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Racial Discrimination
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... describes the person that uses it. This type
of person is one who feeds his ego by dehumanizing those around him when he
feels they are not equal to him. He may regard those of different races or
nationalities as "bad" or "dirty" because they do not have the same skin color
as he does or they may cherish beliefs that are contrary to the ones by which he
lives his life.
These qualities describe the man who tells his son that it is okay to make fun
of people who are different because differences are bad. A child who is
repeatedly told such things will believe them because "mom and dad never lie".
Thi ...
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Friendships
Number of Words: 3678 / Number of Pages: 14
... we need friends.
Throughout our life we get into different kinds of relationships. Some relationships we cannot choose like family ties. These are relationships we are born in, and we cannot break them anymore than we can stop breathing. Even denying their existence does not change the fact that your mother and father, brother and sister, are who they are. “ Other relationships are not forced upon us but we do not have complete control over them, like who we fall in love with. We do not choose who we want to fall in love with even though we do choose the situations that makes it possible for the f ...
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Fundamental Of Racism
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... boxing. His opinions lead to conclude that these people were not as human as he was.
In a town such as Wells respect is determine by the social status. Gillespie treatment of Virgil is shown when he said, “Colored people can’t earn this much money.” He believed that with lower income the lower respect would be given especially to Black people. Gillespie also treated Virgil differently in his profession when Virgil, being a homicide investigator, questioned he retorted, “If I want you to tell me anything I’ll ask you.” People like him did not want to show respect to people who they felt were lowe ...
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How The Availability Of The Weapons With Fire Can Affect The Rates Of Crime Of Violence?
Number of Words: 957 / Number of Pages: 4
... in fact and flights are made. This explanation is very valid and it is exposed further in the section entitled " the attacks perpetrated with a weapon with fire and the probability that they will involve serious wounds and deaths ".
Another reason for which the weapons with fire perhaps facilitate the perpetration of the crimes of violence is that they constitute an impersonal means and " clean " to cause an injury with another person while being held with a certain distance, in the case of too delicate people to cut the arteries of somebody with a sharp instrument or to fracture cranium of somebody ...
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Divorce And Love
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... show, these instances do occur at a less exaggerated and realistic level. Adultery always breaks the trust in a marriage and often creates hatred toward the unfaithful spouse.
Love. Does it even exist? Can people truly love the same person the same way for the rest of their lives? The phrase "I don't love you anymore", is frequently used as a reason for divorce. It does present itself as a justifiable reason. After all, a marriage is traditionally built on the love that a couple has for each other. Without love, there is no trust or happiness between the couple. Without this, the couple i ...
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Child Rearing In Victorian Times
Number of Words: 1105 / Number of Pages: 5
... seen by their children. This was
because child and parent led totally separate existences, they were only
summoned to appear before their parents at a certain set hour of the day. Many
Victorian children like Winston Churchill and Harriet Marden recall such cold
relations between their selves and their mothers that they would be able to
count how many times in their life they had been hugged. Family life was formal,
although during that time child rearing manuals urged bonding and maternal ties,
mothers remained cool and distant. Children were a convenience to their parents,
they obeyed them ...
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Losing Someone You Love
Number of Words: 617 / Number of Pages: 3
... most part, one does not suffer from over-anxiety for too long and as a result, people rarely become trapped in a maelstrom of anxiety long enough to do any personal damage to themselves. That is not the case with depression. Depression over loss can be a serious problem. In a healthy context, depression enables a person to work on issues of competence, value, and strength in the midst of loss. On the other hand, if left unchecked, it tends to work like a giant leech attached to the body, slowly draining all semblance of life from its victim. It is not easy to reach the surface, when drowning in ...
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Women In Nationalist Movements
Number of Words: 1425 / Number of Pages: 6
... and the country where raw materials were being taken from. The subordinate countries in this case began their quest for industrial status. Many of these countries modeled their goals after countries that were successful. Successful in this respect meant that there was a strong national identity. Nationalism also gave the country an opening to define their culture, economics, and status.
Women in many countries thought that the nationalist movement would provide them with the opportunity to advance in the public sphere. In Turkey, Mustapha Kemal recognized the “courage and militancy of Turk ...
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Prison Overcrowding
Number of Words: 986 / Number of Pages: 4
... prison population down. Some of these have proved to be very successful while others have failed. Although not everybody agrees on what the solution they do agree that something has to be changed.
Although many agree that mandatory minimum sentences are out dated and should not be imposed any longer, there are those who approve and support them. Those in favor of them have two strong reasons for there beliefs. First, they believe that the sentences act as a deterrent to possible criminals. The sentences are especially aimed at drug related crimes. The idea was to deter people, especially teen ...
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Why Is Being Able To Rebel Important?
Number of Words: 690 / Number of Pages: 3
... going through a rebellious stage in my life I have found that today at age eighteen, while I feel grown up and mature I feel the need to act like a child, not for any particular reason except I feel twenty-five and need a way to make myself become younger than I am. If I would have rebelled I would have already found myself by experiencing life to its fullest. Not doing so I have not been able to find what makes me the happiest in life, how I think about issues that are controversial and my opinions.
Rebelling helps a person find out what they want out of life by helping the person find their voice an ...
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