Papers on Social Issues
Male Relations With Women
Words: 858 - Pages: 4.... knows it will be perfectly simple. In the midst of their conversation the man says, "If you don't want to you don't have to. I wouldn't have you do it if you don't want to. But I know it's perfectly simple." This tactic leaves the girl with all the guilt to deal with afterwards. If she does feel guilty afterwards, the man can say that he told her she did not have to, forgetting that he added after every sentence that he knew it would be perfectly simple. The man pretends that he does not care if the girl does not have the abortion, yet it is really very important to him. He proves to the girl his true feelings when he says, "That's t .....
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Child Abuse
Words: 828 - Pages: 4.... basic needs. Neglect
could be physical, educational, or emotional. Physical neglect could be
not providing food or clothing, appropriate medical care, supervision, or
proper weather protection. Educational neglect is failure to provide
schooling or special educational needs. For example: Not helping them on
homework or teaching them how to read. Emotional neglect includes the lack
of any emotional support and love.
Physical Abuse: The inflicting of physical injury upon a child. This may
include, burning, hitting, punching, shaking, kicking, beating, or
otherwise harming a child. Even if the parents or caretaker didn't
intended to hur .....
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Linguistic Bias
Words: 509 - Pages: 2.... a long term process who's roots begin with extremism. However, incidents such as bra burning at Berkeley during the 1960's did not facilitate the acceptance of woman over night, it was merely the beginning. Gender neutral language demands a reconditioning of society to see words such as "chairman, alderman etc..." not as a malicious attack upon woman, but as non-sexist, non-biased terms. "English language is alive and constantly changing"(Gelder). One only has to read out loud sentences from the 19th century to sense the shifts that have occurred in the last 150 years. When readers pick up something to read, they expect different f .....
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Gambling: Losing The Gamble
Words: 2579 - Pages: 10.... the baby needs formula." I knew all this, but I got caught up in the gambling fever. There was no way I could make it up. I was depressed for weeks and this was just one of the episodes that led to my divorce after we moved to Reno.
Gambling is rapidly becoming America's favorite past time. It is now more popular than all sporting events combined. "In 1995, Americans spent more on gambling than the U.S. government budgeted for defense: around $500 billion in all, or $2,000 for every man, woman, and child" (Vogel 1). Gambling, or "gaming" as the industry calls it, is fast becoming a part of many people's everyday lives. For years, Nev .....
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The Struggle Between Being And Knowing
Words: 1115 - Pages: 5.... out facts and information that is pumped into us. So we emerge with the treasured slip of paper but what else? Yes, we hopefully have acquired the skills to do the job we are seeking, but have we acquired the intellectual capacity for continued learning? Was our curiosity tapped? Or worst of all satisfied? Both the articles “I Go to College” by Lincoln Steffens and the film Dead Poets Society present a unique struggle between the traditional methodologies and the desire for something more. It is time to analyze the university experience with regards to what is and what should be. Our expectations and our realities.
The reality .....
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How The Availability Of The Weapons With Fire Can Affect The Rates Of Crime Of Violence?
Words: 957 - Pages: 4.... one of the causes of this relationship between the availability of the weapons with fire and the homicides are the fact that the weapons with fire are more fatal than the others weapons and, consequently, more likely to cause a death when ways in fact and flights are made. This explanation is very valid and it is exposed further in the section entitled " the attacks perpetrated with a weapon with fire and the probability that they will involve serious wounds and deaths ".
Another reason for which the weapons with fire perhaps facilitate the perpetration of the crimes of violence is that they constitute an impersonal means and " clea .....
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Words: 627 - Pages: 3.... is not the only way children get crazy ideas in their head. Movies, magazines and the Internet also play a big role in these extreme ideas. Detachment is not considered a major problem for parents. Although Levines claims that attachment to a another youth is very important, but the detachment from the parents is painful for them. This is when the mother realizes that there son/ daughter does not go to them for the basic nourishing needs. The views that were brought up in class have shown in forty years the growth of television sales have drastically increased.
Sex becomes a very important stage in a young persons life. Experiment .....
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Blacks: A Struggle For Racial Equality
Words: 676 - Pages: 3.... I can't tolerate Pete agreed "it's an
uppity nigger."2 We can see that Bullet, a cross country runner is talking
to a team-mate named Pete. It is indisputable that Pete has some
antagonism towards blacks. He treats them with very little respect and
uses the racist term "nigger." This helps to justify that blacks are
treated with considerably less appreciation than other races of people.
Let us also look at the fact that blacks are often socially
outcasted because of their race. We see this in The Runner. "You're
telling me you won't work with him because he's a negro?" "That's right."3
As we can see the above exert clearly shows how .....
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The TV Generation
Words: 539 - Pages: 2.... We have the
option to decide upon everything from The Disney Channel to VH1, The Family
Channel to Fox. That box in our bedroom or family room is a very controlling yet
entertaining appliance. Teenagers have always been free-spirited in any
generation. We are always doing and saying childish things while trying to grow
up. If we only have a couple years of our childhood left then who cares if we
spend it in front of a TV? Which is not to say that we do that anyhow. Perhaps
we use the TV as a way of relaxing before we go off and hit the books for two
hours. Or maybe we use it to spend time with our family. I mean, come on, how
many teen .....
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My Own Micro Culture
Words: 1058 - Pages: 4.... woman usually emphasizes these exotic colors in the way they dress. The stereotype “hot tamale” (p178) was given to the Latin woman because the way they wear bright colors and show their body off. Unlike Americans the Latin women lives in a country that need not worry of preditorial men. In , women that wear flamboyant clothing and show too much skin are looked down upon; they are considered “easy”. Do to the bright colors, An American may think that a woman is trying to get noticed. sees both bright clothes and reveling attire and assumes the girl is a tramp. Though a Latin woman may not try to bring attention to her by the way she .....
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