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Cheating
Number of Words: 180 / Number of Pages: 1
... you don't know everything.
When you cheat in school, you are just getting by, you aren't
actually learning. Later in life, this can really hurt you. When you grow
up and have a job, there will be no one to copy. None of the good
employers will want you if you can't do good work -- and that means
undesirable, dead-end, jobs like flipping burgers.
Cheating is also dishonest and dishonorable to yourself and other
people. It will cause you to lose your self respect and the respect of
others. Cheaters never really win, they only fool themselves.
For these reasons, I believe that cheating is a terri ...
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Multicultural Education
Number of Words: 3020 / Number of Pages: 11
... born residents also reached an all time high of twenty million, easily passing the 1980 record of fourteen million. Most people, from educators to philosophers, agree that an important first step in successfully joining multiple cultures is to develop an understanding of each others background. However, the similarities stop there. One problem is in defining the term "multiculturalism". When it is looked at simply as meaning the existence of a culturally integrated society, many people have no problems. However, when you go beyond that and try to suggest a different way of arriving at that ...
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Sociological Perspectives
Number of Words: 1392 / Number of Pages: 6
... working together the child wouldn’t get both a good home and a healthy spiritual up bringing. Each one of the institutions is interdependent on the other.
Another example is schools and the work force. The schools have to prepare people to be able to work in society. People would not be able to work if they weren’t first taught how to work. The schools help to keep social order, preparing people to work. Then the work force can make money. Not only do they make money, but they then spend the money. This helps keep a state of good economic standing. Once again this shows how each instituti ...
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The Role Of Entertainers As Educators
Number of Words: 1915 / Number of Pages: 7
... uniform use of music throughout the church (Young 31). 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 39). 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 ...
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Television In The 90’s
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... National Television Violence Study reviewed three years, almost 10000 hours, of television programming. They found that 61% of the programming contained some kind of violent act, with children’s shows being the most violent. Despite the publics concern with the violence, nothing in the media changed over the three year period. (Federman I,II,III) After researching ten years on the affects of violence, the fact is violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teens who watch the programs. (Smith)
Sexual references, innuendoes, and jokes which deal with abstinence, sexuall ...
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Progressivism
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... urban immortality, and incipient social disorder as the central problems, fought for immigration restriction, the abolition of prostitution and saloons, and other social-control strategies.
Like the movement itself, the progressives comprised a diverse lot, aligned in shifting coalitions that might unite on one issue, then divide on another. The native-born Protestant middle class, including the new white-collar professionals, was certainly central, but on issues affecting the welfare of factory workers and slum dwellers, the urban-immigrant political machines-and workers themselves-provided cr ...
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Welfare: Not A Way Of Life
Number of Words: 745 / Number of Pages: 3
... will get results. Many of the new approaches require subjective judgments. A human being has to decide when individual recipients are ready for work and should be cut off from assistance. Those responsibilities are falling to welfare caseworkers, who in the past did little more than hand over checks.
The old system was often criticized for granting benefits to people who didn’t deserve them and should be working. The new system creates the distinct possibility that people who do deserve assistance will be denied. Since most public assistance goes to families, many of the victims would inevitabl ...
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Comparison Between African And American Cultures
Number of Words: 285 / Number of Pages: 2
... don't actually necessarily need. The next few paragraphs will talk about
comparison of our culture and Africa's culture.
The culture in Kenya is only advancing in certain parts, mainly the
bigger cities. There are also many very remote towns and villages that still
have some of the native people left in them. Since there are so many different
tribes they have lots of native languages. In America Spanish is one of the
only other languages spoken. Some of the different tribes in Africa are the
Sanburose, Omallose, and Turcanas. The people in these places use many of the
old ways and follow ...
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Child Abuse; A Social Problem
Number of Words: 2219 / Number of Pages: 9
... hurt you,” he 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 cloth ...
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Divorce
Number of Words: 1087 / Number of Pages: 4
... thing and even illegal. In the movie Ann of a Thousand Days, the practice of was illegal and was punishable by ex-communication of the church. During this time, even King Henry the fifth had a very hard time trying to get around this impeccable law. In order to get his s he had to resolve in having his wives executed for adultery under false accusations. He had to murder for the , or annulment. How have the times changed so much that you can meet your true love one day, get married the next, and be d in time for the weekend? With all of our “freedoms” that come packaged up for us ready and w ...
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