Chavs. According to many commenters on The Guardian’s comment website, it was they who fuelled the London riots, causing misery to good, hard-working citizens, looting and burning down stores with any stupid excuse. The solution? Chavs should work harder, they should pay attention in school, they should try to make...
Topic: Prejudice
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Brownmiller’s argument for keeping pornography under wraps (Lederer 54) is based on the premise that it is not a political statement that deserves Constitutional protection. Hence, one of her conclusions is that women who patronize a newsstand should not have to confront a whole range of women en dishabille on...
Topic: Speech
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Pages: 2
Introduction In the United States of America, sexual offenders have attracted a lot of attention in relation to the risk assessment for recidivism (Doren, 2002). The risk assessment for recidivism is an estimate of the likelihood of an offender to revert to illegal behavior after the jail term (Beggs &...
Topic: Sex Offender
Words: 600
Pages: 2
How Populism Bloomed in Venezuela during the Chávez Era Hugo Chávez, a charismatic leader of the populist movement in Venezuela, inspired by the ideas of Simon Bolivar, proclaimed himself “an interpreter of the Venezuelan peoples’ demands,” and in 1998 with his entry for the presidency, he started the Bolivarian Revolution,...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 5
Race and culture have always been sensitive topics given the rise in racial discrimination in the recent past. This prompted me to carry out a study on various aspects of culture and levels of discrimination that are common in the society today. In addition to the above, I highly anticipate...
Topic: Culture
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Pages: 4
The article examines and analyzes the problem of drinking among undergraduates and assesses reasons and factors of drinking behavior. The effect of alcohol varies by social position and achievements of students. Female students who drink face a lower risk of death than male students, but an increased risk of breast...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 4
Introduction Presently, the issue of sports and racism centers on the communal and biased implication associated with the issue of black athletic supremacy and/or the overall view of such presumed supremacy (Morgan, 2007). The hot subject dated April 23, 2006, featuring on United States news and Global headline was “is...
Topic: Democracy
Words: 675
Pages: 2
Introduction The problem of suicide within youth is one of the most burning problems nowadays. Originally, young people commit suicide because of their lack of self-confidence, lack of confidence in their future, and lack of life experience. Nevertheless, even if the key reasons are known, it is almost impossible to...
Topic: Suicide
Words: 575
Pages: 2
Grief…It is natural for humans to feel deep pain and sorrow when grief occurs. Grief causes devastation and kills a part of any human’s heart; it also brings crucial changes to the community where it arises. In the following paper grief caused by shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona on January...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 4
Introduction Many physicians, parents and coaches worry about the effect of performance enhancing drugs in schools and colleges (Amy, n.d.). The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) reports that in every thirty student-athletes, one will use performance-enhancing drugs like steroids (“Coalition addresses abuse of performance-enhancing drugs,” 2004). Research should find...
Topic: Drugs
Words: 1146
Pages: 4
Introduction Many claims have been made on both positive and negative consequences of electronic game playing, on the emotional, social, cognitive and physical development of children. Whereas others believe that they help in teaching the children the computer skills, literacy, and improving their performance skills, there are also potential harmful...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 5
The legal age of drinking is the minimum legally allowed age that a person is permitted to get access to or purchase an alcoholic beverage (a drink containing ethanol). These beverages include beers, wines, and spirits. It however differs from that age that one may be allowed to drink alcohol....
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 611
Pages: 2
Aboriginal people are the first nation of Canadian population researched by many (Steckley, 1997) and today they suffer greatly from prepossession against them. But “it seems to us that the continuing existence of aboriginal nations is a political and legal reality as well as a historical fact” (Erasmus, 2002). Moreover,...
Topic: Inequality
Words: 882
Pages: 3
Introduction Power is one of the most confusing and vacillating themes in any given society. Those who don’t have it seek to find it by all means while those who have it think of new ways to make their grip on it even stronger. Power shows itself in society at...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 7
Alcoholic Anonymous is an association of different people recuperating from alcoholism who come together to contribute their experiences about alcoholism and its effects. The organization aims to encourage more people to stop taking alcohol and help alcoholic addicts to overcome their situation. Alcoholic Anonymous is an international organization formed in...
Topic: Alcohol
Words: 574
Pages: 2
Immigrants are seen invading United States of America through free scholarship and green cards. Immigrants affect the country financially. This is where the number of consumers increases hence fluctuating the budget. Communities which receive immigrants get support from social workers who are seen to be very generous, supportive and welcoming....
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 575
Pages: 2
Alcohol is a drink that is made from natural products like fruits and vegetables that are fermented by the use of yeast. Alcohol comes in different forms and can be used as an antiseptic or a sedative. When people drink alcohol, it gets absorbed in the bloodstream thus affecting the...
Topic: Driving
Words: 649
Pages: 2
Introduction The misuse of substance among children has been a major problem in most countries (Velleman and Templeton 2007). Research has indicated that children who are introduced to substance abuse at early stages in their lives are likely to develop serious psychological and behavior disorders in adulthood (Velleman and Templeton...
