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Sexual Harassment
Number of Words: 1213 / Number of Pages: 5
... boy who cried wolf.
Sexual harassment has become such an issue due to the large number of
cases presented. When Anita Hill, law professor at the University of Oklahoma,
brought allegations of sexual Zaccarello 2 harassment against Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas, the whole world started listening. This case was "the
most celebrated sexual harassment case of our time," according to Martha
Chamallas, and "Hill's revelations prompted women to tell about their own
encounters with sexually harassing behavior-both in private and in public."
This case gave women a reason to report sexual h ...
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Black Civil Rights
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... war were being more important positions than ever before.
Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to make a strong contribution to
the Civil Rights movement. He had signed a declaration that stated no one could
be discriminated in the work place and other areas based on race. Also the high
court passed a law that enabled black children to have the same education
opportunities as white children.
It was in December 1955 that Rosa Parks made a big step for civil rights by
doing a very small but courageous thing. She was arrested for not giving up her
seat to a white man on a bus, which broke ...
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Gender Roles
Number of Words: 2038 / Number of Pages: 8
... values and creating in them certain behavior patterns acceptable to
their social roles. These roles have been in a state of flux in American
society in recent years, and men and women today can be seen as having expanded
their roles in society, with women entering formerly male dominions and men
finding new ways to relate to and function in the family unit.
When I was growing up a woman was never heard of having a job other than
a school teacher or seamstress. Our(women's)job was to take care
of the house. We had a big garden out back from which we got most
of our vegetables…A garden is a ...
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Teaching Respect To Children
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... now, not enough parents are teaching their kids respect and
this causes violence, crimes, and can even lead to drug use. It is easy to
see how these problems can be easily solved or would be nonexistent if
their was respect. Violence would not be a problem, because no one would
fight if they had respect for the other person. The next problem is crime.
Nobody is going to steal or vandalize someone's property if they respect
them. One other problem is drug use, this would not be a problem is people
respected themselves enough to not harm their bodies with drugs. They also
would not sell drugs because sel ...
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Censorship
Number of Words: 944 / Number of Pages: 4
... hard to talk about constructively.
"Obscenity" is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing
obscene? It is Something too vague perhaps to be defined. It's an elusive
term we use, but can't explain. Different people often see things
differently. Some see obscenity in nude pictures, statues, paintings, etc.
While others find less obscenity in these things. All the same, "obscene"
isn't the same as "wrong" or "bad". Clearly obscenity is not identical with
evil. It only covers a single segment of it. But what is that segment? A
look at the words "obscenity" and "pornography" suggests ...
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Men Will Rise From The Dark Depth Of Prejudice To The Majestic Heights Of Brotherhood
Number of Words: 542 / Number of Pages: 2
... was formed to boycott the buses and Dr. Martian Luther king
was asked to be president of it. In his first, and in my opinion, most powerful
speeches Dr. Martian Luther King stated “First and foremost we are American
citizens...We are not here advocating violence...the only weapon that we
have...is that of protest...The great glory of American democracy is the right
to protest for right.” Dr. King and the organization succeeded. The Supreme
Court ordered the city to have equal, integrated seating. This was only the
first in many battles lead by Dr. Martian Luther King.
Dr. Martian Luther Ki ...
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Determination Of One's Behavior
Number of Words: 1870 / Number of Pages: 7
... at home". The use of I helps the reader to know defiantly who is the speaker and of whom they are prevalent within both underlying the entire story. It is ironic that both characters born in Canada would expect to have had their families embrace western traditions and culture, rather they struggle to maintain their own heritage and don't want to loose it. It is ironic because Suzuki and Sun-Kyung struggle to be free of the restrictions of their culture and become more "Canadian" even though they already live in Canada.
Each story deals with multiculturalism, different heritages and cultures they po ...
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Is The Criminal Justice System Racially Biased?
Number of Words: 1698 / Number of Pages: 7
... and different and who regard them as objects of collective
discrimination. Discrimination is the act of singling out for unfair treatment.
Labeling is stereotyping, or putting a tag on someone, and treating them
accordingly. Self-fulling Prophecy is an expectation about how things will be
the situations that they predicted or expected. Finally, Differential
Association is the idea that interacting with others learns criminal behavior.
It is no secret whites and blacks in America experience life differently
because of their race. Therefore, whites and blacks view the criminal justi ...
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What Are Morals?
Number of Words: 749 / Number of Pages: 3
... morals are the basis on how you make many decisions.
From where does this sense of right or wrong originate from? Freud says
that moral development comes from observation of parents during the
developmental stage of childhood. From childhood, then, comes the
foundation for adulthood morality. A more detailed, yet similar, theory
proposed by Kohlbegis that a child goes through certain stages of moral
development. The first stage is very simple; the child perceives that
whatever it is rewarded for is good, and that anything that it is punished
for is bad. As the child grows older, it perceives ...
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The Politics Of Homelessness
Number of Words: 2107 / Number of Pages: 8
... into this image of the homeless, the solution should be easy for us to see: simply build more shelters and public housing. To the extreme right are those that say the homeless have only themselves to blame. Their position is that regardless of why people become homeless, they have the power to rise above it and rejoin society. To them, we should offer assistance only to those who deserve it, and then, only temporarily. Of course, this solution has the problem of determining who is deserving and who is not. Through skillful and clever use of the media, the homeless advocates can be credited with bring ...
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