Papers on Social Issues
Communication Skills
Words: 805 - Pages: 3.... his environment
and the people he is speaking to. Environment plays a lot with what you say
and try to convey to people. If you hear a bird chirping, you might
incorporate it to what you where just about to say. This makes the person
you're talking to even more comfortable with what you are trying to convey
with your thoughts and ideas. This is how different things can effect one's
communication skill, speaking.
A second communication skill is body language, a very personal way
of expressing yourself without words. One's body language can carry a
whole conversation without even saying a word. Sign language is an
excellent example of .....
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Radical Feminism Inhibits The Liberation Of Women
Words: 716 - Pages: 3.... of women.
The increasing tendency of women in the workplace has given arise to a new feminist. This feminist sees the male gender as a different species and mainly the enemy. As always these women give the regular feminist a bad name. If you walked into a mostly male room and said feminist the initial word would be lesbian. These stereotypes are always breaking down what the traditional feminist is trying to build. The traditional feminist wants one simple thing, equality. The radical feminist also wants one simple thing, complete power. A easy way of making one’s case is undermining the other’s character. I believe that men and women .....
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Child Abuse
Words: 589 - Pages: 3.... the "whole child"—medical as
well as psychological or emotional problems that have occurred as a result of
the abuse. The family can be helped to learn new ways of support and
communicating with one another. Through treatment, the abused child begins to
regain a sense of self-confidence and trust. Child abuse is a matter of degree:
the degree to which a parent uses inap-propriate or excessive control strategies
with a child and/or fails to provide standards of care giving. In fact, abusive
parents often do not know they are abusive. Our culture has, for generations,
used corporal punishment as a means of controlling child behavior. Some .....
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Relations Among The Races
Words: 2163 - Pages: 8.... Institute, whose main focus is to
"sort out the jumble of expectations and fears that swirl around the
initiative's struggle to reconcile ethnicity and difference with the
notion of one American nation" (Green, 1998; PG) -- are pushing hard to
mend racial tension with a comprehensive program that is designed to bring
all races together. Will it work? Or will minorities look upon the effort
as nothing more than a Band-Aid covering a much larger issue? To some
extent, concepts such as affirmative action have their place in society,
yet they will do nothing to alter an individual's perception of one race or
another.
I. ADOLESCENT ASPECT .....
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An Ethical Dilemma
Words: 548 - Pages: 2.... funds through a factoring company to expand his own business, and as a result he is more successful than ever. It is obvious that the factoring companies have provided a valuable service for some, but lets take a look at the dissatisfied customers.
Orion Olson was injured at the age of three by a severe dog bite causing vision and neurological problems. When he turned eighteen he was already homeless but soon received the first $7500 installment of the $75,000 settlement. This money quickly took him off the street but did not last long. He then turned to a large factoring company by the name of J.G. Wentworth. He sold his remaining .....
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Stereotypes
Words: 508 - Pages: 2.... by their physical aspects, social aspects, and personal aspects.
Furthermore, these certain groups stereotypes are often affected by the way people perceive them. Racism usually plays a big part in contributing to a person’s thoughts on a certain group. For example, blacks and whites are affected in that they are perceived by the color of their skin. It is common that blacks and whites do not share many characteristics.
In addition, there are many prejudiced people in the world today. Being prejudiced means having a certain attitude towards a certain group that leads to evaluate members of that group negatively. A prejudiced .....
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Following A Dream Toward Freedom
Words: 439 - Pages: 2.... people take on the responsibility of their citizenship and follow the laws
and rules founded for them, freedom is allowed to work for everyone.
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a
world founded upon four essential human freedoms," stated Franklin Roosevelt in
his 1941 President's Annual Address to Congress. "The first is freedom of
speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every
person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is
freedom want-which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings
which will secure to every nation a heal .....
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Nuclear Power: Cons
Words: 1133 - Pages: 5.... of life support systems. Therefore,
we are between two sections in which one is the section of "resource
availability and waste", and the other "the continuity of life support
systems pertinent to survival."
Thus, the environmentalists believe that nuclear energy should not be
used for various reasons. First of all, the waste product, i.e. plutonium,
is extremely radioactive, which may cause the people who are working or
living in or around the area of storage or use, to acquire leukemia and
other cancers. They also show how billions of dollars are spent yearly on
safety devices for a single reactor, and this still doesn't ensure th .....
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Welfare Reform: A Matter Of Justice
Words: 1664 - Pages: 7.... increase can be attributed to multiple factors. First, through a series of
mandates, the Federal Government has expanded the eligibility for Medicaid,
requiring states to serve more people. They also increased the standards
required of nursing homes. This led to higher nursing home costs which were
passed directly back to the Medicaid program. The current average cost to care
for a patient in a nursing home is nine times greater than that of a single
dependent child. The price of medical care, in general, has drastically
increased. Expensive new technology and procedures are a large part of this
increase. The need for these co .....
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The Real Issue Of Youth Violence
Words: 2452 - Pages: 9.... disagree that violence on the screen
is at the root of youth violence. One aspect of this theory that I feel is
particularly disturbing is that people feel that video games are
responsible for violence in youths. I have grown up with video games my
whole life. I annihilate over a million aliens, monsters, and green slimy
things every year. Yet, I have never felt compelled to commit any act of
violence that I see on the screen. What is on the screen stays on the
screen. I have known that from the very beginning. My parents taught me at
an early age that what is on the screen is for fun, and it is not to be
done off the screen. Video g .....
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