Topic: Parenting
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Pages: 4
There are certain themes expressed in the readings that are too surprising to be true. Many years after slavery was abandoned, the black generation is still suffering its consequences. Despite the fact that some of the black parents have succeeded and are involved in high-profile jobs in the United States,...
Topic: Segregation
Words: 634
Pages: 2
Introduction The New York City police department has been facing various challenges when it comes to handling crimes in the city. This is because the city is made up of people of different cultures and backgrounds who do not speak the same language. Even though America is an English-speaking nation,...
Topic: Culture
Words: 893
Pages: 3
Motive for Smoking The rapists typically advise those who are daily tobacco users to quit, despite their willingness. However, the intervention for the smokers without any desire to stop is a complicated one. It primarily consists of multiple brief motivational interviewing sessions which last for several minutes. An Intervention should...
Topic: Addiction
Words: 595
Pages: 2
Introduction Sex industry is a commercial enterprise where sales and purchases of sexual activities are done. It includes prostitution and pornography which are sold and paid for. Legalized and illegal sex work Illegal sex workers make a sizable proportion of the vulnerable population. They are treated as criminals in the...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 537
Pages: 2
When slavery was defined as a peculiar institution, it was thought to mean a distinctive aspect of the people of the US who had embraced it. In other words, it was used in a more positive light since those who partook of it believed that they were doing the right...
Topic: Slavery
Words: 1193
Pages: 4
Drug abuse is one of the greatest problems affecting the world today. Many countries have had to deal with so many problems that come with the use of harmful drugs. Some of the commonly abused drugs include alcohol, cocaine, bhang, and hero (Higgins, 2007). Apart from these, pharmaceutical drugs have...
Topic: Alcohol
Words: 580
Pages: 2
The term Islamophobia is a word that has often been used to describe the discrimination that the Muslims face in Western Europe. The term emerged as a result of lack of a common understanding between the native Europeans and the Muslims politically, socially and legally. The term has in most...
Topic: Islam
Words: 582
Pages: 2
Introduction The Canadian census collects data on the ethnic, national, and religious origins of Canadians as the primary reference for the representation of Canadian diversity (James and Lloyd 10). This has been the case since the early 1970s when the Canadian government began multiculturalism based on the recognition of ethnicity...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 5
Recently, many movements concerning women’s issues have been coming up. These movements could be national or international. One of these movements is V-day which is a global movement. This movement was founded by Eve Ensler in the late 1990s. It was inspired by “The Vagina Monologues” played by Eve Ensler....
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 854
Pages: 3
The article by Camus titled “The Myth of Sisyphus” is dedicated to the account of mythology and its reflection on the modern situation of the middle of the 20th century – the author ties the myth telling about eternal tortures of Sisyphus and the human sufferings that he sees at...
Topic: Mythology
Words: 211
Pages: 2
Erich Fromm was a profound specialist in social psychology, and many of his ideas have tremendous importance for modern society on the way for self-conceptualization, finding the way out of the pessimism of the 20th century, and stipulating elevated goals for the future in the long run. He emphasized the...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 251
Pages: 2
The article by Marheine titled “Twentieth Century Crisis of Belief” summarizes many ideas and social phenomena that distinguished 20th-century ideology, philosophy, and art. The main trends discussed by the author in the compilation of famous artists’ abstracts are the disgusting wartime pictures in literature and reflection of despair and exhaustion...
Topic: Belief
Words: 222
Pages: 2
Aborigines is the term used to describe the class of people defined by the law as being members of the race that originally settled the Australian continent before the arrival of Europeans. In legal terms, an Australian Aborigine has been defined as “a group of people who share, in common,...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 1396
Pages: 5
Introduction Having considered the course I cannot but say that there are some points missed in the course. There are a lot of social problems, but I would like to concentrate on the several topics, that are neglected in the course. These are migration, poverty, and providing education in countries...
Topic: Social Development
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Pages: 4
Introduction Consensus is rising in the matters of drug usage and beyond, that the criminalization of specific drugs is counterproductive and does not convey the planned objectives. Proof is growing showing that criminalization of drug usage, is what’s causing a lot of public health and in fact criminal harm. Some...
Topic: Drugs
Words: 2807
Pages: 9
African-Americans have gone through terrible experiences to eventually achieve the freedom that they now enjoy. The main demographic character of the black population in the late 19th century and early 20th century was rural and southern. It is in this period that the Jim Crow Laws came into effect and...
Topic: Jim Crow
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Pages: 5
Introduction The Mexican American minority group is believed to have started migrating to USA in the twentieth-century. They originated from the subordination of the nation of Mexico to USA for the reasons that have been termed and described by the Historians as economic and political interests, for example, Romeo (p....
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 8
The question of racial prejudice always was one of the most problematic and striking all over the world. Three works I have read confirm this idea bearing the theme of advantages of the White and disadvantages of the Black. So, these works are dedicated to an insidious social and moral...
