Papers on Social Issues
Women And Society's "Glass Walls"
Words: 1267 - Pages: 5.... students, may cause many women to loose interest in education and extracurricular activities. The Sadkers imply that financial distribution of resources points to male dominance because the male-oriented activities and clubs receive a substantially larger portion of the university funding. The interest in male sports and profit made by the university allow male athletics to acquire nearly half of the university funding. Extended funding allows the fields of male athletics to be more "luxurious" with options for its members; thus, much interest is lost in female athletics by females. A loss of interest from the females creates indiffere .....
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Optimism Verses Pessimism
Words: 428 - Pages: 2.... some rain” or “it’s going to be sunny tomorrow.” When a pessimist would say “I hate the rain” or “it’s never going to stop raining.” An optimistic person is upbeat and charismatic, and a pessimistic person is dejected and downhearted. An optimistic outlook is most successful and radiant. Although everything has both pleasant and unpleasant attributes, a pessimist overlooks the positive and dwells on the negative. For example, if someone was to make an A on a test, a optimist would say “ good job,” when a pessimist would say “it was a very easy test anyway, and anyone could have passed it.”
If a person gets d .....
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Feminists
Words: 569 - Pages: 3.... two pictures come into mind. The first,
which maybe a little outdated is a women like Susan B. Anthony, someone
fighting for real issues that matter. The second is of a women like the
author above, someone who is extreme just to be extreme. To my
disappointment it seems the later is becoming more prevalent within society.
After reading the article I scrolled down the page to where it
listed "more feminist links", the five that were given consisted of; three
lesbian rights pages, and two "neo-feminist pages". Thinking this must be
only a small percentage of feminist pages which were given by this specific
author, I went back and sea .....
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Kinship As A Mechanism For Social Integrating
Words: 1038 - Pages: 4.... can lead to social
integrating. Wiener explains, " The message of death spreads rapidly to other
villages where the dead person has relatives or friends," showing that death is
not only uses kinship to integrate individuals, but entire villages too. The
Trobrianders are a matrilineal society, meaning that all descent groups and
kinship recognition are passed through the mother. They are organize into dalas,
matrilineal descent groups and kumilas, one of four named matrilineal clans.
During Wiener's fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, she experienced the death of
an old chief, Uwelasi. The preparation of the burial of a dead person is a
c .....
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Violence In Schools
Words: 1002 - Pages: 4.... money to buy weapons. Gangs, since they came around violence have been increasing steadily. The spread of gangs and drugs has also been implicated in the increasing violence of school youths (Glazer 14). Experts have also said that most violent conflicts among school-age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes (Apfel 21). Carrying guns and other weapons around schools is becoming more and more popular all around the world. People think that carrying guns around schools with them will make them cool or fit in with other People like themselves. They're wrong. More and more people who are carrying guns around schools today ar .....
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American Male Pigs
Words: 1350 - Pages: 5.... groups are:
Those who do,
Those who don't,
and those who do, that you won't do.
The last group and by far the least important, are those who would do
Anything with Anyone that you won't do. These women aren't usually very
attractive. They are more often than not, quite heavy. They are NOT desirable.
These are the women, who after you've been drinking heavily all night, at 2:00
A.M. still don't look good. You can see them lined up at the exit to every bar,
looking quite sad, lonely and pathetic at closing time, hoping and praying to
get lucky .....
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Sexual Harassment
Words: 1688 - Pages: 7.... of
sexual discrimination and is illegal." (What is Sexual Harassment?, page 20)
After the Education Amendments were enacted, women began to see that the law was
on their side and that it was designed to protect them. Women now saw that
-Verbal harassment or abuse
-Subtle pressure for sex
-Unnecessary patting or pinching
-Constant brushing against another employee's body
-Demands for sex accompanied by threats of termination
-Demands for sex in return for preferential treatment
qualified as components of sexual harassment.(Redress for Success, page 75)
Soon after that women began to real .....
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Multiculturalism
Words: 394 - Pages: 2.... in. The fact is that we may have to close our doors to immigrants
because sooner or later the social system will break down. We will not be
regarded as the great free country that accepts so many immigrants.Although I
hope we do not come to this point,I fear it will happen. Language is a part of
multiculturalism. Evidence of this can be found in some many cities and towns.
You will see signs in English or French and under them, you will see German ,
Japanese ,Arabic etc..Other examples of this are newspapers and media
productions in varying languages. People that have a choice as to where they
want to immigrate to , usually choose Canada be .....
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Social Norms Are Constantly Changing
Words: 748 - Pages: 3.... that grew up in the early twenties attended school only through the eighth grade. After that he helped his father on the farm. In the typical school day today, a student has to do a lot more than cheat on a test to get in any real trouble. Some things that get kids in a lot of trouble now include looking up porn on the Internet and fighting. Swearing in class is usually punished with mild reprimand from the teacher. Fifty years ago, and even only twenty years ago, you didn’t dare say even the mildest swear word in the presence of a teacher.
Another norm that has changed a lot is what teenagers do for entertainment. In the ea .....
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