3343 samples of this type
Introduction Racism, as Miller and Gerran (2008) state, are attitudes, actions, beliefs, or policies that undermine individuals or groups in relation to their races. In the US, it involves discrimination of the people of color by the white people, supported by the institutions that were established in their favors, thereby...
America is a great democracy that many countries seek to emulate, and the amount of freedom enjoyed by the American citizens makes it a great nation. However, an important question arises on the extent to which these freedoms are enjoyed in society and by whom. The June 2012 incidence in...
The issue of drug addiction among pregnant mothers has been a concern among medical experts. When a pregnant mother is addicted to alcohol and drug, she may end up causing irreparable damage to the unborn child. At the time of birth, the child may have physical or mental deformities that...
Introduction Child abuse has become a serious problem in Afghanistan due to the conditions children are facing as a result of perennial conflicts in this region. Child marriage has become a dominant crime in this nation and this has forced many organisations to step in and help to alleviate this...
Abstract The given paper revolves around the nagging problem of the alcohol abuse and drunk driving. The paper consists of eight parts which help to present the information in the logic and clear way. The introduction provides the information needed for the better understanding of the main topic of the...
Philip Seymour Hoffman, an American actor, film director, and winner of the “Oscar” and “Golden Globe” awards died in 2014 because of the intoxication caused by the simultaneous reception of several types of drugs. The Wall Street Journal reports that Hoffman found dead in the bathroom of his apartment on...
The article “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photogenic Histories of Race and Gender in National Geographic Magazines” issues from Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins’s pen and features a powerful volume “The Gender/Sexuality Reader”. This volume, as a whole, can be distinguished in the ocean of books devoted to the ideas...
How an Understanding of Trauma Informs the Development of the Interventions Most soldiers suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to the exposure to traumatic incidences during the course of dispensing their mandate. Studies have established a great connection between PTSD and addiction. This assertion holds because most soldiers...
Body image issues have emerged as an important problem facing many women all over the world. Swami and Joanne-Marie document that women’s anxiety about their appearance has become a global phenomenon (152). This body issues have been caused by the society’s judgmental attitude towards women’s bodies. Young women are either...
Introduction Authored by Newcomb, Birkett, Corrliss, and Mustanski, the article ‘Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Racial Differences in Illicit Drug Use in a Sample of the US High School Students’ is a study on the prevalence levels of illicit drug use and addiction among American youths. The main research objective is...
Minority and Dominant Groups A minority population group is not defined by being outnumbered by a dominant group. A minority is defined by the following five characteristics: physical or cultural traits distinguished from the dominant population, unequal treatment, in-group marriage, subordination awareness, and involuntary membership. The existence of differing traits...
Introduction Domestic abuse or violence involves the expression of certain patterns of behavior that are abusive towards another party in a marriage relationship or any familial affair. Domestic violence is acerbated in a number of ways, including assault, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, economic deprivation, domineering, and intimidation, among other forms...
Introduction Gender inequality in politics is a major issue in the contemporary world. In most countries around the world, women have taken political backstage due to several factors that encourage ‘political chauvinism.’ The majority of nations have elective political posts, and this aspect explains the small number of women occupying...
The primary purpose of the population pyramid is to display differences between different groups of people in a comprehensive manner to make it easier to analyze the information that is available (Ferrante 321). Such factors as migration, urbanization, and others may have a significant influence on the cohorts, and such...
Introduction Life is characterised by diverse changes that can amount to happiness or sorrow. Some of the major life changes include getting married, dealing with death and bereavement, and retirement. These life changes have a significant impact on individuals due to the adjustments required in order to go through the...
Introduction Institutional violence is one of the issues that are of great concern to psychologists, medical workers, business administrators, and many other stakeholders. It is vital to understand the underlying causes of this phenomenon and the ways in which such incidents can be averted. The problem is that they can...
Etiology/Pathophysiology/Incidence/Prevalence Sexual assault is “non-consensual” sexual behavior (Harkin, Borock & Amaranto, 2011, p. 404). The most vulnerable groups are women especially living in the low-income environment and those who abuse substances. Children and the elderly are also vulnerable. However, sexual assaults occur in all populations irrespective of ethnicity, age, gender...
Introduction The management of stress is a fundamental attribute for all workers throughout the globe. The free and undistracted mind is able to facilitate and accommodate working conditions by implementing strategies to relieve stress. Essentially, extroverts are able to live social lives by making friends who can solve problems, provide...
Description of the Nature of Addiction Crisis Addiction is characterized by the continued use of drugs or any other substance by the body to prevent the indications of physical and psychological withdrawals (Brown, 2000; Hoffman & Froemke, 2007; Stanton & Shadish, 2007). In other words, addictions can be termed as...
Gender Bias in Firefighter Promotion: Factors When interpreting the outcomes of the test, one must focus on the values of p and the chi-square statistics. The given factors will help define whether the null hypothesis can be deemed as true or false. In the specified scenario, the absence of effects...
Causal argument research paper The subject for Paper #3 Causal Argument Research is female gender bias in college. Female gender bias in college is a current problem of the society that refers to the gender inequality issues in higher educational settings. Although women enrollment in college increased drastically over the...