Topic: Prejudice
Words: 621
Pages: 2
Introduction The issue of domestic violence is international because it cuts across all races, classes, religions and gender. Violence against women or women battering has for many years been considered a private issue. Hence, the conspiracy of silence against battered women has made its eradication very difficult due to the...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 10
Several events serve as references in the book such as the 1992 Los Angeles unrest, the 1991 Senate-approved trials of a high Court Justice Thomas, the 1991 riots instigated by racial discrimination in Crown Heights all look like long-gone memories from a past era. This book was printed from the...
Topic: Race
Words: 897
Pages: 3
Introduction A social problem is a condition considered by some members who live in a particular community as being undesirable. The big population generally agrees about some social problems, such as murders and robbery. Other social problems are viewed differently, dependent on the different groups of people in a society...
Topic: Social Problems
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Pages: 6
Introduction Inequality can be considered as one of the major characteristics of the development of human society. Throughout the whole history of mankind, people have tried to fight inequality, and this trying was expressed in political movements, social protest actions, and even military conflicts. However, even the most reputable scholars,...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 1974
Pages: 7
Introduction There exists much research exploration into the relations between crack cocaine and heroin and the commitment of felony. Nonetheless, there has not been much research into the links between crack, heroin and cocaine and the commitment of avenue law-breakings. In this essay, evidence is drawn on the investigative substantiation...
Topic: Addiction
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Pages: 9
Introduction Alcohol has a lot of negative effects, and is dealing with society in many different ways. It is so unfortunate that the majority of the efforts being made in fighting drug abuse, is centered on other drugs such as cocaine, leaving alcohol which is today the world’s number one...
Topic: Alcohol
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Pages: 8
Introduction The word “stereotype” means “a person or thing that conforms to an unjustifiably fixed or standardized picture” (Fiske, 2006, p. 299). A very common example can be taken from the movies. Adam Sandler is a very popular American actor, but due to a large number of comedy movies in...
Topic: Logic
Words: 1884
Pages: 7
Introduction Inequality and racism are one of the major challenges in both the US and South Africa and have hindered the development and the transformation of the economy in modern society. The social control policies and strategies used by these two countries especially in southern Africa have led to the...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 1144
Pages: 4
Introduction The current social security system is not in an ideal state at the present period of time; it requires much work and improvement; however, it should not be replaced by a mandatory private pension system. Social security is now facing many problems – , inadequate financing and the demographic...
Topic: Social Security
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Pages: 2
Glass ceiling is a term that has been used to refer to the discrimination that is practiced against some genders or races with a sole intention of preventing them achieve high job profiles within the work place. It is a form of limitation that limits the minorities from getting the...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 650
Pages: 2
In my twenty-eight years of interacting with my community, I have gained an insight into the differences in my community. After a close examination and scrutiny of the community where I come from, I have unconsciously realized that the majority of the community members are quite different. I concluded after...
Topic: Race
Words: 1380
Pages: 5
Reflective practice Reflective practice is a continuous process by which an individual particularly a learner considers thoughtfully those things that they have gone through in their life applying the knowledge they have gained in addition to being taught by professionals. It is a self-regulated process that is mainly applied in...
Topic: Social Work
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Pages: 6
Introduction The world’s population has grown very fast. Early developments indicated that developed countries had the fastest-growing number of older people. However, the trend has picked up in less developed countries of the world as well. By the year 2050, it is estimated that one billion two hundred thousand people...
Topic: Aging
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Pages: 2
One of the long-lasting features in conceptualization and also the definition in the supervision in social works mirror the organizational objective in the offering of the services to the clients in a manner that is effective and also efficient (Kadushin & Harkness, 2002). This is a very important means by...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 5
Introduction The issue of racism remains a touchy one and many people are unwilling to talk about it. Some do not even think that it exists in the 21st century. Beverly Daniels Tatum in her book “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria” talks about this...
Topic: Discrimination
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Pages: 3
Introduction Violence is a difficult term to define. However, it is a widespread vice which may take diverse meanings in different circumstances. In institutions of learning, the definition embraced by the management is significant in shaping the action that the educators take against behaviours regarded as violent. In general violence...
Topic: School
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Pages: 6
Introduction While racism in society remains a historically painful subject, the gains that have been achieved over the past years even culminating in the first African-American president are huge. Obvious racist actions and remarks are nowadays not common and are only found in extreme cases. However, there still exists discrimination...
