Papers on Social Issues
Equality
Words: 1244 - Pages: 5.... the work force before the 1850's. In the mid nineteenth century women were
the majority for grade school teachers, up from the ten percent of elementary
teachers, that were teachers in the colonial period. This can be largely
attributed not to the fact that men were more accepting of the idea that women
belonged in the work place, but rather men were drown to the higher paying and
more socially appreciated managerial jobs brought on by the industrial
revolution. School boards did not mind these talented leaving because they
could higher a "less qualified women" for as low as one fifth of males salary
for the same job.
Susan B. Anthon .....
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Racism Today
Words: 1182 - Pages: 5.... slowly declining, still shows signs of strong
support (Piazza 86). Covert racism assumes a form of civil disobedience against
politically correct thought and speech. Essentially, covert racism is a "hidden"
racism, or a racism not easily detected (Piazza 78). "Racism is still strongly
prevalent in today's society" (Gudorf 3).
The three different basic forms of racism, open racism, violent racism,
and covert racism all express forms of hatred towards distinct ethnic groups
(Bender 47). These basic forms of racism, although different in form, all have
the same main purpose, to promote racism. Open racism expresses freedom of
ra .....
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Men And Women: Why Are We So Different?
Words: 750 - Pages: 3.... hold them as equals and as partners. In doing this, it is necessary to examine some of these differences and to show that though these do exist, neither is superior to the other, and society should strive to reflect this.
The first difference that we will examine is the very core that makes us different. That core is biology. In biology, there are two distinct sets of genes: male (XX) and female (XY). Though these are distinctly different, there can already be seen some similarity in the two. Both carry the X chromosome. These different sets of chromosomes cause us to form distinct male and female physical characteristics. These diff .....
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Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990's
Words: 2153 - Pages: 8.... completely disregarded the
needs of educated and motivated business women and scientific women.
Actually, the subtle message that society gave was that the educated woman
was actually selfish and evil.
I remember in particular the searing effect on me, who once intended to
be a psychologist, of a story in McCall's in December 1949 called "A
Weekend with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother,
divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to
spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy,
and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing .....
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Feminists
Words: 986 - Pages: 4.... how much the can accomplish on the own. Men feel because they are men, they are the superior gender, which is not true in the least. They may have been in the past, but women have started to break through the barriers men have put up, and being successful at doing so. This revolution had been known as womanpower.
Men still believe that women should obtain jobs like secretaries and nurses instead of being the bosses or the doctors. It is hard on any man's ego to have a woman in a superior position to them or to have a wife bring home a higher income than he, but they seem to be more understanding to the situation. However, women have no .....
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Animal Testing
Words: 617 - Pages: 3.... observing and testing the entire living system. For example, scientists use prairie dogs to study gallstone disease, and polar bears to study Alzheimer’s disease because they have the same aging patterns as humans with the disease. Also, the physicians and physicians-in-training who perform today's delicate cardiac, ear, eye, pulmonary and brain surgeries must develop the necessary skills before patients' lives are entrusted to their care. Neither computer models, cell cultures nor artificial substances can pose as flesh, muscle, blood, bone and organs working together in the living system. Only a living being can do this, which is an ani .....
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Stressing The Importance Of Male And Female Education
Words: 318 - Pages: 2.... the house, and that their primary
duty is to take care of the family and kids.
However in modern societies and nations, the situation differs. Now days
more countries are inclined towards modernization. The general moral
philosophy of these nations is equality amongst men and women; therefore,
this means equal business, industrial, and occupational opportunities for
both the men and women. Based on these facts, it is vital to put of equal
stress on the education of men and women for this will insure that females
and males perform their tasks professionally and adequately.
In my opinion, the edification of men and women has to be equ .....
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Reducing Gun Violence
Words: 2036 - Pages: 8.... of concern to them as to their elders. Still, it is to their elders, the leaders among them at least, that they must look for guidance if not perhaps for answers.
Gun violence claims over 40,000 American lives a year. Among all consumer products, only motor vehicles outpace guns as a cause of fatal injury, and guns will pass them by 2003 (Violence Policy Center).
Their are many different methods in , such as federal gun control laws, increasing penalties for gun-related crimes, banning handguns, on the television, and different types of gun safety practices.
Today there are 20,000 different types of gun control laws in existence, ( .....
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Comparative Essay: Mothers With A Divided Heart
Words: 954 - Pages: 4.... her children, and for
stay-at-home moms, this means not getting much time to herself. Being home or
not with the children is not as important as creating an environment where the
children can thrive and feel loved.
Stay-at-home moms are often viewed as "soap-opera-watching couch potatoes" with
no ambition. Rather than being praised for their decision to stay home, they
often feel they need to defend it. Society talks so much about family values,
yet gives little respect or value to stay-at-home moms who raise the families.
In addition, stay-at-home moms find it challenging to provide a social setting
for their children when being at ho .....
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The Causes For Child Abuse
Words: 1844 - Pages: 7.... upon or within a
child. Emotional abuse is a chronic attitude or acts which interfere with
the psychological and social development of a child (U.S. 11). Physical
abuse is the injury of a child, not accidental. Though all three types of
abuse are serious and deserve attention, physical abuse is the only one
that is going to be addressed.
There are many causes for child abuse. The most common are
isolation, generation gap. immaturity, and alcoholism. Immaturity,
unfortunately is the culprit of many child abuse cases today. Children
suffer abuse because their parents/guardians are too young to cope with all
the responsibilities and .....
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