Papers on Social Issues
Fingerprinting Kids
Words: 1056 - Pages: 4.... the Missing Children Act in October 1982. What
the new law did was to legitimize the use of the FBI's national computer
network,the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) for non-criminal
purposes.
All of the programs are voluntary. In some cases the police
departments retain the records, while in others the fingerprint cards are
turned over to the parents for safekeeping. The apparent purpose of the
program is to help provide positive identification to link either children
picked up, or bodies recovered, with missing person notices.
Every year about 1 million children are reported missing. Of these
most, about 800,00 .....
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Sitting Down As A Family For Dinner
Words: 392 - Pages: 2.... happened to this time? Did the days get shorter? No…the same twenty-four hours still constitutes a day. Now no one seems to have time to share, to sit down together as a family and enjoy a meal. Now dinner time is full of interruptions; the sounds of shouting and laughter from the Drew Carry show or a honk for the passing cars at the Sonic. No longer is there assurance in knowing that every member of your family will be present at the designation eating time.
Refrigerators where mothers and wives once posted nightly menus describing delicious meals are now covered with marker boards and post it notes informing where each pe .....
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Education In Public Schools
Words: 1172 - Pages: 5.... U.S. Supreme Court did this in 1962. Beginning in 1962, SAT scores plummeted. Teen pregnancies, teen sexual diseases, teen suicides, teen alcohol, drug abuse, pornography, and illiteracy rates abruptly increased 200 to 300 percent. Violence is one of the main factors effecting are schools today. Rape is a growing problem among juveniles. A juvenile commits one out of every five rapes that occur in the United States. There is also a higher use of drugs and alcohol among kids in public schools. Over 80 percent of public high school students drink alcohol and 45.7 percent have used marijuana. Drugs and alcohol make most people extremely violen .....
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Dining Establishments And Eating
Words: 885 - Pages: 4.... Fried
Chicken. Fast food would be an easy solution to the problem of the time
factor. Fast food can easily be recognized when you enter the parking lot.
For fast food the parking lot is more accessible to people(less
landscaping), more entrances and exit doors(for more saved time). Once
entering the building one can distinguish a fast food restaurant, by the
high traffic tile floors, plastic bench seating that does not move for
comfort, and the poor taste of interior design with small amounts of
decoration. These buildings were meant for eating quickly, and then
leaving, visual impact is not a major concern. There will be no wait .....
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Effects
Words: 1202 - Pages: 5.... of measuring and evaluating human
response to media exposure.
Human behavior is very complicated and can not be monitored like
rats can in a laboratory. Humans will act differently in every setting and
it is very difficult to get a natural response in an unnatural environment.
If a person is used to viewing TV in their own home, on their own beaten up
couch, their response level will be very different than it would be in an
empty room with a two way mirror. Not only will their awareness level be
raised, they may be more concerned in the changed viewing environment and
less on the television programs. In a person's home they may watch TV .....
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Female Infanticide In India
Words: 1107 - Pages: 5.... the
infants death, under the cover of nightfall, Rani buried the infant in a
nearby field in an unmarked grave. “I never felt any sorrow,” Rani , a
farm laborer with a weather beaten face, said through a interpreter. “
There was a lot of bitterness in my heart toward the baby because the gods
should have given me a son.”(John Anderson, 1993, p. 6)
Each year thousands of newborn girls are murdered by their mothers
simply because they are female. Some women believe that sacrificing a
daughter guarantees a son in the next pregnancy. Because of the tremendous
preference for sons over daughters many females are abandoned or a .....
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The Art Of Raising A Child
Words: 856 - Pages: 4.... and play quietly". Suddenly, we have created well-mannered, soft-spoken, and gracefully striding creatures.
Have we really? Or are we creating the opposite of what we intended?
The most important rules of parenting are often unknown, or overlooked:
1. Respect Your Child. Treat your child the way you want to be treated. The fact that Tommy's body is smaller doesn't make him less of a person. He has feelings, concerns, and opinions. Value, don't invalidate them. No child is ever too small to deserve your respect.
2. Grant Your Child the Right to Own. Once you have given Tammy the doll, it is hers--irrevocably! Let her toss it, drown it, .....
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Materialism Vs Idealism
Words: 602 - Pages: 3.... tree dies or the chair is thrown into
a fire the atoms do not burn up or die, but are dispersed back into the
vacuity. The atoms alone are without mind or secondary qualities, but they
can combine to form living and thinking objects, along with sound, color,
taste, etc... Atoms form life, consciousness, and the soul, and when our
body dies there is nothing left of the latter except for its parts, which
randomly become parts of other forms.
Matter is never ending reality, only changing in its form. In the
philosophical system developed by Irish philosopher George Berkeley,
Idealism, Berkeley states that physical objects, matter, do not exis .....
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Homosexuals: A Suspect Class?
Words: 2624 - Pages: 10.... television shows, well-
known public figures openly discussing their homosexuality, and there is
virtually no one who can claim that they have never had contact with a
homosexual. In the middle of all this publicity, there lingers a pending
Supreme Court case in which the fate of the homosexual lies: Romer v. Evans, a
case that dominated Colorado that has come to "symbolize the controversy over
gay legal rights" throughout the nation. This paper will trace the elements
behind that case, and attempt to focus on the steps the Supreme Court will
follow to determine whether homosexuality must be legally considered a "suspect
class" for t .....
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Racial Discrimination
Words: 642 - Pages: 3.... to do with the color of your skin. The word "kaffir" is
just that; a word. It is a term that sprouted out of ignorance and continues to
be used to this day exclusively by ignorant people. A kaffir isn't a slang term
for an African; it is a word that describes the person that uses it. This type
of person is one who feeds his ego by dehumanizing those around him when he
feels they are not equal to him. He may regard those of different races or
nationalities as "bad" or "dirty" because they do not have the same skin color
as he does or they may cherish beliefs that are contrary to the ones by which he
lives his life.
These qualities describ .....
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