Topic: Discrimination
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Pages: 2
Introduction The paper analyzes the effect of racism on campus according to how I did the interview. Ethnic in Montclair State University (MSU) is real according to the findings I got from the interview I conducted. I found out that both my interviewee felt that their high school education did...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 1509
Pages: 5
There is a South African Comedy called “The Coconuts” which outlines some of the aspects that govern the interaction between the black majority South Africans and the White minority. The White minority was in power and controlled most aspects of the economy with the blacks working mostly as servants during...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 3
Introduction This paper summarizes the systematic learning about the different aspects in regard to aggression and violence towards children. Physical assault as a means of punishment to children in the family and in other circumstances is now looked down as being a practice that is very harmful for the long-term...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 3
Introduction The issue of violence has been rampart in society today. Explanations of the same have linked it to the influence of the media. This has created controversies due to the inadequacy of the research and inconclusiveness since some researchers believe that the effects of aggression especially in children are...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 9
The focal point of the essay is to evaluate Reddy’s claim “racial identity is often simplified and distorted” because of the mismatch between “external and internal racial identifications.” (Reddy, 1997) In order to analyze this claim, the works of four authors would be taken into consideration. These are Senna’s “The...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 1416
Pages: 5
Outline The consumption of drugs in contemporary societies has led to great effects which have been witnessed in those consuming the drugs as well to entire contemporary societies. Among those societies that have been affected by drug usage is Australia, where its main concern is on alcohol consumption. In Australia,...
Topic: Crime
Words: 3244
Pages: 12
Two readings devoted to the matter of commercial organization of organ donation represent the confrontation between two different opinions which exist in society. In his How Much Is That Kidney in the Window?, Bruce Gottlieb represents selling organs as a matter which is beneficial for both a donor and a...
Topic: Donation
Words: 544
Pages: 2
Introduction American slaves were freed and “from 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration” (Fort, a, 1998). The interviews contain stories of people about their childhood, being slaves, masters, and their...
Topic: Slaves
Words: 511
Pages: 2
Introduction Glass ceiling is used in the field of economics to mean a situation where a person who is qualified in terms of education and experience cannot progress on an upward mobility in his/her place of work. This is usually caused by discrimination against him/her on basis of sex or...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 7918
Pages: 29
The present description is about the article that highlights the evaluation of study with regard to the Utility of illegal Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Stimulants among college students. The research problem background mentioned in the article is that there were some already existing data that could furnish insights on...
Topic: ADHD
Words: 2286
Pages: 8
Introduction Abortion is a term used to refer to pregnancy termination. The abortion process involves the removal of the fetus from the uterus. Abortion can be aided or it can occur spontaneously following pregnancy or health complications of a pregnant woman. Spontaneous abortion is medically termed as a miscarriage; while...
Topic: Abortion
Words: 1776
Pages: 6
Introduction Research has suggested that women entrepreneurs face problems in raising capital as well as getting loans from banks (Blake 2006; Wilson et al. 2007; Prasad 2009). Women face credibility problems when faced by bankers and are less likely to have access to entry into institutional financial networks (Wilson et...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 636
Pages: 2
It has been found that there are many short and long term affects of victimization especially in relation to fee usage of firearms. There are many short and long term affects of victimization especially in relation to adolescence. In today’s perspective an individual carries many different emotional and physical responses...
Topic: Gun Control
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Pages: 3
Introduction There is a big global social problem to do with hunger as indicated by the number of underfed people climbing in the past decade. According to reports, the number of people in the world living with hunger exceeds 1 billion. This problem is however not due to food shortages,...
Topic: Food
Words: 1144
Pages: 4
Binge drinking refers to the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages in order to get intoxicated over a very short time. This kind of drinking is usually intended by the participants and it is very common among the college students in most countries. The behavior is usually considered a social activity...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 11
These two cases are considered to be very important regarding legal, moral and ethical implication of policies implemented from schools. They are very similar to each other and yet still so different in the conclusion that can be drawn upon. The “Grutter Vs. Bullinger” case is the first case in...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 858
Pages: 3
If there is a blot on the conscience of the so-called free world, the modern-day slavery represented by the millions of children who cross borders as sex slaves should turn the blot into a wound. Apparently respectable people cross borders into countries where law-enforcement is either lacking, inefficient or totally...
Topic: Slavery
Words: 1699
Pages: 5
Abstract The term globalization has been used in the literal sense to mean the transformation process of regional phenomenon into global phenomenon where the entire world’s population is united into a single society.Globalization combines forces of the economy, technology, sociology and politics. In most cases, Globalization term is used to...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 4995
Pages: 18
Safety is defined as a state in which a person protects himself from any arm that can arise. Safety has become a key concern for many people in the world today. It is clearly understood that where there is no safety, there are more chances of harm or even death....
Topic: Safety
Words: 578
Pages: 2
Introduction Medically, addiction can be defined as the abnormal dependence of substances which cause the body to poorly respond to stimuli that are naturally available. It starts as a repeated craving of substances and urge to get the substance leading to continuous use (Dorsman 12). This eventually causes intoxication to...
Topic: Addiction
Words: 1031
Pages: 3
Most people are aware of the fact that cigarette smoking is harmful to the health and is one of the leading causes of deadly infections, for instance lung cancer. A fact that may not be clear to them is that cigarette smoking also leads to other dangerous diseases and illnesses....
