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Child Abuse
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... a sense of self-confidence and trust. Child abuse is a matter of degree:
the degree to which a parent uses inap-propriate or excessive control strategies
with a child and/or fails to provide standards of care giving. In fact, abusive
parents often do not know they are abusive. Our culture has, for generations,
used corporal punishment as a means of controlling child behavior. Some parents
think society places no restraint on such techniques. Many may recall the old
saying, "spare the rod and spoil the child." It is not always clear what the
limits are in efforts to get a child to behave. The b ...
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I Am A Feminist - Hear Me Roar!
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... by white males, and other laws and policies that give women more rights than other groups are fair due to women's past oppression. If you even disagree with only one of these issues, you're considered part of the right-wing backlash against the women's movement.
Feminists that disagree with this description say that all women are accepted in the feminist movement. But when looking at the leading women's movement groups such as National Organization for Women and Feminist Majority Foundation, do we see any anti-abortion activists or women who decided a career-orientated lifestyle wasn't for them? Ir ...
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Violence In Media: You Are What You Watch
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... is threatened by loss of
self-esteem, fear of crime, and fear of our neighbours. A permanent
impression is made on the innocent minds of young children too young to
read or speak. TV is destroying society's respect for human life. Daniel
Boorstin, librarian of US Congress, said that TV has the power "to conjure
up a self-created reality that can mold public values and influence
behaviour." The Canadian Government guarantees free speech and free press,
but conjuring up anti-social values for our children is hardly what they
had intended.
Like it or not, TV has taken over the role of passing do ...
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Gay Marriage
Number of Words: 848 / Number of Pages: 4
... a man and a man or a woman and a woman. However, this argument is not a very strong one. As a United States citizen, everyone is guaranteed certain rights in the Constitution, marriage being one of them. Marriage is “a fundamental constitutional right, or a broader right of privacy or of intimate association” (Price, 1). This means that those who wish to share their lives in an intimate and private way have the right to do so. In 1967 the Supreme Court announced that “marriage is one of the most basic civil rights of man…essential to the pursuit of happiness” (Berzon, 4). This right should not be ...
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Environmental Pollution Concerns Come To Forefront
Number of Words: 1051 / Number of Pages: 4
... River, it stores the water in small reservoirs open to the elements.
Most other water districts use closed steel or concrete tanks. Only a few other California water districts currently store treated water in open reservoirs, including those in McCloud, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Carpinteria and Los Angeles. None of those has as many as the 11 used in EID.
The El Dorado reservoir water consistently meets state health standards on bacteria, EID officials say, because the district constantly bubbles chlorine from nearby tanks into the reservoirs and sends the water on to homes. But they admit th ...
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NAZISM
Number of Words: 2323 / Number of Pages: 9
... as the party of the young, the strong,
and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly,
the weak, and the dissolute.
Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy,
he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to
Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy
of fine arts.
When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a
Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a
Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its
consequences. He ...
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Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search For Childhood Risk Factors
Number of Words: 2553 / Number of Pages: 10
... and violence, parental criminality and substance abuse, inconsistent and/or harsh parenting practices, low socioeconomic status, and exposure to media violence.11
The most important of these factors appear to be low socioeconomic status, having parents who have been convicted of crimes, the child's low cognitive ability(especially poor verbal ability), poor parental child rearing, and the child's own history of antisocial behavior, conduct disorder, or troublesomeness.12 In one study of boys in London, for example, the 8- to 10-year-olds with four or more of these predictors included 15 of ...
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Curfews
Number of Words: 710 / Number of Pages: 3
... nonsensical to throw one more worry on the already large pile of worries parents have to deal with. “My kids are home-schooled,” complains mother Tiana Hutchinson, “I shouldn’t have to worry about them getting arrested every time I send them outside to play.” (“Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” 4).
Parents aren’t the only ones upset with this problem-causing ordinance. In 1995, the American Civil Liberties Union, acting on behalf of thousands of law-abiding youth in California, filed suit in Federal District Court to challenge the state’s juvenile curfew ordinance (“ACLU Challenges California’ ...
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Stereotyping Of Teenagers
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... teenage "freak" is.
Constantly people assume, just by looking at me, a lot of different things.
I was surprised to find the number of people who just figured I was into
drugs. I couldn't believe it. Apparently, because I choose to dress
differently, I must be trashed all the time. However, such is not the
case. Police assume we are trouble makers. I have been stopped countless
times, sworn at, and threatened by arrest, for simply standing on a street
corner or holding a skateboard. Meanwhile, a handful of preppy teens
stand by, doing the same thing, yet not getting a word towards them. We
a ...
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Equity In Canada
Number of Words: 1143 / Number of Pages: 5
... In
the 1960’s blacks were ordered out of their village, and in 1980’s Sikh
immigrants were called ‘trash’ and told to ‘go home.’ I found the author’
s choice of words quite appropriate when she described the ‘people of the
east’ in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Words such as Bluenoser, Gaelic and
homogeneity were used to describe the vast majority of people who look and
sound the same in the community.
Throughout the article the author expressed her disgust at this
racist incident although her friend, the black man, has learned to laugh
it off. She stated she was still furious even though the patient ...
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