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Appearance Is Everything To The Youth Of America
Number of Words: 535 / Number of Pages: 2
... to place the blame, will one day be voting for the leaders of our country. Worse yet, they may someday be the leaders of our country.
The latest teen film to hit theaters is called Jawbreaker. It’s about three popular high school girls that accidentally kill a fellow popular girl. When the school “loser” finds out. the popular girls give her “the chance of a lifetime”. They give her a makeover in return for her silence regarding the murder. The next day in school she receives instant popularity solely based on her new look. Appearance is everything.
Another film entitles She’s All That hit theaters ...
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Impact Of Television Violence In Relation To Juvenile Delinquency
Number of Words: 2404 / Number of Pages: 9
... investigations by this committee and others from the
1950s to the present.
In addition to the congressional hearings begun in the 1950s, there are
many reports that have been written which include: National Commission on the
Causes and Prevention of Violence (Baker & Ball, 1969); Surgeon General's
Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior (1972); the
report on children and television drama by the Group for the Advancement of
Psychiatry (1982); National Institute of Mental Health, Television and Behavior
Report (NIMH, 1982; Pearl, Bouthilet, & Lazar, 1982); Nat ...
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Bill Brady On Violence In America
Number of Words: 1088 / Number of Pages: 4
... witnesses as many as 26,000 murders on TV. Some of these murders with the shootings and bashings have been said to create a numbness that in return requires even crueler and gorier murders just to induce a flutter a shock. Murder pays- for the sponsors. Rap anthems that glorify gang violence and the brutal abuse of women sell.
There are more gun dealers in America then there are gas stations or grocery stores. In 1991, 14,373 Americans were murdered with a gun, over 12,000 with a handgun. In England it was 486. Every 14 minutes someone dies of a gun wound. Every gun injury involving hospitalization c ...
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Violence In Schools
Number of Words: 1002 / Number of Pages: 4
... among school-age children can be traced back to long-simmering disputes (Apfel 21). Carrying guns and other weapons around schools is becoming more and more popular all around the world. People think that carrying guns around schools with them will make them cool or fit in with other People like themselves. They're wrong. More and more people who are carrying guns around schools today are getting caught and having them taken away. Since schools have gotten metal detectors and scanners, they have cut down the rate of having handguns in schools by nearly 58%(Glazer 5). Security experts have repo ...
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Marriage In Japan
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... continues depending on someone else is that he has been witnessed what his parents have been done and now he considers himself as a head of his own family. In case of woman, it is difficult to keep her job after the marriage, because she needs to take care of her child, which is considered to be a wife¡¯s job. She has to do everything else except making money for the family, which makes her dependent on her husband who has the economic power. However in western culture, it is natural for both partners to have their own jobs and to be responsible for every single household job after marriage.
Until r ...
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The "Invisible" Problems Of Racism
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... because they can't comprehend what is happening. They don't realize what they are saying and doing are racist. Until they come to grips with it there is no problem. No problem, in their minds. They say that they aren't racist, even when they don't hire the East Indian employee who was the most qualified of the candidates. Even when the basketball team that they coach is all white. And even the time when they moved from their seat at the movie theater because of the black person next to them. Well, gee, they could have been a criminal. A robber from "the hood." After all, isn't that what most of "th ...
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Women In The Military
Number of Words: 2415 / Number of Pages: 9
... become a cadet at the Citadel as she walked through the gates on August 12, 1995. Faulkner entered the 152-year-old military school located in South Carolina as a "knob," or a first year cadet. Upon her arrival, the military made exceptions to certain rules for her, one being that older male cadets could not go through her drawers looking for underwear that was not folded properly. A private bathroom with surveillance cameras was also constructed for Faulkner to prevent any foul play (Sack 6). The second of these two women was Shannon Workman. In 1994, she became the first woman to qualify as a femal ...
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Men And Women: Why Are We So Different?
Number of Words: 750 / Number of Pages: 3
... 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 differences enable males to be more suited to certain tasks. Males usually develop stronger muscles than do females, making us more suited to certain tasks such as heavy lifting. This in turn leads to genderizati ...
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Same Sex Marriages
Number of Words: 957 / Number of Pages: 4
... to religion and morality. Many opponents believe that gay marriages promote physically harmful activity, and the chance for children to be raised in an unstable household. A common fear is the potential disillusion of the marriage contract between a man and a woman. They believe this contract encompasses terms including the ability and expectation of procreation. Though these points are valid, they are somewhat irrelevant due to the separation of church and state. The argument is not the religious sanctioning of same sex marriage; it is the need for government recognition of it.
Throughout histo ...
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Pornography
Number of Words: 656 / Number of Pages: 3
... explicit materials daily. Whether the
pornography be stolen, given to by an older sibling, or found in a trash
can, minors have had their hands on these vulgar publications.
Approximately 70% of the pornographic magazines sold eventually end up in
the hands of minors. More so, the chief consumers of pornographic material
in the United States are 15-19 year old males. More strict regulations of
pornography sales would lead to a decrease in the distribution of these
magazine, but many people wonder why these magazines are considered to be
so bad?
People wonder how displays of sexual acts must ...
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