Topic: Manufacturing
Words: 1512
Pages: 5
The oligarchy’s rise to power was strange in that it occurred in an industrialized country. Many studies done have shown that it was the Russian culture as well as its exceptional historical events that contributed to this state. Even though the culture allows an environment for corrupt dealings to occur...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 8
Section 1 Brademore Electric Corporation is the enterprise sticking to ethical norms and regulations in business running. The case under analysis discloses the Keith Sturdivant’s unethical behavior in relation to his assistant Maura who has been employed only for several weeks. Keith’s invitations directed to Maura were a kind of...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 1273
Pages: 5
Hunger is not a problem for people who can afford to buy food. For as long as there is money to buy some sort of food, the hunger pangs that one feels can easily be alleviated. There always seems to be more than enough food around for most of the...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 665
Pages: 2
Banned Drugs Metamizole Sodium Metamizole Sodium is a drug which is seen as a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and it has been widely used as a very strong pain killer on medical grounds and it is also used to reduce fever. It has a wide usage all over the world...
Topic: Abuse
Words: 2917
Pages: 10
The relations between human beings are rather diverse and based on different values for every particular group of people, regardless of the fact whether it is a racial, sexual or religious group. The issues of understanding between these diverse social groups, and of their fair interrelations and distribution of social...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 8
Introduction For the majority of white people in the south of the US, denying African Americans their right to vote was central. The African Americans were the majority particularly in the profound South and this meant that if they were to vote then they could manage to transform the power...
Topic: Equality
Words: 651
Pages: 2
Even though the United States is one of the largest melting pot societies blending a variety of viewpoints, ideas, and notions for what is socially acceptable, some aspects of human life which do not infringe upon the freedoms of others carry negative stigmas. In a truly free country, people should...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 910
Pages: 3
Introduction America has a very diverse culture. This is a highly cosmopolitan nation. Culture can be defined as the total behavior of a group of people, traditions, transmitted from one generation to another (Tamu.edu, 2010, par.1). The American culture, however, includes White, African American and Hispanic. The three cultures have...
Topic: Criminal Justice
Words: 2137
Pages: 8
Varying definitions of homelessness complicates the methods for estimating the number of people who are homeless. The Census Bureau has used an approach to attempt to determine the homeless population by the surveying of those who are benefiting from homeless services. This method, which involved the use of Emergency and...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 1468
Pages: 5
This essay examines the pros and cons of the issue of sale of human organs in the US through the legal, ethical, moral prisms and its interaction with individual freedoms to finally affirm the case for the motion. The essay first examines the concepts of natural law and legal positivism...
Topic: Ethical Dilemma
Words: 1428
Pages: 4
Introduction Shawn Ley was diagnosed with autism at the tender age of five years. His parents, and especially his mother, have cared for him night and day for the past fifteen years. This is with the help of a nurse from the local nursing home. The nurse is paid by...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 2097
Pages: 8
Many organizations all over the world have often been faced with the challenge of addressing the issue of gender diversity in relation to top jobs allocation (Brammer et al 2009). Despite frequent calls by the stakeholders to embrace the diversity, the achievement has been notably mean. In the study covered...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 4
Given the fact that the concept of “multiculturalism” in Western countries has gained a status of officially sponsored policy, and also the fact that the hawks of political correctness in these countries have convinced many citizens that they will be much better off, while applying neutral-sounding euphemisms to signify the...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 3291
Pages: 12
Substance abuse refers to the total dependence on drugs that may result in very adverse effects on the individual’s health both physically and mentally. Substance abuse leads to addiction to the substances involved such that the individuals cannot be able to cope without their use. Substances that are normally abused...
Topic: Abuse
Words: 2044
Pages: 6
Mediation is considered to be the confidential process in the informal form including mediator’s activities aimed at case resolution facilitating without necessary aspects prescription. The analysis of this phenomenon is analyzed based on a special interview with the representative of Social Service Agency, Justin Patten, carried out on November, 22,...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 1235
Pages: 4
Relationships begin to form at birth when a child builds a relationship with the mother and father, or the caretaker, and humans continue to engage in building relationships all through their life. These relationships are of different kinds and are emotional, romantic, friendly, marital, or with colleagues, peers, or co-workers....
Topic: Relationship
Words: 584
Pages: 2
The phenomenon of the gender pay gap is a well-fixed one in modern society: women working at the same time earn only part of men’s salary. Historical flow influenced the aspect of economic equality for females throughout the whole world. It should be noted that the problem of gender pay...
Topic: Discrimination
Words: 1183
Pages: 4
Gay marriages are rather common affairs in the modern world. Many countries began to think about the legalization of same-sex marriages. The problem is up-to-date as more people fight for their rights in the global democratization movement. The opinions about the problem are rather different and even opposite. People, who...
Topic: LGBTQ
Words: 672
Pages: 2
The research article being critiqued in this paper is titled as “Pathways to PTSD, Part II: Sexually Abused Children” coauthored by Julie B. Kaplow, Kenneth A. Dodge, Lisa Amaya-Jackson and Glenn N. Saxe. The objective of the paper was to build and analyze a probable model of posttraumatic stress symptoms...
Topic: Abuse
Words: 894
Pages: 3
Introduction Marijuana is a type of drug that is produced from the cannabis plant. It is actually the dried leaves and the flowers of the plant. Cannabis plant is easily grown in most parts of the world and is also a wild plant that grows in most parts of the...
