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Why Are The Homeless Homeless?
Number of Words: 932 / Number of Pages: 4
... and even working for this job of theirs. All they have to do is
poke around a little longer or beg a little more, and that job would be
theirs to enjoy. Keeping these articles of clothing clean would be
difficult, but manageable. If you can't afford a coin operated laundromat
(I'm sure there'd be plenty of left over change from begging), just find
some large, clean puddle of water in the street to wash things in. As for
cleanliness, I'm sure people throw away left over deodorant or
antiperspirant, soap, and other such toiletries to where you can care of
the bathing problem. You don't need to ...
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Bulldozing Our Past
Number of Words: 754 / Number of Pages: 3
... money to improve the home. Why? Well, the owner’s of the home
were not financially in the poverty zone. They actually were making above
$35,000, which did not allow them access to government funding. Even
though the $35,000, before taxes, was to feed a husband, wife, two
children, pay mortgage, insurance, taxes, utilities, college and buy
clothes. The district insisted that the owners should have enough money
to remodel the home. The owner’s however did not have the extra money.
They discovered it would be cheaper to take a bulldozer to the house and
level it, leaving their 79-year-o ...
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Rapid Population Growth
Number of Words: 2896 / Number of Pages: 11
... year. With the planet growing at alarming rate 230 000 per day people, With the increasing population, pollution is on the rise, making safe water scarce In Asia the population increases by 50 million, the population of Africa by 17 million and Latin America and the Caribbean by only eight million. Africa has the hightest growth rate at 2.36 %(Internet Source). These are places where people need children for work or if they don’t want kids they have no way of getting contraception or to be informed about it, thus making the population grow at an alarming rate. Someone must feed the hungry, with ...
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Loyalty
Number of Words: 1521 / Number of Pages: 6
... . With infants , even the firmest leader is often easygoing . He allows them to pull his hair , punch him , and crawl all over him . Once when a little gorilla leaned against a huge silverback , the male grabbed a long-stemmed flower and tickled the infant with it . Babies are in fact , popular with the entire group . Male and female gorillas hug and play with them much the way we do with human babies .
Females move up in rank when they become mothers . If one wants a better place to sit , a childless female will move over for her . Or a female without little ones will play baby-sitter while a ...
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Working Through Disappointment
Number of Words: 1173 / Number of Pages: 5
... my Grandfather. I thought long and hard, and I felt like the disappointment was beginning to bog me down. I made a vow to myself that no matter how bad thing would get I wouldn’t let the disappointment do to me, what it did to the rest of my family. I spent the next two days going to see my grandfather. I threw myself totally into deep thinking, mostly about all the good times we shared. I did not let the bad in this situation get to me. He passed away two more days later, but I had made my peace with him. It was one of the hardest times that I had to face, but I focused on spending the last few ...
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Civilize The Wilderness
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... computers, fax machines, cellular phones, and all
of the modern conveniences that we have today. The fact is, that many people
believe that the wilderness is like an unborn country. A country that has
nothing and is striving to become more advanced. We see this as an opportunity
to better it and make it seem like we are actually helping. But, are we really
helping? In my opinion, no. I feel that we are destroying something natural
and something of beauty.
In many ways we are making the wilderness worse by civilizing it. We
put unnatural objects into the wilderness, and it destroys the wilderne ...
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Let Me Decide: The Right To Die
Number of Words: 841 / Number of Pages: 4
... disease. I do know that I would not want to feel pain or discomfort. The lecture brought back some bad memories. A few years ago I found it most difficult to hear about the invasive test and procedures performed on my grandmother when everyone involved knew she had stomach cancer and it had spread to her bladder. It seemed cruel to insist an 89-year-old woman, who was confused due to the pain and medication, have chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This went on for about three weeks, until some of the younger members of the family, including myself, insisted that the procedures were more ...
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The Effect Of Viewing Television Violence On Childhood Aggression
Number of Words: 2045 / Number of Pages: 8
... 1960's Research
There is earlier research, but the first association between violent television
and aggression was in the early 1960's when Albert Bandura began researching his
modeling theory. His series of experiments first set the precedent for a
relationship between violent television viewing and aggression. He felt
children would model or imitate adult behavior. In one study he subjected
children to both aggressive and non- aggressive adult models and then tested
them for imitative behavior in the presence of the model. His theory was
demonstrated when children readily imitated behavior exhib ...
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Sexual Abuse And Children
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
... states and experts say “for each case that is
reported there are two more that aren't.” Why in Virginia Beach alone in
1993 the social services office counted 6,613 sexual abuse cases reported.
The reason only a third of the cases are reported because most of
the time the abuser is a friend or family member. In fact the book Child
Abuse: an american epidemic says “only 28% of child molestors are
strangers.” Most of the time the abuser is the money maker in the family
and the child fears that if the molestor gets taken away that they will
have nothing. If it is a friend or another family member the ...
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Maintaining Civil Liberty
Number of Words: 1241 / Number of Pages: 5
... the law? It seems to myself that Mill and Aquinas justifuly answered that debate , yet, the Joseph Raz article , The Authority of Law , tends to disagree. Raz argues that there is no obligation to obey the law. That man should and does resist the urge/temptation to commit crime not for obligation but because of his enate knowledge that that is not acceptable.
" One has reasons not to kill , assault, rape or imprison other people which have no connection with the law and depend entirely on the fact that such acts are against the will or interests or ( moral ) rights of others." ( Raz, p.233) ...
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