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Brown Vs Board Of Education
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... up to the brown case and for the brown case itself.
Kenneth Clark also had a large role in the case with his doll experiment. This experiment had four dolls, two female and two males, with one black male and one white male. There were also one white female and one black female. The experiment asked questions to children who would respond by picking up the doll. Some questions were, which doll is the nice doll? Which is the doll would you want to play with? Which is the bad doll? All of these questions and others were asked to black children. Kenneth Clark concluded that this hurt the blacks men ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 828 / Number of Pages: 4
... and more costly to own and buy guns, otherwise known as the Right to Bear Arms. This being one of the first principles that this government was established on. Other countries have already gone to worse laws than this; for example Australia’s new law prohibits pump shotguns and semi-automatics from being owned. The new law compensated the people for the price of the gun, then has the gun taken away, melted down and destroyed. For the majority of the people that do own guns see the price or cost of the gun as not the main issue, many of these guns destroyed were the hand downs from as far back as great ...
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What To Do About Immigration
Number of Words: 2438 / Number of Pages: 9
... Linda Chavez, "In 1993 […],over 800,000 legal immigrants were admitted to the United States and an estimated 300,000 illegal aliens settled here, more or less permanently. Over the last decade, as many as ten million legal and illegal immigrants established permanent residence…" (327). However, as Kenney David remarks the numbers by themselves, may not be so disturbing, for the foreign-born people represent only 8.7 percent of entire population of the United States (311). What bothers many Americans is the fact that the majority of immigrants comes from Latin America, predominately Mexico. The main ob ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 1315 / Number of Pages: 5
... society. What does it consist of? Whom does it consist of? Immediate answers might be school, neighborhood, church, work, town, and family. In other words, we can define it as your community. Your community is your society, now exclusive of your friends and others you consider to be in your peer group who may actually encourage certain types of "Immoral" behavior. Who in your community would sit back and let you abuse your body and mind with excessive drug use? Schools would suspend; families could react with everything from tough love to ultimatums. Very rarely is it someone outside of your soc ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 253 / Number of Pages: 1
... our television programs and commercials, movies and magazine articles, Internet and etc. Sexuality is so evident in our world, that having pre marital sexual relations is no longer restricted or wrong in the eyes of society. Due to the lack of concern, more and more teenagers are participating in pre marital sex, without thinking about the harsh realities that face pre marital sexual activity. Some of these realities include sexual transmitted diseases, such as herpes, HIV, and AIDS, and most incidentals unwanted pregnancy. Due to society’s ignorance, more and more people are favoring the free will to ...
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Body Images In The Media
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... one that usually makes her parents proud…To be pretty is to be approved of, liked and rewarded.” She also mentions that in “infancy, females are judged by standards of ‘cuteness’ and ‘prettiness’ and this shifts with age into standards of ‘beauty’ and ‘glamour.” Parents of newborn babies tend to emphasise appearance more in girls than in boys.
Body image isn’t just about appearance. What girls feel about their bodies is directly linked to their self-esteem and confidence. Many magazines which appeal to teenage girls such as Sassy, Seventeen, and Cosmopolitan advertise using many underweight mode ...
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AIDS Related Stigma
Number of Words: 2874 / Number of Pages: 11
... called upon to deal with and serve PWAs. Although not all social workers chose to work with PLWAs, the escalating incidence of HIV infection is creating a situation in which seropositive people are and will be showing up more often in almost all areas of social work practice. This paper aims to examine and the stigmatization process, hopefully providing insights into countering the effects of stigma and perhaps the possibility of destigmatization. This is of particular pertinence to the field of social work due to our growing involvement with the HIV positive population. Association to Deviant/Margina ...
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A Wise Decision
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... lead to mistaken verdicts. Rolando Cruz is an excellent example of a terrible mistake made by the federal government. He was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of ten-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, and put on death row. His freedom was suspended to him even after Brian Dugan came forth to admit his sole involvment in the murder. Cruz remained on death row while prosecutors try to prove Dugan was lying! DNA testing proved that Cruz was not the source of semen samples taken from Nicarico's body; however, Dugan was a perfect match. Cruz remained on death row. November 4, 1995, 12 years after his original a ...
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Feminist Movement
Number of Words: 352 / Number of Pages: 2
... along the way
(Ryan 9). The National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was soon
formed, and Stanton was its first president. She helped to begin extensive mobilizing
efforts and put a strong foot forward in the suffrage movement (Ryan 22). When the
Nineteenth Amendment was passed, women nationwide rejoiced at their accomplishment
with the feeling that they had made a difference, and their feeling of inferiority had
subsided.
Works Cited
Bardon, Edward J. The Sexual Arena and Women’s Liberation.
Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1978.
Evans, Sara. Personal Politics. New York: Vintage Press, 1979.
Fried ...
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How Affirmative Action Effects
Number of Words: 1743 / Number of Pages: 7
... look also stirs up a question of nobility that needs to be answered before making a decision on affirmative action. Does affirmative action simply change who is discriminated against and makes it legal for the new discriminators? Coming from my point of view, the view of a white male, this is a serious question. One example of this came to my attention from Dave Shiflett who once worked at Rocky Mountain News wrote "Rocky Mountain Hire". In this article he tells about a new hiring strategy used at the Denver news paper Rocky Mountain News. A memo was sent out stating, "The job reviews of supervisors a ...
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