Topic: Marijuana
Words: 2715
Pages: 10
A census in the United States conducted in the year 2000 found that 14.5% of the population was in the 10-19-year-old range encompassing more than 40 million individuals. Among these, there are teens 13-19 years old that drink alcohol and open themselves up to a lifetime of problems and addictions....
Topic: Alcohol
Words: 563
Pages: 2
Books Always Running by Luis Rodriguez and Locas by Yxta Maya Murray show the life in the gang and the way people join street gangs for different reasons; the violence of the street life, poverty of the representatives of the gangs. Meanwhile, the motivation for the main character of Always...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 686
Pages: 2
Politics have influence on all the aspects of life as a result of social interactions. Politics and the state interact in such a way that politics have a lot to do with decision making on social and other aspects of the people. Political institutions are playing a very important role...
Topic: Social Issues
Words: 281
Pages: 1
Introduction We live in a time when the application of the environmentalist (Liberal) approach, within a context of how governmental officials address the issues of social and political importance, is being recognized as utterly ineffective by just about anyone capable of utilizing its sense of rationale. And the reason for...
Topic: Prison
Words: 1591
Pages: 5
Introduction Societal awareness regarding problems related to alcoholism has increased due to increased research and studies in the area. A lot of attention has been paid to the long-term effect of alcoholic parents on offspring. Studies have indicated that such children grow up with “unique emotional patterns and problems” (Goleman,...
Topic: Alcohol
Words: 1659
Pages: 6
Introduction Drug use has increased in the UK in recent times and there are an estimated five million regular users of illegal substances in the region (Emmett and Nice., 2006). Of these, about one million people are found to be addicted to cocaine, whose use has multiplied four times within...
Topic: Criminal Justice
Words: 3306
Pages: 11
Introduction There is a rich tale about slavery in the US from previous ages of which people can only understand now as something that belied “equality” and “freedom”. Specifically, this can be glimpsed in advertisements such as the one that follows. Main body In 1769, Thomas Jefferson put an announcement...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 10
Introduction African American people fought for their rights throughout the centuries. These days they are not oppressed and humiliated anymore; they were given equal rights with white people and are full-fledged members of society. Acquiring equal status in white society gave African Americans a possibility to take part in its...
Topic: African American
Words: 1086
Pages: 4
Introduction Substance abuse is one of the leading social problems in the United States. In particular, alcohol is one of the most abused substances in the country. The American Psychological Association (2004) defines substance abuse as “ a maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress,...
Topic: Mindfulness
Words: 1221
Pages: 4
People all over the world do not even notice the danger of different kinds of addiction. This topic is very important nowadays. The addictions can be different. It can be drugs, the alcohol addiction. Very often it can be cartoons, computer games, TV. But these are not all kinds of...
Topic: Addiction
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Adolescent pregnancy is a serious issue that needs much discussion as it is involved with the future citizens of the world. Adolescent pregnancy or teenage pregnancy may be defined as the phenomenon of teenage girls becoming pregnant within or without wedlock. The term is usually used to refer to young...
Topic: Pregnancy
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Pages: 10
Introduction Even though legalizing prostitution will protect women by allowing them to conduct business indoors in safer, healthier conditions, prostitution should remain as it is under the Criminal Code of Canada and should not be legalized because current laws prevent the commercialization of prostitution and protect women involved from violence...
Topic: Prostitution
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Pages: 6
Introduction Right from the beginning of 21st century, there has been certain growth in movements promoting disability rights including that of disabled veterans and has gained weight through political, social and legal channels. As per the disability rights perspective, disabled veterans should be considered as a minority group often facing...
Topic: Veterans
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Introduction Homeless people can be described as that group of people who lack adequate, fixed or regular night-time shelter. This includes a considerable number of people who live in deplorable conditions such as abandoned buildings, public spaces, parks, and bus or train stations as well as in cars. Since the...
Topic: Health
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Pages: 3
Introduction / Thesis In recent years, the theme of mentally and physically inadequate children’s inclusion in early childhood classrooms has become especially popular among many “progressive” educators, who often go as far as to suggest that it is not only disabled children that should be able to benefit immensely from...
Topic: Day Care
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Introduction The government and religion should not be related at all as an individual’s religious choices are personal and should have nothing to do with the state’ actions. The paper shall look at the basis of this argument through examples. The relationship that should exist between religion and government In...
Topic: Relationship
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Pages: 5
Introduction Today, China is facing harsh environmental degradation mainly due to population explosion and economic development. The country was not concerned about the protection and development of the environment while it was forging ahead with rapid economic growth. Main body China’s economic miracle has bloomed tremendously in the last two...
Topic: Environment
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Introduction In January 2009, a raid by Brazil police led to the rescue of more than 4,500 slaves who had been entrapped in ranches and plantations in remote areas of the country. In a total of 133 raids, the organizers visited an approximated 255 farms where people from poverty-stricken North...
