistically than the relationship between
smoking and cancer .....
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Abortion - Right To Choose
Words: 802 - Pages: 3.... criteria
derived from our understanding of living human beings. In a notable
defense of this position, philosopher Mary Anne Warren has proposed
the following criteria for "person-hood": 1) consciousness (of objects
and events external and or internal to the being), and in particular
the capacity to feel pain. 2) reasoning (the developed capacity to
solve new and relatively complex problems) 3) self-motivated activity
(activity which is relatively independent of either genetic or direct
external control) 4) the capacity to communicate, by whatever means,
messages of an indefinite variety of possible contents, but o .....
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Analysis Of Broken Windows
Words: 1390 - Pages: 6.... no one cares then crime similar in nature will occurs much more frequently and to a greater extent. An example of that idea evolving graffiti was illustrated in the article, “The proliferation of graffiti, even when not obscene, confronts the subway rider with the ‘inescapable knowledge that the environment he must endure for an hour or more a day is uncontrolled and uncontrollable, and that anyone can invade it to do whatever damage and mischief the mind suggests’” (Wilson 7). The graffiti, in this case, is not dangerous or even necessarily offensive. What remains is the feeling that this is untamed area and subject to those w .....
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Both Sides Of The Abortion Deb
Words: 1460 - Pages: 6.... incomes under eleven thousand are over three
times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five
thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort
than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year
olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of
abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among
minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum
aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or
less since the women has b .....
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The Bill Of Rights
Words: 329 - Pages: 2.... the English Bill of Rights. Two years later came the Virginia
declaration of rights, which contained the first guarantees for individual
right single gully enforceable constitution. The distinctive feature of
the provision in American Bill of Rights is that they are enforced by the
courts.
From the time they first settled in Virgin and Massachusetts, the
American colonist relied upon the rights enjoyed by Englishmen. The
struggle for independence, however, demonstrated to them that rights not
specified and codified in constitutional documents were insecure. The
result was a movement as soon as independence was declared, to ado .....
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Alcohol
Words: 508 - Pages: 2.... slurred speech, loss of balance, even unconsciousness. If you are diagnosed as an ic you can not just try to cut down on drinking and think that this will help. Studies show that nearly all ics who try to merely cut down on drinking are unable to do so indefinitely. Instead, cutting out is nearly necessary for successful recovery. has direct toxic as well as sedative effects on the body, and failure to take care of nutritional and other physical needs during prolonged periods of excessive drinking may further complicate matters. Some cases even require hospitalization. The effects on major organ systems can be dramatic. A wide rang o .....
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Teen Smoking
Words: 1297 - Pages: 5.... 1.2 million Americans under the age of eighteen started smoking daily in 1996, up from an estimated 708,000 in 1988. The rate teens become teen smokers has also increased up to fifty percent. In 1996, 77 out of every 1, 000 nonsmoking teens picked up the habit. In 1988, the rate was 51 per 1,000. The study was based on surveys of 78,330 Americans between the ages of 12 and 66 conducted by the CDC between 1994 and 1997. They asked if they ever had a daily smoking habit and if so, when they started. They were also asked when they smoked their first cigarette. There have been recent studies that prove that increasing the prices of tobacco w .....
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