Introduction One of the issues that have continued to cause major rifts among the earth’s human population is the issue of racism and discrimination. In past years, ills such as apartheid, xenophobia, and intolerance, resulted in social life being disrupted and many lives being lost. In light of the degenerative...
Introduction: Underage Drinking The issue of underage drinking has been on the social. agenda for a while (Hudson, Wekerle, & Stewart, 2015); however, it has not been up until the past few years that the problem started getting out of control. Moreover, studies show that the rates of teenage drinking...
Introduction This paper will discuss the impacts of racism on American both the native and the immigrants. In the paper, the historic accounts of the African-American populations as well as other minority immigrants will be revisited. As will be pointed out in this paper, racism and ethnic discrimination is a...
Introduction Various researchers and journalists pay attention to the difficulties that are often encountered by young people. In part, these challenges can be explained by the differences in values, worldviews, and lifestyles. Very often, they can lead to conflicts and misunderstanding. These issues can be discussed with the help of...
Florida Department of Children and Families: Domestic Violence The mission of the Florida Department’s Domestic Violence Program is to contribute to creating the safe environments for the victims of domestic violence while focusing on building the partnership relations with different community’s organizations in order to guarantee the provision of the...
Introduction Drug abuse is a major challenge in the contemporary world because it leads to grave social and economic consequences (Kuhar & Wrobel, 2010). According to research findings, the United States of America has the highest percentage of drug abuse globally (Warner, 2008). Drug abuse mainly begins during teenage (Kuhar...
According to the opinion article posted by the Editorial Board of the Washington Post newspaper, the rush to legalize the use of marijuana should be rejected by Washington D.C voters. The board notes that handling of small amounts of drug was decriminalized recently and therefore, it is not logical to...
Today, more than ever before, rape is increasingly becoming a reality for millions of individuals living in the developed and developing world. Although available documentation demonstrates that many rape victims are female and that most executors of rape are male, it is evident that rapists are increasingly targeting men and...
The rates of institutional violence are getting higher in the world of nowadays. Employees of various career fields tend to become involved into violence at the workplace. The individuals that suffer from workplace violence the most often are the workers of service providing professions that have to be in contact...
Definition of rape Rape is a form of sexual exploitation usually characterized by copulation or other related forms of penetration. It is criminal because it lacks consensus between the victim and the perpetrator (Cahill, 2001). In most cases, rape occurs through coercion or taking undue advantage over individuals who lack...
Introduction Chemical dependence implies the continual use of drugs beyond the discovery of related medical problems. Clear symptoms of chemical dependence include an increased desire by a victim have more of a given chemical substance, fear of indulging in social and recreational activities, and the determination by the affected person...
Introduction Substance use is an illegal industry that has cost the United States billions of dollars. Money that is meant for developmental projects is used to pay hospital bills and losses that are caused by drug abusers. Nonetheless, various factors drive individuals to misuse of drugs. Continuous use of drugs...
Abstract Resilience is a major determinant of the rate at which people recover from traumatic life experiences. Flexibility is a major factor that victims of different traumatic events, such as domestic violence, should have to lead a normal life in the aftermath of violence. Spirituality is an important aspect in...
Introduction: The Author’s Intent and Its Interpretations Of all the equality issues, the one regarding render profiling and the means of fighting it might seem somewhat overlooked. Despite the fact that considerable efforts have been made in order to attain equality between men and women in the XX century, at...
For some considerable time now, the impact poverty has had on the children of immigrant workers, has gone unnoticed. It may look as if immigrant child-poverty does not merit a lot of concern, for the sole reason that they tend to look even better in their new country than in...
Introduction The persistent poverty in African-American households became the primary cause of the crack cocaine prevalence, especially in inner cities. During the 1980s-1990s the addiction to crack cocaine involved the majority of the black population of problem neighborhood. The crack obsession controls the life of the drug addicted and influences...
Introduction Homelessness and incarceration are two experiences with a two-fold correlation. Not only the conditions of homelessness make people vulnerable to the different societal factors that may lead to imprisonment, but also the experience of the incarceration creates a high possibility that the former inmates of the penitentiary institutions will...
Stereotypes are generalizations that people have formed about other people who belong to other groups or class (Grobman, 1990). Stereotyping takes place in people’s lives at one point of their lives concerning people who they view as outsiders. These generalizations maybe reinforced by the society or environment. People stereotype others...
It is apparent that the problem of abusive relationships, interfering with the issue of domestic violence, is a widespread problem, which is of high concerns in the contemporary public health. It is also apparent that the people who survived abusive relationships are in need for special treatment; however, little is...
Introduction It is always good to understand the meaning of what one wants to discus. It will be impossible for one to critically discuss what he or she does not understand. The key word in this discussion is domestic violence but before I get into that I will first explain...
Abstract Modern-day slavery is one of the outcomes of globalization; it affects millions of people and brings immense revenue to the criminals. This paper explores various kinds of human trafficking, such as workplace exploitation, forced labor of immigrants, child labor and pornography, and sex tourism, explains their specificities and assesses...
All physicians swear by the Hippocratic oath before they start practicing medicine. The oath includes a strong admonition against the issuing of harmful and in fact deadly drugs to a patient. When it was being crafted, it did not consider that a physician would want to do anything other than...
