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Jesus And Youths In America
Number of Words: 832 / Number of Pages: 4
... face to every Easterner who has
conducted themselves in a productive and positive manner. Many of the Christian
right I am sure do not realize how offensive the notion is that Christianity is
the only faith to recognize that killing and stealing are bad.
What exactly are the "norms" that are so exclusive to Christianity? The
Christian world is more afflicted with crime than Singapore ever will be, just
take a walk through the super Catholic ghettos of Buenos Aires.
I personally believe that the break from moral traditions does not exist.
The vast majority of American youth hold murder and violenc ...
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Tobacco Companies Targeting Young People
Number of Words: 537 / Number of Pages: 2
... idea
that in order to be somebody they need to smoke a Camel cigarette. It is not
right to prey on young people just because they are unaware of the dangers of
smoking.
The tobacco industry denies that these symbols target people less than
21 and claim that their advertising goal is simply to promote brand switching
and loyalty. Many people disagree with this statement such as Illinois Rep.
Richard Durbin who said "If we can reduce the number of young smokers, the
tobacco companies will be in trouble and they know it"(Roberts 38).
The problem we are facing is not only with the tobacco companies but ...
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Why People Feel Gun Control Is Unfair
Number of Words: 542 / Number of Pages: 2
... penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing
criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult
for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a
threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere.
However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is
necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were
9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some
suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by
handguns. Larger Metropolitan c ...
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Spousal Abuse
Number of Words: 1420 / Number of Pages: 6
... the sickness from others so they can maintain the abusive situation for a longer time.
Billboards, radio, and TV ads across the country proclaim that “every fifteen seconds a woman is beaten by a man.” Violence against women is clearly a problem of national importance, but has anyone ever asked how often men are beaten by women? The unfortunate fact is that men are the victims of domestic violence at least as often as women are. A survey conducted by National Family Violence showed that men are just as likely to be the victims of domestic violence as women are. In a study in Nineteen- seventy - fi ...
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Effects Of Gambling
Number of Words: 525 / Number of Pages: 2
... week being addicted. Also a person might become addicted to gambling if when one of the first couple times that they go they win money. So that might lead in to them thinking that they are going to win money every time they go but the casinos are not in the business to lose money. The odds are set so that more often then not that the casino will make money after all when you are playing slots or video poker you are playing against a computer. How good of odds can that be?
But not everyone that goes to the casino is addicted to gambling. Lots of people just go to have fun together win or lose. Such ...
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The Many Faces Of Marriage
Number of Words: 1311 / Number of Pages: 5
... Her second
husband is similarly stifling; though his strength and power is at first
appealing, he too is unable to comprehend that life is in the living and
the being, and not in the having and the controlling. Janie not knowing
what marriage really meant, married because she thought he could take care
of her.
Marriage is defined as an insitution uniting a man and a woman in a special
form of mutual dependence, often for the purpose of founding and
maintaining families. As a social practice entered into through a public
act, it reflects the purposes, character, and customs of the society in
which i ...
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The Increasing Prison Population
Number of Words: 355 / Number of Pages: 2
... is heavily involved in prison management, and prison
privatization is one of the country's hottest industries. Some companies
manage entire prisons, while others specialize in particular operations
such as health or food services. And manufacturers prosper when they
provide the many additional necessary items, from uniforms and bedding to
surveillance and monitoring equipment.
If current trends continue, the prison population will increase rapidly in
the next decade. Even without growth, the current prison population would
still be much more expensive to maintain in the future.
Offenders who are in ...
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Domestic Violence
Number of Words: 1605 / Number of Pages: 6
... this first hand. It didn't
have as dramatic an effect as it may have on other children. There are
three general ways in which a child may be affected, but are a wide variety
of situations. I can't predict the future so I cannot tell which one I will
fall into, but I am hoping it is the second way. Firstly, the child may
take on the psychological effect that it is OK to do since one has seen
their mother or father commit the acts. Children may do this cause they
grow up as followers of grown ups around them. Sort of like that monkey
see monkey do concept. On the other hand they could be do ...
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Crisis: Generation X
Number of Words: 1590 / Number of Pages: 6
... days all jobs are taken. The jobs out there are low paying and
demeaning to overqualified applicants. Left only to scrap by, it is not
unusual for an "X-er" to feel "Boomer Envy" described as the "envy of
material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members
of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births" (Generation X,
pg. 21). The fortunate thing is that "X-ers" have come to realize money is
not the key to life and community and commitment are what one should work
towards.
In keeping the same "money isn't everything" slogan, Coupland
executes a novel modelled ...
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Conformity In Society
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... individual.
Conformity is the tendency of an individual to change their thinking and behavior to the social norms. The most apparent effect of conformity is shown in fashion and style. I ponder whether the majority of our population like the clothes they wear because they actually like them, not just because everybody else is wearing them. I find it hard to believe that 9 out of 10 people just have to own at least 12 articles of clothing sporting the Nike Swoosh, because it is that irresistible. I am not proclaiming myself a nonconformist, as I know conformity affects everybody’s life in one way ...
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