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Friends
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... may say so, much before any of my or for that matter any other teenager around me.
If I were asked to assess my character and forces that are responsible for its structure I would repeat what I have already stated. Now after doing the self-analysis from the book I am sort of lost. I do not know or let’s say that I did not know how science would analyze me. Maybe, as the results showed, I am pragmatic, a self-monitor, a non-risk taker and maybe even a person who hates into everything. Although it sounds bad having all these traits is not necessarily evil. It is due to my average self-esteem that I do ...
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Gangs In Today's Cities
Number of Words: 1529 / Number of Pages: 6
... gang jobs. Although these are important factors
they are not strong enough to make kids do things that are strongly against
their morals.
One of the ways that kids morals are bent so that gang violence becomes
more acceptable is the influence of television and movies. The average
child spends more time at a TV than she/he spends in a classroom. Since
nobody can completely turn off their minds, kids must be learning something
while watching the TV. Very few hours of television watched by children
are educational, so other ideas are being absorbed during this period of
time. Many shows on tel ...
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Peer Pressure Around Us
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... today’s society we all want to be better than everyone else. When we see families which are better, we feel the pressure either from parents or from ourselves to try and improve. We don’t want to compromise the integrity of our family.
School is important to all of us and the pressures that come from the schools are high. We all have the pressures of achieving good grades, and doing well so that we can succeed in the future for us and our families. In school, you feel the pressure from your friends to do well because they might be doing better than you. It’s hard to avoid your the pressure from your fa ...
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Justice
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... as a way to make everyone wait the same. The whole system is
ruined if someone budges. Budging is rarely caught, but when it is, the
punishment is severe. The person who budged usually has to go to the end
of the line. The only problem with this is that people aren't caught often
enough.
Cheating is yet another of the unfair practices that go on in
school. This kind of deceit is a no-win situation. The assignment was
given for a reason, and it defeats the purpose if someone cheats to get it
done. The student will not learn the lesson, so when it is time to take
the test, they'll most l ...
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Fingerprinting Kids
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... cases the police
departments retain the records, while in others the fingerprint cards are
turned over to the parents for safekeeping. The apparent purpose of the
program is to help provide positive identification to link either children
picked up, or bodies recovered, with missing person notices.
Every year about 1 million children are reported missing. Of these
most, about 800,000, are away from home for less than two weeks. About
150,000 of the total missing are abducted; of these two thirds are abducted
by a divorced parent.
Some of the reasons behind the missing children a ...
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Sex Discrimination
Number of Words: 2645 / Number of Pages: 10
... gets treated in a less favorable
manner because of their sex. A good example of this is to take two fictional
characters, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. The Jones's want to go swimming, they get
to the swimming baths where they find that Mrs. Jones is charged an O.A.P.
price while Mr. Jones has to pay the full price even though they are both the
same age. This is because woman become pensioners at the age of sixty
while men cannot gain the benefits until they are sixty five.
Sex discrimination is not only present within the older generation but is also
evident throughout the entire age range. Before legisla ...
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Unique Cultures Of The World
Number of Words: 1608 / Number of Pages: 6
... celery are the main vegetables of the region. Noodles, steamed breads and buns are more popular than rice, unlike in southern China. Mongol cuisine has influenced Peking greatly. This is made obvious in the way that this region’s people use mutton and lamb more than in other regions. Without a doubt, the one dish that has escaped from Peking’s borders and captured the imagination of people through out the world is Peking duck. In fact, the ducks for this meal are often raised and fattened especially for the meal.
On the eastern side of China is Shanghai, which covers the area of the Kiangsu, Chekian ...
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World Population: The Present And Future The Growth
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... the proletariat grows wider and eventually all the capital is controlled by a small percentage of the population and the proletariat is forced into poverty. To someone with little or no sociological background, the above paragraph has nothing to do with population as a social problem. But if you fit population into Marx's description of the capitalist system, it is more relevant than at first glance. The best way to make this point clear is to provide two hypothetical situations. Family X is a middle class family that is doing well financially and they tend to have more children than if they are not ...
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How Advertising Affects What You Buy
Number of Words: 2217 / Number of Pages: 9
... What makes advertising effective for public relations;
direct advertising; public relations themes;
advertising to consumers.
8. Criticisms of advertising; who the advertisement
appeals to, is it biased, conflicting claims, is it
vulgar.
9. How advertising developed; what the first one was
doing; what lured people to doing it; and what
advertising people do.
"Advertising has developed and supported great industries, bulwarked-"or
increased- "entire economies, and changed a sufficient number of human habits"
(Wood 3). Like that paragraph s ...
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Road Rage
Number of Words: 723 / Number of Pages: 3
... or curse at them if we
were face to face with them, so why would we do so if we are in a car?
Second of all you want to use your change lanes signal whenever you
are about to do so. That could trigger most people if they get cut off,
you want to give the person or persons in the other lanes as much time as
possible to anticipate you moving in front of them.
Next, if you see someone that is tailgating you in your mirror
move the right lane, if you are in the fast lane, so that they can pass you
and you are not going to get hit by the person, and also do not tailgate
others. Ninety percent of all ...
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