|
|
|
» Browse Social Issues Term Papers
Curfews Should Be Established And Enforced By Parents, Not By The City Law
Number of Words: 1027 / Number of Pages: 4
... cruising the mall for the perfect gear for the next party or such. This is the first step towards limiting freedom for minors. The next step would be to establish the curfew across town, so that minors under a certain age would not be able to walk the streets without an adult to accompany them. Thereby, limiting and taking away their Constitutional rights.
Curfew laws restrict the freedoms and Constitutional rights of the vast majority of honest law-abiding young people, while having very little effect on teenage crimes or gang activities. They effectively place all teenagers and children u ...
|
|
Adoption Of Children
Number of Words: 1366 / Number of Pages: 5
... to hide the fact that they are adopted, or someone they know is, and instead be proud of it. There are several situations that constitute a need for adoption.
There are many couples that are unable to have children of their own. Adoption allows those couples to experience and enjoy parenthood. Most of the time it is not their choice that they can not have children. They can try everything that is offered medically to get pregnant, and still not succeed. Adopting a child can then become a positive alternative, and it also gives the child a good home with people eager to be good parents. It is a mi ...
|
|
Safety In Institutions
Number of Words: 374 / Number of Pages: 2
... him and his cell mates, do excrutiating excercises in the middle of the hot dessert. The physical abuse of running up and down a hill, would surely lead to heat exaution, fainting spells or even in an extreme case death.
Taken from the movie If, a second example of physical abuse is shown. Had rediculous rules of always running in the hallway to and from class, contradicts other school institutions, that forbids this. The teachers have the responsibilities and a certain amount of power over their students, such as; teaching and maintaining order. Some teacher as in the case of Rowntree, took his po ...
|
|
Impact Of Abuse
Number of Words: 497 / Number of Pages: 2
... father took a sexual interest in me.
Remember how you taught me that art of deceit? First you put me in a
situation that had to be kept a secret then you pledged me to secrecy...As
a ten-year-old child, what was I supposed to do? You are an intelligent
man you figure out the options available to a ten-year-old in that
position." (Rush, 1980)
Guilt:
The abused will feel tremendous guilt for a numerous reasons: They feel
they did nothing to stop the abuse therefore they are responsible and it
should continue. They felt uncomfortable but the abuse was sometimes
pleasureable. They somehow deserved an ...
|
|
Violence Is An Appropriate Response To Racism
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... something similar: 'An eye
for an eye and we shall all be blind'. Gandi meant that so mang people hurt
other people that they would end up seriously hurt. Put this teaching into
practise, if someone hurts you once let them do it a secong time is the message
here. The other side to this statement is to agree that racists should be dealt
with in a violent way. In some resects, this is correct because if people have
the mentality to be racist towards another person, they need to be punished, and
if violence fits this sort of punish mentment. People, whatever race they are
have to choice to decide where th ...
|
|
Animal Rights
Number of Words: 1309 / Number of Pages: 5
... in today's society whether or not
we choose to admit it. Like a newborn baby learning to play with others we must
learn to share the planet with animals.
One of the main issues being disputed today with animal right, is
SUPERIORITY. Over 7 Billion animals die at the hands of humans, in the US,
every year. Out of those 7 Billion animals, about 95% of them are killed for
uses as food. Advocates for animal rights justify their research by presenting
the obvious differences that exist between humans and animals. These include
size, status, strength, and ability. Sometimes, one who is against anim ...
|
|
The Battle Of The Sexes
Number of Words: 590 / Number of Pages: 3
... a lumberjack. Men and women have to realize that some
jobs are meant for someone more fitting then what they are.
When god created women, he gave them the ability to have children.
This advantage kind of gives women superiority over men. I'm sure if men
were able to they would have children, but they can't. Back in the
eighteen hundreds it was expected that women stay home and take care of the
children and the men would work and bring home the money to support the
family. Today there is still the man that goes out and works for a living
and the woman who stays home and watches the kids, but we ...
|
|
A Discussion On Animal Rights
Number of Words: 1262 / Number of Pages: 5
... are far superior to humans in manual dexterity, the Garners decided
to try to teach chimpanzees American Sign Language or Ameslan. The Gardners and
others studied these chimpanzees, Washoe, Lucy, and Lana. These three
chimpanzees learned to use and could display a working vocabulary of 100 to 200
words. They also distinguished between different grammatical patterns and
syntaxes (Sagan 615). Besides distinguishing, the chimpanzees also inventively
constructed new words and phrases. For example, when Washoe first saw a duck
land on water, she gestured "water bird," which is the same phrase used i ...
|
|
The Role Of Entertainers As Educators
Number of Words: 1915 / Number of Pages: 7
... uniform use of music throughout the church (Young "'). Through chants which were all the same, they spread identical teachings. Christian psalms and hymns in Apostolic times were sung to spread the knowledge and faith of Christianity. In fact, Christianity was promoted from the start by music. Churches were for long the only centers of learning, with monks teaching all lessons through music (Young "9). Through the use of sacred music, monks and clergy successfully spread the teachings of their religions in a practical manner.
Entertainers used the theater as a place to tell the stories of the day, bot ...
|
|
Reverse Discrimation
Number of Words: 1657 / Number of Pages: 7
... he took the University of California Regents to the
Superior Court of California. It was ruled that "the admissions program
violated his rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th
Amendment"1 The clause reads as follows:
"...No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor without due
process of the law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws."2
The court ruled that race could not be a factor in admissions.
However, they did not force the admittance of Bakke becaus ...
|
|
|
