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Censorship Of Books: Freedom Of What?
Number of Words: 1181 / Number of Pages: 5
... our first amendment
right. The first amendment, in part states that Americans have freedom of
the press (to publish any material they want.) This also means that we can
access any of these materials. It doesn't mean we have the freedom to
control what others access, that would be referred to as communism.
In Triverton, Rhode Island a middle school class was assigned to
read a book called Go Ask Alice. The book portrays a fifteen-year-old girl
who is trying to overcome a drug addiction. It is written as a series of
diary entries she kept during the rehabilitation process. A parent
compla ...
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Teen Pregnancy
Number of Words: 1333 / Number of Pages: 5
... rising. Many things like not using protection or just not being conscious play a role in preventing .
Teens get pregnant because of many reasons: Sexual experimentation, lack of understanding, not thinking clearly, or sometimes teens want to get pregnant. One reason people don't understand is when teens intentionally get pregnant. When it's not planned teens have to figure out what steps they are going to take (teen sexuality 80). Different questions people usually ask: Should they get and abortion, how will they raise the kid, and who if anyone is going to help me(pregnant too soon 5). In the ...
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The Homeless In England
Number of Words: 1202 / Number of Pages: 5
... like a protest against the society or just to try the
homeless life.
25% of the homeless are war veterans and most of them from Vietnam. They are
mentally traumatised by their war experiences, some of them are disable and
others are just unable to find work so they can pay a rent.
25% of the homeless are children and many of them are alone. They're maybe run-
aways who left home because there was no food at home, or because they're
victims of rape, incest or violence. Many of them are "throwaways", whose
parents tell them to leave home or won't allow them to return home once they've
left.
Many ...
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Family, Marriage, And Gender Roles
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... a society where the
nuclear family is no longer the dominant configuration? Only time will tell.
Being brought up in a traditional environment, I have very conservative
views on the concept of a family. When I was young, my Mother did not work.
She would stay at home with me until I was about thirteen years old. I feel
that, if possible, a mother should stay home with her children. In my eyes, the
main responsibility of a Mother is to furnish her children with as much
attention as possible. Without the necessary attention the child will grow up
striving for attention, and will do everything in ...
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The Problem Of Domestic Violence
Number of Words: 1920 / Number of Pages: 7
... same
time", this is not the case with domestic violence, one it didn't just happen
overnight, it has just been popularized overnight, domestic violence has been
going on from as far back as anyone can remember and probably farther than that,
and two, this is not affecting many people at the same timem, because, as I've
stated before, "in most families men and women do not engage in physically
abusive behavior". If you as the reader gets anything out of this paper, it is
important to me as the writer, that you find that, while domestic violence is a
major problem for some families, it is by no means ...
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Racism
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... Toolworks Encyclopedia; 1992). The clan, who is
notorious for its violence, has a relatively innocent beginning. It was
formed from some veterans from the confederate army and was first called
the Kuklos Clan which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan.
One person thought it would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan"
as a parody of the fraternity names which always had three Greek alphabet
letters in it. They created the Clan to be mischievous and to do it
without anyone knowing who they were which accounts for their costumes and
masks. They, like most whites, were upset that the black people w ...
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Long Distance Relationship And How To Make It Work
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... to have trust
in each other. In every relationship there has to be trust, but for some reason,
in long-distance relationships, it seems like there has to be just a little
something more. Since you two are so far apart, you have to trust that the
other one only wants to be with you and no one else. What I would always do,
when I didn't know if I should do something that might be bad for our
relationship, is I would put myself on the other end of the situation. I would
pretend that it was my boyfriend doing it and then I would think of how I would
feel if he did it. If you would get upset about it, ...
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Divorce And Preschool Children
Number of Words: 1878 / Number of Pages: 7
... The preschool age children respond to marital separation with regression, anger, tantrums, aggression and anxiety. The Latency age group shows less impact although some symptoms are common such as anxiety and depression. Finally, the adolescence age showed symptoms such as trouble with the law, drugs, sexual acting out and running away. (Hodges and Bloom, 1984)
Because my interest is in the early years of child development I focused mainly on the preschool age children. Hodges and Bloom define this preschool focus as the age period to be between 18 months and 6 years. (1984) Out of these ...
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Nontraditional Tradtions
Number of Words: 876 / Number of Pages: 4
... some ways of
doing it. The only challenge is to find new ways. Why do we need to celebrate
tradition? It gives us something to look forward to and makes a formal
statement that there are some things in life to be grateful for.
The notion of honoring tradition is unsettling for some people; let
alone creating new ones. We understand that we need something to add a sense of
order and stability to our lives. But we are not sure about how to create our
own traditions. We seem to think that traditions must be heavy and complex
ideas that had been around for hundreds of years and will be around for a ...
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The American And Japanese Social System
Number of Words: 1641 / Number of Pages: 6
... the false thinking that the Japanese market is a closed one. Many Americans seem to feel that if the Japanese market is not like the US market, then it must be unfair. The Japanese have clearly perceived their national interest in trade terms and have organized themselves and disciplined themselves to do something about it.(State, 7) There are strengths and weaknesses in both the American and the Japanese social system
The Emperor of Japan descends from an Imperial House that has been more or less in direct succession for 1500 years. When the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Spanish and the British wen ...
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