Papers on Social Issues
Capital Punishment
Words: 938 - Pages: 4.... who are pro death penalty say this is because states have differences. These differences include, the populations, and number of cities. Strongly urbanized states are more likely to have higher crime rates than states that are more rural, such as those who lack . They say states that have the death penalty have it because of their high crime rate, not because they have the death penalty. During the temporary suspension on from 1972-1776, researchers gathered murder statistics across the country. Researcher Karl Spence of Texas A&M University came up with these statistics: In 1960, there were 56 executions in the USA and 9,140 murder .....
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The Concept Of Communication Style
Words: 1032 - Pages: 4.... was my friend Leslie Margasak. Leslie is my girlfriends
roommate therefore our communication is somewhat limited. Through the following
research and analysis I have created a table (Table:1) that shows the means for
my friend aquaitance, and myself.
The summaries and findings in which I calculated provided me with
insight of my dominant yet friendly communication style. It also provided me
with a different perspective as to how other people interpret my communication
habits. For example, the mean for myself on the category "relaxed" scored a 1.3.
However, my friends mean was 3.1 and my acquaintance was 5.1. Through the text
of .....
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Teamwork And Team Spirit In The Work Place
Words: 783 - Pages: 3.... co-workers. He doesn’t isolate himself or trying to do all the work by himself. Communication in the workplace can solve many problems that appear in this area. Many workers because they do not have the ability to communicate with others in the workplace, never asking for their help, in some problems that might deal with their work and the assignment that they have to work out. So they feel stressed and as the time goes by they finally isolate them selves from the others. A teamworker never does that. He’s always there to communicate with others and help himself out or his co-workers.
However it’s essential for a company to own teamwo .....
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The Hippie Culture
Words: 1174 - Pages: 5.... evolved from its “black and Hispanic, jazz-minded enclaves to the outlying zones of the white middle class young” (Gitlin 200). This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to new understandings and philosophies. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the youth; a new drug known as LSD came into existence: Depending on who was doing the talking, [LSD] is an intellectual tool to explore psychic ‘inner space,’ a new source of kicks for thrill seekers, the sacramental substance of a far-out mystical movement- or the latest and most frightening addiction to the list of mind drugs now available in the pill s .....
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Ethics And Advertising
Words: 1947 - Pages: 8.... bad, must be included in the statement. The evidence and reasoning supporting the claim [must be] clear, accurate, relevant, and sufficient in quantity. Advertisers assume that we have the rationality to make decisions based on the information we are given, but how can we possibly make a rational decision when much of the information is left out? Or when the information given are exaggerations or downright lies?
Advertisers should also provide the greatest good to the most people, not just the greatest number of products sold to the most people. With this in mind, I’d like to discuss a few of the more abundant methods advertisers empl .....
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Women In Reform Movements
Words: 328 - Pages: 2.... even more so if she got or was married. only the quakers were agiasnt this kind of treatment, there the ones that had the idea of "men and women being equal." news quickly spred of this new way of life for women ; the demand for a say in abolition was higly opposed by the males in the same group. this and the london anti-slavery convetion, wich would not give a seat to the female delegates was the final straw on the camels back that transformed into a "feminist movement"
This is only one movement that women were atracted to, but this one is the only one that had the most impact on them as a group, a group of indivuals, people. t .....
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Prison Overcrowding
Words: 986 - Pages: 4.... were also more in prison which took up space for new prisoners, who in some cases should be there before the ones that were already inhabiting the jail. There have been many new experimental programs in which the government is trying to keep the prison population down. Some of these have proved to be very successful while others have failed. Although not everybody agrees on what the solution they do agree that something has to be changed.
Although many agree that mandatory minimum sentences are out dated and should not be imposed any longer, there are those who approve and support them. Those in favor of them have two strong reason .....
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How To Get Married And Stay Married To The Perfect Mate!!
Words: 580 - Pages: 3.... notion that people have the same negative and positive ways of
thinking.. When this is not so, you have an imbalance which can disrupt a
relationship. I will talk about how a couple can use the balance theory to make
sure that they will be happy.
Another theory I will talk about is the equity theory. This theory
dictates that people will be more attracted to someone that they have a fair
relationship with. It states that we will be happier with a person who takes as
much as they give to us. Over a long term relationship, like marriage, this is
important because both husband and wife feel that they are approximately equal.
In my book I wil .....
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Welfare: Not A Way Of Life
Words: 745 - Pages: 3.... in block grants. The federal role is limited to setting goals, establishing financial penalties, and giving rewards (Froomkin, Dan). States and even counties are designing their own programs for the poor picking and choosing from approaches they hope will get results. Many of the new approaches require subjective judgments. A human being has to decide when individual recipients are ready for work and should be cut off from assistance. Those responsibilities are falling to welfare caseworkers, who in the past did little more than hand over checks.
The old system was often criticized for granting benefits to people who didn’t dese .....
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Romanticism In The 19th Century
Words: 782 - Pages: 3.... its seeds became
planted in poetry, artwork and literature. The Romantics turned to the poet
before the scientist to harbor their convictions (they found that the
orderly, mechanistic universe that the Science thrived under was too
narrow-minded, systematic and downright heartless in terms of feeling or
emotional thought) and it was men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in
Germany who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which epitomized what
Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and
gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as
opposed to collectivism. In England, there was a r .....
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