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Welfare
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... daily needs, but can't afford large medical bills may also be able to receive Medicaid. Some services paid for are bills such as doctor's visits and nursing home care. Most Medicaid funding comes from the federal government. The rest is supplied by the state. Each state runs their own Medicaid program.
A.F.D.C. provides cash benefits to dependent children and the parents or the guardians taking care of them. Most families that qualify for A.F.D.C. have just one parent in the home. About 80 percent of these families are headed by a woman. A.F.D.C. also pays benefits to two-parent families if both par ...
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Female Infanticide In China And India
Number of Words: 1554 / Number of Pages: 6
... that when they bear a son they congratulate each other, but when they bear a daughter they kill her. Both children come from the parent's love, but they congratulate each other when it is a boy and kill it if it is a girl because they are considering their later convenience and calculating their long-term interests. It is impossible to draw a full and accurate picture of what happened to baby girls in China at any given time; all that is certain is that this form of discrimination against women, carried out at childbirth or in very early childhood, persisted in varying degrees over hundreds of year ...
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Blacks, Prison, And Institutional Racism
Number of Words: 1438 / Number of Pages: 6
... that is, racism legitimated by the whole of society
directed against the few of society. As a facet of that institutional racism
Blacks are now forced to persevere the increasing trend of control by the US
Criminal Justice System. Control by the USCJS includes the probation, parole,
imprisonment, and death of Blacks. A study conducted by the Sentencing Project
in 1989 found tat more than one-fourth of all Blacks between the age of 20 and
29 are under the control of the USCJS . This alarming figure becomes more so
when you consider their are more Blacks in prison in this age group than their
are all ...
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Women In Reform Movements
Number of Words: 328 / Number of Pages: 2
... 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. the other movements like education, hospitals, food processing factories and many more all had a simalir result. to this day the feminist party is strong, its morals and attiudes have alterd from is original me ...
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Distractions In Life
Number of Words: 415 / Number of Pages: 2
... only one who could help me was me. I knew that I wasn't meant to do the
exact same thing for the rest of my life. I had to escape this bottomless pit
and move on to the next adventure. "I had several more lives to live and could
not spare any time for that one."
I moved on to another life. My "new" life was very hard to get used to,
but was well worth the trouble. I began trying new things and actually enjoyed
it. I realize now that I only have a short time in my life and I have to make a
difference here, before I move on to the higher place. I need to speak my views
and express my feelings. I ne ...
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Effects Of Media And Pornography
Number of Words: 1448 / Number of Pages: 6
... strictly a means of reproduction. Not to be used for entertainment or pleasure. These feelings are spread into society. This is exactly why the concealment of the sex organs and teaching feelings of shame toward human sexuality is so common worldwide (Christensen). Contrary to the beliefs of many, the mass media did not create these settings. In some societies women have no qualms about showing their bodies. In several European cultures it is common for women to sunbathe topless, or even nude. However, in other societies, such as the Middle East, women cover their bodies from head to toe. The ...
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Relations Between Canada And Japan
Number of Words: 2589 / Number of Pages: 10
... had entered the war as an ally of Germany and had bombed the United States. As a result of the bombing at Pearl Harbour the relations between Japan and the US deteriorated which had a direct affect on Japanese living in the States. The dietitian of US-Japan relation had some influence on the prejudice Japanese experienced in Canada. The Canadian government interned Japanese Canadians during World War II, because of close political ties and influence of the US. Because Japanese were racially, and culturally different they were viewed as suspicious within communities across Canada. The reside ...
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Alcohol Advertisements
Number of Words: 510 / Number of Pages: 2
... restaurant ? Most likely you heard about it
on your television show between your favorite shows!! Two federal reporters
recommended that alcohol advertisements should be band or severely limited
because of the effect that it has on people( alcohol).
Another reason that T.V advertisement has effects on it’s viewers
they make it look "cool" . Scientist at the University of Massachusetts
medical schools say that teens survey that drinking is "cool"( paul
105).The ads also gives the message that they person drinking brand X will
be glamorous, popular, sexy, win the game empress the boss, ect.
(mit ...
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Concerns Facing The United States In The 1990s: Crime, Education, And Employment
Number of Words: 405 / Number of Pages: 2
... been absent
more days than allowed. To improve this, committees have been organized will
develop voluntary national and state standards for education and authorize
grants to develop model programs to improve learning.
Employment is an issue that every American must deal with. In society
today, women are forcing their way into the business world. Although females'
incomes are generally less than males, both incomes are needed for general
household expenses. One problem which sometimes arises is the matter of
children. Although the woman generally stays home with the children when the
are born an ...
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The Power Of Language
Number of Words: 1272 / Number of Pages: 5
... is most widely distributed through public
speaking and use of the mass media. The propagandist speaks in an attempt to
persuade the audience to believe his way. With the support of the audience, the
speaker gains power.
Propaganda as an art of persuasion has been used for thousands of years.
In the fifth century BC, when Pericles addressed his fellow Athenians on the
merits of their city compared to the tyranny of Sparta, he was making propaganda,
even though much of what he was saying was true. Many centuries later, Lenin,
the Soviet revolutionary, realized the value of propaganda to indoctrinate ...
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