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Problems In Today's Society
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... to get higher wages.
Another problem in the society is violence. Today, there are many
violence in the streets, some schools, and also in the media. These violence in
the streets can cause the neighbourhood to become a bad place to live. This
will cause people not to go there or move in there because of these violence.
There are also many violence and gangs in some school, causing some of the
school to be very unsafe to go. With these violence and gangs, students will
probably be afraid of these people. In addition, the media can contain violence
too. These violence, can cause kids to ...
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Negative Effects Of Television On Today’s Youth
Number of Words: 941 / Number of Pages: 4
... by violence
in general, and are less likely to see anything wrong with it. In a study
conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, children who watched a
violent program instead of a nonviolent one were slower to see help when
they witnessed acts of violence (Goodwyn 164).
In another study at Pennsylvania State University, about 100
preschool children were observed both before and after watching television.
Some watched cartoons that contained aggressive and violent acts, while
others watched programs that didn’t show any kinds of violence. The
researchers noticed several differences between ...
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The Women Of Irag
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... run on a family basis. The only careers for which girls were trained were wifehood and motherhood. These weren’t suitable careers for women which threatened to drive them into the dangerous path of the consumer race.
Eventhough the first move toward salaried employment of women in Iraq came in 1923, when a teachers’ training Institute was opened. 2 This still left some lower class women without a job. There was also some women that were still getting descriminated. It is worthy of note that almost 90 percent of employed women belonged to upper and middle class families and that most of them were ed ...
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Mass Media, Sex, And Pornography
Number of Words: 2705 / Number of Pages: 10
... pornography and
the result is increased violence against women. This assumption, and it is
indeed only an assumption, is completely fallacious, however, as no
concrete and completely conclusive evidence has ever been formulated in
support of the theory. The key premise here is that the mass media does
not cause undesirable social behaviour and in actuality, the media people
should not be dubbed as the “bad guys”. They simply use their power in
the most constructive ways possible in order to promote their ratings and
popularity. One way to do that is to concentrate on what sells: sex,
violence and ...
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My Own Micro Culture
Number of Words: 1058 / Number of Pages: 4
... need not worry of preditorial men. In , women that wear flamboyant clothing and show too much skin are looked down upon; they are considered “easy”. Do to the bright colors, An American may think that a woman is trying to get noticed. sees both bright clothes and reveling attire and assumes the girl is a tramp. Though a Latin woman may not try to bring attention to her by the way she dresses my culture sees differently and addresses a label to those outside their norm.
Kiowa Indians differ from by the way the family members hold to traditions. My culture follows certain traditions blindly in a se ...
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The Family Is A Social Institution
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... nuclear families towards extended families, blended families, childless marriages, single parents etc. The key word now is variety where multi-generation households are making a comeback.
My views on family and marriage have remained more or less the same since early childhood. Indian marriage as it stands today is a very old institution. To outsiders it seems strange if not outright absurd sometimes. To some degree it can be both of things however to a large extent it has preserved the ages due to its basic principles.
The matching of horoscopes is principally due to the fact that astrology is ...
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Working Mothers
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... they are in the thick of it. They are living life to the fullest. This model is the one that is constantly referred to as "bad" because it paints the woman as someone who does not really care about the effect of working will have on the baby. In fact, most of these mothers have made this choice with painstaking care. They are constantly feeling what everyone is thinking, and this in turn causes undue stress on these mothers. The other model of the working mom is the one most people think of when discussing . This model is one of a woman having too many demands of her --housewife, mother and paid empl ...
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The Advantages Of Stupidity
Number of Words: 932 / Number of Pages: 4
... with your head
straight!" or, "You have a brain, use it." Yet these are all true, there are
still many advantages to stupidity. The first advantage is very easy to
understand. Stupid people are never asked to do a lot. Many have noticed that
people tend to steer away from someone they feel may be stupid. This is for a
very good reason. The stupidity which they posses makes a name for themselves,
a name which can be very difficult to shake. Possibly, it is a word which
describes the working habits of the person, such as "crappy". Yet, this
creates a positive situation for the stupid person. Th ...
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Progresses In Society And Their Outcomes
Number of Words: 807 / Number of Pages: 3
... goals and ascertain certain unknowns. They don’t just have that responsibility to themselves but to the society. And as the society should progress, it will have to have the individual work hard and responsibly before the society works as a whole.
As the individual takes on their own responsibilities, they should realize that they are bettering society not for them but for the future. And in the future many more unknowns will challenge us and it might slow down progression in society yet if we work hard in now then in the future more can be enjoyed. We should think more and more about our child ...
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A Jew In Germany Or Occupied Europe:
Number of Words: 1729 / Number of Pages: 7
... come to save Germany; Adolf Hitler. These Nazis
oppose our jewish religion greatly; nearly everybody does, but this is a new
strain of hatred that I have no seen before. In letter she states that some new
anti-semitic rules called "The Nuremburg Laws" came into effect just this month
which will practically sign her business' death warrant. Over the pass year her
shop has been fire bombed several times and even her distressed children are
receiving threats from kids their own age. Her husband has even been assaulted
by brown shirted thugs belonging to this Nazi party. I hope she will write soon
becaus ...
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