Topic: Human Trafficking
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Pages: 9
The pain and agony of racial discrimination still lingers in the lives of the aboriginal communities of Australia. Compared to the other people in the same country, the indigenous people continue to suffer due to inadequate availability of basic necessities. Poverty and unemployment has led most of the youths into...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 11
Introduction It is appalling to know that drug manifestation starts at a very stage and our children are exposed to them. Children are naïve and had impressionable minds thus when they tend to get attracted to everything that goes around them. In today’s society where children enroll in schools, an...
Topic: Drugs
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Pages: 5
In the United States, the people who are called Native Americans are those who came from North America. They are from different racial groups and statuses. Native Americans are known by different names viz. Indians, Red Indians, African Americans, American Indians, and so on. Here in these three essays writer...
Topic: Freedom
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Pages: 2
Introduction A great number of works have been dedicated such issues as alcohol abuse among students. One of the most comprehensive sources is the book College Drinking: Reframing a Social Problem, written by George Dowdall in 2008. He analyzes origins of this phenomenon and proposes strategies for overcoming it. The...
Topic: Abuse
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Pages: 5
This paper is an elaboration and analysis of social problems observed during a late night stroll around Toronto. Numerous observations were made and a few people were also interviewed to acquire a more direct and accurate observation of the scenario. In the following paragraphs, each observation made during the late...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 15
Introduction Labor exploitation involves unrelenting social relations where a certain group is treated unjustly to benefit the other party. That is looking at human beings as resources and with no considerations of their social, economic, political and cultural well being. This can be in the form of forcing people to...
Topic: Slavery
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Pages: 5
Introduction Interracial marriage was an illegal social practice in the US until as recently as the 1960s when the Supreme Court abolished laws prohibiting interracial marriage; an issue that the same court had avoided for several years, fearing racial intermarriage to be a controversial issue. In recent years, the number...
Topic: Marriage
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Pages: 10
The concept of a refugee has always been analyzed in the psychological and social spheres of studies aimed at the realization of the inner world of those people, who are in the state of constant cultural shock living beyond the protection of their own countries. It is necessary to stress...
Topic: Refugee
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Pages: 2
The actions of every person have a particular impact on society and its development, and this impact is sometimes underestimated. Most of people believe that, taking into account the total population of the world, their actions are insignificant and can hardly change anything. This, however, is not true, for every...
Topic: Abuse
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Pages: 3
Introduction Social class backgrounds has a significant impact on the level of education attained by certain individuals. It is widely believed that individuals from higher socio-economic backgrounds tend to outperform those that are not from such privileged backgrounds. This will be investigated in further detail through analysing various sources Problem...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 4
Introduction To begin with, it should be stated that the matters of racism, or as it is also called “color blind racism”, are often regarded as the strong tendency in treating the immigrants from Latin America countries. Originally, the problem of immigration from Latin America is one of the burning...
Topic: Color Blindness
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Pages: 6
Introduction Who am I? This is the most common question people ask themselves on their ways to the understanding themselves as independent personalities. The process of the identity construction is difficult and in some cases people have to cope with the numerous problems but are eager to find themselves in...
Topic: Social Issues
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Executive Summary There is evidence of gender pay discrimination in the United States with such figures as those of women in sales occupation, male and female professors at medical school faculties and full-time physician jobs earning lesser than men at equal positions indicating this trend (LCCR & LCCREF, 2000). Women...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 16
Introduction The debate of gender inequality, discrimination, and bias has been going on for a long time and men and women alike have contributed to the sensitive issue with the latter contributing significantly to the subject. The main theme in all discussions, researches, seminars, writings, and interviews related to gender...
Topic: Discrimination
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Pages: 3
Racial identity and racial socialization are proposed to promote the improvement of African American adolescents in the aspect of race-related difficulties (Miller, 1999; Ward, 1999). Current studies pointed out that discrimination is a condition that has harmful effects on the mental health of African Americans. Also, Comer (1995) emphasized that...
Topic: Discrimination
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Pages: 3
Mention any holiday or party and what comes to mind of many a youth are thoughts of alcohol. A party in the mind of these youths is a chance to consume lots of alcohol, which as a result, increases the chances of tragedies one of which is fatal accidents due...
Topic: Distracted Driving
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Pages: 2
Philosophy is a unique science because it touches almost every single area of the human life. The issues of the good and the evil, right and wrong, love and hate are all studied by philosophy that tries to suggest some ways of dealing with this phenomena to the people. With...
Topic: Social Issues
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In the United States, married couples receive many legal benefits that couples who live together but are unmarried do not. More and more, gay couples are insisting that they receive the same legal rights that traditional, heterosexual married couples receive. However, fierce public and state and U.S. congressional opposition to...
Topic: Marriage
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Pages: 2
The stability of the country can be achieved when it is developed in various spheres of life. In this respect, it is necessary to admit that the level of poverty is evaluated in different countries in terms of how the state power provides reforms in social, educational, economic, or political...
