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Is Spanking A Safe And Effective Way To Get Children To Behave?
Number of Words: 1424 / Number of Pages: 6
... to 68%(Straus, 1994). Several sources suggest negative effects of spanking include disturbance of learning ability, dissruption of a close parent child relationship, parents anger and emotion, negative self-image and possible adverse affects.
Ritchie& Ritchie(1981), Straus and Mather(1994) report that corporal punishment creates undesirable effects on education. To understand the effects of corporal punishment on education we need to look further into reasearch. Experts in this field of study have stated that fear, anxiety, and pain interferes with the learning process. This reasearch staes that ...
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The Problem Of Evil
Number of Words: 910 / Number of Pages: 4
... out, but there is so much.
All the time in the news you hear about someone being murdered, children being
molested, a natural disaster striking a area and many people suffering and
dying, etc... This also shows that God cannot be all-powerful if lets all this
evil exist in the universe that he supposedly created.
The second solution to the problem of evil states that God allows evil
to exist in order to bring out a greater good. Or that the universe is better
with some evil in it. Better? Why would God being so good and concerned about
humans want us to suffer? This solution is much like th ...
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Chivalry
Number of Words: 988 / Number of Pages: 4
... is still able to fight,
get off your horse to fight, etc. - fair play with honor and respect. At the end,
there still was a winner, and the winner ended up with more respect and
admiration from those concerned that had he fought without chivalry. What am I
getting at? Capitalism can be much the same way. American businesses have taken
advantage of this system though, a system that one can cheat in and get away
with, instead of being honorable and respectable institutions that children
could look up to. So many things are like this that I just shake my head and
sigh when I think about them - is American ...
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Effects Of Advertisements
Number of Words: 1032 / Number of Pages: 4
... unhappy, because they cannot have what they see. However advertising can also have good effects in society, by giving positive information.
There are a lot of good, meaningful commercials. The government tries to prevent certain groups of people, mostly teenagers, from doing wrong and that is why it sponsors a lot of commercials that are against drugs. Also they sponsor ads that encourage people to go in to the army and earn money for college. Also, advertisements advising people not to drink and drive are positive advice. Many young people learn about violence and use of drugs from TV and movies ...
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To Help The Poor
Number of Words: 217 / Number of Pages: 1
... slothing and vaccination. Perhaps people in the industrialised
countries think these charity aids are needless, because the government
donates a share of its budget to help the developing countries. Yet
governments cut their foreign aid, the multinational companies take even
higher adventage of the cheap labour force in the developing countries and
if , after all, people think the future will offer equal chances for
everybody without any help from the rich, awakening from this fantasy is
needed.
The information the media give is inadequate, therefore people
should obtain information ...
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Definition Essay Of Multiculturalism
Number of Words: 491 / Number of Pages: 2
... to society? A just society is a society that lets one determine his or her beliefs and doesn‘t try to influence them one way or another. Society by definition means people as a whole not as individual groups. “As more and more people begin to regard loyalty to group as more important than loyalty to country, we get a chilling preview of what the United States might be like if each of us maintains our own culture, if we reject mainstreaming and assimilation, and if in fact there is no mainstream.“1
Multiculturalism can cause racism. Racism is the idea that one‘s race determines one‘s identity. ...
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Two Views On The Confederate Flag’s Controversial Issue
Number of Words: 778 / Number of Pages: 3
... fighting for General Beauregard. To add to the confusion, both sides had flags that strongly resembled one another. Neither army could, at a distance, distinguish the Red, White and Blue of the Union's Stars and Stripes from the Confederacy's Stars and Bars (which had been patterned after the flag of the original thirteen American Colonies). All these similarities, and the need to establish some unique identity, ultimately gave birth to what is known today as the Confederate Battle Flag.
The Battle Flag was patterned after the cross of Saint Andrew, an apostle of Christ who was bound, rather t ...
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The Safety Of Using Cell Phones
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... do, however, believe that more safety precautions need to be taken for individuals who will be talking on their phones while driving. Phones are being created by Erricson, Motorolla, and Nokia today in which offer a hands-free cell phone so that you can keep both hands on the wheel while driving and talking. Some of these come in the form of headsets and give the user a voice activated sequence, which allows you to talk into the speaker, and the number will instantly be dialed. All ready this has eliminated the chance of your hands being off the wheel and depleted the act of dialing the phone. Both ...
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Communicating To Kids About Divorce
Number of Words: 1325 / Number of Pages: 5
... feel
confused about the situation. Barb Clark, a divorce counselor and
psychologist, suggests different ways to communicate to your children about
divorce. She recommends that children need to be told about the divorce
before it happens (Divorce: Telling the Children.
http://web.tusco.net/pfcs/prog%2033.htm). However, many parents fail to
tell their children that a divorce is in the near future. For instance,
John Lewis and his wife Phylis decided to get a divorce after several years
of marriage. Their son Brian was 14 years of age at the time of this
decision. Phylis one night packed her bags ...
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Ways People Dress To Attract Attention
Number of Words: 362 / Number of Pages: 2
... Women gives themselves a bad name.
Third we have expense clothes are usually clothes that makes a person seem more intelligent. People wear expensive clothes for a job, party, or just because they have money to spend. These items are worn by both males and females. Expensive clothes are like Any other clothes. They wear out the same way and you wear them same as cheap clothes. Some expensive clothes are Gucci, Tommy Hilfiger, Jones New York, Dona Karen New York and Georgia Armoni When purchasing these items you are only paying for the name. An Armoni shirt can cost you any where from $100 ...
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