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Child Abuse: An Exposition
Number of Words: 2218 / Number of Pages: 9
... chides. Your mind
feels panicky as you feel his touch in more intimate places and you scream
involuntarily. His grip tightens as he places his hand over your mouth. �We'll
have to do this the hard way!� comes his intense whisper. You flail your arms
at him, but it doesn't help. His writhing massive body is on top of yours, and
you feel so powerless. Eventually, you sink into a sobbing heap and simply wait
for his passions to stop. You wait for the nightmare to end. When he is done,
you limp to the laundry room and try fruitlessly to get the blood stains out of
your clothes. It is all your faul ...
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Improving Public Schools
Number of Words: 337 / Number of Pages: 2
... studying. Secondary schools are there only to reinforce what has already been learned and take on a path to higher education.
Effective Learning 1501 reinforces our basics and teaches us better study habits that will be helpful in the future. Studies conducted by the University of Alabama show that teachers are not teaching students ways to better study habits. They are not taught study habits because it is no longer in the public school curriculum. Instead it has been replaced with skills of freethinking and philosophy. These skills are not needed because elementary school students haven�t been taught ...
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Affirmative Action's Fight Against Racism And Sexism
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... black workers. They adopted discriminating admission criteria, restricted the size of memebership and organized shops with very few minority workers. In reaction to this, the Supreme Court backed an order ruling that the associaton required a 29% minority membership goal. Without an actual court ruling, blacks would still be fighting for a fair chance at "white-dominated" positions.
Women, as well as other minorities (notably hispanics), also benefit from affirmative action. In 1979, women represented on 4% of the entry-level offices in the San Francisco Police Department. By 1985, under an a ...
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Racism And Segregation In School
Number of Words: 421 / Number of Pages: 2
... arrested because she wouldn't give up her seat to a white person. She
was in jail, but a year later a judge ruled against segregation.
One other proof of racism is segregation in school. Almost every
white school had new books and lots of luxuries the black students could
only dream of. It wasn't until 1954 that segregation of schools was
illegal, meaning that for all those years there was a segregation. That
means they went to different schools and had different curriculum and
learned from out of different books. The African-Americans from older
books and the whites from newer ones and that i ...
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Gender Communication In The Workplace
Number of Words: 1840 / Number of Pages: 7
... that conversation is to explore solutions to common problems while men concern themselves more with getting information and hard data from conversation. Tannen states that what women look for in communication is human connection, while men consider status to be most important. They are looking for independence and are constantly looking for higher accomplishments. Intimacy threatens this independence, so men have a tendency to avoid it.
One of the old sayings about women is that they talk more than men. It turns out that it is not necessarily true. Women seem to talk more in private conversations ...
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An Analysis Based On The Responsibility Of The Rich To The Poor
Number of Words: 1052 / Number of Pages: 4
... proceeds even further when he voices his rhetorical thought about the World Food Bank - "We must ask if such a program would actually do more good than harm" (485). In much simpler terms, a lot of the United States tax dollars are going forth to produce more food for the rapidly growing population around the world when indeed it is not factual that this policy is even working. If this is so, the farmers are actually adding to poverty by helping themselves, much like a parasitic relationship. Singer knows that the starvation problem is an immense puzzle that has several missing pieces and expresses ...
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Adoptees And Identity Formation
Number of Words: 2010 / Number of Pages: 8
... infant will learn how to trust, where as a ten-year-old may have more difficulty with this task, depending on his history. Eric Erickson, a developmental theorist, discusses trust issues in his theory of development. The first of Erickson�s stages of development is Trust v. Mistrust. A child who experiences neglect or abuse can have this stage of development severely damaged. An adopted infant may have the opportunity to fully learn trust, where as an older child may have been shuffled from foster home to group home as an infant, thereby never learning trust. Even though Trust v. Mistrust is a maj ...
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The New Mass Society Of The Nineteenth Century
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... considered more compliant workers. Men who formerly owned their own farms or shops had a difficult time adjusting to their new role and social status. Craftsmen were also losing their skill and could not compete with the factory�s cheaper massively produced products.
This division of labor eventually creation of the middle class, As worker began to identify themselves as separate from the upper class factory owner, a new culture developed. This new middle class began to develop his or her own sense of identity and pride.
As the population grew, so grew the housing problems. Housing was difficult ...
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Relationships
Number of Words: 372 / Number of Pages: 2
... is when couples spend every moment of their time together. Spending too much time together can cause resentment from each other as well as from friends and family who don't get the time they deserve. I have been the forgotten friend of a girl who spent all of her time with "the love of her life." The relationship lasted only a few months, and our friendship died right along with their break up. The alienation of friends and family is one of the most devastating effects of an unhealthy relationship. Constant arguing can be a sign of unhealthy togetherness as well. Frequent conflicts are unneces ...
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Legalizing Of Homosexual Marriages
Number of Words: 1737 / Number of Pages: 7
... define
"for federal purposes" as the union of a man and a woman. Under such a
definition gay and lesbians, even if they win the right to marry in Hawaii
or elsewhere, would not be able to file joint federal tax returns, claim
federal pension, or survivor's benefits, or be allowed to file for green
card status (Gallagher 21).
I don't feel that marriages between gays or lesbians should be given the
same status as heterosexual marriages. Since when do gay people think they
can broaden the institution of marriage to include themselves? They
shouldn't be able to. The institution of marriage is reco ...
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