Topic: Poverty
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Pages: 4
Sports in our societies has contributed significantly towards unifying different nations and continents.This is where we get our cherished men and women, excellent memoirs are recalled; in these games, goals are placed and thoughts are lived. We have seen vast media coverage that make participants celebrities and legends, but women...
Topic: Equality
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Pages: 2
Introduction Tobacco has become one of the major health issues, affecting most of the American population and other world citizens. Many people are dying from life threatening sicknesses caused by tobacco and it is unfortunate that despite major campaigns to warn people of the dangers of cigarette smoking, they rarely...
Topic: Smoking
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Pages: 8
Introduction Poverty presents many obstacles and impediments in the life of young people lives; these can be analyzed and understood through a series of social work concepts and theories. The paper shall specifically dwell on the social exclusion, class, and labeling theories to place youth poverty in its social context....
Topic: Poverty
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Pages: 8
Introduction In the age-old debate regarding the relative merits of alcohol, one of the most difficult issues has been the determination of what exactly causes some people to drink to such excess that they lose their reputations, their careers, their families and even their lives in their devotion to the...
Topic: Alcohol
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Introduction The analysis of women in the UK criminal justice system disclosed the attitude to females in criminology perceiving them as workers, offenders and victims. Throughout centuries the criminal justice system ignored women as offenders; the 20th century changed the situation completely impacting the place of females in criminology. (Chesney-Lind,...
Topic: Criminal Justice
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Pages: 2
Households and families Single Parent Families in the United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, most families are single parents and a significant number of children grow up in a family that does not have both biological fathers. One of the social trends that is alarming is that many families in...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 5
Seeing is a gift given to us by Mother Nature. Seeing is wonderful just because we can do it, can experience it. Healthy people cannot even imagine how it feels to be unable to observe the beauty of the world around us. Visual images are very easy to recognize and...
Topic: Social Issues
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Abstract Family violence includes child abuse, intimate partner violence (IPV) and elder abuse. Child abuse is caused by stepchildren, unplanned/prematurely born/handicapped children, young age/inferior socioeconomic position of parents. IPV is caused by urge to control, hereditary experience, economic problems or misconceived machismo. Elder abuse is caused by financial hardship, alcohol/drug...
Topic: Family
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Pages: 5
Introduction Social life is a complicated process that is connected with a lot of relationships between the representatives of different classes into which the society is divided. It is not surprising, therefore, that these classes are in constant struggle with each other for power and wealth. However, such members of...
Topic: Social Problems
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The work A Room of One’s Own vividly portrays hardship and inequalities faced by many women during the 19th century. Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own rests squarely on the distinction: one must have the means of 500 and a room of one’s own, she says more than once,...
Topic: Social Issues
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Introduction The quality of the life of a fellow human being should be considered to be of extreme importance by every human being. Even though this is a utopian hope, there is appreciable concern among many quarters of the society in bringing about a positive change in the lives of...
Topic: Homelessness
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Pages: 9
Substance Abuse and Preventive Measures The use of psychoactive substances has posed a grave threat to the health of multitudes and hence, has drastically intertwined with the socio-economic status of families, communities, and nations around the globe. An astonishing survey of substance abusers would intensify one’s concern over the cause,...
Topic: Abuse
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Introduction The term freedom of speech refers to being at liberty to express one’s opinions, views, and opinions without any hindrance or fear of being punished. Even though there is freedom of speech as provided in the constitution of every country, regulations have been provided to guide it to ensure...
Topic: Freedom
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Pages: 2
The research, which has been carried out, analyzes the causes and effects of drug addiction among teenagers. It focuses on this particular age group because according to statistical data, people from thirteen to nineteen are the most susceptible to this disease. It is necessary to do the following tasks: first,...
Topic: Abuse
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Pages: 6
Immigrants in the American society It is estimated by the United States Census Bureau that most of the immigrants in the United States (almost half of them) reside in big cities like Los Angeles, New York, Miami, or Chicago (“United States Population Clock”, par. 1). The large amounts of people...
Topic: Social Problems
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Pages: 3
Introduction Age discrimination refers to the prejudicial treatment or denial of rights based on age. It may occur directly or sometimes in an indirect manner. When a person hears statements such as these from an employer or prospective employer : “You are overqualified for this job”; “This is an entry...
Topic: Discrimination
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Pages: 5
Racial and ethnic relations have always been quite a controversial issue in the present American society and undoubtedly, these relations require in-depth analysis from different points of view. The main problem we have to discuss is the interdependence of class and race (or ethnic group). Such interdependence can gradually turn...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 3
Introduction The rising trend of refugees has been observed globally from 2002 to 2006 (UNHCR 2007). The migratory trend of refuges crossing international borders is expected to increase in the years to come (Moses, 2006). The number of refugees registered with UNHCR has risen from 9.9 million to 11.7 million...
Topic: Refugee
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Pages: 12
The issues of race and ethnicity have always been rather important for human beings. The modern society tries to be more tolerant and polite towards the identities of every single race or ethnic group. However, in the past discrimination according to the racial identity was a usual phenomenon. Only the...
Topic: Social Issues
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Pages: 2