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Multiculturalism In The United States
Number of Words: 774 / Number of Pages: 3
... are living representatives of all cultures. It is normal to
meet people from all over the world in most every city; what is not normal
is the idea of understanding that a lot of people are Americans, people
born and raised in the US. These citizens might not seem to be Americans,
but they are as American as any American.
Ronald Takaki in his essay, “An Educated and Cultural Literate
Person Must Study America's Multicultural Reality”, gives an excellent
example of what I meant when I said that some citizens might not seem to be
American. Takaki was born in Hawaii, one of the 50 states. After gradua ...
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Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990's
Number of Words: 2035 / Number of Pages: 8
... effect on me, who once intended to be
a psychologist, of a story in McCall's in December 1949 called "A Weekend
with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother,
divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to
spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy,
and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing
flowers and hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet and square dancing, and
she doesn't want to go home. But, pitying her poor mother typing away all
by herself in the lonesome apartment, she keeps her gui ...
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The Women Of The Nineties
Number of Words: 450 / Number of Pages: 2
... can truly give their child what he/she needs. A daycare provider can not give each and every child in the daycare center the love and attention that one of their parents can give them.
One of the things people do or are supposed to do when they have a baby is make sacrifices. Many women today are too selfish. They want it all: a husband, a child, and a career. It is too hard to balance all of these things and usually the child ends up suffering for it.
There is no reason why a woman can not put her career on hold to raise her children. When her children are in school then she can pursue a career. S ...
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Censorship Of Music In The Media
Number of Words: 2043 / Number of Pages: 8
... the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most sensitive among us. Thus, the general rule remains that so long as the means are peaceful, the communication need not meet standards of acceptability.
Some advocates of government action to restrict access to music have called certain music obscene and suggested that this might permit federal regulation. Such suggestions cannot be reconciled with First Amendment jurisprudence. Obscenity, which the Court has said is largely outside the boundaries of First Amendment protection, it is a very narrow and circumscribed area of communication. Being th ...
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Good Public Relations
Number of Words: 898 / Number of Pages: 4
... This would include how the company was started, who founded it, accomplishments and contributions, and other bits of information that would complement a company.
The media happens to be one of the most effective tools. There is a very strong love/hate relationship between corporate communicators and the media. On one hand, communicators need to get their messages out. The media also needs news to report. When communicators have a story that they want to get out, they want the media to give them as much attention as possible. There is another side to this story though. The media reports on subje ...
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Greed
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... cheaper, and more luxurious. He built bigger, faster, and more efficient ships. He served food on his ships, which the customers liked is a selfish desire for more than one needs or deserves. can make honest men murderers. It has made countries with rich valuable resources into the poorest countries in the world. We are taught it is bad and not to practice it. But consider a world without , where everyone is as sharing as Mother Theresa was. The progress of humankind would be at a standstill. has given our society faster travel, better service, more convenience, and most importantly, progress. ha ...
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Creating A Culture Of Peace
Number of Words: 1001 / Number of Pages: 4
... run we will have created a much more peaceful society.
The first aspect of peace is the spirit peace, which reflects how
we feel about ourselves and how we treat others. Peace is to smile at the
world, taking good care of the animals, the trees, the lakes, and being
aware of the environment. When we understand nature - and accept the fact
that we are part of it - then there will be peace. We want a clean,
balanced, and uncorrupted environment for our children to grow up in. We,
as individuals of a whole, like peace because we like the world. We need
peace in order to feel safe, and inner peace i ...
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Television Violence
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... and
find it to be very entertaining. Parents find it very hard to restrict their
kids from watching violent television programs. The child would want to watch
that program twice as much just because their parents said not to watch it. The
child would be curious to find out what is so wrong about the program. Some
people get the wrong messages or get bad ideas from watching some shows. If
parents were to educate their children before watching shows like "Mighty
Morphan Power Rangers", " X-Men" and "Cops" , then they wouldn't have to worry
about their child getting wrong messages. Television shows also ...
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Immigration & Americas Future
Number of Words: 2066 / Number of Pages: 8
... Eighty-eight percent of the world's population growth takes place in the
Third World. More than a billion people today are paid about 150 dollars a year,
which is less than the average American earns in a week. And growing numbers of
these poorly paid Third World citizens want to come to the United States.
In the 1970s, all other countries that accept immigrants started
controlling the number of people they would allow into their countries. The
United States did not. This means that the huge numbers of immigrants who are
turned down elsewhere will turn to the United States.
The n ...
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The Clinton Sex Scandal
Number of Words: 4720 / Number of Pages: 18
... The Presidents' inability to control the press exposes
their vulnerability and tends to question the actual power they can
actually exert. All presidents, at some time or another, became frustrated
at what they perceived as unfair treatment by the press, even while
acknowledging its vital function in a free society, and many presidents
have been a part of a scandal.
The current Presidential scandal with Monica Lewinsky had swept the Nation
overnight. It seems quite impossible to know just how it will all turn out,
and unfair to even speculate, but the media certainly seems to think they
possess that ...
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