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Are Immigrants A Burden To The U.S?
Number of Words: 247 / Number of Pages: 1
... of the Irish,
Italians, and Poles of early immigration. According to a 1990 census, forgien
born males have a 77% labor force participation. Now, compare that to the 74%
participation of native-born Americans and you see that immigrants are not as
lazy as some would have you believe. 5.1% of working age immigrants, the
majority of which were legally admitted, recieve welfare benefits. 5.3% of
working age, native born Americans also recieve welfare benefits . Immigrants,
both legal and illegal, are the minority of those recieving welfare and are not
the only ones recieving it as the facts show.
Imm ...
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Working Mothers
Number of Words: 582 / Number of Pages: 3
... their new duties and
responsibilities at work and home. Increased gender equity has enriched
both sexes. Today’s women are entitled to be apart of the life their
mothers had to fight to live. Jennifer Wedberg states, “Life is more
complex now, you have to figure out what to do with your life, be a
housewife or a working woman.” A woman’s personal identity includes a job
or career. According to Christopher Moeller, “More people should value
equality and people wanting self-esteem, which is what a job sometimes
gives a woman.” James Lindow stays at home with the children while his
wife works an ...
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Virtues That Change Society In The Future
Number of Words: 755 / Number of Pages: 3
... Temperance is first on the list and is the most important of the virtues. As Franklin states, some associate temperance with eating and drinking, but this was not Franklin's intention. "Temperance first, as it tends to procure that coolness and clearness of head, which is so necessary where constant vigilance was to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting attraction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temptations."(Perkins, pg322) This is the most important of the list of virtues. My interpretation of this is that one should always keep a cool head no matter the situation. ...
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Oil Pollution And Its Effect On Wildlife
Number of Words: 670 / Number of Pages: 3
... have been hundreds of accidents involving the
spilling of million of tons of oil. Big oil spills, no matter
what way they occur, reflect on the oil industry badly.
The clean©up cost alone is enormous, and the amount of damages can
be into the millions of dollars. Despite the clean©up efforts,
once there is an oil spill, it cannot be prevented from causing
major damage to wildlife and the environment.
EFFECT ON WILDLIFE:
All the migrating seabirds like guillemots, puffins, and razorbills are
at risk from oil pollution. During migration, they look ...
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Equality
Number of Words: 396 / Number of Pages: 2
... religion is wrong.
Reverse discrimination is also wrong. It isn't a person's fault that people
of their race and sex usually get a brake. Reverse discrimination is still
discrimination, and all discrimination is wrong. All discrimination is the same.
No one should discriminate against another ever. Especially if I it is to bring
them self up.
I hope that all people will learn to go about things in a peaceful way.
So many people have died in the past because someone was trying to make a
statement. None of these people should have died. In society today we kill and
will continue to kill to bri ...
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Video Games: "Ummmm? I Do…buttt…. C'mon I'll Play Ya "
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... much of their homework in one sitting, but that one roommate, suite mate, or just that guy down the hall comes in with the bright idea to put all that away and start up a friendly rivalry. Because of such novelties as PlayStation, Nintendo 64, or the good old Sega, the grades of many once studious intellectual drops into the realms of mediocracy.
The makers of many of the games now make them with the sole intent to attract the child in every guy from the age of about 15 to 23. We all remember playing the Nintendo with such classics as Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Tecmo Bowl, Excite Bike, Top Gun, an ...
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Welfare
Number of Words: 636 / Number of Pages: 3
... its special new hires. The new employees are hired to fill a variety of
clerical and light general- labor positions. They will not be identified as the
company's welfare-to-work initiative.
The possible short-term effect this would have on society is that people,
on welfare, would be able to work and get paid for it. This will allow them to
be able to build finance of their own that they will be able to help them with
their lives. The long-term effect, though it seemed good for the people, would
be bad for everyone else who weren't on welfare. This would be because the
people working off welf ...
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What Are Teens Supposed To Do?
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... the fun.
Here is the jest of the problem, Teenagers are too old to enjoy going to Chuck-E-Cheese and Discovery Zone and places of that nature, and they are too young to get into most of the night clubs and bars legally. To ad insult to injury there really are very few places besides the malls that Teenagers enjoy going to. With this in mind what are Teenagers supposed to do?
If you want to keep teenagers from roaming the malls by day and the streets by night then we as adults have to give them some other alternatives.
Fist off teenagers are an untapped market by businesses. Most teens are just ...
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Sibling Relationships
Number of Words: 2259 / Number of Pages: 9
... before they even get a chance to start, but siblings with most or all of these differences still manage to relate on an equal level. Siblings also have a common history of shared and non-shared experiences again strengthening the bond between them.
Bill Cosby once said, "You aren't really a parent until you've had your second child." Parents of one child won't really understand this. Parents of two or more children will relate to this statement immediately. He was referring to the seemingly constant bickering and fighting between brothers and sisters.
Myths & Theorists
Adler (1959) be ...
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Hollywood's Attack On Religion
Number of Words: 1561 / Number of Pages: 6
... called the protesters a
"know-nothing wacky pack" (38). However, as Medved points out, the protest was
"the largest protest ever mounted against the release of a motion picture" (37)
and included such groups as the National Council of Catholic Bishops, the
Southern Baptist Convention, twenty members of the U.S. House of Representatives
and prominent figures such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Ken Wales, former
vice president at Disney studios. Even with such strong opposition from these
respected groups and people, the studio refused to listen and stood behind its
First Amendment rights.
M ...
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